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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
THE MEN AT THE HELM.

The men who built the Exposition are
strong body of workers. It's first sug-
gostion came from Col John A. Averill.
the Director General, and it is to his en-
ergy, executive ability and never firing
industry that the success of the under
taking is in a great measure due. But
the one man of all men who made the
Exposition possible is Captain f. w.
Wagner, the president of the company.
Once enlisted in the cause he has not
spared time nor money. His means have
been pledged for it's success and it is said
pnhesitatingIy that but for him the Elk
position could not have been as great as
it is.
The other officers of the company, to
each of whom high praise is due, are w.
Fl. Welch; vice president; Samuel H.
Wilson, treasurer; A. NJ. Wheeler. as
sistant director general, and John +.
Ficken, general counsel. The Board of
Directors, whose admirable conduct of
the Exposition deserves all praise. has on
it in addition 20 the president and vice
president Messrs. Samuel Lapham. a
prominent manufacturer; J. c. Hemphill,
editor of the Charleston News and Cour-
Ter. and also chairman of the Department
of Publicity; j. L. David, leading cloth
Ter; C. s. Gadsden, president of the Char
lesion and Savannah and Atlantic Coast
Line railroads; John f. Ficken, attorney
and ex-Mayor of Charleston; Francis K.
Carey. of Baltimore, and Willie Jones, of
Columbia.
The architect of the beautiful Ivory
City is a maker of eXpOsitions, Mr..
Bradford Lee Gilbert, of New York,
whose work in Chicago and Atlanta have
been so much admired and who brought
experienced ability taste and enthusiasm
To his task. The result has been only
what might be expected, and it is poem
in buildings to which his brain gave
being.
The men, the means the architect are
assembled and now the place upon which
these forces are to be centered. so as to
make a magnet that will draw all people
IN Charleston
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
MINES AND FORESTRY BUILD
ING,

This is the first of the great buildings
to which visitors turn and is the Mecca
to which all North Caroinans will
flock for in it is the great exhibit from
this State occupying the very best posi-
tion in the building and forming a pic
ture of beauty Immediately that the view
within the swinging doors comes into the
line OF vision.
The North Carolina exhibit space is
divided into five sections, the central
being within an ornate pagoda, sur
rounded by the other four sections all
deliberately ornamented.
Within the building, outside of the en-
tire North Carolina exhibit, the pro-
ducts of the mines and the forests of a
great section are the attractions In area
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

there is about 10000 square feet The
building is semi-circular in form, and is
designed after some of the quaint old
palaces of Spain and Italy. 1t is one
story in height with deeply recessed win
dows high above the ground, these being
filled in with wrought grilles.
The visitor will find many specimens OF
various kinds of native woods, in natural
and finished shape The mines exhibits,
grouped in geological eras are full of in
terest to even the casual observer Be-
sides minerals from North Carolina there
are others from Florida, Maryland, Geor-
gia, Colorado Dakota, Missouri and South
Carolina, some of the serDentine and
variegated marble from Colorado being
made into exquisite designs. The geo.
logical exhibit of the United States Gov
eminent is a magnificent one and attracts
great attention
Passing eastward from the building
there is next the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

full swing of splendor. There have been
other Expeditions in the South, but this
excels them all. New Orleans and At
lanta have had their day in court and had
many beauties, but it has remained for
historic Charleston to eclipse them all in
Splendor, uniqueness. completeness.
And not alone does this beautiful
Ivory City dare make comparison with
its sister Expeditions OF the Southland,
but it invites to il unhestatingiy all
who saw Chicago, or who but few
months ago beheld the grandeur of the
display at Buffalo. The latest Exposition
has many points of excellence
possessed by no other Exposition, and in
many points exceis it's predecessors, no
matter where they were located. There
is here purely Southern atmosphere,
giving to it attractiveness and charms
possessed by no other Exposition. There
are original features, impossible else
where, and to get in actual touch with
the countless charms to be found is to be
reckoned as one of the great privileges
of a life.
The Exposition began on the first of De-
cember, 1901, and is to continue to the
first day of June of this year. How this
stupendous undertaking came to a glori-
Gus fruition is but another story of the
determination, the audacity and the grit
which are trade marks of South Carolina.
The term ''audacity'' is used advisedly,
for it was an audacious undertaking, not
alone because it followed the great Buff
falo Exposition, but because it was I'M
dertaken by daring band of progressive
men, in city that has been regarded as
a Conservative of Conservatives, a city
that boasts OF about $4,000 people. less
than $4,000 of these being white. Yet it
has been done. and done grandly. 1t puts
to flight all ideas that men of the South
are inactive, sluggish, and gives to those
who did and dared in Charleston the right
to be called the Pioneers of Push, be-
cause they dared to do that which the
men of no other city of its size in the
world would have even thought of at
tempting. 1t took brave hearts to dare
the thing, but success has come.
How was the Exposition started and
what are it's purposes?" is a question Of
ten heard. and in the answer is much of
history and much of interest.
The conception of the Exposition came
in the desire of South Carolinians 10 pre-
sent the great advantages of their State
to the world. and to show TO all people
that Charleston was the rightful Metro
polls and Port Of Entry of the Southeast.
that through its gates should come the
trade OF the West Indies, Central and
South America, and that its harbor was
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
THROUGH LOVERS LANE"

Coming up along the Ashley river front
we find the Art Gallery, which if APP
preached from the Philadelphia Building
has an attraction en- route Lovers
Lane" in the Grove of Daphne" Still
in sight of the Ashley river we find the
Illinois Building. from which a minute
walk brings one into the grounds of the
Lowndes Mansion the handsome Colo
NAL residence converted most happily
into the Woman's Building with it's his
toric exhibits.
Beyond this and to the back of the race
track is a mi-circle of buildings, the
Honduras the Louisiana Purchase, the
Alaska the Guatemala and the Negro
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
BY CAR AND STEAMER.

The Exposition grounds are easy Of
access from the city. Private convey
ances there are to be had in abundance
or a quick trip can be made by the cleo
trio cars. To those who prefers "a trip by
railroad over either the Southern or At
lantic Coast Line will land visitors on
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

Juanita spanned by a bridge having in
it's centre the Electric Island with
''Venice in America on one side and the
Machinery and Electricity Building on
the other. Down the line from this
comes the Transportation Building and
then swinging back again, between Lake
Juanita and the Ashley river is the Fish
IL R11ildino
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
A PICTURE OF BEAUTY.

The Natural Section" has on it many
buildings, but the beautiful work of ma
ture done on it's grounds have needed
little addition. This is but half the
grounds, which by happy accidental
shaping of the irregular tract on which
the Exposition has been located has
given rein to the fancy of the architect,
who has used two distinct methods, one
emphasizing the natural features, while
art itself makes up the other half.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

Its purpose is to add to former efforts
and to inaugurate new industries and
commerce, ito enter upon a truly Twen-
tieth Century of Advancement in all the
arts of peace, to develop the American
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
Palace OF COMMERCE.

This is one of the three Palaces con-
nected in semi-circular form by colonades.
their grouping thus forming the impos-
ing back ground for the Court of Palaces,
the Cotton Palace in the centre, and the
Palace of Agriculture at the opposite end.
Within its walls is the Liberal Arts
display, covering $1,000 square feet of
floor space. where are exhibited the
manufactured products of various sorts,
except textiles, displays of foods and
their accessories, ordnance and munitions
of war, ceramics, gold and silver ware,
chronological and archaeological exhibits.
The manufacturers of many articles for
table use here have their exhibits, samples
Of which are served daily to visitors, who
find many tOothsome articles to be en-
joyed, without money and without
price" There are over 60 concessionarics
having iexhiaits in this tiIilding land
souvenirs are on every side.
Passing from this building entrance is
had into the cOlona1es leading to the
magnificent Cotton Palace. These
spacious colonnades, on either side of the
Cotton Palace, contain the magnificent
exhibit made by the National Govern
ment.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION
Magnificent Display Of the South in All the Occupations
and Arts of the World

ers and gardens which have arisen as
if by magic.
The slightly rolling topography of the
land is in itself an aid to varied and ar
tistic effects, while in abundance are the
magnificent live oaks, from whose out
stretched limbs there hang in shadowy
and graceful pendants the streamers of
long, grey Spanish moss, which nature
alone presents as On attraction. In place
of dusty walks there are here beautiful
groves and green slopes, providing per-
feet background for the architect and
landscape gardener, whose artistic fancy
has evolved dream Of beauty. The
grounds skirt the edge of a beautiful
river which adds it's simmer and
sparkle as another jewel of beauty in a
crown of naught but those of brilliant
lustre.
This section of the grounds which bor-
der upon the river provides for what is
known as the Natural Section and the
river frontage gives it a most graceful
charm. Here are to be seen numbers of
the spreading live oak trees and clusters
of Cherokee rose bushes, whose beautiful
flowers are soon to be in abundance
This part of the grounds once formed
part of the magnificent estate of Will
liam Lowndes, a diplomat and statesman
of the days of Calhoun. 1t is now the
property of Capt F. w. Wagner but by
a recent act of the City Council of Char
lesion will be purchased and made per-
manent park for the city. To it will be
moved many of the Exposition buildings
which will be located as a permanent
souvenir of the Charleston Exposition.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

Buildings. passing which we see again the
Administration Building, while to our
right is a field filled with luscious straw
berries, now almost ready for the table.
Besides the buildings thus rapidly re-
viewed, there is hidden from first glance
back of the Mines and Forestry Build
ing the reservation for cattle and live
stock while beyond the Palace of Com
merce and the first Colonnade in which
are the Government exhibits are to be
seen the. tents of the United States ma
rine corps in charge of the national
property.
The Midway must not be overlooked in
this cursory glance. Its broad gates can
be seen directly to the left from the
Administration Building, looking across
the plaza, and within these there is the
sound of laughter and music, the hum Of
happy voices and the tuneful cry of the
barker" telling of the beauties of his
particular show.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
A FAIRYLAND FOUND.

1t is found, and it is a beautiful spot
upon the eastern banks of the Ashley
river. exceeding enc hundred and sixty
acres in size, within the city limits and
about two and n half miles from the
BUSINESS centre of the city. The supervis-
ing architect. with all his experience.
did not hesitate to call the spot an ideal
site for the fairyland of palaces and tow
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
SPLENDID AND UNIQUE.

The high water mark of Southern Ex-
positions has been reached in Charles
ton, where the South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian Exposition is now in a
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

Just one more glance from the Admin
istration Building ere we leave its piazza
and see what is within the beautiful
structures. and this glance reveals the
prettiest scene of all. First the eye rests
upon the plaza and beyond that the
Band Stand and Coming Tower with its
great lights. Beyond that is the Court OF
Palaces, or the Patio, 100 feet in dame
ter, with its beautiful ''Sunken Gardens"
about which tropical plants, fountains
and statues are clustered. with every
where settees where the delighted visi-
tor can rest and feast his eyes again
and again on the scene, made prodigal
in it's beauty by the cunning handiwork
of man
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
Exposition Director and Manager
Department Promotion and
Publicity.

the east side of the grounds, or if by
steamboat then a pleasant half hour ride,
begun at the city wharveS on the Cooper
river front, swinging around by the Bat
terry and then up the Ashley river will
land sightseers on the west side of the
grounds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
INTO THE GROUNDS.

terry ana JneH up the AoHIey IlFeI VIII
land sightseers on the west side of the
grounds.
INTO THE GROUNDS.
Passing into the grounds at the main
entrance the eye rests at once upon the
scene of artistic beauty made by man.
There direct to the front rises in state
ly grandeur the Cotton Palace, in the
centre of q semi-circle termed the Court
of Palaces, made up of imposing build
ings fully revealed across the plaza and
''Sunken Gardens" making up picture
which calls forth at once an exclamation
of delight. us it not beautiful" are
the words which have echoed and re-
echoed thousands of times as Exposition
visitors have for the first time gazed at
this fairyland. y
To the left of the entrance is the spa
cous Auditorium and to the right the
Administration Building, where are
housed the officers of the Exposition
Company. Passing at once to the portico
of this building the general scheme of
the entire Exposition grounds can be
grasped in a broad sense.
A GLIMPSE AT ITS CHARMS.
Here it is that one stands, as it were,
to one side of the central iuncture of the
figure 8, which forms not a bad diagram
of the grounds. The grounds have been
compared to this figure, to an hour glass,
to a butterfly and to many other things,
but the official ideal of it's shape is that
of wine glass, the main Administration
Building being located just in the edge
of the neck of the glass, as it faces south
west, placed midway between the ma
tural Section" and the cart Section
Here, as has been stated the view is
a comprehensive one, taking in most OF
the fourteen leading buildings, which,
principally in the art Section" are the
Cotton Palace, the Palace of Commerce,
the Palace of Agriculture, Forestry and
Mines Building, Administration Building,
Auditorium West Indian Building, the
xColonnades, with Government and other
exhibits.
Looking directly across to the right is
the Pennsylvania Building, beyond which
is seen the race course and parade
grounds with the grand stand, these be-
ing in the foot of the imagined wine
glass figure. Opposite this, in the ex-
tension of beautiful Lake Juanita is the
Maryland Building, TO which access is
had over a bridge Beyond is the New
York Building, and at the other end of
the walk the Philadelphia Building with
the Liberty Bell within Looking be-
yond this is the full expanse of Lake
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
CHICCO,
IMPORTER OF
Macoroni, Geese, Olives, Olive Oil,
And All Italian and French Delicacies.

Agent for and of Italian Wines
Co.'S Irish scotch Whishes
Proprietor off ELMONICO CAFE.
Dishes at short
viii Choo I1lnan and
Nat ION, at comb
of always in stock
block No l45 East Bay.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16

The mist of darkness creeps into the
air from somewhere. Deepening shadows
fall over the face of nature and in the
Ivory City the outlines of the build
ings grow indistinct. Night is coming on
swiftly.
Another moment and the scene is
changed as by a fairy's wand. twinkle
Of light there, yonder here then a flash
of hrilliancy and a glorious spectacle of
beauty dazzles the eye. 1t is Charles
tons Exposition in blaze of electricity.
1t is an Arabian nights dream trans
lated into lines of beautiful buildings,
arising out of artistic parks and plazas
where ripping waters gush in prsmatc
colors from many fountains, and where
the limpid depths of many lakes duplicate
in shimmering vision the picture of tran
Scendent beauty
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
THE GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT

No appropriation from Congress came
to aid Charleston in her stupendous I'M
dertaling but by the aid of Presi-
Continued from Page One.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
THE IVORY CITY" FAIRYLAND.
South Carolina Inter State West Indian EXPOSE
ton Presents Great and Unique Features that
Attract Thousands of Visitors.
THE PURPOSE OF THE EXPOSE
TION

the destined home of the Carriers of tho
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-16
A GREAT AND JOLLY MIDWAY

A Sweeping Review of the Spring Time
Fairyland Made in Charleston, the
City by the Sea, by It's Pioneers in
Pluck and Push, Which Presents I'm
rivalled Scenes to Draw the People
of the World to Gaze Upon One of
the Fairest Pictures of the Century.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-09-18
Visiting Cards In Sweden.

An old Swedish custom is for people
to Indicate their business upon their
visiting cards. One will receive the
card OF Lawyer Jones or Banker Smith
or Notary Johnson or Music Professor
Brown or Grosserer (which means
wholesale merchant Ferguson or Cecil
ogist Thompson. and ii a man ever
held an office 1t is customarylto indi-
cate that fact upon his card A burgo-
master is always a burgomaster. con-
SUI is always a consul and an alder
man always an alderman The pre-
fixes Hon. and Mr." are seldom
used, and the title, whether CONNER
cial or professional. is observed in con.
yersation in the same way.
It is customary also for ladies to
print their maiden names upon their
visiting cards in smaller type under
their married names, particularly if
they have a pride Of family and wanv
people to know their ancestry.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-09-18
Thousands Have Been Sold

The Milwaukee Sentinel has ar
ranged with the manufacturers of
the Porcelain Plaques, to furnish a
HANDSOME gilt frame for each and
every plaque without additional cost,
excepting expense Of express and
delivery.>
If.you are at present subscriber
to the Sentinel, you can assure a
plaque, by sending photograph with
80 per cent to pay expense Of express
and delivery.
IF you are not a subscriber to the
Sentinel, you can secure the plaque,
reproduced from any photograph
sent US, by subscribing for the Sen
tire. cor three months, and sending
80 cents in addition to pay expense
of express and delivery Of photo
graph and plaque.
We guarantee to return photo
graph with plaque within thirty
days after order has been received.
The plaque is guaranteed to be an
exact likeness Of the photograph
furnished and will never fade.
Address all communications to
Circula ton Department.,
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-09-18
Anmsthefics In China.

A Chinese manuscript in the Paris IL
brary proves that anasthetics for sur
gical purposes were Used in China
1,700 years ago. It states that when d
surgeon conducted a serious operation
he gave detection to the patient, who
after a few moments became as insen-
sible as if he were dead. Then, as the
case required, the surgeon performed
the operation -incision or amputation--
and removed the cause Of the malady.
Then he brought together and secured
the tissues and applied liniments. aft
er a certain number Of days the pa.
tient recovered without having expe-
rienced the slightest pain during the
operation"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-09-18
Too Muc.l For the Flies.

A young man in Philadelphia, who
has plenty Of time to devote to scien-
tific questions, has discovered that
music has great terrors for flies. He
learned the fact from observing at a
park concert that while the audience
was greatly annoyed by the insects the
musicians in the shell were free from
all inconvenience.
His conclusion is that the sound
waves from the shell kept back the
flies and that although hundreds of
them struggled to reach the shell they
might as well have attempted to fly in
the face of 2 tornado, and thus, he de-
clares, Enclosed by a magic curtain
made of their own music the musicians
played Wagner unannoyed by thesticky
and Fostering flies"
Imperial Wagner, dead and turned to clay,
Composed tune to keep the flies away.