The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-05-23
New Orleans Letter.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CoRREsPoNDENT
New ORLEANS, May 12, 1885.

NEW ORLEANS, May IL, 1885.
The great Exposition is drawing to
close, and exhibitors, with all others
who have been connected closely with it
for months, will be glad when the cur
tain is rung down. AS a financial fail
ure, both to the association and exhibit
tors, this enterprise must be awarded
the grand medal over all its predecessors.
although its importance and grandeur
have deserved better fate. But. while
government and exhibitors, and many
others, will have derived no immediate
returns from it, the former will have
been strengthened in the affections of
all good citizens, both by reason of its
splendid exhibits and of its generous
liberality in supporting the fair, coming
to its relief, especially, when, but for the
second appropriation, there would have
been fatal collapse and failure altogeth-
er; the latter, or exhibitors, will have so
advertised their products as to reason
ably expect future returns. and the
whole country will be benefited by the
impetus given to southern development
and industries.
Several causes have led to the financial
failure alluded to. In the first place the
location is remote from the populous
centers of the country, which together
with the severity of the past winter in
the north, and the general business stag
nation, kept many people at home, eith-
er because unable to assume the expense,
or 10th to risk the discomforts necessar-
lily attending a distant journey. Then
the Exposition was opened before it was
nearly complete, and thousands coming,
were compelled to go home without hav-
ing seen the show. This eSasperated
them, and their unfavorable reports de-
tered other thousands from making the
visit, and as matter of fact it was not
until some time in February that the
fair was considered finished, the Art
Gallery being then only thrown open to
the public. But perhaps the one single
thing that operated most disastrously
against the Exposition, was the utter
lack of rapid and comfortable transpor-
tation to and from the grounds. Peo-
pie were jammed and crowded into one
mule street cars, thousands daily being
compelled to stand up during a slow trip
of five or six miles, the roadways being
often blockaded for hours by mired wag-
ons, or CARTS while it often happened
that thousands were delayed for hours
before they could get into the cars at all.
This one fact and the others mentioned
doubtless kept as many as'half million
people from making visit to the exhibit
ton, which in itself was worthy of all
the good things said of it. We were
promised steam car transportation at an
early day; the city council promptly
granted the right-of-way, the city papers
announced, with great flourish, that
a steam line would be ready, but for some
inscrutable reason it has never been
built, probably owing to street-car line
corporation influence, with which the
people of this city are cursed. There Is
some talk of reopening the fair next au-
tumn, but unless transportation to and
from the grounds, better than abomina-
BILE one-mule cars, be provided, a worse
failure would follow, as people will not
suffer themselves to be imposed upon a
second time.
There are none that surpass, and but
few that equal Oregon's exhibit as rep
resenting the developed interest of that
State, and careful study of the quality
of each branch of the exhibit with
careful comparison leads a person to
think that there is some truth in the
theory that the ancient Garden of Eden
was located in what is now the Pacific
Ocean, and near the shores of the land
where trolls the Oregon" Surely ina
lures choicest blessing the soil has en-
dowed" or the magnificent display now
on exhibition could not have been pro-
duced, The wheat is remarkable
Some OF it stands 7 feet high. f. W.
Hon tta comniccioOar ;vf,N-r,ad ~,
that one sample of this grain averaged
~ bushels 60 the acre. Oats, rye and
barley, are equally luXuriant, and are
produced without the assistance of irri-
CATION. "We have climate unequalled
upon the globe for the production of
cereals; steady rains at Intervals about
the period that the grain is swelling,
fills out the heads and produces large
plump berries similar TO those you see
before you, and raises our average stat
isties to figures that are astonishing and
cannot be equalled anywhere upon the
globe" remarked Mr.. Allen. Even al
this late day the fruit exhibit is good,
which Is proof that the Oregon fTnit is a
good keeper. The present display COM
prises fine pears, apples, prunes, piums,
cherries, Strawberries, goosoberries, cur
Idlls, etc.s Oh very lliie appearance ana
which have taken medals and premiums
over all in which they have come in con-
test with. 1t must be admitted beyond
a shadow Of doubt that Oregon has the
largest and best potatoes. The differ
ent grades Of wool, ,as G. wn in the State.
1.-The clip of which last year was 10000
600 pounds, displayed In an attractive
manner, and blankets manufactured
from the'same wool. and which are SUI
perior to any are here TO be found. The
timber Of the State is represented by
some nice polished specimens of wood
used in the manufacturing of furniture,
and the numbering interests by some very
fine sections 0f spruce, cedar, hemlock
and yellow fir, five sections Of the latter
representing 200 feet in height before a
branch was reached. Mining Is repre-
sented by coal, copper, iron, silver cine
bar and gold, and is well worthy the at
tentiOn OF capital and mining men. Ed
ueational advancement Is shown by a
very crcditable exhibit of school work
and pictures of school buildings, and the
scenery by several drst-elass oil paintings