Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-16
LOUISVILLE A LETTER.

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LOUISVILLE IN A LETTER.
The Crush on the Last Day of the Ex-
position and Other Notes.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 13.-The great Southern
Exposition is numbered at last among the
things that were. Its closing scenes were
witnessed by the largest crowd that ever as
sembled at one place in Louisville, and which
displayed mad enthusiasm. On the morn
ing of the 10th, while home people were
peaceably getting through with their break
fasts, every incoming train deposited its liv-
ing cargo, which struck straight out for the
Exposition and fingered not by the way, so
that before noon the building was filed, and
after that time, when the regular rush began,
it was crowded to suffocatIon. A crushing
crowd in that vast space means no light thing.
Every exhibitor opened his space to let the
surging overflow in; there was not an inch of
room to spare in the galleries, and panickv
people began to look up with trembling at the
figures seated on the ratings, and whisper to
each other ''What if the galleries give Wave,'
Although Music Hall was the point where the
gathering was most dense, there still seemed
no appreclable lessening of the crowd
elsewhere, and the far away spaces among
the machinery presented a moving mass that
until there was effervescent wrath even with
those who had come determined to be good
natured for a whole day. The speeches were
set for o'clock, and although seats had been
extended in Music Hall out to the centre of
the building, the seating capacity did not ac-
commodate pittance of those who assem-
bled. The soda fountain that commands the
speakers platform lost all resemblance TO it.
self and became living monument, swarm
ing with men who climbed to the top and
fringed its base.
LITTLE BEFORE THREE GILMORE
began medley of national airs, and presently
the Mayor, followed by the President and
Directors of the Exposition, the President
and Directors of the Board of Trade, and the
members of the General Council, filed in. and
took their places on the platform. The first
address was made by Mr.. Frank Carley. who
has been one of the foremost workers in the
cause of the Exposition, and to whose Iabors
the Art Gallery owes much of its success.
His remarks were a graceful and elOquent
hopes, its benefits, its results, and its memoir
able pleasures. He was followed by Major
Burke, of the Times Democrat. His appear
ance was greeted with tumultuOus applause.
He made practical, busness-like but stir
ring address, full of facts and figures. in
which he sounded the trumpet for New Or
1881.
The enthusiasm that accompanied these
speeches, particularly the latter, was aston
ishing. Old gentlemen, whose bald heads
RllSIcu6u III the llSUl. lCdDeu upon JneIr seats
with the agility of school boys. and waved
their hats and handkerchiefs and shouted until
they were black in the face and appeared on
the very verge of apopleXy, and the applause
at the close of Major BurlIe's remarks sweIled
into one prolonged roar. Everybody seemed
to want to so to New Orleans right away.
Mayor Jacob then made a brief, impromptu
address, and held up to view the piece of
cloth, bound with a blue ribbon. woven
of the cotton grown on the expert
mental farm on the grounds of the Ex-
position. One feature touched upon in the
Mayors address is a matter of pride to the
management, and that is the model system of
police. Not one pocket has been picked dur
ing the time, nor has single incident oc-
CURED to prove an unpleasant reminder to
any one who has visited the building. A lady
might walk alone from end to end with the
same conscious security with which she would
pace drawing room. Unprotected ladies,
strangers in the city, have visited the place
with perfect confidence in the protection of a
set of policemen, so courteous and gentleman
ly, they almost come up to the ideal standard
of guardians of the peace. Where they could
have been made to order is unknown, for
Louisville was never famous heretofore for
her police system.
ALL DAY MINUTE GUNS WERE FIRED
in the Park the national salute being fired al
noon, another at sunset, and a final and tre-
mt ndOus salvo when the bells rang out the
last breath of the mighty show GilmOre's
concert at night was final triumph, but it
could hardly be heard ten feet from the grand
btdnu LOT Jne SHTlthlHS Ol bJedm Whistles ana
clanking and roaring of wheels and engines.
Every inch of machinery was at its fullest
power, and the place was like pandemOnium let
loose. No human voice could be heard by any
ear except at shout, and hoarse lot of people
must have walked up next morning. Some
thing like a tragedy came near marring the
occasion at night. A man, supposed to be
intoxicated, fell into the hydraulic pool in the
machinery department, and the ladies
shreked that a man was drowned. Several
gentlemen near with a desire to keep from
drowning also, ran to tell some one else. and
in the meantime man plunged over the
heads of the crowd, dropped into the pool and
hauled out the struggling victim. The rescuer
was John Tully, the life saver. who was provi-
dentially on the spot.
The great Exposition chorus mingled with
band and organ in the farewell music After
the concert Maj. Wright assembled the stand
and in a word or two announced the formal
close of the Southern Exposition of 'S3. The
band and chorus then united in the doXologv.
the last gun was fired, and all was over As
the noisy crowd radiated in all directions
many an eye turned back wistfullv to the
beautiful building with every streamer flying
and every light turned on to its fullest blaze
until it looked like great jewel set in fire.
and many long, regretful sigh went forth for
the vanished delights and the days that were
dead.
GILMORE HAS MADE FOR HIMSELF
an abiding place in the hearts of the Louis
vile people. There were some who staunchlv
held out for Cappa and the Seventh Regi-
meHI, Dub IN Ine past Lnfee weeks Gilmore
has been upon his mettle, and has surpassed
himself, so that the supporters of Cappa have
been won over Internationally to the enemy.
Gilmore's last concert was perfect ovation.
His music rack was surrounded with bou-
quets that admirers presented, and po-
hcemen every few MINUTES elboWad
their way up to the stand with ele-
giant designs of musical instruments
in the most exquisite flowers. At the cOnclu-
sion of the first part of the musical pro
gramme Col. John Mason Brown, on behalf
Of the Louisville ladies, presented the impres-
sarlo with superb gold sugar-bowl, cream
pltcher and tongs, richly chased and incased
in an elegant inlaid box. There were vocif-
erous calls for "Gilmore." and he responded
with yOley of the stiff little bows which
have become so familiar and a few wordSpf
thanks. Presently another citizen came for
ward and presented him first with an i'm
mense bouquet and then with a baton mount
ed in gold and surmounted with gold harp.
GImore's rare, enchanting music Will linger
long in the memories of those who felt its
wItchery.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable things
connected with GilmOre's orchestra was the
peculiar phase of social oblquity developed
in the feminine element by his irresistible
protege, Innes, the trombone man. The ''fiir-
tatiOnn proceedings of this gentleman have
made a nine days sensation, and have been
the talk OF the town. HE played his way
straight into the susceptible hearts Of Louis
ville's falrest daughters. 1t must not be
supposed that 1T was the frivolous school girl
faction OF society who were captured by his
rendition of "Sweet ViOlets' and ssSome
Day. and the rest of his extremely sentiment
TAI selections. The two rows of front seats in
music han were occupied at every concert,
afternoon and eyening-not one being