The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-11
THE OHIO VALLEY EVENT.
MACHINERY AND FINE GOODS, MC-
SIC AND FIREWORKS, TIE GLASS
BALL AND TIE JERSEY
COWS, SAFE SHEEP i
DANGEROUS DOGS.
From our Serial Louisville Correspondent

DANGEtOOS DOGS-
From our serial Louisville CorrcSpoadcat)
Upon he street, not long since,
one Of our cousins from over the
stream indulged in the original re-
mark. when you're in Rome. you
must dew as Rome duz,' and to be
in city that eats and drinks En-
position. takes it with coffee for
breakfast, has Exposition baked
and broiled ION warm days under
the glass; has Exposition stewed
and fried (or the tired workmen
seem so,) and takes it on the half.
shell, which has the capacity Of
exactly fifteen acres, what can one
do but write Expositi IN and become
expository all through!
While waiting for the engraved
diagram Of the above rather mixed
conundrum, l wipe the dewy drops
OF summer moisture from my intel
lectual brow, and go on with my
story. SO long rs the workmen felt
that they had no rights save inside
the painted floor line of the space
they were to adorn, the quantity of
glass in the great whitewashed tenn
pie, made it a hot-house of some
magnitude. But the rush for space,
and the constant demands for in
formation that could only be given
in the building, have compelled the
removal Of the chiefs, and their lit
tie army ofyoung lady and gentle
men clerks, out to the grounds.
With President Bennett II. Young
and General Manager j. NJ. Wright
in constant attendance, it has been
found possible to open big windows
and create small tempest of NOV
ing air in the vast avenues and
courts.
So it was that I took a chair in q
space that no workman wanted just
then, and spent two hours in as cool
a place as l have found in Louis
vile.
The L. & n. Railroad runs by
the Sixth street side Of the park,
in which the Art Palace is located,
and the branch road into the
grounds is being occupied pretty
we'll by the trains Of exhibitors
bringing goods. Three hundred car
loads we're emptied at the great
doors last year, and l will not ven,
ture . conjecture as to the number
to arrive this year. No definite es
innate can be made from the books,
even in the rare moments that .
newspaper man can get the use of
them. AS to talking to the railway
men unloading cars, or to the work
men busy in erecting pavilions and
exhibition cottages and stands,
more costly than poor mans home,
that is a risk, because it is so easy
| to drop a ton Of steam pipe or spare
bit of lumber on the head Of the in
quisitive man who seems idle, in
! that his only tool is apencil. There
fore l stand off and use my eyes,
and find no difficulty in the conclu-
sion that finer and much better
arranged exhibit will greet the Wis.,
itor of 1884, although many a de.
lighted person said in 1888, They
never can beat this"
To begin with corrected faults.
The Warren Memorial Church have
taken possession of the big organ
that they bought last year, clearing
a needed space, and thereby pleas
ing the majority, to whom the music
of a big crgan is neither new nor
pleasing. 1t stood just in the pas
sage-way to the Park, the Art Gal.
lery, and the Fireworks Ground,
and so did the indoor music plat.
form. No one ever thought that
there were several wide ways for the
crowd to 60 around, and the crowd
never got the idea that it could get
around by any other way. There.
fore in the softest whispers of some
divine music, or amid the trills of
some great singer. came the dulcet
tones OF some fat African wench,
"What you scrongin me so 70, say
white man?"-nGet off my toes,
confound YOU" in choice Kentucky
-nprat you you've torn my dress,
from an irate rural lady, and the
helpless policeman's perpetual
moan, do pass along will you, pass
right along" where the only chance
to 90 on amid the crowd wedged
tight to hear the music, and the
double crowd going both ways at
once, was to walk on the sea OF
heads. The music stand, relieved
of the big organ, will be in the same
place, but the passage on either
side will be closed during the mus
ic. I hereby suggest to the man
agement that they had best be KEEP
closed, so that no wild person viii
have the excuse to say. Il got
through there this morning, and II
60 now or die regardless alike o.
music or police. Indeed, I grow
skeptical of fond fancies long cher
ished as to the power OF music.
once entirely believed in the classic
quotation:
Music hath power to soothe a savage
TO split a rock, or cook a cabbage?"
but l have known young man tt
discourse ofhis new pantaloons anc
his latest mash in utter oblivion
, of the fact that some might prefe
to aear Gilmore; and I have heart