Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-11-29

le the fruit growers look pleased tbs
nd successful, the town residents all
eem to be thriving and happy and and
very few miles of country tall VIII
moking chimney marks busy pre-
actory and attests the magic OF pes
ash. Glimpses from the car WIN eq'
lows indicate all this, and the sight ba'
If the exhibits aud talks with the SIN
people confirm the impression.
The Minerals and Forestry Build Tn
ing is possibly the most unique on ma
the grounds. 1t is constructed OF "a
Southern woods, presents rustic n'
appearancs and we were told that C
wahoo and black wood bark mao II
been used to strip the outside OF l
tho building. The exhibits IN II D
oompr,se sections of trees, polished q
woods, pines and all the implements ,
lused in bleeding them for turpen-
tine and also an extensive collec-
.;or If minerals. In this building
a cnbe of coal about IA feet square
represents the output of that ma
tor;al in the South in q minute.
In the brief space of this article
,. IL is impossible to describe the At,
. E-r~.;I;An--=It takF- "a eot;o |
size pamphlet to do that. But
there was one building which de-
y, :. serves we think more than passing
notice and to that we will devote
the remainder of our space, defer
ring until next week our impress
sions of Atlanta and notes on sights
of interest we saw there.
THE NEGRO BUILDING.
" Atlanta boasts the only building
20 ever erected at an exposition for the
:, sole purpose of showing the progress
- of the negro race in the arts OF CIV
~ ilization. The building is 140 feet
VIC wide and 27O feet long. The height
of the main structure is "a feet anc
W its total height is SO feet. 1t has
0 central tower 80 feet at the base ant
p 20 feet high. The materials use'
were wood, iron and glass and tn
e cost was 1922. The contractor
and laborers on the work were a
negroes, and that race throughou
- the South takes pardonable intere'
and pride in their building. III
,,on,v exhibit there from Maryla"
' .: that I noted was miniature repr
ing .'-~"~ Colleg
hich sentation of the uo.s~.
pass corner Edmondson and Fnlt,
s of avenues, Baltimore, But the 9th
corn Southern States were largely in ey
light dence and the exhibits were We,
mid creditable. A bicycle built entireI
the by coloSe4 mechanic of Virgin
md, Hdadls: The DeBavar cream sepa,
the ator, machine that has revolution
fly. lzed butter making was also on q,
) of hIbItlon. The buggies, wagons
ong harness and such things, manufac
was tured by Southern negro artisans
hes were as good as any one would .wisI
in TO see' Ovens for baking were ais,
ing shown and proved that they wer,
ian made Tor use. Negro artists also
VS.: exhibited and one large picture OF
nr- Arkansas bottom lands was esnec.
if Tally good and attracted much ot
vel tentlon. The exhibit of the trained
,es negro nurses was fine and the mo
d. iron IN charge there, as every where
H. S:se' insisted on showing us every-
ce thing of interest. About 30 hoots
Oy negro authors we're shown and
0, the negro newspapers were we'll in
to evidence. We were asked if we
m knew that the negroes published
d ana supported a daily newspaper
J. ana the woman IN charge insisted
l. OH giving us copy of it. 1t is
e published at Atlanta, is named tn.
t D"''y OP'"io" and John W. Thomp-
t son Is its manager. 1t is a we'll
0 printed and creditably conducted
paper. While in this building we
noticed one of the men CARVING
, cows horns with no other imple-
ment than barlow knife. and
stopping in front of him, he handed
US one for inspection. The work
on 1t was beautifully done and
would put to shame the efforts If
many ambitious engravers. As We
were leaving the building we SAW :.
Maryiand's black and orange lavish
~ displayed aud fastened to tho
EXHIBIT expecting to see sometime
good from our own State. But the :"
giri IN charge told MS there was :"
nothing there from MARYLAND and u