The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-28
PLANT SYSTEM EXHIBIT
WITH THOSE FROM SAVANNAH,
SOUTH GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.


The Names Of some of the ENhibi-
tors, and the Articles They Pres
ens From Their Respective Sec
tioas.
Atlanta. Ca, Sept. 27-Wfth the savan-
nah exhibit az the especial feature Of the
one and the Plant system the chief feac-
ure of the other, Southern Georgia ana
Florida make a highly creditable appear
ance al the exposition. Besides the three
buildings occupied by the Plant display,
Florida also has the West Florida ex-
hibit made by the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, also worthy of being deslg-
mated as zone of the chief features, for,
a. a matter of interest, the display of the
two railway systems divide the honors
that go to the Land of Flowers.
Southern Georgia does not suffer in be
ing placed side by side with her next
door neiehbor. although the Plant display
is devoted almost exclusively 20 Florida,
whereas it might have been expected that
Georgia would have been more conspicu-
ously represented in it, What Mr.. Plant
and his assistants overlooked ia Georgia
is however well c0unterbalanced by
what Savannah has done TO advertise her
section and what the people in the con-
tisuOus counties themselves are doing.
Seven out of the fifteen counties in
the state building are strictly South
Georgia counties. the other eight being
scattered over the middle and northern
part of the state Besides these there are
several individual exhibitors, and a great
deal of the material sent in for exhibit
ton directly under the auspices Of the
state commission comes from Southern
Georgia.
closely IN touch with the southern tier
Of counties as she might be, together
with the many difficulties that stand
in the way of making these exhibits, to
say nothing of the expense, South Geor-
gia comes up admirably m the procession
OF progress savannah ana Chatham
county is, of course. the central figure
in the Georgia exhibit when the line is
drawn between the northern and south
ern portions Of the state. After this
splendid evidence Of a city's enterprise,
come the counties of Glynn, Bulloch,
Worth, Talbot, Decatur, MclntoSh ana
sumter, every one of which does rs part
toward making the impress of Southern
Georgia. upon the public. OF course ali
these counties are not shown together,
as there has been no attempt made TO
represent the state In sections but are
scattered about where convenience or
luck should place them. Had they been
grouped the eject would nave been much
better South GeorEians at the fair
would have realized the enterprise of
their section more fully and possibly
would have felt more conscious of their
own Importance 10 the big show. But
as IL is the whole goes in to make fame
for the whole state, that IS except Sa-
vannah, which divides honors with the
state itself in the impression made upon
Prominent among the South Georgians
who have contributed to the fair, and from
the Industrial association and co-wOrker
in the Savannah display, are Capt w. II.
Symonds and Capt. Edwin BrObston Of
Brunswick, Richard W. Grub OF Da-
rien, Robert Lee Moore of Statesboro,
Col ]. E. McPhaul of Worth county,
J. n. Dennis and Miss Annie Dennis OF
Talbotton, r. a. Connell OF Whlgham, De-
catur county, J. i. Ross and Miss Ruth
erford of Sumter county, Mr. Carnegie Of
Camden county and others. All these have
taken active interest in the work, par
tally as individual enterprises and partly
under the direction and with the CO.
operation of their counties and organiza-
lions formed for this purpose.
The Southern Georgia exhibit Is, as
matter of course largely agricultural,
though Decatur county sends display
of phosphate rock by Mr.. Cornell, and
Glynn makes naval stores and commerce
a leading feature.
Plant system Is TO be found a most varied
and interesting collection, a considerable
part of il being the same as was shown a
the New Orleans exposition, receiving high
awards there. The building, itself dis
tinctive novelty among all the striking
things in the way of architecture TO be
seen on the exposition grounds has al
ready been described. AS phosphate
rock advertisement on the exterior II is
an immediate and pronounced success,
for the very first question that is ASKED,
when the visitor comes upon 1t is, What
ii that?' and when they are told that il is
phosphate rock they are at once bent upon
an interested investigation.
On th1 interior the pyramid. which is
th he7i person Of Col 5. II. Slot COL
Elliott is the genius of the exhibit over
which he presides with 50 much whole
that the novel idea of the pyramid was
evolved, and under his practical hands
that the exhibit was collected-all of it
from along the line OF the Plant system.
No other man except a general land agent
of equal ability could have accomplished
so much in the length of time that Col.
Elliott has spent in the perfection of the
Plant system feature. To him it was not
d difficult task, for he carries the state
of Florida, South Georgia and Alabama
in his vest pocket-knows all the people
by name, knew their fathers and mothers
by hearsay. some of them others in fact,
while every farm and every town lot is
accurately staked off in his minds eye.
The only thing he does not know, and he
admits il to his friends is how the Pacific
slope keeps up with the procession with
out being located directly on the line of
With an eye to business. Col. Elliott has
selected his office space right in the midst
of the collection of phosphate exhibits.
Phosphate is the queen bee of the Plant
building, although as a thing of beauty
IL Is easily OulciaSSeQ by the trOslcdl
plants and fruits that occupy the other
corner. After admiring the cases of
decorated china dishes, made of southern
clay and kaOlin made by Richmond of
Lake county, Florida, the ladies invariab-
ly desert the colonel in his phosphate cor
ner for the oranges and banana trees.
Some of the phosphates shown are by
TIE Camp Phosphate Company of Albion
ila., by r. A. Cornell of Whigham. Ga
the Peace River Mining Company of
Punta Gorda, and Alabama Phosphate
Company. while the Georgia Chemical
works, and the Southern FerL4izer Com
Pany of Savannah show the phosphates
as used in commercial fertilizer. with the
finished product, well as the fertilizer
in the various states of manufacture
AS showing the magnitude of its opera
tons the Peace River Phosphate Com
pany has a statement in its exhibit. giving
the total output in 1894 a 103,545 tons of
which So .S17 was exported. and S3 90 tons
moved in the past eight months of 1895.
In another section of the building are
the fruits and preserves, guaVa jellies
etc from the Seminole Canning Company
of Fort Myers, Fla, and photographs Of
the famous fruit display that won the first
premium at the New Orleans exposition
together with tropical plants and all sorts
of citrus fruits gathered along the Plant
lines in Florida.
The fourth section of the pyramid is oc-