The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-05
THE EXPOSITION AND THE RAIL
ROAD FACILITIES FOR
REACHING 1T.
cFrOm Manufacturers Record.)

at Chicago, with its massive a. i'm
posing buildings it's immensely in pro
portions and almost discouraging we'll
nigh iIIimitable aisles of the exhibits of
ali nations, that mammoth exposition
is but a pleasant memory; but its gran
deur and phenomenal success served to
stimulate the southern section of our
country to plan and build the ssMagic
City" at Atlanta, Ga, as well to ex
hibit to the world the vast natural re.
sources of the South, and it's revival
and growth from the general devasta-
ton incident to the war, which was
not satisfactorily accomplished at the
great Columbian Exposition, as To
crafty the American public with an
exhibition smaller in proportions, but
quite as complete and attractive in de
tail embracing peculiar Southern fea-
lures that were absent at Chicago.
The Cotton States and International
Exposition is not the dream of a few
enthusiastic and visionary men, as very
many, even in the South, at first re,
garded it, but an accomplished fact
that has enlisted the hearty interest
and c cooperation of all the Southern
States, of Mexico and the countries of
Central and South America; has open
ed its gates under the most suspicious
circumstances and at the most attrac-
tive season of the year in that 81 ction,
and promises the fullest realization of
the most sanguine hopes and expecta-
tions of It's projectors. Public interest
in this really great exposition and the
desire to visit it is so general that the
question, Are you going to Atlanta7"
has become an ordinary salutation.
Fortunately for the exposition and
for those who will visit it, the railroads
in the South have manifested the most
commendable interest and earnest CO.
opera lion in it's success, and lave not
only fully prepared themselves to offer
first class service, but have been ex
ceedingly generous in the matter of es
tablishing through and round trip rates
that will make a visit to the exposition
practicable to those even of moderate
means.
Foremost in this respect is the great
railroad system which reaches every
part of the South, with perfect connec
tions with other first class roads to the
East, North, Northwest and Southwest,
which is operated under the name of
the Southern Railway, with it's general
offices and headquarters at Washing
ton, D. O.
The enterprise of the management OF
the Southern is exemplified by the fact
that it has just added another train to
its daily service between New York
and Atlanta, known as the Exposition
Flyer making three daily trains each
way, consisting Of day coaches, sleep
ing and dining cars, which make the
run from the metropolis through Phil
adelphia and Baltimore over the Penn
sylvania tracks to Washington, and
thence by the Southern to Atlanta, a
distance of nearly 1000 miles, in "a
hours, without change of cars, and
land passengers either in Atlanta or in
the exposition grounds at PIedm Ont
Park, at their option.
The trip over the Southern is we'll cal
culated to dispel any preconceived no
tiOns that may have been formed detri
mental to Southern railroads, for not
only are the trains solid vesTibuled, but
the roadbeds, equipment, motive pc yer
are of a character to compare favora
bly, with the great trunk lines of the
North.
Leaving Washington, the Long
Bridge spanning the Potomac is crossed,
which the disordered and defeated
army of Mcdowell retreated from the
i'll fated field of Bull Run, and on every
side as the train traversed the sacred
soil" and through the hills and valleys
of the Old Dominion battlefields and
scenes of interest in connection with
the war are passed in rapid succession
and the modern stations, Furnishing
villages and well, titled farms attest the
prosperity naturally incident to the
advantages afforded by such an artery
of travel and commerce as the South
ern Railway.
After a short run from Danville, Va,
the Old North State is entered, and a
panoramic view is afforded of the vast
fields of cotton, corn and tobacco,
which constitute the staples and the
wealth of North Carolina.
South Carolina affords the foothills
of the great Piedmont region, and the
numerous cotton mills seen from the
train are evidences of the industrial