Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1895-10-29
The Atlanta Exposition.

national Exposition, at Atianta, ga
We would have preferred to go with
our brothers of the West Virginia
Press Association the present week,
but our business engagements were
such as to necessitate on our part an
earlier visit and return.
The trip from here to Washington
was made over the old reliable b. &
o., whose enterprising and liberal
management, through its courteous
General Passenger Agent. Mr.. Chas.
o. Scull, afforded all facilities and a
pleasant and agreeable trip. From
Washington the way is by the
Southern Railway-Mr L. S. Brown.
General Agent, extending to the ed
itors, in behalf of his company, the
most liberal courtesy. The route of
the Southern is a very interesting
one. traversing. as it does, some of
the most historic sections of Virginia,
the Carolinas and Georgia-passing
Manassas, Brandy Station, Char
lottesville, Lynchburg and Danville,
and through the cotton sections OF
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia. The Southern is elegantly
equipped and one of the smoothest
and most easy running roads in the
country, with the very best train
service and careful, courteous and
efficient train men and officers, max
ing travel over its road both desira-
BILE and pleasant. Visitors to At
Ianta will therefore find it both con-
venient and agreeable to travel by
this direct and popular line. In adj
dition to its elegant dining car ser
vice, excellent meals are served at
Charlotte and Mt. Airy.
The Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition, though not on
such an immense scale as the great
Worlds Columbian Exposition, is a
creditable and interesting exhibit
of Southern progress, and well worth
a trip to Atlanta to witness. The
grounds are beautifully laid off, and
at night under the almost magic
power of thousands of electric lights,
Chinese lanterns and other illumi-
nants, present a scene of beauty
that it would be difficult to describe.
The principal structures are the adj
ministration building, fine arts build
ing, auditorium, United States Gov
ernment, Georgia State, manufac-
lures and liberal arts, agricultural,
Negro, mineral and forestry, ma
chinery, Georgia manufacturers,
electricity, woman's and Transports
ton buildings. A great tower sup
ports chime of bells, which afford
sweet music each day.
Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Massachusetts, Alabama,
Florida and California each have
creditable State buildings.
The grounds are divided by wide
walks, paved with crushed limestone,
into ten parts of different shapes and
sizes, which are covered with green
sward and ornamented with various
kinds of plants, shrubs and ever
greens. Skirting the plaza on the
south, and twelve feet below it, is a
broad walk-way, just beyond which
reposes beautiful Clara Nicer, lake
which covers thirteen acres and
whose greatest depth is twenty-five
feet. In the midst of this is a mag
nificent electric fountain.
Midway Heights command consid-
cradle attention, and whilst they
abound in much that is trashy, there
are at least several places there well
worth visiting. Hagenbeck's great
menagerie of trained wild and do
nestle animals is the best in the |
world, and should not be missed the
Streets of Cairo, with the camel rid
ind, etc., afford lots of amusement,
and the Mexican Village, Circus and
Theatre have much to please and en-
terrain.
The Southern Railway has on the
grounds building of its own, which
contains cases of various products
from the territory tributary to its
lines, and other attractive exhibits.
The special fireworks display,
which is given on two evenings each
week, representing the storming of
Port Arthur, is transcendantly |
grand, presenting an exhibition of
rare attraction and great merit. At
3 p. m. each day the U. S. Life Saw
ing Service gives an interesting ex-
hibition on Lake "Clara Meer.''
Virginia Day at the Atlanta Ex-
position (oct. 22) was the occasion
of gathering of ten thousand yir-
ginians. Governor O'FerralI was