The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-28
BosTON's BIG FAIR.
An Exhibition for Foreigners Only.


The Foreign Exhibition, for which the
trunk lines were asked to make excursion
rates, is, no doubt, to be the loadstone
which will attract hundreds of thousands
of people to Boston this Fall. The origina-
tors Of the enterprise are not professional
BhOwmen, although General G. &. Norton,
Of Centennial fame, Is among them, but
the methods which they have adopted, as
well as the novelty Of the design itself,
would do credit TO even Barnum. The ex-
hibition is TO be devoted entirely to the
products Of foreigners. The Americans
will not be represented in any way, and in
this is to consist the charm of the show.
The eight-acre building of the Charitable
Mechanics Association has been leased for
four months, beginning October lst, and
completeness in the arrangements is as
sured. Commissioners have been at work
in all foreign countries, even China and
Persia, and their reports indicate eagerness
OH the part of artists and artisans every
where to place their works on exhibition
before the American public. Edward
King, for instance, writes that France will
be fully represented by the products Of her
best studios and her most intricate manu-
factories. The silk-makers. the weavers of
facturers, and the machinists are reported
as having engaged large quantities ofspace.
James Jackson Jarvis, the art connoisseur,
reports that his intimate acquaintance with
Italian artists and collectors has made his
mission easy. Paintings and statuary of
great historic value have already been pre-
pared for transportation. Many applica-
tions for space have been granted Irish
Ill,
their display will excel any ever before
made. Commissioners are now at work
in Germany, Turkey, India and Persia,
and their letters indicate that the
treasures of those lands will be forthcom-
ing. Colonel Carroll Wright started for
London April 4th, to exert his influence
with the artisans and manufacturers of
England, Scotland and Wales in behalf of
the exhibition, and special negotiations are
now in progress which, it is confidently
predicted, will result in far greater re-
presentation of the art products and manu-
features of Japan than was afforded at the
Centennial Exhibition. AS far as the man
ayers have unfolded their plans, it appears
that, beyond the American engines which
furnish the motive power, the electric rail-
way which will assist in the local trans
pOrtation of visitors, and the American at
lendants on the fair, the entire affair will
be foreign. Among the novelties which are
promised is collection of the newspapers
OF all peoples except our OVID, which are to
be filed in a cosmopolitan reading room.
The getters up of this exhibition are young
men-including journalists, railroad men,
artists and literateurs, with the necessary
sFrinkling of capitalists-and most OF their
work has been done in so quiet u manner
that the great mass of people in Boston
only know, in a general way, that some
sort of fair is to be held in the city this
Fall in addition to the Southern Exhibition
in the Institute building. Very little is
given out for publication, and then in gen
eTal terms, like what has been said in this
letter but unless the signs are all at fault,
the Foreign Fair is to prove a wonderful
attraction. The Legislature has appointed
a committee to cooperate in the enterprise,
and to join in the reception of the Old
World dignitaries who are expected to at
tend. General Diaz, when here, was shown
the space allotted Mexico, and promised
that his country-men would do their share
in making the enterprise a success, and the
Marquis of Lorne expressed similar senti-
ments on behalf of Canada