The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-22
ATLANTA'S SHOW A GREAT ONE.
THE JURY OF AWARDS ISSUES An
ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.

ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.
The Educational Value of the Expo
sition of IncaIcuIabIe Advantage.
The Governments Exhibit an In
structive Illustration of Its Wise
and Bencficcnt FUnctiOns-Thc Dis
play Of the Resources of the south
Both Valuable and Instructive-Ad-
TairabIe signs of Interstate Coop
Grafton and IntercOurse-The WO-
mans Department Highly Credit
able.
atlanta. Ca. oct. 2l.-At meeting to-
day Of the jury of the highest awards OF
the Cotton States and international Ex-
position The following address to the pub
lis was adopted. This jury is made up
OF the chairmeu OF all the special COM
mittoes Of the committee on awards,
which with Or. d. c. Gilman of Johns
Hopkins university as chairman, CON
sists of many Of The most eminent men
in the United States. The address is as
follows:
To the People Of the United States:
Cotton States and International EXPOSE
tion. Atlanta, Ga, Oct. q, 1S95.-The I'M
dersisned jurors and members of the
highest board of award. having visited
the principal departments Of the Atlanta
exposition and having had the advan-
tage Of guidance and suggestion from the
most qualified experts. think it important
TO communicate our Impressions to the
public, throughout the country, by the
agency of the newspaper press, IN ad-
vance of such reports as may be here
after made to the constituted authorities.
We desire to call attention TO the edu-
cational value Of the Atlanta exposition,
its important relations to industry, and
its manifold indications of the progress
of the useful and liberal arts.
But in this brief paper we can only indi-
cate q few Of the most significant charac-
teristics.
l. The exhibits of the national govern
ment constitute a unique, complete and
instructive illustration Of its wise and
beneficent functions With a building of
moderate size examples are given Of the
work of the federal government in its re-
lations to statosmanship, international in
tercourse, the administration OF justice,
promotion of commerce domestic and for
eign, and the control of the national
finances; the arts of national defense on
ricultGTe, forestry, mines and mineral
wealth, fisheries and fish culture; the pro-
lection and promotion OF commerce by
surveys OF the coast, the lakes, rivers and
the mountains; the study of the climate
and the forccasting of the weather; the
maintenance Of light houses and life-sav-
ing stations; the education and civiliza-
ton of the Indian; the encouragement of
invention, literature, and the hne arts by
protecting the rights of the inventor, the
writer, and the artist, the advancement
a
agency OF the Smithsonian institution, the
rational museum the manifold services Of
the bureau Of education and the collec-
ton Of great libraries; the study OF the
diseases Of the human race and also of
plants and animals: ana the protection of
life by cautlonary and remedial agencies,
the prevention OF epidemics, and the reg
ulauon of the food supply these all, ex-
hibited in a compact FORM bring before
the people the noblest offices of a strong,
comprehensive, well ordered government,
and are the best exhibitions OF the kind
that have ever been made.
?. We admire the civic pride displayed
BY the citizens of Atlanta, The Gate
City OF the South" which in thirty years
has risen from the devastations of fire
and sword, poverty and distress, and now
illustrates in many ways, and especial
j. in this exposition, what may be done
. for the advancement of a vast region, by
cthe union, enterprise, generosity. knowi-
TRACE and skill Of an unselfhsh and volun-
whay body of citizens tremendously or
any ID ne varied ana lneXhauSuDle re-
Of the cotton states, their min
lalth, agricultural products, man.
and railroads, as we'll as their
Of education, are well displayed
A Savam departments of the exposition,
tally in the comprehensive ex-
y have been made by the states
A gentlerl, North Carolina, South Car
tha ct+,. )ama, Louisiana and Arkansas.
' ''' are many admirable signs of
fner IN cooperation and social inter-
ing Newsle visits of the President and
49,. -+.,,,;, lent of the United States, of
'N'S HNt-Ait rs of many distant states (of-
ence IN intrid by large escorts of their fell
Of Uncle Sss), the assemblies of bankers,
- !, teachers, women of religious
Desis anu tlthropic associations and of pa
When hecieties the recognition of the
amount and especially the meeting of
~ - thousands of soldiers in friendly
ms Posurse-the blue and the gray, home
change bound from Chickamauga-ma
five slate the good will and fraternity
Frenc prevalent among the citizens of our
of 5Ked republic, and the establishment
curT not only peace, but of sympathy
those who have been widely sep
81 rated. In addition to the buildings of
The cotton states, those constructed by
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachus-
etts and Illinois and that of California
with it's contents, afford additional evil
dences Of this friendly relationship.
5. Women have made most important
contributions to this exposition. The wo-
mans building, designed by a woman, is
entitled in the opinion Of one of our