Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-29
FAIR WANDERERS.
They Inspect the ''Big Iron Man'' from
 Alabama.

St Louis, October 29--John has al- ways prided himself upon being diff ferent from the ordinary run of lnasc,l- line mortals, and yet noticed that he did exactly as nine out of every ten men do who pass between the legs of the giant statue of Vulcan, in the Mines and Metallurgy building; he rapped him on the shins to see if he was real iron or just painted wood
 If Vulcan were not cast iron his ans kles would have been worn out loflR ago, for nearly every person who walks under him either raps his legs with the end of an umbrella or q knife or with the palm of the hand. l stood near the statue long enough to count twenty-seven who took a crack at the legs of the big iron man. The most of them. of course, wanted to see whether he was hollow or solid. while a few, no doubt, suspected that he was cut out of wood and painted black.
 But Vulcan is not only the real thing in the Mines and Meta1lurgy building. He towers like g Colossus above the colonnades, spires and areh- es of coal and metal that surround him. He was cast by the Commercial club, Birmingham, Ala, to typify the coIos- sal mineral wealth of that state. He is fifty-six feet high, weighs 120,Q GOO pounds and cost $20, 900. He was cast in twenty sections and 1t took seven freight cars to bring him to the fair His big toe. severed from one of hia feet, is about all the ordinary man would care to lift. The Alabanla ex- hibit in which .'the big iron man" is the central figure, took three gold medals, four silver medals and one bronze medal
 A few days spent in this building will yield more information concern~; ing the mining methods and mineral resources of the country than 8 year spent in school of mines and metal lurgy. Tn no building is the idea OF motion and demonstration carried out to more complete and interesting de- tail than in this one There is a. great quantity and variety of mining ma- chinery in operation, including model anthracite coal breakers, coal tippies, coke ovens, slack bins, stamp mills used in the Michigan copper mines and zinc concentrating mills.
 Missouri has by far the most exten< slve and instructive exhibit of hen mining industry and her mineral re- sources. Miss0uri's mineral wealth ia certainly revelation to most nurth~ erners. Judging from the display thai is made should say that the stata had in its soil about every known metal except gold. In an opening cut into the floor of the Missouri exhibit appear twenty-one cars in succession each loaded with a separate ore taken from the soil of Missouri. The cars are connected with cable and they come into view as though emerging from a mine The Missouri exhibit shows a large zinc concentrating mill in operation. also large coal mine tfpple with self-dumping cages. Coat trains with miniature locomotives arg running around the exhibit on an ele- vated structure Missouri produced 421, ,21S,00O pounds of zinc ore In 1928. valued at SC, 790, PA, which was 30 per cent of all the zinc produced in the world. She also produced 4,265,32a tons of coal in 1903. Interesting ex- hibits of coal breaking plants. tippless mining machinery and mineral pro- ducts are also made by Pennsylvania4 Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan and other states.
 John has learned that there is to be the biggest poultry, pigeon and pet stock SOW here ever held in this cour~ try and that many of the birds are on, the ground. I have an idea we will have to look up to the birds tomorrow before we can go any further h the exhibit palaces. A. A. D.