Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-13

In addition to the buildings constructed by l the management, there have been erected l upon the grounds:
 Mexican commission and headquarters building Mexican building for mineral exhibit. Two public comfort buildings.
 One bankers building.
 One furniture pavilion.
 One terra cotta exhibit building. Ten structures of various by individuals age gregating 10000 square feet and making tota feet. These are of course but a part of the sur face measurements of the great show. The idea expressed regarding the exhibitions being success is set forth in free and easy style by an honest spoken Scotchman in an Illinois paper which picked up by the way. He represented an oatmeal company and on his return said to the local reporter as fol lows:
 "Why, hang it lad, they talk abont 1t not being a success and how they are after gouging strangers in the city. Now that is very wrong. stopped in good quar- ters and lived just as cheap as could in Chi cago. As for those southern chaps, why they are the all-fredest polite and obliging fellows you ever saw. When you ask stranger on the streets where certain place is, he don't give you merely pointing of
  around, takes you in tow and guides you to the spot you're looking for. And when chap strikes 8 crowded street car with his lady, one of those southern fellows will jump up quick as wink and, with his hat in his hand, give your lady his seat and make you believe you are doing him favor by taking the seat. No siree, you cold Northerners don't come up to the
 SOUTHERN SCRATCH OF PoLITENEss And hang it, don't see what the papers up here are pitching into them for and claiming that the fair is fzzle. That's all wrong, and that is why was glad to see reporter. l want to correct the impression Rockford people have got about the big show"
 ''Does it come up to the Philadelphia cen tennial?' queried the scribe by way of procur- ing comparison.
 ''I don't say that it would get away with the centennial as a whole, for there is not that solid mass of machinery that they had at Philadelphia, but I do say that the Gov ernment building at New Orleans beats any thing that was exhibited at the national show of 1876 The buildings down theIe are not so finely finished as they were at Philadelphia. They are not so finely orna- mented, but all of them are very high and we'll lighted. There's another thing about them-they are built with economy Why, when they tear down those buildings the big timbers will be almost good as they were the hour they came from the sawmill. At the centennial the lumber was almost worth less when sold
 ''No, sir, Mir. Reporter, the southern show ain't a fzzle by long shot, but I can tell you where they made grave error, and that was in advertising the opening in December They were not half ready for visitors at that time. The weather had been terrible wet and exhibits had been slow in coming in. So you see when the show was opened the peo- pie were disappointed and those reports crept into the papers, and to make the thing worse some of the alarmed mean fellows that 1 belong with the newspaper gang grew spite ful and claimed that the New Orleans people l were trying to fleece visitors. That ain't | square, and swear they ought to mend those reports"