The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-08-19
The Atlanta Exposition.

On Sept. is will open, in Piedmont
park, Atlanta, upon grounds embrac-
ing 1S9 acres and containing twelve
principal and q host OF subsidiary
buildings. the Cotton States and Inter
national exposition, designed to ce-
ment the growing fraternal and conn
mercial relations between the north,
the new south and the Latin American
republics of Central and South Amer
lea. The enterprise will be upon n
scale unaqualled in the section directly
Interested. and surpassed. SO far as the
western hemisphere is concerned, only
Chicago. 1t will afford unrivalled OPP
portunttieys for indusuial Pennsylvania
to make new conquests in the fair field
of trade, and to build up'new alliances
of mutual pleasure and profit.
The commissioners In charge of the
Pennsylvania exhibit has opened head
quarters in room 6, Legislative build
ing, Harrisburg, and is now actively
engaged in the work of preliminary ar
rangements. In a recently issued cir
cular it announces that the state ex-
hibits, so far arranged for, will be i'm
the Manufactures and Liberal Arts and
the Forestry and Minerals buildings.
In the former building space has been
set aside for display of the products
of manual work in the educational,
penal and reformatory institutions OF
the state, and for a general exhibit of
school work. The main state exhibit
will be in the Forestry and Minerals
building, where specimens of woods
and minerals will be shown, with mod
els of a saw mill, anthracite coal
breaker bituminous coal mine, coke
plant in operation, and Other exhibits
illustrative of the chief industries of
the state. In the same department
there will be an agricultural display,
embracing, besides the usual features,
models of typical Pennsylvania farms.
a display of THE silk industry of the
state, paintings of forest leaves, and
complete collections of butterflies and
insects, and of ferns and grasses. A
beautifully mounted collection of the
birds and animals of Pennsylvania,
surprising that which ATTRACTED so
much attention at the Worlds Column
bian exposition, is now being prepared
under the direction of the noted orni-
tho.oglst, DIR. B. II. Warren. The Com
mittee ON Petroleum expects to pre-
s,mt a fine display of Pennsylvania
oils, with, drilling and refining pro-
cesses. The Committee on Machinery
and Manufactures are devoting their
energies toward securing private ex-
hibits of machinery and manufactured
goods, for which an ample premium Is
offered to exhibitors in the expanding
markets Of the new south. The Com
mittee on Fine ARTS and Historical
Relics invites correspondence from all
persons interested, with a view to the
collection of representative works Of
art and of historical relics, especially
of the colonial and revolutionary pc
riods. A collection of Indian relics Is
also proposed. The Committee on WO-
mans Work and the Ladies' Auxil
larry commission will cooperate to OBJ
tain for the Women's building and
other departments of the exposition
an exhibit of the result of women's
work In Pennsylvania.
The helpfulness of such gatherings
Of the embodied skill and genius Of
the nations is too thoroughly estab-
lished to require "a re-statement of the
case. Every merchant Is aware Of 1t
and every discerning artisan can per-
celve its benehcent influences in his
daily work. The Atlanta exposition
will mark for long undeveloped sec
ticn Of our common country the be-
ginning OF a new era OF thrift and
progress such as has never before been
experienced by Its people; and liberal
exhibitors will be the ones who will
gain the trade benefits. 1t is to be
hoped that Pennsylvania, which dis
poses of mare Of It's products to the
south than any other state. will be
fully alive to Its present matchless op-
portunity.