Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-27
IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.
n representative of the Banner Visits tn.
Nashville Centennial and Writes Concern.
ing it and the Country GeneraIiy.

7. Tuesday morning, May lIth, th
writer boarded the train at Beldin
and started on his journey southwar,
The leaves were just commencing I
= open upon the trees and all nature wa
smiling under the influence of n fer
warm days after very cold and back
ward spring. Our route was vi
Howell Junction and the Ann Arbo
railroad TO Toledo where we took tb,
limited express on the G.. III. 81 ID. fo
Cincinnati, arriving there at 8 D. m
This is superb road for comfort il
travelling. 1t takes one through mos
beautiful country its entire length
which is pleasure to look upon. and
combined with smooth road bed. fine
coaches and fast trains, makes a com.
oination that is very pleasing.
In Cincinnati we are to join other
members of the Wolverine Press Asso-
clation, the headquarters being at the
Palace Hotel where we are most ex-
cellently cared Tor. The following
forenoon our party was given trolley
car ride about the city and suburbs in
some special cars furnished by the
street railway company, which were
regular "Pullmans" in elegance. The
principal part OF the residence portion
OF the city is built upon high bluffs or
nils and in order to reach the tops of
which there are at least dozen or fif-
teen inclined railways upon which the
cars are carried up abruptly one hund-
red and fifty or two hundred feet. Some
OF the tlmid ones we're very apprehen-
slVe least something should give way.
but we all survived and returned to our
MOTEL with splendid appetite for
dinner.
Two O'Clock in the afternoon finds
our party comfortably ensconced in two
coaches especially set apart for us on a
Louisville q Nashville train and pull
Ing out for Nashville. We cross the
muddy OHIO on the magnificent new
bridge nearing completion and it seems
as though the appearance Of the
country changes at once and we real
re we are in different section. We ,
IRE in region now abounding in stone.
lot OF the Michigan boulder kind but /,
What they call dag stone. So plentiful
; III that we 9ee - lof fences on the
appears to be mostly father heavy soil
With great deal of red clay. Our
rain dashes on through tunnels,
lround sharp curves among these
hills (railroad building must |
rave been rather expensive here) and
each Louisville in time for supper.
Soon after leaving Louisville, dark
less shuts out the landscape and pre-
,ludes further observation, our desti-
ration being reached at a little after {
eleven O'Clock. Prices College hotel
lad been selected as headquarters in
and they managed to stow
Is all away somehow, but many sought
)ther quarters next day. The writer
ound place with Sergeant of Police !
|
III Broad street. Sergeant Reed, by
,he way, was in the Confederate army I
Ill through the war, but was very en-
Dhatic in his declaration that there
was none that would fight quicker or
harder now for the honor of the stars
and stripes than those who were sol
diers in the southern Confederacy. {
This is no doubt true but don't think
or minute that they feel any shame
over the part they took in the great
conflict They acknowledge that it is
best that it should have resulted as it
has, nevertheless they glory in the
valor with which they fought and I
really If they were placed back in the
same position, | believe they would
fight 1t over again.
1t is not unlikely that at least some
Of our readers know but little about
the Tennessee Centennial and Inter
national Exposition which is now on at
Nashville, and few words regarding
it would be proper.
This exposition was planned by the
people of Tennessee for the purpose of
celebrating the one-huudredth anniver
Sary OF the admission Of their state
into the union, and show TO the world
the great resources possessed by the
state, at the same time leading to their
greater development. The city of
Nashville was very naturally selected
as the site for this centennial celebra
tion, being the capital of the state and
one of the brightest and largest among
the southern cities. Following so
closely after the Cotton States Exposi.
tion at Atlanta in 1895, it is indeed
matter OF surprise that the people OF
Tennessee should be SO daring as to
undertake anything of this magnitude.
However they have done SO and they
are going to make "a success Of 1T too.
II was formally opened on the first
day of May and although quite incom
plete at that time land even yetl was