The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-12-19
mo. 6.
four Exposition Correspondence.l
NEW ORLEANS, November so. 1885

New ORLEANS, November So 1854
The Republic of Guatemala, the
largest of the Central American States
with regular aud frequent steamship
communications with our own couf1-
'try-las doubled for this Exposition
the list of articles which attracted SO
much we'll deserved attention at the
last. l examined this new exhibit
carefully few days ago, and present
a summary.
For American furniture manufac-
turcrs, dyers, and cabinet makers,
there are 24l samples of vanish woods,
that il, already sawed and vanished
and 273 samples not vanished. Most
of their names are Spanish or Indian
but among them are some in English,
viz: guava, laurel, lignum vita, walnut,
willow, evergreen oak, orange, spruce,
mahogany, oak, mulberry, ebony, APP
pies, tamarind, copal, cedar, cinnamon,
medlar, black, oak, cocoa, plum, red
mulberry, cherry, olive, cork, almond,
white walnut, capsicum, white ebony,
pomegranate, logwood, lemon, chinco-
ma, peach, chestnut, black thorn, april
cot, ca'abaslb ounce, cypress, lance,
vegetable wax, blood red, myrtle.
There are 300 samples, besides, of
round trees, not sawed, with bark on.
The printed catalogue Of these not yet
received.
There are abundant and choice sam
pies OF the cocoa bean, coffee, Indian
corn. wheat and -four. barley, rice and
rice -four, beans, peas, spices, sugars,
moiasses. cotton, wool, tobacco in leaf
and cigars, etc. Coffee is the leading
production. Sugar comes next. One
of the samples of cotton is "wild !"
another is 'yellow," the thread Of
which makes ''butternut' garments,
without the use of dyes. The mann
facturels' hand work is represented by
fine shoes and boots for men and wo-
men, table ware, harness, saddlery,
carriage ware, -four, sugar, chocolate,
indigo, wax, etc.
The native Indians exhibit is ex-
ceedingly interesting. 1t includes pot
terry, mattings, white and black wool
hats covered with india rubber; fine
and coarse shoes and saddles; hats of
white grass; thread and goods made
from the brown cotton hemp bags,
woven; excellent cotton dress goods,
made on the old fashioned looms by
women, and dyed scarlet, white, red,
yellow, green, IN mixed designs; fine
hammocks, of white and black twines;
Indians costumes, Of cotton and wool;
and, most attractive of all, gourds,
with varied designs carved outside, in
different cOlors, and very neat and
pretty.
There is small collection of stuffed
and preserved animals and birds as
tiger cats, squirrels, the iguana, the
armadillo, the beautiful quetzal or lib
erty bird, with its long tail and bril-
liant collors; also the tanned hide of
the manitee or sea COW. The collec-
ton of Indian antiquities, some Of
them dating back before the Spanish
conquest, will attract universal atten-
ton. The electric railway, transport
ing visitors from one end of the
grounds to the other, close to the vari.
Gus halls, is successfully under way.
Director General Glenn resigned on
the 2lst and is succeeded by Capt.
Samuel II. Buck. He succeeded Major
Burke as director general Of the first
exposition was elected to the same
position on tie present one; resigned
to organize the post Office, to which
President Cleveland appointed him
some months ago; aud that being
done, returns to q position for which
his experience and ability eminently
fit him.
On the Exposition boulevard, near
the Prytania street entrance, visitors
will find in the Elite restaurant first
class institution, with good cooking,
polite attendance, and moderate prices.
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