Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-09

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square is covered by it, and you may be
sure great crowds of delighted visitors are
always found here. The farm is more per-
feet than a picture. There are a dozen
fields, the grain and the grass growing in
them. In the pastures the cattle and colts
are feeding, in the fields men and ma
chinery are harvesting the ripe crops. The
soil is real soil, the grain real grain, the
fences are real fences, the machines actual
machines, but all on a miniature scale.
A perfect little self-binder that you could
hold in your two hands is cutting the
wheat. A boy follows to stack up the
bundles into shocks.
In the adjoining field a western header
is at work, cutting off the tops Of the Lux
uriant oats. Wagons carry the rich prod
uct to IL steam thresLing machinei in opera
ton at the edge of the field. Not far away
one man is blowing with riding pillow,
and near him another is following the
furrow behind a walking piow of the old
style. All the details Of this farm scene
are admirably executed. Along the coun-
try road drives a farmer in his wagon, his
sturdy horses kicking up the dust and his
W eyes, farmer-ENke, critically inspecting
the fields OF his Leighbor. Where the
fences sub-divide the farm into fields there
are fringes of heavy grass and rank weeds,
with Il few flowers showing their bright
hues in the mass, just as the fence-corners
are on every farm in C~hristendom. A boy
with a pony is carrying cold water from
the spring to refresh the workers in the
harvest field. There is even a snake-a
green, harmless, pretty thing-in the
OrQSc 0y,a ip,nOrinoc no oor hoor tho o1So1,-
click of the moving machine in the clover,
or the hum of the steam thresher Mt the
edge of the oats field. Surely the water
boy is whistling or singing.
OF course the farm house, the barn and
the outbuildings are there, too. They are
like life. The dog in the dooryard is wag.
ging his bushy tail and smiling with his
red mouth at the visitors to the Worlds
fair. The mich COW stands in the shade
of a blooming peach tree chewing her cud.
Water runs from the spigot Of the pump
that is operated by a miniature windmill.
The stream that is fed by the springs and
run through the barnyard is q stream of
real water. This is a model which brings
to four visitors out Of five visions of the
old farm on which their youthful days
were p~assed-visions of toll and happiness,
of communion with nature and lessons Of
industry, economy and honor we'll learned.
1t is a miniature worth seeing, for it not
only pleases the eye and informs the mind
but stirs the imagination. Everywhere in
this world I take off my hat to the farmer.
To h genius who designed and con.
structed this most perfect of models !
offer my congratulations.
There are so many interesting models
in this exposition I cannot stop to mention
them all, but two in the California state
building deserve special mention. One
represents the city of San Francisco. It is
splendid work, and must have cost no
end of labor. In an amphitheater much
resembling the pit in which a railway
turn-table is operated the visitor beholds
in miniature the whole city of San Fran.
cisco, excepting the suburbs. There are
the waters of the bay, the wharfs, the
principal thoroughfares, all the great pub.
lie and private buildings, the Chinese
quarter, Mob Hill, the steamships, rail.
ways and cable lines. It is not often one
has the opportunity to study a city-street
for street and building for building-with.
out moving a foot. The other is a model
OF Alameda county, showing the city OF
Oakland, across the bay from San Fran.
cisco, the suburbs, the farms, hills, val.
leys, country seats, school houses.
churches, vineyards and little electric rail.
ways penetrating every part of the beauti.
full region.
Almost every building in the exposition
has its models, and of course the trans.
portation department is no exception to
the rule. Railway tracks, locomotives and
cars are, of course, best shown by means
of the things themselves. But even the
genius of Chicago could not devise q
method by which the steamships of the
world could be brought here in bulk, and
hence there was nothing to do but to show
them in miniature. In a former letter ]
spoke of the variety and beauty of these
models, some of which cost thousands Of
dollars to build. There is a model here Of
the St. Gothard railway and tunnel, with
q panorama Of the Alps for q background,
There is also q model Of the Nicaragua
canal-the canal that is to be If American
energy and manifest destiny count for
anything In the realm OF prophecy-and II
Is always surrounded by large thronRs OF
visitors. It is built Of paper mache. and n
itself a work Of art. On tho one side the
Atlantic, on the other the Pacific. Be
tween them the land, in the center the
waters of Lake Nicaragua. A blood red
streak shows where the canal 10 to enter
the a on its way from ocean to ocean.
For the most part It follows the bed Of
some river, but here and there great cut
tings must be made through the rocks,
and In ten minutes the model gives every
observer a better idea Of the magnitude Of
the work than he could obtain by a days
study Of printed maps and descriptions.
The Nicaragua Canal company keeps An
employe here to describe the model and
the engineering difficulties that are to be
~surmounted, as we'll as to enlarge upon
the advantages to this country which con.
%struction Of the canal would bring.
A model which attracts mech attention
is that Of the town of Pullman, twelve
miles south of Chicago. Every factory.
residence and other building in this model
industrial city-which was created much
as the Worlds fair was, on II comprehen-
sive plan in an incredibly short space Of
time-is faithfully shown. Near by is a
full-sized model of u mammoth steam
hammer used in a Pennsylvania forge.