The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-08-26

A Full Quarter of a Million Expected
to Visit the Fair TO .MoFrow-air-
ship md Vehicle Parade.

Special to the Ocala Daily Banner.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. "A, 1904.
Beyond all doubt August p will be
one of the big, big days at the Worlds
fair. Special attractions are the air
ship and balloon contests by noted
9rOnauts, who will stalt at 5 O'Clock
from the Wireless Telegraph tower
for a balloon flight to Washington.
A wireless operator will also make
the trip and will keep in constant
touch with Washington and the ope-
rator at the Fair grounds. Thus at
the same time in view of thousands of
visitors of the great international Ex-
position will be two of the most re-
markable inventions in the history
of, the world exhibited, and shown
in practical use. This race against
time will be an epoch-making event
which in later years many will be
glad to boast that they had witnessed.
Another big feature will be the gor-
geously decorated pageant of coaches,
brakes, automobiles, and other vehi-
cles, with 81 900 in special prizes for
the best appearing turnout.
Something that will be of intensely
fascinating interest to most every one
will be the section devoted to the op-
Grafton of labor-saving devices. These
mechanical inventions introduced to
meet the demands of modern business,
are machines which correctly count
coins, rolling them into papered COW
cred packages; machines which make
correct change; devices for perform
i1g mathematical problems in inter-
eet and in bookkeeping autOmatical
| ly; Gales which compute the money
value of the article as we'll as its
weight; cash registers of a hundred
different patterns and having scores
, of useful arrangements; adding ma
chimes and typewriters. A notable
point in this connection is that in
many cases electricity has been very
ingeniously utilized as a motive pow
er, thus showing constantly the ma
chimes ingactual operation.
Speaking of the glories of this ex-
position, Hon. James A. Tawney, of
Minnesota, chairman of the House
committee on Industrial Arts and Ex-
positions, never tires of talking about
it and always grows eloquent and en-
thusiastic.
''Many people," he says, "who Wis
tied the Columbian Exposition at
Chicago no doubt feel that because
that exposition excelled all previous
efforts in the beauty and style of its
| buildings and in the extent and mag
nitude of its exhibits, that the st.
Louis or Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton, held eleven years later, cannot
contain or exhibit enough that is new
or different to interest them espec-
tally or compensate them for the time
and expense of visiting it. 1t is
great mistake. Those who visited the
Chicago exposition had then before
them an exhibit Of the worlds adj
vancement during the previous cen
turtles. Those who saw that exhibit
and visit the St. Lauis exposition will
not only see the advancement of the
world during the past nineteen centu-
ries, but they will also by contrasting
the exhibits here with those of Chic
ago see in what part of the world the
greatest advancement has been made,
especially the progress made in all
lines of industry, art, science and ed
acation during the past eleven years.
"In the Transportation building at
St. Louis the principal exhibit is the
automobile exhibit, something not
thought of eleven years ago. Another
one in the transportation building
which illustrates the marvellous pro-
gress of eleven years is to be found in
the Pennsylvania railroad and Balti-
more and Ohio railroad exhibit. In
the first there is a locomotive engine
resting ON the track of the railroad,
and equipped with machine that