Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-09-20
READY TO OPEN.
Atlanta's Big Exposition Will Be a
Reality Wednesday.
President Cleveland Will Set the Ma
chinery in Motion-The Build
ings and Grounds.

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. "Wednesday
is the day appointed for the formal
opening of the most important and
progressive exposition ever held in the
south. For two years the work of
preparation has gone on unceas-
ingly and most of the thousands
of exhibits are in place and ready for
inspection. All the buildings will be
opened "wednesday, though few OF
them are still uncompleted and may
not be entirely finished until Octo-
Der l. The Government building is
fully completed and all the exhibits are
in place. The Woman's building needs
only few days more to be placed in
satisfactory condition. Fine Arts
building and Machinery hall are
entirely finished and crowded with ex-
hibits. More space than could be given
in Machinery hall was applied for and
has resulted in some crowding. The
fair, us whole, while, of course, on a
smaller scale than the Worlds Column
bian exposition, at Chicago, presents
an almost equally pleasing appear
ance, owing to the topography of the
grounds, which are naturally attrac-
tive, and have been most taste
fully laid out. The lagoon is particu-
larly beautiful. All the incoming
trains are crowded with visitors, but
it is believed that although the crowds
will be very large, the accommoda-
tions will be ample. A great influx
of notables is looked for on
Sunday and Monday with the arrivals
from Chattanooga of the governors of
the various states and their stats,
who are now attending the cele-
brntion there. The ceremonies of the
formal opening Wednesday are quite
elaborate. The buildings in the city,
particularly along the route of the
parade, are elaborate decorations. At
the park considerable speech making
will be the order of the day, at the
conclusion Of which the great
wheels will begin to turn in re-
Spouse to the electric touch to be given
Mt Grny Gables, and the exposition will
be declared formally open by Presi-
dent Charles Il. Collier. The electric
lights have been tested and found to
be satisfactory. The effect was beau
tiful and impressive
Development of the South.
A general look over the field just
preparatory to its occupation by the
thousands of sight-seers who will come
In from all parts of the union shows
the solid development which, as proved
by the exhibits, has been made in
those states south of the Mason and
Dixon liue. In the manufactures, in
the inventions, in the arts, everywhere
there is evidence of progress and a
high state of perfection.
Some of the Special Features,
There will be great many special
features during the exposition. There
have been booked for the month of
October visits from the state press
associations of thirty states. On
Friday next the Grand Army of
the Republic, which has been in
session in Louisville in such large
numbers, will, after stopping at Chick
amauga, continue on its way here ard
visit the exposition. where it viii be
greeted by the confederate eterans.
Friday has been designated as gray
and blue day. On October 90 President
Cleveland has promised to be present,
and on that occasion it is estimated
that not less than 100000 persons will
crowd into Atlanta.
The Bulls Will Fight.
One of the great features of the en-
tertainment department of the EXPOSE
ton, which was supposed to have fallen
through, has been revived in that the
bull fights are now certain to take place.
1t will be recollected that the societies
for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails made strong objection when the
project was first preached and William
Hosea Ballou had much to say in
the New York press of the atrocity
of bull fights. In answer to these
criticisms 1t was decided by the
exposition board that the bull
fight feature should be abandoned.
Monday, however, President Porteus,
who is at the head of the company
having the concession for the Mexican
village and of the bull fights, arrived
and is putting everything in shape.
The arena wherein the bull fights were
scheduled to take place is completed
and the bulls are now on the way to
Atlanta.
/. Postmaster Killed and Robbed.
FoRT WAYNE, Ind, Sept. .7-G. NJ.
Singer, postmaster at Dunfee, Ind, a
station a few miles west of Fort Wayne