Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-06
TEN CENTS A HEAD.
THAT Is THE PRICE YOR THIS TIE
cHILDREEs DAY AT TIE
EXPOSITION.

EXPOSITION.
The Two Cadet Corps cOming-Last Days Of
Pompsii-Crysanthsmu
Show, &C.
To-day Is Children's Day at the EXPOSE
tion, and all the little ones-that is, under
fourteen years OF age-will be admitted,
,chether accompanied Jy their teachers or not,
for ten cents each. As the day is also elec-
tion-day It Is safe 10 presume that the chill
dren Will have the place largely to them
selves, and because tis election.day the EX-
position authorities put forth no special at
fractions.
cRYsANTnENUM SHOW.
Tomorrow the crysanthemum show he
giBs aud lasts four days. lt IL expected that
the display OF these flowers will exceed any
ever held in the South. This exhibit will
take place in the Horticultural building.
"rnE LAST DAYS OF PONPEII."
"The Last Days Pompeil" was repeated
in the presence Of large audience last
night. The weather was so mild that all
who had stayed awoy before for fear OF
taking cold In the night air swelled the at-
ditnce to proportions nearly as large as on
the opening night. The performance was
! given with all the effective grandeur which
has characterized its previous productions.
The show will be repeated tomorrow
night Those who 20 hereafter will find
that the enjoyment OF the spectacle will be
much euhasced by the use OF field or opera
glasses. Between the stage and the audience
there intervenes the race-track and large
I - NJ lo1- mil fhprpfOFn
| found very useful.
MILITARY DAY.
| One OF the greatest features OF the Ex-
| position is yet in store for the public. On
/ The 18th there will be here military com-
panies from different parts OF Virginia and
North Carolina, and the occasion will be
/ known and handed down to record as mill
/ tafy day. 1t is proposed to have then sham
/ batle-a picture as vivid as possible OF the
/ frst battle OF Cold Harbor; the manWu-
| yres OF Jackson and his attack on McClel-
/ Ian; and the subsequent events OF the eve
ming as recorded in history. The affair will
/ take place on the race course Qhe Pompei
/ show having yacated), and houses trees and
| shrubbery will be so placed rs TO recall the
/ situation 10 many veteran who TOOK part
/ in the fight over 100 men will be In the
! batlle on each side, and 1t IS believed that
the spectacle Will draw people here from all
| over the State.
! VOICE PROM ORANGE.
! The following letter reached this Office
I yesterday afternoon:
/ Mcssrs. Editors: To my shame bc Il said. for
tho FIRST time last Saturday visited tho virginia
/ (our Exposition Why vas not prompted 70
this earlier can't say. unless II be attributed 10
/ that Indifference which seems 10 come over all
| OF us at certain times in our lives. feel that
have not done my duty, ana II you wiz ei9W mo
space In your columns do want 20 plead now
With my fellOw-Virginans, II perchanco may
/ somewhat atone. that not single Virgnian,
/ young or old man or woman. viii let this great
show close without his or her visiting 10. IL Is a
I duty wo owe 20 our state. TO ourselves, 10 our
/ children, tO kind Providence, who has 20 richly
I blessed us
No idea cnn be formed Of the magnitude and
extent Of this thing except ono sees IT, had
/ read tho papers. had seen those who had visit
/ ed 10. but had not the faintest conception OF
f what was IN storo for me.
! Nirgiuians. laY aside your business, put away
I your work, and make the best Investment you
[ ever mado in your lives BY going TO the Ezposi'
lion az once. Go at once. TIE weather may Do
] bal I'm n few days, and YOU don't know what To-
( morrow may bring. Go now. Very truly.
Az ORAsGB-COUSTY MAN.
TIE POLICE.
Major Poe, Chief Of Police, yesterday no.
! tiGed The Exposition authorities that to-day
/ the city policemen " ho have been doing duty
/ N the Exposition Grounds world be with
drawn because their services would be
needed in the city. About fifteen policemen,
/ including the officers, have been regularly at
/ tue Exposltlon.Grouuds.
TIE CADETS.
Tomorrow morning about $50 cadets from
ths Virginia Military Institute and the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College at Blacks
burg will breakfast at O'Clock on the Expo
sition-Grounds. The bench-show building
( and several apartments in Horticultural Hall
have been completely renovated. and Will
make very conmodious barracks for the
boys, who will stay here until the 10Th.
FLoRDNs CAR.
The car containing "Florida on Wheels"
draws well every day. The visitor here sees
! the products OF the land
"Whero no leaf ever dies In the still blooming
bowers
And the bee banquets on through a whole year
OF flowers"
FIELD DISPLAY OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES.
The following correspondence explains
something OF interest, especially to the farm
ing community:
VIRGINIA \. N. & T. ExPosTrroS,l
RICnMOED, VA, November ], 1883 J
To TIC Management ofths Virginia E1Position'
! We. the undersigned exhibitors at the Virginia
! Exposition, beg leave 10 say that We Eouli Do
pleased 20 give grand neld-exhlpltion OF our
respective machines and implements. now on ex-
hlbilon for the benefit and pleasure OF inc iarin-
ers and others who may be interested, at some
day and place % be named by you.
We think we can make such an exhibition
both attractive and interesting. and will do all In
/ cur power 10 illustrate the operation OF the moro
advanced machinery which enters into farm
work to-day.
A. II. Reid: Reld's peerless creamery, Reds
butter-woTker. Reids seif-gagina buttcr-printer,
{ Reid's cedar barrol-church.
Lee * Danbridge: Cyclone air-milL
John 5. Carter: o. X. Outnt, y. X. Creamery,
I churn and butter-wOrker.
The Waring Manufacturing Company: Bird
riding cultiYatOr.
Western Wheel-Scraper Company Peunock g
sharp general agents, western reversible road
J machine.
Tho Watt Plow Company, one, two. and three
hOrso plOws.
The syracuse Plow Company, leyel-land. hill
aiGe, and sulky ploE5; sprng-t0Oth hAfrO" ana
baldwin s Brown, Blssen chilled plow, Evans
smoothing harrow. Hench & Dromeoid riding
ami walking cultiyatOr. with double rOW-cOru
planter aud seeder attachment
i Tho Higganum Manufacturing Corporation.
CiGrk's cutaway disk harrow, with seeder-meeter
/ harrow.
Amorican Road-Machlne Company, champion
machine, and the giant champion Nalso the
/ American).
Ihe vermont Farm -hnchino company Cooley
. creamer, Davis swing cuurn, NesDitt D4tter
printer. Eureka buttor-W0rker.
f Walter A. Wood Moving and eaplng-N0chine
Company, aud many others.
Referring 10 the foregoing, I am peculiarly
/ ggatiacd % know that wo shall have field do
ul0nstration OF the working Of these latest nyen-
tons aud improvements in farm machinery and
/ implements which arc displayed IN the bxposi-
, tiOn.
The offer made by the various exhibitor is a
generous one. for which thank them, and viii
name November 18th aud 18Th In the Exposition
Grounds a. the time and place for this exhiDi-
ton. can conceive OF nothing that would be OF
+ moro interest and value. % our farmers espe-
F cialiy, than this exhibition, and trust they may
i appreciate II % such an extent as Will induce
thousands Of them 10 he present from All over
I this and other States. Reapers, binders, now
ers, Wheelrakes, disc harrows, spring tooth har-
rows, mills. ensilage-cuuers, plOWs, creameries,
ETC.. all OF the latest pattels and al work, ought
10 bs no; only interesting, but most profitable 10
f those concerned.
Ia connection with the above now name tho
13ih day Of November a. Farmers Day, and ex-
tend an especial Invitation 70 them 10 visit tho
! Exposition on that day.
ASHTON STARKE, President
MUSIC.
A move Is afoot to have a grand musical
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