The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-11-20
The New Orleans Expedition.


The official announcement of classified
tons, etc, for the Worlds Cotton Cen
tennial Exposition to BE- held at New Or
leans, beginning in December, 1884. has
been issued and is now in general circula-
ton, a copy having reached this office n
day or two since.
Organized under the authority of an
Act of Congress passed in February last,
the company of gentlemen who have the
matter in charge have thus far been un-
renting in their efforts to place the en-
terprise upon the surcst foundation, and
To secure for it the largest measure of sue
cess. The officers charged with the exc
cution of this great task are as follows: :
Edmund Richardson, President: Albrl, Bald
win and William b. Schmidt, Vice Presidents
Samuel Mullen, Secretary ThO> II Hunt Treas
urer. f. \. Burke DireCtor-t;cneral F. C. More
head, Commissioned General Il Board of Man
agement of thirteen an Advisory Finance Com
mittee of five, and IL General Finance Commit
tee OF forty.
These gentlemen, headed by the indie
tatigable manager OF the Times UenorrW,
Major +. ~ Burke, whose capabilities as
an organizer have been already brilliantly
demonstrated, are bending their entire en-
ergies to the accomplishment of their
manifold and complex duties, and their
efforts are already hearing rich fruit-thc
visits OF Major Burke, the DirectorGen-
o,o1 - e a.
valley having resulted in large subscrip-
tons to the fund and the promise of eN-
tensivc exhibits by cities, towns, counties,
States, railroad and manufacturing com
panes and individuals.
The pamphlet above referred {" con
tains the following official announcement
of classifcations. etc
Group 1-AgricultUrc; 2--IIorticullurc d
Raw and manufactured products. ores, minerals
and woods 4-Furnturc and its accessories
'TeNtc fabrics, clothing and It's accessories
G-Thc industrial arts Alimcnlaiy prOlucls;
Education and instruction 9-Work> OF
art 10 -Pieciculturc. These groups 10 be
divided into countless number of departments
which will embrace every article raised. mann
tacturcd OF used by civilized man
1t will hc seen that the scope Of the
proposed exposition embraces a much
wider list of expected exhibits than were
made either ut Atlanta or Louisville and
it will doubtless be 4 matter OF special
effort on the part OF the managers to eX-
Gel both of the recent eXp"eltIon> At tho~"
places.
One OF the chict features al the rntrr-
terprl~c Will he the exhibits hv the Scvc-
raj railroad companies in the West and
South whose interests arc particularly de-
pendent upon the rapid settlement Of the
territory al iacent to them and the ol-
portunitv to encourage such settlement
by bountitul and wcll-arranged colcc-
non of the products, etc, of such terri
tory is one the like 81 which Will hardly
be presented again during the present dc
cadc. We, therefore, feel prompted TO
urge the several railroad companies of
Florida To take early and active measures
to secure and fill ample space in the cN-
position bindings with good exhibits eff
the products Of the country through
which they extend This is but an open
in@ hint, and the subject will hc ad>rr,cd
I" hereafter more in detail