The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-07
Places $4,000 at Disposal OF
Worlds Fair Commissioners as
First Installment.
MINISTRY UPH0LDs PURPOSE.
Advantages of Showing Goods in
Which the Country Excels Are
Plainly Shown in Exports
Since Paris Exposition.

Berlin. Jan. 6.-The budget appropriates
the first installment of $3.50 % for the Ger
man exhibit at the ST. Louis Worlds Fair
and places the total requirement for this
purpose at from SECS, 900 to $4,000.
The first installment has been placed at
the disposal of the Imperial Commission
ers.
A memorandum from the Ministry Of the
Interior. explaining this item. says:
However undesirable it may appear that
an international exposition on the largest
scale should follow so soon after the Paris
Exposition, and however great the obl!ga-
ton to avoid every unnecessary expendi-
ture may be. an obligation imposed by the
| present financial condition of the country
still the Empire cannot do otherwise thar
Exposition after France and Great Britain
have accepted.
This decision is dictated not only out q
regard for our friendly relations with the
United States. but reasons OF a purely com
merciai nature more urgently required oui
acceptance
The memorandum makes use of American
statistics to show that the United states
occupies the second position among the
HELPED BY EXPOSITION.
The memorandum points out that the Ger
man ey libits at the Paris exposition at
tracted the greatest attention and that they
won many prizes: it agrees with the view
held in trade circles that the Paris exposi-
ton caused the increases in the exports to
the United States. and that the increased
gained a further momentum in 1902.
the memorandum. that our participation in
the ST. Louis Worlds Fair will have q
favorable effect Upon German exports"
The Ministry considers hat in view 81 the
Germany Is hardly disposed to bear the ex-
pense of a comprehensive representation at
st. Louis and the German exhibits therefore
will be confined substantially to sculpture.
painting and the industrial arts. including
toys. educational appliances, scientific APP
paratus and certain branches Of the book
trade.
The memorandum recites hat in the
eighties the United States bought many
German art works. but that these sales fell
hibit at the Chicago Fair did not check this
in TIE United States: however. Indicate that
the recent great increase Of wealth In
America has produced an extraordinary de-
mand for works of art. especially for home
decoration. Continuing, the memorandum
TT United States Government lays
special weight upon an exhibition OF the
German educational system. st. Louis is
cipal buildings will be devoted to education.
The Prussian constitutional administra-
ton. therefore. proposes to send q full e
cultural institutions, in which all the scien-
tific departments will be represented.
SUCCESS GUARANTEED.
within the limits Of such an exhibit we
can show to good effect our fine mechanical
and optical industry. Our scientific Mtera.
ture is not approached by that Of any othel
nation. and finally. our noe collections
of agricultural and manufactured products
serve purposes of instruction. The immense
sums of money spent every year in the
United States for scientific purposes guar
antee not only an ideal, but particularly. q
commercial success"
Electrical and engineering exhibits will be
sent to st. Louis. but general manufacturing
and machinery will find a place only as the
manufacturers themselves seek representa-
ton. 1t is understood from the memoran-
DUN that Fair Commissioner Lewald may
ask the next Reichstag for an approprta-
ton larger than the one stipulated. provid,
ed German trade conditions improve, and
the expectations of larger sales in the
United States are realized. This increased
appropriation will be asked for especially
if, in the meantime. a commercial treaty
between Germany and the United States
can be negotiated.
The LokaJ Anzeiger says the Government
intends to invite negotiations for new com.
mercisl treaties with Russia and the United
States before other Powers are approached
to this end.