The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-09


south, the expenses of which exhibit will
not come out Of the general government
fund of $500, 600. The government build
ing will be 26O feet long and $50 feet wide
and win be open to the roof inside. The
main portion Of the building will be one
story high and will rise 25 feet to the
caves The central or clear story Of the
building is designed in the form Of a Cross
and will rise 10 feet above the main story.
The building will also be thanked by four
round towers 40 feet high and VIII be I'm
posing as well as pleasing to the eye.
Among the other buildings now enected,
in process Of erection or under considera-
ton are the Manufactures building, $40
by 260 feet in dimensions on the ground,
with a tower that will rise 100 feet into
the air; Machinery hall, 100 by 500 feet
and 50 feet high; Agricultural hall, 800
by $50 feet and with a 100 foot tower;
Minerals and Forestry building, so by $50
feet; Electricity building, 81 by ESQ feet,
with 100 foot tower for electrical dis
plays; Fine Arts building, so by 100 feet,
with two side wings Of the same dimen-
sions, and large buildings that will be de-
voted to woman's work, transportation and
negro exhibits.
One OF the decided novelties of the ex-
position VIII be the negro exhibit, the first
OF the kind ever given. Prominent negroes
throughout the country are taking an in
terest in the project, and the race will en-
deavor to show the world that 1t has made
good use of the barely 80 years of freedom
it has enjoyed in America. State commits
sions will be organized throughout the
south, and some prominent colored man
will be chairman of each commission. The
direction of the entire negro exhibit is In
the hands Of such prominent men as w.
II. Venable, owner Of the Stone Mountain
granite quarries; Ex-Governor Rufus B.
Bullock; General Clement A. Evans, re-
Gently q candidate for governor; j. @.
Oglesby, president of the Commercial club
and ex- Postmaster j. r. Lewis. The col
ored man did not have much Of a chance
to show what he had done and what he
could do at the Worlds fair, but he will
have the opportunity Of the century at the
Atlanta exposition.
Representative southern women are
working hard to interest their sex in the
Woman's building, and Mrs. Josiah Kings
ley Oil, who recently visited New York,
was very enthusiastic over the outlook
1.-The Woman's building at the Worlds
fair won't be in IL with ours, - she said to
a reporter. The woman's board OF the ex-
position Is composed Of 12 members, and
these have selected the general board OF
women managers composed of so represent
design win be accepted for the building,
and the great speciality Of the exhibit will
be woman's work in various lines. Wom-
ans thought viii be shown more by her
work than by the speeches and papers sc
popular at Chicago.
One Of the great objects OF the exposition
is to stimulate trade with South America,
the West Indies, Mexico and Central Amer
lea and special representatives will be sent
81 IA ~ II s1I,
have already displayed great interest in
the project and are preparing TO be well
represented when the exposition opens its
doors Sept. Is, 1895. Among the amuse-
ment attractions will be the Cairo street
that was seen at the Worlds fair, a gil
gantic cyclorama representing the Ha-
waiian volcano Of Kilauea, the largest &C
tive volcano In the world, and some other
great attraction not yet decided upon that
will be to the exposition what the Ferris
wheel was to the Worlds fair.
Atlanta made great success, financial
and otherwise, Of her first cotton exposi-
ton in 1881, and there seems no good rea-
son why the exposition Of 1895 should not
be the greatest ever seen in the south.
Within radius of 800 miles Of Atlanta
there Is said to be total population of TO-
500, 600, which should give the exposition
an attendance Of 8, 600, 600 or 4, 600, 600 at
the least. The estimated population,
however, seems too large. Atlanta is a
very progressive and bustling city of near
ly 100, 600 inhabitants, all of whom are
entering heart, soul and pocketbook into
the plans designed to make the exposition
the talk OF the country. The city is ,0S0
feet above the level of the sea, the air Is
comparatively cool and braciDg, and with
such potent attraction as the exposition
the city Is sure to have a great crowd to
entertain between Sept. Is, 1895, and Jan.
], 1896.
When the Grand Army of the Republic
meets in Septemben il will be invited to
visit Atlanta in a body and fraternize with
the numerous ex- Confederate societies that
viii meet at the same time
G. 7. BAXTER
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