Smyrna times., 1899-10-25
EXHIBITS LARGE AND SMALL.
Wide Range of Interest For Visitors to the
Exposition Implement, Vehicle
and Furniture Building.

Philadelphia, Oct 24-The Espla-
made of the National Export exposition
is gay. The exposition exhibits in the
Main building are varied and interest
ing. The surroundings of the exposi-
tion buildings are artistic and attract
i've, but nowhere in this great display
OF industrial arts and manufacturing
results is there a more entertaining
and important exhibition of the useful
and the novel than that to be found
in the building devoted to farming im
plements. vehicles and furniture. Gen
orally described, the things to be seen
here are wagons and carts, carriages,
coaches and buggies, automobiles, car
riage woodwork and hardware, harness
and saddlery, agricultural machinery
and implements, and windmills and
household furniture.
The most recent make of automobiles
and a diversified exhibition generally
Of these horseless vehicles occupies a
very large space and attracts special
attention and wide interest. These new
vehicles as displayed at the exposition
are not merely those to be used in
transportation in the cities, but there
are specimens of such contrivances
specially adapted to the use of farmers
and the people of the country gener-
ally.
Evidently, however, from the mag.
nificent display of carriages, coaches,
carts and wagons, the day of equine
carriers has by no means passed. Some
of the coaches and buggies to be seen
in the Implement building, when COM
pared with the automobile, seem like
light and trifling things of beauty but
| possess every requirement of strength
and utility. The greatest carriage
makers of the country have done their
best to make this feature of the vehicle
exhibition all that it should be as a
display of the finest specimen of work
in their lire to be found in the world.
The question of better roads being
an,absorbing one, in view of the chang
ing character of the vehicles in popular
use, there is fresh interest given to
the show of road making machinery,
which is made so important a feature
of the implement department of the
exposition. Stone crushers nf the most
formidable character and intricate con-
struction, immense rollers, great and
skillfully cOntrived scrapers and al
Of the smaller devices of the road
builder are shown in various and well
ordered exhibits.
Harness of the most exquisite char.
acter. light and beautiful, but strong
for the stable of the millionaire; the
coarser and heavier saddlery of the
farmer, the carter and the truckmar
contrast with each other and make
one of the finest shows of harness an(
saddlery ever presented in this coun
try. The application of rubber II
tires and in other useful ways in thi
| manufacture of vehicles is shown IL
a more than a dozen varied exhibits
These exhibits include the useful in tn
carriage and the cart, and in the appli
9 cation of rubber to a harness of tn
: race horse and the driving and worl
horses.
Not only are farm implements an,
farm vehicles to be found here Il
great profusion, but furniture for tn
farmhouse and it's surroundings is dis
, played In 4 very attractive way. Their
are a number of very large display
showing whole house fully furnished
f every room supplied with the lates
v and most useful and most artistic de
8 vices. These displays are made wit
a wealth of detail and disregard of eS
J. pense, which has attracted special re
u mark and commendation From
o great kitchen range to a ladys mar
icure set, nothing small and nothin
!. intricate or large has been overlooket
Il Such is a mere glance at this gre;
g and entertaing feature Of the Txpol
o. exposition. The Implement buildin
is conveniently situated. its surround
. ings are attractive, and consequent
y the crowds which visit it are alway
IS large and always delighted. Free col
e certs by the Municipal band of Phil;
delphia are given in the Implemel
IL building every afternoon and evenin