The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-16

bill of fare, oil for ~ cents: FISH, TICS
chicken, potato, cabbage, bread, ice tea and
pie. In almost every part of the city these
2O-cents restaurants are to be found, and
they are entirely respectable and serve very
good meals; certainly worth the price asked.
On the eating question there need be no fear
of being gouged, the competition is far too
sharp. At the Exposition grounds Gerst
runs several cafes. At the Vienna restau-
rant q good square meal can be had for 30
cents. Here is a sample menu: Cream Of
chicken, fried black bass, prime roast beef,
baked ham with champagne sauce, mashed
potatoes, new peas, bread pudding and
they give you what is on the bill. Gerst has
other restaurants where you can order what
you want, and in the woman's building there
is a splendid cafe. So it will be seen that
one can eat cheap enough or as extensively
as desired while on the Exposition grounds.
The service, the food and the prices on the
grounds are vastly better than they were at
the Atlanta Exposition. If you want to
round off the day with q real feast take q
table d'hote dinner at the Maxwell for one
dollar.
HOW TO GET TO II EXPOSITION.
The best and quickest way to the Exposl-
ton grounds is by way of the special trains
over the Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
Railroad. This road runs q train every few
minutes between the Union station and the
Exposition grounds. The line is as convent
ent as was that of the Southern to the At
lanta Exposition; the fare is five cents. One
or two trips might well be made over the
electric street car line, which Is more accessl-
BILE, so as to see the beautiful residences and
a part of the city proper.
Don't have your mail sent to my OF the
hotels, at least do not do so until you get
there and arrange matters with the prince
| of the town-the clerk. The best idea is to
have mail sent care of the general delivery
and call at the postofice daily or after you
get to Nashville direct the postoffice to send
it to some place where you are not liable to
have a dozen people wanting something at
| the same time.
BEST ROUTE TO NASHVILLE.
As to routes that is largely a matter of
| location and preference. The Press Asso-
cation went over the Seaboard, the Western
and Atlanta and the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis and a better route could not
be chosen. Then you can 60 to Atlanta or
| Chattanooga over the Southern or to Atlanta
over the Georgia. You either have to go to
Atlanta or Chattanooga and from Chattanooga
to Nashville over the Nashville, Chattanooga
| and St. Louis Road. The fare over any Of
the routes is the same from competitive
| points and the traveller may select his line,
| without additional expense, if through con-
| %nections are made. The roads from Atlanta
| run there or more trains westward daily,
during the Exposition.
STYLE OF THE EXPOSITION.
The Exposition itself is far too large an
| enterprise to describe in this letter. Its
| better to see it than to have some one tell
you of it. To begin with, one exposition is
very much like another. Atlanta was like
| Chicago and 80 is Nashville. The general
impression is very much the anne. The
| buildings present much the same appear
snce, being on the same general lines and
| made Of frame, covered with ''stuff." The
| Nashville grounds are, if anything, prettier
! than those of Atlanta. Perhaps the pretti-
est view of the grounds and the best ensem-
BILE of the buildings is to be had from the Rial
to.
When it is stated that there are forty
FIVE buildings and thirteen main buildings
on the grounds the largeness of the subject
may be appreciated. The immense build
ings are grouped about the natural lake.
The architecture is varied, the auditorium is
Colonial in design and Ionic in treatment"
the mineral and forestry building is of the
"Roman-Doric order of architecture" The
! woman's building is modelled somewhat
after the Hermitage, and to this design some
| features of Grecian architecture have been
| added with pleasing effect" and 80 the
many billings practically all covered with
white stuff, varying in size aud architectural
lines, all 60 to make up the vast Centennial
city.
The main buildings are: The Auditorium,
the Administration building, the Parthenon,
History, Commerce, Minerals and Forestry,
Woman's building, Chrildren's, Agriculture,
| Machinery, Negro, Railway Exhibits, Uni
/ ted States Government, Transportation, Hy-
giene and Education, Knoxville, Illinois,
| Cincinnati, Louisville, and then comes the
score of smaller buildings and those on the
Midway, or, as they call it in Nashville,
VANITY Fair"
THE P~ARTHENoN.
The Parthenon is considered the piece de
resistance, INTELLECTUALLY speaking, and the
reports give this description Of that struct-
ure:
In the centre of the park, and on an ele-
waited terrace, is the Parthenoon or Fine
Arts Building. As the Parthenon, de-.
signed under the direction of Phidias and
I%ctinus, in the time Of P~ericles, at Athens,
was the chief glory of all architecture, so
the Parthenon of the Tennessee Centen-
NAL Exposition is the pride and chief glory
of the Centennial group. AS it is to contain
| invaluable works of art, it will be fire.
| proof, with stone foundation, concrete
floor, brick walls, and glass roof in steel
| frame; the exterior being ornamented in
| nodded stuff in imitation of the original.
| Its tifty-eight futed columns, and every de-
| tail possible, are true to the original in de-
| sign and coloring. There is n large door at
| either end, opening upon the double column
| ed p~orticos, but no windows-light being OBJ
tanned through the glass roof and from myr-
lads of i~ncandescept lamps.
The sculpture to be placed on the pedi-
ments metopes and frieze are in imitation Of
| the original, and are in nodded staff, fur
nishing an object lesson in classic architec.
ture not heretofore seen in this country. In
front of the Parthenon will be erected a stat
ue of Pallas Athene, which, with the pedest-
al, will be forty feet high. Around the Par
thenon all of the other beautiful edi6oes are
clustered. So it was when the original was
created by the immortal Ictinus and decorat-
ed the unrivalled Phidias. As their creation
was the browning glory of the Acropolis, so
will this, its counterpart, erected twenty-four
centuries later, excel any in this constella-
ton of beautiful buildings. 1t is a notable
coincidence that Nashville, known as the
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