NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. 



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skill were contained, and the corresponding 

 space at the northern end was occupied by a 

 large and varied display of agricultural ma- 

 chinery and implements used in all the pro- 

 cesses from the breaking of the soil to the 

 final preparation of tbe products for use. The 

 central area on both sides of the Music Hall 

 was assigned to the foreign displays. The 

 countries represented here were Mexico, Hon- 

 duras, Guatemala, United States of Colombia, 



by twenty batteries of boilers, and transmitted 

 through a double-riveted steel pipe 30 inches 

 in diameter and 700 feet long. The main en- 

 gine-room occupied a space 300 feet long and 

 50 feet wide across the middle of the machin- 

 ery section. The aggregate power afforded by 

 the boilers was 6,200 horse, and by the 24 

 separate engines 4,500 horse. The largest en- 

 gine was a Harris-Corliss of 650 horse-power, 

 the band-wheel of which was 24 feet in diam- 



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THE GROUND PLAN. SCALE 1,340 FEET TO THE INCH. 



A Main Building. 



B. United States and State exhibits. 



C. Horticultural Hall. 



D. Mexican Building. 



E. Art Gallery. 



F. Factory and mills. 



G. Live-stock stables, etc. 



H. Restaurant and refreshments. 



I. Grand Fountain, eighty feet high. 

 J. Live-stock Arena. 

 K. Saw-mills and wood -working macli'y. 

 N. Wharf, Mississippi river. 



Venezuela, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, San Salva- 

 dor, Jamaica, Belize, Brazil, Denmark, Swe- 

 den, Norway, Great Britain, France, Portugal, 

 Spain, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Russia, Belgi- 

 um, Germany, Japan, Siam, China, Turkey, and 

 Asia Minor. By far the largest of these col- 

 lections of exhibits was that of Mexico, cover- 

 ing an area of 160,000 square feet. The gen- 

 eral classification in these sections included 

 minerals, woods, natural products, raw mate- 

 rials, manufactured articles, and works of skill 

 and design. The representations of the Cen- 

 tral American countries were more complete 

 than ever before made at a world's fair, but 

 those of the West Indies and South America, 

 with the exception of Jamaica, Brazil, and 

 Venezuela, were not extensive. The galleries 

 extending along the eastern front and across 

 the ends of the building to the machinery de- 

 partment were devoted to a variety of special 

 exhibits of manufacturers and others. Among 

 the general exhibits of the Main Building 

 many of the manufacturing and trading es- 

 tablishments of the United States were repre- 

 sented. 



.The machinery section, occupying 300 feet 

 of the width of the Main Building, contained 

 with the extension 471,800 square feet of area. 

 The^boiler-house and repair-shop were placed 

 outside of the building, and separated from it 

 by a broad roadway. .The steam was supplied 



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eter and 60 inches wide. There was also a 

 Reynolds-Corliss engine of 550 horse-power, 

 made in Milwaukee, and others of smaller 

 size from different manufactories. There were 

 10,600 feet of shafting in all, propelling a vast 

 variety of machinery, including 40 dynamos 

 of the Edison, Brush, and Louisiana Electric 

 Light companies. Pumps were also operated 

 supplying 4,000,000 gallons of water a day, 

 The machinery in operation illustrated nearly 

 every phase of manufacturing, mining, and the 

 application of power artificially to the pro- 

 cesses of modern industry. The Factories 

 and Mills Extension was devoted mainly to 

 processes of treating cotton, sugar-cane, And 

 rice, the leading products of the South. New- 

 ly invented machines for picking cotton, from 

 the bolls were exhibited, and from these the 

 fiber passed through all the processes of open- 

 ing, lapping, ginning, cleaning, baling, and 

 compressing, and thence to those of manufact- 

 ure into yarns, threads, and cloths. The grind- 

 ing and pressing of the seed for oil was also 

 illustrated. Machines for the cutting, shred- 

 ding, grinding, and pressing of sugar-cane, 

 and the reduction of the juice, and the clarify- 

 ing and refining of sugar, were shown, as were 

 those for the harvesting and milling of rice. 

 Extending from the rear of the Factories and 

 Mills Building was a structure nearly 1,000 

 feet long, containing a series of forty saw- 



