The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-14
GEORGIA At CHARLESTON.

Mr.. G. H. Aubrey. special commits.
sioner of the South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian Exposition, which
opens in Charleston in December, spent
yesterday at the Georgia State Fair
He has been in the West in the inter
est of the Charleston Exposition, and
says that there will be an immense at
tendance from that section of the coun-
try. Cincinnati, which is TO have a
large building of its own, purposes
sending out 100000 invitations to the
merchants OF the South to be her guests
during the Exposition and see what
she has to offer in the way of trade
and traffic advantages. Several other
cities are expected to follow Cincin-
nau's example and keep open house"
Mr.. Aubrey expressed himself as be-
ing especially impressed with the mag
nificent agricultural display at the
Georgia State Fair as shown in the
dozen fine county exhibits. He Is anx-
ious to get the several displays consol-
idated and sent to Charleston as a
Georgia state exhibit; and it would be
greatly to the advantage of Georgia. If
the idea were adopted and carried out
handsomely. 1t seems that there should
be no insuperable obstacle in the way
1t would be the opportunity Of the
new century to have Georgia's mag
nifcent agricultural resources thus
splendidly illustrated in an exposition
of more than national interest, and
which is to be held so closely at hand
Visitors from less favored chimes
could not fail to be interested in see
ing what Georgia can produce on her
farms-what wheat, rice, oats, sugar
cane, tubers of all varieties, fruits,
grapes, etc, as shown by the exam
pies in the State Fair, are to be rails
ed from the soil of this favored land.
No better advertisement of Georgia's
agricultural resources could possibly
be had than through the means of the
exhibits now at the Fair grounds; and
to show those examples to the greatest
possible number OF people ought to be
the earnest desire of those who have
the best interests of the state at
heart.
The State Agricultural Society, by
resolutions adopted at its recent Thorn
asville meeting, strongly Endorsed the
Charleston Exposition. 1t now has the
opportunity of making good its resolu-
tions by lending a helping hand to that
Exposition and at the same time bene-
fitting the agricultural interests of
Georgia, through the sending of the
county exhibits in our St Fair to
the great Charleston show. doubtless
a proper presentation of the matter to
Commissioner Stevens would secure
the Co operation of that gentleman
and the setting aside of a sufficient
sum from the appropriation of the
State Agricultural Department to place
the exhibit in Charleston and
arrange for its proper custody
there. In the event that Commissioner
Stevens should find himself with
out authority to act, then the Georgia
State Agricultural Society should APP
peal to the several counties exhibiting
at the State Fair in this city to come
to the rescue by providing the means
for making a joint exhibit of their
products at Charleston as a Georgia
State Agricultural Exhibit.
There never was a better time nor
a surer method of advertising among
persons who really wish to know what
Georgia is doing and can do in the ag-
ricultural line than is herein suggested.
Western people are of the opinion that
Georgia raises, and can raise only, a
little cotton and little rice. These
Westerners are among the people we
wish to attract as settlers and inves-
tors. To show them at Charleston a
splendid agricultural exhibit. made vi
from the best in our State Fair will
be affective in dispelling from their
minds the idea that we are a one OF
two-crop section, along with other
false notions. We can produce
about anything grown in the
temperate zone. We now have
the opportunity of pretty clearly illus
trating the fact, and should make the
most of IL.