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EXPOSITION, INTERNATIONAL COTTON. 



to the pleasure-carriage, and wind up witli the 

 " full ornamental me tallio casket." 



Man it pictures, Textile. This department in- 

 cluded cotton yarns, cloth, and prints, and other 

 vegetable fabrics, from the gossamer muslin to 

 the coarsest unbleached homespun, from the 

 finest lace to tent-canvas, from the most at- 

 tenuated spool-thread to cable-rope. The ex- 

 hibits of the Northern factories were as fine as 

 could be expected. They represented every- 

 thing that cotton is capable of producing under 

 the application of the highest inventive genius 

 and mechanical skill. While every one ad- 

 mired, no one was surprised at this display. But 

 every one was surprised and gratified by the 

 excellence and wide scope of the productions 

 of the Southern cotton-factories which were 

 exposed. They did not present anything com- 

 parable in size with the immense exhibit of the 

 Williinantic Linen Company, the largest at the 

 exposition, and the one which presented, per- 

 haps, the best view of all the details of cotton 

 machinery ; but in the substantiate of " cotton 

 goods" sheetings, shirtings, drillings, prints, 

 yarns, muslins, jeans, and cotton blankets 

 the Wesson Mills, of Mississippi; the Augusta 

 Factory ; the Summerville Mills, of Augusta, 

 Georgia; the Eagle and Phoenix Manufactur- 

 ing Company, of Columbus, Georgia ; the Ala- 

 bama and Georgia Manufacturing Company, of 

 West Point, Georgia; the Roswell Manufact- 

 uring Company, of Roswell, Georgia ; the 

 L:in_'li-y Mills and the Piedmont Mills, of South 

 Carolina, proved that they had made giant 

 strides in the race with their older and wealth- 

 ier rivals in Lowell, Fall River, and Provi- 

 dence. This \vas a cheering manifestation of 

 the " potentialities of the future," and en- 

 courages the hope that the esse of 1892 will 

 fully realize, if not surpass, the posse of 1882 

 in the estimate of the most sanguine. 



The Chinese and Japanese fabrics and gar- 

 ments exhibited by Mr. Atkinson in this de- 

 partment, showing the coarse, rude material 

 and clothing used by nine tenths of the teem- 

 ing population of China and Japan, were of 

 extreme interest, and suggested another " po- 

 tentiality " of immense proportions, interesting 

 alike to the cotton-grower and to the cotton- 

 manufacturer, when the machine-made cloth 

 of the United States shall be more generally 

 worn than at present by the 400,000,000 of 

 China and the 40,000,000 of Japan. It is esti- 

 mated that in both of these countries each per- 

 son needs twenty yards of cotton cloth every 

 year, making 8,000,000,000 yards needed for 

 China, and 800,000,000 yards for Japan. Sta- 

 tistics show that only 641,760,960 yards of 

 cotton cloth are exported to China, enough to 

 clothe 32,088,040 people, thus leaving 368,- 

 000,000 to be clothed with the native hand- 

 loom cloth, which is not only vastly inferior in 

 quality, but costs more than the machine-made 

 cloth of our factories. 



The display of silk, spun and woven, was 

 worthy of note, especially the exhibit of Mc- 



Kittrick, Wallace & Co., of Memphis, Tennes- 

 see, showing " raw silk, .spun silk, silk tluss, 

 woven silk, twisted silk, silk-worms spinning 

 silk, silk cocoons, silk butterflies, silk-worm 

 t.-_-L r s, and silk-worms feeding, all made, r;ii> i|, 

 and cultivated in the South." It is said that 

 silk-worms will feed and thrive as well on the 

 K-at' of the Osage orange as on the leaf of the 

 celebrated Morns multicaulis, which created so 

 much excitement at the South several years 

 ago, and that the worms that make the wild 

 silk of Northern China feed upon oak-leaves of 

 the same variety of the genus Quercus as that 

 which grows luxuriantly on the mountains of 

 Virginia. 



The number of the machines for textile 

 manufacturing was legion cotton cards of 

 all sorts, looms of every variety, spinning- 

 frames, spindles, spoolers, reels, threaders, 

 shuttles of every kind, with a full display of 

 sewing-machines, whose peculiar merits were 

 deftly displayed by operators of remarkable 

 skill. The button-hole machines of the Ameri- 

 can Button-hole and Sewing-Machine Com- 

 pany, of Philadelphia, were especially noticed. 



Miscellaneous. In the groups of the depart- 

 ments comprising printing and telegraphy, 

 breaking and dressing stone, furnaces and 

 pumps, chemical and pharmaceutical products, 

 soaps and perfumery, bricks, tiles, terra-cotta 

 and glassware, fire-arms, etc., railway supplies, 

 etc., the exhibits were numerous and interest- 

 ing, but there was nothing among them special- 

 ly new or remarkable. 



The Art- Gallery. The works of art, prop- 

 erly so called, in this department, were not 

 numerous, and of no marked merit. The por- 

 traits of General Oglethorpe and of James 

 Habersham, exhibited by John Milledge, Esq., 

 grandson of Governor Milledge, were interest- 

 ing in an historical point of view. There were 

 some good steel engravings, and a very credit- 

 able display of photographs, mostly portraits 

 of local celebrities, displayed by C. W. Da- 

 vis, of Athens, and C. W. Motes, of Atlanta, 

 Georgia. Some sets of mantel-tiles, and a 

 terra-cotta group from the Franckelton China 

 Decorating Works, Milwaukee, were much ad- 

 mired and received the highest award. The 

 antiques and art-bronze of Sypher & Co., of 

 New York, were equally distinguished by the 

 judges. The display of watches, clocks, jewel- 

 ry, precious stones, and silver-ware was rich, 

 and always attracted a crowd of admiring 

 gazers. The Jacqnard Jewelry Company, of 

 St. Louis, Missouri, made the largest and most 

 costly show. A set of silver-ware manufact- 

 ured by them for presentation to Mr. Para- 

 more, of St. Louis, was more massive and elab- 

 orate than elegant. They also exhibited some 

 graceful specimens of repousse work. The 

 jewelry was pretty, and the setting of precious 

 stones would compare favorably with that of 

 any other house in the United States. The 

 exhibit of watches was exclusively American, 

 some made by J. P. Stevens & Co., of Atlanta. 



