The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-08-01
d. A. Tompkins in Charlotte Observer.

D. A. Tompkins in Charlotte Observer
The jamestown Exposition is an
all right institution and deserves
none OF the criticism it has had. At
the present writing, the former sto-
ries about the unfinished condition
of the exposition are not true. The
whole business is as well in shape as
| ever saw in any exposition at this
stage, and there is SO little yet I'M
finished that it would not be noticea-
BILE to the ordinary visitor. The
government is behind on the big
pier and it is also behind with its test
laboratory on the economy OF fuels
and the production of power. Be-
sides being i'll a good condition with
respect to completion, this show at
jamestown for exposing the prog
ress OF domestic economy and OF in
dustrial economics, is ahead of all
| other expositiOns, excepting only
the original Crystal Palace show in
London and the Centennial in Phila-
delphia. Those two shows were
really expositions. The Crystal Pal
ace exposed a condition of develop
ment all the world over which gave
to English merchants and England
generally and to the more adganeed
continental countries, new Opportu-
mites OF commerce, the necessary
knowledge for which could not have
been otherwise obtained in a period
of 10 or 20 years. SO also with the
Philadelphia shOw-it was really an
exposition Of opportunities for the
domestic household in the United
States and for the manufacturer
who needed markets and it brought
about these things to knowledge and
use quicker than could otherwise
have been done in 10 to 20 years.
The intervening big shows have been
exhibitions. AS each succeeded the
other some bigger thing was shown
than at a former one, but there was
no revelations OF new things Or new
movements of progress. The James
town Exposition really exposes Il
great many new things, both of
economy and progress. For exam
pie, the tests which are being made
by the United States government of
the fuel values of denatured alcohol,
coal when used to make stain, or of
fuel used in the form of gas and all
these as compared with the value of
water power when developed, repre-
sents something not before shown in
an exhibition such as those Of Buffa-
10, Atlanta, st. Louis or Chicago.
w hIln fhn wi nln FRY "a rfio foc
in exposing new movements of value,
some of the most remarkable of these
relate to Southern development. For
example, the products of cotton
and cotton seed present an infinite
variety of new products for domestic
and commercial Use which are now
very little known about, except as
these are being made known through
the exposition. In cotton there are
shown blankets made of cotton quite
as rice as those OF wool. Mercerized
| cotton fabrics are shown which go on
the markets in competition to silk
Goods for mems wear wholly made
| of cotton seem every bit as good as
those made of wool and at half the
cost. Cotton seed furnish cotton oil
in great quantities from which Hol-
land makes the pure spring butter
which goes from Holland to England
in such great quantities. Quantities
Of it are sent to France to pack sar-
dimes in and the French export these
as an olive oil proposition. Quanti-
ties of it 60 to Italy to augment the
exports of olive oil. Quantities go
to Chicago i'll this country to make
lard. The cotton seed meal is used
to fatten beef in this country and in
Germany, France, England, and
other countries. The meal and bulls
together make the best possible feed
stuff for dairy cattle. Perhaps one
of the most instructive and novel ex-
hibits upon the ground is that OF
the Southern Cotton Oil Company in
the pure food building where the
varied products Of cotton seed are
exhibited and the value of cotton oil
in new uses is being demonstrated
One of the unique little things is the
production OF an ice cream, without
any cream. milk or anything else
which comes from a COW. 1t is a
compound Of eggs, cotton seed oil,
starch. water and sugar. The com
pany will furnish to everybody the
detailed recipe, which | am not try
ing here to give.
There are a number of exhibits
which expose new uses to which elec
tricity may be put.
The cotton oil products relate tC
one phase of household economy; the
new products of cotton relate to an
other phase of household economy
and this application OF electricity tt
the accomplishment of domestic worl
relates to still another.
The exposition is not burdeneC
with multiplicity or volume OF exhib
its, but it is really rich in the variety
and value of new things which are ex
posed and which enter into the vari
Gus economics of human life.
This same Southern Cotton Oh
Company exhibits along with TIN
North Carolina exhibit, a lot Of mat
tresses made in Charlotte which, no
only use cotton, but for the cheape
grades use an oil mill product called
linters, which is the short lint takeI
off the seed before they 60 through
the oil MILL
If the exposition was behind in TIN
matter OF its completion, it would b,
nothing extraordinary Indeed it il
rather extraordinary that it is 81
near to completion. What della,
there has been, has been caused in TIN
same way as that of the Southern
Railway in completing its doubl
track from Washington to Charlotte
namely, scarcity of laborers. Th,
delay has been for the same reason
the South and Western Railway ha.
been delayed in getting its main lin,
across the mountains; and for TIL,
same reason the cotton factories o
the United States have 30 per cent