Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-03-09


cry stage of life and for every degree
of temperature from the polar circle to
the equator. If he desires amusement
education or opportunities for invest.
ment he need go no farther-in fact
he may buy everything from a stick Of
candy or a plug of tobacco to a burial
casket or a thousand horsepower mo-
tor, a set of false teeth or an incubator
and IL he does not see at the first
will only be necessary for him to ask
for ii.
Numerically the largest exhibits will
be those of the manufacturers Of wines
and other liquors. For all time France
has held one Of the highest positions
among the makers Of wines, and it has
only been within the past few years
that any one of good taste has been
willing to drink American made cham
pagnes and other vinous beverages.
One Of the features of the drink ex-
hiblt will be the American soda foun-
tain, while nearly every state in the
Union will furnish its exhibits Of hard
and soft cider. In fact, 1t looks as IL
there was an organized effort being
made to interest foreigners in this dis
tinctly American beverage.
The American health food exhibit
will be another prominent feature Of
the exposition. Already every manu-
facturer of condensed or otherwise pre-
pared milks has announced his desire
for space, and there will be no less
than 80 Indispensable breakfast foods
on exhibit.
The merchant marine exhibit of
course will not be very extensive one,
because we have not q very extensive
merchant marine, but one thing we are
making a great feature Of is our yacht
ing exhibit Models of all the cup de-
tenders and all our other principal
yachts will be shown.
We will have, besides, models Of our
other characteristic marine work, such
as our Long Island sound boats, our
fine ferryboats, our floats for carrying
railroad trains, our ice breakers, our
cable boats for laying Atlantic cables
and repairing them, etc. The largest
American exhibit In this line will be
that of the American line. 1t will be
models of all their magnificent Ameri-
can built steamships.
The railroad exhibit will include au-
tomobiles, bicycles and things of such
nature. There was not room enough
in the American building to show the
most important varieties Of machinery
actually working, 50 the machinists
have got together and built, at their
own expense, complete American ma
chine 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 extensively In Europe of late.
There are now very large plans for
the erection of great railroad and other
important machine shops over there by
Europeans, which have been postponed
In their execution until after the expo
sition In order that they may study the
most improved appliances in the Amer
lean exhibit; especially American tools
and machinery. In our railroad de-
partment there will be nine good
representative American locomotives.
Some of them may be lacked up on
under wheels as they were at the Chi
cago exposition, but most Of them will
be lifted clear OF the track, and then
operated by compressed air to show
their motion.
No less than II different varieties Of
the typewriter viii be shown; there
will be almost no limit to the number
and varieties OF bicycles exhibited, and
there will be enough automobiles tc
prove that France is not the only coun
try in which such modern vehicles car
be made and made well.
To describe all the novelties that
America win show the foreign visitors
to the great fair, however, is quite i'm
possible, for the section will include
almost everything from a reproduction
of Vermont granite quarry to a dia
play of patel medicines.