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Our Supplement.
The present issue has been delayed a
few days, waiting for the arrival of sev
eral cuts from New York. As it was the
closing number of the volume we desired
to give our readers a splendid issue in
all respects. In order to give them a
map plate illustrative of material devel
opment in the South, we give a supple
ment of four pages, making an issue of
twenty-eight pages of reading matter.
Such delays will likely not occur again
as after this issue we will have an art
department of our own.
L.oul»vIlle’s I.ive I.evce.
Editor Southern World—Forty thou
sand people visited the Louisville South
ern Exposition to-day and the vast mul
titude appeared satisfied. The Exposi
tion is simply immense and fills the
mind with the grandeur of human ingenu
ity and the wonderful march of scientific
research. No man or woman, who can
possibly spare the time and money,
should fail to pay it a visit. New and
valuable inventions, representing every
department of machinery, agricultural
implements and labor-saving machines,
dazzle the eye and bewilder the brain,
as we gaze upon their wonder-working ca
pacity.
Productions of the soil, minerals, coal,
marble, granite, etc., from beneath the
earth’s surface, manufactured products
from various States and forest timbers
plainly indicate that which has been
done and may yet be accomplished by
enterprise and industry. To individual
ize would be foreign to the purpose of
this letter, therefore you must excuse
brevity.
The exhibits of private individuals and
enterprises are unsurpassed and reflect
much credit upon those interested.
The carriage, buggy and wagon de
partment represents every style and
price, and no lady in search of a first-
class vehicle, or farmer requiring the
very best farm wagon, can fail to be
satisfied.
The extensive machinery department,
*7°M Ct * steam, embraces every kind
of labor-saving invention, from the mas-
8l ' e y^k-making machine turning out
, • ^ix thousand electric lights dazzle
the eye as they shed a flood of light con'
^ Citing niirllt into f!av. arwl illumining
\erting night into day, and illumining
t ie natural and artistic female beauties
oa .. —'— iciiuue ueuuues
as they throng the halls and every ave-
, n , u o e . of mgress. The mineral, marble,
al and wood exhibits of several States
are truly astonishing—presenting a pan
,w lia ,i 0f , “exhaustible wealth not
oi - tbe “asses, and affording
ensive industries for successful in-
v ^“ents and development.
Var ious productions of the farm,
*, various productions of tl
jSS?" 1 » orchard and vineyard, are ex-
y c J re( ii ta ^ e b> the States repre-
whaM &n u a bird’s-eye view of
DlisiiJi- 8 k® en d° ne and may be accom-
stramm m the future. They also tell the
what^ er wll ° 18 seeking an investment,
turn 1 "W e , x l? ect from the soil in re-
the ti° r ( tna labor. States presenting
crow.l^r 1 e \ hl . blte * draw the largest
not obv . 10U8 reasons, while those
0r tSK ed * arC 861(10111 “entioned
Man >’ States appear ignorant of the
great value of presenting their many ad
vantages to the teaming thousands of
visitors who are hunting new homes or
new investmenti; as they gaze at the
natural advantages here presented.
Private donations are inadequate—hence
State aid should never be refused. There
can be no cheaper or better mode of ad
vertisement—to show the resources of
the various sections of the country, and
I am astonished at the dullness and short
sightedness of those in authority, whose
duty it is to look into these matters.
But as so many are elected who only
draw their salary and absorb a little
brief honor, nothing better can be ex
pected from a set of drones.
Arkansas leads the list with her vast
productions of cotton, corn, wheat, oats,
vegetables, fruits, grapes, grasses, etc.,
while her mineral and coal productions
are almost unsurpassed. To look at her
exhibits, one must admit the great wealth
of soil and minerals only waiting the
hand of industry, to be made profitable.
As no State aid was secured, Governor
Berry appointed a Board of Exposition
Commissioners, whose duty it was to
send out circulars to all county officers
appealing for aid and specimens, result
ing in much honor to the State. Much
credit is due Mr. S. II. Nowlin, of Little
Rock, for his indefatigable energy and
industry in this enterprise, as Secretary
of the Commissioners, and who now su
pervises the exhibits.
Florida comes next with her oranges,
lemons, limes, bananas, citrons, guavas,
pineapples, vegetables, corn, cotton, su
gar cane, jute, grapes, wines, sponges,
moss, and innumerable curiosities. She
also presents some w’onderful specimens
of woods—one huge cypress block meas
uring ten feet in diameter,Florida maliog-
ony, red bay, curled pine, etc. Alachua
and Leon counties have specially crowned
themselves with honor. This State is
infracting more attention than any other,
and will, no doubt, be amply rewarded.
Railroad and private funds and enter
prise did all the work for Florida. Those
who have voluntarily taken so deep an
interest deserve great praise.
Tennessee makes a fair exhibit of her
vast resources, of the farm, orchard and
garden. But her wealth of coal, ores,
minerals and marble is exceedingly in
teresting, which cannot be appreciated
unless seen. Her large display of seeds
and grasses is excellent, while many
specimens of wood are unsurpassed.
The Bureau of Agriculture, headed by
Capt. A. J. McWhirter, and some private
contributions, placed her on a firm foun
dation here.
Alabama makes a very good show-
considering that State aid was refused,
but the L. & N. R. R., with some private
aid, came boldly to the front and repre
sents the State. Specimens of coal, iron
ores, minerals, woods, productions of
the soil, orchard and garden are well
displayed. She also displays the genu
ine shittim wood, of which Noah’s Ark
was built, some years ago, you know.
A solid block of yellow pine, five feet in
diameter and said to be about 400 years
old, is shown from Alabama.
Kentucky failed to do her duty in her
productions, her coal, mineral and to-
bucco interests constituting the greater
portion of her specimens.
Dakota, far away in the Northwest,
makes quite a respectable show of her
wheat and other productions.
Georgia, the Empire State of the South,
looms up in all her majesty and grandeur
with a huge nothing! Some may con
clude that her productions would not
make a favorable comparison—but she
could have made her mark and ought to
have done so. At any rate, Georgia is
left out in the cold this time, her manu
facturing interests, of which she is justly
proud, are not even represented.
Although this Exposition is on a much
grander scale, and presenting a greater
variety and more extensive exhibits,yet,
it is wanting in many interesting features
of which the Atlanta Cotton Exposition
could boast.
The Williamantic Spool Cotton Com
pany, the Coats’ Spool Cotton with a ca
pacity of one hundred thousand spools
per day, the manufacture of fine Bilks,
specimens of various Southern cotton
mills, all of which were at Atlanta, are
not to be seen here. Productions from
the Northwest and various tastily ar
ranged newspaper offices that were so
well represented in Atlanta, are not
here.
Prof. Cappa’s Seventh Regiment Band
produces some of the finest and most ar
tistic music ever heard, and while its
sweet cadences fall gently upon the ear
—the eyes feast upon a sea of female
beauties that make an old man feel that
he is far away amid Elysian fields bask
ing among angels of celestial sweetness!
Prof. Cappa will leave to-morrow and
the celebrated Gilmore Band will arrive
Monday to remain the balance of the
season.
The Art Gallery is the grandest, great
est and moBt valuable ever before col
lected in America—the estimated value
being one million dollars.
The Little Electric Railroad, the only
cars in the United States drawn by elec
tricity, attracts great crowds.
I am informed that several persons
came to Louisville on business, and did
not know of the Exposition until they
arrived. This is accounted for by the
fact that this Exposition has not been
sufficiently advertised in newspapers.
It is said that the managers being on the
old fogy order and never having been
necessitated to advertise their own busi
ness, do not know or appreciate the value
of printer’s ink, hence, with three hun
dred thousand dollars, this was not her
alded as much as did Kimball the Atlanta
Exposition with one-third the money.
This is the talk, and being a strong ad
vocate of printer’s ink judiciously ad
ministered in allopathic doses, I am not
inclined to contradict it. I fail to see
the vim and vitality, the push and en
ergy here that I expected.
J. P. Dromgoole.
Tlie (icorKin Pacific.
One month from to-day the Georgia
Pacific Railroad will run the first train
from Atlanta to Birmingham. Major
Temple, the Chief Engineer of the Rich
mond and Danville Extension Company,
has recently returned from one of his
frequent visits over the line, and an-
• nounces the work progressing finely.
The tunnel between Anniston and Birm
ingham has been worked wonderfully
well considering the difficulties in the
way and is approaching completion. The
road is complete to the tunnel on this
side and beyond it toward Birmingham
very little remains to bo done. Tho
opening of the road between Atlanta and
Birmingham is anxiously awaited by
both cities, and Birmingham, at least,
will make it the occasion of a general
jubilee. It is probable that a special
train bearing a large representation of
Atlanta’s citizens will go out on the first
through train, and that the event will be
one of the most pleasant occurrences in
the history of railroad construction in
the South. Persons who havo never
been over the new road havo no idea of
its excellent construction and complete
equipment in every respect. The South
western Railroud was considered tho
best built road in the South when first
completed, but the Georgia Pacific is
probably as good a new line as ever a
locomotive hummed over under a South
ern sky. The iron is the heaviest used
in this section and the entire line is be
ing rock ballasted as fast as it is opened.
The depots are uniform in style, hand
some in uppearunce, and furnished with
every convenience. Around each one of
them there is either a town or tho prom
ise of one in rapidly rising store houses
and cottages.
The growth of the old towns through
which the road runs has been wonderful
in the last yeur, while many new settle
ments have sprung into municipal dig
nity. It is said by gentlemen who have
watched the history and growth of At
lanta thut this new line promises more
benefits to the city than any railroad that
has yet been opened, except probably,
the Air-Line. Already a very sensible
increase has been felt in the trade of the
city from the new country opened. Cot
ton is pouring in from it, and the villages
growing along its route are increasing
the demand upon Atlanta as a wholesale
center in a most appreciable manner.
The road itself has done an excellent
business since it first began. Its officers
are all first-class men and to their care
ful and economical management is due
the credit of this phenomenal success.
On the 17th of November, Atlanta will
have through trains to Birmingham—and
that day or the next the daily line will
be opened to Coalburg, which is twelve
miles beyond. Cheap coal, increased
trade, rich tributaries, and rising towns
that will pour wealth into Atlanta’s lap
are all indicated and assuredly promised
in these events.—Atlanta Constitution,
October 17th.