Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-13
LoUIsvILLEs Exposition.
improvements in the BuiIding-A Nam
moth Live Stock Exhibition = Other
Notes from the Kent aclxy Metropolis.
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1884 in the good city Of Louisville is 60
ing to play mere second fiddle to its
predecessor or to current affairs of the
kind elsewhere win be a little out in his
reckoning. Without quite so much
sounding brass and tinkling Of Gym balls
as heretofore the President and managers
and all the corps have been working in
dead earnest and there. is considerable
business hustle around the building. A
new roof, imperVious to rains, has re-
placed the leaky affair of last sum mer,
and several other alterations have
been made preparatory to the opening day,
which is now but little more than month
off. The large annex used for the car
riage and wagon display last year viii
now be devoted to grand horticultural
exhibition, and there is to be a mammoth
exhibit Of live stock such as has never
been gathered together in kentucky be-
fore. The appropriation by Congress for
the government display relieves US OF
large item Of expense; last year this de-
partment was very fine and complete, but
the entire expense was borne by the Expo
sitlon Company. The art gallery Is hav-
ing new concrete floor laid and an art
committee, with Carl Bremen, the cele-
DRAFTED artist among them, is now scat
tered through the East securing pictures.
The recent financial cOnvulsions
in Wall street will doubtless prevent the
loan of some Of the treasures in the col
lection last summer. Seney and Grant
and the other fallen greatnesses will
hardly be in a condition to contribute of
their store this year. The whirligig OF
time when it begins to gOr0und can settle
things up in very short order sometimes.
A new feature will be a department de-
voted to relics of the war, collected from
both the blue and gray ranks, several
prominent eX-sOldiers being now through
the South soliciting contributions. The
great Northwest is expected in full force,
and almost every exhibitor has arranged
to ship displays directly from this city at
the close of the exposition to New Or
leans. There is to be the same splendid
music, an electric system more stupen-
dOus than ever, and altogether there is no
fear that the Southern Exposition of 1884
will in any way shame its prOgenitOrs.
THE WORK OF PAVING THIRD AVENUE
with concrete and asphalt is receiving its
final touches, and when completed we
will have a boulevard of which the most
magnificent city might well be proud.
Some time since our municipal govern
ment issued bonds to the tune Of$1, SOC, 600
to be expended entirely in paving and re-
pairing streets. Third avenue, from the
river out to Broadway, is now laid with a
granite pavement so solid and compact it
seems fitted to resist the wear and tear Of
ages; there is constant and heavy travel
over this street, and these reverberating
stones thunder quite aWfully under even
light vehicles.
A few blocks beyond Broadway were
put down in the asphalt last fall as an
NHrwrT IL
finished. this fashionable drive was a
living delight-smo0th, noiseless, springy,
it seemed the climax Of beauty and COM
fort to pedestrians and drivers. But it
was thing of beauty which turned out
a Joy for only little while. When the
winter sleets came on Third avenue, in
that part, was sea OF glass. Small boys
preferred it to the skating rink, and
foot passengers slipped and sprawled
picturesquely over its icy surface. 1t
was very interesting and much better
than the circus for livehness. By and
by large holes and yawning chasms APP
peared and the repairing brigade was out
in full force, patching up. Nevertheless,
the decree went forth to put down Third
avenue in asphalt in one continuous path
out to the House of Refuge, and we have
in consequence the handsOmest drive and
promenade Louisville has ever known,
but, perhaps the problem Of durability
will come up for solution hereafter, and it
may be demonstrated to the taxpayers
that asphalt pavements hardly pay for
themselves in the end.
A social club of young Louisville
bachelors who are among the can't-get-
always propose to take comfort to them
selves for spending the heated term in the
city by giving a series of afternoon teas
to each other. These entertainments are
flNo a
clare, but as no ladies are invited the
gentlemen are perfectly safe in making
any report they please to the outer world.
The host on these occasions apologies for
whatever defects may be discovered in his
little spread, presses his guests to partake
with overlooking gush, turns the table
talk upon the trials and delinquencies of
servants and worry of housekeeping gen.
orally, discusses the news at the last sew
ing society, and rips up the domestic
affairs of neighbors and friends impair
TALLY, in all of which he is assured of re-
spOnsive chords of sympathy in the
bOsoms of his guests. Sometimes a de-
lectable bit of thrilling gossip comes up
which is distributed in low tones and dis
cussed with closed doors. Altogether,
these little gatherings are described as
''the most enjoyable affairs Of the season."
and as they are participated in by only
eclat that lifts them into an atmosphere
far above ordinary levels;
THE wOdAN's COLLEGE OF PHARMACY,
which is always proud to remind the
public that it is the only institution of its
kind in this country, held its commence
ment exercises a few evenings since in
great style, There were three graduates,
and there were essays, comforting of de-
grees, music, flowers and all that sort of
thing. Each OF the graduates has OBJ
tanned a position as pTacticing pharma-
cist, and sallies forth with her diploma to
conquer or be conquered. One young
lady, Miss Launtine Vetter, who read the
valedictory-"W Woman in Medicine''-was
made a Professor of Botany on the spot.
If that is not progression for the
down-trOdden, what is it? A Professor
of Botany is not to be shifted
at under any circumstances, but
when the Professor dawns upon the en-
raptured vision in a Jersey jacket and
curl papers, give him a front seat and
hats off Who wouldn't feel inspired to
join the botanical class and ponder upon
pistils and stamens and pollen dust and
all the rest? There has been beautiful
little hubbub in this same college recently,
all because Miss Bessie White, who is a
graduate of the School of Pharmacy of the
University of Michigan, was refused a
license to practice by the State. Board of
Pharmacy. Miss White is a woman,
which may be slightly superfluous to
state, and she isn't in the least ashamed
of it. This Of course was the animus
of the wooden-headed board in reality,
though they urged a strict reading Of
the law, that an applicant must be pu-
pill of some local school for three years,
and quantity of trash Of the same color,
and they politely could not and would not
and should not. The young lady shook
her diploma in their faces and they didn't
appear to see it. Then she went to law
and got her rights, and the State Board
came up to the mark and gave her Ii
cense. Miss White is not one of the meek
and skim-milk variety, who don't know
her rights from her wrongs; she is a sis
ter of the high-fying John ID. White, S@the
Jayhawk of the Mountains" and it was
the jayhawk blood that pulled
her triumphantly through her little diff
Guilty.
The various scattered charities of Louis
Vile have recently been organized under
one head known as 1.-THE Louisville
Charity Organization" This society is
for the protection Of persons benevolently
inclined from impostors and for the proper
of applicants for charity.
Every head of house in the city has been
furnished with a package of tickets, so
that mendicant who appeals to you on
the street or rings at your door bell with a