The Washington times., 1904-05-08
NOVEL OBJECTS
At EXPOSITION
Interesting Things to Be
Seen at st. Louis.
CABIN OF Mr.. ROOSEVELT
Old Locomotives, Coaches and Means
of Early Travel in the Trans
portatiOn Building.

ST. LOUIS. May with the Ct.
Louis Exposition open TO the public it
will no doubt be interesting TO have
enumerated few Of the things which
can be seen in the Ivory City. The ex-
tent and scope of the various exhibits
is such that it is not possible to 20 al
length into full description OF any
particular class OF exhibits. consequent-
ly in this letter viii be told of some Of
the objects of historical interest which
no Visitor to the exposition would miss
seeing.
In the Agricultural Building is the
log cabin in which Theodore Roosevelt.
President OF the United States. lived on
the North Dakota prairies for three
years-1SS3-1ss6. 1t is located in the
North Dakota pavilion. The cabin was
located on the Presidents ranch on the
Little Missouri River in what is known
as the BAD Lands" and nea- Mendoza.
1t IS the original cabin, and was taken
down and sent TO the exposition, where
it was set up exactly as it was on his
ranch. The cabin is built Of hewn logs
and is one story. with two rooms, one
of them having been Mr.. ROosevelts
sleeping room.
4IduS pUILdLlUu ouIlQluS.
Passing to the Transportation Build
ing one will see many examples of early
transportation machinery There is
shown the progress Of locomotive build
ing from the beginning to the present
One of the engines is No. !, ''Old Iron
Sides built by the Baldwin works. It
is braced with timbers and the boiler
is wrapped with dove-tailed boards and
bound with brass bands
There is also shown the Pioneer"
another Baldwin engine, that was the
first locomotive in Chicago. to which
place it was shipped by boat in 1915. TO
run on the Galena and Chicago. the
foundation of the present Chicago and
Northwestern system.
The Thomas Jefferson is the first
locomotive owned by the Baltimore and
Ohio. and ran from Baltimore to Relay,
and stands today as it was when taken
out Of f1fty-eightt years of service, which
shows how long an engine lasted in the
old days.
One Of the peculiar engines of the old
days is the one dubbed the "Amphibi-
ous.' 1t was made 10 run on land,
without rails, and when a stream was
reached it plunged in and crossed, hav-
! ing propeller This was in ISa4-IG0
/ years ago. 1t has a board bed and is
/ Quilt ike the present day fiatbOats. and
the machinery for its propulsion is very
| cid. wholly different from anything OF
the present day.
Newton's Idea.
There is also Sir Isaac Newton's idea OF
motive power by steam of about 1850 IL
consists only of a huge boiler, almost
round. over fire box, and has a spout
| in the rear. his idea was that the es-
Gaping steam against the atmosphere
would be sufficient force TO propeI it.
The engineer sat in front. There are
also engines to run on rails where the
engineer sat in front, and others to run
on land where the engineer IN front
| guided the machine by turning the front
wheel with a crank
| There IS also Hadieys demonstration
| of adhesion. In the first days of rail-
reading the wheels were roughed, the
! belief being that smooth wheels would
/ not grip" the track, and in most in
! stances the track was also rOughed.
! Hadley. an Englishman. believed that
! the smooth wheels would stick. so he
I built engines and cars with smooth
wheels and the track was smooth but
4 he loaded the cars and engines down
/ with weights so that the wheels would
| stick There is an endless array Of old
Z street cars ana stage coacheSs and mod
l els Of early steamships and steamboats,
and also the strictly up-to-date trains,
| engines and steamships and trolley cars.
Old Stage Coach.
In this collection is also a typical stage
coach of the old days, with the body sus-
pended on leather straps so that it
swung instead of sprung" as in mod
ern vehicles There is a drop in the rear
for baggage, and on top are two seats.
I aside from the box for the driver. and
/ inside are three seats.
| II is put together with the hardest Of
/ hickory wood and everything shows how
| solidly they built stage coaches in the
| days before there were RAILROADS. 1t
was for six horses or four horses, as de-
sired. and the coach is complete, even
to the one big lamp next 10 the driver.
In the French building one may see
| relics OF Napoleon, tapestries OF me
/ time of Louis XIV. depicting scenes N
| mis- career and works OF art; in the Ger
man building are the wedding presents OF
| Emperor William; the Louisiana state
4 building is the reproduction OF the "a
/ bildo at New Orleans; the New Jersey
\ building the headquarters OF Washing
/ ton at MorristOwn; the Tennessee build
/ ing. the Hermitage, the home tf andrew
; jackson; the Mississippi building, Beau
voir, the home of Jefferson Davis, ana
/ the Virginia building. Monticello, the
home OF Thomas Jefferson. while IN each
of these buildings are exhibits OF things
| directly associated with the men. as, for
| example. in the Mississippi building. the
/ bed in which Jefferson Davis died.
/ The State Buildings.
Every State building. particularly
those States of the East and South.
contain relics Of historical value Of men
who have made the United States In
the United States Government Building
there is an endless array of relics that
should be Of interest 10 every man. Wo-
man. and child.
In the Electricity Bl,-,6.ns Is the per
sonaI exhibit of inventions by THOMAS A
Edison Then there are such things as
The gigantic floral clock IN front OF the
Agricultural Building, the reproduction
of the ancient walls of Manila by the
j C,overnment for the Philippine exhibit;
the orangery of KenSihS-On Ialace ad-
io;ning the British building; tie repro
auction OF the Castle of Charlottenberg
bv Germany: the jubilee presents TO
+ Queen Victoria in wing Of tho Admin
istration Building; the relics Of prehls-
lorlc people IN the AnthropOlogy Build
ing and many private enterprises thar
Of historical interest