The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-11-23
TIE ATLANFA ExPOsfTI0N.


IS grand success in all its departments,
and is attracting an increased number
81 visitors each day. For few weeks,
The exhibitors as well as the managers |
Of the great show were discouraged and |
almost disheartened at the paaeity of
caused in great measure by
exaggerated reports of hotel charges
and the high rates Of local railroads.
But these great drawbacks have been
removed and for ten days
past the prospects have daily improved,
and it is now safe to predict that the
commercial and industrial results of the
exhibition will as far transcend the ex-
pectations of its projectors as the expo
sition Itself has exceeded in magnitude
and variety their original intentions.
The exposition was the conception of
Boston man, Mr.. Edward Atkinson, who
succeeded in enlIsting the active coop
Grafton of the leading citizens Of Allan
ia On the first of March last the tim
Der of which the immens5 structure is
in part formed was standing in the for
est. The principal building was design
ed for a model cottoa mill, and twenty
acres in Oglethorpe PARK were selec ed
for its site. But many additions have
been made, so great was the demand
for space. The main building is 72Ox
400 feet, and is almost entirely OF glass.
1t is abundantly supplied with steam
power and shaf,ing for the operation OIL
every description of machinery. The
Art and Industrial Pavilion is 3l0x55
feet, so feet high, with capacious CALLER
les. The Department of Minerals and
Woods is 30Ox100 feet The Judges
Hall is 88x112 feet. The Exhibition
Restaurant is 100x53 feet, two stories
high. Inside the grounds and in the
fields just outside representative South
ern crops have been planted, including
a dozen varieties of cotton, sugar cane,
sorghum, rice, hemp, potatoes, peanuts,
etc., etc. These growing crops show
the visitor not only the characteristics
of Southern agriculture, but also IFS
needs and the conditions which will
have to be satisfied by inventors OF
time-saving, labor-saving, and crop
saving implements, machinery, and
processes for use in the South. The cx-
hibition of cotton machinery is very
large, and embraces substantially every
thing in use by planters and manufac-
turers.
In this hurried and imperfect notice,
we do not hope to convey to the reader
anything like a correct picture of the
grand proportions of the display. The
entire Exposition presents the manufac-
turing capacity of both the North and
the South, together with the natural
products, agricultural and mineral, of
nearly tho entire South and part of the
West. The products of East Tennessee
are to be seen IN the display of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail-
road company Her marbles, iron ores,
copper ores, lead ores and grains are
attractively arranged in pyramidal form,
the base presenting the polished ends of
innumerable specimens of the valuable
timber indigenous 10 her tel ritory. True,
the display does not fill the expectations
of the East Tennessee visitor, but when
he is informed that Col Killebrew had
less than four hundred dollars to expend
upon tie arrangement of all the exhibits
he will be astonished that the display is
as Greditable as it is. Col. KillebrcW
desery es the thanks of East 1ennes cans
for his labor of love in this matter. 1t
requires money to display advantage
ously at the Exposition, and no be ter is
found for four hundred dollars than Col.
Killebrcw and Col. Leon Trousdale pre-
sent in the East Tennessee department.
Kansas shows her cereals in architectu-
raj magnificence which cost $40, 000
Texas writes her history from Repub-
lie to a State in language as plain as
mute products can tell it at a cost of
$12, 600 South Carolina has her full
strength in her phosphates, rice, sugar,
etc. Florida. with its tropical luxuri-
ance has separate cottage, which is
specially attractive to ladies. Georgia
is represented by the products of her
generous soil and unsurpassed climate.
North Carolina has a magnificent ex-
hibit through the Richmond and Dan
vile railroad company and her State
Commissioner of Agriculture. The dis
play of the Louisville and Nashville and
the Nashville, Chattanooga and s..
Lonis railways, in the charge of Col. J.
B. .Kilebrew, is not surpassed for ex-
cellence, variety and scientific arrange
ment by anything in the exposition.
The articles are too many to enumerate.
but it may be said that the Goals, iron
ores, cereals, timbers, tobaccos of Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Louisiana and Ala
bama are fully displayed in all their
richness.
The exhibition of agricultural nipple
ments is large and varied. None seem
ed, however, to attract more attention
than those displayed by our distinguish
en- townsman, Mayor A. Fl. Gregg, of
the firm of Gregg e Co. Johannesburg,
N. Y. He has erected a mammoth wall
tent on one of the most desirable plats
OF the Exposition grounds and there he
has a constant stream of visitors ex-
aiming his celebrated Meadow King
Lawn Mower. Meadow King
Rake, Gregg Rake, Gr"gg Reaper, Os-
born Pillow Sulky and an endless variety
Of plows. The Major went there delerm-
ined to show the Southern people, who
have now such magnificent prospects
looming up before them, that if they
to take advantage OF the new
md useful improvements 10 farm ma
,hinery, he would give them a chance.
We were gratified to hear that his i'm
dement's were very popular and that
lis sales had far exceeded bis largest ex-
'ectations.