The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-09-17
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM AU-
GUSTA, GA.
AUGUSTA, September 10, 1891

GUsTA, GA.
AUGUSTA, September 10, 1891.
EDITORS INTELL1GENcER: Of course
all Carolina is interested in the doings
and happenings of Augusta. therefore
make no apology for inlicting on your
readers an everyday news letter from
this place. Our interests are mutual and
so closely allied arc the two States that
whatever is of benefit to one, carries with
it corresponding benefit to the other,
and vice versa, whatever works an injury
to one, is mighty apt to bruise the corns
of the other.
Since that elder day when our fathers
met and bartered here on the banks of
the Savannah, or through the period
when the annual fall trips was taken by
wagon from Anderson to the cotton fac
tory at Augusta, up to the time when
steel rails bound the two places moro
closely together, when the A. & K. and
the Savannah Valley Roads were COM
pleted, the people of Anderson and Au-
gusta have been firm friends and staunch
allies, and the big banquet given in the
Planters Hotel several years ago, bore
testimony to the sincerity of the newly
cemented friendship which had been the
more firmly bound by iron rails and
cross ties. There are many who still re-
member that evening, when the entire
Savannah Valley united with us and
spent time of jolli6cation and practical
interchange of business ideas, and the
feast of reason and the flow of soul Of that
occasion is even now source Of pleasant
remembrance to us all.
A MORE ENDURING TIE.
Augusta now invites her Carolina
cousins to the formation of a more
enduring tie, and to an occasion which
will fructify more material advantages,
and moral and financial development.
than could dozen banquets, be they
ever so pleasant and replete in joy. I
allude to the coming November Exposi-
ton which we are going to hold here, of
which South Carolina is an integral part,
and to which your Stateis most cordially
invited, that you may participate in the
pleasures, partake of the instructions
and share in the profits of tho greatest,
most varied and by long odds, most
complete thing of the kind yet convened
in the South. And right here I would
suggest, that most delightful ard profit
able manner of attending an Exposition,
is in body, as County. Let Anderson
gather her beautiful resources together,
get specimens of the farm, the loom, the
mines and the forests, and como to US with
a magnificent County Exhibit, which will
cause the outside world to open their
eyes in amazement. Advices assure US
that the largest display of machinery and
other industrial features will be brought
from the North, East and West, which
has ever been collected under cover.
Necessarily an immense crowd of people
from those sections will be on hand in
their own interests and for sight seeing.
It will therefore be the chance of a life
time to advertise your marvellous possl-
bilities to this great concourse. By a
County Exhibit, you place before them
an object lesson which they cannot forget
and in illustration of your argument,
you give them tangible facts to 60 on,
and not fine spun sophistical theories to
dream about. You place in their hands
a specimen from the farm, and say not
only "we can do this" but you say, "we
do do It, and here is the evidence that we
do.n You place under their eye SAM
pie from the quarry, the phosphate bed
or the forest and tell them not only that
"our country can furnish these things"
you tell them that it "does furnish them,
and here they are." What magnificent
opportunity for Anderson to show curl
GUS world those magnificent actralities."
CAROLINA DAY.
Thanksgiving Day has been sell apart as
peculiarly Carolina Day, and your Cover
nor, with his brilliant staff and the joint
legislature, which does not sit on that
day, will attend the Exposition in body.
The world famous Fusileers and other
noted Carolina Military organizations will
be here to take part in the pageant OF
soldlery, the, competitive drill and the
sham battle. The Augusta grounds are
peculiarly adapted to this class OF e1er-
else, being large, spacious and Of a gentle
level, beautifully surrounded with stands
and spaces for spectators. Lieutenant
sotherlu, of the u. S. A., who won such
encomiums, and made SO many friends
at the Georgia military encampment ut
Chickamauga, will be one Of the Judges,
and everything on this line promises to
be Of exceptional elegance and eclat.
SOME OF THE EXHIBITS.
! have had the privilege of peeping over
Manager Henry's shoulder and have
caught glimpse of some of the notable
features which will make the Exposition
of 1891 a most memorable one, and seri-
ously speaking it will be gorgeous, va
ried and most complete display. The
system of Corliss engines, three in num-
ber, aggregating $50 horse power, will be
the finest in the world, and will operate
every piece of the mpltifarious of me-
chanical contrivance in Machinery Hall.
This machinery will consist of almost
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