The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-09-11

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i, outlay, and the aggregate income frol
the five already held has only comfor
: ably covered the cost attendant upo
the erection and repair of buildings an
: the expenses Of running each years dis
play. The cost Of offering and eng
neering an immense affair. OF this kind
! very great. There are experienced &C
T c0untants to be paid. The men VIII
1give time and thought and labor to al
Iranging and managing great affair o
this nature In all its details can i'll affort
t to give months OF time and toll for moth
r ing, and, although our Commissioner
a work without pay, those to whom por
ton of the details and the manual labo
are intrusted can not be expected to dt
this. The men who guard the property
intrusted to their care, who watch over
the interests of the whole affair In the
minute details, and attend to the drudg.
cry necessary upon so great an enter.
prise, must receive payment for their
laborious duties. Then there are the
expenses of building, Of transportation,
decorations, of repairs, of judicious ad-
vertising, and the thousand little items
which naturally follow, that swell the
lexpense to so great an amount that, al
though receipts run up into the thou.
sands each day, the balance after meet.
ing demands is unusually light, it it ex-
lists at all upon the creditor side OF the
account.
| OF all the international industrial ex-
positions, only that held in Paris in 1857
can be called profitable affair, so far
as expenditure and receipts are con-
cerned. 1t was attended by ten millions
of people, and 1t was found, after all ex-
penses were paid, that there was a
round half million of dollars remaining.
At Vienna, in 1878, although seven mill
ion people attended, the deficiency at
the close (the buildings being perma-
nent) was nine million dollars. The Sec
ond London Exposition, in 1851, was sew
eral thousand dollars in debt at the
close.
In spite Of these apparently discour-
aging figures, however, industra! expo
sitions are gaining In favor all over the
world, and are recognized by every one
Of intelligence as productive of great
good, and as highly profitable in their
relation to the people and the cities aud
countries taking part In them. The first
Industrial exposition ever held, which
occurred in Paris In 1893. was recognized
as highly useful and beneficial, and was
followed by more extensive ones in 1901
and 1902, under the consulate Of Napo-
leon. These were followed by Exposi-
tions every three years, when wars or
other causes did not interfere, until the
first international affair in 1874. They
had meanwhile proved so highly success
full, and so beneficial in their effects upon
Paris manufacture and trade, that Lon-
don, Berlin, Vienna and other cities, had
followed the example, and inaugurated
n series Of local displays of this kind,
that already had exerted q beneficial
efieat upon their industries.
1t was not until International exhibi-
tions of this nature were instituted,
however, that their full Importance and
value was appreciated. The first, held
at Paris, in 1874, was recognized sue
cess. AID was followed by that of London,
under the royal patronage, in 1851, that
of Few York in 1S53 Paris in 1855, Lon
den in 1851, Paris in 1887 and Vienna in
1878, until every manufacturing country
on the face of the globe has come to thor
oughly realize the Importance not only
of the Expositions themselves, but Of
participation In them.
OF the local effects of the Exposi-
ton we have had ample opportunity
to Judge. But few years since
Cincinnati was eminently CON-
meroial city, dependent on the for
tunes Of trade for her prosperity and
condition. She was liable, with the
current of commercial events, to be left
entirely without business outside of that
produced by her own population. Her
trado In cured meats, whisky and whole
sale clothing was her principal depend
ence, and, with the uncertainties OF
trade and its tendency to float to the
West and South, this dependence was a
very unsafe one. OF the change tbat'the
few years have produced none can speak
more eloquently or persuasiyely than
did the grand industrial parade of
Wednesday last. There is scarcely al
manufacturing business to be men
toned which was not represented
in that long line Of wagons, and
that by Cincinnati manufacturers.
The city which less than ten years ago de-
pended for business upon handling the
manufactures Of others, now furnishes
manufacturers and products of her
own, and Instead Of depending upon the
channel OF trade to flow through her, and
thus contribute to her existence, she has
become the fountain head from which