National Republican., 1883-10-13
E1rr SOUTHERN nXpos1rIow.
A Few OF the DIany Interesting Things
the Attentive Observer May Sec There.
SptcidI Lcllor.


Special Letter.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 10.-Tho great ox-
position is held in building 900 foot long
and 600 feet wide, and four intermediate con-
Meeting halls meeting in the center of pa
Wilton, 100 feet square, with galleries extend
ing around the building. AT night the build
ing is illuminated By 1900 incandesccnt
electric lights, each Of sixteen candle power
1t takes fifteen dynamo machines and four
engines to furnish this light.
Tho exhibition is divided into fro depart
ments, machinery, manufactured products,
natural products, transportation, and music,
literature, and art. Tho carriage and saw
mill machinery is shown in anncxes, aud tho
art gallery, Il shaped, fireproof building is
located 800 yards from the main building. 1t
takes ton engines TO run tho machinery, and
they vary from 600 horse power TO n little one
with ono inch stroke and fly wheel six
inches in diameter.
There is worry full exhibition of machinery
for manufacturing cloth, cotton, wooden, and
silk. Tho machinery is in use just as in the
factory, and raw cotton is taken through all
the processes into sheoting and yarn. The
process of manufacturing wool fresh from the
sheep, cloth, and yarns. Cotton feeders and
cleaners are also exhibited, and tho cotton
weed and bolls in various stages of growth
with the caterpillar feeding upon them. In
the silk department there is an opportunity
to follow the whole business from the egg laid
by the silk moth, through worm, chrysalis,
and butterfly, and the silk reeled from the
cocoon can be traced through tho different pro-
cesses till il comes forth in many ,lors as tho
smooth sewing or embroidery silk. The raw silk
used by the big machine is imported from
China and Japan. Samuel II. Lowrey and
his two daughters, colored people of Hunts
ville Ala, show the method of silk culture,
o,I hos thn Arc u1tf
successful in the undertaking in this country.
Their silk is spun by hand with crude i'm
plements. They are unable to purchase ma
chinery, but still they manage to produce
sewing silks.
The rapid transformation from fiber to
fabric was illustrated in the suit of clothes
made for tho governor of Arkansas when he
500 miles from the exposition, sent there and
made into cloth. cut and put into clothing
for tho governor, all in less than forty-eight
hours.
The exhibits of agricultural implements
and flour mill machinery are both large, and
the show of electric light aud apparatus is OF
course extensive. There are various com
panies showing electric lights, apd electric
motors drive pump, which lifts n column OF
water ten feet in height forming cascade
Another motor runs tho electric railway
which is no longer new thing. There arc
electric clocks, electric railway signals, and
electric machines of all sorts. The lifo saw
ing service, the coast survey, the postofiice
the national museum, the bureau Of cduca-
tion, and most of the states have interesting
displays.
Some of the more noted pictures in the art
gallery are "The Bal Masque." "The Helping
Hand" EARLY Trials, Happy Moments,
monk Dentist" Dark Philosopher" "Pris
oncr of State" "For Lack of Gold, aud "Mar
guerite.p Fine pieces of statuary arc 9Th,
Maiden's Prayer "vcnus Triumphant
Venus and Cupid" "Hagar and Ishmael,
"Morning Glories" ana 7"Nydia," but til,
statue which attracts most attention is Bar
bees Star of the West" 1t is life.siz
lovely girl standing in graceful pose, will
her right hand shading her eyes, and the lef
rostingion an inverted cornucopia, from whicl
! flowers and fruits are falling. Above her brow
! is the star, She is gazing out into the fa
country from beneath her shaded hand. TIL,
| figure is nude to the waist, and the draperS
which covers tho rest of her figure is plain
coarse, and domestic Tho sulptor is Herber
Barbeo, u native of Page county, Va, at pres
cnt residing in Now York city.
Tho exposition has been we'll attended
some days the number of visitors being q
great as 10000. ID. ID. KANE.