Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-06
HINTS TO BE HEEDED.
south Georgia at Atlanta-manager
Haines' Urgent Counsel TO the
Patrons OF His Road.
OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER
SAVANNAH, FLA. ANDWEsTERN RI. Co.,
GAuANNAu 9aDtomhnr x 1881

OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER
SAVANNAH, FLA. ANDWEsTERN RI. Co.,
SAVANNAH, September 6, 1881.
Tohe People Of Southern Georgia
The Atlanta Exposition will afford aR OPP
portunity for displaying the products and
resources of the State that Will not soon be
repeated.
The Legislature having made no appropii
alton for the purpose, this golden Opportu-
nifty VIII be lost unless it be secured by in
dividual enterprise. In other parts OF the
State this is well understood, and the people
are stirring themselves to have their respec-
tive sections properly represented, but
so far nothing of importance seems
to have been done in Southern Georgia. Is
this to be so? Are the visitors at Atlanta
from other States and from foreign coun-
tries to be attracted by the exhibits from
Northeastern Georgia, from Cherokee
Georgia, from Middle Georgia, and to 60
away not knowing that South Georgia
exists The finest country in the world is
but desert without population. Through
immigration comes increased wealth and
prosperity; and where are we to find bet
ter class to recruit our population from than
among the educated and well-to-do people
that will visit the Exposition
Let us make display then that will at
tract them; that will lead them to ask for
information about the section from which
it has been brought; that will create in them
6 desire to visit that section, and 1t will be
the part of our railroad company to furnish
them with cheap tickets for that purpose.
But zoe cannot make the display. II Is Tor
YOU to do that. You have made South
Georgia what It is. The railroad only helped
you to do it. You must make the exhibit
at Atlanta. The railroad will help you in
this as well. It will undertake to transport
whatever you have TO show; will dis
play it to the best advantage, and
return it after the exhibition. If you are
impressed with the value of these sugges-
tions will you not hold meetings at an early
day in each county, organize committees
and select members for general Executive
Committee, with whom we can cooperate
The gentlemen of the press along our line
have promptly responded to our appeal.
They have undertaken to place the matter
before you and to impress you with Its i'm
portance. 1t is in the power Of each one OF
you to aid the press and the railroad COM
pany in this work OF common benefit to US
them to organize meetings and associations,
explain to them the value to themselves OF
attracting visitors to see the country by
making a fine display at the Exposition.
Many of you will visit Atlanta. You, too, win
be attracted by the many beautiful and in
teresting objects on exhibition there. You
will perhaps learn much about your own
State that you had not known before. How
will you feel when you pass by the exhibit
from South Georgia and hear it spokea of
with admiration by people from the North
and from EurCpeS VIII you not feel proud
of your section when you hear them ask for
more information, and express desire to
visit country that can make such display
Let US not look at the other side OF the
picture. Let US not ask what your feelings
will be II the exhibit should be so inferior
as to attract no attention, TO be passed by
With Indifference or with contempt.
If this should be the result neither the
press nor the railroad company will be to
blame. They both stand ready to assist
you, If you will but assist yourselves. With
you rests at last the duty Of showing the rest
of the world who you are and
what XIII d OF a country you live In
the. products Of your fields, OF your
orchards, OF your pastures, Of your forests,
Of your manufactures.
Let not the ladies be ashamed to exhibit
their own handiWOrk. In times past our
county exhibits at the Thomasville fairs
have been indebted to them for much of
their interests, and nothing will more i'm
press the visitors to the Atlanta Exposition
than these evidences that the virtues Of the
housewife, so highly priced in all ages and
in all countries, are still cherished and ex-
ercised in Southern Georgia Care will be
taken that due credit is given to each ex-
hibitor and to each locality. We are all in
terested in having this done so thoroughly
as to impress upon the minds of visitors
from whom and whence any article
came that NAV have attracted their atten-
ton. Any suggestions that may tend to
increase the beauty or interest Of the ex-
hibit will be gladly received.
You must remember that the Exposition
will open on the 5th OF October. and that
we have no time to lose. A better oppor-
tunity we shall not soon have again, and
It could not have come at a more auspici-
GUS season. A new era is about to open for
Southern Georgia.
We have sound reasons for believing
that its advantages will be no longer hidden
in a corner, but that they will be set forth
prominently upon a through line Of railroad
"a national highway-where they will be
displayed to the traveller passing by on the
train to the same advantage that your ex-
hibits will be displayed at the Atlanta Ex-
position. II. S. HAINEs.
General MANAGER