Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-07-09
PLENTY OF CHAMPAGNE.
Spain VIII Reproduce the Santa Maria and France Send Her Famous Wine.

7 and France Send Her Famous Wine. Maj. Fred Brackett, special agent of ' the United States treasury department,
 sent to Spain to explain customs regu- ! lations to intending exhibitors at the fair, returned to headauarters yester-
 day. He was abroad eight months and
 brought encouraging news to Director | General Davis ''The government of Spain has really appropriated but four teen thousand dollars for the fair" said Maj. Brackctt, but that does not begin to represent the value of the exhibit we shall receive from that country. Now, for instance, the government has de- clded to reproduce the Santa Marin,
 Columbus flagship. Instead of making
 an appropriation the government ship
 builder was authorized to use all neces-
 sary material in the shipyards for that
 purpose, and he has been doing so.
 When l left he had one hundred and
 fifty men at work on the vessel. As vou
 know, our government will reproduce the Pinta and the Nina. All three
 of the boats will be lowed to New
 York to take part in the naval
 review and then brought to Chi
 cago for exhibition purposes during
 the fair. Barcelona is the most
 important city of Spain commercially.
 and found that there considerable at-
 tentiOn had been paid to the exposition,
 one newspaper having published
 series of articles written by student
 of American history who had produced
 some very interesting articles on the
 subject of the fair in 1S93 We inter-
 viewed no less than ten prominent ed-
 itOrs of Barcelona, with the result that
 on the following day they all devoted.
 large amount of space to the expo
 sitiOn. At Valencia we found a very
 enterprising consul devoting a good
 deal of attention to the introduction of
 American goods into Spain. A large
 firm in Valencia manufacturing ceram-
 ics from old MOOrish designs intends to
 be represented at Chicago. At Madrid
 he had very satisfactory interviews
 with SenOr Canovas, president of the council of ministers, and secured from
 him letters of introduction to the gov ernors of the various provinces in Spain. During subsequent interviews
 "ANAA CSAAOf ele>s eiliNAs III ldCl. entire time spent in Madrid, Minister Grubb cooperated actively with us, and because of his very friendly relations with members of the Spanish govern ment was of great assistance to us The fac simile of the La Rabida con vent, which is to be reproduced on the grounds at Chicago, will undoubtedly be of great interest to Americans, as in that will be placed most of the exhibit relating to the life and times of Colum- 1 bus"
 Maj. Brackett says foreign exhibit | Ors are deeply interested in the ques- | tions of transportation and insurance ! and are unable to get accurate informa- 1 tiOn on either subject. ''The French | he added, ''is now fully | and composedl of excellent l It includes among its mem bers the venerable Jules Camaill Krantz, | the house of deputies, and an active, ] intelligent gentleman, speaking Eng | .ish vcrv well. N. C.i~--- lbs had 2 very extensive and varied experience with cxpOsitiOns and NJ. Monteith was | to the fine arts department in | 1889 and is familiar with America and | American customs, All these gentle men, at some later date not yet deter mined, expect to take up their residence n Chicago until the exposition closes Inc commission intends sending an ] 2r-hitect and engineer to take charge of the erection of such building as will be put up very soon. Visited the great
 S1inpagne districts at Rheims and -pcrnay and found on consultation -rith the producers that the sales, not the increase of tariff. had ! been considerably augmented during -le last year and that they were very -avorably disposed toward the cxposi- ion. The fat that three firms at theims had shipped during the previous ear to this country 22S, eco cases of
 haiapagne indicates that there will be 'o question about having an extensive ;-lhibit of that product"