Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02
WONDER WORLD.
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Tributs...some of the Prime Engineer
ing and Other Feats to Be Exhibited.
The work of getting into shape the
preliminaries of the Trans-Mississippi
and International Exposition to be
held In Omaha. from June to Novem-
Der, 1898. is proceeding with consider
able zeal. There will be innumerabie
special exhibits and hundreds of nov
ell show features, among which may be
mentioned the following
Sherman's Umbrella is a massive
mechanical invention by which passen-
gers are elevated to height OF 2oO
feet and revolved slowly within cir
Gle whose diameter Is $50 feet. An
night the tower will be brilliantly IL
Illuminated by electricity, while at the
apex a powerful searchlight will be
placed. This stream OF light may De
seen distance of 100 miles.
The vertical standard of the umbrel-
la will be $50 feet high, made OF steel
and iron, and anchored in a stone
foundation 80 feet deep and 20 feet
square 1t will be 40 feet in diameter
or 126 feet in circumference. On the
sides of the standard, running from
the bottom up, will be 40 rails, forming
ten tracks for the lower platform TO
move up and down. On this platform
will be a circular track on which an
other platform is to revolve, the latter
platform holding the standard which
supports the arms of the umbrella.
The arms are to 40 feet in length,
at the extremities of which the cars
are to be suspended. From the outer
ends of the arms cables will extend to
the top of the standard, connecting
there with counter weights which trav-
ell up and down on the inside OF the
standard. The cars will be constructed
on the same principle of those OF the
Ferris wheel, built Of iron and stsei
and will hold 40 passengers each.
There will be sixteen of these cars.
The lower platform will also be used
for passengers, having carrying Ca
pacity of about 200. This platform
will rise to the height of 240 feet.
Mr.. r. Hinchliff, the engineer, who
will construct the umbrella, describes
it technically as follows:
1.-The Sherman Umbrella will be
unique. The cars are suspended from
the outer ends of the arms, the lift
ing arrangements being series OF
braces, one for each arm, acted upon
by a central sleeve which will sur
round a supporting column, the sleeve
being raised by power from the engine.
After the arms are raised carrying the
passenger cars to the desired height.
they will be rotated by the properly
applied machinery, at the pleasure of
operator. Passengers will enjoy the
motion of the machine; it will be on
par with the Ferris wheel. The motion
will be of two kinds-vertical and hori-
zontal. Passengers will be first lifted
to the intended height and then re-
volved around so that the entire coun-
try for miles around, as well as all
the objects in the Exposition grounds
will be clearly within view. The ma
chine is designed to make three trips
per hour and carry 500 passengers"
A miniature train consisting of loco
motive, tender, four observation cars.
one box car and caboose-in all
twenty-nine feet long. The train will
be operated daily on its own tracks for
the transportation of children. The
cars are forty-one inches long and
fourteen wide, in each of which two
juveniles can be comfortably seated.
The engine weighs $50 fbs, it's nearest
competitor being a London. loco
motive which weighs 5000 pounds.
The famed mining district, 1.-THE
Black Hills" including Galena, Spear
fish, Lead City, Edgemont, with the
rugged and lofty mountain of Ragged
Top in the distance, will be reproduced
In miniature, with towers, mines and
camps, suggestive of real life. Spear
fish Canyon, with its bristling crags.
rocky defiles, and beautiful cascades;
the Bridal Veil Falls, railways, cleo
trio lights, etc., add peculiar interest to
the picturesque and novel portrayal.
An elevated cycle railway will con-
vey passengers to and from various
points on the grounds on pedal-pro-
PEELED machines, operated on double
track of steel rails.
Shooting the Chutes," a mechani-
can novelty, contemplates some new
and ingenious ideas recently evolved in
this line of amusement.
A coast-defense vessel resembling a
tub, will afford amusement to EXPOSE
ton visitors, the vessel being converted
at will into harmless merry-go-round
which will navigate the waters of the
lagoon and convey passengers from
oua poipt IN another
The Nicaragua Canal, by means OF
which it is arranged to form the con-
Meeting link between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, will form an interest
ing and novel engineering exhibit.
Major Henry Romeyn, representing
the CHILEAN Government, proposes to
reproduce the canal, showing the
oceans on both sides, harbors and ship
ping.
The German Village will represent
the various styles of architecture seen
among the historic buildings in var
ious parts of Germany reproduced as
they appeared centuries ago.
Prominent among the amusements
will be the Chinese Theatre, the Tyro-
lean Village, the Streets of Cairo
with camels, donkeys, attendants and
drivers; the Moorish Palace, with it's
dark skinned keepers and guards,
shieks from the plains of Arabia, Al
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