The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-18
CLEVELAND, DIAz, CRESP0.
THE THREE AMERICAN PRESI-
DENTS WHO MAY MEET AT
ATLANTA.

A Most Significant Event, II Accom-
pItshed. For which the Exposition
management Il StrivinE-The Pres
ence in Atlanta OF the Chief Mag
istrates of Three of the Most Pow
erfuI American Republics Would
BE n Trump Card.
Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 1.-THE manage
ment Of the Cotton States and Interna-
tionaI Exposition has taken steps to bring
the presidents Of two OF the most i'm
portant Of the southern republics 10 At
lanta in time TO meet President Cleveland
on his proposed trip TO the exposition. II
Is probable that a strong commission,
composed of Gen. Isaac W.. Avery. com
missioner TO the South American repub-
lies; Col William L. Scruggs, ex-United
States minister to Venezuela, and Hon.
Leonidas +. Livingston. will shortly start
10 Venezuela to invite President Crespo
and cabinet TO visit Atlanta during the
exposition.
Gen. Avery has just returned from Nene-
zuela, where he secured a fine exhibit
in which five of the most important states
of that republic will take part. In view
of the approaching exposition Nenezu-
ella requested the Plant system to put
on a direct line of steamships between
La Guayra and Tampa, but not having
ships available for immediate use, Mr..
Plant was unable to supply them so soon.
To overcome this difficulty Gen. Avery
recently went to New York and secured
from the Red d line an important con-
eession to the effect that for parties of
twenty. or more steamers viii stop at
Savannah, saving seven or eight hundred
lnsies of the voyage The Red ID line will
also make an important reduction in the
rates for this travel. Gen. Avery says
that with this liberal concession a very
large attendance from Venezuela is as
sured. Col. Scruggs, who has official
connection with the Venezuelan govern
ment, is confident that President Crespo
can be induced to come to Atlanta.
A strong committee, headed by X. ID.
Spaulding, vice chairman of the eXecu-
tive committee. will leave Atlanta to-mor-
row for the City of Mexico. TO present to
President Diaz and cabinet an invitation
to visit the exposition. President Diaz
has taken deep interest in the exposition
and will have a fine exhibit here and there
is every reason to believe that he will
come. The presence of the presidents of
two of the greatest American republics
together with the President of the United
States will be an event unparalleled in
the history of the Western hemisphere,
and beyond question will tend to increase
the cordial feeling which this exposition
has done so much to establish between
this country and its neighbors in South
and Central America.
Washington, Aug. 12.-The forestry ex-
hibit at the Atlanta exposition promises
10 be the most complete and instructive
ever made by the government, excelling
in excellence, though not in size, the ex-
hibit at Chicago in 1898. The exhibits
are now being shipped and the work of in
stallation will proceed as rapidly as they
arrive at Atlanta. 1t is the aim of DR..
B. f. Fernow, chief of the department of
forestry, to make the exhibit typical of
the splendid timber interests Of the south
ern states. 1t is DR.. FernOws intention
TO remove the exhibit as far as possible
from commercial aspects. with the inten-
ton of presenting an educational display.
The wide range in the use of wood in
all phases of human life will be shown.
Large panels are already hung on the
pillars of the building, each represent
ing one particular line of uses; as for
instance, wood in the kitchen, wood in
the laundry. in sports, in the garden, etc.
The lumber exhibit will be so complete
that any one may trace the growth of the
tree through various stages, learn its
adaptability TO various commercial uses
its value durability, comparative worth
for special uses, etc. In this exhibit
which includes a complete statistical his
tory of southern forestry interests, Dr.
Fernow has been ably seconded by the
lumbermen of the south, SO that the ex-
hibit is a most complete one.