Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
LAST MONTH OF EXPOSITION
Futile Plea of Exhibitors That
the Show be Continued.
THE AVENUE OF ADJUSTMENTS
Babel of Tongues in the Great
Trades Gathering.
Many Languages spoken by the DoleEares-'
WORLDS Leading Bands Give Free Com
cerrs IN the Afternoon Feeding the Nhd
Beasts-Scenes at the Exposition.


sent to the management strong ap-
peal that the great show be continued
until Dec 81. month later than the
dat. originally fixed for the close. but
It Is unlikely the request will receive
avorable consideration.
Many ot the exhibitors in the Amer
tca section of the exposition have
Secflted handsomely as a result OF the
visits OF foreign buyers, who were
largely represented in the commercial
congress. with one firm was placed
81 order for $I49000 worth of steel for
shfSmens to Australia. Another. con-
eeru booked an order for seven locomo-
L,yes fur Sweden. A hardware manu-
factory effected a sale OF brass and
pronzed locks to an Australian i'm
porter A 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 I
plea OF the exhibitors for a postpone
ment of the close is inspired by the be-
lief 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 Oct. IL. with ac-
credited representatives from many
governments and delegates from cham
bers of commerce in almost every
civilized country in attendance. The
sessions which have continued each
y4a7 without interruption, we're devoted
q discussions of the more complex
i,ar-norr bearing on improved trade
rss..io-e> Various solutions of the
oil ~. we're offered by foreign dele
gaze. ~ltn many of whom removal'of
tariS festIieiions, as means of ax-
pandlng American commerce, was tie
5urdeH of Argument.
Mr Wa Ting Fang, Chinese minister
~ ne United States, made a forcible
eppssl for the repeal Of the Chinese
exclG sion law. in return for the open
Door in the empire in the orient. An
Isthmian anal 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 pref
ty evenly divided between the Mica
ragua and Panama routes.
The United States was represented
in the congress by some of the repub-
lies most profound thinkers and dill
gent students along the line of po-
litical science. and necessarily the ac-
quisition 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 una
nimity 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 b,
delegates was that of Enrique AlZa
mora, from Maiorea, Spain, who evok
ed applause when he said; Trade il
the best balm for the wounds that tn,
war opened"
EXHIBITS OF FOREIGN SAMPLES.
While the International Commercial
Congress taught through the ear, tn
Foreign Samples Department imparte
information through the eye, and
taken Jointly, these two features Of tn
exposition have proved wonderfu
unfolding of the possibilities 70
strengthening the position of tn
i,xf fcr ;a-,, ~,
Manufacturers learned through tn
samples what is required of them t
compete in the export trade Of nation
and not few have already taken steI
for quickening their pace in the rae
of rivals for Australian trade. Fol
eigners said to them: produce tn
or that. and we will buy in America
The reply has invariably been. in e
feet: 81 will improve on the artic
and lessen the cost"
The specimens of foreign manufa
lures run through the whole categoI
of products which are likely to tenn
American producers. They were s
lected abroad by commissioners fro
the Philadelphia Commercial Museul
aided by the United States consul
service. and for their purchase co
gress appropriated 100000.
One of the missions of the expoi
tion, probably its most important, W
to bring American producers face
face with the commercial needs of fc
eign nations. and in this it has a
parently been successful, principa
through the medium of the Inter1
tional Commercial Congress and t
display of samples of foreign manuf;
lures. With the fulfillment of its m
sion, the exposition management,
dividually, insists that as the gr,
show opened on time. for a fixed
riod, there should be no delay in |
close.