The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-12-10
WHAT WE'LL SEE In '93.
INTERNATIONAL ExPOSlTIONS
OF RECENT YEARS.
How the Various wor as Fairs Have Com
pared with Each Other-t;rent Britai,
Generally Ahead of All Others-Ihe
Philadelphia Centennial - some Com
parison,.
lChicago dlsnatch. !

Generally Ahead of All Others-The
phia Centennial - sone Com
parisons.
Chicago dispatch.
Great Britain seems TO b, the quickest
nation % take advantage OF the chances
offered by a Worlds Fair. A study OF
| such Worlds Fair records as are ayaila-
BILE shows that she has been near the top
of the list In the number and character
of her exhibits.
Leaving out. of course. the countries
in which the fairs were held. Great Brit
| ain headed the list at Paris in 1855, was
| second at Philadelphia i'm 1876, second at
Paris i'm 1878, and first at Paris in, 1889.
No other nation can show as good
record, 80 England must be considered
at the head OF exhibiting nations, France
easily leading all others in the line Of
giving exhibitions.
The United States only recently awoke
TO their value. Its exhibits have not
been numerous, although the prizes il
has captured show that what it did ex-
hibit was the best Il has captured
more prizes in proportion To the number
Of it's exhibits than any other country.
%ln going over the records one is rather
surprised TO find that the smallest ma
tions have frequently made some of the
largest and best exhibits. They are in
teresting also rs indicating where some
OF the best exhibits for the Worlds
Columbian Exposition are coming from.
At London i'm 1851 more than half of
the exhibitors were from Great Britain
and colonies, but il is impossible 10 dis.
cover what foreign nation led. Ii was
clearly not the United States, as il sup
piled only 400 out OF total OF q. 40 for
eign exhibitors. IL is probable that
France headed the list
At Paris i'm 1885 England was clearly a
leader, making better exhibit than she
did at her own fair in 1851. The United
States was somewhere near the bottom
on the list, not even making as good a
record rs it did at London. It's exhibit
ors numbered only IA out OF IL. 96S from
foreign countries.
There are more complete records of
the Fair at London in 1862. and the rec
ords show that France returned Eng
lands visit. In space occupied and num-
Der of exhibitors She led all other coun-
tries. Germany coming next. The United
States was near the tail of the list again,
but the United States was in trouble
again ut that time, so il can hardly be
blamed for allowing Austria, Belgium.
Italy, Russia. Sweden, Norway. SwitZer-
land, Turkey Egypt and Denmark 10
lead il in the number Of exhibits and the
space occupied. Even Holland and POrtu-
gal gave it a tough rub. and in some
ways beat il. China and Japan began To
take an interest in exhibitions, and were
we'll represented. As exhibiting nations
they have been coming forward ever
since, and may be looked for % make an
excellent display i'm 1893
At Paris i'm 1867 England again called
on France and took one-nnth of the en-
tire space allotted 10 exhibitors. thus
holding her position as the greatest eX-
hibiting nation. The other eight-ninths
were divided between some thirty ma
tiOns. The United States got its display
i'm about one-fourth the space that Great
Britain needed
At Vienna in 1873 Germany led both
in the number of exhibitors and the
space occupied. doing better than Aus
tria itself. France and England both
furnished more exhibitors than the Unit
ed states, and Italy nearly "a many In
amount Of space occupied Germany. En-
gland France, Russia Italy. Belgium.
Turkey. and switzerland all led the
United States. At nearly all these fairs
the United States exhibits were due TO
interest on the part of the Government,
and that may account i'm measure for
the country, with all its resources. tigur-
ing so far down the list.
At Philadelphia. in 1876. Great Britain
received shock Spain took "A notion
that il had some things worth showing,
and when noses were counted il was
found that il lad furnished more eXhib-
itors than any other foreign nation.
England was "A good second and Portugal
third. 10 was a surprise 10 all other
nations.
At Paris, in 1873, Great Britain took
twice as much space i'm the main build
ing as any other nation, but did not
lead i'm the number of exhibitors. Italy,
Austrla-Hungary, Russia and Belgium
occupied more space than the United
States, and Switzerland was pretty close
to it. AuStria-Hungary supplied the
most exhibitors outside of France. with
Spain second and Great Britain third.
Algeria. Belgium. Italy. Portugal and
switzerland were all ahead of the United
States in this respect
At Melbourne in 1850 England again
led without counting her provinces and.
Austria, France, Germany, Italy, British
India, and "a number of minor states did
better than the United States.
At Paris in 1889 Great Britain led,
with Belgium second and the United
States third, but the United States did
not make the best use OF its space and
did not present as attractive a display az
many other nations with less nee
Mexico, with about one-fourth the space.
appropriated nearly five times as much
money, and number of other Govern
ments spent more money than the United
States ON much less space.
From the record il would look "a
though Great Britain would make the
greatest exhibit at Chicago, although
Spain may duplicate her record at Phila-
delpha, and some OF the smaller nations
may come up with rush. They have
been taking a great deal of interest i'm
such exhibitions recently, and are apt to
be more lavish in proportion TO their
means.
Another interesting matter in this
connection is the record of the assistance
given exhibitors at Philadelphia and
Paris by the various governments. Some
governments gave great assistance, and
some none outside of the expenses of the
commission and of making the govern