New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-12
WANTS EXPOSITIONS
OF U. S. A. GOODS
Commissioner Hartigan
Has Scheme to Boom
American Products.
SUGGESTS EXHIBIT
IN ALL BIG CITIES
Saturday Biggest Day New Open
Markets Have Had
SO Far.

The first plan Of general practical
bility TO make the slogan, Made IN the
L. =. A." mean something, was sug-
gested yesterday By Joseph Hartigan
Commissioner Of Weights and Meas.
ures and secretary OF the Mayors Food
Supply Committee. He will take up
tho scheme with Mayor Mitchell and
City Chamberlain Bruerc as well as
with various associations OF merchants
and manufacturers, whose cooperation
Is neccs sary for ITS success.
Commissioner IIartlgan would have
series Of cXposltions IN every
large city OF the country where made
IN the L. =. A." goods would be DIS
played. He would have New York
lead, beginning its series at the end of
the present month, when the 300th an
nivcrssry Of the beginning Of COM
mercc in the port of New York is to
be celebrated.
THE manufacturers in the United
States" said Commissioner Hartigan,
"would do we'll 20 begin widespread
campaign within the borders OF the
country to display goods by means OF
cXpositions on small scale. Business
obtained through the temporary disad-
held unless the manufactured article
meets the demand as to quality and
the peculiar needs of the customer. 4
standard OF merit must be established
and maintained. This is as true Of the
export business .as of domestic trade.
ain a few years at the most the
again and the United States must give
"a. l,t1 49, Il al l.f -
worth sold to hold its own against
competition.
"ln the City Of New York the ssso.
Citations of merchants and manufactur-
ers might combine and adopt ways AND
means to show every conceivable ar
ticle the counterpart of which has
heretofore been imported. For purposes
of exposition here "A committee having
such project in charge could un-
doubtedly avail itself OF armories and
public halls at little or no expense.
THE campaign, while aimed at in
creased sales Of our manufactures
abroad, could he directed within our
own country with a view to educating
Americans who have been dependent
more or less, upon foreign made goods
II could be arranged to display foreign
and domestic made goods side by side
for purposes of comparison. The visi-
tors to such display would he not
only our own business men and con-
sumers. but buyers for export trade
Another suggestion was that manu-
facturers should show each step IN
their processes, 40 that prejudice in
favor in foreign made goods, which is
based simply upon labels, could be
overcome by actual proof of the ma
terisls and workmanship entering into
the domestic article.
Borough President Marks said yes
terday that last Saturday wa. the best
day his new markets had yet had. Forty
farmers brought in loads ranging from
one to five tons, and every one sold
out. A poultry dealer at the Queens
boro Bridge Market reported that
he sold two and onc-half tons. A
butcher. whose stand there is new
one. sold 1859 worth OF meat. A fish
erman at the Harlem Bridge Market
sold 200 pounds Of fish. A pstrolman
at the Fort Lee Ferry Market counted
1C0 purchasers who came IN sutomo-
bles.
The wholesale end Of the markets is
beginning to develop. Thrtyhye bar
rels of potatoes were bought by one
customer Saturday. Borough Presiden.
Marks believes that II retail grocers
whose stores are in the vicinity of the
new markets will buy their produce OF
farmers there. many OF the complaints
against the markets will pc changed
TO praise.