HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS EXHIBITS IN THE BIG FAIR'S TRANSPORTATION PALACE. The Gorgeous Golden Dosr~American | | ments ; { you seasick, | the Puritan ; | launches, dorles, | yachts until the wearied vision can no longer and Foreign Exh’oits of Sverve thing Relating to Travel on Land and Sea—Ancient and Modern Methods Contrasted., A tramp over the extensive acreage of the | Transportation Building is calculated to give one respect for the dimensions ofthe World's Fair. Just to walk by and look at the ex hibits is a day's work, The Golden Door of the Transportaiion edifice is celebrated — just as a black sheep is ~becauss it is so different from its fellows, This palace is unlike ail the others in color and general design, It is nearly a thousand feet long, and one-quarter as wide, and is surmounted by a cupola 165 feat high, in which eight elevators are constantly run- ning. Its grand portal, or “Golden Door,” faces the lagoon and the shores of “Wooded Isl and,” It consists of a series of recoding | arches entirely overlaid with gold leaf, But | its general effect is gorgeofs and not har- | monious. ' Along the stairways which lead | from the entrance are typical stataes—a brakeman, a helmsman, Stephenson, Falton, Watt, the apostles of Progress, the Aristoe- racy of Invention, Evidently the masses from the West think more of this building and of Machinery Hull than of the Art Palace, This is natural, says a Chicago correspondent of the New York Journal. The railroad as the developer is almost superhuman in Western eyes, To it | are due such marvels as the growth of Chi- cago, Then why not have a temple to cele. brate its greatness? And what a tem i is! Long lines of massive yet super graceful ears, mighty locomotives, exquisit ly decorated, and watched over by men who treat them as if they were steeds which can think and act ; gigantic snow plows, fit to cleave the most stubborn drifts of the Sierras quaint groups of early locomotives-dittie old-fashioned tea-pots, which look as if they could be carried in the tenders of modern en gines ; vast collections of photographs il trating railroad machinery ; air brakes erating en a hundred cars at ones; tralns equipped like palaces-—-what is not in this wonderful place? | consisting principally of | or dioramas, representing an ! the arrival Hmited |? thera ren are fine displays hy the Philadelphia & Roading, the Old Colony, and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads, The latter exhib its the “Pioneer,” a little puffing billy-gont of an engine, the first aver sent into Chicago, The Pennsylvania Rallroad is richly rer resented, The marine exhibit of Ameries is good : | can but briefly allude to it, Perhaps tho most striking thing is the section of an At lantle liner, showing the interior arrange. it is 80 realistic thay it fairly makes Hare is an exquisite model of and here are steam and sleetrio and racing schooners contain them, THE TURKISH SEDAN CHAIR, r———— More than sixty thousand square feet are coverad by the exhibition of land and sea travel in France, The French line mail steamers are wall represented, the display { six large paintings arrival at New York Harbor of two of the company's steam ors ; “Going on board at Havre," showing ihe doek with one steamer ready to go, and taking passengers and baggage, and a special train arriving from Pa ; the dining-room of a steamer at night, ghted with electricity ; of an African steamer st Mar- seilles ; a view of Algiers, with bine sky and soa, and steamer in harbor; the coust at Penhoet in St. Nazaire, with two steamers in pr onstruction, These pictures were painted by Philpot, HofMaur, Montenard and M I'he remaining portion of the exe hibit consists of models of coast steamers Just to the right of the main entrance the British tion, extending throug! main building into the annex, In front is a 1 saddlery exhibit Then comes i of Great Britain, uliding are th iat Of the War. yess Of “0 Look at the old “Comet” hers, It isthe very oldest locomotive ever run in Ameries, and was brought from giand in 15881 by an English company. Near it stands Robert P. Burt, of Janesville, Wisconsin, who has the honor of being the oldest engineer in the Rnd. I wonder how he feels when he gets in the shadow of su jonsters as that from the Bald Works, in Philadelphia, which weighs 195.000 pounds? There is an- sther giant on its pedestal, an snzine from the Brooks Works, weighing 150,000 pe When the Corean Embases levisthans, they stood as if st they asked if they would i and the assurance that them with amazement, Another very interesting exhibit is the old socomotive “Samson,” cus of the first engines ever introduced into America. This engin was built in 183% at New Sheldon, Durham, England, and brought to this country about the same time. It was used in the Albion oonl mine, near Stellarton, Nova Seotia, until a few years ago. Accompanying the motive is the passenger ear. It is a clumay affair, containing two seats, with room for about four or five passengers, The doors ye. locomotive in inds, Ee THE LOCOMOTIVE SAMMY, open on the sides, the same as many Erglish coaches of to-day. The engine and conch are in a pretty fair state of preservation, The tender in those days went ahead of the Jagomotive, 1¢ engineor stood rear. The 2 i= a standard gauge. In verted dire acting, with four-foot drivers, Two other ancient locomotives are also among the exhibits, the “Albion” and “Old Ironsides Both of these are more primitive in their construction than the ‘Samson.’ and are not quite so large, The original “John Bull” is standing on the New Yori Central tracks, and the J» Witt Clinton, with ts historic train of coaches, Is also here in ite counterfeit, One of the gigantic exhibits in the south end of this Transportation Bullding is the model of the great 1254 steam hammer of the Bethlehem (Penn. ron Works, The original hammer weighs 20% tons, model is of stall and wood, It is exhibited on the here because the Bethlehem hommer forges | steamship shafts and ersnks, ns well as gune and armor plates, It fs shapod like a letter A. Its highest point stands ninety feet above the floor line, and is thirty-eight feet wide, The supports are each compownd of two parts, the Ft © “AoLDEX DOOR™ OF THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING, Ths | It fa said to be r made. The builders { mer rks & 20.000 ing Company, shows models o a W sels i The ling Con ry [ war ve exhibits fe « In this section lea un if the great bridge over the The railway n- i wwn Ly the rthwestern Rallway Company, * first exhibit of its Kind in this try. MOT] wdels of rallway enh neon hers are ong ong, ides a ginal exhibit includes track ; als0 an exh i strap railway on wh motives ran in 1804 udes two of the original ahiipment having sent from Wales, and weighing Groat Western Rallway Company, of Eng land, exhibits In this section th riginal soven-f Ag 1 Tha) tive, “Lord of the builit in 1851, for exhibition at the frst World's Fair he Canadians show a complete Lrans iineutal train, such as are in use on the snadian Pacific. The oars are of solid ma- gany and Hghted by electrieit) In striking contrast with this is the ‘dog train,” sach as is still in use io the far North. west, with the energetic dogs obeying the mimasnds of the half-bread drivers The German exhibit weors the southern portion of the main building and a part of the annex All the decorative fea tures of this exhibit, which are slabormte and | { wt ined an lirootly five tons wok locon jalow wmutiful, were furnished by the German ommission, A special fosture of the dis play is an exhibit the Siemens & Halske svatem of interlocking switahing apparatus, Iwo locomotives and all kinds of rallway cars, Including ambiance cars usd by the Bod Cross Society in war times, are shown, Phere is a great track muassam from Osan. brook What alse can | you sun show Hero is everything relating to trans portation ; here are bly in every stage of development ; sedan chairs from Turkey ind “riokshas” from Japan ; Mrs, Frenohe Shaldon's palaquin, in whick she was oar of tell vast ew a weighing seventy. | one tons each, and the upper ones forty. | wight tons sash, ono-quatter larger than the 100-ton hammer used in an Italian dockyard, The beautiful exhibit of the New York Central Railroad, which includes complete and luxurious trains and a model raliroad sation, is out of doors, It is admired by tens of thousands of visitors dally, da the southern section of the there | The Bethlehem himmer is | A MEXICAN CART. j tied in Afrioa : Mexican loathern hammocks | Spanish mule trains, ddhabeabs of tae Nile | and flat boats of the muddy Mississippi, It is the musoum of go: the epitome of push; the summing up of our modern material progrow, The | entire | ! NEWSY GLEANINGS, Brooxrys has 90,000 shade trees, Irary's army costs $96,000,000 a year, Fopprs and grain are scarce in Prussia, Turner 8 great depression in fron mining, AUSTBALIA protests against the influx of aliens, Tur Bililp is now printed in 304 languages and Jialeots, Cavtroxxia's fruit output this year is 720, 000,000 pounds, Insurance rates in Illinois have been creased fifteen per cent, in- Cuorena has made {ts appearance ina number of Russian elties, Tur total pald admissions to the Chi ‘air ju May were 1,050,087 | in June, 405. A sminriox and a half dollars will be dis tributed i 13,580 Chootaws, begluning July 25, Drover in many sections of fair to ruin the agriculturists, total failure, Hawiiax lopers are in rebellion an killed an officer, They object to 1} moved to Molakl, A soC1ETY has heen agitate for Extradition Treaty,” News from Australis shows is at a stand, The banks are of thousands are idle, Ixpraxaroris, Ind, , is through the {allure take its refunding b nong «i formed in New ) un of the # abrogation ol that losed ax State Departr ral implen Fs— PROMINENT PEOPLE. has r of Yeragua nt me W, rtuan Preside World's Fair, started a jo of the r him and the people West i ions, 18 has on f States the South Ameriea and : United Indies will snr? be appealed to Ex-Bexaron Hour, of Colorad has a fortune by smelting gold and silver secret process of his w which | refinery in Denver is able to do some of best refining in the world He is sald t one of the wit judges of the mada by & "= hig the y be netals in United tates Becaerany Syren is making a tours al the important Indian agencies and will also visit the Yellowstone National 'ark The land grant rallroads will likewise recsive Wis attenli and be intends, an Tar as possible, to investigate all the detalles maected with his department He will probably make a few speocheq along the route, especially in the far Northwest, He will be alsent three or four weeks, " —— POSTAL CARD CHANGES. Postmaster-General Bissell Decides to Make All Cards of One Size, doalded to abandon the three sizes of postal cards now in use, and to substitute ons size for single and reply ecards, have bwen sent to prospective bidders for the Postmaster-General Bissoll haa The specifications which | contract of furnishing the postal servios with | enrds for the next four years call for single anrds of the uniform size of 33 by 514 inches, This ia what is known as the international size, it being used generally by the countries | comprising the International Postal Union. The double, or reply card, now in use, will he continued, with the sizes, when folded, re- duoad to that of the International eard, These | two cards will take the Jace of the small, or “ladien’ card,” the medium, and the large card, and the large return card, PUBLIC MEN SMIRCHED, Over 200 Renators and Deputies Ime plicated In Italian Bank Scandals, Out of the 420 members cotstituting the Italian Senate, 120 are charged with som plicity, sithor direct or indirect, in the bank MANGLED IN A WRECK. A TERRIFIC RATLROAD COL | LISION AT NEWBURG, N. Y. | The Day Express Jumped a Switeh Near the Station and Crashed Into a Freight Train in the Freight Yard A List of Those Killed and Injured -Herole killed y mangled human beings, Hescuers, persons outright and twenty tw threo i ord of u rail The Chica road, due wore fatally injured, Is the re Newburg, N. Y. the West Hh ont 1204 p. m ir when the 1, runn ADA 1 with loe lisastor ut » Express, of re wns runffing forty miles tive leit the main 500 feet, collided y, 208, stundis On ne the « lonome r about pie in pet or I —— THE VIKING IN CHICAGO. Enthusiastic Reception of the Norse. men on the Lake. The United States steamship Michigan and a flotilla of hits the Biake, accompanied by ox. sursion steamboats and ya Norsamen north from Chicago to mest the Viking ship in tow of the revenue cutter Andy Johnson, Every vestel waa draped in rainbow fashion, the flag of Norway and the Stars and Str being prominent When Viking was sighted north of Evanston a salute of twenty one guns was fired. Captain Anderson and his orew were taken aboard the Ivanhoe, where they were received by the Norwegian Com missioners [here was some speechmaking and lanch eon was served in the Ivanhoe's cabin, after which the procession started for Ja Park. When off Van Buren street Mayor Harrison, from the deck the City of Co lumbue, welcomed the Norsemen to the « bearings an enthusastic number of steamed pes the KsOon ny Captain Anderson replying from the prow o the Viking Fhe fotilia steamed on to Jackson vhere, amid the thunder of eaan and shrieking whisties, the Godstadfind dropped snohor off the White City Representatives of all Nations in uniform with native sostumes, were grouped about m the pier and welcomed the Norsemen, A parade was formed and the visitors escort? to the Administration Ballding, where they were formally welcomed by the Exposition Moors, ’ "ark, nea BULLETS AT A PIONIC. A Drunken fdlot After Shooting » Boy Is Killed, While a score of excursionists were seated on the porch of Nick Schenville's fishing sta. ton at Che! Mentour, twenty miles from New Orleans, La, Rudolph Bienvenue, a half idiotia deaf mute, whose drunken actions had led to his ejection from Schenville's house, Ored two loads of buckshot into the party at a distanoa of fifty feet, None of the shots took «fect and Rienveaus moved away across the bridge spanning Chel Menteur, Reloading his gun, ho walked back to the party and again fired u it. Tony Behen- ville returned the fire, but failed to hit the mute, Blenvenue fired a fourth time, wound. ing Tony Sohenvilla, The seventeen-ymur. old brother of the wounded man caught up ™ SI Area tice at the hale, The THE NATIONAL GAME. Lavrimone's fielding is hard ¢ Heumixa is pitching great b ville, Lovisvireie is now | the best of them, Wann, of New York, leads the sc men in batting, UR laying a £ 2904 ball as ud Lane Down, Brodie snd Bannon make a fast outlield for 8t, Louse, Borrueax Leaguer king of third baseme Careers Grim, of into a terrifie slugger ire hitting S Weslern 1m Ki pr pushis Ju er of the Brooklve PuitaverLruia is in the bes nant ball of all the Leagu Brxrrs rix ha the successful pitching for tween d uisthis year new in the United States, and i= Alsc the Cheapest, THE FRUIT CROP, Prospects in New Kangland Bright, in New York Falr. orts received from all the fruit growing lioate that the erog pect) New England were ex : = in > pr a 1s in wdingly bright up to July 1 hes will probably give the larg Appios mre doing fairly Han shir and Ver mont the rad is exceadingly ward, and in many cases The strawberry has boon & total Tallure X » Talis Fin i 8 ore esl y well SRrs in Maine, backs crop f New York P prospect, frat growers & double yield "Me are DEATH AT THE CROSSING. Three Persons Struck by a Train and Instantly Killed. Panhandle train No. 2 on the Indianapolis division struck a buggy with Lhree people in | #t at Rich's Crossing, near Richmond, Ind, | and killed all three of tha occupants, Mrs Elisabeth Ganz, aged thirty-nine, wife of John Guns ; son, aged eleven, and the daugh. tor Mary, aged nine. They had been visiting Mrs, Ganz's brother and were returning home, —. . IRR Anaronists of New York City held a meeting fn the Windsor Theatre to colebrate the freeing of the Chloago Anuarohists by Governor Altgeld, of Iaols, The wpoakars principally devoted themselves to appinid- Ing the action of Governor Altgeld and ss sailing the institutions of the United States, The meeting was an orderly ome, and was andisturised by the pation, ws II — so, Tre Russian Minister of Pablie Domains hah uhdar.constiioeation o pinis for oulth vation of 1,000,000 acres potas Ric still think Denny the nearly all of A WORLDS FAIR HORROR NEARLY A SCORE PERISH IN A FIRE TRAP, The Cold Storage Bullding Burned to the Ground — Firemen on a Tower Cut Off From Kscape They Leaped to the Roof, Seventy Feet Below, Only to Perish Amid a soeno i cont the World's Fair Grounds st Chie f horror an Wnstraoted m Company 1d 3 1 between 2 3. AS far as was known eehteon mon were killed and » injured At lanst two lemonnde girs and were killed and sbout ure nany of th bullding erecte used as “skating rink the to niternoon and § eleven were Ape to save their ho lay about with cruelly sult of the leap Ir * Who Was not buried febrs was lowerad tothe gr pes or in Then Indder Flames i men rushed strong th tered heroes sought the north About the surged the fire around their legs, stabbed at their fa lokad off their vistaches and eve But here, as § wer, there was © 0 struggle for precedence, n WAL Wh EWarme y twos £04 threes and The just man had scarcely loft the roof when i fell With a roar, I'he work « bilan Guard, ATS Dl : the ladder they on both sides f the hospital corps, the Colum and the World's Fair officials was admirable. When it became apparent that the fire would be serious, Colonel Bice established fire dir out the full forse of guards about the baliding to hold back the « The United States regulars, the Fres rines and the sailors from the Bpatish vels were also called into servi Twenty thousand people saw When the tower fell on the unfort the rool, the groan that went up » chake the skies, Army officers, wh never blanched in the face of death their eyes, turned away, aad sb Bearded men cried out Women and children #ood transfixed with The fire was an intense b Bh Fuerds workmen about es 1 ware prostrated by the heat Whe bad been burning an hour th Ww Mables, 10 the south of the ist house, fire, Both build yed, Kk the fire was ur milan choly work « the lines, and, placed a cord ow ds me Calne the yd ana cangin pletely destr By 4 and at 5 the rains who were Jos! was commenoed I'he cold storage warehouse was Any way a part of the Exposits tH] It far from ali the malin ballalngs In the » western corner of the grounds, and was several rods below the Rixtyahind strom on trance, The sold storage building had a sapacity for 600 car loads of perishabis provis fons, with an jeeproducing plant, cap nhile frvesing 100 tone waeh Any, bee sides a summer skating rink 180 feet ong and eighty dive fect wide, It was perhagn the largest building on the grounds ussd for a private exhibit, and in it was some of the most valuable and recent inventions in refrigaration. It was five stories high, of Romanesque d , ‘with ner towers shaped lke the ountra one in which the men were kil At the entrance was a massive arch, with eight Roman columns su it. The engine rooms. eontalning 120-ton ma chines, llod two of the and on either mide of the main hall was a intended to allow visitors to witness binlies OF of
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