The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-01

ssTohacco Oay"-Expoeaeao0 Nosoes
LoUnvIrLx. KY.. Sept -. 1885.
Eiiyos Fseri5iea: The NH Of this month
was banner day for Louisville, inasmuch -
she then completed the annual sales OF tobacco.
which for the year juss passed footed mp 1oO.-
600 hogsheads thus making her the largest to-
bacco market in tho world. She emphasized
the fact with . professional pageant such as
never paraded through her beautiful streets be-
fore, and the gathering together Of = multitude
far and near the like which never before passed
her gates 1t was glorious day for Louisville
and the Exposition. Heavily loaded train afser
train poured its contents into the city until ev-
cry hotel and lodging house was full and many
a traveller, footsore and weary, walked the
streets until the breaking Of the day finding not
where to lay his head or his grip sack.
The procession was eight miles long and rep
resented every industry and trade in our won
derfully growing metropolis, the tobacco inter-
est of course being most prominent. The pre-
cious weed was illustrated in every grade, from
the growing plant to the dainty cigarette.
Walter Raleigh was represented in courtiy
scene presenting Queen Bess with "chew :"
leaf tobacco hung in tassels and trimmings rom
every available point and the green plant in
handsome vases graced the floats in the process
sion and decorated the balconies along the route
At the Exposition something like thirty thous-
and people were collected TO hear the addresses
and see the final hogshead Of the hundred thous-
and ia the hands of the auctiOneer. And mag
nificent hogshead it was, to be sure, packed IN
gold foil and its silken brown surface crossed
and recrossed with blue ribbons The whole
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while the tobacco warehouses and factories were
literally transformed. If anyone wants to see
tobacco in all its varied and attractive aspects
to hear it from morn until dewy eve, to feel,
taste, smell and literally swim In it as an ele-
mcnt, let him come TO Louisville and he will
never forget it.
The Southern Exposition keeps up to the
mark in attractveness; its attendance is large
and its special features deserve it. Its semi
weekly hall. prce-days turn out its largest and
also its most elegant crowds The managers OF
such an enterprise are prone TO stand in their
own light by placing admissions at uniformly
high rate.
There is such rich collection Of exhibits from
elsewhere that the lack of them from the South
makes a perceptble blank. There are spaces
| filled with splendid profusion, but they have
| come from across the seas or from the East or
| West-sedom from the South. Here and there
| one stumbles upon Southern display. Florida,
| for instance, has two exhibits dedicated to ALI
| gators teeth. shells and brica-brac of that de-
! scripiOn Russia and Mexico have the largest
| of the foreign displays. In the former depart
ment there is a collection of dainty articles quite
| Partisan in workmanship and seeming almost
| out OF place among the heavier and more dura-
bic wares Ofthe Musc0vi.e. In the Partisan display
| there is Marie AntOinetie's identical toilet table
| amidst q host OF exquisite and costly tIif1es-a
cut glass liqueur case small enough to be held
| in the two hands, yet heavy as though wrought
| the glasses cnk together as firm as steel and
for this only the modest sum of $50 is demand
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Perhaps no exhibit draws a more constant
throng than the display of Coats and Clarks
| thread, within a stones throw of each other.
| The latter has in operation an automatic spool
| ing machine which winds eight spoOls at a time,
lifting them up, fastening on the thread, winding
the 200 yards. cutting the notch, clipping the
thread and dropping the spools in the basket. all
within the space OF a minute. Its capacity is
5000 spools daily and so simple is it that only
one girl is required 10 manage it,
Damrosch and his orchestra have gone home,
taking with them the regretful wishes of the en-
| tire musical community. The orchestral music
| furnished by the Damrosch brothers has been an
| enlightenment 10 the musical taste of Louisville,
| so far as higher culture goes, but il was never
popular with the masses 1t was easy to dis
| criminatc in the audiences gathering in Music
| IlaIi on uIucTeht niShts aS ehe Chai aCtci VI nc
concerts were announced. On Symphony nights
| it was notceably much smaller but very select
| and wholly apprcciative SprDkled through
| were the specialized Professors and their devOtees
who yearn for the classcall Come on the nights
for operate selections and behold the difference.
The strains of Trovatore" and Lucia" of
Faust" and Norma can never grow thread
| bare or cease to charm the tuneful soul and ear,
| let the furore rage as il may. This week brings
| Cappa and the clash of brazen insti uments again
and this week consequently in great
| glee.
| There is a little more than a month yet to
keep open doors and after that by far the larger
number of exhibits will travel back to New Or
| leans. FALLATTA.