The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-20
NASHVILLE'S BIG SHOW
MIR. JUSTI, OF THE TENNESSEE CEN
TENNIAL, DESCRIBES 1T.
There Have Been 100000 Paid Admits
siOns Since the Opening-The
ParthenOn Reproduced.

I1SILldH JuSll, CIl0I Ol the bureau VI
Promotion and Publicity of the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition, arrived in the city
yesterday evening from st. Louis, and is
stopping at the Bates House. Mr.. Justi was
sfor some years president of the First Ma
| tional Bank of Nashville, Tenn, was at
one time president of the Tennessee Bank
ers' Association and has been liberal con-
| tributor to the newspapers and magazines
of the country.
! Mr.. Justis work in connection with the
| exposition is largely in the nature of a Ia
| Dor of love. He is interested in the develop
ment of the South and in bringing about
| closer commercial relations between the va
rious sections of the country He is return
| ing now from a ten days trip through the
| West, and reports the crops both in the
cotton and grain-growing States as very
promising and the prospects for fall bust
| ness as excellent. He believes that an era
of prosperity is about to dawn. Mr.. Justi
was asked about the success of the expo
sition at Nashville. He replied that the
success thus far has more than exceeded
the expectations of its projectors The turn
stiles have registered about $4,000 paid ad-
missions, and the daily receipts paid and
unpaid have exceeded, on an average of $3.50
day, the current expenses.
| The centennial at Philadelphia just about
paid expenses for the first two months and
Chicago and Atlanta lost heavily" said Mr.
| Justi. Nashville is centrally located and
| within nights ride there reside ten and
half millions of people. Then another fact
which contributed to the success was the
practically complete condition of the expo
sition on the opening day. The reproduction
of the Parthenon in every minute detail,
| as well as in its dimensions, has done more
than any other one thing at the exposition
to bring it to the attention of the cultivated
classes of America. 1t was a new departure
in architecture for exposition purposes, and
although merely an imitation of the most
famous structure in the world, it lifted the
| Tennessee Centennial Exposition immea-
sureably above any other exposition hereto
fore held in this country. 1t makes a last
ing impression upon every beholder, and
in the memory of those who have seen the
court of honor at Chicago this impression
obtained at Nashville will be the longest to
survive. There are in all about fifty sepa-
rate buildings within the exposition park
and all of these are decorated with electric
lights, the decorations being placed along
the lines of the buildings producing an eff
feet never before made in electric lighting.
The exposition park itself is a beautiful
tract of land of 210 acres, situated just at
the western boundary of the city. 1t is
steam railway, and the largest crowds have
thus far been handled with more than COM
parative comfort. 1t is to the credit of
| the exposition management and 10 the bust
ness classes of Nashville that no extortion
| has been practiced at any time nor in any
| way. The exposition at Nashville is of pc
| culiar interest to the Northern people,
| They have heard much of "Belemeade'
and the Hermitage" and a visit to the
| exposition affords an excellent opportunity
to the visitor to carry out long-cherished
! desire to see them. In addition to this the
| batefelds of Tennessee are within easy
| reach and have proved an attraction to
| the old soldier element Next to Virginia
| a greater number of battles were fought
| on Tennessee soil than in any other State
| in the Union. And here were fought per-
haps the most decisive battles of the war.
| The trip to Nashville can be made in a
night, but for those to whom time is not
| so much of an object a trip by river from
! Evansville up the Ohio to the mouth of the
| Cumberland and up the Cumberland to
| Nashville would prove a most delightful ex-
| perience.
''The attendance from the North has been
! greater than we anticipated during the
early months of the exposition, and mas
| much as the State days come in the au-
| tumn the attendance will certainly be very
! large. Ohio and Wisconsin have already
! had their State days, but the attendance
| from those States continues nevertheless.
! In fact Ohio has contribute more in at
| tendance than any other of the Northern
| States. And this is no doubt due to the
| fact that the favorable impression made in
| the early days of the exposition served as
| an advertisement throughout the State. IN
diana day is fixed for Oct. 4, and the Gov
ernor with his staff will no doubt attend.
1t is also quite certain that the commercial
! bodies of the larger cities of the State.
notably Indianapolis, will send large delega-
| tons.
'.The trip is an inexpensive one, the
| round-trip tickets from indianapolis cost
ing only 1920 good for ten days. Two of
| the largest hotels of Nashville are con-
Quoted on the European plan, and the price
is 81 a day and upwards. The rates at the
| hotels conducted on the American plan are
| 80 a day and upwards. Nearly every
| family in Nashville has kept open house
during the exposition and they will CON
therefore. need be entertained that the ac-
commodations will be insufficient"