Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-13
WILL BE ON TIME.
Chicago's Great Show Bound
To Be Ready.
EVERYTHING IN COMPLETE ORDER

And the Exhibits i'm Place on Opening Day
-Tardy Foreigners Given Leave to Erect
Their Buildings - Heavy Machinery
Coming In and How 1t Will BE Put in
Position - Electricity to Help Do the
Work.
CHICAGO March lathe best evidence
that managers of the Worlds fair are con-
fident that everything will be ready for
the opening seven weeks hence is found in
the fact that last week number of inn
portant buildings were begun, No less
than four big buildings were started.
They We're not large as manufactures
hall, 10 be sure. but all of them were
larger than anybody but an official of the
Worlds fair would attempt to finish in
two months.
Foreign Countries Start Late.
Several foreign countries, which for rea-
sons not. understood at headquarters de-
layed beginning operations until now, APP
peared through their representatives and
We're allowed to begin work on their houses.
They were required to furnish satisfactory
assurances that the buildings would be
finished on time When this had been
done the'foreigners were allowed to break
ground. Had the officials not felt conf
dent that the buildings would be COM
pleted before the opening of the fair the
sites kept for these countries would have
been forfeited.
Big Things Coming In.
Big things are beginning to come to ma
chinery hall. During the past week num-
Der of heavy exhibits were hauled into the
park and pulled around TO Chief Robin
sons building Nearly all the exhibits in
that department are difficult to handle.
Comparatively few light displays will be
made. The large proportion of them are
weighty machinery and vet il is doubtful
whether less trouble will be had in any
building in Installing the exhibits. The
exhibits are pax in place by an exhibit-an
electrical elevated railway that runs from
one end of the hall to the other. The length
of the line is something like l, 300 feet.
How Heavy Exhibits Arc Handled.
Two lines are now in operation, one on
either side of the building. An iron con-
trivance that resembles section of bridge
work is suspended between the tracks of
structure that reaches the entire length of
the building When a car load or two of
heavy machinery is hauled into the build
ing this iron carriage is run down the
track to point just opposite the open cars.
Several pulleys are dropped and a moment
later the whole load is raised from the car
and taken to the place in the building
where it is to be set up Machines weigh
ing dozen tons or more are handled as
easily as small packages are disposed of in
other buildings.
Picks Up Two Loaded Freight Cars.
An interesting device has also been put
in transportation hall for hauling in the
numerous locomotives and cars that will
be shown in that building. This consists
of a car long enough to haul two ordinary
freight cars. 1t is, in fact, nothing more
than a section of track operated by pow
erful electric motor. The track is laid at
right angles to the tracks used in bringing
cars into the park. a train of stuff comes
into the park and is bumped up to the
transportation building. Two are
pushed along until they reach the moving
section that goes into transportation build
ing. Then they are cut off and the plat
form moves into the big hall on tracks
laid for that purpose