Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-20
THE CRESCENT CITY WORLD. FAR
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 6. 1854.
Ihe Crescent City used 10 he , 5,,,
place In summer. but this year consid.
cradle trade Is going on. Merchants
"bo used to go away and leave their
affairs In the hands of clerks are 90
nand this year looking after their own
interests and planning ways to extend
tneir business. In the fifteen republic.
20 the south Of New Orleans there are
SO,VOo,OO0 consumers, and vet. strange
TO say, the New Orleans merchants and
the manufacturers located on the 1000
miles OF navigable rivers in the Missis.
sippi valley have made almost no effor,
to gain the $415. 900, 900 worth of trade
tna' lies at our own doors. The United
States gets less than $4,000. 900 of this
trade annually, and allows remote
countries to enjoy by far the larger
part. This unequal distribution of
trade, 1t seems, ought TO be changed.
and manifestly to the advantage OF the
merchants and manufacturers of this
country.
When the Panama canal and the Te-
huantepec railroad are finished. thev
will bring to the Mississippi valley tbs
bulk Of trade which now anounts to
$525. 600 600 annually. The merchants
of New Orleans are more alive 10 their
| advantages now than they have ever
been before. Some of the hardware
| establishments, now doing a business of
from 81 ,500, 600 to g.. 600 600 a year. Der
ceive that they could double their bust
ness IL these new avenues of trade were
opened. Some grocery houses doing a
business of $3,0O0,000 could with the
same brain labor run their receipts up
to IS ,000, 600 or more.
The fact that the Worlds Exposition
opens here In four months reveals TO the
minds of our merchants the neeessity
of striving to gain and hold some of
the trade that will result from this
circumstance. They do not want to
see Eastern merchants or those of the
West appear upon the scene and carry
of the trade over their heads, 30 to
speak.
Many dealers in a small way are
aware Of the fact that we are to have
great competition during the coming
winter and spring. OF the three thou
sand carloads of goods that will be
brought to the Exposition tue Director
General estimates that not over one
thousand carloads. composed mostly of
articles not for sale, will be- returned to
the places whence they come.
Tbe northern manufacturers certainly
will have the advantage, as they will
practically find none in the South to
compete with them at least in several
lines of production. The Soath Ia 70.
covering from the long period of de-
preston that followed the war, and is
in need of improved agricultural imple-
ments.i and, in fact, all sorts of labor
saving machinery. There is one fact
that many Northern manufacturers
have overlooked, aRd that Ia that those
who exhibit their productions here next
winter will really come before new
audience. Thousands of visitors frsm
| the Gulf States. Mexico and Central
America will be numbered among those
who have never visited worlds fair
and are wholly unacquainted with in
ventions and articles of convenience
that have long been in use in other parts
| of the world.
The live stock feature is one that will
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they are just now greatly interested in
procuring improved breeds of domestic
| animals. Tie pleasure of exhibiting
| fire animals and the announcement that
| the management of the Exposition in
tend to give $50 900 in premiums ia the
live stock and dairy departments ought
to bring here men who have world
| wide reputation as fanciers or breeders
| OF fine stock. Those stock men who do
come and bring with them animals
worth having will, without question,
| find new and valuable market at New
| Orleans.
Horticultural Hall will be finished in
| about q week, aud the Exposition man
| agement has sent word to its agents In
/ remote parts of the earth to send for
ward the rare plants that have been
| promised for exhibition. In tbs depart
ment of Horticulture the management
| has offered 81, 800 in premiums. Agents
| have hunted through Europe to fad
rare and curious plants and fruits In
order TO perfect the exhibit. A feature
never observed in any other worlds
| fair will be the Arboricultural display
received from the Central American
States.
There are two parts Of the plan of the
| Worlds Fair that will attract notice
and much comment in the North. One
IL the prominent place that will be as
signed to woman's work. The ladies of
the South have long felt that this was
and is their opportunity. and they have
consequently been very active In pre-
pairing their exhibits. In Texas there
are ne less than eighteen auxiliary $3.50
Citations composed entirely OF ladies.
In the North 10 Is not so clear that the
ladies are taking an active part In the
great enterprise. They ought to be in
formed in some way that the Exposition
managers have set apart S5o, coo to ena-
bic the women of all lands TO fully Illus
trate to the world their skill. their IN
yentiye, mechanic, artistic and prefes-
sional abilities in all lines OF effort In
which they claim to be equal or superior
10 the opposite sex.
The ladies of the North ought ia
make a strong demonstration of their
advancement in the artistic line, In
designing pictorial, art. modelling, carv-
inc and house decoration. They have
long enjoyed advantages that have IN
a great degree been denied 70 theil
Southern sisters. The time is short
and whatever is To be done should be
done quickly.
The second peculiar feature OF the
Worlds Exposition Is the attention the
management has bestowed upon the
colored people. The colored race now
has an opportunity Of proving TO tns
world that IL has ability to cope with
the white race to fair extent IN art
science and literature, rs well as In gen,
eral industry. About forty per cent. OF
the mechanics OF New Orleans are col
ored men. n considerable number car
peuters. and others are employed upon
the Exposition buildings, and theii
work is highly satisfactory. The man.
srement has placed this department
under The control of ex senator ID; n
Bruce, and, in order that nothing shall
be lacking on its part. has set aside the
sum Of $4,000 for the colored mans
exhibits. The men who direct ths
! affairs of newspapers devoted % the
interests of the six million colored peo
ole of the country ought 60 impress y
npon their readers that the oppoFfnnis,
nov offered by the Worlds Exposition
! 10 the cslored people 90 make q demon
sirstion in behalf of themselves - no'
likely 10 occur again in the present oen
itury. -