| Show THE AMERICAN AMERICA 1 q exhibition IF anything were needed to show that all talk of war about fisheries or anything else between the united states and great britain is for the present sound and aad fury signifying nothing it is supplied by the great american exhibition which opened in london yesterday thus are the customs the products the denizens debize us and to some extent the flora and fauna of this country transplanted for the time being to the land beyond the sea andtius and thus are the friendly we might raight say maternal feelings of albion made more maternal by reason of the association cia tion the tact fact the enterprise was conceived and practically started upon there would seem to indicate that speculation rather thas information was the object aimed at and this to some extent may luay be the case since promoters of affairs of tie the kind they being costly cosily luxuries expect to nave enormous receipts to reimburse themselves and a 1 liitle over tut but it is not exclusively an english nor entirely an american affair except us as relates to the exhibits it is a joist joint proceeding of representative men of the two nations the question was lately asked one thi 0 ot the mana managers ge rs why it was that it if exhibition was to be so exclusively national in its features the as assistance assistant sistan ce ot of the united states government has not been invoked to which the reply was given because the united states slates government could not with propriety initiate initia ie or control such an undertaking iq in a forel foreign country without an invitation irom the government of that country and principally because it was determined at thu the outset that having the necessary means this anis should ne bean an outer enterprise prise conducted by practical business men on strictly business principles the offices of tile the association in boston new york philadelphia and london are models nao clela ot a system in chien every evert department works with each other like so many wheels ina in a well weli regulated machine and with as little friction As regards the question ot distance that is a mere bagatelle steam has obliterated the difficulties of transport transportation ution and toe the caule caole enables us to communicate with our officials on the exhibition roun rounds as readily as a merchant here can talk to his partner in chicago the NEWS has from time to time published letters from a correspondent in london in which appeared items regarding the progress and prospects of the gigantic enterprise the opening was under most auspicious circumstances cum curn stances and the prospects f for or its success in every respect are ter certainly a as 8 promising as the management could desire |
