The Opelousas courier., 1895-06-22
Exposition Notes.

The Board of Women Managers OF
the Cotton States and International
| Exposition will erect a separate build
ing for the Colonial exhibit. The build
ing will be OF Il typical colonial design,
| and will house the finest exhibition OF
| colonial relics ever gathered together
in America. The organized wOmen's
boards OF the WOman's department
from Maine to Texas are busily eDgag-
ed in collecting material FOR this
| exhibit. and it will include many rare
and historic curios which cannot be
bought.
The contract for the electric launches
for tue lakes at the Cotton States and
International Exposition has been let
to Gen. C. II. Barney, of New York.
The launches will be made Of cedar,
with oak frames and mahogany decks.
Seven Venetian gondolas and one Vene-
tan state barge will also be placed up
on the lakes. These lakes, surrounded
by terraces covered with running
honeysuckle, and illumed at night by
thousands Of electric lights, will be one
OF the most beautiful features OF the
Fair, and the electric launches and gon-
dolas will afford assGuick means OF tran
sit from one part of the grounds to
another. Around the margin Of the
lakes, at vantage points, will be the
landings.
The amusement ground of the Cot
ton States and international EXPOSE
ton has at length been named the
Midway Heights.o Despite Il ten
dency 10 name it something else, the
public generally took it AS an accepted
fact that it should be. called the Mid
way and 1t was suggested that on
account of the commanding situation
Of the street, overlooking the EXPOSE
ton grounds, it should be called Mid
way Heights. The name has been
formally adopted, and it will be along
Midway Heights that the crowds who
attend the great Fair will find amuse-
ment and recreation.
Mr.. C. E. Hartman. General Passenger
Agent of the Western & Atlantic Rail
road, has notified the Public Comfort
Committee of the Cotton States and
International Exposition. that his road
has entered into Il contract with the
officials OF the Grand Army Of the
Republic to transport $4,000 members
of that order from Chattanooga to
Atlanta on the Goth of September, the
day after the opening exercises at
Chickamanga National Park. The of
ficials of the Southern Railway say that
they will handle very large crowds
between the same points at that time,
Pand it is expected that together with
the Confederate Veterans, who will
meet the Grand Army people at
Atlanta on Blue and Gray day, and
with other visitors, the crowd on the
occasion will approach 100, 900.
The contract for the ~statuary and
columns for ornamentation of the
grounds of the Exposition has been
awarded to Mr.. w. O. Mullins, of Sa.
lem, Ohio, who is one of the foremost
men in this line in the United States.
No statue is to be less than ten feet in
height, and the columns and statues
combined are to be from 2S4 ia 3333s feet
in height. The columns on which, the
statues are to be placed are to be of
Doric, Ionic and COrinthian types. The
statues and columns are all tn be made
according to plans devised by Mr..
Grant Wilkins, Chief of Construction.
They will be forty in number, and will
be placed at vantage points throughout
the grounds, such as the heads of stair
ways and steps leading into buildings.
The statuary will be OF different de-
signs. suited to the general theme of
the Exposition. All the columns sup
porting the statues will be pure white.