The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-13

flour, dividing a spacious stand with I,iy-
lngston's baking powder and Livingston's
prescription cabinet
E. J. Keiffer the druggist, makes a dis
play OF his celebrated baby powder, while
the Encyclopedias Pen and Pencil-holder
company, housed in a neatly arranged
booth, forms another of the novelties of
the Savannah display.
The Savannah Cotton Mills make an ex-
tensive display of yarns, showing sixty
varieties of their manufacture, arranged
IN the form of pyramid and occupying
a conspicuous place in the space. Along
side, of this exhibit of the manufactured
goods, Col. w. w. Gordon's collection of
sea island cotton attracts a great deal of
attention This collection, which COM
prlses forty samples, is pronounced to be
one or the very finest Individual displays
OF cotton ever made upon any occasion.
the cotton is shown in handsome cases
MADE especially for the purpose at the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
shops, under special orders of the COM
lesson in yellow pine.
In the board of trade exhibit the dis
tinctive features of Savannah's commerce
are emphasized Mcmillan Bros. show
a miniature turpentine still with all the
Tools used in the making of the product
and specimens of the turpentine logs
while the whole is surmounted with a nv,
ramid of rosin arranged according to its
grades and values. There are also sam
pies OF oils and turpentine given by the S
+ Shotter Company, lampblack made
from the rosin, contributed by the Sea-
mann Manufacturing Company, varnishes,
by the Forest City Narnish Company one
of the newer industries of the civ a
specially interesting item of this section
Is the display of brick by the Chatham.
Many people when they come to Savan-
nan, SAID capt Purse, land see the sandy
country, ask US the question, Where
DO you get your clay to make brick with?'
They seem to think that we haven't GOT
any so we brought these brick along r.,
SNOW sret tnst we nave, and that it makes
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Probably the most conspicuous feature
OF the commercial exhibit is the central
collective exhibit made by Guckenheimer.
II was gotten up with view to making il
comprehensive illustration of SavauS
mans claim to being the great grocery
that was contributed by the leading i erol
Gerry concerns of Europe for this express
The Baldwin Fertilizer Comnanv ana tna
Somercial Guano Company, in a Joint ex
nlblt, nave sent up the large specimens
OF OF Whale bones, which are the largest fos-
Sis 70 De seen on the grounds and conse-
qgently attract great deal Of attention
Leaving the commercial exhibit and 20
ang over to the west side of the display
Wnere the Women's department and the
art departments have been located one
OF the most unique exhibits that could be
1 1Hi IN TINS country is found-that of
Solomons Masonic lodge, the oldest in
America, instituted in 1875. Among the rare
ana priceless old relics shown by the lodge
Is the charter granted from the grand
lodge or England, a Bible presented bv
Gen Oglethorpe to the lodge in 1735 and a
collection Of the Oldest aprons and other
regalia IN this county probably in the
whole world.
In the art department Hoffman has a
collection OF photographs and there is a
inquire OF Washington done in tapestry
loaned by J. P. Mcintyre together with
a reproduction in photographs of the Tel
tair Art Gallery. There is also a series of
photographs representing the career of
Or. Prlestly, with his final resting place in
Westminster Abbey. Walz also has his
bust of Bismarck, Brandt and Garnet
Stubbs, with bunch of roses and lilies of
the valley cut in pure white marble that
have already been much talked about by
the art critics. Another Of the portraits in
the art section is that of Thos. Purse made
in 1884, the father of Capt. D. G. Purse and
the originator of the first time tables used
on the Central railroad in 1899
The southwest wing of the exhibit has
been christened Fort Collier in honor
of President Collier Of the exposition com
pany, and the Washington Guns of the
Chatham artillery with a stand of revo-
lutionary arms loaned by Misses Alice
and Annie White, placed there along with
the exhibit of the Hazard Powder Com
pany made by j. NJ. Dixon, state agent of
Savannah.
Across from Fort Collier" in the cas-
tern wing, the exhibit of the Morning
News has been located. This embraces
everything in the printing line from spec
linens Of plain and ornamental type
printing to the most elaborate engrav-