The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-19

bappv unless they are humbugged lit
file. and side-shows, curiosities, foreign
WAYS, and other catch penny concerns
are seen here and there.
The midway is here in all its Chicago
glory not quite so dazzingly wicked
perhaps, but quite as noisy, busting and
wonderful. The management has sepa-
rated it from the main part of the
grounds, and you have to climb up
flight of long steps to reach it. AS you
approach it at night, the flare of the
lights. the noise of the drums, the min
cling of shrill voices, the clamOr of the
door-keeper, and the exhibitions of the
freaks make a veritable pandemonium
Here is the world, the flesh and
the devil, with rather more of
the devil than is seen outside Of
of the Bowery, where "they do such
things and say such things.
at takes all sorts of people to make a
world was an old-time maxim. 1t takes
all sorts of things-good, bad and indif-
ferent-to make an Exposition, and they
are all here, the bad being not more than
one hundredth of the whole.
did not regret but once that the
North Carolina Legislature refused to
arrange for a great display OF the States
resources and that was all the time.
"Gizzard" French has damned the legisla-
tors for all time by the excuse he gives
for not advertising North Cardinals re-
sources in the best advertising medium
that has ever been presented. 'Some or
the legislators were offended because
some North Oarolinians residing in At
lanta passed resolutions denouncing the
Legislature because it adjourned in
honor of Douglass, and for that reason
they would vote nothing TO make an
exhibit" is "Gizzard's" excuse. 1t Is
worse than no excuse, IN that
it convicts the legislators of being
false to their State from feeling
of petty spite toward handful
of patriotic men. 1t makes North
Carolinian feel bad to go through the
attractive Alabama display in its build
ing, and then to go around searching for
what North Carolina has. When he
finds it, he is proud of it, and grateful,
first of all to Prof JOS. A. Holmes and
the Geological Survey for putting here
part of the handsome exhibit Of woods
and minerals that the State had at
Chicago, with some additions. Half way
around the building, near the roof, runs
a map of North Carolina, showing the
location of mineral deposits which, to-
gether with the fine samples taken from
all parts of the State, MAKES North Oar
DINA prominent. From Sanford comes
a wonderful mantle carved from Moore
county granite; from the Mount AIRY
Granite Works the largest single piece OF
granite here, being just as large as a
fiat car, and it would have been larger If
the car could have been en-
larged; exhibits of acetelyne,
the new illuminant made in Rockingham
county, made from calcium carbide,
which puts gas, petroleum and electric
light in the shade monozite IN all
forms, including the Welsbach burners;
and from all sections came samples or
minerals and woods that lead every
other State represented here.
The PEOPLE of the State also oTe
thanks to the Seaboard Air Line and the
Southern Railway for the handsome dis
play they have made Of the resources
and products OF the country through
which they 1un, aud as they touch vii
mington, Weldon and Murphy, thus em-
bracipg all the State except the extreme
East. TIE Southern has building OF
its owr-a dream in architecture in &c
tagon shape. 1t is full of exhibits from
the South, aud North Carolina furnishes
the lions share 1t is under the man
agement Of Mr. Green, former
curator of the State Museum,
whose taste has 50 arranged the miner
ais, woods, products, and views that
they attract every visitor. The Seab0acd
Air Line has no building but in one Of
the main buildings has a display that Is
so full, so descriptive, and so attractive
that it cannot escape observation. Here,
as in the Southern, North Carolina fur
nishes most Of what is shown, and these
two railroads have done for the State
almcgt as much as ii could have done for
itself
II is in these three ways that the Visi
tors see North Carolina and what it has
ard what it can produce. Ia addition
Tyson & Jones, carriage builders, have
as elegant and popular line Of buggies
and carriages as were ever seen on
wheels. Mr.. W. B. Waddell, who has
LCpiSpCntSu Ahlo SLV"b L'cAtA SeAACiAA~
concern since 1890 is in charge, and is
booking orders for stylish bug
gies and carriages The r. J
Reynolds Tobacco Company of Winston
is here in great shape, and lead all other
tobacco men in attractiveness. In the
woman's building North Carolina women
have sent something but not much, /
am sorry to say. There are other North
Carolina things here, but | have the
promise of Prof JOS. A. Holmes, to
write little later an article on "NOrth
Carolina at the Cotton States EXPOSE
ton" which will be full and appreciatiye.
In the meantime it is worth going to
Atlanta to see the great show.
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Capt. Sydenham B. Alexander is here
to attend the Road Congress
and replied to the address of well
come this morning He is a fit
man to talk about good roads, being the
father of road improvement in North