The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-10-05

an exhibition of an international
character. The great States of New
York, Illinois and California, espec-
tally, will have a better representa-
tion at Atlanta than at any previous
exposition in the South, an indication
at once of the Importance of the ex-
hibition and the interest centering in
the question of commercial relations
with the Southern States, that is hap
py augury for the prosperity OF this
section, scarcely as yet recovered from
the disastrous effects of the great
Civil War. The Exposition was pro-
NOTED by the leading men in finance
in the South, and its assured success
is tribute to their patriotism and
business sagacity.
The Exposition is located in a
beautiful natural park, about three
miles from the business center of At
lanta, and in grounds which form a
kind of natural amphitheater, with an
artificial lake formed of the clear wa
ters of the Chattahoochee river in the
valley at the base of the gentle emf
nences on which the eleven main
buildings of the fair are placed. This
lake covers fifteen acres, and in the
centre Of the main basin, an electric
fountain at night throws up through
its 2,1OO orifces wheat sheaves, ring
curtains, lily-jets, parabolas, etc,
such as delighted the visitors at
night in the Grand Court of Honor
of the Columbian Exposition.
The Exposition, will of course, as
its name implies, be chiefly repre-
sentative of the Cotton States and
their products, such exhibits as will
be remembered by visitors to Atlanta's
previous exposition in 1882, and III
the New Orleans Exposition. But
there are some features that are new
and peculiar to Atlanta's big fair,
the chief of these being the Negro
Building. in which are housed an ex-
hibit of the achievements of the COL
ored race since the war, that in itself
will prove to be one of the most in
teresting and significant exhibits of
the Fair. The exhibit in the Woman's
Building, also, will, in some sense, be
a departure even from the exhibit in
'93 in Chicago, the design this time
being not so much an exhibit of what
woman has done in the sphere of
home as an illustration of what she
has accomplished in the higher fields
of art and industry, and typical there
fore of the New Woman and her am
bitions. There will be in addition to
paintings, sculpture, architectural
drawings, etc, specimens of work in
nearly all the various trades hereto
fore monopolized by men but now in
vaded by woman.
The United States Government ex-
hibit is a noteworthy one, Congress
having appropriated 100000 for the
building itself, some of the most in
teresting exhibits being those of the
Smithsonian Institution and the Gov
ernment printing office. In the latter
department the process of printing
in colors the Typographical maps of
the Geological Survey will be shown;
while in the department of arch@ol-
ogy there will be a reproduction in
miniature of the Tower of Babel and
a collection of Bibles, illustrative of
the history of the Scriptures from the
Hebrew manuscript down to our pres
ent revised version.
In general effect Atlanta's Exposi
ton surpasses any previous Exposi-
tion held in the South and as it will not
close till December 81, it will doubt
less draw thousands of visitors from
the North to this queen city of the
sunny South.
CINCINNATI O.