The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-06-27
THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.

On the first Monday in December,
1884, begins at New Orleans the World S
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposi-
ton, a fair which promises to surpass
even the great Centennial exhibition at
| Philadelphia in 1876, and will thus be
the greatest of the worlds expositions
ever held We have just received from
J. L. Harris, commissioner of the exposi-
| ton for Montana, various matter relative
| to it, and in the belief that it will interest
readers will refer briefly to the plan
scope, core option and intention of this
great fair. At a convention of the Cot
top Planters association of America held
in 1882, it was resolved to hold a Worlds
Cotton Exposition in 1884, that year be-
ing the anniversary of the first export of
cotton from America-the small begin
ming of the traffic which has since as
sumed such mammoth proportions, has
built cities in the old world and states in
the new. The plan of mere cotton eX
position was shortly afterward extended
to include general industrial exhibit
worlds fair Congressional endorsement
was asked, and in the winter of 1883 con-
gress passed an act authorizing and in
augurating national and international
industrial exposition in accordance with
the Recommendation of the Cotton Plan
ters' association Afterward, in compli-
ance with the act, the president named
New Orleans as the place, and from the
first Monday in December, 1884, to the
31st of May, 1885, as the period,of hold
ing such exposition. The other details
were afterward arranged. The congress
of the United States has appropriated
81 100000 to aid the exposition, the state
of Louisiana 100000 and the city of
New Orleans liberal sum. Added to
this the city has dedicated to the uses of
the exposition as location its public
park, and in that the buildings are being
erected and the fair is to be held. This
situation is in the central portion of the
great city, and fronts upon the Mississippi
the great river whose tributary waters
flow by our own doors The fair grounds
are in the form of trapezoid or ir-
regular quadrangle with its longest sides
extending back from the river. The
measurements of the four sides in feet are
1854, 5693, 2423 and 1907, and the total
area is 249 acres. The main hall will be,
when completed, the largest building in
the world the other ediices on the
grounds will be in proportion,
and all will be models of
architectural beauty in that line. The.
president of the United States, beside APP
pointing commissioners in every state and
territory to assist IMP eparing the exhibit,
has issued invitations requesting the rep
resentatiop and participation of all for
eion nations, and such assurances have
been received as promise very general
acceptance, both in contributing to the
collection on exhibition and in sending
public representatives. The exposition is
essentially a southern idea and will in
highest and completest degree represent
the industrial resources of that section.
While every intelligent resident of the
south is taking the keenest interest in
making the great fair an unparalleled
success, the north, nevertheless, will vie
W.T. its southern kindred in making a
fine display, and every portion of the civ
ilized world will be extensively repre-
sented. There is an eminent interest CEN
tres around New Orleans as the location
of such an exhibition. 1t is the second
commercial city in the United States and
nearly the second in size; the Commercial
metropolis of fruitful empire, the en-
trepot for the West Indies, Central Amer
lea and Mexico, the gateway to the sea of
the vast basin of the Mississippi. New
Orleans is essentially a southern city, in
deed almost foreign. Not merely its pc
culiarly southern inhabitants, but its
French, its tsSpanish and above all, its Gre
ole population, gives it distinctive char
icter separate from any other great city Of