The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-06-09

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respective couches.
Monday morning came and we all
felt the better for having retired com
paratively early We Were III goos!
trim to DO" the city. While 1t
breakfast, the newspapers OF the city
were handed around, and the writer
had the pleasure Of seeing q fairly
we'll executed picture OF himself in
the Nashville american, one of the
leading dailies in Tennessee. The
picture caused all kinds OF criticism
from the fellows who were envious,
but the ladies were inclined to be
more charitable.
Nashville is a great city of hills.
magnificent churches, celebrated
schools ana tremendous public build
ires. Il has 4 strong Southern sen
timcnt and a Western sportivencss:
pretty women, fine horses and good
liquor are some OF the great things
for the admiration Of tue genu ne
Tennesseean, There are many ele-
gantly equipped stores and these
have artists to arrange their show
windows
After breakfast, the party feeling
fresh: struck ont for the Expo" We
cannot undertake a description OF
this great exposition, for the reason
that it would require Il book Of many
pages to 90 into details. Tie build,
ings are far superior to those at the
atlanta show and the exhibits are
finer; the grounds cannot be exce]led
anywhere in America. They are a
natural exposition ground. The
buildings are built after the Grecian
style of architecture. The art build
lug, which is attracting great atten-
ton is said to be an exact copy of the
"Parthenon. There are forty-tive
buildings and thirteen main build
ings on the grounds and the main
buildings are grouped around about
a natural lake, on which are to be
seen floating black and white swans
AMI at night. under the glare Of the
many colored lights the "Rialto
around the lake presents scene that
beggars description.
The main buildings are: The Par
thenou, the Auditorium, the United
States Government, Conn arce, His
tory, Minerals and Forestry, Wom-
ans building, Children's. Agricultur-
al, Machinery, Negro, Railway exhio,
its, Pythian, and a whole raft OF fine
but smaller buildings.
The only exhibit we saw from this
State was q very creditable one from
Harris Lithia Springs: this was in
the agricultural building and it was
very lastly arranged. Mr. Harris,
the proprietor OF this famous health
giving water, also made arrangements
to advertise the water on the grounds
with a system Of electric lights Then
in the woman's building, among the
books, we found a novel written by a
member OF our party, Mrs. NJ. W.
Coleman. Of Seneca, S. c. The book
is entitled "a Blue Cnrysanthemum"
and has received some very compli-
mentary notices from the Nashville
press. Mrs Virginia D. Young, Of
Fairfax, another member of our
party has two volumes Of her pro.
duction: Tower in Desert and
"Beholding as in Looking Glass.
There are also quite number of
books from South Carolina author
esses.
The Midway or vanity Fair" as
it is called in Nashville, is more like
the Atlanta show than anything We
saw on the grounds Here could be
found all manner and sorts of people
and attractions. There was no Ferris
wheel, but there was a chute and a
ssee saw and hundred and one
things to take away the change. Tie
Chinese village with population Of
about 500 almond-eyed folks was a
curiosity; we attended Chinese
theatrical! performance in company
with several ladies, and one young
I)ady from Laurens was 50 completely
carried away with Chinese opera that
we fear her fellow vii. meet his
Waterloo when he next goes to see
her. Lager beer gardens were there
in full blast and glory and so was
"Dante's Inferno. This latter should
be visited to be appreciated. The
beer gardens need no words, Judging
from the way certain members of our
party would slip away from the ladies
and slide into beer garden for a
toothpick.
Tuesday was Governors Day"
and it was day Of days. Early in
the morning the soldiery We're form
| ing on the side streets, bands were
playing, drums and flies were giving
out their martial music and by 10
clock everything was in readiness
for the procession to begin moving.
About twenty-five carriages We're
drawn up in line and the first was
occupied by Governors TAYLOR, Of
Tennessee, Russell, of North Carolina,
and Lieutenant Governor McSweeney
of South Carolina. This carriage was
followed by Governor Russells staff
and their lady companions The S.
C.. ?. \. followed them. In the car
riage with the writer was President
.Aull and Miss Emmie TAYLOR, eldest
daughter OF Governor Taylor The
carriages were proceeded by several
regiments OF military and several
bands of music The march was
through tie principal streets, on out
to the exposition grounds where the
entire party, after passing through
double lines of military at 'preseut