The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-08
The Southern Exposition at Louis
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The STATESMAN presents the citi.
Zens of Austin and its readers
| throughout the state with the follow
ing extracts in relation to the great
southern exposition that promises to
eclipse everything of the kind ever
held on the American continent, ex-
cept the national centennial exhibit
ton of 1876:
The Southern Exposition will be
held at Louisville, beginning Au-
gust 1, 1888, and continuing one hun
dred days. At tie time of this writ
ing, over $4,000 have been sub
scribed by the people of Louisville
and is now being paid in, and new
subscriptions are being received daily.
Whatever ample means, earneStneSs
and activity can do to make great
exposition will be done, and all that
the people who have thus furnished
the means ask of the national govern
ment, the states and the people of our
country is that they will give moral
aid and encouragement to the en-
terprise, that they will bring to it ex-
hibits of their products, their manu-
features, their machinery and their
arts, and that they will come in per-
son and see this exhibition of the arts
and industries of the various sections
of our land.
The scale on which this exposition
will be conducted may be inferred
from the fact that the main building,
now in progress. is 800 by 600 feet,
covering about thirteen acres, with an
appropriation of over $4,000 for the
cost of erection, with the neces-
sary machinery and interior embel-
lishment provided for at additional
cost. A comparative estimate of the
extent of this building may be drawn
from the statement that the great
International cotton exposition at
Atlanta in 1881 covered only eight
acres. AT the southern end of the
customary promenade, and i'll the
midst of the most fashionable resi-
dence part of the city, lies Central
park-a pleasure ground of eighteen
acres, unequaled by any park in the.
world for the size and magniticence of
its forest trees. Central park lies be-
tween Fourth and Sixth streets, and
is now directly reached by hOrse-car
lines on those streets, and running
beyond the park. This park will con-
stitute the northern enclosure of the
exposition grounds. and the northern
front Of the main building will be on
its southern line. Arrangements are
now progressing for bringing every
hOrse-car line in the city directly to the
exposition entrances, and on the south
ern line of the grounds the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad will erect
railway station. at which passengers
from any part of the United States
may be landed within 200 or 300 feet
of one of the exposition entrances.
In the past few years Louisville has
become one of the most important
railroad centres in America, and its
geographical position so favors the
advantage of its railroad connections
that it is but one night in sleeper
from almost every important city in
the United States. \ more central
point geographically, or one more &c
cessible by easy travel, could not be
found, and the fact that it stands on
the border line between the north and
the south. and between the east and
the west, makes it an appropriate
place for the sections to gather and
exhibit to each other the particular
products of their industry.