New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-19
THE COTTON EXPOSITION.

I.
THE EXHIBITION RAPIDLY ASSUMING snAPE-GREAT
| DISPLAY OF MACHINERY-LATE EXHIBITORS
SOUTHERN EXHIBITS.
lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT TRIRuNE. !
ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 10" Seventeen working
days more and we must be ready" sail Director
General Kimball to your correspondent this MORN
| ing "Will YOU be ready7" asked. Ready! OF
course will. never was behindhand IN nv life,
and don't propose to hegin at this late day"
| The above brief conversation is fair indication
OF the spirit and energy manifested by the Director
General of the Cotton EXposit on from the begin
ming of this great enterprise to the present hour;
! and the success of the persons who, under his d-
rection, have secured the immense exhibit that is
! now rapidly assuming shape the many buildings
! of the Exposition, is much due to his vim and
hopefulnesS as TO sl other things combined. II has
been a great burden to carry but there were stout
shoulders and stouter heart under them and every
thing has gone forward with rapidity and n GER
| tanty of execution that has been simply mar
vellous The Drector-General has much the same
executive ability as ex President Grant He plans
his campaign skilfully and knows how to select the
right men to carry it out. He wastes no words but
always gets by the shortest possible cut to what he
Is fond OF styling the nub Of the thing" Having
been in and out of his Office daily for the last
three months, | have had an opportunity to
see and admire his method of disratcb-
ing business. Only to-day the representative OF
come from Cincinnati to settle business IN con-
nection with his comnany's exhibit that wonld
have required many long letters; that he expected
to he here three or four days before he could get
through" But" said he, II went into the Exccu
tive office and introduced myself, and told Mr. Kim
hall what I wanted and In three minutes he settled
the whole matter to my satisfaction, and / am
ready to return by the next train"
There n very few left in this community of tho
old who ile
new stirring and progressive style which Mr. Kim
ball has introduced in this city but the great maior
ity of the people and all the business men of anv
account stand by him in everything that he at
tempts, and he can well afford to ignore the rest
The time for receiving applications for exhibits ex-
pired last Saturday. Public announcement was
made some ten DAYS before that this would be the
case, hut there great many people in ,be
country who did not believe 1t. There were numer
Gus others who conld not make M their minds 20
exhhlt until the list moment. Letters and tele-
grams from both these classes have been received at
the ExpoSition headquarters every lay this week
and the urgency expressed by many of them is Ger
tainly very laughabe. The excuses some of them
Civ" for not applying beforr are exceedingly ingcn-
ious, hut do the writer's good. The fact il that
the Executive Committee has been compelled
to supply additional floor space equivalent TO an area
OF two acres TO provide room enough for the
exhibits accepted up to last Saturday night
and ii will be al they can do to get
these anncXes ready that exhibitors can
place their goods before opening dav There are
some extraordinary exhibits III Department H.
which will attract general attention and comment
This contains tools, Implements and machinery
which ar" divided into nine groups In the first of
these Will be all the machines used in preparing
cotton and cotton seed, and the number of these is
far beyond the expectations Of the managers nd has
snrprised some OF the largest dealers here A port
TI-in " n la
hrns oi the North. engaged in the manufacture Of
cotton machinery, said yesterday that with al his
precious knowledge Of the business be nad no idea
lhat lhere were so "any machin"s made IA had been
entered for exhibition The display in Glass ~ of
| me same de aItnent, which consists of steam
water pressure, hot air. Pas. compressed air pctro-
irum and cleo ro-magneic engines will he superior
10 anything that has ever been brought together in
q collective exhibit in the WORLDS history. One
thing about all these tools implements and machines
isesncciay not iceabe. Manufacturers have been too
blsN hillng hrlr orders 10 spend time and money
III preparing goods expressly for exhibition, Con-
| senueutly everything in these varons groups and
classes is taken directly from stocks kcnt for sale
and hey will form much better illustration of the
actna 8till Of American manufacturers than did the
highly iecoratei machinery that was seen at the
Centennial Exhibition. The statement will
apply TO nearly all the exhibits of manufactured
goods 1t is fortunate for the Southern people es-
Hanhiactlr 20 display nothing but their ordinary
work 1t will give hetter idea of the progress hat
mas been made IN all departmcnts of mechanism
than would have been the case had the mannfac-
tnrers covered their with nickel plating and
all manner of ornamrntation.
The collections made bv the railway companies
viii be much greater than expected some three
weeks ago. As the States of the South had no funds
citizens have avaed themselves of the opportmni-
ties freely afforded them by the railroad companies
aud he aggregate of their efforts will be something
wonderful Colonel Killchrcw chief of that depart
Inen says that it has increased day by dnv until he
has ceased to be astonshed at it, magnitude and
that he awaits with some curiosity the pleased sur
prise that Will be manifested by all who visit it.