The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-18
ON THE EVE OF OPENING.
OLD GLORY's STARRY FOLDS ARE
FLUTTERING EVERYWHERE.

Busy Preparations to Get All Things
in Readiness for the Initial Event.
vast Crowds Pouring Into Atlanta
by Every Train, Among Them
Hosts of Grand Army Men From
Louisville - Few Finishing
Touches Are Stiu Needed to BE Put
on, n Few Exhibits Are sim to BE
Installed, But the Verdict of All
visitors Is Extremely Favorable
to the Vast Undertaking as IL
stands ON Opening Day.
Atlanta. Ca. Sept. 1.-THE flag of the
Savannah exhibit was unfurled to the
breeze over the transportation building
today, and Capt. Purse is enthusiastic.
The first to go up was the off shore flag
Of the city of Savannah, which fioated
out on the side overlooking the lake
beautiful deep blue Clara-Aeer. The
hosting of the streamer, Capt Purse
said, signifed that Savannah was get
tins into port. The other flags are of
the City of Savannah, The Industrial
Association. Board Of Trade, and County
of Chatham.
The Savannah exhibit is not yet quite
complete, but will be in a few days.
Savannah visitors Will be proud of it,
as an evidence of the city's progress,
and enjoy it as a convenient rendezvous.
To-day has been busy one with 5000
pairs Of hands on the exposition grounds.
all eagerly exerting themselves straight
ening up the grounds and putting ex-
hibis in shape for to-morrow's opening.
The Georgia state building win not be
r1tr for
be kept closed to visitors until the first
of next week, when the formal opening
will occur, with everything in proper
shape
The contractors have been delayed on
this building and consequently the eX-
hibitOrs are behind. The county displays,
which will form an important feature or
the exhibit, are slow in coming to time,
crops are not yet matured and this Is
serious drawback to the agricultural de-
partment a large force of hands is at
work in the building and the work of
placing displays, many of which are on
the grounds, will be pushed rapidly day
Tomorrow a corps of teachers from the
Girls Normal and Industrial College Of
Milledgeville Will reach the city to install
the exhibit of that institution, which has
been here since saturday. Inc working
exhibit of the School of Technology was
being placed to-day and will be ready by
Gov Atkinson will not make the ad-
dress for which he is on the programme
tomorrow. He has been prohibited from
speaking by his physician, DIR. Holmes,
VINO does not want him to risk his health
and Solicitor General George Brown of
the Blue Ridge circuit Will speak in his
stead.
Q3y Southern Associated Press)
The Gate City is smothered with flags,
and bunting and alive with crowds at
tendant upon the opening of the great eN
position. The advance crowd of fifteen
thousand
to-day did not make the city uncomforta-
bly, full, but a great crush is expected
tomorrow, when a larger crowd viii
come in on the morning trains.
The city is fun of newspaper men,
among the number being James Creei-
man, the war correspondent Of the New
York World, City Editor Sherman of the
Chicago Tribune, with a staff of five; sew
eral members of the Inter Ocean STAFF, rep
resentatives of the New York Herald ana
correspondents from scores of papers IN
other cities of this and other countries.
The early gathering of these representa-
tives of the press indicates the amount
Of interest taken in the fair.
Half a dozen governors VIII attend the
opening with their staffs, and the com
missioners Of a number of states are on
the ground. Representatives of several
foreign countries are here and the French
government has sent its consul general
from New Orleans to make an official re-
port on the exposition.
At the exposition grounds scene of
tremendous activity is observed. Chief
and night, and Supervising Architect Gill
bert and Mr.. James r. Wylie, chairman of
the grounds and buildings committee, are
living on the ground
The progress of work within the past
week has been almost incredible. The
bare and unsightly avenues and walks
have been covered with paving of
crushed blue limestone, which harmonizes
with the green of the grass and ever
greens. The high columns and statues
erected within the past few days give
the grounds classic appearance, greatly
heightened by the architecture of the fine
arts building, a beautiful specimen of the
Italian renaissance, which crowns the
highest of the terraces overlooking the
whole park.
The crowds during the past week at
tHe grounds have so interfered with the
work on exhibits that for the past two
Gays admissions have been stopped eX-
eept to those holding passes, and money
was refused at the gates from thousands
oI people who We're eager to get in.
me indications are that the attend
aRGe at the opening exercises tomorrow
VIII pc tar above expectation Hereto
lore the management has placed the es-
innate at a conservative figure of from
2,OOJ to 10000 admissions. To-day esti-
mates are rising and newspaper men out
slde place the figure much higher many
as high as 1900. By noon tomorrow it
VIII be in the city, and that as many
more Atlanta people will go out 1t is
not expected that 10 per cent. of the
crowd viii be able to get in the audito-
rum, and it may be that the exercises
will have to be adjourned to the open
IN order that the people may at least
see, if not hear the speakers.
The work of installation of exhibits has
progressed so rapidly that the show to-
morrow viii be far beyond the expecta-
tions of a week ago. The exercises viii
consist of military pageant and parade
70 the grounds, two and half miles from
the center of the city. The usual long
lines of carriages and the governors of
the states riding on horseback with the
members of their staff. The members of
state commissions will be in carriages to-
sether with the directors of the eXpOsi-
ton.
The procession will start from the city
at / o'clock and will reach the exposition
grounds about 3, when speaking viii be-
sln Judge Emery Speer has prepared an
elaborate grafton and President Collier
strong speech Of about twenty minutes.
one OF the notable speeches of the day,
IL Is said by those who have seen the man
uscript, is the address to be delivered by
Booker T. Washington, the representative
oI the negro race on the programme, and
me champion of industrial education
among the negroes. His speech will be on
d conservative line. urging his people to
make friends of the white race and to
traln themselves in technical education
as the best means OF gaining property and