Hemingray Glass Company - Covington, Kentucky

THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.

The attendance increased materially during Mardi Gras. What the condition of things will be from now on depends upon the granting of the appropriation which is before Congress. The exhibitors generally will not be pleased to see this money go into the hands of the present management.

In regard to the possibility of the Exposition being kept open during the winter of 1885 - 86, it is not entertained for a moment by scarcely an exhibitor on the grounds. No matter what action Congress may take, the manufacturers exhibiting will not allow their goods to remain here a day longer than their exhibits were entered, unless a great change comes over their dreams. Few people appreciate the great obstacles the success of this Exposition has to contend with. Located at a great distance from the centre of population, with poor railroad facilities, no large support from local points can be expected. Take a map of America, place one point of a compass upon the city of New Orleans and describe a circle taking in 400 miles distant, and you will not have within the circumference as many people as live within fifty miles of the grounds of the late Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It has not been profitable for exhibitors to be here, either directly or indirectly, and this is the basis upon which an exposition is judged.

In the different State exhibits I notice many displays of pottery, glassware, etc.

In the Massachusetts exhibit an apartment is decorated by castings in all designs and shapes by the Chelsea Art Casting Co.

The beautiful little office of the Connecticut commission is ornamented by an elegant chandelier, as well as hanging lamps of novel design, shown by the Ansonia Brass and Copper Co.

A crystal fruit dish is shown by the Meriden Glass Co.

In the Ohio exhibit amid the large displays of sewer pipe, tile, and other articles of clay, are samples of the ware of Cartwright Bros., of East Liverpool, who show a line of their yellow and rockingham goods; also some of their cane-colored swinging teas, which are very popular among the trade.

J. Patterson & Sons, of Wellsville, O., show what they make in yellow and rockingham, together with a section of clay the same as from which their ware is made.

The Ohio Valley Glass Pot Manufacturing Co., of Steubenville, show their smallest size glass pot.

Some very fair stoneware is shown in the Louisiana display, and also in the Mississippi exhibit.

In the New Jersey display Isaac Davis, of Trenton, shows a line of decorated ironstone china.

The Mercer Pottery Co. upon a pyramid case show a line of decorated, gold-band, and plain ware. An interesting feature of their display in some of the first semi-porcelain made in America.

The International Pottery Co. also show their line of manufacture.

The Salem Glass Works display a complete line of bottles, colored and crystal.

Whitall, Tatum & Co. have a line of druggists' ware.

The Cohansey Glass Manufacturing Co. show their fruit jars in profusion; also bottles of many styles.

In the Pennsylvania department are the exhibits of the Phoenix Glass Co., of Pittsburgh, showing their coralline, opalescent, crystal, ruby, and all the various makes of art ware in all shapes that they manufacture.

Atterbury & Co., also of Pittsburgh, have a display of sapphire, old gold, opal, and canary glassware.

In the Maryland display the only pottery ware I can find is that of D. F. Haynes & Co., of Baltimore. They show samples of their famous productions.

There is a display of kaolin in this exhibit found forty-six miles from Baltimore, ten feet from the surface, in a vein twenty feet thick.

Arkansas claims fields of excellent clay for making common stoneware and even finer ware, but Arkansas claims everything here. However, some very finely finished stoneware is shown as made in that State.

Many other States show the different clays that can be found in their soil and other features which are worthy of the examination of everyone interested in crockery and glass.

The government building as an entirely is the finest and most interesting display that has ever been collected, and I venture to say a careful study of these displays will give a person more knowledge of the resources and productions of this country, as well as familiarize him with the appliances of every department of government, than could be acquired in many years' travel. The main building, though excellent, is not claimed to surpass the exhibitors' display at Philadelphia in 1876.

The crockery and china displays here are by Ott & Brewer, Union Pottery Co., Burroughs & Mountford, Alpaugh & & Magowan, International Pottery Co., Greenwood Pottery Co., Excelsior Pottery Works, all of Trenton, and J. Griffen Smith & Co., Phoenixville, Pa.

Edward Miller & Co., Meriden, Conn., and New York, have a display of lamps of every description.

In glassware we note A. J. Beatty & Sons, Steubenville, O., tumblers, etc. Bellaire Goblet Works, Bellaire, O.; Hemmingway [sic] Hemingray Glass Co., Covington, Ky.; Phoenix Glass Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; and the Universal Cooking Crock Co., of New York.