The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-27
Projected GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

not come out of the general government
fund of $780, 900. The government build
ing will be 900 feet long and $50 feet wide
and will be open to the roof inside. The
main portion of the building will be one
story high and will rise 25 feet to the
caves. The central or clear story of the
building is designed in the form of a cross
and will rise Is feet above the main story.
The building will also be flanked by four
round towers 40 feet high and will be i'm
posing as we'll as pleasing to the eye.
Among the other buildings now erected,
in process of erection or under COnsidera
ton are the Manufactures building, $40
by 26O feet in Dimensions on the ground,
with a tower that will rise 100 feet into
the air; Machinery hall, 100 by 500 feet
and IS feet high; Agricultural hall, 800
by $50 feet and with a 100 foot tower;
Minerals and Forestry building, 80 by 800
feet; Electricity building, 81 by $50 feet,
with a 100 foot tower for electrical dis
plays; Fine Arts building SO by 100 feet,
with two side wings of the same dimen-
sions, and large buildings that will be de-
voted to woman work, transportation and
negro exhibits.
One of tie decided novelties of the ex-
position will be the negro exhibit, the first
of the kind ever given. Prominent negroes
throughout the country are taking an in
terest in the project and the race will en-
deavor to show the world that it has made
good use of the barely 30 years Of freedom
it has enjoyed in America. State commits
sions will be organized throughout the
south, and some prominent colOred man
will be chairman of each commission. The
direction of the entire negro exhibit is in
the hands of such prominent men as w.
H. Venable, owner of the Stone Mountain
granite quarries; Ex-Governor Rufus B.
Bullock; General Clement A. Evans, re-
Gently candidate for governor; j. G.
Oglesby, president of the Commercial club,
and ex-Postmaster J. r. Lewis. The col
ored man did not have much of a chance
to show what he had done and what he
could do at the Worlds fair, but he will
have the opportunity of the century at the
Atlanta exposition.
Representative southern women are
working hard to interest their sex in the
Woman's building, and Mrs Josiah Kings
| ley Oil, who recently visited New York,
was very enthusiastic over the outlook
1.-The Woman's building at the World S
| fair won't be in it with ours she said to
| a reporter The woman's board of the ex-
| position is composed of IL members, and
| these have selected the general board Of
| women managers composed of so represent
alive ladies of the south. Some woman 8
| design will be accepted for the building,
and the great speciality of the exhibit will
| be woman's work in various lines Won
ans thought will be shown more by her
work than by the speeches and papers so
| popular at Chicago.
One of the great objects of the exposition
| is to stimulate trade with South America,
| the West Indies, Mexico and Central Amer
| lea, and special representatives will be sent
| to the different countries, many Of which
| have already displayed great interest in
| the project and are preparing to be well
| represented when the exposition opens it's
| doors Sept IS, 1895. Among the amuse-
ment attractions will be the Cairo street
| that was seen at the Worlds fair, gil
| gantic cyclorana representing the Ha-
| waiian volcano of Kilauea, the largest &C
| tive volcano in the world, and some other
| great attraction not yet decided upon that
| will be to the exposition what the Ferris
wheel was to the Worlds fair
Atlanta made great success, financial
and otherwise, of her first cotton exposi-
ton in 1881, and there seems no good rea-
son why the exposition of 1895 should nos
be the greatest ever seen in the south.
| Within radius Of 800 miles of Atlanta
there is said to be a total population of TO-
| 500, 900, which should give the exposition
an attendance of 5000, 600 or 4, 600, 900 at
the least. The estimated population,
| however, seems too large. Atlanta is u
very progressive and bustling city of near
| ly 100, 600 inhabitants, all of whom are
entering heart, soul and pocketbook into
| the plans designed to make the exposition
the talk Of the country. The city is ], OSO
| feet above the level Of the sea, the air is
comparatively cool and bracing, and with
such potent attraction as the exposition
the city is sure to have great crowd to
| entertain between Sept. Is, 1895, and JAN
| l, 1896.
When the Grand Army of the Republic
| meets in September, it will be invited to
visit Atlanta in body and fraternize with
| the numerous ex-Confederate societies that
| will meet at the same time
c. T. BAXTER.