The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-15
"THE SUNNY SOUTH
Its Battlefields and the Worlds Fair,
as Shown by Rev. j. Ii. Wrighfs
StereOptic0n Entertain
ment List Night:

AS large an audience as ever assembled
in Harper's theatre witnessed Rev. j. FL.
Wright's stereopticon entertainment on
the Sunny South" last evening. The
Illuminated lecture was given under the
auspices of Buford Post, G. A. R., and
so great was the general desire to see the
novelty, that the selling of tickets had to
be stopped and nearly 800 people were
turned away.
The stereopticon views were thrown
upon canvas by means of oxyhydrogen
light, Mr. Wright describing them fully as
they appeared. First came series ofil-
lustrations "befo' the wah, showing Eva
and Topsy. Uncle Tom, Eva's farewell
and death of Uncle Tom. Then the
scenes during the war were given, shows
ing the following series; Fort Sumpter-
daylight, moonlight and on fire; leaving
Washington, at the front; battle of Fit.
Donelson; Pittsburg landing; searching
for the dead and wounded; on picket; in
the hospital; Monitor and Merrimac;
Kearsarge and the Alabama; siege OF
Vlcksburg; how our boys fought at
Gettysburg; Chickamauga and Lookout
Mountain; Sherman's march to the sea;
The Star Spangled Banner" General U.
S Grant; dirge by the orchestra, during
which was shown Lincoln and Garfield s
Greenwood, N Y; Mt. Vernon, Rock
Island, and of Seward, Thomas and Nc
Pherson.
For the second part of the entertain
ment, which was an illustration of what
the lecturer saw through his camera, the
following were among the illustrations
shown: At st. Louis; Cairo transfer; Mi
Ian, Tenn. governors residence; Jack
son, Miss, Gen. Joseph f. Johnson's for,
tifications, one half mile west of the city
our breakdown, V. & NJ R. r., Vlcks-
burg; hotel; Grants ecu: off canal" (pres>
ent channel of the Mississippi; Castle
Hill; Washington street; Jackson road
caves where they got away from the U.
5. shells; Devils Backbone and whist.
ling Dick" U. S. national cemetery, its
Gateway. drives and 16, 900 graves; Grant
Pemberton treaty monument.
In commencing the third part of the
programme, glimpses of the sights about
New Orleans were given. and then came
the exposition scenes, the buildings anG
grounds from various points In the gov
eminent and state building. state exhib-
its; navy display; the Greeley exhibit
cotton is king" launching the life boat
liberty bell Main building, Mexican anC
Chinese displays; the music hall; machin
cry department, ETC., etc. Mexican oc
tagOnal building, horticultural hall,
fruit; flowers; fountains and cacti il
abundance. The art gallery. disconso,
late Cupid (statuary); smOng the pictures
Mr.. Wright reproduced upon his canvas
in closing, the finest paintings in the col
lection-"The Minute Men of '76, priv
ing the Last Spike" and others-some'
thing heretofore uninterrupted.
The members of the post as well q.
Mr.. Wright are deeply grateful for the
handsome appreciation of the entertain,
ment lattested. The public could hav,
shown no better manifestation of interes
in the Grand Army boys" or coulC
money have been spent to better purpose
aside from the fact that those who wen
were well repaid 1t was a $500 house
of which about $500 will be cleared