Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-11
WE ARE SUPREME.
Evidence Of This Seen at the
Worlds Fair.
OUR COUNTRY LEADS THE WORLD.

CofelSncrS Amazed ut the GrallucSt OBJECT
Lesson in Architecture the World Has
Ever Seen-Othcr Lines in Which Amer
lea Excels-The Rapid Advancement of
Western Civilization.
WORLDS FAIR, August S.-[Special.]-
Further consideration of the showing
made by the United States in this inter
national exposition only increases our
pride in the achievements IF our country
men. This wholesale comparison with
the best productions of all the world is not
by any means to our disadvantage. The
exposition itself, its grandeur and vast
ness as a whole, the beauty of its archi-
lecture, the richness of its statuary and
other ornamentation, forms the chief
glory OF Americas works here. Foreign.
ers are amazed that the people of Chicago
should have produced not only the biggest
OF all international fairs, but the most ar
tistic and impressive. High praise was
the verdict of a distinguished and critical
foreigner that the Worlds fair is the
grandest object lesson in architecture the
world has ever seen.
Three of the structures in the White
City are models of architectural art and
will live throughout all history, side by
side with the -Acropolis, the cathedrals of
st. Peter and St. Paul. These are the Adj
ministration building, whose designer
was recently decorated by the queen of
England, the Palace of Fine Arts and the
Agricultural palace. A fourth building,
the greatest ever placed under ROOT,
shows signally that the Americans lead
the world in structural iron work. The
rapidity with which this fair was created
has demonstrated the matchless energy
of Americans, and the processes by which
the work was done, and the erection of the
tall and stately Office structures in Chi
cago itself, serve to call attention to the
fact that out here in the center of the
western continent a revolution in building
methods has been effected-a revolution
which is having its influence upon build
ing and architecture throughout the world.
1t is noteworthy, moreover, that Chicago
is today the finest city INTELLECTUALLY
on the globe. Travellers say it contains a
larger number of h%abitations of scientific
and hygienic arrangement-equipped with
all modern appliances for health and COM
fort-than any other municipality. This
Is not the least of the conquests of our
western civilization, not the least evidences
of our rapid advancement.
Go to the Palace of Agriculture and YOU
will see that this country easily leads all
other countries in variety, volume and
value of output from the soil. This is the
chief of all agricultural countries. Not
only is output greatest in volume, but
1t is greatest in proportion to population,
a sure measure of wealth. In all the ap-
planes of the farm, excepting perhaps
that scientific agriculture on a small scale
which as yet has not become essential
here-the methods of fertilization and
soil-conservation which are followed
through necessity to such great extremes
abroad-we acknowledge no rivals. The
first reaping machine had it's trial in this
country. Here about all the successful
had their development. The variety and
usefulness of our farm machinery aston
1shes all beholders who come from foreign
lands. In the mere tools of the farm. the
hoes, rakes, axes, knives, etc., we also
maintain an easy superiority. In these
lines u makers enjoy profitable export
trade, and their wares are initiated by for
eign manufacturers. In live stock and
dairy production we are now on a par with
the greatest countries of Europe in these
lines and are rapidly developing our meth
DDS and perfecting the breeds of our ami
mails, In forestry we stand supreme. Ma
tnre endowed this favored land with a
wealth of timber, in quantity, variety and
Commercial usefulness, which no other
country enjoys. AS workers in wood for
all industrial and economic purposes we
cannot be approached. Our manufactures
of specia1ties of wood, of furniture by part
machine and part hand labor, the houses
which we build when compared cost for
cost, are superior to anything known in
any other country. The woodworking
built in their shops is used throughout
the world. 1t is initiated elsewhere but
hot equaled.
In transportation we stand at the head.
We have greater railways, a greater mile
age, a greater number of trains and pas
sengers in proportion to population, more
travel by u people, than any other coun-
try. Though the locomotive had it's origin
In England and France, America has done
more to perfect it than any other nation.
~ "oS CAAo SOuAVAy GudU Oc1uOuSJTdCeU
how cheaply railways and their rolling
stock and motive power could be built and
thus made the use of these means of trans
portation commercially possible the world
over, whereas if the English type had
been followed humanity in many coun-
tries would have waited another genera
ton for the rails and cars which confer
upon them so many blessings. America
developed and specialized the railway as
no other country has done. The sleeping
car, the dining car, the automatic brake,
the baggage-checking system, innumer-
able signals and appliances which make
railroading safe, cheap and comfortable,
had their origin here.
In wagon and carriage building, both in
design and workmanship, we lead the
world. An hours walk through the
Transportation building will convince any
one of this. In this field the ingenuity of
our designers has been sufficient to con-
struct a vehicle for every special need that
the commerce and industries of man may
present. Even in pleasure and ornamental
vehicles and carriages by far the finest as
well as the most graceful and artistic Gre
ations are those of our countrymen.
Without America the world of machin-
cry would be q poor. one indeed. Space
does not admit specifications. hut wander