The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-23
ITS A BIG BOOM TO
THE MANUFACTURER
Philadelphia Museums Want Scranton
r Men on Its Advisory Board.
INFORMATION AGENT WAS HERE.


dress the Manufacturers Com.
mittee.. Museums Are National,
State and City in Charac er.
In conference here yesterday with
William Brooke Smith. of the bureau of
information of the Philadelphia Mu-
seums. While neither Mr.. Smith nor
the museums he represents are es-
pecially well known to Scranton busi-
ness men. his visit here was an impor-
tant one. He came to have the board
of trade select two members to serve on
the advisory board Of the Museums.
The Philadelphia Museums were or
ganized by councils in 1894 and We're
created for the purpose of gathering
and exhibiting samples Of the raw and
manufactured products which are ex-
ported from foreign countries to South
America and to give American manu-
facturers and producers an opportunity
to study and gather facts concerning
their competitors.
The museums now occupy 12S rooms
and 100000 square feet of floor surface
in the former offices of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company at the corner
of South Fourth and Walnut streets.
These quarters have been leased for five
years in order to give the city time to
prepare permanent buildings. Sixty
thousand samples of foreign raw prod
ucts alone are now possessed by the
Museums and are being inspected and
studied by manufacturers. Eight acres
of land near the University of Pennsyl-
vania have already been appropriated
by the Philadelphia councils, $4,000 has
been given by the city to prepare the
land for buildings and eight additional
acres are reserved to be appropriated II
needed. Assurance has been given tnat
the state will appropriate nearly ST.
900, 900 for buildings.
FORMAL OPENING IN NOVEMBER.
The institution is absolutely free and
was created by the city of Philade. pnla
but for the benefit of manufacturers
throughout the United States. No for
NAL opening has yet taken place, but
this will happen when the National As
sociation of Manufacturers meets In
Philadelphia in November. Previous to
that time the advisory board. for which
two members from Scranton are asked,
will meet in Philadelphia. There will
be about fifty members OH the board.
The museums officers are William Pep
per, NJ. D., LII. D., president; Charles II.
Cramp, vice-president; Clarence H.
Clark, treasurer; William p. Wilson,
Sc. d., secretary and director. On the
board of trustees are Governor Hast
ings, William NJ. Singerly, Mayor War
wick, of Philadelphia; the presidents of
common and select councils, President
Sheppard, of the board of education;
Superintendent of Public Schools
Brooks, John Wanamaker, Frank
Thomson and others who are almost as
we'll known.
During the Worlds fair an appropria-
ton of $4,000 was made by the Phila-
delphia councils to send DR.. Wilson, of
Chicago to obtain collection of foreign
manufacturers samples and raw prod
ucts. The collection was obtained ana
through the efforts of DR.. Wilson and
DR.. Pepper, each of the faculty of the
University of Pennsylvania, the mu-
is governed by board of trustees,
elected by councils and approved by
Philadelphias mayor, and to this is
added the governor of the state and city
officials, and as the advisory board Is
composed Of two members from fifty Of
the prominent commercial bodies
throughout the country, the museums
are, therefore, national, state and city
in character.
MIR. BROOKE WAS HERE.
Mr.. Brooke laid these and other facts
before President May and Secretary
Atherton Of the board of trade yester-
day, with the request that the two
Scranton members for the advisory board
he named as soon as possible. This will
he done at the next meeting of the
board, in September. Mr.. Brooke con-
sented to come to Scranton and address
the manufacturers committee.
Scranton, Reading. Wilkes Barre,
Williamsport, Harrisburg, Allegheny
City and Pittsburg are the only Penn
sy!vania cities whose trade bodies have
been asked to name members of the ad-
visory board.
Not the least important of the Muse
um's work will he to open at certain
periods in the most important of the
South and Central American cities ex-
hibits OF the or ,hern cOntine is m n l.
| factories and products. This will be
done without cost to any manufactory
| or individual who desires to have its or
his production placed on exhibition, ex-
| IA nf fyan 20
| rangements are now nearing compile
tion for such an exhibit in Caracas,
Venezuela.
In the Museums at Philadelphia vis-
itor may study the resources and COM
| mercial features of any particular
country; can see the extent and variety
Of its products, climate and soil means
of transportation and manner of COM
munication with the commercial world,
and thereby be enabled to derive from
, the exhibits, maps, charts and other
data collected. valuable information
necessary In the conduct of his business.
The manufacturer, merchant or con-
sumer interested in any particular COM
modify may there find systematically
arranged and displayed. samples of the
various products which interest him,
collected from all sections of the globe,
with all obtainable data possible where
by he may judge of their commercial
value For instance, the manufactures
of wood will have displayed for his
benefit thousands of samples, embrace
ing nearly all the woods of the world,
In sufficient size and quantity, and with
data necessary for him to determine