The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-19


/ Up To the big frame Of paper currency Of
/ various sorts which Is being exhibited at
! the Pau-American Exposition by the Blu
! reau of Printing and Engraving They
| looked at ii closely, and their faces light
/ ed up in a smile when they came across
! several IO.0u1-doIIaT bills We don't see
/ many of those in our business. DO We
/ exclaimed the second.
| Just then q little boy got sight of the
money oh, mamma. come and see the
million-dollar bill he cried. That's not
/ a million Willie: only ten thousand" she
/ said after counting the ciphers strung
| out after the one oh. my. here's an
/ other one. Come away Willie. l don't
want you to get misery ideas. and you're
! sure to if you look at all that money"
How much do you think there is in
/ that France asked the next conner. Then
h guessed he'd count it, and, taking out
/ his pencil, started in. He went through
/ the case once, counting the bills Of which
! the face was shown. Then he remember
! ed that the backs exhibited also repre-
I senIed money After he had finished add
! ing UP the row OF figures he announced,
/ Hundred twenty-one thousand four hun
! dred eighty-seven dollars
/ Then came discussions as to whether
/ the money was really good, but the man
/ in charge Of the exhibit settled that by
! saying that it was
If I could only have eli that is in that
! case I'd go home happy" said another
man.
why, is it possible? - they really
/ have ten thousaud-GoIIar -iIIs?" excIaim-
! ed woman
Yes, replied the man The only trou-
] bic is tie people don't have them
That americans have not vet lost in
I terest N the Spanish war is evidenced
many times every day in the naval de
/ partmeut OF the Government building.
/ The first war relic to catch the eye is a
! spare propeller blade from the battIeship
! Maine The label, which tells that the
/ vessel was sunk in Havana harbor on
/ February =. 1893. is hardly necessary 4
| neishboring exhibit IS q torpedo and car
/ rage from The Reina Mercedes People
crowd around this exhibit and point with
pride to Incidents made by American shells
! Thirty or forty elaborate models Of bat
/ tIeships, cruisers and other vessels Of war
are shown Those which command at
| tention. however are not the new ships
which the Government has turned out
/ since the war. but those which bear neatly
printed black signs telling that they
served in the sea fights at Manila or San
tiago.
Workingmen who visited the Pan-Amer-
lean during the early days Of incompe-
/ pieteress found much to interest them in
The way in which the foreign wor6men
90 about their tasks From the Indian
/ axemen in the Six Nations village 10 the
! carpenters in Fair Japan visiting Iaborers
/ find much to anuse them. While the II
dams cannot properly be c!assed as for
eigners, they are as slow and deliberate
1 about their work as the little brown ORR
entails.
/ Two stocky little japanese pIasterers
/ were at work IN the Streets Of Tokyo con
| cessiOn the other day. and some Ameri-
can feIIow-craftsmen stood watching
/ them It took them half an hour to lay
/ half a dozen tiles in front OF the NINA
ture summer palace of the Nikado. Their
! tooIbox had gone astray, and. not liking
the modern affairs used by American ma
sons. they employed small pieces Of
boards
We could have done that job in ten
minutes, said one Of the American ma
sons. as he turned away with grunt Of
disgust Yet they try to tell US that
there IS danger Of our losing our jobs by
increasing Japanese Immigration
The white carpenters who helped the lit
tie yellow ones build the temple tea house
and other structures in the concession,
were much impressed by thu sIowness Of
the foreigners When il came to deco
rating, however, the japanese were much
more at home They surpassed the wo-
men who helped them in the artistic cley-
eT1ess and speed with which they worked
In the Streets Of Cairo there is an Al
geTian wood turner's shop which attracts
much attention. There are two workmen.
who use their feet as well as their hands
/ TO guide their sharp turning tools They
work rapidly II spite Of their lack Of mod
eTH appliances. bEj the inventive Yankee
mind would not long be content with such
primitive methods.
Captain SlOCum's famous little sIoop.
the Spray. is now safely anchored il the
waters Of Park Lake The launching Of
tie Spray was one of the recent interest
ing incidents Of the exposition. The sI1op
had been brought TO Buffalo through the
Erie Canal, and from the canal was taken
TO the lake. where It viii remain for the
season
The Maryland commissioners decided
that the Maryland Geological Survev
could make the best showing of the re-
sources Of the State. and y. w Bullock
Clarke State GeoIogist was authorized TO
prepare the exhibit shown in the Mines
Building He has done his work well.
An categorical picture representing. the
genius Of geology uncovering the mineral
wealth Of Maryland occupies the upper
part Of the east front Of the building. Be
low this are hung large maps Of the
State colOred in various ways 10 repre-
sent geology, rainfall and temperatures.
photographic provinces, relative eleva-
tons and drainage areas In the large
windows are exhibited large coIored trans
parencies Of Maryland scenery and stone
quarries and a series Of phOt0-rnicro-
graphs Of sections Of rock cOlOrgd as seen
! maguifled sixty diameterS.
Nineteen frames Of Illustrations from
publications. Topographic and geological
maps scenes Of quarTies and coal mines
cover the remaindeE of the wall space
one OF the most striking objects is q pill
lar Of coal three feet square and seven
feet high, weighing about three tons This
cost the Consolidation Coal Company an
! immense amount Of care and labor to cut
it from the breast of the Big Vein. -
which is fourteen feet thick. send il to the
feet piece Seven smaller cubes represent
some others Of Maryland s famous coal
seams.
The exhibits on the tables are mostly
Of economic value. At one end are shown
the building stones from the principal
Maryland quarrieS. blocks Of various
shapes represent the polished hammered
and rock surfaces Of Port Deposit, Cuff
ford, and WaIterSVilIe- Woodstock Eli
colt City. and James Falls GRANTEES. Mar
bic from the Beaver Dam Quarries and
/ Shenandoah limestone are shown This
* hacked by the exhibits rf the Ia