The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-01-05
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Xhc exposition couh NOT NC seen III
40 A week or month. The palace Of
~ arts alone would require weeks If
~ should attempt to work It thor
rhly. and he might proftaby spend
- entlrc week between varied indus
III b and liberal artl. A complete his
81 \, Of il all would I'LL library.
Dn entering the manufactures
IA Hiding was bewildcred 10 find my
"a in the midst Of about a half acre Of
btautful statuary carved from the
prest Italian marble. wondered If
IN made mistake and entered the
h. arta building, ! inquired and was
BIZ that while this statuary was art II
h. the product Of firm that manu-
hctures large quantities Of IT, and
mo- exhibitions were all for sale like
&ry other manufactured article In
b.. Frrnch department Of thi, building
he, we're weaving silk in narrow
t,rpcs with perfect portraits u Roose-
4, and Fairbanks on some of them
Ind Parker and Davis on others woven
'A,ilh the goods You could buy either
according 90 your politics
The Byown Shoe Company Of ST.
ous had working exhibit in the
manufacture building never knew
before hos many processes and how
..any hands shoe passes through !
was told thai from the time the cutter
takes hold of the leather tIll the finish
ng iuuchc, are put upon u the shoe
passes through about cighiy-hyr hands
and that d pair 81 shoes would run the
entire c1ursc boz about twenty minutes.
u that be- true I should think they
could turn out from seventy 90 seventy
i've pairs ~ shoes per hour
one Of the things that had "a
learn Nas that an article found in un,
~ the exhibition building. may be
found ir several others ur all Of them
While In the palace OF varied Industries
! va. admiring some NJ the most cN'
gui.tc paintings There we're lions
AMI tigers and bird. 81 beautiful plum
age. pcafowls and phcasants. In short,
many birds 81 many kinds. 80 perfect,
,ohic.hkc that they would have made
original. cuyious inquired after III,
PAINTER and Wa told that the work ha,
never been touched by pencil or brush,
bat was all the work Of the needle
embroidery
IN mines and mctallurgy the mos
drawing card was the iron statue o
Vulcan from Birmingham. Ala. which
wAs a feet high. weighing 1000
pounds and costing San.n0o
Near the palace II fine arts and Il
strange contrast with II stood the ycri
table old double log cabin that Genera
Grant built a few miles out from 81
LOUIS he fcllci the trees and hcwc'
the logs himself The ends ~ most o
the loys were let just a. they cam
from the stump. that b., they wcr
cut down with an an and the ends M
squared. Grant lived In this hous
when be- used 10 cut cord wood an
haul h into ST LOUIS and sell Il IN III
street
~, stairway went up IN the cntranc
r,H hut was In so diiapidaied q coud
.ss 90 b. considered unsafe aud W.
itur we're not allowed 10 ascend i
heu,, could not tell what the mp,
part of the hpu,c looked hike. but
hint BE- was on the plan of the 81
fashioned story and half so comma
an over the Mississippi valley froI
atty to sixty years ago.
4 noi,ryahlc feature about the ,tal
and national huildinrs Is the way
which states and nations that at
widely separated ON the map al
brought into close proximity lie
ncss,c ana Idaho stand side hy I'D
Texas and Germany are within gussi
lnr distance of each other. Canada at
Ccy'on arr iuor neighbour, Arkau,
and Connecticut stand side los side ai
should think could carry on llou
ishlur back duor trade .n tuoth pie
and Uuu,l'u uutmygs.
visited many of the state al
national buildings, They We're
tncti,c mainly "a, places whore y
cold generally and plenty IT icc-Nat
and st doNr on comfortable seats "a
rest Their, was boat little of iniyr
10 ans ui These buildings except pail
0ng and slaiuary, and SOME OF .
paintings were very poor. ! make
prct,u IONS whatever To- b. Judge
fine art, bat man, though q carp,
ter. may BE- able to diIcrntiatc
tween palace and a pig stN a
while I am M Judge Uf ar,, ! I'm
that many of the paintings In th'
buildings were mere dauhs, some
them probably being cheap copies In
very ariis,ically executed origing
The New York state building was 4
tnruishcd by total absence II b
painting and staiuary.
The Pennsylvania building had