The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-02-24

DURING the autumn of this year there is
to be held in Boston an Exhibition of For
eign arts, products and manufactures which
is likely to assume very important proper
tions. From the floor plans of the building,
which we have before us, it appears that
Hawaii is expected to be among the exhib-
itors Oh this occasion, a considerable space
on each floor having been set apart for her,
but we have not heard that any step las
yet been taken by those who are charged
with the management of the Exhibition to
place themselves in communication with
those here who are likely to furnish eXhib-
it's. We hope the invitation will not arrive
too late to receive a practical answer truly
representative of the products of the King
DOM.
The idea which the ~originators of this
Exhibition are working out is a good
one. They wanted to hold in Boston a
worlds Fair" of the first character to
surpass, if possible, the Centennial Ex-
hibition of 1876. But when they came
to reckon up the cost, it alarmed
them, and the project fell through. 1t has
been revived in it's present shape from con-
sideration of the fact that the universal
experience of these great exhibitions has
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space occupied has been wanted for the ex-
hibits of countries foreign to that in which
the exhibition was held. The promoters
came to the conclusion that if the products
and manufactures, &C., of the United States
were excluded, a building of moderate di-
mensions-such as that of the Massachu-
sets Charitable Mechanic Association
would answer all their purpose. There
upon they incorporated under the name
of the "Foreign Exhibition Association
and made arrangements to obtain the use
of the Charitable Mechanic Association
Building for their purposes. This building
has over seven acres of available floor space,
and, from the method of its construction,
seems to be admirably adapted for the pur-
pose to which it is intended to put it. From
the information to hand up to the middle
of last month there appeared to be every
probability that the exhibits offered to
the Association would exceed all their pre-
conceived expectations and fill the building
to OVERLOOKING.
Just why so great a desire for this ex-
hibition existed may perhaps be best ex-
planned by the following quotation from
the Manufacturers Gazette, a weekly jour
nal published in Boston.
"Slnce the centennial, III 1910, the peO-
pie of this country have had no opportunity
to see, in a public exhibition, the results of
foreign industry and art, more especially of
art as applied to manufactures. The Cen
tennial Exhibition was a great stimulus to
all our industries, especially in the direc-
ton of better and more artistic work., and
its influence is still felt in every factory in
the country. But in the six years that
have passed since its gates were closed
there have been great advances in Europe
and in the other quarters of the globe,
newer and better processes of manufacture
have been introduced in almost all depart
ments of industry, and the results show
that wonderful progress has been made.
Our own manufacturers need an opportun-
ity to see and study these results, that they
may know the very best that the world
affords, and bring their own work up to its
level, if not to a pitch beyond"
It should be added hat the New England
Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute
will at the same time hold an exhibition of
domestic manufactures, arts and products
in their fine building in Boston which is
close by that which is to be used for the
foreign exhibition.