Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-01-10

and South"-.two beautiful heads-.the North
smiling and joyful, leaning her head on the
South, who had the most pensive and sad
air, looking up as If far protection, to sister
The second day was spent In Machinery
Hall, Agricultural Building. "rhe Plant
System" which was pronounced by sew
eral to be the most interesting buildng GU
the grounds-showing how 50 many OF our
useful household ingredients are grown.
The officials were very kind, and would ex'
plain anything you would ask. l had never
seen banana grow before, and as the leaf
lifted itself up there was tiny row OF ba
nanas underneath pink and purple tinted,
finally growing green and then yellow
Arkansaw and Pennsylvania State building,
In front of which stood the old Liberty Bell,
New York and Illinois were noted for moth.
ing especial excepting that the Illinois build
ing was simply large room with resttul
wicker chairs. Massachusetts was modelled
after Longfellow's home in Cambridge. The
Confederate Hall of relics must not be pass
ed by, for there were some Of the saddest
memories of the South. One uniform was
made from the gray wedding dress OF a
Southern bride for her soldier husband, and
so many relics of the war that were collect
ed, | was told, by some tender hearted
Southern woman Tor the exposition. In the
afternoon we went on midway Heights
and visited the old plantation" rode in the
Ferris wheel and went in the "Moorish
Palace" One great attraction on Midway
was shooting the chutes," and they were
boats shot from an elevated platform into
the water. One Midway was about the
same as the other and we did not stay long
There were funnier sights to me on the
grounds watching some of the Georgia
crackers doing the Fair. The men, tall and
lank, with immense hats on their heads, and
their wives and children clad in slab sun.
bonnets and worsted mufflers, calico dresses
and homespun mittens dyed in pink, some
of them riding fifty miles in wagon to
visit the Fair. You were not allowed to
kodak in the grounds, but what pictures
you could have brought home as souveniers
if you were.
On Sunday afternoon we went TO Fort
Walker in Grant Park, and from there you
saw the battlefields where Walker and Nc
Pherson were killed Visiting an old Scotch
man, whose home had been torn down in
the war, but who had rebuilt a new one, he
told US of the battle and gave us all the
magnolia leaves we could carry back. The
remaining days were spent in shopping for
souveners and seeing Atlanta. Wednesday
morning we rode six miles in the electric
cars to Fort Mcpherson, where the U. S
barracks are, and were taken all through.
About 900 soldiers are there, and the officers
have their own residences From there we
went to cotton mill and watched the process
OF making cotton oil The capitol at Atlanta
is very much like the one vt Washington
and outside of the Governors house on
Peach Tree street there are no other build
ings to see. The day we left the Christmas
tree was given to the children in the expo
stion grounds and about 5000 bags of candy
were given away, with apples and figs.
We left on the 4:30 train and arrived IN
Washington next day at ~ O'Clock, with
very pleasant recoIections of our Southern
Exposition trip. A VISITOR.