Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-01-12

Il 4 TORY OF tn ATLANTA COTTON
EXHIBIT1oN THE CROWDS IN
sAITENDANoll - RECEIPTS AT
1,HE GATES AND EFFECTS OF
fHE ENTERPRISE.
Tn giving running history of the In
ternational Cotton Exposition, which closed
on last Saturday The Atlanta Constitution
says:
To begin with, it is the first worlds
fair over held within ono year from tho
time It was first suggested, tho usual time
taken being five years. In the second
plaoo, tits the first time that worlds fair
was eyer held in q city Of less than $4,000
poople-the smallest city ever attempting
suoh thing before having more than a half
a million people. In tho third place, it
was the finest and comp!etest exposition
of American industries ever held nywhere.
IL The & Exposition covered twenty one
. acres Of floor space, around tho buildings
! and through the aislos were eleven miles.
There were six miles Of steam pipe and six
miles of sewerage, Tho power was sup-
piled by three engines 10 the main build
ing and ono III tho agricultutal machinery
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There wcre over eighteen hundred ex-
hibits made, comprising everything within
the range of American industry from ON
anvil to piopo and from kuife sharpener
to tho automatic mule. The first entry
made was that Of j. Smith Barnwell, OF
Dariep, Ga, who displayed imitation os.
pha)tum. The second, the Biughampton
I Oil Refining Company, Of New York, and
the third was j. 4. Wilder, Of Chattanooga,
Tenn. Probably tho largest exhibit was
that of the Wiliimautio Thread Company,
which, however, comprised several exhibits
under one entry The fullest limo Of cx-
hibits was in agricultural Implements, car.
riages and buggies, cotton gins and presses
agricultural implements leading them all.
Tho three points that the exposition was
expected to develop u cotton machinery
were these: First, the production Of gin
that working under the roller principle
would equal the saw gin. Second, tho pro-
.duotion of machine that would thor-
oughly clean cotton and send it to tho bale
without any dust or dirt; aud, third, press
cheap enough aud simple enough for farm
ing use and yet with enough power to
compress balo 80 that tho lint would be
impcrvous to dust, rain or dirt. Whether
or not tho Exposition settled these three
points, it certainly went great way to-
wards it.
Outside of these three points, however,
tho Exposition did q vast amount of good
in the direction Of improved agriculture
Throughout the South. The amount of
sales made of improved machinery was
simply marvellous. The exhibitors all
agree that they mover saw better selling
exposition. Thoro is scarcely neighbor'
hood in the Southern States into which an
improved stump pullcr, post hole borcr,
plough, cotton planter, manure distributor,
sulky plough, cultivator or harrow, has not
gone, and which, when Introduced, will iu-
duoe tho purchase Of others. Tho benefits
which will come from the sale of improved
machinery may bo accounted among the
very best benefits to be derived from the
F, Exposition.
IS In giving the financial result of the en-
terprise, to summarize it may be said that
tho cost Of tho exposition was S250000 of
which Sl50,000 in round figures was put
in buildings and improvements and the
balance paid out for running expenses, 40
That the receipts were from two hundred
and twenty to two hundred and fifty thou.
sand dollars, of which $4,000 came from
stock, $4,000 from privileges, $4,000
from entry fees, 100000 from cato receipts
and $4,000 from miscellaneous resources
Add to these receipts whatever the build
ings will bring and we will have about the
total receipts Of tho International Cotton
Exposition.
AS to the attendance it is safe to say, We
think, that quarter Of million people
witnessed the Cotton Exposition. The size
of this crowd is really its smallest element
of importance. 1t is doubtful if ever 80
large proportion Of distinguished men
Of practical, earnest men seeking for infor.
mation-and Of representative men from oil
classes and all sections were gathered to-.
gethor in o crowd five times as large ms this.
A recapitu!ation Of somo of the most dis
tinguishod delegations and people will show
what we mean
/. The Legislature OF three States Ken.
tucky, Tennessee and South Caroina-ad-
journed by resolution and camo in body
to visit the Exposition.
2. The Press Conventions of six South
erp, States adjourned by resolution and met
y at Atlanta.
The Governors who attended the Expo
sitiou wo!o as follows: Governors Bigolow,
Of Connecticut, Blackburn, Of Kentucky,
Hagood, of South Carolina, Bloxham, Of
Florida, Hoyt, Of Pennsylvania, Weston, of
Massachusetts, Jarvis, of North Carolina,
and Hawkins, of Tennessee. Among tho
United States Senators present were Sena.
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