The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-09-21
ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
THE GATE CITY OF THE soUTE
The Great Exposition Opens To-day.
A Mammoth Affair-Gran9 Success
Assured-Splendid Railroad Faeili-
ties.

ties.
The natural fertility of the soil,
vast mineral resources, abundant
water power, salubrious climate, and
above all the industry, enterprise
and National spirit Of her people,
richly ehtitie Georgia to be termed
the Empire State of the South, and
her capital the city of Atlanta, from
its geographical position and the
fact that il is a center from which
railroads radiate to every section of
the country, is aptly named the Gate
City of the South.
Atlanta is a beautiful, thriving
city of more than 10000 popula-
tion, rich in factories, mills, large
wholesale and retail stores, electric
street railways, electric lights, splen-
did water works system, fine hotels,
elegant residences, spacious, well
kept and beautiful parks, paved
streets and unsurpassed shcool and
sanitary systems, grand public
buildings, everything, in fact, neces-
sary to constitute an ideal city and
indicative of that thrift, vim and en-
terprise of her citizens, which has
won for their city the eognomen of
the "Chicago of the South" and
from present indications, in a very
few years it may properly and right
ly be designated its metropolis.
Snch is the Atlanta of to day,
risen from its ashes, brushed off the
scars and thrown aside the hates
and prejudices engendered by the
terrible conflict of arms that ragged
in and around her and left her desc
late indeed, which holds out her
hospitable arms to all the world and
invites to the Cotton States and In
ternational Exposition to be opened
on September Is next and continue
until the last day of the present year,
period of los days.
This great undertaking has re-
eeived the Endorsement of the Gener
al Government, Congress having APP
priated 100000 for a building and
exhibit. The building was designed
by a Government architect and will
have floor space of $4,000 square
feet. The Government exhibit will
represent all its departments and
will be in charge of gentlemen Sc
lected because of their special quail
ifications and valuable experience
! acquired at the Columbian Exposi-
ton at Chicago, and these gentle
men have severally promised that
the Atlanta exhibit shall in every
respect equal if not excel that of the
United States at Chicago.
Besides that of the United States
and the several State and other
buildings, there will be twelve prin
cipal structures, as follows; Manu-
features and Liberal Arts, Fine
Arts, Agriculture, Auditorium, Ad-
ministration, Fire, Machinery, Min
eral and Forestry, Negro, Transpor
tation, Electricity and Woman's.
The general style will be Romanes-
que, and architectural effects will
be produced by outline and proper
tion rather than by ornamentation,
and they are well calculated to i'm
press the beholder with their simp-
LEFTY, stability and and adaptibility.
In regard to transportation, par
ticularly by rail, in no respect has
the South shown her recuperation
from the devastations of war and the
general prostration incident to a
sudden and complete revolution in
her labor system, by the abolition
of slavery, than in the improvement
in her railways, not only in roadbed,
motive power, equipment and speed,
but in the combining of independent
roads into great trunk system un-
der a single management, which af
fords facilities for travel and traffic
of character equal to the best in
the country. Such is the great sys-
TEN now operated under the name OF
the Southern Railway, which, like
the branches of tree, reaches every
part of the South and Southwest
with connections to every part of the
East, West and Northwest, which is
to the entire southern section of the
country what the Pennsylvania and
New York Central, for instance, are
to other sections.
The Southern Railway, therefore,
will afford the fullest and best facil
tiles to visitors to the fair, whether
from any part of the South, from the
East, West or Northwest, without
change of cars, and without the an
noyances incidental thereto, and will
land them either in Atlanta or in the
fair grounds, at their option, and at
the lowest rates established.
Standing in Piedmont Park and
looking up to the crest of the hill al
the grand Auditorium, with itsgreat
seating capacity and lofty tower
holding the largest chime of bells
ever set up in this country, sur
rounded by the evidences of a new
and brighter era of progress and de
velopment for the South, remember
ing that the ground upon which we
stand is hallowed by the blood o.
the thousands who here fell battling
for and against the Union, where
the arts of war, illus trated by en-
trenchments, breastworks and rife
pits, have happily been replaced by
those of peace and progress, one in
stinctively turns to the emblem o.
his country's greatness and soyer
eighty, gracefully and proudly float
ing over the picturesque and beauti
!, full scene, feels a thrill of enthusi
astic patriotism and rejoices that al
sectional lines and prejudiees are OBJ
liberated, and that the South i:
henceforth to be potent factor il
the progress in agriculture, the arts
: sciences and literature of this great
republic, a progress that has beer
the marvel of the civilized world.
Imagination can then well picture
the exposition in full progress, anC
people from every section of our owl
and other countries happily com
mingling in the beautiful enclosures
He can hear the strains of swee
music from Sousa's and lines ant
from the renowned United States
: Marine Band led by it's incompara
BILE conductor, Fanciulli, IN the Aud
itorium, the air vibrating with tn
harmony of the chimes that, Blu
awhile ago, trembled with the thun
| der of hostile artillery, hear the hun
of labor saving machinery, the roa
of railroad trains, and see on nina
rets. towers and gables the flags O