Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-04-13
SHERMAN HEADQUARTERS.

sausage and coffee pavilions the same
The popcorn and peanut vendors must
pay at least $500 each; the confectioner
stands the same; souvenir spoons, $500
for each stand; hot waifles and griddle
cakes the same; canes and chewing
gum, $3.50 each, and others in proper
ton.
There is a small board of directors,
who meet daily, and the authority of
Mr.. Collier. the director-general, is al
most unlimited. The committee on
finance control expenditures and audit
their own bills Mr. Collier is a bank
president and young man of great
force and executive ability, and is as
sisted by the leading business men of
Atlanta. Authority is more centralized
than it was in the Chicago organiza-
tion, and there is not nearly as much
circumlocution or red tape. Each
branch is under the control of an in
dividual, who has final power and can
give prompt decisions to questions as
they come to him without reference to
committees or arguments or wire-pull-
ing, and each is responsible to the
board of directors for the proper con-
duct of his department.
The department of publicity and pro-
motion is in charge of w. G. Cooper.
an experienced newspaper man. who
understands his business and is allowed
much latitude.
There will be few official foreign ex-
hibits. Brazil, Mexico and the Argen-
tine Republic will make fine displays,
! and several other American republics
have sisnitied their intention to at
J tend; and there will be large CONNER
cial exhibits by manufacturers and
merchants from at least five of the
! European nations-England, Germany
| France, Austria and Italy,
The temperance question has just be-
gun to bother the directors. When the
/ officers of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union discovered that a GER
/ tain brewery had offered 100000 for
! the exclusive privilege of selling beer
upon the grounds from now until every
thing is packed up and shipped away
] and that the management was about
| to give such concession, they came
| in with a tremendous protest, and are
now circulating petitions from house
| to house through the city asking that
| the sale of beer and all wines and H.
| quors be absolutely prohibited by the
| municipal authorities If not by the di-
| rectors. The temperance sentiment in
| NISbl ln NNlS Slloll5t anu llt' NOlllCI
threaten to boycott the exposition il
| beer is sold.
There is to be theatre, with daily
| matineeS and performances each even
| ing, and music hall or auditorium
| where concerts and lectures are TO b,
| given.
| A lot of " Shermans bummers' were
camped in Piedmont park for severa
months, and from the bluffs that sur
round it the city of Atlanta wa.
shelled. There are lot of trenches still
grounds which the Yanks threw up fo
their protection, and some old soldier.
with enterprise and sentiment migh
make Il lot of money by building a shec
over them and charging an admission
fee. Most of them are already bein.
ploWed up and leveled off by the LAND
scape gardener, and they will all b
effaced by the next fortnight unles
somebody steps in to prevent them
do not know of anything that woul,
appeal more strongly to the old soldier
that are coming here from the soutl
than the sandy beds they slept in Will
they We're marching through Georgia
And there will be a great deal OF tha
sort of patronage.
The Chattanooga and Chckamaugi
battlefield parks are going to be dedi
Gated Sept. 49, and thousands of tn
veterans of the armies of the Tennes
see. the Cumberland and the Ohio ar
coming to witness the ceremonies Man
Will go ON to Atlanta.