CHAPTER V.

'WAY DOWN SOUF 'MONO DE FIELDS OF COTTON.

The Governors of North and South Carolina Are Not In It— Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennes-
see Also Have No State Buildings — Florida Reproduces Fort Marion — Louisiana has a Beautiful
Building— All its Governors for One Hundred Years Present— The Woman's World's Fair
Exhibit Association of Texas Erect a Handsome Building for the Lone Star State.

ORTH Carolina has no building, but the State makes
collective exhibits in the Agricultural, Horticultural,
Mines, Fisheries and Forestry departments. The South
Carolina Legislature voted adversely on the question
of making an appropriation, therefore that State has no
building nor State Board of Commissioners. The same
may be said of Georgia. Alabama has no State Board
of Commissioners nor a building, the Legislature hav-
ing failed to make an appropriation. Some funds were
raised in the State, however, pending the action of the Legisla-
ture on the World's Fair Bill, but it was not a sufficient amount
with which to erect a creditable building and the movement
was abandoned. The Mississippi Legislature refused to pass an appropriation bill,
hence that State has no building nor State Board of Commissioners.

The Tennessee Legislature failed to make an appropriation, hence there is
no State Board of Commissioners nor State building. The mining town of Harri-
man makes an exhibit in the Mines building, but otherwise there is no collective
exhibit shown.

At a cost of -$20,000, Florida reproduces Fort Marion, St. Augustine, which has
been a great attraction. The original fort covers an area of one acre, and is, per
haps,'the oldest structure in North America, the most interesting specimen of Spanish
supremacy in this country, and the. only example of mediaeval fortification on the
continent. Its erection was begun in 1620, and continued for 100 years. To equip
it as a garrison, required icoguns and 1,000 men. It was never taken by a besieg-
ing force. The State building occupies one-fifth of the space of Fort Marion. It
is in the form of a four-bastioned fortress. Including the moat, the site is 155 feet
square. The building proper is 137 feet square. The frame is of pine, covered
with plasture and coquina shells, in imitation of the original. The interior is di-
vided into parlors for men and women, committee and exhibit rooms, and is furn-
ished in Florida's native woods. The interior court is planted in bamboo, orange,
lemon and other tropical trees. The ramparts furnish space for promenades and

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LOUISIANA BUILDING.

hanging gardens. In the moat is a sunken garden, where are produced miniature
fields of cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, etc.; showing the natural resources of the state.
In visiting this building one feels that he is in St. Augustine, or Palatka, or Magno-
lia, among oranges and cocoanuts and alligators and pelicans, and among trees and

mosses many hundreds of years
old. The Louisiana structure is
an exact counterpart of the well-
to-do Creole buildings that may
be seen anywhere from Baton
Rouge down. It is built with an
eye to crevasses and high tem-
peratures, is two stories high,
with piazzas, and has a decidedly
Southern air: It is truly Southern,
and there are latchstrings on
every door. Pictures of all the
governors for a hundred years
are on all the walls, and there
are plants without and within
that suggest the prodigality of

the soil. An hour in the Louisiana building gives one a lasting idea of Andrew
Jackson and Louis Phillipe, and he learns much of one of the most celebrated
chess players, one of the most eminent pianists, and one of the most enjoyable
novelists of modern times. The
building cost less than $18,000 and
shows off well for the amount ex-
pended. It has a frontage of 66
feet and a depth of 56 feet. The
first story is 14 feet in the clear,
second story 13 feet. The building
is finished in natural woods — princi-
pally cypress and white pine. The
interior contains on the ground
floor a large hall, off which is ranged
reception rooms, dining room and

smoking room. The second story
contains a large exhibition room
which communicates with smaller
exhibition rooms and ladies' parlor.

Retiring rooms and lavatories have been provided on both floors. In connection
with the State building is a Creole kitchen where the famous palatable cookery pre-
pared in Creole fashion is served. The loth of August was a famous day for
Louisianians — the Director-General was present of course, as he married one of
the belle« of New Orleans.

TEXAS BUILDING.

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At a cost of raising $30,000 Texas has erected a handsome building on the
right of the north entrance to the Exposition grounds, and this notwithstanding the
failure of the State Legislature to make an appropriation on account of constitu-
tional prohibition. The money for the structure was raised by the Women's Fair
Exhibit Association of Texas, with headquarters at Austin, the State capital. In
the treatment of the design of the Texas building the architect has not deflected
from the history of the Lone Star State, which, from its foundation, has been
marked by a Spanish tinge, whose architectural inclination and handsome botanical
effects lay down a chain of thought far too beautiful to be forsaken for that of the
present day; therefore, the building was designed for colonnades, grounds, fountains
foliage, etc. It contains an assembly room 56 feet square, 28 feet high, provided
with art glass skylight in the ceiling, with a mosaic Texas star in the center. The
rostrum, ante-room, etc., are furnished in the natural woods of Texas. One. wing
contains rooms £or bureau of information, register, messenger, telephone, telegraph,
directors, Texas Press Association headquarters, commissioners, historical museum
and library, toilet rooms, county collective exhibits, etc. The main entrances are
through vestibules, flanked on either side by niches and colonnades. The main
vestibules terminate in a large auditorium, connecting with the rooms mentioned.
Great credit is due to Mrs. Benedette B. Tobin, the leading spirit in all that per-
tains to the Texas building.

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