Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
MUST MOVE AT ONCE
PittSburg Getting Sadly Left
on Space at the Colum-
bian Exposition.
TIN PLATE MEN ASLEEP.
They Are Making No Attempt to Sc
cure Room for a Display.
BIG MANUFACTURERS HOLD BACK,
While the Little Philadelphia Fellows Get
in Their Work.
BIG MANUFACTURERS HOLD BACK,
WESTINGHOUSE STILL on THE OUTSIDE

space in the W orld's Fair. Unless the Irol
CITY wakes up the little manufacturers O
Philadelphia will have all the room allowed
for Pennsylvania. Big manufacturers ar
resting on the idea that the fair does nc
open for a year, and are forgetting the fac
that the space is all to be given out on Jul,
! Of this wear. Such great industries a
those represented by Westinghouse, Harr,
Oliver, Jones & Laughlins, Chambers s. Nc
Eee. James Chambers, Henry W. Hartman
Dilworth Bros. & Co., Cambria Iron Com
pany and A. NJ. Bvers have so far not mad,
RIv attempt to secure space.
William Quinn, an active secretary fol
the Pennsylvania Worlds Fair Commits
sion, who has been visiting the manu-
facturers with view of securing exhibits
is authority for these statements. The
most peculiar feature he has found is the
tardiness of the tin plate manufacturers to
make exhibits. So lar not one from thi.
State has even signifed an intention to
send an exhibit
Blind 10 Their Own Interests
Mr. Quinn said: "When 1 asked Mr..
Cronemver about making an exhibit he
only replied, What's the use?' Amer
lean tin manufacturers are blind to
their own interests When Democratic
Congressman go TO the Worlds Fair they
will ask where all this tin is that needs so
much protection. Absence of American tin
at the Columbian Exposition will be the
best campaign material the free traders can
find, and will do more to kill this industry
than anything else. They could easily give
l., /, l.. Al.
Exposition, and then give the tin away as
souvenirs. If each firm would even send
100 boxes it might save them"
"What are you giving that tip away for?"
broke in Commissioner P. Foley, who was
present. "If the Republicans don't know
enough to take care of American tin we are
not going to carry them around instructions
or 4 silver plate. But suppose, of course,
the commission will be blamed il we do not
have all the industries represented. We
have opened this office here in the Hamil-
ton building, and have employed Mr. Quinn
to see the manufacturers personally and
get them to make exhibits. We cannot paw
them for doing it, and if they do not re-
spond at once it is not our fault if they are
shnt out
Philadelphia Making Big Play.
The facts are these. In Pennsylvania
there nave been 492 applications from manu-
facturers for space. $50 far there have been
no applications from farmers or for lumber
or cereal exhibits. The number from manu-
facturers IS twice as large as from any State
in the Union, yet ont of the total of 492
Phil adelphia has go of the applications
IL
sented The people are alive and Councils
hiss established a literary bureau for BOOM
ing enthusiasm in the Worlds lir, while
in PittsburG the Councilmanic Committee
appointed for that purpose has net even
organized
1T looks much as if Pittsburg's ele, trical
industries were going to be shut out, )" said
Mr. Quinn. Edison has applied for one
third the space allotted to electrical app.i-
Gnces, and promises to occupy every Incl,
of it with his own inventions. England
France and Germany have applied for half
the space. The Thomson Houston Company
has also asked for space, while We have not
had a word from Westinghouse. In a let
ter last month J. p. Barnett, in charge of
the electrical department, said the applica-
tions were far in excess of the amount of
available space, and said he was going to
begin the allotment at once.
Tho pathy of Large Concerns.
ON other big concerns the same want of
Interest is DISPLAYED. Fl. W. Oliver told
NE Yesterday he was going TO amply for
srace, but has not done so. Jones & Laugh
Inns said the same thing and 50 did McIn-
tosh. Hcmphill & Co. In fact, all the big
men are holding back They seem to for
get that SPACE is given out long before the
Fair orens. Down in Beaver Falls month
ago. nine people promised me TO apply for
space at once. Not one of them has an
swered. The big glass men are the
same, and outside of the big
trusts no one but Macbeth has ap-
piled for space. We cannot get space
unless they put in applications. We can't
90 and sleep with them until they get
ready. If they do not awake at once,
Philadelphia will get the space, and Pitts
burg with all its great industries, will be
crowded out Then foreigners who come to
the show will go away believing Pittsburg's
name as a manufacturing center is founded
mostly on wind. If we were to tell one of
these manufacturers where to sell an order
for SO. 600 or SIS, coo, we would not have to
notify them 4 second time. This will
amount to far more, yet they do not real
ize il.
Councils Very SLOW to Act.
Gwen the city in general is backward.
Mayor Gourley messaged Councils and
committee was appointed. That committee
has not yet met. In Philadelphia Councils
are doing business and the whole city is
alive. Pittsburg must wake up or get left.
''The National Tube Works, Of Mckees-
port, mas learned by bitter experience, and
now has an application for lS,OOO square
feet. Two weeks before the opening
OF the Centennial this company was
making its exhibit When 1T got
there it was crowded of into one
corner Tie old Crescent Tube Works had
its exhibit in early, and had an elegant To-
cation. While it did not compare with
that of the National Tube Works, 1t got the
medal simply because it was well displayed.
'Carnegie's application is for 10000
square feet, and in that SPACE he VIII have
everything turned out in his immense mills.
he viii make a special display OF armor
plate and ores, together with practical ex-
position Of the process OF steel making.
''The Sterling Steel Company, which
manufactures armor piercing projectiles at
MckeespOrt, Will show the condition of
steel in the various stages of its manufact-
ure, from the crude ore until the time it is
ready to be made into billets. This will be
shown by crucibles cut in two at the differ
ent stages of the process.
Making Coke at the Fair.
al. c. Frck is also to have an unusual
display. II will present the entire coke
industry from the time the coal is mined
until il is loaded on the trains He will
also have breakers there and will manu-
facture coke on the ground so that every
detail Of the work will be shown.
Probably the most unique exhibit will be
BY the II. j. Heinz Company. This firm