The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-04
WE ARE SUPREME.
Evidence of This Seen at the
Worlds Fair.
OUR 0oUETaY LEADS TIE WORLD.


Lesson in architecture the World Ha.
EYer Seen-OtAer Lines II Which Amer.
ica ExceIs-Tho Rapid Advancement o
Western Civilization.
WORLDS FAIa, August Especial !
Further consideration Of She Showing
made by the United States IN this inter
national exposition only increases on,
pride in the achievements Of our country
men. This wholesale comparison with
the best productions of all the world is no;
by any means 10 CIR disadvantage. The
exposition Itself, is grandeur ard vast
ness as a whole, the beauty OF It's archi
lecture. the richness Of its statuary and
glory OF Americas works here. Foreign
ers are amazed that the people OF Chicago
should have produced not only the biggest
Of al international fairs. ont the most ar
tistic and impressive. High praise was
the verdict of q distinguished and critical
foreigner that the Worlds fair is the
grandest object lessen in architecture ths
world has ever seen.
Three of the structures in the White
City are models of architectural art and
viii live throughout all history, side by
side with the Acropolis, the cathedrals OF
st. Peter and St. Paul. These are the Ad-
ministration building, whose designer
f, was recently decorated by the queen OF
England, the Palace of Fine Arts and the
Agricultural palace. 4 fourth building,
/ the greatest ever placed under roof,
! shows signally that the Americans lead
| the world in structural iron work. The
{! rapidity with which this fair was created
/ has demonstrated the matchIess 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 & revolution in building
methods has been efected-a revolution
which is having its influence upon build
Ing and architecture throughout the world
It is noteworthy, moreover, that Chicago
Is today the finest city INTELLECTUALLY
On the globe Travellers say it contains a
larger number Of habitations Of scientific
and hygienic ngenlent-equipped with
all modern appliances for health and COM
fort-than any other municipality. This
is not the least of the couquests of our
western civilization, not the least evidences
Of our rapid advancement.
Go to the Palace OF Agriculture end 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 ali agricultural countries. Not
only is our output greatest in volume, but
SC is greatest in proportion to population,
q 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-coDservation which are followed
through necessity to such great extremes
abroed-we acknowledge no rivals. The
first reaping machine had its trial IN this
country. Here about all the successful
labor-saving apparatus Of the farm hare
had their Development. The variety and
usefulness Of our farm machinery aston
ishes 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 our 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 orr meth
DDS and perfeoting 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 specialties 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. Tie wood working
machinery designed by Americans and
built in their shops is used throughout
the world. 1t is initiated elsewhere but
not equaled.
In transportation we stand at the head
We have greater railways, greater mile
age, a greater number Of trains and pas
sengers in proportion to population, more
travel by our people, than any other coun-
try. Though the locomotive had its origin
In England and France, America has done
more 20 perfect it than any other nation.
Is was this country that demonstrated
how cheaply railways and their rolling
stock and motive power could be built and
thus made the use of these means of trans I
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 baggase-cheekiag system. innume-- /
able signals and appliances which make I.
safe, cheap ard comfortable, +
had their origin here.
In wagon and carriage binding, both n +
design and workmanship, We lead the
world. An hours walk through TIE
building viii convince any 4
one CT this. l. this field the ingenuity OF +
cur designers has been sufficient TO con !
strucr veAicls for every special need that i
the commerce and industries q man T1sy
present. Eysn IN pleasure and ornamental I
vehicles and carriages by far tho finest as !
well as the most graceful ana artistic Gre
ations are those q car couuerymen.
Without america che world o. ,nachj7l-
cry would Be- poer one indeed. Space
does not adgnit specifications, bat wander
through the g-sat bCilding here devoted
to power producing AID poEyez-ssiDZ IA
chimes AID ncfe that II everything q liza
2orfaHcs the -AHsereta ggorkz are superior
~ al forsign rc5actiezs. Evea IN steam
q z1Escs Z j. aeIaisted ve lad tie w0Tl8-
Z looms aaG al textiles and fabric -Tla-
-l-lnery VIC zTe either sD-eass The b@ss II
~ f~reigner or ahea3 q thsEn- il
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