The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-06-07

two our lovers forget themselves and each
other. Neither they nor any one else ever
saw such dazzling, overwhelming scene
Of radiance and brilliancy as this. The
great crystal rivals the sun himself in its
-riridHess, and with -nftteh moro than tho
suns beauty. 1t Is as II a sun were sud-
denly turned into a diamond Of the first
water.
While our lovers go back to their nook
and sit and watch this apotheosis OF Edi-
son, let us take a short walk about the
Electrical building and see what we shall
see. 1t Is too late in the evening and the
crowds are too thick to attempt anything
like q careful study Of the show. But our.
hasty run along shows us that this is in
deed the electrical age, and that electricity
Is the present industrial sensation. We
had heard SO before, or had read it in the
papers, but here we have the proof of It.
Here are the machines and devices and
applications to speak for themselves. Here
Is the evidence Of the amazing manper in
which electricity has pervaded all the in
dustries and nearly all the arts. There
would be difficulty in selecting a field of
human effort in which it has not already
made its appearance in one form or an
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It can do all this as mere child during
the first ten or fifteen years Of its exist
ence, what will it do and what part will it
bear in the economies of the race when it
shall have reached manhood's estate?
1t is almost Incredible that eight or more
acres Of floor space could be filled with tho
products Of electrical industries, and yet
that Is just what one beholds in this build
ing. Over IN Machinery hall are several
more acres, for it Is there all the original
dynamos or sources Of power are located.
In this great Electrical building - this
palace of the marvelous-one may see all
forms of electrical lighting and the most
astounding decorative effects, and also q
wonderful variety Of the industrial uses Of
the magic current. Here is the telephone,
the telegraph, the ocean cable, with opera
tors to show you just how the work is
done, and to give you cable messages To
take home as souvenirs. Here Is the tel
autograph or Observation-Disclosures
machine, Professor Gray's latest wonder,
now for the first time to be made familiar
to the popular eye. Here is plating OF
metals, melting, Furnishing, fusing, weld
ing by means of this unseen force.
Here are machines which go down under
the ground or far into long tunnels and
bore holes and draw cars loaded with min
eral or hoist weights to the surface, deriv-
ing their power by means of little wire
which may be run anywhere and TO any
distance, and which gives Off neither
steam, gas nor smoke. Here are acres and
acres of electrical devices which you will
have to study very carefully If you are to
understand their purpose and use. OF
such are tho meteorological, surgical and
optical instruments Of the French and
Germans, the latter people excelling in
these scientific applications OF electricity.
They show thermometers which one may
put In his green house or In his mine or
granary and have it's temperature regis
tered constantly in his parlor or office.
They have compasses whose polarity has
been strengthened by storage batteries, SO
that mariners who sail in high ATTITUDES,
or near the poles, may not DO troubled by
wobbly needles. They have surgical In
struments which enable operators TO LOOK
all through q mans body, up his nose,
down his throat, into his eycballs.
III our lovers 60 to the plaisance on
bright, warm day and want TO have n
novel ride let them charter a sedan chair
with two or three Egyptians to carry it.,
and they are sure of n lively time. These
conveyances are becoming quite popular.
They are especially good for lovers, for two
persons may ride in one chair il trouble be
taken to find one of the larger sort manned
by three and sometimes by four sons OF
Cairo. The chairs are not as comfortable
as the wheel-chairs, and cost more, but
they are such a novelty, and some people
arc so fond of doing those things which at
tract the attention of the multitude, that
the brown and perspiring foreigners arc
kept constantly on the move. They have
a very awkward, shuflling gait, and they
are all stoop-shouldered But they are
making more money than they ever made
before I'm all their lives, and American
lovers are not the only people who arc
willing 10 give them good coin, either.
ROBERT GRAy0.