Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-29
GEORG|A's WEALTH To
] BE SHOWN IN EXHIBIT
Railroads of State Will Attract
Settlers at Ohio Valley
Exposition in Fall

Georgians everywhere will be interest
ed in the Ohio Valley exposition which
will be held at Cincinnati, August % to
September "a inclusive. The Georgia
railroad, the Atlanta and West Point the
louisville and Nashville. the Georgia
and Florida, the Nashville Chattanooga
and st. Louis railway, lessees of the
Western and Atlantic. and the Macon
Dublin and Savannah railroad, will have
large exhibits of the agricultural, horti-
cultural, industrial ana mineral wealth
o. the STATE at the coming exposition.
The object of these exhibits. which
will be under the direction of Col. Sam
uel c. Dunlap, commissioner. georgia
Bureau of Industries and immigration,
Atlanta, Maj W. L. Glessner. Of Angus
ia, and j. A. Streyer, of Macon, is to at
tract settlers and investors to Georgia,
and fnasmuch as the exhibits are to be
placed at Cincinnati, in a section where
great good will certainly result, ii is ex-
pected that the state Will be largely ben
efitted.
The general agricultural committee of
the exposition, composed of Major CHESS
ner, chairman; j. ". White, of Ports
mouth, Va; ]. p ardner, Louisville
KY; T. l.. L. Lawrence, Laurel, Miss;
ID. A. TreuJley, Cincinnati, Ohio; Samuel
{. Dunlap, Atlanta; J. l.. Hawley, Gulf
port, Miss; G. w. Ball, Richmond, Va;
w. w. Croxton. Norfolk Va. and j. c.
Clair. Chicago, he'd an impor Iant meet
ing atsthe@ Piedmont hotel In Atlanta on
duesday to determine the scope of the
agricultural displays which Will be plac-
ed in machinery hall, as the north wing
of Cinclnnatis famous music hall is
termed Machinery nall contains 21,OO0
square feet OF space.
d. The Georgia transportation lines inter-
ested. through their representatives in
charge of the exhibits, will see that ev-
cry exposition visitor inspects the dis
play and learns fully of the many at
tractive advantages of settling in Geor-
gia.i Nothing has been done in many
years of more interest to prospective set
Tiers and investors from the rich middle
west than this effort to attract them to
Georgia.
The textile manufactures of Georgia,
too, are showing decided interest in the
exposition. There is a conviction among
the Georgia textile manufacturers that
their goods have not been sufficiently ex-
plotted in the rich section of which Gin
cinnati is the center, and for that rea-
son the Georgia manufacturers are now
anxious to display their products, which,
in every way, at least equal those of 9TH
er sections of the country further re-
moved from the Ohio valley
This display will be in the hands OF
special committee of Georgia experts who
will take every opportunity to make this
feature a credit to the textile industry
of America in general and Georgia i'm par
ticular. et.
The United, States war department has
lust notified the exposition directors that
It Will send, as part of the government
exhibit, a typographical model of the Pan
anna canal and the canal zone. Every de-
tai. of this gigantic undertaking Will be
shown in the model, including the various
locks and dams. and comprehensive re-
OF oductions of the cities of Panama and
Colon, together with the fortifcations at
either, end of the canal in perfectly seal
ed proportions, and other details which
practically give the spectator bird's-eye
view of the entire work as it will look
when completed. g.. ..4