The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-07-05
A MODEL CITY OF MODELS.
Buildings, Farms and Towns Reproduced
In Miniature.

WORLDS IFAIR, June lZ.-4nl6 na'
been called the Model City, and such
indeed, it is. It is also city of models
To my mind there is nothing in the fail
more interesting than the models of grea
buildings, of famous engineering works
of farms and cities which are displayet
in various parts of these grounds. Hun
dreds of these miniatures are to be foune
here. The gem of them all, I think, il
the model of farm shown in the Wash
ington State building. It is graphic
representation of farming as it is done il
the great West. A space probably sixty
feet square is covered by it, and you may
be sure great crowds of delighted visiton
are always found here. The farm il
mere perfect than picture. There az:
dozen fields, the grain and the gras'
growing in them. In the postures tht
cattle and colts are feeding, In the fields
men and machinery are harvesting tht
ripe crops. The soil is real soil, th'
grain real grain, the fences are rea
fences, the machines actual machines
but all on miniature scale. A perfect
little self-binder that you could hold il
your two hands 10 cutting the wheat. A
boy follows to stack up the bundles into
shocks.
In the adjoining field q western header
is at work, cutting of the tops Of the lux
uriant oats. Wagons carry the rich pro-
duct to steam threshing machine in op'
Grafton at the edge of the field. Not fal
away one man is plowing with riding
plow, and near him another is following
the furrow behind a walking plow of the
old style. All the details of this-farm
scene are admirably executed. Along
the country road drives farmer in hi'
wagon, his sturdy horses kicking up the
dust and bis own eyes, farmer-like, crit
ically inspecting the fields of bis neigh
Dor. Where the fences sub-divide the
farm into fields there are fringes oi
heevy grass and rank weeds, with few
flowers showing their bright aues in the
mass, just as the fence-corners are on
every farm in Christendom. a boy with
pony is carrying cold water from the
spring to refresh the workers in the har-
vest field. There is even snake-a
green, harmless, pretty thing-in the
grass. One imagines he can hear the
click.click of the moving machine in the
clover, or the hum of the steam thresher
at the edge of the oats field. Surely the
water boy is whistliug or singing.
Of course the farm house, the barn and
the outbuildings are there, too. They
are like life. the dog in the dooryard is
wagging his bushy tail and smiling with
his red mouth at the visitors to the
Worlds Fair. The milch COW stands in
the shade of blooming peach tree
chewing her cud. Water runs frsm the
spigot of the pump that is operated by. a
miniature windmill. The stream that is
fed by the springs and runs through the
barnyard is stream of real water. This
is model which brings to four visitors
out of five visions of the old farm on
which their youthful days we're passed
visions of toll and happiness, of COM
munion with nature and lessons of indus.
try, economy and honor we'll learned. II
is a miniature worth seeing, for it not
only pleases the eye and informs the
mind. but stirs the Imagination. Every
where in this world I take off my hat to
the farmer: To the genius who designed
and constructed this most perfect Of mod
els I offer my congratulations.
There are 80 many interesting models
in this exposition I cannot stop to men
ton them all, but two in the California
State building deserve special mention
One represents the city of San Frans
cisco. 1t is splendid work, and must
have cost no end of labor. In an amphi.
theater much resembling the pit in
which a railway turn table is operated
the visitor beholds in miniature the
whole city of San Francisco, excepting
the suburbs. There are the waters of ths
bay, the wharfs, the principal thorough
fares, all the great public and private
buildings, the Chinese quarter, Mob Hill
the steamspbips, railways and cable
lines. It is not often one has the oppor
turIity to study city-street for street
and building for building-without NOV
ing a foot. The other is model of Ala
media County, showing the city of Oak
land, across the bay from San Francisco
the suburbs, the farms, hills, valleys
country seats, school houses, churches
vineyards and little electric railway
penetrating every part of the beautiful
region.
Almost every building in the exposi
ton has its models, and If course tbe
transportation department is no excep
tion to the rule. Railway tracks, loco
motives and cars are, of course, bes
shown by means of the things them
selves. But even the genius of Chicago
could not devise method by which the
steamships of the world could be brought
here in bulk, and hence there was meth
ing to do but to show them in miniature
In former letter I spoke of the variety
and beauty of these models, some o.
which cost thousands of dollars to build
There is model here of the st. Gotharo
railway and tunnel, with panorama o.
the Alps for background. There is also
model of the Nicaragua canal-the
canal that is to be if American energy
and manifest destiny count for anything
in the realm of prophecy-and it ii
always surrounded by large throngs Of
visitors. 1t is built of paper mache, and