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There is nothing in the building in better taste in its line than the
Tiffany gold and silver ware, and the carriages of Brewster are generally
admired. Carriages are, however, such a matter of fashion that an exhibit
of that kind cannot suit all nations, and what one considers graceful is
to another strange and bizarre. There is no question of the fine quality,
however: of course a nation with elm for hubs and ash for spokes wonders
at American temerity in making wheels so light, and the casual observer
thinks our roads must be better than the European to justify them. As one
English builder has, however, contracted lately with an American firm for
five hundred sets of wheels, they will have an opportunity soon of testing
the quality of our woods.

The exhibition of fine locks and of house-furnishing hardware is justly
considered as among our triumphs, the Yale, Wheeler-Mallory and Russell &
Erwin manufacturing companies being notable in this line. The saws of
Disston have no equals here: the axes of Collins & Douglas, the forks and
spades and other agricultural tools of Ames, Batcheller and the Auburn
Manufacturing Company are unapproached by the English and French. The
wood-working machine of Fay & Co. and the machine-tools of Darling Browne
& Sharpe challenge competition.

These are not a tithe of the objects in regard to which we are proud to
have comparisons instituted; and in some of the less ponderous articles,
such as Foley's gold pens and White's dental tools and dentures, we have
the same reason for national gratulation. Such being the case, we feel
reconciled to the comparative smallness of our space, which has precluded
as much repetition in most lines of manufacture as we find in the exhibits
of other nations.

Our agricultural machinery is well though not fully represented. Reapers
and mowers, horse-rakes, grain-drills and ploughs are abundantly or
sufficiently shown--harrows and rollers not at all; and if they had been,
they would have added nothing to the English and French knowledge on the
subject. Owing to the exigences of space, weighing-scales and pumps are
included in the agricultural building, and the exhibition of Fairbanks &
Co. deserves and receives cordial approval.

The problem of the day in agricultural machinery is the automatic binder,
and eight efforts in that line are shown at the Exposition--six from
America and two from England. The subject of machinery, however, is
deferred