Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-23
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
TO be Held at Amsterdam-Adva
it Offers tn nnerican Exhibitors.

INTERNATIONAL EAHlBlIION.
To be Held at Amsterdam-Advant
1T Offers to American Exhibitors.
The General Agent in the United States
for the International, Colonial and General
Export Exhibition, to be held in Amster-
dam, Holland, from May l to October 81,
1883, has issued the following circular to
the press and people of the United States.
Applicants in this section for space are
requested to address the Consul of the
Netherlands at Savannah, who will fur
nish them particulars and aid them in
procuring the most desirable location in
the Exhibition Building:
NEW YORK, November, 1882.
10 the Press and People Of the United
States:
GENTLEMEN-Th International EXhi-
bltlon to be opened in Amsterdam the en-
suing year, under the auspices of His
Majesty, the King of the Netherlands,
should possess peculiar interest for the
merchants, manufacturers, railroad CON-
panies, land, mine owners and farmers OF
the country, for reasons that will fOrcibly
commend themselves on reflection.
In the first place, Amsterdam is one OF
the richest capital centres of Europe
capital that has been acquired by indus
try, trugality and enterprise, and which
is always seeking employment in new
fields where it can be judiciously and
prOhtably invested in sound enterprises
Already large amount Of Dutch CAPT.
tai has found its way to this country, and
we only need TO show them the oppOrtu
nifty to employ it advantageOusly, to at
tract it hither in greater volume.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands EN-
braces. with its various colonies, a popu.
latiOn of about forty millions of people
and statistics show that our trade with
the parent country and its dependencies
! has more than trebled during the past
| seven years.
This exhibition affords an opportunity
! to greatly stimulate that trade.
| Moreover, it is to be considered that
| Dutch merchants and capital are to be
/ found in almost every quarter Of the globe
4 so that the benefit Of an exhibition O
4 American goods at Amsterdam will be
/ felt wherever merchants from Holland
are established.
! But an exhibition at so important {
mOnied centre, is by no means limited il
| its influence to Holland and the Holland
| ers, nor yet to her forty millions o.
! subjects, for it will draw visitors from al
| parts of Europe as well as other countries
both on account of its commercial charac
ter, its accessibility, being in easy com
munication by rail and water will
the principal cities Of Europe, anC
/ it should be remembered tina
the practical character of the people viii
| give an exhibition i'll that country a value
greater to our manufacturers and prOduc
| ers than an exhibit at the faShional CAPT
tails of Paris and Vienna, where articles
! of practical utility, such as we chiefly pro
duce, were overshadowed by those O
luxury and elegance. Whatever the rela
| tive cOncourse may be, as compared to thu
| exhibitions referred to, | believe it can b.
| Justly claimed that the advantages of al
exhibition of such goods as we produce
at a commercial mart such as Amster
dam, are likely to be far greater than a
many other exhibitions.
The magnitude of an exhibition of tn
industries of the world is not necessaril,
| the true measure of its value to the eX
hibt0rs; nor is the population of tn
country where such displays are made
nor the number of visitors proper gaug
| of its utility.
The character of the people among whom
| it is held and the class of visitors attend
ing it, are of far greater consequence t.
the individual exhibitor.
1t is to be considered, therefore, b,
those who exhibit their goods at Amster
dam. that the Dutch people are essentiall
and proverbially commercial and indus
trial race, and if less alert than SOM
nations in adopting new usages, they ar
! eminently practical, and having once dis
| covered the merits of new inventions o
| improvements, they adopt them readil
and invest their capital freely where the!
find a profitable use for it.
Besides, their very prudence render
them discerning and discriminating
which will lead them to give our article
a more careful and thorough scrutin,
than would be the case in most othe
countries.
Our manufacturers Of agricultural i'm
plements need scarcely be reminded tina
| Holland is largely an agricultural cOun
try. Her commercial character invite
the manufacturers of every contrivanc
for the use of ships.
Her extensive colonies suggest a larg
| market in the various quarters of tn
globe where these colonies are planted.
In addition to these considerations, tn
country and the city where this eXhibi
| ton is to be held afford peculiar attrac
lions to visitors from every point, on &C
count of the peculiar features of the cOun
try itself, so unlike any other; the quaint
ness of manners and customs, the novel a
well as pleasing appearance of Amster
dam itself, with its hundred artificial
islands, its streets threaded with canals
and spanned by hundreds Of bridges, it
broad avenues and its ancient editices, al
unite to render it as pleasing to the tray
eler as almost any part of Europe.
This is the first International Exhibition
in the Kingdom Of the Netherlands, ant
will draw many visitors from Belgium
Northern France and Germany and tn
scandinavian countries, to whom eXhibi
tions are a comparative novelty.
Ana finally, / beg to remind those inter
ested in promoting foreign demand TO
our products that season of prOsperit
like the present is a wise time in which t
SOW the seed from which they may reap
harvest during period of depression sue
as experience teaches us inevitably fol
lows these seasons of prosperity.
If we will recall the eagerness wit
which our manufacturers sought fOreig
markets for their surplus goods from 1877
to 1878, the lesson will not be lost to us
and the want of a foreign market may b
felt Ethe more by reason Of the very il
crease of our producing capacity in tn
last few years.
''The prudent man fOreseeth the evil"
Believing that the Amsterdam eXhib
ton, brightly improved, possesses adyant
ages for us that did not obtain i'll the cas-
of any other of the late exhibitions i
Europe; remembering the cordial amt
which has always existed between tn
two countries; recalling the fact that tn
people of Holland were the most conspicu
Gus merchants of the principal city in on
own country; calling attention to tn
steady increase of our trade with Hollan
and her colonies, l cannot doub
that the press of the country, withou
whose sympathy and influence no grea
enterprise can flourish, will be willing t
lend its potent aid to this Internationa
Exhibition, recognizing the fact tina
whatever the press may do to further th
general welfare of the people results in
corresponding recOmpense to the pres
itself, which necessarily shares in tn
general prosperity it labOrs to promote.
Yours faithfully,
:, A. WHEELWRIGHT,
General L. S. Agent,
United Bank Building, 2 Wall St., Room 33