The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-14
PERMANENT EXHIBIT.
Houston to He Made a Great Trade
Center.

Houston TO He Made a Grent Trade
Center.
The enterprise ineugurated sorie time
ego to establish at Houston permanent
exhibition of manufactured products is be-
Ing revived. This will be i'll the nature OF
permanent exposition. or sample room,
where from 100 to 200 lines of goods will
be found. Besides the regular trade that
may accrue from the fifty passenger trains
per day that go in anG out of Houston.
periodical excursions os interior merchar "a
will be brought here, where they may from
one of the largest sample rooms in the
world buy their supplies. A number OF ef-
tcieDt statesmen will be in attendance un-
der the supervision of some popular drum.
mer who is familiar with the Texas trade
While this exposition will be very at
tactive, and not unlike those of recent
years, there win be no admission fee
Merchants of Texas, Instead OF going to
New York, Chicago and other markets,
can visit Houston where concentrated
under one roof, they may find samples of
every line OF goods required.
1t behooves the commercial people of
Houston to foster and encourage this on
terprise as our home merchants will rep
resent as far as possible the lines of goods
carried, and when merchant from the in
terror makes a bill 1t may have whole
sale dealer at Houston to enjoy the bene-
fit of such sales, just as they do now on a
smaller scale.
value to the city of Houston, to the rail-
roads, the local and the interior merchant,
the manufacturer and the promoters and
stockholders.
1t is proposed to erect handsome struc
ture of glass and iron in the vicinity OF
the Grand Central depot and SO arrange the
interior into booths and spacious aisles
that hundreds OF lines of goods may be
displayed to advantage for the benefit OF
buyers.
The samples may be changed and re-
newed as often as desired.
Exhibitors will pay from $3.50 to 5000
per year for space and will be at no other
expense after being installed, except they
should prefer to keep their own statesmen
on hand.
1t will be seen that this enterprise could
be made to supplant in measure the
hauling of sample trunks. packing and
repacking same from point TO point.
Mr.. w. w. Dexter, the promoter of this
Chattanooga and other points In the l.
terest of /, and was very much encour-
aged by the warm Endorsement received.
st. Louis alone does a business of $780,
100000 a year in Texas, and would, of
course, be interested in such an enter
prise. Houston, with such an exhibition,
would become the greatest purchasing and
distributing center in the South, regard
less of population.
The Post has already Endorsed the prop
osition and will not hesitate to further the
enterprise to its crystalization.
1t has also been commended by ex-Gov-
ernor Culberson, the Manufacturers Rec
ord of Baltimore, several local banks, The
Manufacturers association of Houston
and many prominent citizens. 1t is to be
hoped the Cotton Exchange and Business
League will at once take steps to further
the great enterprise. The drawings of
the proposed exposition building are now
on exhibition in the show window of the
r. c. Stuart drug store on Main street.
The Post would suggest that all hands
unite in pushing this good work to sue
cess