The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-11-30
The Cotton States Exposition.


Atlanta. Georgia, is now the most interest
lug place Ill America. The Cotton States
Exposition is in full blast, and there are gath
cred REPRESENTATIVES of all nations-Chinese,
Japanese, Turks; Russians, Italians, MeXl-
cans. Spaniards, Frenchmen, Germans, Eng
lishmen and people from every stale IN the
Union. In large and handsome buildings
beautifully decorated, are displayed the pro
ducts of the mills, the looms, the mines The
forests and the streams of the South, together
with exhibits of art and manufacture from
many of the other states and from foreign
countries.
4 continual throng is going and coming,
and all who visit the Exposition amazed
at its extent and completeness. No other
city of like population, about 10000, would
have undertaken at the time an enterprise OF
such magnitude, and thatit citizens have car
ried ii to success is a grand testimonial to their
energy and capacity. When the Exposition
was proposed the country was in Il condition
of depression unknown for many years, but
the energetic people of Atlanta, with admlra-
bic courage took hold of the matter, and the
result Is AN Exposition any city could be
proud of and one that has advertised the clty
to the world and will be of incalculable value
to the business interests of Atlanta and the
South in general.
The Maryland Democratic Editors Asso-
citation visited Atlanta and the Exposition
last week. They went by the Southern Rail
way pullman Exhibition Flyer, leaving
Washington at 4.39 on Monday afternoon.
and arriving at Atlanta at ll.30 the next
morning. In Atlanta they were quartered ut
the Oriental Hotel. Il house centrally located,
close to the theatres, business section, and
with street cars running by its doors f" the
Exposition grounds.
The Association were accompanied by Il
number of ladies and the trip was a most en-
joyable one. Through the courtesy of Col. j.
Thomas Schart, Commissioner OF lmmigra
ton at New York, who is now i'll charge of
the Chinese at the Exposition, the AsSocla-
ton were given Il special performance at the
Chinese theatre, were taken i'll to see the
''Chinese Beauties, ten or Il dozen Chinese
women. and then into the Chinese village,
where were exhibited many articles of Chinese
art and manufacture. All were of interest,
particularly the department of furniture,
where was displayed the handsOmest furniture
to be seen ut the Exposition. All along the
Midway are numerous attractions, and Il
day can be very pleasantly spent there. The
EsquimauX are particularly interesting. and
so is the Sioux Village. But for side-Splitting
fun the Log Cabin Negro Minslrels is the
place to 90. The performers are genuine
darkeyS, who need no cork adornmentS.
In the Exposition buildings proper are
shown the progress of the South in manutac-
tures particularly in cotton. In ante-bellum
days the cotton was shipped 10 New England,
there manufactured into goods and shipped
back. The people of the South thus paid the
freight both ways and a profit to the New
England mill owners for manufacturing it.
Now the South does its own manufacturing.
Factories are located in the cotton belt, and
many others are being erected. The exhibits
of manufactures Of all kinds show remarkable
progress i'll the past fifteen years, for the
Southern people did not obtain control OF
their affairs for some years after the war, and
it took some time thereafter to recover from
the effects of et-bag misrule. In iron and
cotton manufactures the South Is destined to
excel, and glimpse of the exhibits at the
Exposition will readily show it. The South
! has all the elements necessary To become Il
! great commercial, manufacturing and agricul-
! tural section. From the Potomac 10 the Rio
| Grande there is every variety Of soil and eli
mate. In raising cereals, fruits and vegeta
bles there is no limit to possibilities, while
| the coal, iron, clay, timber, copper, cotton
and wool make possible every variety fman
ufacture that must shortly make the South ;
| great manufacturing centre. The South Is
| concentrated at the Exposition, and one car
! learn more by few days visit to it than by
months of travel.
| Atlanta is an attractive city. Its manutac.
lures are varied, and as one of her progressive
! citizens expressed it. ''Atlanta manufacture.
everything from a needle to Il steam engine.
! There are no very extensive industries, such
as Roanoke and Birmingham have. upon
which these cities principally depend, but
! great variety of small factories and industries
the whole making up Il vast interest. ThC
| public buildings particularly the state capi
toll, the theatres, the club houses, the Office
| buildings, the banks, the churches and tn,
schools, and the wholesale and retail houses
the many elegant and handsome private resi-
dences, the paved and asphalt streets, thu
general business activity, and withal the gen
eral hospitality Of the people, all go TO max,
Atlanta an attractive city. And when it i
considered that the town was laid in ashes b,
Gen. Sherman during the war, and It's popu
laton scattered, its growth and progress i
wonderful, and the energy and enterprise 0
It's citizens challenge the highest admiration
1t is not Northern capital and energy, a
many people suppose, that has built up AT
lanta, but Southern enterprise.
The Democratic Editors Association lai,
aside the pen, scissors and paStc-pOt, and en-
loved their trip to the fullest extent. Thu
!
of their stay was pleasant. A number of then
were cordially received by Gov. Atkinson
and were admitted to the floor Of the Senate
and House, the Legislature being in session
! The House is Il large body, of nearly twt
hundred members, including thirty eight Pop
ulist and one colored Republican. Mr., Clarl
! Howell the talented editor of the LuHNtHU
ton, the leading journal OF the South, gave
reception to the Association at the club hous
of the Piedmont Driving Club, at the Expo
sitiop Grounds, and altogether the trip Of tn
| Association was one of unmingled pleasure.
NOTES.
Atlanta is the home of Hon. Holie Smith
! Secretary of the Interior, but he is by N
means the idol of the city. The people gen
orally are for free silver, and the Constitution
is their champion. Mr. Smith is the Admin
istration representative of gold momomctal
ism, and his paper, the JonHH, the Admin
istration organ. President Cleveland is no
in favor with the great mass of the people
and his financial policy is the cause. Cleve
| land supporters in the South are more rar,
than anti Cleveland men are in Carroll.
| The Atlanta electric railway cars ran at
higher rate of speed than in most other cities
After the business sections are passed, tn
speed is often at the rate of twenty-five mile
an hour.
The electric lighting at the Exposition
grounds is superb and brilliant. Myriads o
lights illumine the buildings without anG
within, and arc lights make the grounds near
| ly as bright by night as by day. The Expo
! Stinn at night Is a fairy scene