The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-12-18
The Cotton Centennial and
Worlds Exposition.

sketch Of all the main buildings oil
this stupendous enterprise, together
with a diagram OF the ground plan.
Though we were present at the
opening ceremonies last Tuesday,
even an abbreviated report of all
we saw and heard would beggar
every column of TIE LEADER as well
as totally bankrupt our powers OF
description.
The opening ceremonies began at
IL o'clock and were conducted in
the Music Hall of the Main Build
ing. The Hall, capable of seating
IL, 900 people, was filed to overflow
ing and thousands turned away, not
able to secure even standing room.
The programme consisted Emusic by
the Cincinnati and Mexican Bands;
prayer by Rev. DR.. T. DE Witt Tai
mage; an address by Director-Gen-
eral Burke, in which he delivered
the buildings and Exposition into
the hands of President Richardson
and the Board of Directors, and an adj
dress by President Richardson to
President Arthur, delivering the
Exposi tion over to his hands. AS
President Arthur could not be
present in person, owing to official
duties in Washington, the address
of Col. Richardson had 10 be trans
mitted to him by wire. But now
came the most novel and wonderful
feature of the entire programme, and
one which in its conception and
execution dwarfs into nothingness
every other. One Of the Western
Union wires was cleared and one
end attached to the motive power Of
the great Corliss engine. The other
end was connected with the White
House at Washington and at a fixed
moment, everything being in readi
ness in New Orleans, the President,
surrounded by his Cabinet, mem
bers of Congress, judges and gov
eminent officials and foreign repre-
sentatives, pressed button in the
Executive Mansion, and stimuli
taneously set the vast machinery OF
the Exposition in motion. Instant
ly there was a booming of can
non, and the greatest Industrial Ex-
position the world has ever known
was living, breathing, moving re-
atty
Much disappointment was felt at
the failure of President Arthur to be
present in person but the programme
adopted was far more wonderful and
unique than if he had been, and
furnished opportunity for display
of that marvellous advancement OF
Science which was at once in keep
ing with the character of the gigan-
tic enterprise and the progressive
spirit is intended to show forth.
The Exposition may be correctly
styled
THE WORLD IN MINIATURE,
representing almost every variety
of art and industry known to man,
the various products of the soil of
the Western hemisphere, specimens
of agriculture, horticulture, miner
alogy, geology, ornithology, zoology,
and all the other ologies known to
science. Not only the States of the
American Union and sister repub-
lies, but all the four quarters of the
globe have contributed TO this dis
play of the worlds wonders and the
products of genius and skill, and
here, too, is solved the mysteries
surrounding the conversion of crude
products of the animal and vegeta-
BILE creation into the beguiling
shapes in which they are pressed
upon the market. The whole forms
grand college of instruction, in
which the student learns more in o
day than he could CLEAN in months,
or even years, by pouring over mus
ty books and listening to lectures
without the accompanying illustra-
tions. Those persons, however, who
expect to visit the Exposition but
once should wait six weeks or two
months, as it is now far from COM
plete.
The Brandon Republican is shot