The Van Buren press., 1895-12-14
SHE CARRIES THE DAY.
Arkansas Is in the Van-Her Splendid
Exhibit Receives the Highest
Award-The Gold Medal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Arkansas, with her magnificent ex-
hibit of fruits and farm products,
receives at the hands of those officially
authorized to award premiums the
highest expression they could bestow of
the unrivaled excellence Of the great
display she makes at the Cotton States
and International Exposition in demon
stration of her industrial energies and
productive resources.
This wonderful exhibit of agricultur-
al, horticultural, garden and vintage
products, under the admirable manage
ment of Mr.. W. Ct. Vincenheller.
whose genial disposition and consum
mate business tact has won for him the
need of universal esteem, has received
more attention, and more manifest
ations of admiration for its artistic
arrangement, affiuence and excellence
than any other display upon the
grounds.
In this exhibit Arkansas has clearly
demonstrated to the world that in all
the natural elements of wealth, as well
as in educational and industrial
progress, she stands shoulder to
shoulder among the foremost states of
this great and progressive republic
inferior to none, the peer of any
Nowhere at this greatest of the
Worlds Fairs, save the one of '93 at
Chicago, has the Arkansas exhibit been
surpassed in the display of those
products that demand salubrious
climate, fertile soil, and brains and
energy to perfect them to that degree
NJ rl,;at oh or tha cr,anit,1ar,c
sented by this grand State as testimoni
ais of her boundless resources and
limitless possibilities nor is il any
disparagement of the displays made by
other great states, less favored by
nature, to say that in falling into the
lap of Arkansas the gold medal fell
where, in Difference to the claims of
real merit, it should have fallen.
The fruit display of this royal exhibit
is one of its most interesting features
and is deserving of the most tiattering
encomiums that language can express,
and when in connection with it is con-
sidered the peerless specimens of garden
and vintage products it embraces, the
fact is realized that under the genial
skies Of Arkansas nearly every fruit,
melon and cereal that blossoms and
natures under the benign influence of
tropical suns. can be abundantly pro-
duced in unrivaled perfection.
Visitors to the exposition from all
quarters of the globe have enjoyed
abundantly the conivial hospitality and
generous prodigality so gracefully
dispensed under the auspices of the
Arkansas exhibit by Mr.. Vincenheller
and his excellent corps of accomplished
assistants.
One hundred bushels of apples alone
have already been distributed free TO
visitors, who are more than enthusiastic
in praise of their size, beauty and
delicious flavor.
In addition to apples, plums, peaches,
pears. grapes, the exhibit displays
excellent specimens of corn, rice,
wheat, oats. rye, millet, timothy.
clover, bluegrass, herd grass, orchard
and natural grasses. The vegetable
exhibit is also prodigious and consists
of tomatoes weighing from 90 to 90
ounces, cucumbers enormous in size,
36 varieties of beans, peas, celery,
beets, mammoth potatoes, pumpkins
weighing 1873 pounds, squashes. and
cotton, the fibre of which is from IL to
~ inches long, pronounced by the
judges who awarded the gold medal to
the Arkansas exhibit to be equal in
quality TO the best Sea Island product.
So imposing and attractive is the
Arkansas exhibit that Mr. j. B. Kille-
brew, of the Nashville, Chattanooga 81
st. Louis Railway, desires to secure 1t
as the exhibit of his road at the coming
Centennial Exposition at Nashville, and
a special committee from that city has
already waited on its manager, Mr..
Vincenheller, for the purpose of induc
ing him to make the exhibit there as
indicated.
Every feature of this exhibit is of the
highest character and tends to Illustrate
the superior advantages Arkansas
possesses in respect to soil and climate
for the prosecution of agricultural and
horticultural industries. and to demon
strate her ability to compete success
fully with any state in the Union in the
production of fine apples and other
fruits. vegetables and farm products of
almost every variety and description.
Few visitors TO the exposition will fail
to bear away with them to their
respective homes pleasant "reminiscences
of the Arkansas exhibit and of those
under whose auspices it has achieved
both fame aud popularity. 1t is indeed
splendid tribute to the wonderful
resources of great state and to the
liberality, intelligence and progressive
spirit Of her noble. generous, hospitable
people, whose aspirations are lofty.
chivalrous and patriotic.
Mr.. Vincenheller has made with his
exhibit for the state, whose character
and interests he represents. a most
enviable reputation. and the liberal
spirit and courtly sffability he has dis
played with such genuine sincerity will
long be appreciated and remembered
with the most friendly sentiments by
the thousands from all parts Of the
world who have enjoyed his hberality
and been participants of his generous
hospitality.
Arkansas richly merits the distinction
bestowed upon her exhibit. which is in
keeping with the character of great
state that is progressive enough 70
appreciate the opportunities of an un-
paralleled occasion, and unselhsn