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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ifteen ton gun which cost ^50,000 tomanufacture. Its length iseighty-seven feet, and its boretwenty-five inches. The pro-jectile used weighs 2300pounds, and the cost of a 1250.00.to sixteen miles, and if dischargedon the lake front, the concussionwould shatter most of the win-dow glass in Chicago. The•carriaofe for this monster weigrhs.38,500 pounds, the frame55,600 pounds, and to manageit requires an eighty-five-tontraversinor crane. There wasbut one place on the Atlanticseaboard, Sparrows Point,Maryland, where there was aset of hydraulic shears ofsufficient power to handle this^un. In the exhibit are foundother guns, large and small,and all their accessories. Notthe least interesting thing isan immense steel taro-et, eiohffeet square and sixteen inchesthick, which shows the effect ofa gun firing 600-pound balls.It is asserted in all seriousnessby the German engineers ac-companying this exhibit thatif the bio^ aun were fired onthe grounds the concussionwould wreck every building in
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^92 TRANSPORTATION. the park. Herr Krupp intends to present his monster gun to theUnited States Government for the defence of the great port ofChicago. An adjunct of the transportation exhibit is the old whaHng bark Progress, exhibited by New Bedford, Mass. It Hes in the southpond not far from the Krupp exhibit. This old craft was built in184T, and has passed through many winters in the whaling industryof the Arctic regions. All sorts of articles are shown, such as areused in the whaling industry, as well as the products which theycapture. There are also mementos of the terrible disaster of 1871,when thirty-three whaling ships had to be abandoned in the ice, theircrews being rescued by the Progress and a few other vessels. Brewster & Co. exhibit a sleigh which is one of the most elaborateexamples of wood-carving to be found any place within the Exposi-tion, and also one of the most beautiful of vehicles. It representsa shell supported by conventionalized forms of sea life with fer

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