The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-28
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
Letter from COnsuI-GeneraI BecISuith
IN II q. nrIn


60 y. O. Derby, Esq.
=, PARIS, November 81. c. Derby, Esq, United
States Agent, New York.-Dear Sir;-As regards
Lhe shipment of products, requested in a
former letter, and now repeat the request, that
The packages may all bear the numbers and
class affixed in your lists and in mine, to the
name5 of the respective exhibitors
This win give me knowledge of the contents
pt each package without opening, and will
enable me TO bring forward as wanted and direct
10 its proper locality each package before open
ing It, which will save much time and labor
The bllls OF ladtng must correspond exactly
with the marks and descriptions ON the pack
ages by which they are shipped, and be made to
my order as 1t is. upon these that make the
entries and obtain the documents at the Minis
fere du Commerce to permit the landing aud
forwarding OF the products.
There are two methods of forwarding the
products, one Of which is greatly to be pre-
ferred Frst-Collect and warehouse the pro-
ducts in New York, and ship them by one YES
sci chartered for that purpose. Second-Ware-
house nothing, but ship of the products as they
arrive by any and every good freighter laid on
1or Hayre that promises despatch.
The first method would cause great delay in
New York, and could not be fully carried out,
because some products will lay behind, keeping
all the others waiting, and cause them all to be
Too late ia reaching here.
On arrival at Havre, also, in mass there
would be delay, because they cannot be for
warded any faster than placed ia the exhibition,
and as that Is slow process, there will be
double carriage and storage and labor at Havre,
and noieased expenses ..
But the chief objection to this method Is the
Joss OF time on both sides; ample Tune is ellowed
Tor placing the products, but the whole OF that
lime Will be required, beginning on the 18th of
January, 1867.
Please bear in mind that the presence OF pro.
ducts on the 28th of March does not secure their
reception. They must have been placed, and
the placing will end OH that day. Products not
then installed and ready for the opening of the
exhibition will be excluded, as If they had not
arrived
The necessities of the business, therefore, re.
qulre the products TO begin to arrive and to be
placed on the 10Th OF January, and by con-
tinuous arrival the labor TO be so conducted as
10 secure the placing OF all.
The second method Is, therefore, the proper
one to adopt. Ship by every opportunity, and
II opportunities do not offer, make them, and
Keep the products In movement without any
delay. No other method will succeed in getting
The products properly installed in the Exhibit
lion in time for the opening, and without which
they VIII be excluded.
These are the Imperial regulations, and consid.
ering the value which the nation attaches to
punctuality and military exactitude in affairs,
especially when is essential to the intended
effect l. do not think there is any reason to
expect relaxation or departure from these
regulations.
It is possible that you might charter large
vessel at lower rate of freight than the aver
age of freight by several vessels, but this would
be bad economy. The increased expenses on
land by delay accumulation, warebousing, etc.,
on your side and on this side, will greatly eX-
coed the difference of freight alluded to, and at
the sam time produce clog in the movement,
that will endanger, If not wholly prevent, the
possibility of placing all the products.
hore therefore, you will not hesitate to
adopt the second method, and will call IN the
products from all points, shipping them as they
arrive, and not permit any relaxation till they
are all afoat.
y If this be done on your part and notwith-
/ Standing delays and consequent exclusions and
disappoinments occur, the onsibility of it
\ will attach to the producers themselves who
are behind time, but whose inactivity should
\ not be permitted to endanger the chances of
those who are punctual.
Your obedient servant
(S'gueD N. NJ. BECRwITH,
United States Consul. General.