The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1884-10-03
PREPARING FOR TEE EXPOSITION.

new OItCdiiS II Idi'itiS StttiHS
herself into shape to make a pre-
sentablc appearance to the vast
concourSe Of strangers, who are
soon to be gathered here from 9TH
cr cities and climes for the pur-
pose of visiting the great Worlds
Exposition.
In every portion of the city, on
all our leading thoroughfarcs, and
even on our less importantstreets
building, repairing, plastering,
painting and house decoration ~
being busiiy carried on. ILepeo-
pie Of our whole city are evident
" determined that she shall be
clothed in holiday attire for the
coming of the several hundred
thousand guests expected here next
winter and sprins4.4 With this OBJ
ject In view, our handsome bank
buildings, exchanges, prominent
stores, leading restaurants. and
principal residences, are being
freshencd up with the stucco work
Of the plaster, the brush of the
painter, and the elaborate frescoes
of our most delicate artists.
Even tic lower part of the city,
renowned for the conservative
tastes Of its people in clineing to
the gray and brown tlnts of its CO.
lonial architecture; has become inn
bucd with the decorative spirit SO
generally prevailing above Canal
street. Its elegant boarding and
lodging houses, its famous French
restaurants, its equally celebrated
mode and millinery stores, and its
massive antique mansions are be-
ing brushed up and painted in
these brighter tints SO becoming
to our more showy, though less
enduring, modern architecture.
The sentimentalist might prefer,
that the characteristic sombrc hucs
should remain for the sake of pre-
serving the picturesque in the solid
and quaint masonry of old New
Orleans. But we believe in light
ening up and brighteningup every
where that it can bo done; for our
city wants her guests to enjoy a
great holiday celebration, and it is
better for her to appear gay and
airy on this occasion, than to II
main clad i'll garb of those duller
hues which belong to an era long
past, and which, in the present,
might seem as lingering touch of
mourning for departed greatness.
A conspicuous feature of this
general work Of preparation Is the
| immense number of new houses
and apartments that are being cv-
crywherc made ready for boarders
and dodgers. Landlords and then
tenants are certainly approaching
| the fact, that we are going to have
an immense influx of strangers
soon, and are rapidly putting then
houses into proper shape to receive
them.
We venture to say that New Or.
leans has not been SO bustlingls
busy at this season Of the year fol
Il quarter of a century as it Is now
Everywhere one goes he hears thu
ring of the trowel, the rasp of th'
saw, and the resounding blows o.
| the hammer. Our mechanics
workingmen and day laborcrs al
ready feel the boom of the grea
Exposition in being furnished Will
steady and profitable employment
! BY the first of next Nove,nbc
our great Southern metropolis vii
seem almost like new city. Wis
itors of former years, returning
will scarcely recognize it, with it
new railroad lines, its beautiful.
improved suburban drives, IT
broad thoroughfares lighted up b.
electricity, and its building
frightened up in style in keerlnt
i with modern times.-Ihe Bulletin
! Gov. X. b. Hubbard will leav
Texas during the present month t
enter fbe canvass i'm Indiana, Obi