The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
The American Exhibits.

The American pavilion will have a
! floor area of 75x90 feet There Will be
/ four stories. and aside from the Offices
of the commissioner general and his
/ staff of twelve commissioners for 1900,
! the building will be practically home
for visiting Americans. There VIII be
reading rooms, resting rooms. smoking
rooms, toilet rooms. a bureau for guides
endorsed by the commissioner, a branch
of the New York chamber of COM
merce, facilities for exchanging money.
and offices of American express COM
Danies. Even with all these things,
there will be space left to he utilized
1t is probable that this will be divided
into rooms for separate states and
groups of states. in which one of the
pleasantest features will be complete
files of home papers.
l asked Commissioner Woodward
what he thought would be the finest
American exhibit.
Probably machinery and electric
ity." he replied. Il expect America to
take more space in those sections than
in any other. In one field, which was
al the beginning essentially French, we
have made marked inroads. Our ex-
hibit Of American automobiles will be
extremely fine.
Another and very gratifying exhibit
viii be that which our painters will
make. Our share of the art section
will unquestionably be a revelation to
France. There is something fine in
thinking that America, the newest of
the countries. will come over here and
do something in the very art center of
the old world. which Will be striking
and meritorious. The man in charge
of the work of collection and arrange
ment-John b. Cauldwell of New York
will. l am sure, please everybody.
Some of the state exhibits will be very
fine. California is particularly proud of
its horticultural interests: New York is
anxious to show its great strides in the
path leading toward popular education:
Iowa and Illinois have both appropriate
ed large sums toward making their ag-
ricultural display perfect and develop
ing the idea Of establishing experiments
in kitchen and cooking work These
two states will especially emphasize
the advantages of corn as q. food pro-
duct. Corn is little known, over here
and the Frenchman-who always fixes
good things To eat-will Cpl n his eyes
and smack his lips when he tastes our
American corn mullins.
Nearly all the states are planning
for special exhibits We are also try
ing 10 secure some annexes TO our ma
tional exhibit, one in which to show
the workings of our agricultural de-
partment, and another one with a
typical western log cabin, especially
imported for ii forest and fisheries ex-
We feel that we have some
thing TO show concerning our mer- |
chant marine. and are also trying to
annex a building in which to give an |
idea of our chemical industries Still +
another plan which we have in mind is |
the erection of a great American print |
ing press. Europeans understand little !
about American journalism and almost /
nothing of its mechanical marvels. |
There is not a paper in Paris, for in |
stance, which can print more than
Ia, 600 four-page copies in an hour on
any one of its printing presses. In
America there are presses in existence
which will deliver. cut. folded. pasted
and counted. $4,000 sixteen-page news
papers. printed in five colors, every
sixty minutes. This would be equal TO
81, 600 of the French four-page papers
very hour
The American government and the
5arious state governments will Off
tally spend more than s3,0O0,O00 on the
EXPOSITION. The federal appropriation
mounts to s1,200.00O, and in addition
o that almost every one of the states
las appropriated a sum. These state