The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-11-21
SEE THE GREAT SHOW.
TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF AND VISIT THE
ATLANTA EXPOSITION.

TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF AND VISIT THE
ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
What to Study When You Arrive
Report Of The Chairmen of the Com
mittees Forming the Jury of Award
North Carolina Receives Honorable
Hention-Some Interesting Features
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 21st.-At a
meeting to-day Of the jury of highest
awards OF the Cotton States and in
ternational Exposition, the following
address to the public was adopted.
The jury is made up of the chairmen
of all the special committees on awards,
which with DR.. D. c. Gilman, of the
Johns Hopkins University, as chair
man, consists of many Of the most en-
inent men in the United States. The
address is as follows:
COTTON STATES AND INTERNA-
TIONAL EXPOSITION,
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 2Ist, '9s.
To The People Of the United States:
The undersigned jurors and men,
bcrs of the highest board of award,
hav ing visited the principal depart
ments of the Atlanta Exposition and
having had the advantage of guidance
and suggestions from the most quail
fled experts, think it important to COM
municate our impressions to the public
throughout the country by the agency
| of the newspaper press. In advance of
such reports as may be hereafter made
to the constituted authorities, we desire
to call attention to the educational
value of the Atlanta Exposition, its i'm
portant relations to industry, and its
manifold indications of the progress of
the useful and liberal arts.
But in this brief paper we can only
indicate few of the most important
significant characteristics:
After reference to the instructive
government exhibit, the second head
is as follows:
I've admire the civic pride dis
played by the citizens of Atlanta,
"the Gate City Of the South" which
in 80 years has risen from the devas-
tations of fire and sword, poverty and
distress, and now illustrates in many
ways, and especially in this exposition,
what may be done for the advance
ment of vast region by the union, en-
terprise, generosity, knowledge and
skill of an unselfish and voluntary body
of citizens harmoniously organized.
The varied and inexhaustible re-
sources of the cotton States, their min
eral wealth, agricultural products, man.
ufactures and railroads, as we'll as their
systems of education, are we'll dis
played in many departments of the
exposition, but especially in the COM
prehensive exhibits that have been
made by the States of Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama,
Louisiana and Arkansas.
Section refers to the many admi-
rable signs Of interstate cooperation
and social intercourse. 1t concludes:
In addition to !he buildings of the cot
ton States, those constructed by New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and
Illinois, and that Of California, with
its contents, afford additional evil
dences of this friendly relationship.
5-Women have made most impor-
tant additions to this exposition. The
Woman's Building, designed by wo-
man, is entitled, in the opinion of one
of our most highly qualified judges, to
a place next to the highest among all
the constructions of Piedmont Park.
The illustrations OF woman's work are
attractive and suggestive.
There is here rare opportunity to see
many original documents a. d portraits
The educational and charitable work
is excellent, and in all departments Of
embroidery and other branches of dec
orative art the exhibits of the Woman's S
Building are unsurpassed.
J Section refers with favorable COM
! mendation to the electrical and ma
chinery exhibits, ETC., and concludes:
The contents of the building devoted
to mines and forestry, is one Of the
most interesting exhibits, containing
admirable examples of our natural re-
sources. Let the observer notice with
out fail, a model of the wearing out or
erosion Of farm, after the forests were
cut down, and its restoration when the
planting OF trees began.
Section ] asks attention to the ex-
hibits that illustrate the progress of
education and science.
| 8.-The advancement of the COL
ored population in intelligence, indus
try and enterprise is shown (though
apart from the educational exhibits.
not as adequately shown as for their
own sake we could wish) in the Negro
Building, where may be seen the illus
trations of the steps by which an eman
cipated race is advancing in freedom,
knowledge, skill and thrift. Every
visitor should observe with an appre.
ciative spirit, this suggestive and com.
prehensive exhibit. The attitude o.
the authorities OF the exposition to
wards the colored race has received
widespread recognition and approba
: ton.
,, 9. The exposition affords very
, striking evidence that the last ten year