The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-08


u,.t Interesting Features.
convright, 1900, by V. Gribayedoff.
,-ts lime cit has been calculated
-. IT. would occupy a sight-seer stead
~. night and day, with no time for eat
-. inst about 1900 hours 40 see all the
,,inas worth seeing at the Universal Ex-
.o.l,ion. AS there are only little over
nm hours in a year, and the exhibition,
complete spectacle. only survives
a.. tpu months, it stands 20 reason that
nan. barrin he's a bird as Mr. Doc
-. would say, will ever begin to see
,n,rfer Of the things sent here for his
.nsrsction from all corners of the world
had run across these discouraging
.tatistics in Paris newspaper the other
r,ornine. and was thinking what pity
!. is that man is not built on the model
,t"the night, with a thousand eyes" The
,.rret was accentuated by the legons of
interesting objects that fringed the ave-
nue I was strolling along on my usual
morning visit TO the exhibition. From
picturesque building on my left a big
American nag was flying. Across the
,ront OF the building was the inscription,
United States Signal Service Bureau"
But weather bureaus do not interest
me and I was about to resume my quest
or more enhancing novelties when a lit
.ls French child's comment attracted my
attention.
Look. mamma, look; what a funny old
man on a horse" the boy was saying
His mamma was looking with all her
ewes. so I looked, too. The funny old
man and the horse was in the Signal Ser
Vice Bureau. Wondering how they fig
ured In meteorological matters, l went in
SIDE to inquire. What l saw there made
me forget the 1900 hours proposition, at
least until I was coming out, when by
careful mathemat teal calculation I esti-
mated that it would take me just 11S
Years 10 see the Paris exhibition as thor
ouehly as I had inspected the things eX-
hibited in the United States Signal Ser
vice Bureau.
Naturally, l made straight for the eld-
cry cavalier who had bewitched the
French lady and her little boy. AS l APP
preached ] noticed that the funny old
man" was looking at me very intently. In
fact he was staring insolently. l was just
on the point of creating a scene when
the little French boy saved me why,
mamma" said the child, hes dead"
No dear" answered the lady, hes
wax"
Whereupon I no longer lacked the nerve
to go up to the man of wax on the stuffed
horse, ard read his label 1t ran as fol-
lows Model from life, of a mountain
ard prairie mail-carrier In the great
Northwesf.'
Looking about, I saw on all sides OBJ
iects that illustrated not the science of
weather representation. but the postal
service of the United States.
Yes answered a nearby American
guard to whom I addressed my inquiries,
the signal service department has allot-
ted one half of its building to a display
Of the American postal service. The
man added that the astc nished comments
Of he foreigners visiting the place were
ne st evidence of the interesting char
acter of the exhibit
The Exhibit is Revelation.
one only needed to look around to sp-
pr C ate how strangely and variousy the
sights must impress a European, for even
to the average American the exhibit as
an entirety is a reveal ton. 1t teaches
many lessons, but the most salient infer
ences of all are these: The immensely of
our country, the thoroughness of our pos
lal system. and the practical ingenuity
Of our inventors.
The exhibit is artisticaly arranged,
though without any rigid adherence TO
systematic or chronological classified ton.
1t covers precisely half the floor space of
building about eighty feet square. You
learn history geography and statistics
While you are looking around, all impart-
Cd in object lessons that make what you
learn easy to remember.
The creation of that Interesting little
world dates from an Adam named Benja
min Franklin, whose benevolent physiog
nomy beams upon you from a portrait in
scrlbed, First Postmaster General of the
United States" From Poor Richard"
down to the latest acquisition of rich In
Gle Sam, the whole graduation Is there.
right under your eyes. A manakin. in
shabby attire, demonstrates what a letter
carrier used to look like in the big cities
When they were little more than villages
compared to the big cities of to-day Grin
nhg superciliously across the aisle at this
modest individual Is a wax gentleman. in
tne neatest uniform of gray, nonchalantly
dumping letters from a silver-gilt post
pox, attached to a very up-to-date lamp
post. into a brand new leather pouch
stamped, ''U. S. M" and the date, 1900
You will find quaint illustrations on the
wall representing a mail coach pulling up
before the postoffice In Boston half a cen
Jury ago; OF a mail packet being loaded
with Its little epistolary cargo In the old
fashioned days and the old-fashioned
ways Confronting them, in the shining
PRIDE of newness are samples Of the way
mlngs are done now-a-d days. luxurious
mall cart seems to speak as plainly as
words that 1t wouldn't knuckle under
LOT any kings chariot. while a superb
@odS OF the American liner Paris"
shows how, the United States ssnds its
mai! over the water in these days of
grace
An American showing a foreign friend
Through the United States postal exhibit
would be likely to make many mistakes.
An he would say that's how Wa used
70 carry the mails" BY way of confirm
ing his dictum he would consult the label.
which would disclose that used to- was
an inaccuracy. The way letters were for
merly carried in the eastern states Is pref
" nearly identical with the methods still
prevailing in certain remote parts OF our
Amtless land.
thought. for instance, that the old
man and his horse who coaxed me INTO
The building belonged to the past. I had
seen such long-haired. reckless samples
OF humanity In Buffalo Bilrs show, end
mad come to regard the type as repre-
senting the scouts of the plains which
were rapidly disappearing from the
edfth. 1t was news TO me that such specl-
mems OF letter-carriers are still serving
ncle Sam through stretches Of )untry
og enough to make three or four good