Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-02
A GREAT ATTRACTION
OBTAINED FOR THE FoAING STATE
An Unique and Wonderful Display Of Southern
Products, From Forest Field and Mins-A
Concert Troupe Of Forty People Added.

The State Fair Association has secur.
ed for the coming fair a grand display
of Southern products anf objects OF In,
terest. The collection embraces an ex-
hibit of Southern products OF forest,
field and mine, all carefully classified
and arranged, and the display will by
all odds the best thing the Association
has ever offered for tho inspection OF
the public.
First, will come cotto n patch, show
ing the cotton stalks ju}t as they grow
in the Southern cotton ti4ld. this display
covering more than a Thousand square
feet Of ground.
Second, rice as it groPfs In the fields,
making a novel and interesting sight
for Northern people.
Third, the various products OF rice.
including more than a half dozen ex-
hibits Of great interest to visitors.
Fourth, peanuts as they grow upon
the vines. This Is sight which every
one who enters the Fair Grounds will
want to see. All people eat the pea
nuts, but few ever saw them growing
upon the vines,
Fifth, turpentine still, In which the
turpentine Of commerce and the rosin
will be made before the eyes OF every
visitor who enters the Fair Grounds.
This will be interesting beyond de-
scription. Everybody has heard OF the
turpentine distillery OF the woods OF
the South, but few have seen the crude
turpentine, the pine gum that Is used
| for chewing and the rosiIh. This Will be
shown complete and In constant opera
ton from the time the gates are open In
the morning until they re closed in the
evening.
Sixth, tar kiln as 1t appears In the
southern forest, from which the tar will
be running during the entire fair.
Seventh. real live alligators from the
swamps and jungles OF the far South.
Eighth, display Of the skins Of
southern wild animals and birds.
Ninth, the finest display OF the eggs
of Southern birds ever shown.
Tenth, the interesting relics OF the
past ages found so numerously in the
mountains of North Carolina and Ten
nessee.
Eleventh, relics Of the late civil war.
Twelfth, agricultural products Of the
South, comprising fig, lemon and orange
trees, bananas, sugar cane, sweet pota-
toes, pineappes and many other tropl-
cal and semi-tropical fruits and pro-
dncts.
Thirteenth, woods and timbers Of the
South. This exhibit is Of much inter-
est, as the woods are handsome beyond
description.
Fourteenth, building stones of value
and peculiar colors.
Fifteenth, gold, copper, iron, coran-
DUN and fifty other specimens OF min
erals-a rare and beautiful collection.
Sixteenth, precious stones. This is an
exhibit of rough and B5lished stones,
fsesal - the South. 1t includes
SSny beautiful specimens.
Seventeenth, the great curiosities Of
the far South, consisting of shells, orna-
mental scales of fish, the products OF
the palmetto trees, and many other
things, too numerous to mention, but
which form an exhibit within them
selves.
With this exhibit are forty cultured
negroes from the southern plantations,
who will give four concerts daily, which
will consist of singing the old panta-
ton songs, boys picking and dancing,
etc.
The Fair Directors will place this ex-
hibit in the Machinery Hall, which
building is 4Ox3OO feet and the four con-
certs given daily will be on a stand
erected in front of the grand stand.
This will be one Of the greatest at
traction the Fair has ever had. 1t will
show the entire products Of the South
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