The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-17

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into long tank Of hot water and passed along
through this by men with hooks, similar to an
ice-hook. After passing through this scalding
trough It is hooked to lift that carries 1t up
through q circular machine about 20 feet high
that cleans on the hair and It is then dropped
to q moving table that looks like the floor Of
tread horsepower. Several men stand along
this table, each one performing certain work
towards completing the cleaning of the hog
ready to hang up. The last man hooks on an
iron gambrel and the hogs pass him just as last
as he can do this one thing. They are then run
on to long track around ~ sides OF very
large room, passing several dozen men, each one
doing but one thing towards cleaning and cut
ting it in half so that when the last man is passed
the hog Is ready for the storage room. to which
it is run on the track by the iron belt. Cattle
and sheep are treated in the same systematic
way, each man being required to do but one
thing and to do 1t quickly with few strokes as
the animal passes before him. Great rapidity is
obtained by this method.
In passing through Washington on my return
home visited the Congressional Library build
ing, the finest library building in the world. 1t
isof granite outside and maxble inside; The in
ings, is exceptionally fine, Any person has the
privilege Of calling for any one Of the 900 vol
umes and can sit and read them In q handsomely
furnished reading room. About loo newspa-
pers are received regularly, being all the leading
papers, and If THE UNION is not there on file
each week It should be. One wing OF the build
ing contains the original manuscripts of many
writer's, number being historical, including
George Washington's, Thomas Jefferson's and
majority OF the early Presidents of the United
States. These are available to anyone who may
wish to examine them with view to gainiug
historical data. Another wing is devoted to
etchings. paintings and drawings and also photo
graphs Of the main exhibitions held in this coun-
try. The Philadelphia Centennial, held in 1879,
the Columbian Exposition. at Chicago. the Oma-
ha Exposition, the Pan-American and the one
just closed are among those that are represen-
ted. This library ranks fourth in the world in
respect to the number of volumes, the British
being FIRST the Paris second and the Berlin third.
Anyone visiting Washington should be sure to
see this library.
The great Baltimore fire was made use of by
several exhibitors at the Worlds Fair. Wire
glass, which is glass made with a network of
wire in it, is claimed to be fireproof. Samples
taken from the ruins of the FIRE tend to carry
out this assertion.
Some Of the things that were to be seen at the
Fair and not yet mentioned was pair Of shoes
made by the Tennent Shoe Company, of st.
Louis, for Miss Ella X. Ewing, the Missouri
giantess. She is said to be the tallest woman
living, being feet inches in height, weighs 256
pounds and requires q shoe Is inches long, which
is known as No. rs. They cost her about S12
pair. She lives at CORN, Mo-, in house built
especially for her.
In the Liberal Arts Palace was shown an auto
matte cashier used for making change, putting
up pay-rolls and in paying out money in bank
or similar institution. One touch of button
throws out the required amount in dollars, dimes
and cents. It is wonderful piece Of mechan-
ism.
Three marvellous watches were shown by q
French matchmaker. One, the smallest watch
ever made, was set in a finger-ring and strikes
the hours. It was valued at ST. $50. A watch in
q tiny lantern and called the Lantern Watch"
was presented by the exhibitor to Miss Alice
Roosevelt while she was visiting the Fair. 1t
had to remain on exhibition until after the Ex-
position, as the donor was required to pay the
duty on it. Another is the thinnest watch in ex-
istence being set inside of $50 gold coin, and is
valued at $500.
Uncle Sam kept large force of Government
inspectors to keep list of every article exhibit
ted by al FOREIGN copptEiea end see that these
they came. and If not returned the exhibitors
were required to pay the duty on them. All
goods that came for exhibition purposes were
admitted free Of duty and those exhibited by
both foreign and domestic exhibitors upon which
the freight to the Fair was paid could be return
ed free of cost If sent back by the same route.
In the section of Liberal Arts devoted to pho
tographs and drawings were shown many exca-
vations which have been made in Egypt,
Palestine and other explorations. Those of
Palestine and Egypt are very instructive, espe-
cially to those interested in Bible study. Large
photographs showed the great Assuan dam in
Egypt across the Nile river. tis1x mileslong,
% feet wide on top, 100 feet wide at the bottom
and 100 feet high at the highest point. 1t con-
tains $50 sluices which let 1900 tons of water
through them per second. 1t will be noticed
that they measure water in Egypt by the ton
and not by the gallon. is done in this country.
A complete model was shown of irrigating plants
used in the valleys along the Nile river. Alto
gether Egypt made quite good showing in sew
eral of the great exhibition palaces.
Jan Slyka, of Paris. the renowned Polish pain
ter, was not permitted to exhibit in the Art
Palace owing to his refusal to renounce his ma
tive land, which now belongs to Russia, and
swear allegiance to that country, certain rules
governing such matters debarring him, so the
Fair official gave him good space in the Palace
of Liberal Arts. Here he showed some of his
paintings. among them very fine head of Christ.
His son. IA years old, is known as the marvel Of
the art world,'' and had on exhibition several
very fine pictures of his own work. A lady who
lived close by where he boarded said he was rum
ming around in knee-pants just like any other
child. Jan Slyka is the illustrator of Quo Vadis.
In Ancient Paris, - show on the pike, he had
some large paintings. valued at $4,000, on which
he had $4,000 fire insurance in Europe. A few
days after the Fair closed this show. together
with "Falr Japan" and another one, burned, de-
stroying these valuable pictures, and the artist
was not sure that his insurance covered them
while in this country. w. H. r.
ALONG THE international boundary of the
Canadian Northwest 20 years sgo was an acre
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