Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-01
THREE AMERICAS.
THE PROPOsED EXPOSITION AT
WASHINGTON IN 1892.

Its Great Importance in Connection
With the Commerce of
the Nation.
The lsliean FjRoacjsr, one of the lead
ing and most progressive journals pub
Iished at the City of Mexico, had, in lis
issue of April 18th, the following editorial
on the coming exposition in honor OF the
four hundredth anniversary of the discov-
cry of America
The Three Americas International Expcsi-
! ton, which will be opened at the city of Wa-h-
| iuCtOn in 1892 will be the first exclusively con-
! tinental fair ever held, and most appropriately
! viii commemorate the discovery of the New
| World by the great GenOeSe. Mexico VIII hardly
| refuse to send exhibits of her mineral and agrl-
! cultural wealth to this competition Of the ma
! tons of the western hemisphere, and il is not
too early to consider the leading features OF the
/ Mexican department in the great fair. Native
manufactures and especially all CHARACTERISTIC
national industries, should be displayed, and
| Mexican bands should be sent to Washington 20
enhance the already high reputation of this
| country in musical achievement. An exhibit of
| native breeds of horses should certainly not be
| omitted, and If & body of hOrSemen, clad in IA
!
| ton. it would prove the most attractive feature
| for thousands OF visitors. The American Con
gress is expected TO appropriate 5000 COO for the
! expense of the Three Americas Exposition, in
| which the nations of Central and South Amer
! lea viii participate in generous and fraterRai
| rivalry. ~
Commenting upon this the Washington
Post says editorially:
Secretary Anderson has, from the very
| inception Of this movement, insisted that
the moment the United States took the
| initiative the various other nations of the
| New World, together with Italy and Spain
! in the Old World, would promptly and
| literally respond. The Fiadncier'S editorial,
and various other acts and assurances, have
| repeatedly confirmed this opinion.
Spain has already informed the United
States Minister at Madrid that she is ready
| 70 cooperate.
Italy has recently organized board of
promotion at Genoa to prepare for the
great anniversary, and will not be outdone
by Spain.
The Spanish American Ministers at
Washington have repeatedly expressed
! their deep interest in the proposed cele-
! bration.
The liberal response of the Spanish
American republics to the invitation to
the coming Paris exposition is further evil
! dence of what they will do at Washing
| ton.
The Governors of most of the States
have declared their readiness to respond
| The leading Boards of Trade through
out the United States are now appointing
| standing committees on "The Three Amer
| icas Exposition Of 1922
The press and public heartily approve of
| this patriotic sentiment.
| But one step is needed to consummate
the project, and that is the initiatory step
| by the Congress of the oldest and foremost
of the nineteen American nations.
The Fiftieth Congress should have closed
| the first century Of the republic under the
| Constitution, and immortalized itself in
history, by taking this step. BY failure to
do so il has given the Fifty first Congress
an opportunity to inaugurate the second
century of the republic by the passage of
an Act which will not only lay the foun-
dation for more intimate commercial and
| social relations between the several sister
| nations of the Western Hemisphere, but
! give the whole world an opportunity to
commemorate the greatest event in Amer
! lean history.
\ becoming national pride is sufficient
guaranty that the United States will not
further delay an invitation which other
nations are ready and eager to accept, and
thereby pay tribute to the greatness, grand
eur and glory of American history, insti-
tutions and progress during the past four
hundred years.
On the 9th of May the Washington Post
published the following editorial on the
subject:
In a recent number of the New York
Ercaiag Sun, were interesting and signiti.
cant interviews Of two gentlemen from
South America on the enormous exodus Of
visitors to the Paris Exposition. The fol-
lowing extract forcibly illustrates what we
may expect at the Three Americas Expo
sition at Washington, in 1892:
''You cannot imagine said one of the
! bTOnZ faced gentlemen, the crowds which
are preparing TO visit Paris this summer from
the whole OF SOu'h and Central America. We
travelled here with representatives of nearly
every section of the Southern Republics, ana
they were all of the opinion that it is to be q
general exodus of the most wealthy and influ-
entail ciizeus of those far-away common
wealths." A gentleman from Ecuador went as
far as to say that in the principal cities of his
country nobody would be found in July but the
children and their nurses outside Of the Gov
eminent officials and employees, and the regu-
lar troops OF the Republic. II the United States
Mexico and Canada are to send q propOrtiOuate
number of visitors wOndec how Paris will be
able to accommodate such an Influx from the
New Void.
The New York Herald of Saturday con-
tanned the following editorial estimate of
the number of Americans who will visit
| Europe this year, and it is fair to presume
that the Paris Exposition will be the OBJ
jective point:
It is estimated that 100000 Americans will
visit Europe this summer. suppose they spend
SlL0) each on the average. That is not too
much is it? Now, reckon the amount of money
| that will be dropped in different parts of the
! continent One hundred thousand persons at
| 81 900 each That makes grand total OF $780,
| 100000.
The New York Sun of yesterday, in an
elaborate account of the opening of the
Paris Exposition, says:
There are about 100000 Americans in Paris,
and it is perhaps unnecessary TO say that they
! are in the movement.
The Post is decidedly of the opinion
that the Herald underestimate both the
magnitude of the American exodus to
Europe and the amount that will be
spent. Our reasons for this belief are as
| follows:
Eleven years ago one of the Consuls of
the United States in Europe, in a report
to the Department of State, estimated the
number of Americans who visited Europe
during the single year ending July !,
1873, to be 9,244. After expressing the
belief that this was a fair average of pre-
vious years, he gave the reasons in detail,
and closed as follows:
1t is therefore thought not to be an unreason-
| able estimate to fix the daily average eXpendi-
| lures of each person, including cost of living,
| education, travelling expenses, and the pur-
chase of expensive trifes, which may be Prop
| erly enumerated expenses, at So. Assuming
| that the current American firSt-class travel
| cover the sea- to Europe is correctly given as
90 pa per annum, and that the average period
OF absence is two years the number OF Ameri-
can visitors constantly but temporarily abroad
| would be Sass, and their daily expenditures,
| S292,440, or. per annum, sos, 49, 600, drawn
| from the United States in gold.
In view of these facts, and the further
fact that the exodus will be unusually
large this year, on account of the Paris
Exposition, we have no hesitation in say
ing the amount of money which will be
spent in Europe during 1889 by Ameri-
cans will be nearly S200,000,000.
Now suppose that all this is reversed,
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