Arizona republican., 1917-03-25
PALACE OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS BEING PLANNED T0
 CRACE' DOWN-T ONN SECTION IF ARIZONA CAPITAL
Prominent People Back of Move to Launch Some thing New in Line of Ex- hibitions for This State

Believing that there is a field for a permanent exhibition place for the varied industries, prominent people of this section are planning the construc- tion of great building near the center | of Phoenix to house such a display, details of the project being announced i for the first time today.
 1 Designed as a permanent exhibits | building, to house over TOO exhibits of nationally known products, the Palace of Industrial Arts which local people are planning, is calculated to be one of the greatest advertisements and draw 1 ing cards in the state of Arizona. 1 The building is to be of fire proof construction and to cover a ground |. space of 300 feet by 135 feet, and 45 | feet high. The basement which will 1 be under the entire building, will be l used for the storage of automobiles. l It is estimated that the building will | cost in the neighborhood of $125,00O and was designed by Mir. Crowell of i the W. J. Rau staff of architects. The location at the corner of First street and Van Buren was deemed the most desirable by the promoters, due [ to the fact that Van Buren street is wider than the average street. It is the intention to make the Palace of Industrial Arts show : place the year round. Music and l to encourage patronage.
 l It Is intended also to provide an auditorium or convention hall in this i building, which is so necessary to a growing city, and this convention hall can be incorporated in a build ] ing of this description on so much more economical basis than if it were built separately.
 State exhibits in their modern form of sample stock exhibitions may be looked upon as one of the most im- portant and remarkable manifesto tions of the development of com mercial intercourse. They are be- coming more and more the acknowl- ! edged center of distribution for an enlarged and ever increasing number of industrial products. Neither the i home manufacturers as representing the sellers nor the foreign importers or home export firms as representing the buyers, can dispense nowadays with the assistance of the state ex- ! hibits without damaging their re- spective interests. And they are, in deed, bound to make use of them even if indirectly in order to keep pace with their competitors.
 Considering on the one hand the rapid development of the expert in dustry to the European continent, and on the other hand the increasing de- | the sphere of interest of state ex- hibitions by continuously expanding to gain the attention of the com mercial world and to gain its interest in it's progres. The great importance to which state exhibits have attained is certainly due to a considerable i extent to improvements in our mod ern means of communication. The number of visitors to these exhibits is steadily increasing and they are gradually assuming the character of meeting places for buyers and sellers throughout the United States.
 State exhibits have developed in quite a natural way as rising organ izaticns. They have gradually be- come a unique feature of modern state commerce. The characteristic influence of the development of state. exhibits coincides with the altered economic condition of the country, and represents by their gradual change for tEe old form of retail fairs to the state exhibitions. The organization of state exhibit represents the most perfect means imaginable of com munication and intercourse between the buyers and sellers of the state, l and offers advantages thereto in every conceivable way. The oppor- tunity of judging industrial products afforded by such samples as theS nome producer IS dDle 10 send IO Sucu exhibits could not be more complete nor satisfactory than when offered through the facilities incorporated in 1 such state exhibit. The buyer will never keep abreast of the times with regard to novelties unless it is by samples sent by freight and which are constantly brought out before him in a centralized exhibit Vari- ous articles which play a most inn portant part in the trade of every growing state could never be dissem- mated specimen wise on account of the prohibtive cost of freight charges unless brought to one central eX- hibit where through samples of the different kinds being placed on eX- hibition a. small cost, the state buyers and visitors to an exhibition hall of this character can at all times be put in touch with the most modern conditions and articles of all descriptions.
 These advantages are becoming more and more appreciated by buyers. 1 wto in many cases would have to make the journey to our large cities for the purpose of covering their re- quirements. Here the advantages are
 abundantly evident; every article which an intending purchaser might require he will find fully represented and clearly arranged, thus saving for himself expense, time and trouble iE 1 visiting the larger cities which may happen to be far apart and wherein may be the seats of manufacture. 1 especially where different lines of goods are in question.
 In such an exhibition hall where the purchaser may find all his re- quirements concentrated in com paratively small place in the center Of town he is thus enabled to see and judge the productive character of such product and to become really acquainted with the specialties of different manufacturers
 An exhibition of this description may be regarded, in view of the comprehensive nature of the articles represented and of their spaciousness and extent. as an emporium for trade in industrial products of world manufacture.
 In so far as the several exhibits of the same kind tend to create com- | petition, which is a guarantee that prices demand it, are neither fam tastic nor those of monopolies. They are regulated strictly by conditions of trade at the time. The details of commercial competition are immedi- ately visible to the buyer, ever to be highly appreciated in view of the present activity throughout the coun- try. To this basic competition in supply is due the fact that the level Of quality in goods exported steadily