The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-12-18
PRESS TRIP TO EXPOSITION.

famous in both hemispheres.
There is no city in this or the
mother country that can make
the stranger feel more at home,
and when once taste Of Char
leston's cordiality is obtained,
there clings to one lasting de,
sire to go back for more. Char
lesion is a great place, her peo-
pie are great people, and she
has now within her portals the
greatest business promoting en-
terprise that has ever been
inaugurated in the South, and it
was to Charleston, her people,
and to her exposition, that the
South Carolina State Press AS
sociation, about one hundred
strong, went, saw, and were con
ouered. Did the editors have a
GOOD time? If the kind and
Generous attentions of Captain
F. W. Wagner, president of the
Exposition Company, and Ma jor
J. c. Henaphill director of the
company, and editor of the
News & Courier, could not make
the party feel like they were
living in a happy dream, then
there is no such thing as an
editor having the sense of ap-
probation. These two distin-
guished gentlemen-the former
distinguished in the commercial
line, and the other in letters,
gave up their individual inter
ests and were constant and tire
less in their attentions to the
country pencil pushers. We
simply owned the earth from
fresh glass of beer, to a steam
boat. We owned the city, and
our beautiful blue badges gave
US an entrance to all that was
going, from christian science
reading room to a blind tiger.
We did the "expo," by first be-
ing received in the Auditorium
by the Mayor Smyth and Di-
rector General Averill whose
speeches of welcome, together
with the grand music of the band
made US feel that the price of
corn need not give US a care.
The speeches we're responded to
by His Excellency the governor,
and Colonel E. H. Aull, the
"esident of the Association, also
MS. Virginia D. Young, who by
the way, is not only a writer
with universal reputation, but
one of the sweetest little women
that ever came into public life,
and a trip of the Association
without her, would be like a
whiskey sour without the whis-
KEY, to a man who had been out
the night before, attending a
woman's suffrage convention.
The press gang was taken
through the buildings, and in
these, the exhibitors were busy
putting in their exhibits, the vast
amount of material, varied and
valuable, and from everywhere,
that is now being opened up, and
being put in position is simply
marvellous. No one can con-
ceive, without a personal visit
the extent of this exposition-it
is a busy world within itself,
where all nations, with their
modes and customs can be seen.
Everybody in the party was car
ried away with the architectural
beauty of the Court of Palaces,
with their connecting colonades,
the beautiful statuary. the
magnificent lake and sunken
garden, the majestic trees and
lovely flowers. The whole,
making a scene that was be-
yond conception; after walking
ourselves tired, we were halted
at the woman's building: which
is the first completed and it's ex-
hibits in place; ;~here we found a
bevy of stately and beautiful
women, who received US with a
warmth truly characteristic of
Charleston, here were some
more speeches, and best of all
lunch was served. In this build
ing is exhibited the silk culture
of this State, together with
colonial relics, and a number of
other things to interest the visit
or. In this rambling article we
will not attempt to give any
thing like an adequate descrip-
tion, it is our purpose simply, to
sketch briefly our trip. The
Midway people opened up a
special performance for Us, and
we visited the Esquimaux vii
lage, Wnere we atCende0 very
pleasing native performance, we
went through the Grotto, saw Jim
Kay, the famous educated horse,
and took in Bostock's wild ami
NAL show. In the Midway there
are to be more attractions than
were at Buffalo, and the reason
they are not opened now, is the
existance Of car famine, which
is fast being relieved, as the
freight carriers are beginning to
bring the things in. Before the
holidays this feature of the ex-
position will be in full blast, and
then the visitors can have all
the fun they want. The expo
sition has enough now, to make
If very infaraStino fO1. tho Sirht-