The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-03

( main building, so that we can step from
one to the o her und.r our own roof. The
| agricultural exhibit with its three floors,
/ Will offer an area Of some fourteen 10 six
teen thousand feet.
Wonders of the Waters.
The merchant marine exhibit Of course
will not be a very extensive one, because
| we have not a very extensive merchant
| marine but one thing we are making a
/ great feature Of Is our yachting exhibit.
| Models Of all the cup defenders and all
| our other principal yachts will be shown.
| This exhibit is under the charge Of Mr..
Buckham. who is meeting with great sue
| cess. We will have besides, models OF
our other characteristic marine work, such
as our Long Island sound boats,
our fine ferry boats. our floats
| for carrying railroad trains. our ice
| beakers our cable boats for laying At
| lantic cables and repairing them, etc. The
| largest American exhibit in this line will
| be that Of the American Line. It will be
| models of all their magnificent American
| built steamships. Our marine engineering
| department viii be installed in the palace
| of civil engineering and transportation,
| on the Champs de Mars The Mississippi
river egineering, which comes in the gov
ernment's department viii be shown. It
viii illustrate the engineering work on
the rivers and the finest of the river
steamships. This extensive exhibit is be-
ing accomplished by combination made
with the management of tie Pan-Ameri-
can Exposition. to be held in Buffalo in
1901. They viii have the use OF the same
exhibit after 1T comes back to this coun-
try. The present steamers of transporta-
tion-lumber RATS. toWbOats, all barge
work, spie drivers and all the other
unique craft of the Mississippi-wlll be
shown In this exhibit 1t will be very
complete. Nothing of that kind has ever
been gotten up before. 1t Is thoroughly
representative of the river traffic in this
country. We tried very hard TO get up
such an exhibit for the Worlds Fair ar
Chicago, but did not succeed.
zone of the most Interesting things in
our whole show win be a very large model
of the Chicago drainage canal. the most
important engineering feat mat has been
In progress during the last few years. The
whole length of the canal will be shown
the different classes and methods of exca-
walton that were performed rock work,
dredging, hydraulic work, the bridges con-
struted models of principal excavating
machinery used, etc.
skyScrnper and bridge Model.
I'VE will have a very fine line of models
of the engineering department of the Unit
ed States government as employed in our
coast work and harbors. We will have
models of some of the most important
bridges in the United States, including
the Brooklyn bridge and various railroad
bridges.
New York state Is making a very fine
exhibit In this department, illustrative of
its waterways, including the Erie canal
and transportation facilities at Buffalo.
And New York city is having made-it
is, indeed, now nearly completed-one of
the best pieces of map work ever turned
out 1t occupies over 500 square feet. 1t
is shown horizontally instead of upright
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and will shoN everything relating to en-
cheering in the Greater New York. That
will be returned, / suppose, to the City
Hall in New York after the exposition.
1t is something that every city in the
United States ought TO have, and we are
trying 20 get other cities to prepare SINH
lar maps We will nave in addition q
very large exhibit in connection with the
construction of high buildings or skyscrap-
ers. You know such buildings are engi-
neering now rather than architecture. Mr.
Purdy is In charge of that First will be
seen models of the steel structures, then
of the completed buildings outside; then
models. drawings, etc, showing the engi-
neering work. making in all a complete
illustration of the American skyscraper.
which IS new thing to the rest of the
world.
THE state of Massachusetts is MAX
ing a very excellent engineering exhibit
III lnt way VI maps anu iLI%1-As. 1t III
cludes ilustra ton in an engineering way
of the city of Boston and important work
OF the state, including the states elabor-
ate and excellent work in electric rail-
ways.
California; Fine Showing.
The state of California has prepared at
great expense a large relief map of the
state also maps and models of the larg-
est engineering work on the railroads Of
a 81 IF 1of,o al
transmission which Is an important thing.
Callfornia's appropriation is being ex-
pended very judiciously. They are doing
exactly what we wanted them to do. But
the engineering exhibit from New York
viii probably be the most important of
ALL
THE railroad exhibit will include auto
mobiles. bicycles and things of such ma
ture. There was not room enough in the
American building to show the most i'm
portant varieties of machinery actually
working, so the machinists have gotten
together and built at their own expense
complete American machine shop which
will have, perhaps, more influence on
foreign trade than any other part of our
exhibit, because American machinery
has been coming into use very extensive
ly In Europe of late. And Europeans re-
aize this Importance, too. There are now
very large plans for the erection of great
railroad and other important machine
shops over there which have been post
Ioued in their execution until after the
exposition in order that they may study
the most improved appliances in the Am
| erican exhibit; especially American tools
and machinery. In the railroad depart
ment there will be nine good repre- ser a
| tive American locomotives. Some of tlssm
| may be lacked up on under wheels as they
were at the Chicago exposition. but most
OF them will be lifted clear of the track
| and then operated by compressed air 70
| show their motion.
There will be very great exhibit of
| steel freight cars, which are the most re-
| cent thing in advanced railroad construct
| ion. Our street cars and various forms of
| transportation win be illustrated, but
there will be no passenger cars; there is
no demand in Europe for cars built on
| the American plan.
1--WE have about fifty applicants for space
| by bicycle companies. The history of the
bicycle Will be illustrated. and there will
| be models representing its development,
| BY automobiles we have been simply