Middletown transcript., 1893-09-16

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NX<19 &ST##E turns are ali III ioi
M XII the current week
it will doubtless be
- u found that all pre-
AAssse vious records, in
MS cluding that of the
S& banner week when
ui;no;s dav was celebrated, will have been
acl;nsed. The records for that week, end
ing August 26th, were 1,9o3, ,454. 80 iar
the attendance for the first four days OF the
present week aggregate 7O7, ,4sl an average
daily attend lce Of .176, ,s73. Should the
average up the total for the six days
wouls d fall short Of 1 700. So satis-
factory has this attendance been OF late
that the execut tive committee Of the local
directory at its meeting Thursday night de-
cided to pay another instalment OF ~ per
cent on the debenture bonds September
22d. This will make 40 per cent paid on
the total of 4.5o0, 600. More could doubt.
less be paid but the council Of admins
tration has also decided to pay all the
balances due on construction contracts.
The present week has been one Of jolifca-
tion and celebrations. New York state
celebrated on Monday, Wisconsin on We'd
nesdsp, Pennsylvania and Brazil on Thurs
doy. California and Utah celebrated satur-5
day was also Transportation day
and Grand Army day. superintendent Of
Admissions Tucker is figuring on a 250,0o0
attendance Saturday, and the special
features promised should certainly make
good his anticipatiors. School children
also took part in dedicating the new liberty
bell on that day.
The Higbee inquiry isIinished and YER
dict of guilty has been rendered. Mr.
Frank D. Higbee, it will be remembered,
was one Of the judges Of awards who
was charged with corruption in the awards
Of prizes for exhibits. Other judges are
likewise suspected Of prostitnting the work
of the judges and it is said fresh evidence
has been submitted showing without a
shadow of doubt that a combination exiets
10 influence and sell awards.
The great choral festival Of the exposi-
tion began Monday when the Welsh Els
tendford or gathering Of Welsh singing
societies took possession of festival hall.
Drudical services were held before the ad
administration building Monday morning,
and Immediately after the bands marched
in procession 10 the hall where at IL 2o'clock
the choirs opened their competition pro-
gram. The competition lasted through the
week until Saturday Evan Rees, of Cardiff,
won the prize offered for the Chair ODE
This makes him this the first poet Of Wales.
The Rev. Ebenezer Edwards, Of Miners
vile, Pa, wa awarded prize Of $500 foo
writing the best essay on Welshmen as
civil, political and moral factors in the
formation and developemcnt Of the United
States. Joseph p. Burners, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, won the baritone solo contest and
Hugh Edwards, of Rhyl, North Wales was
the successful competitor In translating
Tennyson's .Locksley Hail" into Welsh.
The historic bardic chair ceremony is the
chief event Of an Eisteddfod. It's early
history runs back to tradition For me
first TIM at the Columbian exposition since
Julius Cesar found the druids in England
uas this ceremony been performed outside
Of Great Brittian.
Machinery hall offers new discoveries
daily to the observing student. Whoever
passes the lathe Of Charley Scntag, looks
about and then insists on crowding up to
the glass partition Charley Scntag Is one
Of the few thinsble makers Of this country.
Sontag's lathe ii mimic Whenthe thim-
Bile is in thechuch, it gives amaryelous inni.
tation of the mocking bird whistle which
shreiks its blood chilling notes from the top
of machinery hall. It does this when the
thimble maker is .Knurling' the end or top
of the thimble. The Knurling tool gives
out seven distinct notes during the
operation and is one Of the most musi-
cal instruments in the machinery hall
orchestra. Three hundred silver thim-
bles are turned out daily at the thimble
factory. The operation Is simple and in
teresting. The preliminary steps in the
making Of thimble are taken in the
eastern factory, for the machinery hall
exhibit has not the space to accommodate
the machinery. The thimble blank is cut
and formed at one operation. The silver,
in strips about two inches wide and of
varying thickness, is fed into press which
cuts disk and stamps the thimble out of
the round blank. The thimble is not cone
shaped but straight sided cup of silver.
1t is next placed under straight punch
which stretches 1t to the required thickness
after which it Is shaped to the familiar
thimble form. A boy takes the thimbles
and in a lathe turns the edge and turns the
rim oyer, and then the souvenir design is
placed on the band Immediately above the
rim by roller die which is held against it
in lathe In this condition the blanks
come to the Worlds Fair to have the
finishing touches put eon them The
thimble maker places the blank in a
chuck and sets the lathe spinning He
first knurls the top Of the thimble as be
calls the process OF putting in the dim
pies which catch the head of the needle.
The knurling tool is a little narrow
wheel of hard steel which has teeth cut
in its rim. The wheel rsvolves at the
6lQ Ot b1G tDUA WAlStl - AGAu VA O tOOA
rest. Toe spinning thimble whirls the
wheel around so rapidly that the silver
and steel give out the notes Of the mocking
bird whistle as the tool moves from the
center to the edge and back again. When
the end is kurled the side of the thimble is
dimpled with similar tool, only the
wheel is wider. The thimbls is finished
inside in anorther chuck. turned down to
the standard weight and FURNISHED. Thim-
bles are of ten sizes, ranging from No. TO
No. IA
Zulu war trophies, the products Of the.
great yeldts, rugs and pelts of rare animals
adorn the Cape Colony exhibit in the agri-
cultural building. The exhibit is at The
extreme northeast corner of the building
Wools make up large portion Of it. This
exhibit Is In the charge Of Robert Lee.
Said Mr.. Lee. Eve have about 1000. 900 |
sheep and about 5,o0,O00 goats. The sheep
viii average about six pounds Of fleece
apiece worth 16 cents pound in London, |