The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-06-05
WORLDS FAIR.
Electrical Machinery and Displays-Ths
Atlantic Oable-How Fish are Bred
and Exhibited-What the Gov
erment Department Put
on Exhibition.

sitions a building has been devoted ex-
clusively to electrical inventions and
machinery. The building here is about
TOO feet long by 345 feet wide covering
51a acres. 1t fronts on the great Quad
rangle or Court Of Honor and over it's
main entrance 10 a colossal statue Of
Benjamin F rankin and his kite. The
walls of the building are GO feet high
and within are consequently two floors.
On the first is all the heavy machinery
used In econmmical and commercial
lines or in other words furnishing light,
heat and power. So complex and hidden
is this class OF machinery that 1t is OF
little interest q W to the specialist. The
exhibits are ponderous, though there are
only few exhibitors-the Edison, Brush,
Thompson, Houston and q few other
companies monopoIizing the special
features. France, Great Britain, Ger
many and Q few other nations have ex-
hibits also, the only difference appar-
entity in the machines being in the
finishing OF them. An interesting sight,
however, under the lower floor is
the machine or dew ice used to manipu-
late the wires in order to produce the
many colored and travelling" lights seen
in Examinations and also in. throwing
"flash lights" now becoming a necessary
implement of war. Illustrations OF these
fash lights are seen from towers OF this
and other prominent buildings around
the Court of Honor, in the evening
iiluminations. This device looks more
like the threads OF q loom or the string
board OF q piano, but with q count
less number OF strings or wires in con-
tinual vibration by reason OF their
manipulation. Starting from this one
can watch the colored lights as they
softly rise up the spiral column of glass
~refectors, flow across the intervening
conductor and flash in the globes-a
wonderful and enhancing sight. These
taken in connection with the sub
merged tubes of the great water basins
and fountains while in play, and the
effect is a fairy scene, enchanting and
dazzling.
In the galleries of this building are
the lighter machines Of electrical appli
cation; scientific devices OF finest make
telegraph, telephone, graphaphone audi
phone and all the other aphones." The
most interesting exhibits OF all. to us,
was that OF the Commercial Cable Coz
display OF ocean cable relics-a section
Of that OF 90, the first, of others since
samples of injuries received at the bottom
OF the sea, how grappled and repaired,
etc. A cable 1900 miles In length 10
here coiled in cells and 81 operator took
our name over 30 the European side Of
the Atlantic, sent the message and we
watched the instrument commit it to
writing on this side the water in just 90
seconds This message we keep as a
souvenir. Then from an audiphone we
heard the strains Of a famous brass band
Of New York. Self-winding electrical
clocks which never run down can be
bought.
The Fisheries building which cost
nearly a quarter OF . million 10 q regular
Mecca for sight-seers. It 10 hardly pos
slble to press ones self through the
throng that watch the denizens OF the
deep as they swim around in the water
watts with glass fronts. Everything that
science has rescued from the depth Of
ocean, lake and river is here displayed.
The Smithsonian inetitution with its
great resources has made marvellous
contributions Of the finny tribe. So Tar
= we know, every species Of fish from
salt or fresh water 10 here represented,
either alive or dead, thousands alive,
and the process of Matching more. the
minute egg throughout all stages to the
perfect minnow and then the full grown
fish 10 here plainly shown in the prscti-
cal operation Of hatcheries and basins.
The United States government build
ing and exhibit is another magnificent
contribution to tina ~edification OF the
people. 1t Ia 3l5x415 fest and cost.
$4,000. The north half 10 assigned
70 exhibits from the Smithsonian insti-
tuition and the interior department, the
south half 70 exhibits from, the war
treasury. postofiCe and agricultural
departments. Then the state and
justice departments occupy tho east and
west wlngs. In the postofice depart
mept il seen everything conceivable, in
the form Of postage stamps, envelopes,
~mailsacks old saddle-bags, mail-ooaches,
mail-cars and postofices ever used or at
present IN uss by our own Or any for
eign country. There isl geological ex-
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