The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-16
The Atlanta Exposition.
Correspondence of the Democratic Advocate

lecture, and was great in both, and ii is
Stieringer who unites art with architecture
and calls down fire from heaven to glorify
their union.
The electric fountain, another triumph of
this Exposition, is also the work of the great
fire artist. Here again new faryland is
opened. The wheat sheaves might be the
ones that Joseph dreamt of, for somehow they
have got mixed with the coat of many cOlors.
First there is the golden grain, tall and way
ing. and bending under its bearded load as at
harvest, then the field is turned re green, as
if Joseph bad brother had taken part in the
dream, then there comes dull red as of
bloody thoughts and then violet is succeeded
by her-of-pearl as if dreams were fading
into morning Water is a wizard at making
cOlors, and when the fire artist adds this
element TO his palate, he makes pictures which
transcend description. They give the Obser
yer a kind Of intellectual eXalalion which may
be enoyed and remembered but may never be
hung upon cold type.
Having spent this much time in fairyland.
let us throw off the spell and look leisurely at
exhibits Take the Woman's Annex as a
point of interest There is the Indian chief
with Il garment Of seven hundred and fifty
elk teeth and necklace of terrapin claws.
and-ugh : there is the same scOundrel with
a trophy of It hundred human scaIps, dried
anu HullS To HIS I4ct W. pass OH
Speaking of Indians, you can go from dead
ones to live ones, and see Two Strikes. who
is not the hero of baseball game but of a
ghost dance which gave Uncle Sam soldiers
a great deal of trouble before they caught the
step.
Speaking of armies, the finest exhibit Of
arms ever seen in America, is III the Manu-
factHres Building. You can see there the
kind of gun used by the japanese and the
Chinese in the last war. Both were good,
but the Japs had the better weapon-the same
used by the German army. There you see
the modern amunitlon nickel steel bullets
and SmokelesS powder. AT Fort Mcpherson
not long ago, one of these bullets Overshot
the target and killed mule two miles and a
half away. The bullet was identified and the
government paid for the mule. These bullets
90 through fifty inches of wood at fifty yards.
You see samples Of this in the exhibit, also
fou.'- inch steel armor pierced by SiX-pound
projectiles from a Hntchkiss rapid-hre gun,
which is on exhibition there.
There is nearby commercial exhibit which
shows the greatness of our commerce. 1t Is
by an importing house which trades with one
hundred and itty-nine countries, and shows
products OF many. 1t has as IL curlo Peru
Wan meas head. dried and relieved by its
bones. The hair is still alive, long, and black
as iet. Among other American wares. ii has
IA music box which represents whole orches-
ira.
The picture which attracts most attention
in the Art Gallery. is Hovenden breaking
of Home Ties. 1t is Il famous picture, great
in itself. but particular interest attaches to il
because of the recent heroic death Of the
painter. Hovenden lost his life Il few weeks
ago trying to snatch child on; of the way of
a locomotive The child escaped, bat Hoven-
den lost his balance and fell under the engine
where he suffered Il horrible death. The
picture subject is we'll known. \ country
boy Is leaving home to seek his future III the
city and his old mother. with her hand on his
shoulder, gives the lad ii parting injunction.
What the injunction is 10 words tell, but the
mother face wears an expression more r!o-
uuent than the words TT Poiuniu> or the
lament Of Jacob for Benjamin.
We have all heard Of the cradle of Demo
cr;tcy hut few have seen it. The original
cradle which rocked Thomas jefferson, is on
exhibition in the Forestry Building, and the
United States Government voucheS for the
authenticity of the story. You can see the
place in the side where the infant statesman
cut his teeth and on one corner he chipned
off Il BIG lot of wond where his wisdom tooth
came through. The Government is not re-
Sponsihle for this part OF the story. but the
visitor may see it for himself.
The building which contains this relic has
also the hest display ever made Of American
forestry DIR. Fernow has shown our trees
from the ground up. wood. bark. leaf and
seed. with Photographs Of forests. The models
of good forestry are worth Il trip to the build
ing to see.
This same building contains an exhibit ri;
the department of m ines undfr DR. David 1,
Ray, Of tho United States Geological Survey.
who has gathered the finest collection ever
made Of the mineral resources of the Appala-
chan system. The exhibit of coal is far the
Engineers gave this exhibit high praise and it is
so arranged that the average visitor, unSkilled
in the technique of mineralogy may appreciate
its value.
Another fine exhibit of minerals is in the
lower story of the Georgia Building. where q
perfect sphere of marble, four feet IL diane
ter, is poised on = solid mace of marble
twenty,one feet long. Both are from tickenS
county. DR.. 4eatGs, the State GeologiSt. has
also fine display of building stone, as we'll
as general display Of the minerals of the
State.
The Midway is one elongated and variegated
circus with the noisy hurry burly of the merry
go-round and the speers. A sensational
which Mr.. Hoff heimer. successor to Mr..
Hagenbeck, has put on. The lions get
excited over the skirt dance and try to catch
the step, SO the keepers have to be vigilant
Shooting the ChuteS is great sport, and
there is fun in the Mystic Maze where you see
live lady hundred times and can never
get near her, though 500 prize is offered.
The Palace of Illusion shows you Pharaoh
daughter, and Rider Haggard She, and
the Beauty Show gives you Trilby without
Svengali. The Phoenix Wheel takes you sky
ward for bird 'seye view of the Exposition,
and the Old Plantation entertains you with
negro minstrelsy by real negroes. They beat
all imitators. There are host of other at
fractions, including Cairo Street, with its
camel rides and oriental bazaars, but these
things are to be seen, and not read of.
The Exposition is great educator. II
gives days of unalloyed pleasure, and with
it.. gives wider intellectual horizon, and q
broader comprehension Of life. No one can
90 through that great exhibit of the govern
ment without having his patriotism more
deeply implanted in him. The multitudinous
functions of a great government reveal the
greatness of the country and the people whic h
it serves. 1t touches their lives only in high
places, and the great masses are below, in the
valleys of humanity, great substratum, I'M
derneath the tnroDDlnS machinery VI otiIe'
only moving at long intervals when some
seismic force impells them to revolution; but
here they are, like the everlasting arms
beneath the cherubim, the invisible greatness
behind this concrete expression. There is
nothing under heaven as great as human
| soul, and the outward semblance of our gov
eminent has an infinite meaning when we
| think of the seventy million souls behind it.
These are the creators of governments, and
| it makes no difference what written cOnstitu-
tons we have, the people will shape them ac-
| cording to their own will. Our future will be
no brighter, our government no wiser than
they, and the enlightening of the masses, the
uplifting and Frightening of their lives is the
graHdest motive which moves q great enter
prise like this Exposition. 4 motive like
this is worthy of the princely gift of $4,000
by the Chairman Of the Finance Committee,
and the magnificent contributions of the
patriotic directors.
The Exposition is an assured success. The
financial problem has been solved, and the
great enterprise moves on grandly to its cul
mination. The people Of Atlanta have
achieved results never equaled, and the only
candidate for sympathy Is the person who
does not see this wonderful exhibition, in
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