Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-13
AN EXPOSITION'S CLOSE.
STIRRING SCENES ON THE LAST
DAY IN CINCINNATI.

bA1 IN OIN0ANNAI1.
Cincinnati's Happy Faculty of Coming
Money-An Example for Savannah
Absolute Necessities for Successful
ExpOsitiOns-HOw sunday is Spent in
the City.
CoTresDondence Of tile Norntn0 Neacs
CINCINNATI, Oct. S.-We came here
just III time to see the great Cincinnati
Exposition close its eleventh season.
Having bee both financial success and
a grand display of art and industrial ex
hibits, 1t wound up with joyous demon
stratlon on the part of the delighted citi-
zens.
Music Hall, the central building of the
exposition, was crowded to excess in
every part on Saturday night during the
performance of Curriers' fine band, and
as the hour of 10 o'clock approached
there was not standing room anywhere
for the eager thrOngs that pressed in from
the wing departments to see the final
close. This consisted of the Dlaying of
"Auld Lang Syne" by the band, accompa-
MED by the big organ, the vast multitude
present joining in singing the familiar old
song.
1t was a scene long o be remembered
by all who witnessed it, and even now
hear the echo III my ears of the riE ging
bells and shrieking whistles of the ma
chinery department that joined in the
swelling chorus. To the rural visitors
who had never before witnessed such a
scene, it was indeed thrilling and grand.
Cincinnati, of all the cities | know, pos
seSSeS a shreWdneSS and vim that crowd
her gates with visitors and her Golfers
with wealth. Nothing seems to be allowed
to 20 to waste. Everything is pressed
into service and made to contribute in
some way to the growth and attractive
ness OF the city. Music Hall, the gift of
the public-sprited Springer, is seldom
idle. 1t has been utilized for a dozen diff
terent schemes and enterprises and half
the year or more it IS made to draw Il
crowd to Cincinnati. With its compact
anneXes it yearly furnishes an admirable
place for an annual exposition, which the
liberal citizens back with solid reserve
fund to cover any loss. But this very re-
serve fund inspires confidence and lib
erality i'll the management that makes
success almost a certainty, even under
unusual drawbacks.
SAVANNAH, DESPITE THE THINIY
populated country lying about her, might
learn much from Cincinnatls public
spirit. Few really Southern cities have
more or greater attractions, and if her
wealthy and energetic citizens would
only utilize these advantages | am sure
and hotels filled with visitors. The mo-
ment the Cincinnati Exposition closed the
OyercrOwded hotels were almost deserted,
and to-day the outgoing trains are taking
away the lOiterers. Cheap railroad fares
are absolutely necessary to give success
to these enterprises, and under recent
combinations SaVannah's railroads can
reach out a long distance and gather in
swelling and eager crowds of visitors at
excursion rates.
Let the grand National Prize Drill be
the opening up of new career to the ''For-
est City" Thereafter let some kind of an
enterprise be the central point around
which to draw the people of other States.
/ have learned this fact-that most people
visit eXpOsitOns because of cheap fares
on railroads and steamboats, and for rec
reatiOn and amusement. Savannah GER
tainly can offer all these, and of the best
kind.
An agricultural fair, mostly out doors,
and mile or two from the city, is i'll no
sense'tO be compared with the Expos-
ton. The Cincinnati Exposition was
almost wholly made up OF exhibits from
the merchants and manufacturers of the
city. Many of the exhibits were very
elegant and costly, and could never have
been gathered into the unsafe and unsub-
stantial buildings generally found on fair
grounds. An exposition to be a success
must OIIef TO pNnlhlIOrS safe and dry
buildings, otherwise the most expensive
and attractive exhibits cannot be secured.
Savannah has enough of commerce, of art
treasures, of rural scenes ana seaside at
fractions to enable her to move to the
front and take her place with the other
cities that draw wealth and travel to
their midst by local eXpOstions, musical
festivals, military prize drills or Mardi
Gras displays.
Yesterday being Sunday, we took a
stroll around the city to see how the wick
ed people prOfane the Lords day. Bar
rooms and beer gardens were open every
where, and bands were playing to assem-
bled thousands. The theatres had matt
nee and night performances, and pleasure
ruled the hour. At the Highland House,
the most popular resort, some 1000 men.
women and children were assembled
drinking lager beer and wine, and vet /
saw no disorder, no drunken men. All
was orderly, and the best ladies of Amer-
can families were present to hear Cur
rier's band and the famous cornet player.
Prof. EmmersOn, who has created quite
furOre here.
And yet, with all this beer drinking on
sunday, 1t looks to me as though the
temperance people would win the fight
t0-mOrrOw. | heard Judge Foraker on
saturday night, and | found him much
stranger and more impressive man than
ne has been represented to be by the
Democratic press. Again, find a large
class of the best German element that
faVors the temperance movement. In one
sense the temperance wave is growing
stronger and broader in its onward or,oap
and either by general or local laws
it is destined to cover the South as the
waters cover the great deep. | do not
mean by this that either the manufacture
or the sale of whisky will be entirely sup
pressed, or that drunkenness will come to
an end. Whisky will be manufactured
and sold and men will get drank despite all
the laws that may be passed, but the open
and general manufacture and sale must
be circumscribed in time by the steady
movement now on foot to secure prOhibi-
tory laws or high license protection.
The women of Ohio have done noble
service, and it will not be their fault if de-
feat comes to the temperance cause.
From present indications, however, |
think they will win victory at the polls
tomorrow as a reward for their persistent
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