The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-01-02
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The worlds Exposition.
he Editor of The IFgis and intelligence e.

b0rMe Edttor OF The <EgiS and IntelHqenc@:
DEAR, s1R:-I am as you will see by the heading
of this down at New Orleans came down her.
a week ago in the interest of the Carroll Decora.
tive Plate Glass Company We are going to max,
a fine display of our Marbleized Glass, by erect
side with he goods. We arrived in New Orleans
on the evening of the 18th inst.
After spending the night at hotel we started
early in the morning for the Exposition grounds.
They are on the banks of the Mississippi, and il
the Northwest section of the city. They arr
the boats on the river. On reaching the grounds
the vastncss of the grounds is striking They art
not yet complete. but are daily being improved.
Building, the Horticultural, the Art and the Gov
eminent and State buildings are situated at quite
a distance from each other. All are complete ex
cept the Art Gallery, Which will be finished short
ly, The Main Building is huge, covering thirty
three acres of ground. In this building is the
seating capacity for 10000. II is to be lighted by
the Edison system of electricity, the balance OF
the building by the Brush system.
Machinery of every description ia located IN
one section of the Main building agricultural
products in another and the exhibits Of privat,
individuals in the balance. Among the Baltimore
exhibitors, are j. REGISTER d Sons. bell and brass
works, Shipper Co... variety iron works. and
handsome pavilion and make good show. Reg
ester Il sons have the finest exhibit Of brass work
here. Their bells are also the best. Their two
largest ones, weighing respectively twenty-ont
| and thirteen hundred pounds. have been engage
sby the managers to announce the opening and
&tlOS1nR OF the EXPOSITION eacn day. There Is
treat demand for space, there being over av'
undred applications after all the available space
a. Ia been granted.
fzshe Exposition, as your readers all know, was
finally opened ON the sixteenth. in the presence
sA bout fifty thousand persons. The exercises
Be conducted in Music Hall amid much demon
s AEtions. the most noticeable being when Major
II sAE eral E. A. Burke, Director General, stood up
make the presentation speech. in which he
sented the buildings and grounds to the Presi
70 of the association He was received with
aind after round OF applause from all sides. The
Nsident Of the United States at Washington.
y POUNDED by his cabinet touched the telegraph
II Instrument, giving the signal for the machine
20 start, and simultaneously with this the large
at the Great Worlds Industrial and Cotton
ntennial Exposition was open. 1t was ruug by
=. Robert A. REGISTER, of Regester & Sons, as.
S.sted by Miss Eloise Huff, daughter of our hos
aess your correspondent having the pleasure to
Assist in giving the signal to Mr.. REGISTER The
(which has been engaged at cost of nine thous.
4 and dollars per month. They give concerts every
afternoon. The Mexican band is also here and
Adiscourses the best of music. .s
The Government State Building is the next
largest in the grounds, and the States are makidR
tending from end to end Of the hall and has erect
ed neat, pretty post Office from which mail will
be delivered twice daily to the different exhibit
The Greedy Relief Expedition exhibit is attract
ing much attention.
MARYLAND has made very credtable display.
due greatly, to the energies of Col ]. Thomas
Scarf. who has been here and has given 1t his
personal attention. The Baltimore & Ohio II. X. .
has handsome display In the Maryland Depart
ment. 1t has been arranged under the supervi
sion OF Major Pangborn. About the finest State
display, as well as novel; is that of Nebrask a .
Nearly all their decorations are made with corn.
and one has no idea that such pretty things could
be made out of corn until they 81 g this display.
Their motto is Corn is King" They also have
map of the United States showing each State and
territory, formed by different colored Seeds also
the Globe showing the division of land and water.
made In the same way. A fine splay is made by
the Cincinnati, Milwaukee & st. Paul II. X. They
have pavilion covered with grains unthreshed
and a train Of cars made entirely of wheat and
oats II consists of the engine, lender. baggage
and passenger cars.
The biggest thing is a model of an elephant
found about one hundred years ago in the Arctic
regions. 1t is from the museum of Prof. Ward,
of Rochester, N. and Is over 40 feet In length.
The exhibitors have formed an association for
the promotion of the exhibito There are about
four thousand exhibitors and to give an idea of
the vastness of the Exposition, they represent
about forty million dollars worth of exh ibits. Ac-
commodatolls can be found here from thirty dol
lars per month in a private family up to seven
and a-half dollars per day at the St. Charles
Hotel. W. H. RIDDLE.