The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-08

OF the system. Not less than 1000 900
was expended in this building by exhib-
itors.
Exhibits in the mines and mining
| building were made principally by states
Displays were made showing the mineral
resources of the several states, and the
individual exhibits were comparatively
few Those that were made, however
were proportionately expensive TO the ex-
htbitors. a single company expended
$4,000 making a show of oils. The small
est exhibits cost 81, 600 to install, keep in
order and remove.
In the Agricultural building there was
almost fabulous amount spent on pa
VlllOns and special machine exhibits
| The gallery was filled with displays of
food products, each of which was housed
IN some way intended TO excel the bril-
nancy of its neighbours home. Rivalry
was intense, and nowhere was less than
$1,000 used by any corporation. The
starch men were in one group and one
firm expended nearly $4,000 The pa
Yilion was done in exquisite taste and
| workmanship, Ornamented with costly
| bronze edges and brass trimmings Its
competitors, and there were four or five,
were equally lavish with money. All
kept men on salaries in the section for
six months, an expense of at least 81 900
for each employe.
travagant but hopeful expenditure for I'D
vertising was even greater. One modest
exhibitor said that 81 800 was low esti-
mate of the cost his company had incurred
at the fair. The section was a small one,
but constant care, the purchase of brass
ratings and carpets, the hiring of agents
and hundred other details had fairly
eaten up the money The estimate did
not include the cost of extra fine machin-
cry shown
A harvester manufacturing company
will need $40, 900 to pay back its outlay.
1t built a gorgeous pagoda in the center
OF its silver-plated reapers and mowers
and showed in it a panorama of the works
There was also an elegant oifice in one
corner and half dozen attendants were
constantly on hand. Another company
also went in with wide-open purse and
near by were other large concerns that
spared no dollars. A pavilion of canned
meats represented $4,000.
The beer exhibitors say their exhibits
cost from $1,000 to Sl5, 600 each, and one
or two claim to have spent even more.
Machinery hall exhibitors had no
chance for economy. They did not erect
fancy booths, but the freight and carriage
and moving bills more than compensated
For instance, in the printing-press section
one company from Michigan expended
about $4,000, and the display was not
among the costliest. 1t took money to
ship the heavy parts, set them up, oper-
ate ana return them when the fair closed
The looms were in the next division, with
even more costly bills for taking part in
the exposition. One bingham factory had
ten machines, each manned and in full
operation, with the expense of salaries,
board and transportation Of the employees.
Across the way were the iron men, big
and little, with exhibits requiring special
foundations. Their expenditures ran
from the cost of the whole wing occupied
by single company at figures in the
thousands, to that of a few square feet
used by small manufacturers. These
latter confessed to a frequent expendi-
ture of 81, 500.
Horticultural hall brought small returns
for money spent. A Jerseyman came
with train load of plants, spending
S25, 900. He sold but few orders 1t is
only by future business that he hopes to
get returns. A Texas woman came with
cactus collection. She, although not a
wholesaler, nor yet a large dealer, was
out 81 900 by her scheme. The average
cost to exhibitors was about 81 500, with
the state shows costing ten times as
much.
One of the fine displays by carriage
makers is estimated to have cost the firm
about 5000, for which they have received
no return beyond the advertising OBJ
tanned.
In general, exhibitors say the fair has
been immensely profitable to them. The
great sums which have been paid out
with willingness are already beginning to
come back to them. Few sold goods at
the fair, but before it is hardly over the
seed sown in the eyes and ears of visitors
and by means of catalogues is taking root
and advancing to the full harvest
Although there may have been enough
money dumped into the exposition hopper
by American exhibitors to have ground
out the capital of twenty-five millionaires,
they confidently believe that they will
get it back ten times before the next de-
cade passes and another great interna-
tiOnal exposition comes along.