Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-08-31
THE FAIRS "BIG THINGS"
EXHIBITS OF ENORMOUS SIZE AT
THE EXPOSITION.
A Cheese Weighing $4,000 Pounds,
Gold Nugget Worth $4,000,
Three Enormous Hides Etc

HHE love of things enormous
- with which Americans are
credited should find satisfac-
tion if not surfeit at the Fair.
Abnormal size seems to be the central
idea of the whole conception, and al
most every building contains, besides
exhibits collectively great. single OBJ
ects eclipsing all others of the kind
yet known. In structures themselves,
this type is shown by the Manufactures
and Liberal Arts Building, which pos
sesses dimensions hitherto unap-
preached in the history of architec-
ture.
1t is 1857 feet. or nearly one-third
of a mile, in length, by 787 feet in
width the ground floor has an area of
over thirty acres the central hall is
1880 feet by $50 feet, and this space is
covered by one tremendous roof 237
feet high in the middle and wholly in
dependent of central support. The
great trusses sustaining it have n span
of 3S2 feet. The building is three
times as large as st. Peters in Rome.
The pyramid of Cheops could be piled
up inside its walls, and the Roman
Colosseum, which seated 10000 per-
sons, would occupy but one-sixth of its
space. To look even casually at half
the exhibits in such place is out of
the question; both mind and body are
unequal to it. The roof is reached by
elevators, naturally of the worlds
greatest. As one ascends, the throng
below is no longer of human beings,
but pigmies moving in and out of toy
bazaars. Upon the roof is the great
promenade, half mile in length At
the corners are the four largest search
lights yet made, one of which has an
Illuminating power equal to that of
1914, 900, 600 candles. 1t throws its
light upon Milwaukee, ninety miles
to the north, and for Lincoln Park,
but fifteen miles distant, it is almost a
MONDAY sun.
Everything is fearfully
and wonderfully immense. Over in
the Agricultural Building, across the
Grand Basin, one is reduced relatively
to about the size of rat before a
monster cheese weighing $4,000
pounds. This was made at one of the
Government experimental dairy
stations in the Dominion of Canada
1t was brought to Chicago on a special
train, timed to stop at various places
en- route, and bear upon its outer case
the autographs and affectionate god
speed of thousands of farmers who went
to see its triumphal progress. From
Nh,aooo - xIo L zf
Upton & Co., and will then travel over
the British Isles, the wonder of won
ders to the English yokel. It is rather
remarkable, considering its size, that
its quality should grade up, as it does.
with the best fancy cheese. In the
Dominion there are over 1900 success
full cooperative factories. The Gov
ernment has five large experimental
stations, and does much to advance
the industry. Perhaps that accounts
for the fact of fCanada's IS exporting more
cheese thsn the United States.
A little distance on is another
enormity. This is temple, thirty.
eight feet high, made OF 80, 600 pounds
OF chocolate. Under the dome sits a
finely executed figure OF Germania after
the famous bronze statue at the Me
derwald, on the Rhine.
Near one entrance in the Transpor-
tation Building is the model, to all ap-
pearance real, of the largest steam ham
mer in the world. It represents the
one used by the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany of Pennsylvania. The falling part
of the hammer alone weighs 125 tons
and has a drop of 16t feet. With this
hammer the largest armor plates are
made, exceeding in size, probably, any
manufactured by rolling.
Further on in the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works exhibit is the last and great
est of railway engines. This is kind
known as decapod, and is several
sizes above the big engines called mo-
guls. 1t has five connecting driving.
wheels on either side and weighs 100
tons. After the Fair it will be used on
the Erie Road.
In the Mining Building may be seen
the largest nuggeto of gold in existence,
the Maitland Bar nugget, which weighs
344. rs ounces, contains 313 ounces of
fine gold, and has a value of 5000.
Several larger nuggets have been found
and are shown by model, but this is
the real metal. In the same building
is the largest piece of coal ever taken
out. The block weighs twelve tons
and has been shipped here from Wigan,
England, where it was mined.
In the Machinery Hall is the enor-
nous Westinghouse electric lighting
plant This is the largest installation
in the world, and consists of twelve
dynamos, each supplying electricity
for 10000 lights of 16-candle power,
or for 15, when forced to the ut
most capacity. The Westinghouse
Company has also the largest and most
perfect switch board ever used. This
Is made up of 26 dynamo panels and
10 feeder panels.
Near by is marvel in the way of a
belt. 1t is of three-ply, oak tanned
leather, 81 feet wide by 2O3 feet long
One can scarcely imagine what giant
machinery such belt is to turn, yet it