Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-29
THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION
A Brief Trip to This Great Industrial Ex-
Inhibition,
And Something of What Was Seen by a
Chronicle kepresentative.

past week TO the great International Cotton
Exhibition, which is in progress in the city
of Atlanta, Ga, and it was trip attended
with much pleasure and profit. Glowing
descriptions had been heard and read by
this representative of what was to be seen
in this great industrial exhibit, but still an
agreeable surprise awaited this our first
visit and the show far exceeded our highest
anticipation. 1t is given up and acllnowl-
edged on all hands to be the grandest and
most successful affair of the kind ever wit
nesfed on American soil. In point
of American exhibits, especially of
the products of the South, the
Philadelphia Centennial Exposition was not
up to the Atlanta Exposition in complete
ness, variety and attractivenesss. This is
the universal testimony.
1t is perhaps unnecessary to say that
there is only one H. I. Kimball in the
world, and to his interchangeable and un-
firing efforts, from beginning to end, is due
the greatest measure of the
success attained by the exposi-
ton. AS director-g general, Mr.. KimbalI,
from the very inception of the enterprise,
lent his entire time and energies to the pro-
motion of its ends, and during the progress
( of the exhibition for the past three months,
| he has been constantly and actively engaged
in the personal supervision of the affair.
That Cotton is King" is fact which is
indellibly impressed upon the memory of
every visitor, for about the first thing
that meets his or her gaze is
the Welcome" over the entrance
to Judges Hall, executed with raw cotton in
large and bold letters. Similarly CON
structed notices, emblems, etc, are met
with ell through the entire exhibition. The
exhibition of the king of plants in ali its
stages of conversion into fabric, and the
various kinds of types of improved ma
chlnery therefor, constitute very conspic-
nous feature of the show, and all these
operations are witnessed with great satisfac-
ton and interest
With the limited space and time at our
disposal, it is utterly useless to think of
anything like even all outline description of
what is to be found on exhibition.
OF course the attention of Tennesseean
is naturally first attracted to the Tennessee
exhibit. Our State is found represented in
five different places in the buildings, besides
the Chattanooga and Knoxville Iron
Company exhibit, which occupies
a separate building, and the display of our
enterprising nei8hbor, Mayor A. H. Gregg,
of Morristown, in agricultural implements
In the first place the E. T., v & G. Rail
road Company have an exhibit which at
tracts universal attention, in the railroad
building. 1t is admirably arranged in a
very attractive manner, and makes q fine
exhibit of the resources along the
line of that company The
arrangement was made by and is in thor
ough charge of Col J. B. Killebrew, who is
chief of the department of minerals and
woods. The marble exhibit in this display
is very conspicuous and attracts much ad-
lhlf@uon. In fact, for the space allotted to
1t, the L. t, V. & G. exhibit is second n
none III the exposition, IN variety and At
Effectiveness, and IS source of pride to all
Tennesseeans.
Besides this, Col. Killebrew has also
charge of the n. d c. & L. & n. Roads, and
here is to be found the most complete dis
play of the products of the soil and ma
ch1nery immaginaole, and every commodi-
ty needed by mankind is to be found there
In some shape. Col. Killebrew is devoting
his entire energies to his work, and is de-
cidedly the right man in the right place.
He is ever polite and obliging, and takes
great pleasure in showing friends around
The old reliable Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Company, however, has
decidedly the most attractive and thor
oughly beautiful exhibits to be found in the
department of agricultural exhibit. They
have conspicuous and central location,
have spent great deal of money and have
a most unique and attractive display of the
great profusion of the varied products of
the productive State of Kansas. This exhibit
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agents and good fellows, Mr.. A. E. Lip
plncott, to whom this representative is in
debted for favors shown
But we might take up several columns in
the description of the various departments
and the varied and entertaining sights to be
seen. It's truly a wonderful exhibition,
credit and honor to our Southern country,
and one that will agreeably astonish any vis-
tor. 1t is show which should have been
visited at some time by every citizen of the
land who could possibly do SO, but there are
only few days yet The exposition will
close positively on the 3lst inst.
1t has proved genuine boom for Atlanta,
which is live, thriving and rapidly grow
ing city. The exposition has been won
derful strain on the hospitality of the place.
but she has proved equal to the emergency.
diseased LUNGS ARE GREATLY ON AN IN
CREASE IN THIS CoUNTRx.-The sudden
changing of weatbar hos dove 1911 l.. -