Smyrna times., 1899-11-01
EXPOSITION'S LAST MONTH
Futile Plea of the Exhibitors That the
Great Show Be Continued.

the National Export exposition have
sent to the management a strong an
peal that the great show be continued
/ until Dec. 81. month later than the
date originally fixed for the close. but
IT is unlikely the request will receive
favorable consideration.
! Many of the exhibitors in ..-,e Amer
lean section of the expo <lon have
profited handsomely as a result Of the
visits of foreign buyers, who were
largely represented in the commercial
congress. With one firm was placed
an order for $4,000 worth of steel tor
shipment to Australia. Another con-
Germ booked an order for seven locomo-
| tlVes for Sweden. A hardware manu-
factory effected a sale of brass and
Dronzed locks to an Australian i'm
! porter. large shipment of farm i'm
plements to India, and an invoice of
typewriters to Austria are other di-
rect results of the exposition, and the
plea OF the exhibitors for a POSTPONE
ment OF the close is inspired by the be-
heI That by continuing the exposition
lhe departure of foreign buyers would
De delayed and further large sales en-
sue.
A WORLDS TRADE CONGRESS.
The International Commercial Con-
gress was convened Oct. u, with ac-
credited representative from many
governments and delegates from cham
bers OF commerce in almost every
civilized country in attendance. The
sessions, which have continued each
day without interruption, were devoted
to discussions of the more complex
questions bearing on improved trade
relations. Various solutions of the
problem were offered by foreign dele
gates, with many of whom removal of
tarlH restrictions, as a means of ex-
panding American commerce. was the
burden of argument.
Mr.. WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister
to the United States, made a forcible
appeal for the repeal of the Chinese
exclusion law. in return for the open
door in the empire in the orient. An
lstnmian canal was unanimously urged
as the foremost necessity toward bring
ing the commercial cities of the world
into relationship that can be attained
through no other enterprise projected
or undertaken. The only point on
which opinion differed was as to the
choice of routes, sentiment being pret-
ty evenly divided between the Mica
ragua and Panama routes.
The United States was represented
in the congress by some of the reDub-
lies most profound thinkers and dill
gent students along the line of DO
llt1cal science, and necessarily the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippines afforded a
fruitful theme for prolonged discus-
sion. 1t is strictly within the bounds
OF propriety, however, to say that
among the American speakers on this
subject there was practically a una
nlmlty OF sentiment in favor of the
policy being pursued by the govern
ment in reference to the islands. In
none of the discussions was the pur-
pose for which the congress was as
sembled lost sight of, and not the least
insignificant of the declarations by
delegates was that of Enrique Alza-
mora, from Majorea, Spain, who evok-
ed applause when he said: Trade is
the best balm for the wounds that the
war opened"
EXHIBITS OF FOREIGN SAMPLES.
While the International Commercial
congress taught through the ear, the
Foreign Samples Department impaired
information through the eve. and
taken jointly, these two features of the !
exposition have proved wonderful
unfolding of the possibilities for
strengthening the position of the
American producer in foreign markets.
Manufacturers learned through the
samples what is required of them to
compete in the export trade of nations |
and not few have already taken stems |
for quickening their pace in the race |
or rivals for Australian trade. For
elgners said to them: "Produce +his
or that, and we will buy in America /"
The reply has invariably been. in eff
feet: Il will improve on the article
and lessen the cost"
The specimens of foreign manufac-
lures run through the whole category
OF products which are likely to temnt
American producers. They were So
lected abroad by commissioners from
tne Philadelphia Commercial Museum.
aIueo py the United States consular
service, and for their purchase CON
gress appropriated $1OO, 900.
One OF the missions of the exposi-
tlon' probably its most important, was
TO bring American producers face m
1ace with the commercial needs of for.
naya1I glgn nations. and in this it has ap-
parently been successful principaIiv
through the medium of the Interna.
tlonal Commercial Congress and tba
display OF samples of foreign manufac1
lures. With the fulfillment of IFS mic
sion, SION the exposition management. in
Osonl u1Uluually, any insists that as the great
snow opened on time. for a fixed ne me-
Rod, there should he no do1o1r - p