Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-06-21
OFFICIAL PAPER BURLEIGH co.
THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION

THE ATLA EN- POSITIDN.
The people Of the northwest little
realize with what degree of enthusiasm
and magnifcence the promoters Of the
Southern Cotton States and Interna-
tional Exposition at Atlanta, Ga, are
carrying the enterprise forward. 1t
promises TO be not only the greatest ex-
hlbition ever made il the south, but
second only to the Centennial and the
Columbian events of Philadelphia and
Chicago. Over 100000 are being spent
upon the enterprise, and many northern
states are taking an active interest in
the event that opens September IS. The
pride of the people of Atlanta in their
city is something wonderful. And why
shouldn't they feel proud? Here is a
community that has grown in a few
years from a city Of 10000 to a modern
city of 10000 people, with IL steam
railroads, IS miles of electric street rail-
way, 80 miles of granite-paved streets,
magnificent churches, schools and public
bulldings-a veritable "Chicago of the
South" as it is called by admiring north
erners.
The exposition means something more
than a great show for the amusement Of
the thousands of visitors who will at
tend. 1t will be an object lesson of the
vast resources of the new south, of the
opportunity of the investment Of capital
in manufacturing, and in all kinds of in
dustrial developments. There will be
nothing provincial or sectional about
the exposition, however. Massachusetts,
New York and Pennsylvania are prepar-
ing to make elaborate exhibits, and far
off California will give a splendid &C.
count of her superior advantages.
Liberal space has been allotted to for
eign governments and exhibits OF a high
grade will be forwarded from the manu-
featuring centers of England the CONT
nent. United States consular officials
report intense interest among European
manufacturers, especially among those
exporting cotton, silk, and wooden fab
RIGS, ceramics and cutlery.
Nature never could have prepared a
better site fer a great exposition than
the one 0 being beautified by the
hand Of man just in the outskirts of
Atlanta, not two and a half miles from
the business center Of the city. A de-
lightful, tree-embowered driveway is the
main avenue OF communication and a
well-equipped electric road affords more
rapid transit. The grounds comprise
nearly 200 acres. The site chosen is that
Of an old driving park.a broad, level
and beautiful valley, surrounded on three
aides by gradually sloping hills, the tops
Of which are themselves quite level, the
whole q vast coliseum formed by nature
as if with special intent for the use to
which it is now being put.
Most Of the buildings are being built
along the crest Of the hills. The amphi.
theater below has been laid out like a
beautiful flower garden, with a great
fountain in the center, and at the far end,
where the valley is not shut in by hills,
but stretches away for miles, an artificial
lake Is being constructed, fully as large
as the great lagoon at the Worlds fair.
Along the shore of this lake will lie the
Midway Plaisance, the many strange and
attractive features of which, it is prom
ised will eclipse aver those at Chicago.
One may stand in front of the fine arts
building and take in the whole exposi-
ton at a glance.
There will be about twenty buildings
in all, named a good deal like those at
the Columbian exposition. Most of them
will be constructed of yellow pine, cover
cred with shingles, though a few, nota.
bly, the fine arts, woman's and machin-
cry, will be dressed out in staff and
alumnite. When finished the grounds
will be embellished with every concert Of
modern landscape cunning, and will
almost rival that great White City which
sprung up like magic On the shores Of
Lake Michigan in 1893.