Constitutes a part of Annex No. 2 to Machinery Hall, and is intended to execute repairs and machine work for the exhibitors. It is located south of Machinery Hall. No. 4. AMERICAN BOILER HOUSE. Is situated south of Machinery Hall, near the Hydraulic Annex, and furnishes steam for the American Section. No. 5. CORLISS BOILER HOUSE. Architects, PETTIT & WILSON, Philadelphia.-Size, 40 feet by 80 feet. Is built of composite stone and wood, and furnishes steam for the Corliss engine in Machinery Hall from twenty vertical tubular boilers, aggregating 1400 horsepower. It is situated south of Machinery Hall.. A composite wood and stone building, furnishing steam to English and other foreign exhibitors in Machinery Hall, and situated to the south of it. No. 7. SHOE AND LEATHER EXHIBITION BUILDING. See Part III., page 105. No. 8. CENTENNIAL BOARD OF FINANCE OFFICE. Architect, H. J. SCHWARZMANN.-Size, 140 feet by 212 feet. A one-story frame building, situated on the left hand side of the main entrance to the Exhibition grounds, and occupied by the Board of Finance for the transaction of daily business. No. 9. U. S. Centennial COMMISSION office. Architect, H. J. SCHWARZMANN.-Size, 192 feet by 140 feet. Located on the right hand side of the main entrance to the Exhibition grounds. It is built of wood, one story high, and is used as a business office by the Centennial Commission. No. 10. CENTENNIAL NATIONAL BANK. Architects, H. J. SCHWARZMANN, HUGH KAFKA.—Size, 72 feet by 40 feet. E. A. ROLLINS, President. Situated at the northwest corner of the Main Exhibition Building, and east of the Centennial Commission Office. It is one story high, built of wood, and is the medium for transacting the financial affairs of the Exhibition. No. II. WEIMER'S MACHINE WORKS, LEBANON, PA. This outdoor exhibit is located south of Machinery Hall, between the Shoc and Leather Building, and Stokes & Parrish Machine Shop, and consists of bells, car dumps, carts for coal, iron bars, and steel coil tuyere. Architect, BARTHOLDI, of Paris.-Size, basin, 26 feet in diameter; height, 30 feet, statue, II feet. Situated in the Esplanade in front of the main entrance to the grounds. No. 13. CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE FOUNTAIN. Architect, HERMAN KIRN, Philadelphia. Situated at the junction of Fountain Avenue and the Avenue of the Republic, at the northwestern corner of Machinery Hall. In design it is a circular platform, with four arms projecting at right angles, terminating in four smaller circular platforms. From the centre of the large circle rises a marble rockwork sixteen feet high, with a diameter of eighteen feet at base, on which stands a statue of Moses smiting the rock. The water descends from numerous fissures into a basin forty feet in diameter. On each of the circular platforms is a drinking fountain, twelve feet in height and eight feet eight inches in diameter, surrounded with statues nine feet high, representing Father Mathew, Charles Carroll, Archbishop John Carroll, and Commodore John Barry. It has been erected by contributions made by the numerous societies forming the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. No. 14. FULLER, WARREN, & CO.'S STOVE BUILDING. FULLER, WARREN, & CO., New York city, Chicago, Ill., Cleveland, O., and Troy, N. Y. No. 15. GILLENDER & SONS' GLASSWARE BUILDING. GILLENDER & SONS, Philadelphia. A one-story frame house, situated west of Machinery Hall, on the walk to the Fifty-second Street entrance, where glass in process of manufacture is shown. No. 16. CAMP OF WEST POINT CADETS. Located on the eastern slope of George's Hill, at the western end of Fountain Avenue. The tents accommodate 300 cadets, with officers and band. No. 17. IRON PIPE. ANDREW O'NEILL, Ansonia, Conn. This is an outdoor exhibit, situated south of Machinery Hall, and consists of water and gas pipes, showing patent process of jointing. A one-story frame building, located west of Machinery Hall, and south of the Catholic Total Abstinence Fountain, on Fountain Avenue; containing different varieties of heaters, stoves, and ranges manufactured by Noble & Co. Exhibit direct-acting steam saw machines and gang saws. Are on Fountain Avenue, west of Machinery Hall, and consist of a one-story frame open building, and a boiler house attached. This building is used for storing and repairing the engines of the Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, and is located west of Machinery Hall. This exhibit consists of miniature organs, and some clocks made in 1676, 1776, and 1876. The building is frame, one story high, and in design resembles an organ. It is situated south of Mineral Annex, No. 1, near eastern entrance to Main Building. Illustrations of the mode of unloading vessels by means of a railroad worked by a self-acting apparatus. Is situated west of Machinery Hall. No. 24. MONUMENT-THE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NEW ENGLAND CO., Hartford, Conn. This is a colossal monument situated between the Main Building and Art Gallery, on Avenue of the Republic. It is made of Westerly granite, is 21 feet 6 inches high, weighs 30 tons, and is the largest statue of modern times. No. 25. GUNPOWDER PILE DRIVER. GUNPOWDER PILE-DRIVING CO., Philadelphia. Is built in the open air to exhibit the operation of pile-driving by means of gunpowder. It is situated southwest of Machinery Hall, between it and the barrier. No. 26. STARR'S IRON WORKS. JESSE W. STARR & SON, Camden, N. J. The space allotted to Messrs. Starr & Son is occupied with gas works, pipes, special castings, stop-valves, lamp-posts, and fire hydrants. It is located southwest of Machinery Hall, close to the barrier. No. 27. WEST END RAILWAY OFFICE. This is a two-story frame building, situated west of Machinery Hall and north of Railroad engine house, on line of narrow-gauge road, and designed for the transaction of the Company's business. No. 28. PNEUMATIC TUBES. A. BRISBANE. These tubes are placed on a platform, showing the process of transmitting messages and packages by this method. The exhibit is situated west of the gas machine, near fence on Elm Avenue. No. 29. EXHIBIT OF NEW ENGLAND GRANITE CO., HART- Situated in front of Board of Finance office, and consists of a Corinthian monument, 46 feet high, crowned with the statue of Hope. A canopy, 40 feet high, surmounted by spire and cross, under canopy a figure indicative of Memory. A Gothic monument with four polished columns at corners of die; a model of statue representing soldier of 1776 (life size); an individual memorial crowned with cross; a Gothic column, surmounted by spire and turrets; a Scotch granite polished monument, 16 feet high, with circular dome terminating in a finial; an individual memorial; a small monument, terminating in an urn; and a rustic monument, with ivycircled column surmounted with cross. No. 30. PATENT RAILROAD CROSSING. This exhibit is located on line of narrow-gauge road near Elm Avenue, and west of Machinery Hall. It is designed to keep dirt from accumulating between the rails and planks of crossing. No. 31. NEVADA QUARTZ MILL. Size, 60 feet by 43 feet. STATE OF NEVADA. Exhibits the process of manipulating ores and precious metals. It is a one-story frame building, situated south of Machinery Hall. No. 32. STORE HOUSE. A one-story brick building, 10 feet by 10, used for the storage of oil for the machinery department. It is between the Nevada quartz mill and the barrier. Situated west of gas machine, near Elm Avenue, and consists of an improved portable friction drum. No. 34. U. S. HOISTING MACHINE. STOKES & PARRISH. This exhibit adjoins the machine shop of Stokes & Parrish, south of Machinery Hall, and consists of a derrick with engine and boiler attachment. No. 35. CHILIAN AMALGAMATING MACHINERY. Contains working models of amalgamating machinery used in working ores, and has a boiler house with small cylinder boilers. Is situated west of Machinery Hall. No. 36. CAMPBELL PRINTING PRESS BUILDING. Architect, ALEXANDER B. BARY.-Size, 88 feet by 144 feet. CAMPBELL PRINTING PRESS AND MANUFACTURING CO., Brooklyn, N. Y. The various printing presses manufactured by this company are exhibited in operation; the power is furnished by a thirty (30) horse-power engine and boiler. Specimens of type printing from the date of the invention, and of sunlight printing, are shown, and a complete printing office, of the fashion of 1776, is also in operation. |