Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-13

| of Americas achievements during the nine
| teenth century. and the display of the cleo
| trical power generated at Niagara Falls.
| Gradually since the plan first
| preached. new features have been added,
! until the promise is held out of many
| sided attraCtiveness such as we have
| learned to expect in the most ambitious I'M
| dertakings of this nature. cOmprehen.
| sive exhibit devoted to our new possessions
| such as is to be made with the assistance
| of the national government Is OF course
! without precedent. and no less may be said
| of the proposed chronological exhibit de-
signed to bring together representatives of
| the aboriginal tribes wherever they may be
| found. from Alaska to Patagonia.
So too, of the architectural scheme. we
may say that a great decorated Enclosure
| filled with warm-hued buildings suggestive
OF the south while the buildings In their
turn are to be filled in great measure with
the products of northern ingenuity. Is an
admirably novel conception. Here is, IN
| fact. such wealth of new ideas that, with
good management. making the most or
each. the results two years hence may sur
prise even those who are now plotting
surprise for the rest of the world; one or
two of these features alone would furnish
raison detre for BuffalO's enterprise. New
ertheesS. after studying all the plans and
talking With officials. LEGAL enthusiasts and
local critics tfuT there are enemies al this
stage of the proceedings. one reaches the
conclusion that the purpose of developing
social and commercial relations between
our country and the countries of Latin
other purpose or features genius is the
superior of talent: it is, indeed, more worthy
of our attention than all the other objects
combined. even as a single genius com
mands more attention than a group of per
sons of talent. For all the other pleasing,
Instructive and beautiful features. we may
predict q glorious summer in 1901. and,
as such things come and go. oblivion more
or less complete in 1902: the plan of draw
ing near to Latin-America, however. strikes
III Just ahead of great movements that
seem destined to fill the early years of the
twentieth century with peculiar ZeSt. In
those years We should see a least the COM
pletion of an isthmian canal. through which
our ships, sailing almost due south from
New York. may reach the waters of the
Pacific ocean. thus bringing Ecuador, Peru
Bolivia and Chile into direct communica-
ton with the ports of the United States;
We should see at least the completion of
the tranS-Andean railway. connecting Val
paraisO with Buenos Ayres and Monte
Video: in brief. should see the awaken
ing of an intelligent interest in the affairs
ut l.atin-America. and the beginning of a
friendly effort to remove the barriers which
now keep the people of the two continents
apart.
The Director General.
In this connection the choice of w L.
Buchanan to fill the office of director gen.
eral of the Pan-American exposition is
Sarded as particularly fortunate. At the
Chicago worlds fair Mr.. Buchanan was the
first to receive appointment as chief of de-
partment. and the departments of agricul-
tUre. forestry and live stock were all con-
tided to him. 1t is the testimony of such
men as Daniel H. Burnham. Chicago's di-
rector of works, President Higginbotham
and W. E. Curtis that no other person con-
neCted with the administration showed
more effective ability. Before that time, at
his home. Sioux City Iowa, Mr.. Buchanan
had made a success Of the corn palace en-
terpriSe. In President CIeveland's admin
< ration he apnaiptRd of
United States minister to the Argentine
Republic where his record admirable
After the election of President Mckinley
Mr.. Buchanan sent in his resignation and
returned to Washington, but when he
called at the White House to pay his re-
spects to the President Mr. Mckinley in
Iuired wheE he thought to return to his
post adding that the question of retaining
the office or surrcnderlng it was in this
case to be decided by the incumbent him
self Mr. Buchanan then withdrew his res
iSnation and entered upon his service once
more. His achievement in settling bound
airy dispute which had been long pending
between Chile and the Argentine Republic
gave him standing in South America such
As probably no other citizen of the United
states enjoys. Quite recently he resigned
his commission to accept the position Of
fered To him by the Pan-Amercan EXPOSE
ton Company. the date set for entering
Upon his new duties being November l.
Endorsed by the President.
While Mr.. Buchanan was considering the
proposition made by the Pan-Amercan
company he consulted his friends in various
parts Of the country, and they advised him
by all means to accept. the offer, on the
ground that he would again be identified
with a successful undertaking. In Wash
ngton ne found that the chiefs of depart
ments were all strongly in favor of the
Pan-Americau, and the opinion was ex-
pressed that the national government would
make d better exhibit than ever before not
excepting that at the worlds fair 1t is
significant Of the administrations attitude
toward this enterprise that quite recently
" hen a committee of the Pan-American
waited upon Mr. Mckinley at Chicago, in
Wiling him to visit Buffalo, the President
replied that he was unwilling to 20 to Buff
falo in such an incidental fashion; that he
wanted to start from Washington and to
make his trip to the exposition site more
pointed compliment.
Work in South America.
As yet only the initial steps have been
taken in the effort TO secure the full CO.
operation of the various Latin-American
countries. Mr.. Buchanan, before returning,
asked and was accorded permission to en-
list the interest of Brazil, Argentina and
Uruguay. William Eleroy Curtis as a spe-
cial commissioner of the exposition, has
visited the countries of the Pacific coast,
and the results Of his work are embodied
in d report submitted few days ago In
Ecuador, Mr.. Curtis says, the uncertainty
of political events rendered it Impossible
at the time OF his visit to make SaLiSfacto-
ry arrangements. He was successful in
Peru, and states that President Romano
Will accept the invitation, advise Congress
10 make an appropriation of twenty or
Twenty-Five thousand dollars in gold, and
induce mining associations and other COM
mercial bodies 10 raise funds to defray the
cost Of the exhibits. The Peruvian govern
ment Will transfer its exhibit at Paris to
the Buffalo exposition in the following
year In Bolivia Mr.. Curtis made substan-
tial Roadway, although here also we must
take note OF the disturbed state Of political
affairs. The commission had several favor
able conferences with Colonel Fundo, hero
Of the late revolution, and with Don
Manuel BalIevian, the leading literary man
ana scientist Of Bolivia A national APP
preparation was promised by these influeu-
tial persons, who also expressed the Opin-
ion that their republics natural resources
would be shown to better advantage than
ever before. Chile. although the most pop
ulous and progressive of the countries on
the west coast, did not seem to Mr. Curtis
to be the most important for the purposes
OF the exposition. Its inhabitants are al
most exclusively engaged in mining Indus
tries, and 80 per cent of its exports are sent
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