Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-12

arriving and coming into the building il
! original packages. The broad space
| allotted to Mexico is beginning to fill up
! With the exception of Honduras, with 8
! display of its natural products, Centra
! America does not make much of show
1 yet. South America appears thus far in
/ display of Brazilian cOffeeS. Great Bri
/ tain and her colonies are getting into
/ position, aAd France and Austria have
made beginning. The Japanese is the
most advanced of all the foreign sections
and has an attractive display of the some.
what familiar pOtteries, brOnZes, LACQUER
work, silks, embrOideries, fans, and Jim.
cracks characteristic of japanese art and
taste. The Chinese section is rapidly
taking shape, while those inevitable ba.
Zaars for the sale of ineXhaustible olive
wood trinkets from Jerusalem are in full
operation.
THE WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT
includes a great deal of needle work and
decorative painting, and scientific, edu-
cau0nal and art exhibits. The EXpOsi.
ton managers appropriated $4,000 for the
expense of collecting and arranging this
display. Mrs. Walker has brought large
collection from New York. 1t includes
specimens from the Art Students
League, Industrial Schools, litera.
ture, silk work, etc. A model of a
street-sWeeper invented by New York
woman, surgical instruments invent.
ed and made by another woman of
New York and various things of that
character exhibit the progress which
women are making in many industries.
Mrs. Smith, the Commissioner for New
Jersey, has her collection partly in order.
Specimens of her Indian work and the
dress worn by her when she was baptized
OF hnr nrIn !.
attract attention. There are some inter
esting samples of the linen plucked.
hacked. spun, woven and bleached by
the early Dutch settlers of New Jersey.
THE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT Is THE
STRIKING FEATURE
of the exposition. While the Southern
States undertake to show the varied re-
sources of their soil, there is generally
some one or two features that take the
attention. In Alabama it is coal, iron
and timber, which are brought cOnspicu-
Ously to the front; in Kentucky again it
is coal and timber, with iron in less pro-
portion, while pains are taken to show
by pictorial art the aspect of the
State and its industries. In Ten
nessee building stone and Variegated
marbles are the most conspicuous feature.
Mississippi is miscellaneous, like Arkan.
sas. anu shows great variety of natural
products, with fruits and wines in the
foreground and cotton asserting itself
prominently. Louisiana is rather State
OF specialties, in which cotton and sugar
are overwhelmingly prominent, put there
are salt and rice and gOOdly variety of
woods and semi-trOpical vegetation.
The big Lone Star State comes forward in
burly fashion.
1t illustrates its bigness on a chart and
in statistics painted on neat but spa
cIOuS pagOda, and it has portable house
tastefully constructed of native woods for
a headquarters. These same woods and
the taste that is displayed in their use
are shown in huge inlaid table. The
display Of the timber, building stone, and
vegetable products OF the State is prOfuse
and varied, evidently intended to attract
the attention of the intending immigrant.
Georgia and Florida are not wholly in
shape yet, but their exhibits are sutfi-
ciently advanced TO leave no doubt that
they will have displays that will compare
with those OF any State.
EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS ARE IBEING
MADE
to raise the funds necessary to meet the
existing Indebtedness. 1t is remarked
that the poorer classes have been more
liberal in their contributions than the
rich. AT the inception of the enterprise
the labOring and the middling classes con-
tributed very freely to the enterprise, but
when it came to the wealthy merchants
and capitalists, the money came not so
freely. The richest sugar planter, who has
the record Of $10000,000 on his bank
books, is on the subscription list for
$500, while the owner of a dozen cotton
plantations, whose wealth is said to be
loaded up i'll bank vaults in stacks of
millions, and who was made manager
and then the President of the board in an
ticipation of his great generosity, headed
the list of subscriptions with only $4,000.
Other scores of milliOnaires are not on
the lists tor any amounts at all, while
single Royal street sporting man has con-
tributed double as much as any of the
managers