The Press., 1893-10-12
(Correspondence.) BEEN TO THE WORLDS FAIR,
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Yes. We'll, what did you see? o, saw good deal Will tell one thing, yes, tell two, and perhaps more, if you want me to. We'll, let's hear. We'll, saw Poughkeepsie bridge by moonlight, the canal boats being hauled by mules at Newton. I saw Baltimore, and the ferry
 boat that took the entire train across an arm of the Chesapeak bay, and the two 500-horse power engines that propelled the boat. saw the city of Washington and the public buildings, the white house and baby Ruth, and talked with her, and my old friend, Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, and shook hands with him, saw the house of representatives and senate in session, and heard Senator Stewart scolding the president; saw the home of Hon. J. G. Blaine; saw the Washington monument and rode up in the elevator with thirty others 500 feet high and took g. view of that beauty city; saw the 26- horse power engine that runs the elevator. I saw it was time to say goodbye to
 w Ridge, where I soon saw the towering rocks with their jagged front at the famed ed Harper's Ferry, rising almost perpen- dicularly nearly 100 fit. high, close to the track, and I saw the beautiful scenery along the Potomac, and the many trains of coal cars, and the coke ovens in the shades of evening, issuing fire from their hundreds of mouths, and the fine farm lands through Ohio, and the oil wells, and the small city of Chicago Junction, where Governor Mckinley discussed the cause of the hard times Sept. 3Oth, and the long stretch of fertile plains and prosperous looking homes, which are soon left in the background, while the waters of the Michigan, with the many humble cots along it's banks, is soon succeeded by the sight of the great city and the towering Ferris wheel.
 Well, what did you see at the fair ? that's what want to hear. We'll, saw the mammoth building, the Conn. build ing, for instance, lined with Cheney silk and the chair brought from England in 1795 by Richard Waine, and used by every president from Jackson to Grant, and the
 Washington building, underpinned by logs five tiers high hundred and twenty-five feet long, some of them cut from a tree that was it. il inches in diameter, and three hundred and forty feet long, and a cross-cut saw fourteen feet long, and the skeleton of an elephant thirteen it. high
 chair made of elk horns; violin, the
 front of which was made of the skull of a
 mule that crossed the plains in '46; Cal ifornia squash weighing 300 lbs, and 8 fit. 10 inches in circumference; an ear of corn two feet long, and one nine feet high on the stalk; 8 log cabin, with chimney made of lava stone; Washington's Mt Vernon home, with it's furnishings all in place; the bed and room in which he died; Brigham Young's bookcase. saw guns and trappings of war, pontoor bridges, torpedoes; the flag that has beer nearest the north pole; the men, the dogs, sledges, and all the trappings oi explorers patents and models of every conceivable kind; a petrified stump; g section of tree twenty-six feet in diame ter, that cost $10, ,475.87 to place on exhi bition; Persian rug valued at $15, ,000 a Mexican hat valued at $100 & two wheeled carriage, with a seat in the real for a page; also reindeer with sledge at tached, and snow shoes seven feet long ! from Norway; a nugget of gold large a. your fist; gilded sleigh from France. ! Is that all you saw?
 ] No; but that's all I am going to tel I you now K. J. s.