The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-07-25

oov. Smiths SPeech-Fine Appear
ance of Governor and His Staff
naryland's CreditabIe Exhibit -
North Carolina Wine Highly Praised
by Connoisseurs-Georgia Day.
Especial Correspondence of the Gold Leaf }
Buffalo, N. Y, July %, 'O1.
We'd nesday the strains of MARY
land, My Maryland" and of .sDixie'
mingled with the flow of thousand
fountains as Governor Smith escorted
by a brilliantly uniformed staff and
the Pan-American officials entered
the Exposition now in progress by
the ''Great Waters of the North"
The visiting Marylanders all wore
the colors OF the city, orange and
black. A blue silk banner bearing
the elaborate coat of arms of Lord
Baltimore was borne in front of the
procession, with the Stars and Stripes
Among those in the party when it
arrived at the grounds were Gov.
| Smith, Col. Albert Sisk, Col John P
Moore. Gen. Murray Vandiver. Col.
Arthur Foster, Col. John Waters, Col.
George Nj. Upshur, Gen. Charles A.
Chipley, Adjt. Gen. John S. Saunders,
Gen. John b. Schwatka. Col. Israel
Roscnfold and Col. Charles Colds
borough, Francis K. Carye, Franklin
z. Carter, John S. Gibbs, Reuben
Foster, Samuel Rosenthal, Col. Her.
man Stump, Oswald Tilghman. Norval
f. Foard and the president of the
commission. Ferdinand G. Latrobe,
Judge Thomas j. Morris, Harrison
Tilshman, c. H. Forrest, Lloyd Will
| kinsOn, Samuel Dennis, Gov. Smiths
private secretary, and Bernard Cour
Lender, Assistant General Passenger
Agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and many others. Arriving at tho
Temple of Music Mayor Latrobe made
the first address. In concluding he
gave utterance to what applies to the
whole South.
''Here you will realize what the
United States can produce. We have
coal enough to supply the factories
and navies Of the world. If they
don't want coal we can give them oil.
If oil is not satisfactory, let their fac
| CoilCS SoIhC ~ auu " c IL ttii II
their wheels with electricity produced
from the harnessed waters of Niagara
Our visit to your city, where al your
Exposition we have asked for Mary
land Day, is not altogether matter
of sentiment. We have shown on
your fairgrounds in what we have
sent here, that we have goods to sell.
You have shown that you have goods
to sell, too, and, what is more, the
money to buy our goods. | advocate
closer trade and social. relations be-
tween Maryland and Buffalo. Let US,
ever the iron links that bind our
States together, be closer brothers in
trade and commerce. May the Pan
American Exposition be the means OF
nearer relationship than that
which now unites Buffalo and Mary
land together.
President Milburn extended cord
ial and courteous welcome to the
visiting Southerners to which Cover.
nor Smith, of Maryland, gracefully
| responded. He also expressed senti
f ments of sincere regret that every
State in the South was not represent
ed here. He said at is source o.
regret to me that Maryland is MOI
more extensively represented. She
p is rich in all things, and it had beer
nv intention to have her represented
by not merely creditable exhibit
but by one that could not be sur
passed by any State or equaled by
< any foreign country. Hence, | say
E that any country or any State tina
4 fails to participate literally in sucf
9 expeditions is lacking in appreciation
of them and is laggard in taking ad
t vantage of opportunities for materia
e advancement. This observation APP
a plies, l regret to say, to certain eN
= tent, at least, to my own State"
: And it applies to many others a
r well. Maryland appropriated some
r thing for the Exposition and has ;
Q very creditable, though small, ex
B., hibit, but it is very inadequate. Sh'
= has in the Mines Building geologi
t cal exhibit which is one of the mos
: artistic installations on tie grounds
0 Clark, State Geologist. A sample o
t semi-bituminous coal from the
: Georges Creek District out of tn,
;. famous big vein is here shown. Thu
sample is eight feet high and tire.
and half feet wide, making mas:
d of solid coal weighing about three
s tons. The coal territory is restricted
l.. to the Western portion of the State
J, in Allegheny county. Specimens o
oborn All N.
l. veins are now being worked to thei
full capacity and the supply seem:
inexhaustible. The exhibit of sol
types is very interesting being made
up of samples of the soil from differ
ent sections of the State, showing til,
constituency of the soil. This ex
hibit shows the natural soil in ,
: large glass vial. then the soil sub
divided in seven divisions in small
tubes, each tube showing the per
$ centage of clay, silt, very fine sand
I fine sand and medium sand, coarse
sand and gravel. Nine samples o
. soil are exhibited showing the char
+ acteristic soil of the State. This ex
| hibit is one of the most complete
: from a scientific point of view, the
: arrangements being very simple and
e capable of being understood by the
general run of visitors. 1t is of impor.
; tance to agriculturists in determining
y the best section of the State in which
to grow special crops. Another in
teresting exhibit shows the results
, of tests of different kinds of rock fol
: highway or road building purposes
$ four qualities of rock being exhibited
5 Limestone, granite. gabbro diorite
and diabase, commonly called trap,
, in broken chunks the size of a goose
egg are shown. The first test is fol
. friction. Five kilos of the broken
. rock is placed in an iron cylinder and
= Given ten thousand revolutions. The
: amount of dust produced indicate:
the working quality of the stone