Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-22
AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC.
By the Jury of the Highest
Awards
BOOMING ATLANTA'S SHOW
They Call Attention to Its Most Valuable
Features,
AND URGE A LARGE ATTENDANCE
Teachers Are Particularly Urged to Attend
and Garry Their Scholars-The People
of Atlanta and the Directors
Are to Be Congratulated.

Atlanta, Oct 21.-At a meeting today OF
the Jury of highest awards of the Cotton
States and International exposition the
following address to the public was
adopted
This Jury is made up of the chadrmen
of all the special committees on awards
which, with DR.. D. C. Gilman of the John
Hopkins university as chairman. consists
of many of the most eminent men in the
United States.
To the People of the United states;
The undersigned jurors and members
of the highest board of award, having
visited the principal departments of the
Atlanta exposition, and having had the
advantage of guidance and suggestions
from the most qualified experts, think 1t
important to communicate our impress
sions to the public throughout the coun-
try by the agency of the newspaper press
in advance of such reports as may here
after be made to the constituted author
tiles We desire to call attention to the
educational value of the Atlanta exposl-
ton, its important relations to the INDUS
try and it's manifold Indications of the
progress of the useful and liberal arts.
But in this brief paper we can only IN
dictate a few of the most significant char
acteristics.
J. The exhibits of the national govern
ment constitute an unique, complete and
Instructive illustration of its wise and
beneficent functions. With a building or
moderate size examples are given of the
work of the federal government in It's re-
lations to craftsmanship, International
intercourse the administration of JUS
tlce, the promotion of committees domes-
tic and foreign, the postal service and
the control of the national finances, the
arts of national defense on land and sea,
the development of. agriculture, forestry,
mines and mineral wealth, fisheries and
fish culture, the protection and promo
ton of commerce by surveys of the coast,
the lakes, the rivers and the mountains,
the study of the climate and the forecast
ing of the eather. the maintenance OF
lighthouses and lifesaving stations, the
education and civilization of the Indian,
the encouragement of invention. litera-
ture and fine arts by protecting the rights
of the inventor, the writer and the artist;
the advancement and diffusion of knowl-
edge through the agency of the Smith
sonian institute, the national museum;
the manifold services of the bureau of
education and the collection of great Ii
braies; the study of the diseases of the
human race and also of plants and ami
mails, and the protection of life by eau
tiOnary and remedial agencies; the pre-
vention of epidemcs and the regulation
of the food supply; these all exhibited in
a compact form bringing before the pub
lie the noblest offices of a strong, COM
prehensve, well-ordered government
and are the best institutions of the kind
that has ever been made.
g We admire the civic pride displayed
by the citizens of Atlanta, the Gate City
of the SOUTH which in thirty years has
risen from the devastations of fire and
sword. poverty and distress, and now il
lustrates in many ways. and especially in
this exposition. what may be done for the
advancement of a vast region by the
union, enterprise, generosity, knowledge
and skill of an unselfsh and voluntary
body of citizens harmonously organ
lied.
g. The varied and inexhaustible re-
sources of the cotton states; their min
eral wealth, agricultural products, manu-
facturers and railroads. as well as their
system of education, are well displayed
in many departs of the exposition,
but especially in the comprehensive ex-
hibits that have been made by the states
of Georgia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas
4. There are many admirable signs of in
terstate cooperation and social inter
course. The visits of the president and
vice-president of the United States. of
the governors of many distant states
often attended by large escorts of their
fellow citizens. the assemblies of bank
ers, engineers, teachers women. of re-
ligious and philanthropic associations
and of patriotic societies, the recog
of the African, and especially the meet
ing of many thousand of soldiers in
friendly intereourse--the Blue and the
Gray homeward bound from Chicka-
manga, illustrate the good will and fra
ternity now prevalent among the citi-
zens of our union republic and the re-
establishment of not only peace but of
sympathy among those who have been
widely separated. In addition to the
buildings of the cotton states. those con-
structed by New York. Philadelphia
Massachusetts, and Illinois and that Of
California with it's contents afford addi-
tionaf evidences of the friendly relation
ship.
5. Women have made important con-
tributions to this exposition The wom-
ans building designed by woman, is en-
titled in the opinion of one of our most
highly qualified judges to place next to
sthe highest among all the constructions
of Piedmont park The Illustrations of
womans work are attractive and suggest
i've. The services rendered by women
in collecting and exhibiting papers. relics
and mementoes pertinent to colonial and
revolutionary history promote spirit of
patriotism. a love of our social institu-
tions and the preservation of records
hitherto overlooked and neglected. There
is here rare opportunity to see many
original documents and portraits. The
educational and charitable work is excel
lent and in all departments of embroid-
cry and other branches of decorative art
the exhibits of the womans building are
unsurpassed.
&c Among the innumerable illustrations
of skilled labor the visitor should not fail
to notice:
(a). The inventions and apparatus
which have promoted extraordinary
changes In our civilization by the agen-
cies of electricity. Let 1t be borne in
mind that the telephone was intro
duced at the exposition of 1876, and that
only two dynamos. and those insigndfi-
cant, could then and there be seen.
(b). The improvements in the means Of
transportation by which the safety, the
comfort anI the pleasure of travellers are