Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-05-25
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 waffies 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-
ton, and there is not nearly as much
eircumlocution 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 signified their intention to at
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 Womans 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 a 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 Ii
quors be absolutely prohibited by the
municipal authorities if not by the di-
rectors. The temperance sentiment in
Georgia is very strong. and the women
threaten TO boycott the exposition il
beer is sold.
There is to be a theatre. with daily
matinees and performances each even
ing, and a music han or auditorium,
where concerts and lectures are to be
given.
A lot of Sherman's bummers" were
camped in Piedmont park for several
months, and from the bluffs that sur
round IL the city of Atlanta was
shelled. There are a lot of trenches still
remaining within the exposition
grounds which the Yanks threw UP for
their protection, and some old soldiers
with enterprise and sentiment might
make a lot Of money by building a shed
over them and charging ar, admission
fee Most of them are already being
plowed up and leveled on by the land
scape gardener, and they will all be
effaced by the next fortnight unless
somebody steps i'm to prevent them.
do not know of anything that would
appeal more strongly to the old soldiers
that are coming here from the south
than the sandy beds they slept in while
they were marching through Georgia
And there will be great deal of that
sort of patronage.
The Chattanooga and Chickamauga
battlefield parks are going to be dedi-
Gated Sept. 10, and thousands of the
veterans of the armies Of the Tennes-
see, the Cumberland and the Ohio are
coming to witness the ceremonies. Many
will go on TO Atlanta,