The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19
THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION.
It's Success---The Number of
Visitors---CaIfornia' Exhibit.

LOUISVILLE, NY, Sept. l4.-Four
of the ten weeks of the Southern Ex-
position have come and gone, and so
have many thousands of well salts
fed visitors. There has been an I'M
usually large attendance of people
foreign to Louisville, and this city
herself patronizes her own produc-
lions most liberally-the twenty-five
cent days of course drawing the
greatest number of people. There
viii be one special day-the 18th of
this month-which will be Tobacco
Day" The growers of this particu-
lar tweed" from all over the South,
and especially Kentucky, will be
present. A grand street parade, ban
quet, and visit to the Exposition,
will be the principal features of the
representatives of this industry 1t
is expected that Tobacco Day will be
the biggest day at the Exposition
during this month. 1t is the policy
of the management to have every day
big day, and not to have many
special days.
The Southern Exposition build
ing is well protected against fire.
The City Fire Department keeps an
engine, horses, hose, carts and eight
men in the building all the time.
The men are all trained iremen, and
the force of water from the hydrant
is alone sufficient TO throw water to
almost any part of the building with
out the aid of an engine.
1t is beautiful sight at night to
see the great buildings and park
lighted up with hundreds of electric
| lights, each one in itself little sun.
Crowds continue to fill Music Hall
each afternoon and evening to hear
Damrosch's Orchestra, and there are
lovers of music who come nightly to
listen.
A short time since | promised to
give you some idea of California's
magnificent exhibit, so here goes, as
/ endeavor under all circumstances
to keep my promise
The largest exhibit in the EXPOSE
tion is that of the productions of
California, made by the Southern
Pacific Company. the great railroad
corporation of the Pacific slope.
The space occupied by this display
is somewhat over $4,000 square feet.
The collection is complete exhibi
tion in itself, and would be fully worth
the price charged for admission to
the Exposition, even were there
nothing else to be seen but when we
consider the thousands of other OBJ
jects of interest, one begins to form
an idea of the value and Importance
of the great Southern Exposition.
The agricultural products of Cali
fornia are arranged by counties, and
as these are as rule grouped accord
ing to their geographical position,
the visitor is easily enabled to form
a correct idea of the resources of all
sections of the Golden State. In
this portion of the display appears
almost everything that man requires
for food Or clothing. 1t seems that,
were there a wall around California,
the people. could easily produce
everything their wants might require,
and then have enough of all the i'm.
portant products to throw over the
wall to support large part of the
outside We all know the important
rank of California as a wheat pro
ducer, but few are prepared for the
luxurience and beauty of this staple
from that State. The grains are not
pinched as though they had been
taken by cramps owing to some in
furious ingredients in the soil from
which their sustenance had come,
but are big, fat, plump fellows, with
shining faces and filing out their
clothes till it would seem that there
is danger of their seams bursting
So it is with the oats, rye, barley and
all the rest. Another surprising
thing is the length of the straw-five
and six feet Think of that, straw
enough on the great wheat fields of
California to make paper for the en-
tire country
The fruits preserved in solution
are exceedingly beautiful, plums as
large as peaches, and apricots, ap-
pies, pears, peaches and grapes that
seem to have forgotten all about the
size of the human stomach that they
are expected to go into. Besides
this there are bewildering quantities
of dried fruits, beautiful as a pretty
girl and almost as sweet. The can
ned fruit which is shown to great
extent in glass is so tempting that it
is fortunate for mankind that Mother
Eve departed this life before this ex-
hibit was gathered; she never would
have been contented with an apple,
but her transgressors might have as
sumed malignant type, and not
stopped short of grand larceny.
But there is much beside grain
and fruits. Look at the wool, long
and tleecy, and then see the blankets
made from it. 1t is positive out
rage to mankind that the State where
such magnificent blankets are made
has such a delightful climate Be-
holding these beautiful fabrics one
wants to emigrate to Greenland's icy
mountains where the full luxury of
them can be enjoyed.
Then there is the mohair, beauti-
full tleeces of the Angora goats, long,
silky hair. This is an important in
dustry, and as these goats prefer the
highest ground they can find, and as
California has mountains $4,000 feet
high, there is good ground for sup
posing that the business will rise in
the world.
The display of timber is extreme
ly interesting and beautiful; one is
rendered almost speechless by the
size of the two sections, and then
finds his tongue in time to praise
the beauty of the polished specimen.
The mineral resources of the State
are shown by cabinet specimens, one
IA feet high, which represents the
; bulk of gold that California has pro-
duced. The other cube, just two feet
smaller in each direction, represents
the bulk of silver that State has sup
piled. There are besides hundreds
of interesting objects, to each OF
which a letter might be devoted.