Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-16
A Large Delegation of Beautiful WO
and Handsome Gentlemen
from Kentucky.
The Cry is stIIl They Come.
The Grandest Industrial Achievement
of the Age.

Notwithstanding the weather was some
what inclement and indications were that
the day ould be most too unfayorable for
large turn out of visitors,
YESTERDAY MORNING
brought the largest morning attendance that
has yet been to the Exposition. Every train
and steamboat arriving for the twenty-four
hours previous came loaded with living
freight, and the hotels are now so crowded
that it is difficult to find
SLEEPING ROOM "
within any of the many elegant buildings
for public guests in our city. People found
it necessary last night and the night previous
to sleep in chairs and on sofas. The hotel
parlors were turned into temporary sleeping
apartments for the ladies, while every room
contained five and ten gentlemen, crowded
it is true, and not so comfortable as could
be desired, yet, better than no place IN
which to seek repose after the fatigue of
travelling or the wearisome pleasure result
ing from a visit to the Exposition. The
visitors are generally from distance, en-
bracing large party Of ladies and gentle
men from Clarksville, and delegation from
Hopkinsvilie and Christian county, Ken
lucky, many of the latter being unable to
secure rooms at any of the hotels, spent
| Tuesday night in the Maxwell House par
lors, the lnxuriant sofas and old arm
| chairs of which made a very comfortable
| substitute for an easy bed. Nashville has
never been so overrun with strangers at
any time within the past, and the crowd
| seems to increase with the arrival of every
| steamboat and railroad train. The clerks
at the hotels are kept very busy in exercis-
| ing their ingenuity so as to accommodate
| the
GREAT RUSH OF PEOPLE,
and have to answer increasingly dispatches
! asking if rooms can be secured. While our
hotel capacity is perhaps larger than that of
any city of Nashville's size in the United
States, our attractions are far greater, bring
| ing so many visitors here that the number
is almost miraculous. There are now in
the city from distance ten or twelve thou
sand people. Every street is thronged and
most every hack engaged. The street cars
are packed full and there is hardly riding
room. The success of the Nashville In
| dustrial Exposition is unprecedented in the
/ annals of such exhibitions. This speaks
well for our city, well for the Board of
Managers and is a proud tribute to the
energy and ent rprise of Tennessee, whose
people well deserve benefits of untold value,
The various industrial pursuits and
mechanical trades, the agricultural
and commercial prosperity of our people re-
caiye an impetus which ends net, save it be
in the perfected improvements respecting
the means and the instruments necessary
for the development of the interests and tC
economic time and labor. The interest il
| ax-far,1ad fhrOT1oh
out the whole country, and the importance
of the enterprise IS now felt by every one
Its advantages are made known and it
grand results will not 60 unappreciated. In
ventive skill and science, genius and ari
here spread to the dazzled sigh
of an admiring people the grea
productions and mighty achievement
of the human mind. The rugged patti
!, ways of nature have now become smoot
and easy of ascent. Her beauty and he
useful wealth, far from the gossip of ma
in ages gone by, have been garnered INT
this great show house for the INSTRUCTION
Q improvement and pleasure of mai
e The mineral kingdom is displayed {
i to its varied wealth and the bea'
: tiful flowers and fresh blooming roses
e spring time, and offered up as corona
5, of befitting appreciation OF the industT
1t and skill of our people. Everything D.
y tokens the lofty progress and unimpeqf
n advance now being made in the directlo
1t of useful improvements and long needt
L inventions. We might pursue these T
4 fections with endless pleasure and usef
s. satisfaction, but are prevented by reason
al objects themselves, claiming our motto
D. For there is in the Exposition much TO q
,e tract, interest and instruct. Whether Il
le visitor be the manufacturer or capitalist
It. machinist, who sees some recent inventlC
te or manufactured article; whether the plant
5h who eagerly examines the merit OF agricI
y tural implements, the woman OF taste VI
to seeks to gaze upon the magnificent she
i cases filed with elegant udtencSe1nes al
" point applique, or even the man OF rein
Ill taste and cultivated sentiment, who lov
Sc to linger along the gallery corridors whe
" CLEAN forth in softly dued expressions
tie the beautiful, the many works OF art,
is find much that is attractive, useful and
a namental. Days could be spent and agr'
n ably enjoyed viewing the wondro
1t contents of the Exposition, and they W
at are content with what is seen in one da
or visit have but little in common with t
NJ feeling of their fellow-beings, tending
ng words the development of country's
,ly sources and the enlargement OF its prod
en- tive capacity.
of ,,z1v ,s,rRTEs
NJ still Continue. and the Exposition is thic
III studded with products from every sect
rs of tbe country. Several new entries W
IL IT, made Yesterday, among which may be m
~ toned fine display of
- GAINESVILLE TOBACCO
., entered by Bowling & Thomas, commiss
ltn merchants and 'tohacco Warehousemen
lu- that city. The samples embrace, as =
TO illustrate, the following ssix classes OF Kl
of tobaccos" sold on the ClarksVllie 6res
viz: ~Mexican Baile,p aGeunan Shipp'
I'M "EngHsh Shipper" ," ''Black Wrapper, ], "e
her ting Leaf" and "bngnt MrspP
icle These samples are all perIect ol tneH X