Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-10
FOR PRACTICAL AIMS.
What the Pan-American Delegates
Will be Shown in This City.
THERON, STEEL AND GLASS MILLS.
Reciprocity Of Trade is to be Held Steadily
in View.
TIME is TOO SHORT FOR FRIPpERIEs

The committee appointed by the Chamber
of Commerce to arrange for the entertain
ment of the delegates to the Pan-American
International Congress has not yet made up
its programme, and viii not until some time
next week. The general line OF local in
dustries to be visited have been determined,
but the committee is waiting for more infor-
nation as to the special matters in which the
delegates are interested. 1t is the desire Of
manufactures which are most likely to be
demanded by the South American trade, 30
that the visit maybe made, to the highest
possible extent, profitable to local industries.
Concerning this general subject Mr.. J. B.
Scott, the chairman of the Committee on
Entertainment, said last evening: "We
are waiting to see what the tour of the dele
gates will develop. Within another week
their treatment and experiences at other
places will give Us numerous pointers as to
what they will desire to see here. We want
to show them
PITTsBURG's PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES.
"The main lines to be shown are the iron,
steel and glass manufactures. To what
mills they will be taken we have not de-
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Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock,
and possibly TO Jeanette. As to that
am not in position to say definitely. The
trouble is that we will have such limited
time. We must crowd into two days what
ought to occupy two weeks.
I'm laying out our programme we want
to take into consideration what the South
American States need most. In their de-
velopment they will build railroads, and
they will require steel rails, spikes, fish
pilates, picks, shoyels, etc. They will want
likewise structural iron and steel There
promises to be great demand in South
America for glass of all kinds. We can
show only the principal industries. If time
permits, we would like to display to the
| delegates our immense capacity for supply
ing fuel, such as coal and coke. It would
be of no use to show them natural gas wells.
We cannot send natural gas to South
America. vt is possible, however, that a
big coal trade may be opened, by way of the
Mississippi river, to Central and South
American ports. It would make
A STRONG IMPRESSION
upon the visitors il they could 90 by the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Southwest
Penn Railroads through the coke region,
and see the miles of blazing ovens.
Iians nave nos yet Deen PerIecteu lor u
display of our local manufactures in
Mechanical Hall, but it is likely that such
a display will be made. The exhibits there
are not distinctly local and do not include
many articles which we wodld desire Be
sides, the Exposition viii be closed at that
time. In Boston, see, the delegates were
driven about the city so that they might see
the great stores, the homes, the drives and
the parks. We will not attempt anything
of that sort. It would be of no benefit, and
would consume too much time. we wish to
make the visit here eminently utilitarian.
"We are not yet positive as to the time oi
arrival or departure from this city. There
may be some change in the programme. We
are awaiting positive Information from the
party on that and on other points. The
committee will meet about the middle oi
next week and complete its programme in
detail"