The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-09-12
Southern Exposition.
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.

LOUISVILLE, sept, D, 1880.
The Art Department of the Southern
Exposition contains, this year 419 paint
ings, of which fifty are in water color
and the remainder In oil. Ofthe latter,
one hundred and fifty are from the
American Art Associations Prize Fund
Exhibition, held in New York last
April, when the painters of the four
pictures considered the most worthy by
committee of connoisseurs were
awarded prizes of S2,5O0 each The
prize fluid of $4,000 required for this
purpose, was subscribed by Wm. H.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry
q. Marquand, Charles A. Dana, Editor
of the New York Sun, w. T. Walters,
the Baltimore millionaire. Quincy A.
Shaw, of Boston, L. z. Letter of Chit cago,
and other gentlemen whose art appreci-
alton and patronage are well known.
The Prize Fund Exhibition was char
acterized as the finest exhibition of
American paintings ever held, and not
only has it been brought to Louisville
in its entirety (including the four S2,5C0
prize plctures). but there have been
added to the collection over 25O pictures
in addition, carefully selected from the
studios of the artists by Mr.. Charles NJ.
Kurtz, Editor of the National Academy
Notes and Director of the Exposition
Art Department. These added pictures
are quite equal in merit to the Prize
Fund Pictures.
Among the principal paintings in the
exhibition are Twilight large picture
of the open sea with full moon just
risen, a superb work by Alexander Har-
rison, valued at $4,000, and one of the
prize pictures: The Last Sacrament
by Henry Mosler, another prize picture,
valued at $4,000; Custer Last Charge
by John Elder, valued at $1,000; The
Flaw in the Title by I. II. Caliga,
pathetic picture of great interest; "A
Rough Day-Harbor of Honheur, by f.
NJ. Boggs, another prize picture; 'Rent
Day. a magnificent genre, by Alfred
Kappes; Laying Away a Brave
quaint representation of anIndian burial,
by George DeForest Brush, in which
the figures are painted nearly life-size;
and Near the Coast by r. Swain
Clifford, the fourth of the prize pictures.
There are, among others, landscapes
by Inness, Wyant, Bristol, Moran,
Casilear, Tryon, Dewey, Parton, Murphy,
Bliss, Baker, Hasprouck, Shurtleff and
Minor; Marine pictures by DeHass,
REIN, Harry Chase, Bricher, Norton,
w. 7. Richards and Silva; Animal
pictures by Dolph, Inness, Jr., Tracy,
Sword, Howe, James Hart and Charles
Sprague Pearce, and Figure subjects by
j. &. Brown, S. j. Guy. Gilbert, Gaul,
Penfold, Blashfield, Wilmarth, Kappes,
Bridgman, Weir, Witr, Fredericks and
Percy, and Leon Moran. 'Guinevere,'
by Fredericks, is one of the favorite
pictures with visitors. 1t represents the
character from Tennyson's poem, and
is a superb work.
The exhibit of the productions of Cal
ifornia made by the Southern Pacific
Company occupies over $1,000 square
leet of space in the northest section of
the Exposition building, thus filling the
largest space of any display. The rail-
road company have gone out of their
way TO gather and present an exhibit
that is a complete exposition in itself.
l. would seem that every corner of the
great State Of California has been ran
sacked by earnest and active workers in
order to gather these things which will
most interest people east of the Rocky
Mountains. From the magnitude of the
exhibit and the multitude OF products it
is easy to understand the pride which
Californians have in their State.
1t is impossible in a brief letter to
convey an adequate idea of this display,
which is viewed by thousands Of eager
visitors. One thing that pleases all, is
that number of intelligent and gentle-
manly attendants are on hand day and
night, always ready TO give full inform
alton in regard TO the thousands of in
teresting samples. The manager Of the
display, Mr.. Charles b. Turrill, has pro-
vlded a complete kindergarten on a
grand scale. 1t is something more than
an exhibit-it is a complete system of
general education, where the student
may see not only the crude product and |
the completed article made from il, but |
can also follow by lines of samples the
entire progress of manufacture, or man !
ipulation. Thus we are shown samples 1
of the magnifcence fir trees of the Sierra !
Madre Mountains, and with them .
samples showing the processes of max
ing paper from that wood as well as
printed thereon. Ano her
tired, the Tucca Draconis, is shown in
the same manner The great feature of
the timber section of the exhibit is a
of one of the mammoth
trees of California. This slice, Is feet
in diameter, stands on edge, and can be
seen from the fallen trunk of the first
tree of the species discovered, at height
Of ninety-siX feet from the base. Besides
this, there are sections Of the Sugar
Pine AMI Yellow Pine Of the Sierra
Nsysdsg These sections aro nearly