Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-23
THE THREE AMERICAS EXPOSITION.
.SbcciaI to the Westeym Kansas World.
Nvu Oprparo Ton z 1909

.Sbecial to tile Westeyn Kansas World.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. z, 1886.
Utah has such an array of valuable
minerel ores to elicit the close study of
the visitor that he completely forgets her
peculiar history and her social, religious
and political idiosyncracies. The num-
, Der Of mines represented by most liberal
contributions of samples, I have not count
ed, but they run up into the hundreds;
and their products are gold, silver, cop
per, lead, iron, antimony, quicksilver and
sulphur, valued at several million dollars
per annum. Besides, there are abundant
samples of granite, marble, shale coal for
gas, sandstone, alum, fire clay, chalk,
gympsum, mineral wax, petroleum, glaub-
or salt, etc. Wheat, barley and oats in
profusion are side by side with -four ex-
hibit and a pyramid of excellent wooden
goods, as fannels, blankets, shawls, plaids,
and cloths for men and women's dress
goods. A gigantic pumpkin and num-
Der of gigantic Irish potatoes speak well
for the Utah vegetable world.
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Tomorrow the Creole Historic Exhibit
will be formally opened. 1t occupies
part of Art Hall, and will doubtless prove
to northern and western visitors the most
interesting of the many rare attractions
the exposition contains. The articles
shown are loaned by the old Creole fami-
lies; and especially to those to the manor
born they speak an ancestral history
which no lapse of time can dim.
Among the original portraits are those
of Chas. Gayarre, the distinguished his
torian of Louisiana; Louis Philippe and
his queen; Marceau, the gallant young
general of the French Revolution; Lam
artine; Lafayette; Benjamin Franklin;
Napoleon Bonaparte; Andrew Jackson;
Audubon, the Louisiana naturalist; Gen.
2. Taylor; and many nobilities of the
French and Spanish regime, when Louis
lana was foreign colony.
Among the family relics are: the COM
mission of Capt. M. Fortier, signed by
the geat Napoleon; the pistols used in
duel between Daniel Clark, father of the
late Mrs. Gaines, and Julien 'Poydras,
French merchant and philanthropist; q
portrait of Gen. Trudeau, the companion of
Audubon in his hunting expeditions pic
ture of LAGRANGE, the home of Lafayette,
painted by the celebrated AIRY Sheffer;-
4 portrait of Jos. Coiron, the first to use a
steam engine in sugar making;-jewels,
!aces, crockery, coats-of-arms, manu-
scripts, land grants, books, miniatures,
music, all hundreds of years old and be-
onging to the various ancient French
md Spanish families;-a lock of Andrew
Jackson's hair, set round with JEWELS
lresses worn at the courts of Louis XIV,
XV, and XVII autograph letters of
Iayoso, Casecalvo, Carondelet, Jefferson
md Lafayette and number of articles
hat were used by Gsn'l Washington and
Mrs. Washington.
The above autograph letters, together
With the many ancient colonial !docu-
nents, are contributed by the Hon. Chas.
iayarre. The venerable historian counts
'mong his ancestors the most disting-
lished French and Spanish colonial
ficials. Senior Don Gayarre came here
rom Spain with General OReilly, as one
t his civil staff, when the French colony
7as transferred, against its will, to the
spanish king; and Monsieur De Bore, the
be historians maternal grandfather, was
Military officer of the court of Louis XVI.
lie was the first mayor of New Orleans
nder the American rule; and on his
lantation, located next below where the
exposition now stands, the first sugar
rop was made in Louisiana.
Mr.. Gayarre finished his legal educa-
ion in Philadelphia. He soon became
prominent in state politics, serving as
ecretary Of state and q. S. senator; but
lis chief distinction has been as scholar,
historian, and writer of historic nov
Is. He speaks and writes English as
asily and incisively as French; and, at
ighty-one years, is still vigorous and &C.
i've in body and clear, ready, and pene-
rating in intellect. One of the old school
Louisiana gentlemen, who would
ather die than commit mean or dis
onorable act. ,
This Creole historic exhibit alone is
Torth coming thousand miles to see.
By-the-by, it is well enough for strang- ;
rs coming here to know that the Creoles
{ Louisiana are zrhites, who descend in
irect lineage from the original French
nd Spanish colonists. W.D. B.
New ORLEANS, Jan. IA, 1886.
The exhibits of the six New England
;ates are grouped in neighborly fashion,
ne next the other, on opposite sides the
ain aisle. near the center of the states