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The Jewel City by Ben Macomber
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modern material needs. Packed with severely selected manufactures, it is
made especially interesting by the many processes shown in operation.
Cotton and woolen mills, linen looms, knitting machines, machines for
weaving fire hose, a shoe-making factory, a broom factory, and many
others, are particularly attractive because they are engaged in making
familiar articles. The machines in use demonstrate the refinements of
present-day manufacturing processes. The factories of many nations are
represented in this palace. Germany makes here her largest exhibit,
notably of cutlery and pottery.

The Palace of Manufactures differs from the Palace of Varied Industries
as a bolt of silk differs from a bale of leather. Yet this general
distinction between the finer and the coarser classes of factory
products is not rigidly adhered to. The Palace of Manufactures is
distinguished by a remarkable exhibit of fine wares by the Japanese, and
another of commercial art from Italy. Fortunately this Japanese display
is of goods in the ancient style, infinitely more interesting, though
less significant, than the extensive exhibits in other palaces of
Japanese wares manufactured in competition with Western nations. Most
beautiful are the ceramics, the lacquered ware, and the silks. Great
Britain is an extensive exhibitor of cutlery, pottery, and textiles.
Manufacturing processes are shown in operation in this palace, though
less than in the Palace of Varied Industries.

The Palace of Liberal Arts found its six acres of floor space
insufficient. The exhibits, forming a remarkable demonstration of the
breadth of applied science, embrace electrical means of communication,
including wireless telegraphy and telephony, musical instruments,
chemistry, photography, instruments of precision and of surgery,
theatrical appliances, engineering, architecture, map-making,
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