The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-18
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e~ursionfsts TO Mexico.

Cheap Tribune
The following programme has been de.
cided upon by the committee appointed
by the Mexican Government to receive and
entertain the Chicago excursionists:
A delegation OF English-speaking gen
tlemen Is to receive the visitors and vel
come them on their arrival at Vera Cruz,
on board the steamer. The Governor OF
Vera Cruz will attend to the disembarka-
lion OF the party and their effects, and en-
terrain them at luncheon, alter which they
will proceed TO Cordova, and make q brief
visit to the coffee plantations. Thence
by train to orizabal where . committee
viii receive and entertain them for q
day or two. Thence they will proceed
by nail TO Espetann and to Mexico
City, where's third committed Is to receive
them and entertain them at collation.. A
day will be allowed for rest, after which .
series OF excursions, visits, and entertain
ments, calculated 70 occupy three weeks,
will be undertaken. The inst week will
embrace visits to the President, Cabinet,
Ministers and Government officials, to the
Art gallery at San Carlos, and the Military
Academy at Taeubaya, the Mint, and ed
ueationa Institutions; excursions to Gu
autlay, Toluca, and neighborng towns
an official banquet, visit to public build
ings and other noteworthy establishments,
and n visit to and breakfast in Maximili.
ans palace at Chapultepec. There are also
commercial subcommittee, charged with
the presentation Of facts concerning raw
materials, railroads, telegraphs, climatology,
minealogy, mining, agricultural indus.
tries, archaeology, Mexican history, and
literature, and the public press. The
Government will also provide q place in
which the Americans may display such
samples Of their merchandise rs they may
take with them, and Especial train Is TO
be placed at the disposal OF the delegation
to visit the historical and industrial city OF
Puebla. The second and third weeks will
be occupied with visits TO various agricul-
tural. mining, and industrial locations,
with occasional trips to some of the more
noted scenic and historic places. The
Minister Of Public Works and the Com
mittee have also sent requests TO manntac-
turers in various parts of Mexico to for
ward specimens OF their fabrics and raw
materials to the City OF Mexico, TO be ex-
hibited in the same building with the sam
Piles brought from the United States.
A movement Is on foot among the Nail
Manufacturers Of Wheeling to get up and
send a combination card that shall con-
tain all sizes and kinds Of Nails made by
our mills, and along with these cards will
also be sent a lot of Nails tsay n key,
comprising all kinds OF Nails the contents
otwhich viii be distributed with the cards
at various places in Mexico. The lettering
on the card will be in Spanish.
Ithas been suggested that a number Of
our manufacturers should come together
and get up a general manufacturing cir
cular, setting forth the leading facts in re
gard to our industries, aud inviting cor
r~espondenee from buyersin Mexico Of the
various articles made here. This circular
can be translated into Spanish by a very
competent gentleman Of this city, and got
ready to go withrthe various specimens
OF our manufactures. At the present
time 1t looks as il at least half a
dozen persons will so from.here, each
one Of whom will be entitled to the free
transportation Of four hundred pounds Of
samples. Under such u iberalearrange.
ment as this all our manufacturers should
nut up specimens Of their goods in pack.
ases nat can 10 easily handled. Wes ag-
rest to the cigar men, the glass men, the.
hinge the tack company, and
the bar and sheet iron manufacturers that
they should all avail themselves Of this
possible opportunity to. secure trade I'M
new quarter,