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headquarters likewise contained a collection 

 of Stiiti- products, including tine specimens of 

 cotton). Kansas ami Colorado united in a very 

 full exhibition of their extraordinary agricult- 

 ural ami mineral products, in a large frame 

 structure : there were wheat-stalks from five 

 to six and a half feet high, with heads three to 

 six inches long ; corn thirteen and a half feet 

 high ; broom-corn over eighteen feet high ; 

 rye and oats as luxuriant as the wheat; clover 

 four and five foot high ; hlue-grass of over 

 three t'cct. growth ; and fourteen different va- 

 rieties of wild-grass, including the blue-stem 

 prairie-grass, over ten feet high : there was 

 also a fine display of the native woods of Kan- 

 sas, one of the animals of both States, and a 

 large exhibit of the gold-quartz, silver-ore, and 

 other mineral resources of Colorado. Califor- 

 nia and Nevada also had a joint pavilion, con- 

 taining an exhibit of their agricultural, forest, 

 and mineral products. 



Thirty or more buildings were erected by 

 private American exhibitors, some of them il- 

 lustrating processes and manufactures of great 

 interest. The Telegraphic Building showed the 

 practice of telegraphy and the appliances em- 

 ployed. The Empire Transportation Company 

 showed the methods used in oil transportation 

 and grain transportation by the fast-freight 

 system. The Bankers' Building exhibited the 

 forms and uses of coin and currency. The 

 American Kindergarten and Froebel Kinder- 

 garten illustrated that system of infantile in- 

 struction, and exhibited the models and appa- 

 ratus employed. The Bible Society had a pa- 

 vilion for the exhibition and sale of Bibles. An 

 other building exhibited the processes of man- 

 ufacturing glass-ware. Others contained ex- 

 hibits of stoves, glass, fusee-matches, chemical 

 paints, printing-presses, organs, water-proof 

 rooting, hollow-brick ventilated house-con- 

 struction, pressed fuel, sheet-metal, Singer's 

 sewing-machines, burial-caskets, perforated 

 metallic window-shutters, and rubber roofing; 

 and others exhibited the processes of baling 

 hay, of making tea and coffee extracts, and 

 of raising water by wind-power. An apiary 

 contained many varieties of bees and hiving 

 apparatus. The newspaper-advertisement bu- 

 reaus exhibited the current journals of the 

 country and files of old papers. Henry R. 

 Worthington, of Brooklyn, exhibited two 



duplex pumplng-engines, which rained about 

 2,000,000 gallons of water per day of twenty- 

 four hours to an average height of 200 feet, 

 furnishing the water supply for the Exhibition. 

 The Shoe and Leather Building, erected by the 

 shoe and leather trade, was a large and busy 

 hall, in which all the processes connected with 

 the leather-manufacture in all its branches 

 were carried on in their fullest details, and 

 all the latest and most perfect mechanisms in- 

 vented for the manufacture of shoes and other 

 leather goods were seen in operation. The 

 Brewers' Industrial Exhibition Building illus- 

 trated quite as completely all the processes of 

 malting and brewing. A butter and cheese 

 factory showed the processes and mechanical 

 appliances used in that industry. In the Camp- 

 bell Printing-Press Building all the printing 

 for the Exhibition was done, and numerous 

 specialties in presses were exhibited. The fa- 

 mous Cook, of London, set up a pavilion in 

 which excursion-tickets to all parts of the 

 world were procurable. The process of driv- 

 ing piles by gunpowder, and the automatic 

 railroad for unloading vessels, invented by 

 Charles W. Hunt, of New York, were exhibited 

 in special buildings. The Starr Iron-Works, of 

 Camden, had a large exhibit, comprising several 

 novelties in gas-machines and steam-engines. 



The Exhibition was open to visitors every 

 day, except Sundays, from May 10th to No- 

 vember 10th, six months. The total number 

 of admissions was 9,910,966; of which num- 

 ber 7,250,620 paid the regular fee of 50 cents, 

 and 753,654 the special rate of 25 cents; 1,906,- 

 692 admissions were free, representing the 

 number of exhibitors', officers', and employe's' 

 tickets and complimentary passes to members 

 of the press and others, used during the Fair. 

 The total admissions for the different months 

 were as follows : May, 502,995 ; June, 952,- 

 177; July, 906,447; August, 1,175,814; Sep- 

 tember, 2,439,689 ; October, 2,663,911 ; No- 

 vember, 1,037,840. 



These numbers include the admissions to the 

 stock exhibition, which was contained in a sep- 

 arate inclosure. It consisted of about 20 acres, 

 in which, for some weeks toward the close of 

 the Exhibition, a large collection of farm- 

 stock sheep, goats, swine, and horned cattle, 

 horses and dogs, for the most part from the 

 United States and Canada was exhibited. 



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FENYES, ALEXIUS, an Hungarian geogra- 

 pher and statistician, was born July 7, 1807, at 

 Csokalj; died at New Pesth, July 23, 1876. 

 After studying at Debreczin, Grosswardein, and 

 1'resburg, he became a lawyer in 1829, and in 

 the following year was sent as a deputy to the 

 Hungarian Diet. He subsequently spent sev- 

 eral years in traveling, and in 1886 took up 

 his permanent abode in Pesth. Here he occu- 



pied a very prominent and respected position, 

 becoming Director of the Society of Protec- 

 tion and Industry, President of the Radical 

 Club, President of the Society of Agricult- 

 ure, and editor of the hmerto, a journal of 

 agriculture, and of an industrial journal. His 

 first great work, "The Present Condition of 

 Hungary and its Dependencies in a Geographi- 

 cal and Statistical Point of View" (Pesth, 



