Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-31
AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

There is to be held in Liverpool, Eng
land, next year, remarkable exhibition.
Modern expositions, like nearly all under
takings of the age, are running in the
groove of specialties. Thus we have had
Health exhibitions, Life-Saving fairs,
Arctic exhibitions and exhibitions in the
special interest of Sanitary science, steam
and electrical discovery and progress, etc.
Now we are to have one in 1885 devoted
to four subjects, but very broad and far
reaching ones = commerce, navigation,
travelling and manufacture. At first
glance these might'be thought to embrace
nearly all things, and so they do in an in
direct way, but if distinctions are strictly
preserved the four topics will confne the
exhibition to lines that exclude agricult-
ure, scientific research in general, live
stock of all kinds, educational exhibits and
multitude of things that enter into an
unconditional exposition. The Governor
of the State has received from the British
Consulate official notice of the proposed
Liverpool fair, and has been invited to
call the attention of this people to it. 1t
is probable that because of our remoteness
we shall not be largely represented in it.
But all expeditions of this character should
be utilized, so far as ability enables us to
do SO, for the purpose of advertising our
State and broadening intelligence concern
ing its resources and the desirability of
our territory for those seeking homes m
new lands. The proposed fair is TO be
differed by some of the most distinguished
men of England, and those famous for
their enterprise in commerce and manu-
facture. Ii is to have Royal patron
age, and in England that means
great deal. The purpose is to
open the exposition in May next, and
to lay out space for applicants as early
as the LIST of December, 1885. The
prime objects are, first, to illustrate the
history and development of travelling by
land, sea and air. This will include every
possible kind of vehicle and carriage,
motor and device for transportation, from
locomotive to a water tricycle.. All the
modes of constructing carriages, cars, ships
and boats, with materials and modes of
! construction Of life-saving apparatus, light
houses, buoys. docks, etc They will not
be confined to those of modern times, but
the value of comparison will be ayailed of
| by exhibition of known modes of convey
ance throughout history. In the depart
ment of commerce vi II be embraced all the
past and present modes, and examples of ex-
pediting trade and communication between
nations and peoples, while manufacture
will let in all the examples of industrial
history and progress that can be conceived
Of The ultimate purpose of the exhibit
ton is one warmly to be commended. 1t
is intended to use the profits that may
accrue from the enterprise to establish a
school for technical, artistic and industrial
education. The exhibition is to be inter-
national in the truest sense, and the door
is open to the United States to avail as
fully of its benefits as if its location had
been agreed upon in the heart of this
country. Being placed at Liverpool will
make it, indeed, of greater world value than
if opened and conducted in the United
States or upon the Continent, since Liver
pool is quite the center of the commercial
and industrial world