The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-09
HEATLANTAFAIR.
A Review of some of It's Characteristic
Fentures-

ATLANTA dNss sept, os-l10 W OrlQ.g
fair ut atlanta, known as the Cotton
States and International exposition, is
to be devoted primarily TO an exhibition
of the products Of the southern belt of
commonwealth of the Union, but be-
yond this it is also intended to give a
thorough display of the improvements
and progress that have occurred in our
own land and abroad since the Worlds
fair in Chicago only two years ago. In
this brief period there have been so
many advances made in various fields
that the present fair will be series of
surprises to those who spent months en-
joying and studying the splendors of
the White City liz aluminium, for ex-
ample, the progress made in the past
two years has been something phenome-
nal. There was good display at Chi
cago, but it was confined chiefly to al
Toys, jewelry, bells and similar small
objects. In Atlanta it viii embrace all
sorts of domestic utensils, gardening
tools, bicycles. boats aud even machin-
cry. The price of tho new metal has
dropped in this brief period from So a
pound to less than 90 cents and now en-
ables a manufacturer to turn out goods
that were impossible at the former pc
Rod. In electricity there has been an
other tremendous advance, more espe-
cially in the conveying of power and the
general transmission of energy. The sci
ence of electric lighting has done away
with nearly every difficulty which con-
frOnted 1t two years ago and is now sup
planting gas and other lights not only
in the United States, but even in India,
China and Japan. In printing presses,
paper making and boOkbinding machin-
cry the progress has been so great that
book can be made today for Is cents
that ten years ago cost 81. The brainy
management of the fair has made a spe-
cial effort to secure exhibits representing
the improvements mentioned and hun
dreds of others in the more important
industries of the land
There will also be an interesting dis
play in the tobacco business, showing
the novelties that have sprung up in
late years. They now grow tobaccos in
Florida. in Tennessee and other locali-
ties which were unknown five years
ago, which differ from existing varieties
in many details, and yet which are
marked by a very high excellence. In
the cottonseed oil business they are now
preparing high grades of glycerin, stear-
in, oleomargarine, cattle food, husk pa
per and other industrial products of con-
siderable commercial value.
Greatest of all, there will be a WON
ans department which promises to sur
pass any and all predecessors. It was
started by committee of 4 of the most
prominent Atlanta women, headed by
Mrs. Joseph Thompson, who was known
socially as the belle of Georgia, and
contains such representative women as
Mrs. Hoke Smith, Mrs. W. Y. Atkin-
son, wife of the governor; Mrs. Clark
Howell, Mrs. W. A. Hemphill, Mrs.
Maude Andrews Obi, the poet and lit
terateur; Mrs. Louie Gordon, the art
critic and author; Mrs. S. M. Inman,
wife of the cotton king; Mrs. Porter
King, Mrs. Hugh Hagin, MRS. A. B.
Steele, Mrs. w. G. Lanier, Mrs A E.
Thornton. Mrs. W. H FELTON,, Mrs r.
s. Barrett and Mrs. Nellie Peters Black.
They have erected a woman's building
so beautiful and excellent in its accom-
modations that when the fair is over it
is to be converted into permanent mu-
scum belonging to the city of Atlanta.
They have formed an organization in
every state and territory numbering
over 1 900 of the leading women of the
country. In each state there are repre-
sentatives who report directly to the
executive committee in Atlanta, and in
addition to this there are in all the lead
ing states and the large cities powerful
committees which report to the chair
men of the standing committees in At
lanta The managers have been ingen-
ious in securing attractions such as did
not obtain at Chicago.
They have tried their best to avoid
copying that famous World IS fair and to
make one which would possess an indi-
viduality of its own. In this they have
been extremely successful They will
have, for example, colonial section
which will give a series of exhibits rep
resenting life and social and domestic
relations from the settlement of the
country down to the beginning of the
nineteenth century. Another feature
will be literary exhibit, giving a vast
number of portraits, autographs, manu-
scripts, pamphlets and books by every
female author from 1900 to 1896; a
musical exhibit of the portraits, auto
graphs, manuscripts and published COM
positions of every female composer, and,
oldest of all, a collection of the patents,
models and inventions of the 500 wom-
en- inventors of the United States.
There will be Midway plaisance
similar to the one which was a nine
days wonder in Chicago; there will be
an artificial lake, where canoes, White
hall boats, gondolas, sampans, electric
launches, naphtha launches and proas
will be at the beck and call of every
visitor. Most interesting of all, from
an intellectual point of view, will be
series of woman's congresses, continu-
ing through the duration of the fair, in
which there will be representatives
from every one of the 40 oreat vvo,neI, q