The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
The Three Americas Exposition.

/ Special to the CITIZEN.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. I3, 1885,
The Tennessee State exhibit, under the
intelligent supervision OF Commission
er IL. b. McWhirter, is a thorough
representation, arranged with taste az d
system, of her multifarlous and val
liable natural resources. The raw
material is what is shown: The
space allowed the commissioner is very
large, but he has used it all. At last
years Exposition he assisted his IA
ther, Mr.. A, j. McWhirter, state COM
missioner of agriculture, immigration,
mines and statistics; and lthe experi-
ence thus gained has been judiciously
improved upon. The object of the ex-
hibit is not to attract the visitor who
has no definite purpose in view, but
the capitalist, the planter, the farmer,
the machinist, the manuf acturer, the
miner, the lumberman, the iron-found-
er, who is seeking for an investment Of
money, brains, muscle. And this may
well be said of many other southern
and western exhibits.
The beautiful marbles Of Tennessee
are renowned. They are here in nu-
merous samples, together with gran
ties, sandstone, etc. and specimens by
the dozen, little and big, OF the pro-
ducts OF her rich iron and coal mines;
not forgetting copper, lead, zinc, silver
aud gold. Grain, grain, grain, every
where, recalling the fact that Tennes-
see raises abundantly every cereal that
grows between Maine and Mexico. No
Tennessean starves.
The exhibil of woods is unsurpassed
in the building for variety and value.
They are shown in the rough, with and
without bark, also with surfaces plain
and polished. Tie many fine vegeta-
bles are of the second crop. The fruits
are chiefly apples. Cotton and wool of
the best grades. Silk cocoons and silk
thread; sorghum, cotton-secd oil,
wood alcohol, ferns and grasses, fertil-
izers, fire bricks, phosphates, kaolin.
The exhibit of leaf tobacco is the larg-
est and best shown by any state, and
represents the crops of 1892, 'S3, 's4.
There is a large glass case full of fos-
sils; another with hickory sticks cut
from the grounds of Andrew Jackson's
'Hermitage"; and third with relics
found on the famous battle-delds of
MurfreesborO, Franklin and Nashville.
What tagic memories these rusty can
non balls and musket bullets, these
broken bayonets and swords, will re-
call to thousands of visitors to the
states buildingl 1t is we'll that they
are rusty and broken; and that all
around are the evidences, even in Ten
nessee's exhibit, that smiling and pros
porous !peace has banished fierce and
destroyed war.
Creole day-the sth of January-was
simply yet impressively celebrated by
the descendants of the French and Span
ish colonists of Louisiana. The freez-'
ing blizzard from Montana had reached
us, and the large assembly shivered
with the cold but they were warmed
by patriotism and followed Old Hick-
ory's example on the Sth January, 1915,
and got the better OF the invader. Up
on the platform sat the representatives,
in the eighth generation of the historic
French and Spaniards who founded
the vast territory out! of which Uncle
Sam carved ten large and prosperous
states. The most prominent and Sob
served of all observers" was Beaure-
gard, quiet, modest, dignified Creole
gentleman.