The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-05-14

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Etssor. Fosdia. BY ihost a yoos ndner
COS readers throughout the Sage .~hs hss* vH
tied this Great Exposition Of she cccHeyated
products, resources indastTies strss s1d s<ssDees
of the world the attempt OF e correspondent,
in the brief space Of single k2aen to describe
or tell in detail Of what It s,Msasas rceid be
laughed 10 so,rn and set down.sss prsStnpt1
Gus scribbler. while those wtss Rave Dses yet
taken IL in would in all proxtSisity. nj mat
ter how graphic and aitr.esiss ase aabihoos
scribe NAV imagine be has msde Ms description.
would say well. II this or that - All TO I'd seen.
I do NOT think it worth the gin aud e1peodi-
ture" y
Correct. both Of these, for r.; correspondent
master ,hough be be OF the Isaetsh lAeEaage
and gised with descriptive ,.sN'ess skse 10
genius. can paint q pen portiNsitsre expansive
enough, grand and glorious ensussit, TO give an
adequate CONCEPTION Of the vastacss, the crcel-
lence and the grandeur Of this srtas diTetssaed
collection Of even the producing fsdustries and
resources Of the Uaited S,a,ess kaoae. ID say
nothing OF foreign exhibits Tse ere must be-
hold to aid the mental vision &c gasp x aSays
must be spent in il to enable o.. 70: fully com
prehend and understand IL tewho +ould
knov what it is must come aDtSsSs sor hitzTself
II is such . great panorama n the tszt and
mos, advanced though, and achsya raents af The
age, such 9 miniature world ot object lessons
tha, il canno, be described l, { usa De s:u, ised
THE FLORIDA Kxmtn
And this may be said, in . moEhed and Esser
sense, Of course, of the Florida A.ahsbii. which.
thanks To the interchangeable enes ~ and reslsess
zeal of Commissioner Sebring. phss all xleng
b-en KEEP, prominently before se public, and
kept rank in point Of special int I'll and sit:ac
liveness with many OF the old; :, more pFe.er.
iious and much wealthier Siaiessa3ozne Of whom
have spent as much as thirty osAyiy ,hoas4nd
dollars in gathering together al |; pAcinE is4eir
exhibits. / know this is saying roach ard is
likely TO subject your corresiSsndent To the
charge Of being exaggerator * IN enthusiast
al the hands of few carping criHe. tarougl>ut
the State WHO did nothing to AZ the Coma,is-
soner in his efforts 10 make rep: sssostative Ind
creditable exhibit, nor now show spteresi enough
10 come and see for themselves v2.al kind q, An
exhibit he has finally gathered.
OF course none Of these chsSnic kickets
ignorant of the great difHcultia 4D4ier which
the Commissioner la5ored. The ;seetning utter
Indifference inactivity and apathy 81 many of
the people Of the State, the fail,;re CT inablity
of the State to give a dollar u1@si the exhibit
was nearly or fully made up, etc., arei-dif6tnl-
ties and endorsements almos: isxa rinountable
and too numerous 10 here mentor; :
Yet in the face of all this he ha,:sb&ceetled in
collecting what has been styled b5' al impartial
press and public, and by all who Akre taken .he
interest to visit and nspec, it, "a chrrAc,erittic
and very creditable display Of thefpecducts and
natural resources of the State; AZ s;rhibit that
has interested and called the aite.si,a of thtAl-
sands Of strangers from all parts OF II lie world
Such are the facts. such is the truth.
I,was universally conceded that # ssridas CT
rus display the gran lest, the faasst the ln.s,
attractive ever made in the history o.. She world,
while her general and collective dhpaas is fatty
represen tatve, cred,abe and wortliTy 1t has Sc
ceived as much attention, been mJrtx Generosity
and favorably commented upon, ahds5f have 90
hestancy in saying, been as much hensit to the
State in encouraging immigration AMI in every
other possible way as any other single State rep
resented in this the grandest indus,fssi and sochl
enterprise of the age
But Of course there are always fantt-fnders,
and here permit the writer, briefly, - answer
the silly complaints of a few disgrun,.et
IcoSoCLAsTs AND DErRAcTtaRs,
who, standing afsr off probably nsseY having
seen the Florida exhibit, certainly act after 81
was fully made up) and getting their alsormaiion
from reliable sources" viz: hearsaE. snd who
entertain personal dislike and hatred Of the Con.
missioner, rush into the columns of taft own Oh
scure sheets and hurl all manner Of M1founde{:
charges and insinuations against him, seride the
State exhibits, etc, etc 4:
One of these thinks it has discovereii Q veriia.
BILE mares nest" and rushes into ,.s711 to tesa
its readers that Judge Sebring has per listed prf
vate individuals and corporations o! Florida ID
occupy some of the space allotted bflts,e Man;
agement to the State. Why. bless III; HN.le souh
if il had ever visited this great ESajoltion il
would have known that there is hafisll> a State
exhibit here that is not partly and iE hSny I'M
stances. almost entirely made up of exhibits con-
trbued by private citizens or corpora taons Of the;
respective States. Certainly in FloiIlss case.
if the Commissioner had not accepted exhibits
from private individuals and corporxtit,us andt
counties, we are inclined to think; lhd State:
would have been badly left, for shaI I'D not,
appropriate dollar until the NINTH c,lr, asa
everybody knows. A great deal OF s;he: citrus \
display from private exhibitors, ape, so are \
many of the other exhibits. He Atfered all i
private exhibitors from Florida reason.apIs space
alike and invited them 10 send their goois and
wares. Because a few took advantage VI this
and others did not, is tue CommiSsi@:ler TO
bames They all benefit the State, Iknare or
less. !
The exhibit specially referred to il this in
stance is the map of the Savannah, Flesida and
Western Railway. 1t is called Geosgis. cor
poraron, and the charge is made that" il pur.
ports 10 be map of the whole of ForIEa4ss In
the first place II does not purport to tn map
"of the whole of Florida"-any one q ed with
ordinary sight Can see in large lette,s a, the
map that ii is " The Peninsula of Florida i and
no pretence is made to pass it Of on Oh rnsus-
pectng public as the whole State of t3lor,da."
As to the truth Of the statement that" il il a
corporation whose purposes are foreign 10 every
interest of the State Of Florida" every veil in
formed man in the State knows better 1.-The s.
F. W. Railway Company, think, las done
as much as any road to develop the Pt4ninsula |
OF Florida.' as shown on the map. and BY its |