The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-19

south. the expenses of which exhibit will
not come out of the general government
fund of 5000, 600. The government build
ing will be 200 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, 370
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 100 feet and with a 100 foot tower;
Minerals and Forestry building, so 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's work, transportation and
negro exhibits.
One of the decided novelties of the ex-
position will be the negro exhibit, the first
of the kind ever given. Prominent negroes
throughout tho country are taking an in
terest in tho project, and the race will en-
deavor to show the world that it has made
good use Of the barely so 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.
Fl. Venable, owner of the Stone Mountain
granite quarries; Ex-Governor Rufus B.
Bullock; General Clement A. Evans, re-
Gently a 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 lone and what he
could dc at tho 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,
s'The Woman's building at the Worlds
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a reporter. The woman's board of the ex-
position is composed of 10 members, and
these nave selected the general board of
women managers composed of so represent
alive ladies Of the south. Some woman's
will be accepted for the building,
and the great speciality of the exhibit will
be woman's work in various lines. Wom-
ans thought will be shown more by her
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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
nave already displayed a great interest in
the project and are preparing to be well
represented when the exposition opens it's
Sept. IS, 1895. Among the amuse-
ment attractions will be the Cairo street
that was seen at the Worlds fair, a gi-
gantic cyclorama 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. Il
Atlanta made a great success, financial
ana OJnefWIS0, OF ncr urSG COTTON oXpOSl-
ton in 1881, and there seems no good rea-
son why the exposition of 1896 should not
be the greatest ever seen in the south.
Within a radius of 300 miles of Atlanta
there is said to be a total population of 10,-
500, 600, which should give the exposition
attendance of 8, 900, 900 or 4, 600, 600 at
the least. The estimated population,
however, scerhs too large. Atlanta is a
very progressive and bustling city of near
ly 100, 600 inhabitants, all of whom are
entering heart, soul AM. p~ocketbook into
the plans designed to ms9sSe the exposition
the talk Of the country. Tho city is 1850
feet above the level of the sea, the air is
comparatively cool and brncing, and with
such q potent attraction as the exposition
the city is sure to ave a great crowd to
between Sept. IS, 1895, and Jan.
|, 1866.
When the Grand Army of the Republic
meets in September, it will be invited to
visit Atlanta in a body and fr~aternize with
The numerous ext Confederate societies that
will meet at the same time.