The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-08
The Southern Exposition at Louis
VILE.

The Southern Exposition will be
held at Louisville. KY, beginning
August 1, 1883, and continuing one
hundred days. At the time of this
writing, over $4,000 have been
subscribed by the people Of Louis
vile and is now being paid in, and
new subscriptions are being re-
ceived daily.
That Louisville was in earnest
in undertaking the greatest expo
sition ever held in this country, ex-
cept the National Centennial Expo
sition of 1876, is evidenced by the
fact her own people have freely
supplied alll the means required,
and no outside assistance has been
solicited.
Whatever ample means, earnest
ness and activity can do to make a
great exposition will be done, and
all that the people WAC have thus
furnished the means ask Of the
national government, the states and
the people of our country is that
they will give moral aid and en-
couragement to the enterprise, that
they will bring to it's exhibits OF
their products, their manufactures,
their machinery and their arts, and
that they will come in person and
see the exhibition of the arts and
industries of the various sections
of our land.
The scale on which this exposi-
: ton will be conducted may be In
ferred from the fact that the main
: building, now in progress, is 900 by
600 feet, covering about thirteen
acres, with an appropriation Of
$4,000 for the cost of erection
with the necessary machinery and
interior establishment provided fol
at additional cost. A comparative
! estimate of the extent of this bull d
ing may be drawn from the state
ment that the great Internationa
Cotton Exposition at Atlanta il
1881 covered only eight acres. Thu
only change that can now be made
in the dimensions of the building
will be to extend wings from thu
south side so as to increase the
area for exhibitions.
Fourth street is the great retail
street of Louisville, and is the mos
popular promenade. At the south
ern end OF the customary prone
made, and in the midst of the mos
fashionable residence part of the
city, lies Central Park-a pleasure
, ground of eighteen acres, unequaleC
by any park in the world for the
size and magnificence of its fores
trees. Central Park lies between
3 Fourth and Sixth streets, and il
now directly reached by horse-cal
lines on those streets, and running
beyond the park. THE park will
constitute the northern Enclosure o
the exposition grounds, and thu
northern front of the main buildin s
will be on its southern line. Ar
Engagements are now progressing
for bringing every horse-car line il
the city directly to the expositi OF
entrances, and on the sou them linz
of the grounds the Louisville and
Nashville railroad will erect a rail
way station, at which passenger:
| from any part of the United States
may be landed within 200 or 300
feet of one of the exposition en-
frances.
! In the past few years Louisville
has become Ole of the most impor
| tant railroad centers in America
and its geographical position sc
favors the advantage of its railroad
connections that it is but one night
| in sleeper from almost every i'm
portant city in the United States.
A more central point geographical
ly or one more accessible by ca sy
travel could not be found, and the
fact that it stands on the border
line between the north and the
south and between the east and the
west makes it an appropriate place
for the several sections to gather
and exhibit to each other the par
ticular products of their industry.