Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-29
SOME BIG THINGS
At WORLDS FAIR
FLORAL CLOCK A STUPENDOUS
AND COMPLICATED STRUCTURE.
A MONSTER HOUR GLASS
The Largest Men, Largest Locomo-
tives, Largest Flower Gardens are
all Seen, and Much More at the
Largest Of the Worlds EXPOSE
tons.


been generally disseminated that the
biggest thing about the worlds fair is
its size. This notion is altogether
erroneous. The really important
things are the beauty, the complete
ness and the scientific, educational,
and artistic features. Yet there is
ample reason for the feeling that the
immenseness of the exposition is the
thing to talk about. 1t is the biggest
exposition that ever was held. 1t COW
ers more than twice as much ground
as any previous one. 1t surpasses
all others in every line of exhibit, and
it has great many special objects
on display that are the biggest of their
kind in the world or the biggest that
ever were exhibited.
The one of these biggest things
that is best known and most generally
discussed is the floral clock, by far
the largest timepiece that ever was
built. Its dial occupies the entire
side of hill, the hill whose summit is
crowned by the palace of agriculture.
its two hands weigh five thousand
pounds and its face is 112 feet in diam
eter. The hour-glass, that is re-
versed as the 5000 pound bell is strik-
ing the hour, contains 100 pounds of
sand. There is another floral clock
in the court of the Palace of Elec.
tricity, run by electricity instead of
compressed air, that would look i'm
mense if it were not for the fact that
1.-THE" floral clock is twice as large.
AS it is, few people know that there
is floral clock in the electricity ex-
hibit.
However, the public has heard
about the generator, the largest gen.
orator in the world, that forms a most
interesting part of the General Elec-
trical companys display. In this
generator it is the interior instead of
the exterior field that revolves and
the power developed is equivalent to
10000 horse power. The field makes
$50 revolutions a minute. Five of
these enormous generators are to be
installed on the Canadian side of
Niagara Falls, but the first model ever
shown to the public is on exhibition
at the fair.
In the palace of transportation
there are several biggest things
Among the steam engines there are
many varieties that look alike to the
layman but that have characteristics
that place them in widely different
classes Every visitor to the great
building sees the engine that revolyes
on its elevated turntable, yet there
are others that are not generally OBJ
served that are in some respects more
remarkable even than this spirit of
the 10th century" One of these the
great engine in the exhibit of the
Baldwin locomotive works. The
weight of engine and tender is 450,-
900 pounds, and it is the largest
coupled engine that was ever used in
practical work. There have been
larger show locomotives, but this is
one of type in actual use.
When the largest man at the
fair is referred to, one might at first
think of President Francis, or perhaps
one of the Patagonian giants. In
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physical stature, either one of these
gentlemen would fiji the bill; but there
is another man who is in himself not
so very important, whose size is COM
mensurate with that of the Colossus
of Rhodes. He is the iron Vulcan of
Birmingham, who stands guard over
the palace of mines and metallurgy.
He is so enormous that an automobile
! can pass between his feet. and the
hamer that he holds so lightly in his
left hand weighs 500 pounds.
The biggest things at the exposition
are not all dead mechanical con-
trivances. At least two OF them are
alive. In the Morocco section be-
/ yond the Japanese garden, is the larg-
est horse in the world. He is a mag
nificent creature, perfectly formed, is
! FIVE years old and has not yet ceased
/ to grow. In color he is chestnut
sorrel. and he is almost % hands high
/ He wears a 42-inch collar and his head
/ is yard long. He tips the beam at
2,SS5 pounds and his girth is seven
/ feet ten inches. This splendid Perche-
ron, whose ancestors were not abnor-
NAL in stature. answers to the sug
/ gestive name, Morocco. because he is
the finest member OF the sultans
stables. The horse in Morocco is more
/ than likely to be good horse. They
grow that kind in Morocco. but this
horse is the biggest and also the hand
soonest that ever crossed the Atlantic
A value of $4,000 is placed on him,
although it is not probable that double
that sum would induce the monarch of
Morocco to part with him.
Another of the biggest things that
ever grew is an apple in the palace
of horticulture. There is not merely
one freak apple but whole plate of
them. and the tree that produced
them is in the habit of yielding ten
bushels a year of the same kind.
There are but three of these trees in
the world. How they happened, no
/ body can tell Two of them are in