Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-05-21

and which was sunk in slavery when
the Christian era was born. 1t is here
photographed in timber and stone.
Here is the Parthenon. last remnant
of ancient Grecian civilization at its
highest and of the best art the world
has ever known. It has been dragged
from beneath the debris of near three
thousand years and set up again in the
midst of surroundings the most mod
ern. Here is the negro building, with
its story of people but one generation
removed from bondage and almost saw
agery, commanding attention for its
giant strides upward toward the PIN
nacle where the sun of progress always
shines
All around are the evidences of what
men are doing to-day in all the varied
avocations which claim the exercise Of
hand and brain. Away off and outside
the exposition boundaries lies the
everyday life of the modern world, city
and town, village and farm land. rail-
roads sky-touching business blocks
and electric lights. The Rialto of
Venice. symbol of the medieval
age, rises near the pyramid
of the Cheops, spanning a rib
bon of water so narrow it looks as
if a boy might leap it, with one foot
on the side of the nineteenth century
and the other at the door of the Par
thenon. Three thousand years are here
linked by few wooden beams The
pyramidal symbol of uncounted CEN
turtles looks on. The flag of the Amer
lean nation floats high overhead.
Something of all these varied aspects
of Nashville's white city entered the
hearts of the thousands who stood in
the exposition auditorium last Satur-
day morning at II o'clock. Right Rev
erend Thomas F. Gailor, coadjutor bis
hop of Tennessee, invoked divine
blessings. President j. w Thomas
offered the completed work to the
people. Gov Taylor spoke for Ten
nessee. Director General Lewis told
what had been done and delivered the
keys to President Thomas. The band
played and the audience sang The
Banner Hail, Column
bia, d." Dixie and America"
The following special days have been
asked for and will be assigned later:
Brooklyn day. corporation day,
day Marble day, Ireland's |
day, German-Amercan day, Swiss day, |
iron day, Chamber of Commerce day,
police day, miners day, railway mems |
dav and nriutere' dav
Conventions Planned.
AS if special days were not enough
to insure the attendance of good
crowds at the exposition, Nashville has
set out to gather all of the 5000 con-
ventiOns of one kind and another
which meet in this country during the
summer and fall Commissioner Cen
eral Wills has been after them. Among
hose which have agreed to meet here
)r to come here in a body on adjourn
nent elsewhere, with the dates of
Meeting, are the following: May-1-3,
Supreme senate. X A Essenic Order:
IS, Freight Claim Association: -,
National Association of Stove Manu-
acturers, will meet in Detroit and
ome to Nashville after adjournment,
4, Wolverine State Press Association
meet in Utica, Mich, and come TO
in a body. reaching here May
4, and remain three days; II, Nation
i Good Citizens convention; 17-1S,
musical congress; IS. Unit
d Order Golden Cross, supreme COM
nandery: 10, HccEing and Ohio Val
ey Press Association: 1920. Tennes-
ee State Bankers Associations 2S,
tate Press Association of South Caro-
ina, meet in Newberry, s. c.. May 20
nd &c, and come to Nashville in a
ody. May %: in May, but no fixed
ate, national road parliament and
lrmers' congress; southern irrigation
ongress. June-1-5, National T. P.
h.. of America; 1-5, Grand Lodge
nights and Ladies of Honor; 2,
tate convention Republican League of :
ennessee; 2. Grand Army of the Re- j
ublic, Tennessee department; 2, Ala
anna and Tennessee divisions of Sons
Veterans and Women's Relief Corps
Tennessee; s, State of Tennessee
[aster Plumbers Association; 9. :
nights and Ladies of Dixie: 10. AL )
Dama Press Association arrive in ,
ashville; Is, Tennessee Press AS '
,ciation; 20, National Association d,
Labor Commissioners of the Unit =
States; 21-22, surviving Terry Tex -
rangers; 22-23-24, United Confed- =
ate Veterans; 24-25, Mississippi =
ress Association. July-20, Interna- :.
onal Association of Distributors; 20 = =
{, Senate National Union; q, Tennes- =
e Druggists Asso citation. August =,
5, Stenographers' Centennial Associ- =,
ion IT. Crockett Clan; II, Daugh- =