Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-16
same likelihood of exhibitors in other Eu.

same likelihood of exhibitors in other Eu- ropean countries holding aloof. The ques- ton put by European firms is: Will ex-
 hibiting payi To make it pay it must be
 useful as an advertisement, and extend
 sales in America or at home. It is ques-
 tionable whether English manufacturers
 can sell goods in America to any extent. This arises, not 30 much from tariff diff- culties, as from the difference in the meth ods of doing business. For example, most electric lighting in America Is done by off,
 shoots of a few large manufacturing csm- psnies, with "systems." In England one firm makes engines, another makes dyna-
 mos, and so on. There is certainly a ten dency among American electric light com panies to throw of the yokes of their pa- rents, and to buy machinery in the open market, and this feature may help Euro
 pean manufacturers. In the open market, and with prejudice discounted, English electrical machinery could, we think, eAsi- ly compete with American, but probably both might be beaten by the manufactures of Continental engineers. Under the present conditions of American electrical
 industry, it is scarcely likely that any Eu- ropean firms will exhibit heavy electrical
 machinery at Chicago.
 But, says an American exchange: "Pass-
 ing over the fact that several of the most
 important of English and Continental
 electrical manufacturing concerns have al
 ready agreed to make displays at the
 Worlds Fair, in the face of our contem-
 porary's objections, two curious miscon-
 captions in the article quoted are at once
 apparent. For one thing, Industries total
 ly fails to take into account any adverti-
 sing results from the exposition save in
 the United States. Does it not realize that
 thousands of observing visitors from Can
 ada, Mexico, and the Central and South
 American republics will carefully note the
 machinery, electrical and otherwise at the
 expositioni Are English manufacturers
 prepared to abandon this field entirely to
 the United States, so far as the undenia-
 ply great influence of the Worlds Fair is concerned?"
 "Then, again, our contemporary attach es an altogether fictitious importance to
 what it styles the system method of do- ing business in the United States. Great electrical corporations, it is true, do exert @ marked influence on the central stations
 of the country, but even these companies do not, with perhaps & single exception, make engines. as implied by the English paper. The statement that most electric lighting in America is done by offshoots of a few large manufacturing compsnies,' is inaccurate and misleading In the largest arc lighting station in Chicago dynamos of half a dozen different manufacturers are employed, and even if it were not so. there would be nothing to prevent the pur- chase of English machines. The differ ence in the methods of doing business should deter no foreigner from exhibiting at the Worlds Fair.'
 The Chicago exhibition, which is now in course of preparation, will be visited by people from all parts of the world, and by many who are keenly alive to what they see around them. It behooves English manufacturers, therefore, to show that they are second to none in the quality and variety of their products, and this they | must do by displaying their wares with a | lavish and unspariDg hand; for although l they may not at the time cover their ex- penses, the outlay will be we'll repaid in | the end if they can clearly show, as they l certainly can, that their workshops can execute work unequalled in solidity and finish by any competitors. A defective | exhibition of British industry, as the at | torney-general said in his address before | the Society of Arts, must have the effect | of losing for British trade, custom and | prestige; and, on tine contrary, fine dis ! play of English goods would attract GUS tom not only to particular exhibiting firms,
 but to British industries generally. It is to be sincerely hoped, therefore, that those | who are working hard to make the Eng | fish section of the exhibition success will | receive the very fullest support and en. couragement, and not the least as regards | the branch of industry which the Electri, | cal Review presents.