The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-04
THE EXPOSITION AGAIN.
What They Saw, 1ad Some
Things They Didn't See.
Eu.rOute Home


Things They Didn't See.
En.route Home.
Special correspondence of rhe NEw DOMINION.
New ORLEANS, March 23.-We
have been here now ten days, and
have spent six Of them in the Expo
sition. My only regret is that l
cannot spend as many weeks as l
have days. 1t is wonderful to see
the mass of creation, in quality and
varity of material, brought together
under the massive roofs of the two
buildings, to say nothing of the five
or six smaller ones. An itemized
statement might give the reader
some little idea of it's greatness, but
you would tire in reading it. 1t has
to be seen to be appreciated. On
entering the main building, if one
will just stop and think that all of
this immense structure, covering 33
acres of ground, and the other
buildings covering like amount,
was the handiwork of man, and was
all in the woods one year ago, and
now to see this all filled in every
part, up stairs and down, from every
part of the world, with everything
you ever thought Of, and tens of
thousands Of things you never
dreamed of, you stTll wonder more,
and then to see those massive en-
gines, giving power and putting in
motion 10000 other machines. is
still more wonderful
/ am only surprised that they
have it so near complete as they
have. Those persons that have been
writing about it not being in work
ing order have but little idea of the
amount OF labor it takes to put such
machine as this in motion. 1t
must have taken talent of superior
order TO have made so artistic an ar
rangement of such wild mass. At
this Exposition the advertiser has
a great field, and they are making
good use of it, But in this it don't
compare with its educational advan-
tages, and the student, the artist, the
mechanic, the farmer and the bust
ness man all can profit by coming
here and looking and rejecting. The
school children can learn more here
in one month about manufactures
and the products of our own coun-
try, and of foreign countries than
they could at school in years. 1t is
here the botanist, the geologist, the
florist and the agriculturalist can
have large field to work in. Even
our professors find themselves babies
when asked to explain some of the
specimens laid before them. One of
the immense things that caught my
eye was the California exhibit They
have. on exhibition two cubes, one
representing gold and the other sill
yer, looking exactly as if they were
the real stuff, and representing the
same size they would be If real.
They show the size and amount of
all the gold and silver that was ever
taken from the State since it was dis
covered up to January, 1885.
The cube of gold is IA $40 feet,
and its value is So, $50, 100000. The
silver cube is IL $40 feet, and
amounts to $4,000, 900. just i'm,
agine those immense piles of gold
and silver taken out of one State.
But they have failed to say what
it has cost to get this gold and. sill
yer out of the bowels of the earth.
The western States and Terrific
ries did nobly on displaying their
products, much better than the east
ern and older States did. / would
like for our representatives or the
men who control the money of West
Virginia, to come down and look at !
her exhibit, and if they don't feel
little and ashamed l am no judge.
We have four exhibits of coal, but
nothing like we could have made,
and little wool, some boards and
a few blocks of wood, and this is all.
l never tell any one where / am
from when l am about the Exposi-
ton.
We are about through with our
trip, and will start home on Wednes-
day, via. the river, and will be
two weeks on the way home. I
hope the weather will be good by the
time we get there. This is the cold
est day l have. felt since l have been
in the city. GEO. B. NORRIS.