Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-03
NEW ORLEANS IN TRIM.
THE EXHIBITS SOON TO BE IN
THEIR PLACES.

Director General Burke and his AssO-
ciates Now Bringing Things tn a Focus
with a Rush-The Coming Convention
of Cattle Men from all Nations.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-The United
States Comm issiOners called on Director
sponse to their greeting be said that
inside of ten days the installation would
be completed, within twenty -four hours
every loaded car from the railroads would
be at the exposition grounds, and inside
of a week every foreign exhibit now in
the city would be at the buildings. He
stated that every nook and corner of the
vast structure had been taken up, and
that every assurance given the public
would be fulfilled.
LINE OF RAILWAY.
A meeting of the Association of Expo
sitiOn Visitors, largely attended. was held
in their assembly room at the Exposition
Park this afternoon at 3 O'Clock, with
Vice President JOsselyn, of New York. in
the chair. committee Of which Mr.. j.
II. Schenck, Of Philadelphia, was Chair
man, had been appointed to consider the
possibilities OF establishing steam rail
communication for passenger traffic be-
tween the city and the exposition. The
committee reported at length, showing
the necessity Of some more exten-
sive and reliable transit facilities
than are afforded by four horse
car lines. it was shown by
the committee that there is at present a
rail route by way Of the Mississippi Val
ley Railway, and the exposition branch
to il from the exposition to within eight
g. fNrat, Il
Mississippi Valley Road at POydras and
Howard streets. A road can be built
from the junction of Canal and Basin
streets, in the heart of the city, up Basin
to Common and Franklin, and thence to
POydras and Howard, a distance of eight
blocks, and the right of way can be readi-
ly obtained. If this gap can be filled up,
the other roads of the route will grant the
use of their rails for trains to and from
the exposition.
THE MONEY NEEDED.
1t was then proposed to open subscrip-
tiOns to stock for $4,000. half to be paid
up, and with the 900 raised the road
can be built and the rolling stock leased.
The streets through which the route Will
run are not paved, and the track can be
easily laid. The exhibitors were verv
friendly to the project, and it is hoped
that the money can be raised. Nc other
means of getting reliable transportation
for vi sitOrs to the exposition seem to be
available, and without some such
arrangement the exposition must sue
cumb to the inability to get the people to
see it.
THE RALLY OF THE COTTON MEN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-In October last
Secretary FrelInghuYsen transmitted an
invitation to all foreign governments to
send delegates to participate in the
Universal Cotton Exposition of New Or
leans on Feb. 10 next, under the auspices
of the National Cotton Planters AssOcia-
tiOn of America. 1t is said at the State
Department that large number of gov
ernments have accepted the invitation,
among them being Great Britain, in
cluding India, Egypt and the English
colonies, Hayti, Italy. the Netherlands,
Norway and Sweden, Hawaii and Vene-
zuela. The National Cotton Planters AS
sOciatiOn has requested President Arthur
10 appoint two delegates from every Con-
gressiOnal district i'll the Union, and has
also asked the Governors of all States to
appoint two delegates from every county.
United States Commissioner LOring will,
by request of the National Planters AS
sociation, address invitations to all the
agricultural societies of the United States
to send delegates, and Col. G. ii. Parker,
of New Orleans, Secretary of the National
Cotton Exchange, will endeaVOr to have
delegates sent by all the foreign and
American Exchanges.
OBJECT OF THE ASSOCIATION.
T. G. MOrehead, President of the Ma
tiOnal Cotton Planters Association, who
is now in this city, says that it has long
been the purpose of the association to
make its next annual meeting the nucleus
for universal cotton convention, to be
participated in by representative men
from all parts of the world who are en-
gagged IN growing. handling or manufac-
turing cotton, and likewise the inventors
and makers of improved implements and
appliances used or likely to prove useful
in the cotton industry. Mr.. MOrehead
says that while the convention is called
a cotton convention it will include
all branches of agriculture, because
it is the aim OF the association,
by fostering diversified interests,
to make cotton a surplus money
crop. He predicts that the convention
will have $4,000 delegates. Secretary
Frelinghuysen, in his letter of Invitation
to the foreign governments, said: "While
the proposed convention is not by statute
of Congress placed under the patronage
of the Federal Government, its relation to
the Worlds Exposition is such as to
make it proper that this government
should aid in all appropriate ways to
make the convention what it is designed
to be, an opportunity for comparison of
views of interested delegates from all
parts of the world"
THE LIBERTY BELL.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2.-Mayor Smith
to-day received telegram from Director
General Burke, of the New Orleans Expo
sitiOn, inquiring when the liberty bell
would be sent to New Orleans, stating
that he desired to make arrangements for
its reception. The Mayor replied that
the tell will leave Philadelphia for the
Crescent City in charge of a committee of
the City Councils on Jan. "a, and that
il was expected that it would arrive there
on Jan. 81. In reference to Mr.. Burke's
assurances that the bell would be safely
guarded from relic hunters the Mayor
added that no assurance of safe keeping
of the old historic souvenir is required,
and that 1t is cOnfded with every feeling
of safety to the people of Louisiana.