PUSHING AMERICANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 384, 8 April 1902, Page 3

PUSHING AMERICANS.

According to Mr Dooley, tnere will not be enough people left, in New York this summer to raise a good society, scandal. .They, will all De m England iu: the" Coronation. To proviue for itheir patriotic amusement ana also to hhow John Bull how tilings ought to he done, the American society, in London aided and abetted by. a number of representative Englishmen, intend to run a great American Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. J.t is to display the full resources of American wealtn and science, art and industry, and the leading business houses anu manulacturers in the United States have taken up the idea so- enthusiastic illy, tt-at ill.t* success of the affair is assured.. The exhibition will cover a space or 100, QUO feet, One of the chief features of the machinery, division will be the exhibit o£ a New Yora electric company, .which will show machinery, in motion by. means of the Inograph. Another firm intends to set up a complete working laundry, full of those labor-saving appliances by .winch the (Yankee seess to supplant the industrious Mongolian, who at present ,*• ce ts up ” his shirts and collars. In the class for food products one can imagine that the exhibit of the largest confectionery, business in the states, with all the latest “ candies and chewing gums, will be exceedingly popular, while a useful wording exhibit will be that of a lawn mower firm, wlio have undertaken to keep the palace lawns mown during ,lhe Exhibition, and American bands and entertainments will provide visi tors with amusement. 4be most* Iserious side of the affair will be remesented by a commercial bureau, es SKEE t 5 bring American producer into closer connection with Britisn markets. In fact, every facility is to be given. to the Americans in their itask b of exploiting England, and there see ins some fear that the show, ct“ad of inspiring British manufactcrers will but drive them deeper intone dumps- The American press is backing up the scheme vigorously.. One S ite subject. Here is a «' the ode : ... when that great floor space of yours is filled, as it will 1* with wonderous specimens 1 Of American industry, and Amen Df American energy, and America* ot ad Ame b ncan money, power, and American assurance—rrhp neonle of this country ' r Wili have a clearer ““^standing Than they, have now, 1 take it. Of what the so-called American Invasion means. a pitffflssffisUto pri fion is up to the average of modern (S.'W agToiear m competition. _