Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-06

were also IN operation. Returning TO lie
centre, we again turn to the left to find new
wonders. The Remington display OF fe-
: ms, oGr.icu, tural implement. &C., was
simply splendi.. So 0lso WIS TIE dlsplay
o. he 7,faTens sewing ma h ne ,ompan es
c.usse ~ neay >his pom in the bui,a G.
Sill on IN this d--ect,cn We pass tn ousa
bew der. splay Of elnos: evarytr ,g
| rnuer she sun. Here we meet up WI :
b eeding" Kansas. But insyead Of boz
de- y fians 7nc. jay .hawk.rs, we find the
g andest display of agricultural prod ".s
and otle- elements of human ind IS
tzy enc enterprise. Such IS was
never witnessed upon the face O. The
earth-a display that is magnificent beyond
descriptlol.-a witness and monume to the
genius o. Tres labor. The central figure in
This dsoias Of Kansas was an open pavilion
with dome testing on fon. columns COW
e ed w the grains, grapes and f:uits OF
Kansas nd crowned ri either end with
! splen io Brahma rooster consJi aeted Of
wceay, oats. grrss End barley heads. This
pavilion is fanbeC. ou tile light and left by
colamns perhaps ih " feet in height, COW
| cred W III grains an, fruits in such way rs
| % spell the name Kansas" from top to
bottom Nea by are the displays of Texas
and Arkansas, bo:h Of which are cE'editable
indeed-to he public spirit and enterprise of
those states. Eu1 .her on, III an annex to the
main lc'pe, we meet I'D with the South
| Co oina exhibit Here again / was sur
p .sed end sratifef at the eeFidenee of wealth
and sfurn,ng prosperity shown by ibis
Ii.te STATE, whose feet are laved by the broad
Atlantic and whose head is crowned
h the mists of The Blue Noun
tains, 'yive a South Carolina"
Abou, .e.e, end we wound our way back on
he opposite side OF the broad Hall meeting
with new su. o. .ses ct every step. Here We
| are again the intersecting point and we
tale he le-. hand through maze of aston
sh-ng displays of the products OF the field,
he Soresu, Jbs nine, and she machine.
Wooien ano cotton gooos, N all their differ
ent varieties and rom al the miEs in the
UnioA are here exhibited in beautiful sr-ay.
Tuning to the right E. the end oe this wing
of the man building, We retrace our steps
or LIE opposite side and .ske in the objects
Of interest as hey present themselves to our
wondering vtew. We see huge lump of
coal, labeled 900 lbs, snd hen followed
specimens OF marble and grani.e. In quick
success on Oh The right ana LEI. are a splendid
display Of bu,,sl casksts. Ba es o. cotton
trom ne umos. pss,s 0 the ea=tl, irclud-
ing india anc A. ca Here near he cen .el
point Of the bpil3 'ng in this wing We came
up with Clark's O. N. L. thread machine.
Wonderful indeed . the almost human pre-
cision with which tis michine does its
work, attended by one pretty young wo-
man, Auppiying it with empty spools and re-
moving the spoo after being filled. This
machine fills 5000 spools of Clark's cele-
brated O. N. z. thread daily. We are now
back a,am at the central point O. lie main
build g and near the foot O. the s.airs
leading to The upper story. Just here we
find splendid obelisk OF Vermont GRANTEES.
| A gentleman IL a .enJance supplying us
with glasses ipyi.es us o enler the enclosed
space aud exam ne 'iIe 20 k pnde:
powe, fu le ;. Awa.3d o. p;ismatic splan-
ior, bedecEed IN ,rf cio1s stones, is revealed
20 our as.oniahe SIGHT. We ook again,
feeling that if is p ,ivsion, b,it no, t 10
real, this magn fcent column o chisele6
&, ami is composed Of l.iterh 6 s.1d insep-
cradle gems from the N -sible crucible of
! Omnipotence In anotner part of ,be build
ing was exhibited another beau .iiul : ok .
granite, equally wondertr' in ;oTn,e ion,
| from some OF the Sout,}eli safes. W. az
eend 70 the upper story, ana are surforn-
ded by the exhibits os Georgia, in wonderful
profusion and variety All the industrial
! PURSUITS and enterprises of Georgia
ere here ,epres. nted. Cotton, being
he leading lic,e. was displayed in
pro'nsion. Following was the g6ld,
i,or and coal interests, among which
was gol,t sam ping machine.
/ Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and North
Ca'o' na h. d their display in articles :'ep-
eseatng inc mateIia! veal il ana. industrial
possibilities o. their soils, anma.ee and mia
erals. These we e all cre,'itabIe to te pnb-
l. spi j. I'D enterprise walcn p onptnd and
! PROVIDED the mes-'s necessary to N ne sch
display.
looked eagerly on all hands for ire dis
| ply O. my own native StGte, Zen e5see.
But alas | was Coomed e iii appointment.
Located in different parts of The immense
building, so Ear apart Is hardly to be recog-
nlzen were some exhibits marked ''E. y.
Va. & Ga. r. L. p" NJ M \ s, Cha .esto
| r. r." 'Nasnv'l:e q & Chat, s.1ooga r Il.
And the < bits thus ace''Aed, 1 most Say,
locked as though the were 10 be sold
Tor the fIeignt charges How are the
might failen. Upon whom does the
blame y, his miserable fai'u1e rest j.:
know that Colonel hiHebrew made urgent
appeals throC sh the p e',s % The people aud
State authorities 20 arouse themselves and
make ep effort to have Tennessee properly
represented. But his appeals were vain.
We wee too deeply engaged in small poi
| tics to AXE notice of such an affair as this
exposition.
tennessee has not done as much as the
little town of Thomasville, in Georgia.
which sent up huge cows HON, labeled,
"We blow our own horn; let others
| blow their own horn" The Southern
State next wanting in public spiliy and en-
terprise sufficient to make creoiiable dis
I IL L. ., 1o1~
| ing under the same chronic complaint that
afiicts Tennessee, to-wit Small politics,
| by small men, Maryland had quite dis
! ply and was bonored with a special day.
did not get to see entire he Florida dis
play, .aoagh learned that it was very fine
| indeed, and was gtaced with all the fruits
end products Of her semitropical soil and
| lime g. There was large display of wag-
ons acc buggies from the different estab-
| hshments of The country, everywhere.
Among which, notably was Studebaker
wagon. vesy finely finished, which had
crossed the Atlantic 10 the Paris Exposition
and also TO the Vienna Exposition of Aus
! tria. 1t was brought home and ex-
hibiied at the Centennial, at Phila-
delphia, and YVES here again
/ IN elegant exhibition of the art of wagon
making We have thus given a cursory
| glance at what we saw in one day. To pro-
| perly describe the exhibition in all its phases
would require several days close observa-
| tion and fill many pages The South is
certainly shaking off her Rip Van Winkle
sleep, and preparing to move with the spirit
of the age. A remarkable fact in connec-
ton with this cotton exposition is that its
director general and secretary and treasurer
are northern men. One from the State of
Maine, the others from Wisconsin. These
gentlemen, with their associates, have,
| through his exposition, attracted capital and
enterprise to the south as the most promis-
ing fed for investment in almost all
lines OF human industry, especially in the
manu- scEre o iron ana coon. The
| South heretofore n favor of iee rade, will
in the a. & ,s,e. oe opposed C he repeal
! /, az Paote j., Tariff laws. The same