Milford chronicle., 1893-06-16
ACITY OF MODELS.
Buildings, Farms and Towns
Reproduced in Miniature.
A DELIGHT TO FAIR VISITORS.

Graphic Representation of Farming in thu
Great West Shown in the Washington
State Building-Sfodcls Of the City o.
San Francisco and St. Gothard RaiIwa,
and Tunnel
WoRLD's FAIR, June g. [SpecaL1 =
This has been called the Model City, and
such, iadeed it is. It is also city o.
models. To my mind there is nothing IN
the fair more interesting than the models
Of great buildings, of famous engineering
works, OF farms and cities which are dis
played in various parts Of the grounds.
Hundreds Of these miniatures are to be
found here. The gem Of them all, I think,
is the model of a farm shown in the Wash
ington state building. It is a graphic rep
resentation Of farming as it is done in the
great west A space probably sixty feet
square is covered by it, and you may be
sure great crowds of delighted visitors are
always found here. The farm is more per-
feet than picture There are a dozen
fields the grain and the grass growing in
them. In the pastures the cattle and colts
are feeding in the fields men and ma
chinery are harvesting the ripe crops The
soil is real soil the grain real grain, the
fences are real fences, the machines actual
machines, but all on a miniature scale.
hold in your two hands is cutting the
wheat. A boy follows to stack up the
bundles into shocks.
In the adjoining field a western header |
is at work, cutting off the tops Of the lux |
uriant oats. Wagons carry the rich prod /
uct to a steam threshing machine in opera |
tion at the edge of the field. Not far away /
one man is, blowing with a riding plow, |
and near him another is following the i
furrow behind a walking plow of the old |
style All the details of this farm scene
are admirably executed. Along the coun-
try road drives farmer in his wagon, his
sturdy horses kicking mp the dust and his
own eyes, farmer-like, critically inspecting
the fields of his neighbor Where the
fences sub-divide the farm into fields there
are fringes Of heavy grass and rank weeds
with few flowers showing their bright
hues 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 ]
harvest field. There is even a snake-a s
green, harmless, pretty thing-in the i
grass One imagines he can hear the click +
click Of the moving machine in the clover, 4
or the hum of the steam thresher at the >
edge of the oats field Surely the water :
boy is whistling or singing -
OF course the farm house, the barn and / :
the outbuildings are there, too. They are y
like life The dog in the dooryard is wag- Il
kluk his DuhLE tai ana smiling with MS l.,
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 from the spigot of the pump ~
that is operated by a miniature windmill. m
The stream that is fed by the springs and ~
runs through the banyard is a stream of h;
real water. This is q model which brings
to four visitors out Of five visions of the 80
old farm on which their youthful days ~
were passed-visions of toll and happiness -
OF communion with nature and lessons of ~
industry, economy and honor well learned 80
It isa miniature worth seeing, for it not ~
only pleasea the eye and informs the mind ~
but stirs the imagination. Everywhere in -
this world take off my hat to the farmer. -
To the genius who designed and con- r.
strueted this most perfect of models O., g..
offer my congratulations -
There are so many interesting models - =
IN this exposition cannot stop to mention ~,
them all, but two in the California state Pl'
building deserve special mention One ~ -
represents the city of San Francisco It is iio uo
asplendid work, and mustget there no ~,
Tasa1tiia5. Tna 0l iaDoE ~ IN eight much
turntable sFatcb IN vii,eha. failwsy tions
on eTeiet a 7sfed the VISITOR penoius of m
% = sa.y % nan S2'1t ran an ping
lstaters of the bay the wharfs, the n
principal thoroughfares, all the great pub rbo,,
lie and private buildings, the Chinese cr1,,,
quarter, Mob Hill, the steamships, rail g. g.
ways and cable lines. 1t is not often one LII
has the opportunity to study city-street NJ NJ
80 ; - + ~, 1OI ~ learr
IF Alaneds etY, nc GSilet y " Houei than
Oakland, across the bay from San Fran -. -.
iavS go .e iaIIils, niIls, vai harb
churches, vineyards and little electric rail tI
ways penetrating every part of the beauti- 80,
full region eelol
Almost every building in the exposition baa5 5ad5
has its models, and of course the trans 80
tbe - ISiI, -, - oepDion 70 come
cars are, Of course best shown by means PAOl"
Of the things themselves But even the
genius of Chicago could not devise a Tb
tiieln1u Dy -Wnieh One steamships OF the on tn
world could be brought here in bulk and Sontl
tL elce enere was nothing TO DO but to show getth
them IN miniature. In a former letter The
spoke of the variety and beauty of these have
models, some of which cost thousands of
dollars to build. There is model here of
the St. Gothard railway and tunnel, with
panorama Of the Alps for a background.
There is also a model of the Nicaragua Nea
canal-the canal that is TO he If Aneriee1, with
energy and manifest destiny count for eurlo'
anything in the realm of prOphecy-and It horne
Is always surrounded by large throngs of especl
visitors Il is bniIt of Daner 1,,aobo o,l = fear
itself a work of art. On the one sids tba liquid
Atlantic, on the other the Pacific. Be precls
tween them the land IN tba corto. a. The lii
waters Of Lake Nicaragua. A blood red out se
streak shows where the canal is to ent5r rarlly
he lake on its way from ocean to oceah. phla l.
lor the most part is follows the-bed of
ome river but here and there great cut
ings must be made through the rocks, TheI
nd In ten minutes the model gives every have Ii
bserver better idea of the magnitude OF ing WI
he work than he could obtain by days and Il
iudy of printed maps and descriptions. glOrifiC
he Nicaragua Canal company keeps an stupid
mplOye here to describe the model and fellows
le engineering difficulties that are TO be places
as well as to enlarge upon ciety Al
le advantages to this country which con he tells
ruction Of the canal would bring. friend
A model which attracts much attention his cou
that Of the town Of Pullman. twelve Smiths
lies south of Chicago Every factory remark
sidence ana other building in this model and is
dustriel city-which was created much her goo
the Worlds fair was on comprehen- tion an
7e plan in an incredibly short space of man
ne-is faithfully shown. Near by is a Inc
ll-sized model of a mammoth steam IS ricf
INNER used in Pennsylvania forge as the
Ike colossus it bestrides the wide aise,
q rises so far above the floor that Mt first S1
e wonders whether it is an arch or i W oiV
Ver. II made Of metal, which It is not nv M y =
e would marvel how it was ever brought ~ ~ ~
her 1t is wooden monster. but il -4. -...l u !
YES just as well tie original could do oSSst,
illustrate how man in CARRYING on lis SDySo.iC S
ghty operations employs forces which o,,t ootg
uld be tcO great even for the use Of Jove ~ So -,
his thuHderboit factory. ,ooa is y.
model in which all farmers and stock 49, ~ ~
iers will take much interest is to be 49,, az.
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