The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-20

were moving brlck buhdlng WIFI
stone foundation. The building is a:
large as the Crotwell hotel in Newber
~. It was in the way Of new ele'
waited car line and must be moved. The
contractor gave guarantee to move il
distance of three hundred feet with
| out a crack in the walls or the least
injury in any part for $4,000. 1t wat
raised up with one thousand jack
screws and its peregrination was going
on at the rate Of twenty feet day
There were no cracks in it when I left.
Similar buildings are being whirled
around to get them out Of the way
Nothing like it is to be seen elsewhere
in the universe and the foreign digni.
tsries visiting the Exposition look on
the sight with wonder.
Is it any wonder that such city
could place the Exposition on a such
magnificent scale? 1t cost $22,0Oo,0D,
| and a Chicago bank cashier told me
that S16,OOO,OOo his city put in the
Worlds Fair would be a big adver-
tisement for her-they never expected
to get it back any'other way.
could tell Chicagoan from a Wis
itor every time. he talked up his
town. The last chap saw the night
I started home did it, and he Was
somewhat tainted with anarchism.
Yet with all her hustle, enterprise
and feats in civil engineering, social
and moral malaria hang in her atmos-
phere like deadly pail. A large class
of her inhabitants respect no Lords
day, no circle, no marriage VOW,
have no purity of thought, no right
living, but ever striving for the al
mighty dollar, and living in sensuality
and the mire Of moral degradation.
never saw more terrible illustration
of this than the reception given the
SALVATION ARMY
J one night at the corner of Thirty-third
and State streets. AS each Salvationist
would pray in loud tone in order to be
heard above the noise of the crowd, I
saw boys four and six years old mock
and scof them in their religious exer-
cises, and mothers by example were
teaching the children in their arms to
hail them in the most insulting man
ner. The Salvation Army, with its
songs and United States flag and mar
tial music, was novel and ludicrous
thing even to me, and I looked on
with curiosity, and listened to the
prayers each one uttered in his or her
turn, but I felt like giving those boys
and their mothers lecture.
MIDWAY PLAIsANCE,
crowded with curious throng from
morning to late at night, had some
interesting features. There is stereo-
typed sameness about the appearance
and manner of the Asiatic people there
congregated, and it is not worth the
time nor the money to visit their "en-
tertainments." You can see the natives
of the East in their squalid, dirty at
tire, and if you have learned anything
at all of their customs from books of
travel, the sight of them ought to be
satisfactory.
The Ferris wheel is in Midway
Plaisance. It is one CT the remarkable
things at the Worlds Fair. Its diam
| eter is 264 feet, and a ride on it takes
you PSI feet in the air, where you have
time as it moves slowly around to take
view of Chicago and the Exposition
grounds. Your vision is lost in the
dim distance before the full scope Of
the city can be taken in, but you can
get splendid idea of the Exposition
buildings, and overlook some Of the
things in the Plaisance that scarcely
deserve closer inspection. The cars
thirty-six in number-which carry
you up in the air are half the size of 8
railway coach, and are swung on pivots
so that they are always on level as
they 90 around. There are chairs tc
sit upon, but one of our party-the
Press Association took it in body
laid himself down upon the floor as we
went around, Notwithstanding the fact
that not a single accident has occurred
since the wheel was erected. ] read
the other day, however, that it got
stuck for four hours. The passengers
up there in the air must have enjoyed
it to the utmost.
The wheel cost $500, 900, and has beer
sold for $500, 900 to company on Coney
Island, where it will be removed. 1t:
shaft,-the largest ever made in the
world, was forged out of solid steel
It is As feet in length, 50 inches in di
ameter and cost 100000. The whee
has taken in altogether s300,00 ano
on September 1st began paying the
Exposition twenty-five per cent. of the
gross receipts. Its receipts are 40"
$4,000 per day. Fifty cents is charged
for two revolutions, which are made in
forty minutes. I could have gone
around several times more. Itwas ex
hilirating. Two engines of 1000 horse
power each drive the machinery which
turns the immense wheel, its move
ment being transmitted by a chair
belt from a double set Of four wheels
two above and larger than the lowe
wheels. 1t is run very much like tht
propelling power of a bicycle.
The wheel at night presents a beau
tiful sight from the elevated railroad
as you are leaving the Exposition
grounds. It's 1,40O incandescent cleo
trio lights show the circle OF the Whee
we'll defined against the horizon II