St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-10
AT THE WORLDS FAIR.

exhibits are concerned IS the Trans
portation building. Within its
walls are found everything connect
ed with railroads, steamboats,
street railroads, carriages, etc, ii
fact every appliance and vehicle foi
carrying purposes, from a cash
carrier to balloon, and from baby
carriage to a mogul engine" There
are over Is acres of floor spacein the
building. The main building is 25G
feet by 900 feet. To accommodate
the railroad exhibit there is an annex
425 by 900 feet
The architecture of the Transporta-
ton building is free Romanesque and
it is the only one Of the main build
ings that is not white. The staff
has been painted terra Gotta shade
and the sides Of the building are
beautifully frescoed and decorated.
But the most beautiful decoration is
the golden door, great single arch
deliberately ornamented and trea ted
in gold leaf The golden door is the
main entrance to the building and
one of the most beautiful architect
ural conceptions ever seen.
The railroad exhibit is the largest
in the building and occupies nearly
all of the annex. The Pennsylvania,
New York Central and Wagner
Palace Car Company have exhibits
outside this building. The Balti-
more & Ohio have the most elabor-
ate display and show either by
engraving or model sample of
nearly every type of locomotive ever
built. There are nearly so locomo-
tives in the annex, some of which are
extremely large. The New York,
Lake Erie & Western, which has just
passed into a receivers hands, has
the biggest engine. 1t has five pairs
of driving wheels and weighs 100
tons. The Lord of the Isles" in the
English exhibit has an S-foot driv-
ing wheel, which is the largest wheel
on exhibition, This engine weighs
1874, 400 pounds, but cannot be COM
pared in beauty with any of
the American locomotives. Two
rotary snow plows, used on the
Sierras by the trans-continental
roads, are shown and are most in
teresting sights. The French ex-
hibt of locomotives is supplemented
by a big pyramid of wrought iron
locomotive and car wheels, all made
in the Couzons works of Arbel at
Rive de Ger
The Pullman Company have a
model of the city of Pullman and a
vestibuled train which cost $780,
900. The engine is vestibuled to the
baggage car, being the first engine
ever built with a vestibule attach
ment. The train will run on the
Pennsylvania road after the Fair is
over. Hundreds of people are taken
through the train every day to see
the beautiful finish Of the interior.
The upholstery Of each car is of
different shade and the hand carving
of the woodwork is beautiful Near
the Pullman train is a handsome
vestibule train owned by the
Canadian Pacific railroad. The cars
are built of California redwood, the
same material as the cars on the
"air line" trains over the Passump-
sic, and finished in the interior with
white mahogany from Honduras.
Near these vestibule trains is a
German parlor car painted a rich
blue color. The car is very hand
some, but does not seem as service.
able as the Pullman or c. p. cars
The exhibit of freight, platform and
street cars is very complete. There
is also large showing of railroad
supplies and appliances, switches
metal ties, steam shovels, etc. The
Northern Pacific railroad consists O
a vestibule train containing tn,
products of the seven great North
western states traversed by thi
railroad. The cars are built at tn
company's shops and have large ba,
windows on each side reaching fror
the floor to the roof The interio
of the cars is ornamented with fame
woods from the forests in thes
states; also with grains and grasse
Large displays are also made of ore
and minerals of all kinds, buidn
stones and the products of the sol