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EXPOSITION, COTTON-STATES ANI> IMli;N \TloN \l 



that end. It had also th* further object of 

 fgatarin* "" (rwlr rrUiinoa already r\ 

 batwM UM Southern State* and the I At in- 

 and promoting commercial 



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rvfmbtfea 



wn Inaugurated by pHvaty enterprise, the 



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of thr 



Tfce dtlaant of A t Ian 

 000, UM CHy Council appropriated $75,00 

 IW oauntr failton) gavV convict laU r to the 

 jnount oi $40,000. A committee (which con- 

 tafeed three negro members. Prof. Book, r T. 

 Washington. Bishop W. J. Gaines, and lti-h..p 

 u,t) tinted Washington to request an ap- 

 propriation of $900.000 from Congress for a 

 feavVrnment building and .-xh,l,.t. which was 

 nsvd on June 30. 1804. The Legislature of 

 GoarjriA voted $17.500 for an exhil.it of the 

 ajrnrulttiral and mineral resources of the State ; 

 bat UM first State to take official act i. >n of the 

 ktod was Louisiana. In addition to the $350,. 

 000 raised, UM revenues calculated upon were : 

 Issue of bonds based on a mortgage upon two 

 thirl. <>f tin- cat* receipt* $800,000; returns 



1 > - ; :.ire f. t -f n".".r -pa<-e 



t ft a square foot, $100.000; concessions, $200,- 

 000: and gate receipts, estimated at $1,500.000. 

 25 per cant, of the face value of the 

 bonds was reimbursed to the U.ndholders. On 

 Nov. 4 Samuel M. Inman. one of the foremost 

 promoter* of the enterprise, beaded a subscrip- 

 tion list with $50,000 (half of the amount re- 

 quired) to pay off the floating debt. 



Invitations to participate in the Exposition 

 were sent to foreign countries through the State 

 Department of the United States, and com. n is- 

 sioners were appointed to Mexico, Central and 

 Sooth America, and a commissioner general to 

 Borope, with headquarters in London, under 



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to Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy, Aus- 

 tna -Hungary. Belgium, and Kuwia. The regu- 

 MM issued by the Treasury Department 

 the free imt>ortation of articles for 

 tin- World's Columbian Exposition 

 at Chicago, and all other regulations governing 



it ion, were 



applied to; 



UM grounds and building* con 



warehouse and the lea 



at that Exposition, 



, so far an practi. -alile, 

 constituting a bonded 

 >t ion lines 



fn.rn the prim-jpfil |K.rt,s to Atlanta. 

 kc Mail Steam-hip Company agreed to 

 free of charge all exhibits from 

 in Central and ,-rica reached by its 



Unas. Fourteen States of the I'nion an 

 P#* of Columbia participatcnl t h r 



.or prineQ commercial Sod 



i of their own. Fourteen foreign 



. those of Europe un- 



JN total coat of the Exposition was 

 plaaeiatWOO^OO.aiiditisanotablefact that 



Mructing the 

 aw within the ertim 

 -The . uHlmont Park, 2 



UM center of the citv an indosure 

 "raverwd by the rifle pits over 

 threw theflrst shell into Atlanta 

 . iP?-^. 1 " 6 grounds were not 

 as were those of Chicago and Philadelphia, 



Itut liills fi.rninl a natural cup in whicli an arti- 



liriiil iHke.named "Clara Meer,"was< strn 



which covered 18 acres, while thr l.mUintfs 

 crowned the surrounding !. \aii-n>. 

 had water frontage. Gondolas and < 

 launrlx-s jilird <>n tin- lakr. ami in il ro 

 rlrrlrir foiinlnin. h-iirni'l ly Luthn 

 Thr landtritpe effects were especially \\\ ., 

 front <>f the lake -tr.'t. h..l a j.la/.i i.acin.l l.y 



terraces ami traversal l.y \\idc L 

 walks. A happy effect was pr<'du 

 paving "f th- avi-nues with cru-hcd l.hit- 'lim.- 



aml fnrt In-r i>niaiiientat inn . 

 fountains, slat nary nx.untrd on lii^h pilla; 

 lialiistriules. and electrio li-ht- in the 



I'hi- archil. .tnral . IT. . t ..f thr l.iiil.lin^s 

 WMtetMir.-.l l.y lim-s rather than l.y <.nia<: 



.d the materials UM-d were Dimply lu 

 glass, and -hin-les. The color >eheine. which 

 was verv pleasing, was confined t" 

 gray body for the main buildings, with whito 

 trimroingi and moss-green I-M..K Th. 

 [iuilding was white. The leading id- 

 Koinanes(jue. Much l>a--ivli, ! work was dono 

 in exterior decoration, and on the l.uildin. 

 peared the seals of the 11 cotton state-. In the 

 interior decoration \\eiv employed c,,tton. 

 various cereals and grasses, and Spani-h moss* 

 The >ii|.erintendent of construction was ' 

 Wilkins. of Atlanta, and the snper\ i-mu- an hi- 

 te<-t was iira<lford L. (iill.ert. ,.f New Vorl 

 designed 10 of the Ul lar-er l.uildin--. The 

 grounds were reached by several lim > ..f el< 

 cars, and also by a steam railway. Th. 

 amount expended on the grounds was $#<>' 



Inauguration. The formal opmin^ of the 

 Exposition took place Sept. 1H. The pro, 

 that entered the grounds at one o'< -lock \\ 

 by Col. W. L. Kell., w . () f the fnii.-d - 

 army, and in line were the Fifth Regiment. I'ni- 

 ted States army, the Washington Artill--; 

 New Orleans, com mande.l by d,i. John 15. 



. the Fifth Regiment of Georgia, 

 various visiting State troops, IIM hiding t In- 

 Second Battalion of colored infant r 

 colored Guards from Mat-on. In all then 

 95 Companies, With .") Lands. On reaehin 

 Auditorium huildinp:. where the cerernonic 

 held, Cilniore'> Land rendered the "Sal 1 / 

 Atlanta," composed for the occasion l.y it> 

 Victor Herbert; prayer was offered I y i: 

 Cleveland K. Nelson; an ode written t'.y Frank 



:iton was read l.y Col. . \ll.ert Bowell; the 

 :it of the Kxposition, Charles A. Collier, 

 delivered the opening aldress. and wa- fi.; 

 l>> Mrs.John Thompson, I're-ident of the ! 

 of \\< in In-half of th< \V..' 



Department. Booker T. Wa-hinL r ton. principal 

 of the Tuskegee Normal Institute, th.n 

 fr tin - partment. May..r Kin- 



for the city, and at a late hour td >itt'>n 



that set in motion the engine in Machinery Hall 

 was pressed liy 1're-ident Cleveland in .' 



Qal , -. Ma-. 

 I he \dminivir,,ii, m Building. Thi 



the main entrance, from Fourteenth 

 Street. It was a composite in an-hiteetui 

 ing a reproduction of portion* of MlarnevfVtle, 



ower of Lonrlon. Warwick ' 

 Rliein rmany,anrl St. Michael's on the 



coast of Brittany. An iron-spiked portcullis 





