The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-24

enheliner on the corner Of BAY and Jeffer-
son streets. The model was one fifteenth
the size OF the building, which Will be
l23X9l1s feet, and four stories high. At the
four corners Of the float were four pretty
little misses, representing the United States,
ireland, England and Germany, each dressed
IN appropriate costume, with banners and
flags. Mr.. ). Guckenheimer rode on horse
back alongside. The float was also
in the torchlight procession, and being lit
up with red fire from the interior, presented
a very beautiful spectacle The float was
designed 10y MessrS. Fay & Eichberg and
was built by O'COnnor Il Ray Messrs Fay
81 Eichberg are also the architects for the
building.
George Meyers doat was artistically de
signed ana deliberately decorated. A huge
pyramidal cone Of bottled liquors, wines
and the Anheuser beers was IN the center,
while the floor was carpeted with natural
and artificial flowers Of rare beauty and a
great variety of colors. Handsome misses
dressed in the emblematIc cOlOrs and COS
fumes Of the different nations principally
represented at this port had places around
the pyramid The float was drawn by a
four-hOrse team.
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD.
The Central railroad was represented by
three floats, each drawn by four horses, the
first representing locomotive No l19 and
tender, the second a box cotton car, No.
| l,G33, and the third q passenger coach No.1iS.
/ These We're elegant fuli-sized paintings, and
the hidden bell of the locomotive, which
rang along the line gave the Centrals dis
play realistic sound as if tempting one to
| say look out for the locomotive
| Ellis, Young q Co., naval stores factors
had two floats representing all the stages Of
| turpentlne and rOsin production, from the
tree to the inspection at the port of ship
| ping, with all the appliances necessary to
! give a clear idea Of their line Of trade
Paterson, Downing & Co.. naval stores,
were also represented by float giving an
excellent insight into the products which
! they are so largely engaged in handling.
! They had wagon representing the first
| naval stores port of the world. containing
| four sections Of the pine tree from
! which the crude rosin stood out as
| it lis so often seen in the turpentine
| camp. Turpentiue laborers We're going
through the routine work of the camp,
while evergreen branches of the pine over
! Swallowed the whole This display was the
subject of complimentary mention all along
the line of march. The motto on one Of
their floats was peculiarly fitted to the
time and circumstances of the Jasper Festi-
val aud the Presidential visit: "SAvAN-
MANS GUEST 1779, JASPER 1888, GRO
VER.n
Mcmillan Bros. Southern Copper Works,
had complete turpentine still and worm
on their float which was realistic enough to
convey an idea of the FIRMS business.
McDOnOugh a. Ballantyne wera well rep
resented. Iron founders and boiler makers
were at work upon their floats and the blaze
was ruddy and bright from the breath of
| the bellows, the hammer rang out upon the
anvil, and the metallic chatter of the boiler
makers sounded as real as if in the boiler
shop although upon the open street in hur-
ried parade.
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
The Savannah Steam Laundry's float dis
| played a laundry in full operation, but the
heavy rain took the starch out of the gar
ments. 1t wasn't good day for an open-ar
| laundry The float was nicely decorated,
however, and was followed by their hand
some delivery wagon.
kieslings nursery float was wealthy dis
| play of tropic verdure, rare exotics and most
beautiful and fragrant flowers, upon which
the soft ana sunny breath of Southern skies
| had fallen and kindled them into green leaf
bud and blossom. 1t was the shaft of many
| bewltching eyes, Il display of natures own
artistic forming, and took the third prize.
A. Netter'S bakery was represented in
| the various gradations of manufacture,
| from the unsifted -four to the fresh Loaf,
and many loaves of bread were thrown out
| among the crowd wherever a grass plot
could be found, Many, however, fell in
pools Oh water winch Hau Deem formed by
| the heavy rains, recalling tho maxim of
Solomon, Cast thy bread upon the waters,
for thou shalt find it after many days"
ARTISANS AT WORK
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
| Joiners floats, one composed of white and
| the other of colored artisans, piled their
| trade, and the sounds of hammer, and saw
and plane, as they were busily employed,
represented to the life their avocation as
their turnout represented their numerical
| strength
On the float of Reppard 81 Co., lumber
| dealers, the extended canvas, upon which
was painted scenes typical of their line of
trade, was greatly admired by all, especially
the stampede of the bull at the appearance
of the bear around a corner of the great
| lumber pile.
The Moss Manufacturing Company, of
| Townsville, had float in line, upon which
was a most handsome bedstead made of the
| products of the Southern forest. The float
was beautifully decorated.
The float of Appel & Schaul typified the
tailoring department of their house, and a
corps OF employees was engaged in the differ
ent departments of manufacture, both with
sewing machine and needle work.
w. w. Gnanns float had a forge, and
sons of Vulcan busy at the smithy by bel
| lows, hammer and anvil.
b. II. Levy a 5Sther's tailoring depart
ment was represented by float upon which
a corps of employees was giving practical
display of the character of the work done
! by this firm.
THE DRUNINIERs' FLOAT.
The float Of Post d. Travellers Protective
Association, better known as the drummers,
was the most amusing and certainly origi-
nal to the last degree. In it was a typical
| backwoods country store, John Smith
Jones & Co., the CO., being John Smith
| Jones' wife. John Smith Jones was repre-
sented by Ed. l.. Brown, of the firm
of Whitcomb & Brown. In this
model primitive store was the old
fashioned counter, and behind it a
bald-headed old gentleman who didn't
want to buy any goods and who persisted
in smoking a cob pipe. Behind him were a
row of shelves with a beggarly stock of
goods better fitted to the last century. Two
| Savannah drummers were calling on him to
sell goods, NJ. L. Lilienthal representing
Einstein a. Sons, wholesale shoe dealers, and
j. Strauss, with A. Falk q Sons, wholesale
furnishing goods. 1t was a comedy on
wheels played TO shouting audience, and
the bottle was not emptied nor the two
boxes of cigars exhausted until the two
drummers had sold the firm of John
Smith Jones q Co., more goods
than they could deliver. The drum
mers had quite quarrel before they
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