Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-08
TO MAKE n. Y
THE CLEARING
HOUSE OF ALL
WORLD TRADE
Only Goods of Proven Quality
Permitted to Exhibit; All
Goods to Be Rep.
resented.

New York, June 7.-One Of the
biggest enterprises to be embarked
upon, having in mind the extension
of American commerce in foreign
countries, as we'll as the importation
of foreign goods to America, has
just been inaugurated in New York.
City. 1t is the new proposition Of
the Merchants and Manufacturers
exchange of New York to make
Grand Central palace a great clear.
ing house for world commerce.
On September 80, the United
States government will turn Grand
Central palace back to the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers exchange.
For months this great history
building - the largest exposition
building in the world-which occu.
pies an entire city block, has been
used as an army base hospital. It's
evacuation, now taking place, will
permit reconstruction Of the entire
interior so as to make it ideal as
permanent show place for all sorts
of manufactured products. The in.
dustries will be grouped and per-
manent exhibits will be made on
eight spacious floors, each floor hav-
ing approximately $1,000 square feet
of space. The remainder of the
building (the four lower floors) will
be utilized for the annual expo 81
tions which have made the building
famous, such as the Automobile
show, Motor Boat show, Flower
show, Electrical exposition, Chem
ical exposition, Hotel mems EXPOSE
ton, etc.
Center Of Foreign Buyers.
Permanent exhibits of products Of
the more important industries will
be opened beginning October Is.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
exchange has established foreign
connections for export business in
every important city of the world,
and manufacturers, jobbers, retail
dealers, and the thousands of for
eign buyers undoubtedly soon will
regard Grand Central palace as the
worlds great trade center and will
make it their headquarters when
visiting New York. Looking for
ward to this the management will
establish clubrooms, conferences
rooms, office facilities, etc, to in
crease the foreign buyers comfort
while in the metropolis.
Never before has there been such
a permanent exchange conducted
along International lines which will
give the American manufacturer an
opportunity to come into direct coil-
tact with the domestic and foreign
buyer. Some of the industries rep
resented will occupy an entire floor,
such as the international Farm
Tractor and Implement exchange,
the International Hardware and
Homefurnishings exchange, which
will be among the first to be opened,
on the sixth and seventh floors re.
spectively. BE-.
Many Other Enterprises.
Other enterprises under way for
other floors are 4 permanent ma.
chinery exposition, a railway equip
ment exposition, textile display,
printing trades exhibit, etc. The
farm tractor exchange and the hard
ware exchange will open on Octo.
Der IS. The plans of the Merchants
and Manufacturers exchange are de.
cidedly elaborate, and in a number
of ways they will afford service
to the manufacturer, jobber and
dealer which has never been possible
under the usual systems of mer-
chandising.
Through its wide representation
in other countries the exchange will
make its proposition known to every
foreign buyer before he sails for
America and acquaint him with the
value of the service of the new en-
terprise, while in the Unittd States
and Canada the fact that the building
is so we'll known leaves no doubt
that it will be the mecca of thous-
ands of domestic dealers and job
bers.
In spite OF the fact that the build
ing is an enormous one, space neces-
sarily is limited and manufacturers
interested in putting their products
before the eyes of buyers in this
highly convenient manner will have
to step lively to secure space on the
various floors. Only goods of prov
en- quality and concern of Al re-
pute will be permitted to exhibit.
Grand Central palace, which is a
beautiful building in itself and prior
to the entry of the United States
into the war, housed the largest ex-
positions held in New York, is CEN
trally located and most convenient
to all railroads, steamship piers, ho-
tells, theaters, and the shopping dis
trict. The march of the worlds in
dustrial progress during the recon-
struction period will be largely via
Grand Central palace