The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-10-08
THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION.

On Saturday evening, at 1870 o'clock the usua
weekly meeting of the executive committee of the Ma
! tlonal exhibition held in the Oak Room of thc
| Mansion House, Dawson street, Dublin Alderman
Cole presided, and the secretary Mr. Peter White at
tended.
In reply to the circulars issued by the executive tc
the Rural district councils, large amount of very
valuable information in regard existing industries
and the suitability of certain centres for special classes
OF manufacture is being obtained The executive in
tend to continue their inquiries all Ireland up
to the present, through the kind cooperation Of the
clerks of the various councils the information elected
has been of the most important and useful character
Very replies have yet to be receved but when the
fullest information possible has been obtained it is the
intention of the executive take steps with the view
to the starting of industries of character suitable
to the various districts the revival of old industries
where easbe and the pushing forward of such as are
at present IN a languishng state. In this way much
good can be DONE and the country thoroughly organized
in preparation for the National exhibition The execr-
tive do not intend their work to be of ephemeral.
transient character that it should cease when the
doors of the National exhibition closes: on the con-
trary, they hope to build up great industrial move
ment which viii maintain the good work now begun
and bring lasting advantage to the industries of the
country generally. The executive were glad to learn
through Mr. John Kelly, of Edenderry that the great
fire which resulted in the destruction of Messrs Ales-
burys mills III that town only temporarily stopped the
work The mills have since been rebuilt and it is hoped
In short time to largely increase the number of peo
n
ago meeting of the townspeople held and COM
mittee appointed to make inquiries to an industry
suitable for the district and it is anticipated that in
about months time the idea will take tangible shape
Mr. Kelly also mentioned that there is vast tract of
bog in the district which could with advantage be
utilized for the manufacture of peat moss litter The
mould is even being taken from the bog, sent to
Liverpool and afterwards returned to the district in
its manufactured state The list received from
Enniscorthy discoses healthy industrial activity
and indeed in part of Ireland has the revival move
ment strongly asserted itself than in Wexford
county The spirit is generally spreading, iudg-
ing from the lists received through the South of Ire
land but already stated, when the full particulars
of every existing industry have been received it will be
classified and published
Mr.. ". G. Seymour, secretary of the Galway county
council forwarded the following resolution passed by
his council in favor of the National exhibition -
That this council approves of the proposal to hold
National exhibition in Dublin opposed to an Inter
national exhibition the grounds that in the present
of industries every effort should be made to
promote native manufactures and this can be best
achieved by means of exhibition exclusively Ma
tional which would show to people the products of
their native country, without subjecting these already
heavily handicapped products the further disadvant
age which the free advertisement international ez-
hibition would give to foreign manufacturers"