Show french r n ch F fairs a ibro drawing Dra wino gardo those hold held at paris lyons and bordeaux grow to proportions of expositions AMERICANS ARE ABE TAKING PART everything Concel conceivable vable for use in foreign lands Is exhibited may revert to 13 bantering ant ering extension of foreign trade planned carls ini lafrench french fairs of today lima have reached the proportion of expositions nil ibid I 1 line have proved plowed to be the lie best bent menns means of attracting infers buyers the steady growth of the lyons ions bordeaux and paris fairs ling not only created worldwide interest in ili them but has added to the importance of international trade americans are participating in them more and more and nt at the hist lyons fair there were about loo Anie american rican exhibitors in striking con colt brits t to the dozen that displayed merchandise at tile lie first une line there hit has nisi also been a corresponding increase in ill the alio number 0 of american buyers for those who are re unacquainted with the french fedr writes duus correspondent fit at parts it t may inny not be to strife state lint flint tile the one ona tit at lyons lions Is beld in the spring und and fall tile one nt at in the early summer flud the hie one lit at parts in ili tile the late inte spring at tile ho lyons fair silks tire offered in the spring nil bixl ry in the frill the bordeaux Boi denux fair though only four henrs old of lios n place for itself and hns has become lie coine important us os n french colonial colonl nl tion means much to future tills menna n great dent deal to the future trade between america anti and france frnnces for tills great colonial port of france Fril tice seeks to centralize central lyo ut its fair everything from raphin to palm oil and from hanhee notions for auns cuns to petroleum engines for madill all kiani Kic car ni while tile lie colon colonial lal tire more or less raw materials tile I 1 products pio ducts lint flint tile F renell french vol onles require are not in the united states dioso whose foreign arnae under the new order of thiers call bo be sald to be still in its infancy an all announcement of one of the exhibitors hibi tors tit lit tho file bordeaux fair now in ill progress Is suggestive of binany things tn lit foreign trade it rends sorghum straw brooms IS rooms tilts this important manufacturing fac turing house itald cz q a of 1 rooms called american and of of spanish milts and brushes theae tire are sie caal articles for export represents fives are sought for france annd nl rond tile house exhibiting these exotic wares mai ef ling has its factory in the with south of france there ire aro many streets of exhibits that are not limited to articles lie ie im carls Is to avoid any duril duplication leation of effort and to correct all conflicting plans arrangements range ments are now being perfected to have mc thesa three fairs co their work it Is expected that till will economize time and money and increase the conveniences that flint can be extended to foreign exhibitors anti and buyers jut just how flir far reaching tills this move moe merit will be it la 19 dini cult to forecast at any rate it will give to these theae international market places and like the former fairs at leipzig anti anil niini bogorod No Nov gorod will permit peri tilt tile tho display of the finished products of the lie respective territories one of the greatest advantages however will ft probably be the offering of unusual facilities for the bartering of merchandise whether it mav inny ie be admitted or not tho file basic require aunts of civill n in ill tunny countries ar arr practically owing to lilt lie disparity of exchange As this thin situation atlon inny con continue for nn nil indefinite period the ho world will probably lo be 10 forced to tn revert to bartering the moth ineth oil d of primitive ra peoples people in ili that hut event these fairs will avill offer rne one of flip most convenient places alnee for such nn an exchange of concentrate their efforts tile the first tiling thing proposed Is to lo got get tn lit touch with foreign expositions exposition so us its to inaugurate it a reciprocal system of publicity and recruiting next will attempt to 0 o remedy by mutual agreement certain erects which have linvs beon been detected lit in the of the various fairs it was also decided lint flint cacti exhibitor must have hla his booth reidy ready fo for r tile opening of the fair not several se eril days later inter as ling lina fre been tile case cao the booth or exhibit must be in charge of a re representative of of the house owning the display some one capable of furnishing nil all required information the fair grounds tire are right in the city the stands open on atiq orio side on a cove covered reI gallery with ollices and private entrances from the street side which can be much lin fin proved the exhibits are now housed in it multitude of wooden buildings forming streets along the lie side of tho the river aher and in tile the neighboring squares of tile the city often to the bewilderment and confusion of the visitor tile worlds pair fair or universal dx position which front from the middle ozithe of the last fast century to 1000 1900 was held lif in paris every eleven years will probably ho be abandoned until tile hie new economic sit bit nation shall have become entirely settled the changes cli angos that have been wro wrought light by the war make it impracticable to hold such an exposition at tills this time as it would he be too great a strain financially and ad on franco france and its industries dus tries |