The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-02-04
THE sou lHERN EXPOSITION AT
LOUISVILLE.

LOUISVILLE.
The Southern Exposition will be held at
Louisville, KY, beginning Angus, 1893,
ana continuing one hundred DAYS. At the
time Of this writing, over s252,0O0 have
been subscribed by the people Of Louisville
and is now being paid in, and new subScrip
tons are berg received daily.
That Louisville WAS ia earnest IN under
taking the greatest exposition ever held In
this country, except the National Cenlennl-
al Expedition OF 1876, is evidenced by tue
fact that her own people have freely sup.
| piled all the means required, aud no out
side assistance has been solicited,
Whatever ample means, earnesIness 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 Government, the States aud the
people of our country is that they will give
moral aid and encouragement TO the enter
prise, that they will bring to the exhibits
of their products, their manufactures, their
machinery and their arts, and that they will
come in person aud see this exhibition Of
the arts and industries Of the various sec.
tious 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
300 by 600 feet, covering about thirteen
acres, with AL appropriation of over $780,
600 Tor the cost OF cree ion, with the neces-
sary machinery and inter establishment
provided tor at additional cost. A cnmpar-
alive estimate o. the extent OF tins build
10y may be drawn from The statement that
the great international Cotton Exposition
at Atlanta 10 1881 covered only eight acres.
The only change that can now be made IN
the dimensions Of the buldiug Will be to
extend wings from the south side so as to
increase tue area for exhibitions.
Fourth Street is the great retail street OF
LOUISVILLE duu 10 Tue LuOst pupulal anu
fash enable promenade. At the southern
|, end of the customary promenade, and in
the midst OF the most fashionable residence
part of the city, lies Central Park-a pleas
ure ground OF eighteen acres, uneq ualed 10y
any park in the world for the size and mag
niicience Of its fores, trees. Central Park
lies between Fourth aud Sixth Streets, aud
is now directly reached by horse car lines
on those streets, aud running beyond the
park. This park will constitute the north
ern Enclosure of the Exposition grounds,
and the northern front of tue main building
will be ON it southern line. Arrangements
are now progressing for bringing
every horse car line in the city
directly to the Exposition entrances, aud ON
the southern line of the grounds the the
Louisville aud Nashville railroad will
erect railway station, at which passengers
from any part Of the United States may be
landed within 200 or 800 feet Of the Expo
stion entrances.
Ia the past four years Louisville has be-
come one of the most important railroad
centres ia America, aud it, geographical
position 80 tavors The advantage of its rail
road connections that it is but one night in
asleeper from almost every important city
in the United States. A more central point
geographically, or one more accessible by
easy travel could NOT be found, and the
fact that It stands on the border line be-
tween the north and the south, and between
the east and the west makes it an appro.
pirate place for the several sections to gath
er and to exhibit to each other the partcu.
lar products of their industry.