The Washington herald., 1913-11-16
Fine PROSPECTS
FOR EXPOSITION
Anglo-American Exhibition in
London, 1914, VIII At
tract Many.
BUILDINGS ARE READY
Lord Kntore Predicts Great Success
for Project at "White
City"
BUILDINGS ARE READY
SPECIAL Cable to The w..hiDgtOu Herald.

Special Cable TO The Washington Herald
London Nov. 15.-The AngIo-American
Exposition here next year will be a mag
nthcent success-no doubt of that can
exist More, the exposition, which will
be held at Shepherds Bush from May
to October, 1914. will bring even closer
the mother country and her splendid
daughter, who has grown SO fast"
The distinguished men on both sides OF
the Atlantic who are deeply interested in
the exhibition are enthusiastic over the
prospects. The administration has re-
ceived from British exhibitors three
times the number of applications for par
uctpation in the exposition than were
made In a like period before the Franco
British Exposition in 1904. The exposition
already awaits the friendly rivals who
VIII compete in art, science, and the
product of loom and factory
Tmre KiraIEy a Director.
The buildings are ready for occupation.
the grounds are in tne condition. The
exposition Will De neId IN tnaI marvellous
White City which Irme Kiralfy, so well
known in America, created five years
ago, and which has been one OF the lead
ing attractions Of London ever since.
And lmre Kiralfy, whose artistic sense
and executive ability are famous, is
director general and the most active
leader in the coming exposition.
The object of this great show is to
celebrate fittingly the hundred years OF
peace and progress between the English
speaking peoples since the Treaty OF
Client, in 1914. The aim is to demon
strate practically the progress the Brit
ish and American people have made in
every branch OF civilization during the
last century; TO place on view in chrono-
logical order the great achievements or
that epoch from inception to perfection;
to show not only how much nation has
improved on its own inventions, but
wnere they have worked side by side to
perfect the creations of the other.
Everything Assures Success.
Preparations which insure the exposi-
tons success proceed rapidly. \ meet
ing OF the general committee was held
at the Mansion House recently at which |
the Lord Mayor presided. The Lord
Mayor dweIt on the immense value the |
exposition would be both to the Ameri- |
can and British people. The Earl of |
Kintore, chairman of the executive COM |
mtttee, declared everything assures a !
wonderfully successful exhibition"
Milton S. Fisher, chairman of the COM !
mittee on Fine Arts, stated positively |
that the exhibits of paintings, statuary,
and other objects of art will be superior /
artistically, and probably more numerous
than those at any exposition ever held.
Reports equally favorable were made !
by Lord Rotterdam, chairman of the
textile section; Sir Robert Hadfield, for |
the engineering section; Worby Beau
mont, for the transportation section; Bed
ford Mcneil, for the mining and metal
lurgical section. and w. NJ. Murdey, for
the electrical section.
Too Good to BE Missed.
For the American Committee in London,
K. NJ. Fairbanks stated this exhibition
was a commercial and sentimental oppor-
tunIty too good to be missed" ana that
it had a great advantage over exhibitions
as all the buildings were ready now to
receive the EXHIBITS.
He said this fact could not be en-