Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-09

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NOTE BOOK.
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The thermometer stood at 12o Friday
night and people shivered along the streets.
but it did not prevent an audience of
highly entertained persons listening to
Major Hotchkiss at the Y. M. q. A.
rooms, describe what he saw at New Or
leans in his weeks stay there. The Major
stood at blackboard, chalk in hand, and
made things much clearer by rapid
sketches of the lay of the land, the loca-
tion of the buildings, and so forth.
At New Orleans. he said, things were
now to be seen that it had not been pos
sible to witness from the creation of the
world up to this time. The Great EXPOSE
ton Building, for instance, which alone
covered an area
LARGER THAN THE FAIR GROUNDS
of the Augusta Fair, was the largest
building ever erected by Man. and in it
could be gathered the largest audience
ever assembled under one roof in the his
tory of the world. Every foot OF its forty
acres of ground was taken up by exhibit
ors, six weeks ago, and yet there are still
hundreds more clamoring for space.
The great street in New Orleans is
Canal street, and an admirable street it is.
1t is very wide. and has two rows of trees
planted in the middle. on each side of
which is wide street. But st. Charles
Avenue is the route by which visitors 60
to the Exposition. Its terminus is at the
entrance to the grounds Entering, the
visitor first sees large building devoted
to the U. S. Government and the States.
In this no foreigner can exhibit, and
nothing there is for sale. Then you come
to the Great Building where all nations are
represented and where they show what
they have to sell. 1t contains music
hall which will seat $4,000 people, and on
opening day there were 600 persons on its
platform. On that platform you could see
the men of all nations as they dress at
home, and one of the most attractive in
appearance was the Mexican gentleman.
DRESSED IN BRIGHT RED FROM HEAD
TO FOOT,
with pants striped with gold braid, coat
slashed with gold and the national SOM
brero. In that music hall was also the
band of the 9Th Mexican Cavalry of 20
pieces, the great national band of Mexico,
with their piper who at intervals
would stand in front of the band and with
his instrument initiate perfectly the note
of every bird found in Mexico. Opposite
that band was the famous American band
the difference with which the two received
the tribute paid to their music. The
American band at the storm of applause
that went up would assume the self-sats-
fed smile, which an American knows SO
we'll, while the Mexican band would not
change an expression Or muscle OF their
faces though the whole rs 900 people would
rice up and cheer them.
The centre of the great building is given
to foreign merchants, and there you see
merchants from every quarter of the globe,
Europe, Asia and Africa, with wares on
exhibition and for sale. The bazaar OF
Damascus is fine, the Turk with his red
fez and pipe, the Russian merchant, the
japanese, Chinese-all. And the imple
ments of industry of all nations too
There is the old
D1sTAFF OF INDIA, WEAVING BANDS
OF COTTON
which you can take away; the silk loom
from France which will weave you q
handkerchief in the national colors. There
you will find advertising of every device
A statue represents patent medicine.
famous soap maker gives every body 6
cake of it and a chrome cardiff would be
a wonderful collection if man could gel
a collection of all the advertising card:
and pictures at this Exposition. The
Surveyor General of Kentucky has hire(
a man to go around and get sample O.
each advertising card given away on the
ground, which he will file in the Kentuck.
house. At this Great building there IS ;
chime of bells on which, as the hours rol
On, noted musician plays. Here also is
the great Coriiss engine which drives all
the machinery of the Exposition.
Further on the visitor sees Fan octagol
building of iron which is the Mexican
building and for which that government
paid half million OF dollars. Its con
tents are wonderful. There is
5000 POUNDS OF SILVER
there which taxed all the resources OF tina
government to get from the mines to thu
railroad. Many of the articles there wer
brought eco miles on muleback. In thi
building are precious stones in profusiol
-sapphires, emerald, amsthysts. ant
around the building is Mexican gardel
filed with plants from that country.
Again, further on you see an Art BALD
ing made OF iron. It is not yet filled, bu
there are enough pictures in the custom
house at New Orleans, from abroad, to fl
it. They are waiting to be put In place
| There is a great deal of labor wanted t
put things in their places as you ma
know when you hear that the
PAY ROLL OF THE EXHIBITION IS
$4,000 WEEK.
With our preconception of the climat
OF New Orleans we experience littl
astonishment there. W hen it is cold Their
Notwithstanding our opinion that
| ought not to be, it sometimes is--the col
| is very piercing. One morning was there
the thermometer marked 81 7-10-jus
three degrees below the freezing point
SKIM OF ICE FORMED
at the Exposition grounds. Down Their