Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-15
FAIR WANDERERS.
See a Jap Trying to Saw a Board
 With An 4 merican Saw.

St Louis, Nov 15.-The other day we were walking through the Janan- ese section of the forestry building wa saw Jap carpenter wrestling with an American saw. He was trying to saw q board in two and instead nf do- Ing it the way they do in Janan ha was trying his best to initiate an American carpenter. It is this in,ita- tive faculty of the Japs. indeed. that makes them by far the most interest- Ing people at the fair. The efforts of lgorrottes and the Moros to talk Enp- iisn are funny enough, but not half so funny as the performances of the Japs when they get hold of American tools. The Jap could pull the saw to- ward him easy enougI--they pull ev- erything toward them in Japan-but when 1t came to pushing it the saw doubled up, the Jap struggled and grew red in the face and looked as though he wanted ito swear and as there are no swear words in the Japanese language, he naturally Wonld nave to swear in English But he finally cut the board in two after much laborious puffing and struggling and he surveyed the results with much satisfaction. While he was do- ing this one of the beavers ill the pool nearby could have built one of his dome-shaped houses, divided it into comDa 1tments, and he would have done it quietly. smoothly and without any cuss words. And yet we seem to regard the ,bipeds as belonging to a higher order of intelligence than the quadrupeds. I am told that the Jap carpenter pulls or draws the plane saw, and every other tool to- ward him. The idea of push ing or showing a tool along has never occurred to him. And yet no race is acquiring the idea of American push" so rapidly as the Japanese. The Japs are pushing hard to make up for lost time and even now are engaged i'll desperate struggle to push Russia off the map.
 John and Jane and I are having some difficulty in deciding which are the most interesting sights we have seen thus far at the fair; We took a vote on it last night. Of course John voted in favor of the airships at once, but when we confined him to the ex- hibit palaces he was inclined to re- gard the big revolving and running locomotive in the center of the Trans portation building as the most i'm pressive sight although he was very much interested in the making of electric incandescent lights, the whole process of which is shown in the elec- tricity building. 1t was the first time I ever knew that the air was all pumped out of tt,e glass globules be- fore they are sealed up ready for use No wonder they Ego off" with loud explosion when they are accidentally of making these wonderful little lamps embrac9s about fifteen processes all done by the slSillful and delft fingers of women. and all presented in such way as to be plainly seen by worlds fair visitors.
 Jane thinks the most interesting thing she has seen is the demonstra- ton by the government of the hatch ing of salmon fish from the tiny pea shaped eggs to the ninnows that go swimming about by the thousands.l For myself I doubt if I can pick out any one thing and say it is the most interesting thing I have seen at the fair. Among the most wonderful things to me are the wireless tele- graph mechanisms by which messages are sent through the air without wires. the .spelautograph'' by which message is sent and reproduced at the other end of the wire in your own handwriting, exactly the same. as you wrote it: and the 'sradiphone," sort of wireless telephone which actually sends messages along a beam of light. This .radiphone' delights hundreds of visitors every day. You enter q little booth and speak in mir TOT which throws an intense beam of light to distant mirror and through some mysterious