The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-03
Corrspondsnce Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM THE WORLDS FAIR.


Saturday, November 26th-was one of the nota-
BILE events Of the Fair. The President reached
the grounds early in the morning on the special
train. accompanied by his wife and daughter.
He visited the o. s. Government Building, with
which he was greatly pleased. it being in his
opinion about the best display Uncle Sam has
made at any exposition. The Philippine exhibit
was given considerable attention. an exhibition
being given by the Scouts. who are the regular
Philippine u. s. troops, and the constabulary'
who are the peace keepers" of the islands.
Each one of these bodies Of soldiers are native
Philippines and have fine bands Of music. A
special drill was given for the President and his
party. The Palace Of Agriculture was visited
and in the North Dakota exhibit is the cabin in
which Roosevelt lived in 1886 while cattle
rancher. As soon as he saw his old cabin home he
took of his hat and ''grinned like school boy"
He certainly enjoyed examining it. The main
exhibit palaces were visited during the day.
The President and his party left this morning
Immediately after midnight. the start not being
made until after Sunday, as he does not care to
travel on that day. He and family attended the
Second Presbyterian Church Sunday morning.
After boarding the train on the Fair grounds for
home he was asked by an Eastern correspondent
as to how he had enjoyed his visit, he said why,
my boy, I've had the time of my life." At an
other time he said, II would not have missed it
for anything.- AS he left the Liberal Arts Palace
Saturday morning lady who was trying to see
him excitedly exclaimed, Where is he? where
is he? This was overheard by him, so he lifted
his hat to her and said, Here am, madam"
So the man who has received the most votes of
any man In the world has sense enough not to be
pulled up by it, but is like an ordinary individual
In the o. 8. Government Building is shown
large collection of meteorites. They are mostly
+ Gf the RssEy fIe4s ass
three in number, two small and one large, the
latter being the largest known Its size is 6x7x1l
feet and its approximate weight is 90 tons. 1t is
81 per cent. iron. These three meteors were the
only iron supply the Greenlanders had from
which to make their cutting implements. An
other cast shows the one found in Mexico in 1876.
1t is 13x6x5 feet. estimated weight so tons and is
owned by the Mexican government. A cast of
the Oldest known meteor is shaped like ring
and was found in Arizona about 1735 and weighs
1870 pounds.
In the exhibit of the Postofice Department in
the same building is the ledger used by Benjamin
Franklin in his accounts with the various post
masters while he was Postmaster General in
1776. 1t is in his own handwriting. The Dead
Letter Department shows many things sent
through the mail, but which could not be deliv-
cred. There is an endless variety of articles.
toys predominating, showing the giving spirit Of
the people, but unfortunately many have not
been able to enjoy receiving these gifts. To
look at these undelivered articles sets one to
thinking of the joys and sadness represented.
The system of sending the mail from the central
Office to the railroad stations, or from sub-sta-
tions to the main Office as carried on in some Of
fbo Ia hive &,,ya
whereby the mail is sent in closed circular
steel pouch through tubes by the air being suck
ed out of the tube ahead of the pouch by ma
chinery, the air rushing in to fill the vacuum
pushes the pouch ahead of it. This is the fastest
form of fast MALL Another system of carry
ing the mail is shown by picture entitled "The
Fast Mail" The motive power is mule, q
typical Southern one. The scene is by the road
side of pine forest. The mail bag, with ~. s.
Mail" stamped on it, lies across the saddle. The
mule is hitched to tree, while the mail carrier,
who is Southern darby, sits on the ground
against pine tree sfast" asleep.
The Bureau of Education shows photographs
of schools of certain typical counties. New ork,
Maryland. Virginia, Nebraska and California are
the states represented, Carroll county being the
one in Maryland selected by the Government.
Maryland compares favorably with New York
in her "little red school house, and is little
ahead of Virginia. All three of the Eastern
States show their school houses in the country
to be better than Nebraska, but all are thrown
In the shade by California, whose houses are
more attractive in style of architecture, the
grounds surrounding them being beautified with
shade and ornamental trees. There is big field
for Improvement in Maryland along the line of
identifying our school groundsand making them
attractive for the boys and girls. A movement
is on foot through the West to teach agriculture
in the public schools and have ground attached
whereby actual demonstrations can ne made SO
that the boys and girls can be taught the scien-
tifc principles of crop growing, soil culture, &c.
The Fair had model garden where almost daily
work was done by children, the crops planted
and attended by them, and it is no telling what
this early teaching will lead to in those who re-
ceived their first lessons in farming at the
Worlds Fair. A farmer at the Fair last week, in
speaking of the vast changes taking place in
farming, which are being brought about by our
agricultural colleges. experiment stations and
agricultural papers, said that I'VE are just be-
ginning to farm meaning that great era is
commencingt to dawn wherein the farmer will do
things intelligently and will succeed more easily.
Science should be applied to farming the same
as to medicine or any other profession.
In the New Mexico State Building is shown the
Oldest bell in America. 1t was cast in Spain in
1866 and brought over in the 10th century. It
has its name, maria Josefa," cast on it.
In the New Hampshire Building, which is a
copy of Daniel Webster's home, is his picture, a
pine wood seat with straight high back, used
before the great open fireplace from ITO to 1910,
and window armchair of about the same period.
Many fine old relics are also shown.
On the Model street some of the leading cities
show houses in which are reproductions of i'm
portant things in the history of the town. New
York shows many models of her bridges, aque-
ducts. &c. A piece of log 10 inches in diameter
with hole through it inches in diameter is
shown, with information that it is section of 20
miles of wood conduit laid in the streets of New
York by the Manhattan Company; charted by
Aaron Burr April I'd, 1899. These were the city
water pipes and pieces of them are occasionally
excavated now. On the same street IS town
hall of a modern city, y
The International School of Languages of
Scranton, Pa, has a valuable exhibit Cd the
Model street and demonstrates how anyonecan
study the foreign languages by the use of the
photograph. The lessons are talked into the
photograph by professors, who are natives of
the country whose language is to be learned. By
this the student can acquire the correct accent.
No one need travel to foreign countries now
without having first studied the language from
a native teacher in their home.
Last week nearly 100000 people visited the
Fair. Thanksgiving day exercises were held in
Festival Hall. to which all denominations and
nationalities were invited. In taking in the ex-
hibits of all nations there are three things very
noticeable. LIST. That every nation, no matter
how uncivilized they may be, understand how
to do the finest kind of weaving. I'd. That they
all have tendency to do embroidery and carv-
ing. Sd. That about all nations exhibiting in the
Art Gallery have painters whose thoughts run
on religious subjects. Here you can see prayer
and the Bible recognized in the sickroom of the
soldier and peasant in the homes of those who
have gone to war and in the homes of the aged,
the middle age and the young. A striking fea-
ture is that almost every nation shows exhibits
of warlike tendency, the Japanese being an e1-
ception. Their exhibits, which are in the Palaces
of Agriculture, Fish, Forestry and Came Fine
Arts, Liberal Arts, Manufactures, Varied Indus
tries. Mines and Metallurgy. Educational, Elec-