Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-05
ASTDAYS YSATLOUISVILLE
EVERYBODY PAYING A LAST
VISIT TO THE EXPOSITION.
Gyrations of the YOungsters-Indiana
Days GlOry-An AeTOnaut's Sorry
Experience in Red Tights-The Dog
ShOw-GilmOre's Band and the FIirta-
tiOns of One of Its Members.

'0rresDondence Ofthe Mornfn0 AZ

the last drops in bottle. The excursion
lists have quite generally come and seen
it all, and have gone home, and the local
population are now turning out every day
in full force. Home people heretofore
saved themselves for saturday, which cost
only % cents, but the supply of half dol
lars seems to have largely increased, and
all days, in point of attendance, are alike.
Indiana had a day recently, and they
all came. The streets were crowded with
travel-stained, muddy pedestrians. who
carried shawls and valises and lunch
baskets quite as large as the ark. In the EX-
position popcorn and tatfy were above par,
and our friends from over the way basked
in sticky contentment. Once in while
the management gives a whole day to the
school children, when they and their
teachers are admitted at 10 cents. Then
it is that the uncalculating observer finds
that he never realized how many children
there are in the world, and is Immediately
tempted into appalling statistics. For
that day the Exposition is like a bowling
wilderness. The children are accompanied
by all their feminine relatives, and dis
play great tact in becoming separated
from them. The dear little boys seek the
gallery railings and perform thrilling gym
nastics to chorus of shrieks and groans
over the office of the Police Chief is
crowded with a miscellaneous assOrt-
ment of lost children who
yell for their natural protectors with re-
markable Vigor. Frantic mothers and
sisters resort here, tearfully look over the
collection, select their personal property
and depart cOmforted, while the police
men and all others in authority groan in
spirit and even wish the young ones were
dead.
IT WAS TO BE EXPECTED
that as the exposition drew to a close
there would be an effort to crowd on
everything that comes under the head of
especial attractions" The management
imported an Hronaut from Boston, had an
immense balloon on the grounds, and
drew a wonderful crowd to witness the
ascension of Prof. Harry Warner in a suit
of scarlet silk. At the appointed time,
the gas company having entered into
agreement to furnish the gas, the balloon
was inflated, but the quality of gas was
so eXecrable, and the company so
niggardly in furnishing it, that
there could De no ascension. The
next day the same thing occurred, and
the disappointed balloon sWays in its fas-
Jennings and the arOnaut, after drifting
about in his tights in the soaking ram,
has taken a cold and says awful things
about the Louisville Gas Company. And
the interesting part is that there is not a
Louisville citizen who don't feel like pat
ting him on the head and giving HIM Il
quarter to say all that language is capa-
bic of about that same institution.
The dog show was inaugurated yester-
day and drew an admiring crowd. The
animals are quartered in the south inte-
riOr gallery, and number about 200.
There are some splendid looking fellows
among them. There are two dogs valued
at 5000 each One is a smooth st. Ber-
nard-a perfect beauty. There is only
one SpitZ in the collection, and he is full
grown and white as a snow-drift. There
is family of five st. Bernards of the
rough coated species, belonging to a Lou
isyille gentleman, the young dogs three
months old showing only a triflng differ
ence in size from the full grown members.
In one OF the kennels marked danger
Gus" there is a ferociOus bull dog who
sits back on his launches and glares at
the spectator in way to make ones
flesh creep He is entered from Lam
cashire, England, and no one knows his
owner. He is such hideous brute that
it is sditficult to believe that dogs are
ever created so ugly until one
has observed this one. He is enough to
make strOng-nerved spectator go home
and have seven-stOry nightmare, but
all the same, he is the express image of
the familiar wood cuts of Ben. Butler.
There is an English mastiff so huge he
might be mistaken for a horse, several
magnificent NewfOundlands, and a large
and varied collection of settlers, pointers,
retrieVerS, Spaniels and miscellaneous
dogs. Many of them have worn the blue
ribbon over and over again, and are ac-
customed to admiration and compliment
tary attentions, which they receive with
dignitied calmness, and even appear po-
litely bored, but some of the Younger
dogs, new to society, appear to take this
publicity as personal atfrOnt, and howl
most frightfully. For a while it was q
struggle between Gilmore and the dogs as
to which could make the most noise.
GILMoRE's BAND. STANDS sQUARELY UP
to its reputation, and among the solists,
Liberati, who was Cappa's right bower,
has left even more popular successor in
lnnes, the trombOnist. This accomplished
artist has been taken into social favor,
and the young ladies of Louisville are
petting and liOnizing him until he is ridc-
ulously spoiled. When he is sitting with
the rest of the performers he is constantly
bowlng and smiling and simpering to
various fair adOrers who are SprInkled
through the audience, and when he takes
his place on the programme or responds
to an encore he trOtS forward with a deli
cate affectatlOn, poses in a position where
his bangs and moustache will have the
most disastrous effect, and frequently
lowers his instrument in the midst of an
orchestral passage to beam and nod to a
hat and feather in the galleries. It's pain
fully evident that he is going to leave an
immense collection of crushed hearts as
his trophy OF the hundI ed days.
Yesterday being German-AmerIcan day,
there was prepOnderance of gutturals
observable in circulation, and at night
the Liederkranz chorus gave some
OF its ponderous selections. The
regular exposition chorus, five hundred
strong, every now and then invades the
musicians domains in Music Hall, and
having become well limbered up i'll the
intervals falls into line and fires off some
heavy artillery from the OratOriOs. OF
course this stormy kind of music is Won
dertully grand, but there are such a lot
of IgnOramuSeS in this world who would
rather have "Traumerei," which seems
to be an elhn bugle leading the way to
Arcadia, or one of Abts songs, soft as
the winds of the South. and these crude
specimens will stand by Gilmore and
don't care how soon the chorus comes to
grief.
THE MORNING NEWS PRIZES,
which were awarded with all due for
j
by number of newspaper representa-
tiyes, called forth a glowing report from
those judges, who were enthusiastic over
the scheme. None of these gentlemen be-
lOnged to the districts represented by the
contestants, but they could not fail to see
the widespread influence of an enterprise
like this. In private letter, signed by
all the judges, to Mr.. 5. L. Jenkins, who
has the scheme in charge, these gentle
men, in addition to their warm approval
in the published report, still more enthu-
slastically applaud the originators
of the enterprise and recommend it as
prominent feature of all future
expOsitions!S Certainly it is the great op-
portunity for the South to present herself
in the most truthful and convincing man.
ner to the attention of the immigrant. A
single voice raised here and there has no
effect; it must be united effort that will
make the most effective appeal to the
class that the South is most anxious to
invite to her vast and unoccupied terri
al