The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-06


most novel sights IT the south is to see
a:cow hitched to rickety old wagon with
negro leading the same. l saw poor
white men and women, dirty and ragged
with q poor horse hitched to an old
wagon, with one or two coops Of chick
ems on, taking them to market, seeming
ly all the product they had for support.
Atlanta, Ca, has a population Of
10000 inhabitants. It is beautiful
city with a handsome and good country
around it. The streets are we'll laid out
and the buildings with nice door yards
in front, show wealth and taste. The
buildings are of modern architecture,
and when you are here you are at once
enraptured with feeling of home and
can't feel otherwise when you are treated
with kindness and respect, which is the
character of the people Of Atlanta. We
noticed the ladies were handsome, dressy
and intelligent, and the men bright,
witty and clever.
The exposition is good and exhibits in
some cases we'll worth a northern mans
time and attention to see.
The buildings Of the Atlanta exposi-
tiOn are modelled after the great worlds
exposition at Chicago, with its midway
to it on smaller scale. No one but
people Of enterprise and push could ac-
cOmplish such great expense and un-
dertaking. There is no doubt that this
great exhibit was gotten up with the
view to acquaint the people Of the north
with the new south, to know each other
better and learn each others interests in
the future. Consequently the citizens
Of the south welcome all good citizens to
come and buy their lands, locate and
with them without fear Of ostracism.
You can talk with them on the topics Of
the past war freely and they will talk
with you kindly and with the best of
feelings. They say that when the negro
was freed they felt wronged and thought
it great loss to them; but upon cooler
and better thinking they have changed
their minds and now believe that the
freeing Of the negro was a benefit, as
they are now relieved of all responsible
ty of feeding, clothing them and paying
their doctor bills. The negro now has
all this responsibility laying on himself
and must care for his own future.
In this revolution Of human actions
and events the young man Of the new
south is inspired with new zeal and
ideas and diyerts his energies and mind
in to new manufacturers channel and
thus manufacture their great staple, cot
ton, in to cloth on the lands where the
raw material is produced and thus event.
ually transplant the New England fac
tory to the south, as means Of economy
in a rival competition between the
north and south manufacturer.
A novel and interesting sight was to
see the convict prisoners at work under
an armed guard. Instead Of peniten-
tiary building in Georgia, as in Chic,
the state is laid off in county criminal
districts, the counties thus bearing their
expense Of Furnishing crime. The Grim
inals all have black run around striped
clothing and are hired out to pick cotton
and to do other work, and when not thus
employed they are put to work on the
public highways within the county. At
night they are kept in stockade under
guard.
As to Grover Cleveland in the south, l
think he is dead duck. did not hear
anyone talk favorably Of him as presi-
dent, and when he was in Atlanta in
parade at the exposition few days ago,
you would have scarcely known Grover
was there, as far as applause was con-
concerned; he might as well been sitting
on an icicle. This is what | learned and
saw in the south. VIM. RININGER.
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