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VOL. IX. No. 2.
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SEPTEMBER 5, 188I ^
THE NEW EXPOSITION.
NOBTHEEN HEADQUARTERS OF THE
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NORTH, CENTBAL, AND SOUTH AMERICAN EXPOSITION, >
234 BROADWAY, NEW YOBK CITX.
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July 18, 1885.
T T ARDLY had the World's Industrial and Cotton
U"H Centennial Exposition closed its doors at New
A A Orleans on the 31st of May last, when a new
corporation was formed under the above title, with
an ample capital, for the purpose of opening a new
exposition during the ensuing fall and winter, which
shall be conducted on purely business principles, and
which shall, if possible, excel in extent and complete-
ness even the famous exhibition of last winter, which
now stands as the greatest hitherto known in the
history of the world. That this hope will be realized
is already assured by letters and applications for
space from all sections of the country.
The North, Central, and South American Exposition
neither asks nor expects pecuniary aid from the gen-
eral government. It has purchased at a low figure
the entire buildings and plant of the World's Expo-
sition, and is now fully organized for business.
The Board of Managers consists of the following
gentlemen, representing all sections of the United
States:
Samuel B. McConnico of New Orleans, President;
Samuel H. Buck of New Orleans, Director General;
Geo. M. Pullman of Illinois, John B. Mead of Ver-
mont, Frank Bacon of Kansas, E. W. Allen of Ore-
gon, C. H. Barney of New Jersey, Geo. L. Shoup of
Idaho, A. J. McWhirter of Tennessee, Thomas J.
Woodward of New Orleans, Richard Sinnott of New
Orleans, Robert S. Howard of New Orleans, Thomas
L. Airey of New Orleans, Burris D. Wood of New
Orleans, A. L. Abbott of New Orleans. There is also
an Advisory Committee of one hundred of the prin-
cipal citizens of New Orleans.
The leading object of this new exposition will be to
develop more intimate trade relations between the
55,000,000 producers and consumers of the United
States and the 48,000,000 producers and consumers of
Mexico, Central America, South America, and the
West Indies; in other words to stimulate an exchange
of our surplus manufactures for their surplus raw
materials.
The imperative necessity for a new commercial
movement in this direction can best be appreciated
by reference to the fact that of a total annual demand
from those countries, amounting to $475,000,000, the
United States supplies but $77,000,000, or 16 per cent.
Of the total annual exports of those countries,
amounting to $479,000,000, the United States takes
but $168,000,000, or 36 per cent. In other words, the
exchanges of Central and South America are mainly
with Europe.
To deflect this great and rapidly increasing trade
to our own ports is one of the fundamental objects of
the exposition Situated as New Orleans is, in the
geographical and transportation center of the West-
ern Hemisphere and near its center of population, it
is the place above all others to inaugurate a hemi-
spherical commercial policy.
While especial attention will be paid to the com-
mercial interests of the three Americas, it is assured
that large and interesting foreign exhibits will be
forthcoming.
The Exposition Buildings cover nearly sixty acres,
the main building alone having thirty-three acres
under one roof. The collective exhibits of States
and Territories will cover some ten acres more.
The North, Central and South American Exposi-
tion, will open at New Orleans, November 10, 1885,
and close about April 1, 1886.
^G^O^^SRNTS.
It will be held under the auspices and immediate
management of a chartered company of citizens of
New Orleans, with a capital of $500,000, and assisted
by commissioners from each of the United States,
thus assuring a complete exhibition of the natural
resources and various industries of this country.
The Exposition will be a fitting supplement to the
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition
just closed ; and as it will inherit all the property of
the late organization, including the grounds and com-
modious buildings erected on the City Park, with
their entire complement of apparatus and necessary
appliances for conducting an exposition on the grand-
est scale, exhibitors and visitors can rest assured of
a thorough completion of all details and arrange-
ments in advance of the date of opening.
The enormous increase of the manufacturing in-
dustries of this country, and their infinite variety,
have of late given a new and powerful stimulus to
the solution of the problem of new outlets and new
fields for the sale of our products, and the late Ex-
position was a revelation to the people of the United
States of the wonderful wealth and , variety of the
natural productions of the countries of Mexico, Cen-
tral, and South America, justifying the hope that the
North, Central, and South American Exposition will,
by continuing this mutual development of interests,
lead to new and most important commercial combi-
nations in which the people of every State of the
Union have a vital interest.
It is a fact well-known to those who are familiar
with the operations of the Exposition just closed
that the exhibits of saw mill and wood-working ma-
chinery not only led to enormous sales of such
machinery, but they also very largely enhanced the
value of the timber lands of the Southern States, and
have already caused a very considerable develop-
ment of manufacturing industries in this line of pro-
duction, while at the same time it is also well-known
that Mexico was a large purchaser of improved ma-
chinery of every description.
Another salient feature of the Exposition the past
season was the great extent and variety of the nat-
ural productions of the Central American countries
and by contrast their poverty of manufactured arti-
cles. The growing political importance of these coun-
tries and their rapid and substantial progress under
good government, and improved credit, as illustrated
by their building of railroads and the opening of in-
ternal commerce, must of necessity lead to a rich
development of trade with them, and New Orleans by
her geographical position is better fitted than any-
other city of the United States to be the scene of an>
Exposition designed to make these conditions known,
and practically apply the results.
The Southern and Western and Northwestern States
by their marvelous display of natural productions
attracted the attention of the world, and they have
unquestionably accomplished more substantial re-
sults in the way of stimulating immigration, and
encouraging the investment of capital than could
possibly have been attained by any other means. The
work so happily begun should not be abandoned, but,
on the contrary, the opportunity afforded by the
North, Central, and South American Exposition, to
continue these displays on a grander scale, and with
fuller and more complete exhibits, should be em-
braced by all the States and Territories. The man-
agement has every assurance that this will be the
case, and it is believed that the Collective displays of
the United States at the new Exposition will exceed,
in variety and extent those of its predecessor.
This is the first Exposition ever held in the history
of the World especially devoted to the whole of t h e