New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-02
ci0SE or TIE 1TLNT1 ram.

CLOSE or TIE 1TLlNTA ram.
The Atlanta Exhibition closed on Saturday
after a sue .essiul career Of nearly three
months. We say successful, although the Far
has shared the fate OF other large enterprises
of like character ard will not fully return the
cost of its creation ana arrangement. The total
outlay was not far from T25O,OOO and the re-
ceips were only $4,000. The buildings
cost $1,000. and when these are sold
for what thoy will bring the stockholders
can hardly expect to get back more than
one fourth of their subscriptions. Yet, looking
To the TACT that Atlanta is a town of less than
$4,000 Inhabitants, situated in the midst Of
country fnr FROM tiiclly sealed, with no
cities and few villages in It's vicinity,
and looking too, 10 the further fact .hat
the Southern people were, rs a r'lr, ignorant
Of the benefits to 0e derived from che study
of hr-e displays Of machinery and products,
We must coucudc that even the pecuuiary We
suits OF ,hc Exhibition have been favorable.
70 have received the cooperation OF l,S0O cX-
hibitofs and then to have attracted quarter
of Il million of people within their gates was
n remarkable Triumph for the managers
When W. come to regard the larger re-
in improved implements and processes Of
agriculture and in stimulating manufactur-
iug ENTERPRISE in an immense section OF
country neatly destitute Of the simplest in
Gl>tric> for converting raw material into use
fu tool, and fabrics, We shall find reason
for greater measure Of satisfaction. From
Nir-iuia t. Texas and from Kentucky to the
Gull thc South WAS stirred bv gcuJu" inter-
ct m the event at Atlanta. The newspaper,
constantly wrote about il, and tdc people made
it a topic OF daily conversation until it came
10 be generally felt that the Exhibition marked
the opening Of new era for the
Southern couutIy-;m era in which the
South was to Pot forth greater efforts to
diversity and improve its industries and
make grcaC deal more of its natural re-
sources than ever before People who went 40
the FUr came home with accounts Of remark
able yields Of corn, cotton wheat and tobacco,
and how th,y were raised; Of new l.bor-sdy-
ing machinery; Of improved plOughs harness.
and cotton gins, and of friendly rivalry be-
tween this State and that for premiums for
quality and quantity of standard crops. These
accounts spread among their ncighbOrs have set
them To thinking whether they cannot do better
on their farms than to scratch tbc surface with
onn-niule plough. Then the sitOTs who went
from cities AID villages learned of mAnufac-
turing enterprises Of which they had never
heard, carried on in places no more favoraby
situated than theirs, and nave been asking
themselves ever since they rcturncd why
" should not we also have cotton mill, or a
" tannery, or foundry, or n plough factory2"
Ont of this stir Of enterprisng feeling will he
=, lin En Vt f.,t
multitude of successful local manufacturing
projects.
We are not disposed to make rs much of
the sentimental and patriotic features of
the Exhibitions influence as some of our
contemporaries. Doubtless the mingling OF
people from the North and the South in the
halls of the Fair and in the hospitable homes
of the d" Gate City, has had an excellent
effect but the two sections Of the country
were on the nigh road to full reconciliation
and fratcrual regard before the Exhibition
was planned. Every year strengthens thc feel
ing Of common nationality and obIiteratcs
the lines and barriers OF the past just
~ steadily aud surely rs the winds
and rains and sunshine wear away the
breastworks and on the bitches on the
battlefield, of the War; Social and bdsi-
mes. Intercourse between a." people Of the
two sections increases constantly, and political
feeling has been 20 greatly modified ,hat
when a question arises att citing Inc interests
of the whole country, like the I-tlmus Canal
question for example, rs arden. and Intelligent
p patriotism Is shown in the South lis in ,hc
North. The real benefits Of tie Exhibition sill
prove TO be- industrial. How great they viii
be, We must wait two or three years to See
Thi, much we cn say now, howcvcr, chat wc
DO rot believe they are oycrcstimatol even by
the snguinc supporters of tine enterprise, DO,
with an admirable public spirit, subscribed
their money without hope of return for the
common adyutle" OF their fcllov-c.til,ns
throughout the South.