The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-09-20

Asxill Be seen BY our IocaI celamna.
Leon county has begun TO move, through
the FArmers' Club, In the master Of col
lscsing articles and contributions for m
exhibit Everything SCENE 70 be work
ing wen and harmoniously throughout
the State, and many counties are doing
their utmost TO excel in the making Of
creditable exhibits.
Mr.. d. S Place, who, with Col. ID. ii.
Elliot, viii have charge ~ Superintend-
ents of the exhibit ut Atlanta, IL doing .
vast amount OF good work and win no
doubt succeed, wherever he may go, in
working up good exhibit. His unex-
ampled success in the organization of the
forces which produced the great State
Fair of 1879 at Gainesville, is sufficient
guarantee that his work in the matter now
in hand viii be well and thoroughly done.
The following letter to the Chairman
of the Supervisory Committee is in the
right spirit, and the suggestion of Col.
Haines, which Mr. Place SO heartily en-
dorses, ought by all means to be carried
out
OcALA, FLA, September 18th. 1881
Major a. j. Russell, Chairman Supervisory
Commitee:
DEAR SrR-I do not know that you had very
much authority for the appointment of State
Superintendent, and as i accepted the place,
jointly with the one formerly appointed, for the
nko r. hawx ;r<~ 4
question of authority to those who have little
else to employ their minds, and shall pursue my
work Of stimulating our people, and preparing
for the exhibit.
Ali along the line of this road our people are
alive Bradford. Alachua, Levy and Marion will
make good exhibits Many Of their articles are
now ready for shipment While the Transit
Road comedies the point of making her special
grand show, and cheerfully turns all her efforts
towards the single State Exhibit" she will
carry out her former engagements, and bear the
expenses of the several county exhibits along
her line, and we hope other transportation lines
will do the same.
What about our Florida Housee Colonel
Haines suggested il. 1t is too good thing to
let go; we need it, we must have it, and we can
have it if we all pull together. There Is time
enough yet to do it, but not an hour to lose.
Fifty thousand feet Of lumber will do it, be-
lieve the w-mill men along the lines of roads
VIII give the lumOer IL can De lrameQ mere,
and the management of the Florida Transit Rail-
road authorize me TO say that they will trans
port il over their lines. Will connecting lines
carry it forward! Will some enierprising mer-
chant furnish the windows, another the hard
ware? and then comparatively little money will
be needed. Let all go work who criticized so
severely the action OF the Transit Road, work as
energetically as it does and will, and we will
have not only the grandest display that Florida
ever dreamed of, but we will have it in our own
house, built of our own timber, by our own work
men, and transported on our own cars TO Allan
ia; and that is not all. The Transit Road joins
in a proposition, to prepare a genuine Florida
dinner on Christmas day, TO be entirely of the
products of Florida soil, at which shall be served
every variety of food and drink native 10 our
State. In this let US all join, and when we shall
have feasted TO our hearts content, we will con-
fiscate some of the best tobacco in the show, and
smoke the pipe of peace. D. S. PLACE.