Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-01
GREAT GOOD
By the National Export Exposition
and Commercial Congress Some of
the Results.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, October 81.
One of the indications of the I'M
qualified success of the National Ex-
port Exposition is the request from ex-
hibitors, recently placed in the hands
of the management, that the great
show be continued. until December 81,
a month later than the date originally
fixed for the close. There is little
hope, however, that the request will
receive favorable consideration, as in
dividually the management is deter
mined that, inasmuch as the exposi-
ton opened on time, it shall close when
the period fixed for its existence shall
have expired.
One of the missions of the exposi-
ton, probably its most important, was
to bring American producers face to
face with the commercial needs of for
eign nations, and in this it has APP
Parently been successful principally
through the medium Of the Interna-
tional Commercial Congress and a
thoroughly organized department in
which is displayed samples of for
eign manufactures, each exhibit bear
ing tag setting forth the name Of the
country where produced, where sold
and the manufacturer price.
Many of the exhibitors in the Amer
lean section of the exposition have
prcfited 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 for
shipment to Australia. Another con-
nrAn for,
motives for Sweden A hardware man.
ufactory effected a sale of brass and
bronzed faced locks to an Australian
importer. A large shipment of farm
implements to India, and an invoice
of typewriters to Austria are other
direct results of the exposition, and the
plea of exhibitors for a postponement
of the close is inspired by the belief
that by continuing the exposition the
departure of foreign buyers would be
delayed and further large sales en-
sue.
A WORLDS TRADE CONGRESS.
The International Commercial Con-
gress was convened October 18th, with
accredited representatives from many
governments and delegates from
Chambers of Commerce in almost
every civilized country in attendance.
The sessions which have continued
each day without interruption were de-
voted to discussions of the more com
pick questions bearing on improved
trade relations. Various solutions OF
the problem were offered by foreign
delegates, with many Of whom removal
OF tariff 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 for the Chinese
exclusion law. in return for the open
door in the Empire in the Orient. An
isthmian canal was unanimously urged
as the foremost necessity toward
bringing the commercial cities of the
world into a relationship that can be
attached through no other enterprise
projected or undertaken. The only
point on which opinion differed was
as to the choice of routes. sentiment
being pretty evenly divided between
the Nicaragua and Panama routes.
The United States was represented in
the Congress by some of the republics
most profound thinkers and dillgent
students along the line Of political sci
ence, and necessarily the acquisition