The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-01
FLOATING EXPOSITION
Our Goods to Be Displayed IN
Worlds Principal Ports.

Huge Craft, Loaded With Uncle
Sans Goods, 10 Make sixty Thou
sand Mile Trip-seventy-Gve Ports
| In Forty-six Different Countries
VIII BE Visited.
A floating exposition, carrying dis
| plays of the goods of American manu-
facturers to the principal ports of the
world and establishing American trade
where it has not yet solid foothold, is
| the unique undertaking Of the Export
| Shipping company of New York, says
the Brooklyn Eagle. A big ocean
| steamship. fitted out especially for the
purpose, is to leave New York about
| April l next year, its cargo a condens
| ed American industrial exhibition with
a representative of each of the eXhib-
| itors on board, and sail around the
world, circling continents and Zig2ag
| ging across the oceans and seas 10
| make island ports in all climes.
Seyenty-fiv ports in forty-siX differ
ent countries will be visited, and 10000
miles will be travelled in fifteen months
The continents of Europe, Asia. Aus
tralia and South America and the
coasts of Central America and the
West Indies are included in the tin
erary
1t is to be an American invasion i'll
a most novel form. Extensive adver-
Using is expected. to bring together
large numbers of the native merchants
at the ports where the exposition drops
anchor. Stops of from two to seven
days will be made at the ports of the
itinerary, giving tne exhibitors repre-
sentatives plenty of time to show and
! explain their goods, quote prices, take
orders and appoint local agents.
1t is estimated that the cost of the
floating exposition for the fifteen
months will be $4,000. The promot-
ers figure out that at the rate they will
get for the space there should be ST.,
100000 coming in. According to the
plan outlined in their pamphlets, the
balance of 100000 will be refunded
to the exhibitors pro rata. The man
ayers OF the scheme say they do not
expect to make cent except to be ben
Gifted in the same way as the eXhib-
itors. All money is to be paid into q
Manhattan bank and by the bank dis
bursed only on certified and itemiZed
vouchers which will be made public
upon the request of any exhibitors. In
other words. it is advertised as a mutu
al scheme for furthering the interests
of the manufacturers participating.
| Exhibit space on the ship will be sold
for $50 per square foot, and the mini
mum sold will be forty square feet,
! bat several exhibitors may group their
| exhibits if they so desire buying the
| space together The representatives OF
| the exhibitors on board will be board
ed for 81 a day. 1t has been carefully
! figured cut that the cost to an cXhibi-
/ tor to thus show his goods to the many
| foreign markets to be invaded will not
be over So per DAY.
| So that the exhibitors representa-
tives may be able to converse with the
merchants III the ports where English
! is not spoken, instructors in German.
French and Spanish will give free les
sons in these languages during the
time spent at sea. With slight l1nowl-
edge of these languages besides their
own it is believed the representatives
will be able to make themselves under
stood in any port visited.
The managers of the enterprise want
as great a diversity of manufactured
products as possible, and they want
the most suitable in every line. 1t is
announced that competition between
exhibitors will be discouraged, al
though of course it is not expected that
it can be entirely eliminated