{"1": {"fulltext": "mi\\nLIBRARV OF CONGRESS\\nDDa2077Tll\\nn\\nf?", "height": "5224", "width": "3474", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Conservation Resources\\nLig-Free\u00c2\u00ae Type I\\nPh 8.5, Buffered", "height": "4828", "width": "2899", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "|T 485\\n.LI B8\\n1901\\nCopy 1\\nK\\\\l\\n.slP^MNERICAN\\nBY\\nBUCH AWAH ^1^\\nDIRECTOR:\\nGENERAL\\n4\\nREPRINTED BY\\nPERMISSIOM OF\\nCOLUER-S WEEKLY\\n^d-", "height": "4828", "width": "2899", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "v^", "height": "4594", "width": "2971", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "th;\\nICLE, BY WILLIAM I\\nDIRECTOR GENERAL\\nr PRINTED IN COLLIER S\\nECEMBER I, 1900, AND BY\\nnT of the PUBLISHERS\\nUT INTO SEPARATE\\nISSUED BY ORDER OF\\nOF DIRECTORS OF THE\\nRICAN EXPOSITION", "height": "4594", "width": "2971", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "V", "height": "4369", "width": "2613", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE PAN-AMERICAN\\nEXPOSITION", "height": "4369", "width": "2613", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "^m", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "repub- Reciprocal\\nOpportunities\\nlies and countries of Central and\\nSouth America fully realized to\\nhow great an extent misinforma-\\ntion with regard to their several\\ncountries exists in the United\\nStates and Canada, the Pan-American Exposition\\nwould be taxed beyond its limit to provide space\\nfor the exhibits that would come from those coun-\\ntries to enlighten the people of the United States\\nand Canada concerning their neighbors to the\\nsouthward. If, on the other hand, the people of\\nthe United States and Canada knew to any appre-\\nciable degree of the wide opportunities for the\\nprofitable investment of money and energy which\\noflfer themselves in Central and South America they\\nwould not require such exhibits to awaken their\\ninterest, nor would such opportunities long remain\\nunknown or unpossessed.\\nThe ideal had in view by those who planned the An international\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0n A -r^ 1 Information\\nPan-American Exposition, and toward the accom- Clearing House\\nplishment of which nothing is being left undone\\nthat energy and effort can bring about or suggest,\\nis that in all that appertains to the industrial and\\nintellectual development of the countries of the", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entertainment\\nWestern Hemisphere the Pan-American Exposition\\nshall occupy the position of a great International\\nInformation Clearing House. While interesting\\nmillions as a beautiful spectacle, it will afiford an\\nopportunity to the peoples of the three Americas\\nto become better acquainted with each other,\\nand it will prove a very prominent factor, too, in\\ndeveloping a proper and just appreciation in each\\ncountry of the industrial wants and trade possibili-\\nties of their neighboring countries of the Western\\nHemisphere.\\nWhile their view of the duty and task imposed\\nupon them in this regard has been broad, the gen-\\nerosity and public spirit of the promoters and man-\\nagement of the Exposition in providing for the\\nsetting of the Exposition a magnificent, fairy-like\\nspectacle in landscape and building effects, and, in\\narranging for the sumptuous, intellectual enter-\\ntainment of visitors within the grounds, has been\\nbroader. It is safe, I believe, to now risk the asser-\\ntion that as a result of all this the verdict of those\\nwho visit Buffalo next summer will be that in cer-\\ntain phases, and in not a few, the Pan-American\\nExpostion will be justly entitled to rank in history\\nas the most beautiful and successful of American\\nExpositions.\\n9.\\nli\\nl4/yi it", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "No one who has approached the subject of Indus- X\\\\\u00c2\u00ae J^iprovement\\n-r Industrial\\ntrial Pan-America seriously believes that the artin- Pan-America\\ncial trade conditions now existing between Canada,\\nthe different Central and South American republics,\\nand the United States as they affect and restrict\\ncommerce and communication between the dif-\\nferent countries can long continue. Nor can it\\nbe controverted that great changes for the better\\nin these regards have taken place during the past\\nfew years. Indeed, a greater advance has been\\nmade during the past ten years in the countries of\\nthe Western Hemisphere, in all that counts for the\\nbetter, than during the fifty years preceding. This\\nstatement, made broadly, can be verified in detail.\\nIt applies to everything that has tended toward\\nstability of government; toward the betterment\\nand improvement of the people of the different\\ncountries toward the building up therein of per-\\nmanent national wealth, and in the direction of\\nutilizing to a greater degree than heretofore the\\nproducts and resources of these countries.\\nIt is true that exceptions to this statement can J^^ Response of\\nIll Commerce to the\\nbe easily pomted out, but, broadly speaking, it will Guaranty of\\nbear investigation, and will be found to be correct. Government\\nFor example, Vv^ith few exceptions the seemingly\\nunending boundary disputes all of which, by the", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "way, came down from the old Spanish regime as\\nan inheritance, and which have been for seventy\\nyears the source of untold expense, and of constant\\nirritation and oft-threatened war between practically\\nall of the republics of Central and South America\\nhave been amicably concluded. The closing\\ndays of the century find that chief source of trouble\\nin Latin America happily reduced to a compara-\\ntively small point. It is but just to these republics\\nto say in this connection that due credit should be\\ngiven them for the fact that in reaching this result\\nthey have consistently recognized the theory of\\narbitration to be the proper and true method by\\nwhich such international disputes may be solved.\\nTo-day no boundary difficulty of any kind affects\\nthe peace of the east coast of South America, and\\nbut two such questions are still to be adjusted upon\\nthe west coast. Stable government, well adminis-\\ntered, has been reached in very many of the repub-\\nlics south of us. In some notably in those toward\\nthe extreme south of the continent the most\\nstriking and rapid advances imaginable have been\\nmade during the past ten years in their material\\ndevelopment and in the prosperity of their people.\\nExamples of This has been especially true of the Argentine\\nChili Republic and of Chili. Fifty years ago the latter", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "supplied flour to the entire west coast of South,\\nCentral, and even to that of North America. The\\ndevelopment of California and Oregon, however,\\nchanged this, and to-day the latter not only supply\\ntheir own wants, but as well a large section of Cen-\\ntral and part of western South America with bread-\\nstuffs. ChiU, on her part, has become the world s\\nnitrate producer, and, notably so, in copper, while\\nher vineyards have increased with each year.\\nIn the Argentine Republic the changes that have Advancement of\\nthe Argentine\\noccurred are even more strikmg, because they Republic\\nrelate to things with which we of the United States\\nand Canada are more familiar. It is, for example,\\nrelatively speaking, but a few years since the\\nUnited States were shipping flour to the Argentine\\nRepublic and to Uruguay. To-day, as a result of\\nthe immigration that has poured into those repub-\\nlics, but principally into the first country, and as a\\nresult of the application of North American farm\\nmachinery to the great alluvial basin of the River\\nPlate, the Argentine RepubHc alone exports to\\nEurope thirty-five million bushels of wheat and\\nhalf that amount of maize each year. Not content\\nwith having thus become the competitor of the\\nUnited States and Canada in the Old World in the\\nexportation of breadstuffs, the same repubHc has", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "A World s also bccome their competitor and a strong: and\\nMarket on the\\nRiver Plate growing one, too in the exportation of meat\\nproducts. Few have any idea of the growth of this\\nindustry in the River Plate republics. Thirty years\\nago Great Britain imported less than three hundred\\nthousand pieces of frozen mutton. Indeed, that\\nwas the beginning of that industry. To-day there\\nare killed, frozen and exported to Europe each\\nday from the province of Buenos Ayres alone, in\\nthe Argentine Republic, thirteen thousand car-\\ncasses of as good mutton as the world can produce,\\nwhile innumerable square miles of alfalfa fields dot\\nthe republic and furnish rice, cheap fattening\\nmaterial for the thirty million or more of cattle\\npossessed by the country.\\nThe advantages the people of the United States\\nand Canada might obtain by grasping the true\\nmeaning of the above facts would appear to be\\nmany, and their value very great.\\nMeat^p?o\u00c2\u00b0da ^tio\u00c2\u00b0Q ^^^Y would, for instance, but realize the signifi-\\ncance of the one fact, that a well-bred, fat steer\\ncan be and is being produced in the Argentine\\nRepublic and exported to England at a total ex-\\npense at least fifteen dollars less than it is possible\\nto do the same thing, in either the United States\\nor Canada while a greater advantage lies with", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Interests\\nthe producer of River Plate mutton they would\\nrealize the strong appearance of probability to the\\noften-quoted statement made by some that the not\\ndistant future would bring River Plate mutton to\\nour tables in the United States.\\nMany public men in South America believe this North America\\nwill occur, reasoning, as they do, that the condi- Manufacturing^\\ntions in the United States are such, and their\\ndevelopment in manufactures so pronounced, that\\nit can be looked upon as altogether probable that\\nwithin the next ten years meat will be profitably\\nexported to the United States from the great cattle\\nzones of South America; they also believe that\\nthe turn of the tide that has carried the United\\nStates into the position of a lender of money rather\\nthan a borrower will then carry the well-known\\naggressiveness and zeal of American financiers and\\nindustrial operators into South America, where a\\nhighly profitable field would be found for the em-\\nployment of capital in the development of many of\\nthe smaller industries now in existence there, and in\\nthe consolidation and operation on a large scale of\\nthe meat-producing plants there, and in the hand-\\nling of breadstufTs and all their related industries.\\nMillions of acres of tillable land, in an excellent\\nclimate, with every facility except immediate trans-", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "The Most Fertile portation, await those who will seriously look for it\\ni^ds dfThi in South and Central America; and it was the\\nearnest wish and purpose of those who formulated\\nand planned the Pan-American Exposition that in\\nall the above fields they might, through the Expo-\\nsition, do something tangible toward bringing to\\nall a better knowledge than now exists concerning\\nthe countries of the Western Hemisphere, and\\nthat there might result from the Exposition some-\\nthing of value in the direction of a wider dissemin-\\nation of that practical knowledge of our surround-\\nings and of our future industrial outlook so much\\ndesired by all of us, and so essential to a proper\\nrealization on our own part of the problems of\\ntrade and of commerce that are in store for us\\nand for our children to solve that through it the\\npeople of the Western Hemisphere might more\\nclearly appreciate than they now do the enormous\\nresources of the Western Hemisphere and the\\npossibilities it contains for the building up of an\\nenormous industrial empire, containing, as it does,\\nthe most fertile agricultural lands of the world\\ntoward both extremities of the hemisphere, with\\nminerals and forests adjacent in either section, with\\ngreat navigable waterways in both North and South\\nAmerica, and with a central zone capable of pro-", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ducing to an unlimited degree all the tropical and\\nsub-tropical products known to or used by man.\\nThe Pan-American Exposition was not, there-\\nfore, either entirely or largely born of a selfish\\ndesire on the part of the people of the State of\\nNew York, and of Buffalo primarily, to draw atten-\\ntion to anything they possess, nor to acquire, wholly,\\nlocal prestige and benefit from the undertaking.\\nThe location of the Exposition was fixed at Buffalo\\nby reason of the fact that the courage of the people\\nof that city and their public spirit and faith in their\\nability to finance and produce an International Ex-\\nposition, which should be confined to the Western\\nHemisphere, was strong enough to convince Con-\\ngress that the work would be well done, and hence\\nthe location was decided upon.\\nThis step having been taken and the die thus\\ncast, Buffalo has risen equal to the occasion, and\\nhas subscribed millions of money, and as a city,\\nthere have been sunk, in one common purpose to\\nsucceed, all personal and sectional jealousies and\\nambitions.\\nA splendid location was selected for the Exposi-\\ntion, in which there is included a large part of the\\ncity s great and famously beautiful park; and, from\\nthe time that was done, up to the present moment.\\nNo Narrow\\nPurpose in the\\nExposition\\nWhat Buffalo\\nHas Done", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "The Exposition\\nAn Enchanting\\nPicture\\nSuperb Location the interest and energy manifested, and the strong\\nand Popular 111\\nInterest in the intent to succced in every way shown by the people\\nPreparation i-ii\\nof the City in their great undertaking, has been\\nfocused upon and centred in the work now nearing\\ncompletion. The extent to which this interest has\\nbeen shown can be gauged from the fact that on\\nseveral recent Sundays twenty thousand people\\nhave passed through the wagon gates to the grounds,\\nin order that they might see how the work of con-\\nstructing the Exposition buildings was progressing.\\nIn its architectural qualities and outlines the\\nExposition pays the republics of South and Central\\nAmerica the highest compliment possible, since in\\nthe character and design of its buildings there will\\nbe placed before the visitor the most perfect, the\\nmost beautiful, and the most enchanting picture of\\nSpanish architectural memories that has ever been\\npresented in any country or place, while in its nat-\\nural attractions and in the loveliness of its lake\\nand forest and flower setting, the Exposition as a\\npicture will be a source of gladness and delight\\nand a pride as well to every one who visits it.\\nThose who have its direction and management are\\ndoing everything within their power to bring\\ntogether about these central, salient points, those\\nfinishing, connecting links of fountains of brilliant", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "r\\nlighting effects, of music, of gardens, of entertain-\\nments, and of novelty, which go so far toward\\nmaking up the real life of a great Exposition.\\nAs this is being written six months previous to interest and\\nCo-operation of\\nthe openmg of the exposition it is distinctly grat- au America\\nifying to the people of Buffalo and of the State of\\nNew York to be able to realize, as they do, that\\ntheir efforts in the work of building up and arrang-\\ning the groundwork of the Exposition have been\\nwarmly seconded on every hand and that the dis-\\ncouragements they have met with, and the difficul-\\nties they have had to overcome, have but more\\nclosely accentuated and made apparent the merit\\nof their undertaking and brought to them the un-\\nsought praise and hearty applause of their fellow\\ncitizens of the United States, while the prominent\\nand praiseworthy activity being shown in Mexico,\\nGuatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras,\\nEcuador, Peru, Chili, Bolivia, the Argentine Re-\\npublic and in Cuba, in all that relates to the par-\\nticipation of those countries in the Exposition, is\\nmost encouraging and presages a brilliant outcome.\\nTo this there is to be added the widespread interest\\nnow manifested in the Exposition, in Canada, in\\nJamaica, in Guadeloupe, in Porto Rico, in Hawaii,\\nand in the Philippines.", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "The Bright With thesc factors to work from there would\\nOntlook\\nseem to be a bright outlook ahead for a successful\\noutcome, and a realization to some degree of the\\nsentiments underlying the Exposition. With but\\nfew exceptions, the States are cordially and enthu-\\nsiastically interested in the Exposition, and will\\nparticipate, and they are joining heartily in the\\nefforts to make it in its success consistent with the\\nideas held by those who formulated its plans, and\\nsuch as will amply and fully justify the pride, faith\\nand confidence of the people who first took up and\\nencouraged by every means within their power the\\nholding of a Pan-American Exposition at a seem-\\ningly most appropriate place within earshot, as it\\nis, of the World s greatest cataract, and amid the\\ntruly marvellously wonderful applications of the\\nunlimited power now being transmitted from that\\ngreat leap of waters.\\nA Broader J have giveu scvcral reasons why it seemed that\\nUnderstanding\\nBetween the an Opportune moment had been reached to hold a\\nAmericas\\nPan-American Exposition, and also why the people\\nof the Western Hemisphere should be interested\\nin and learn much of great advantage to them from\\nsuch a bringing together of the resources of the\\nAmericas as it is contemplated and desired to do.\\nMany other reasons could be given why a broader,", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "more rational, better understood and more com-\\nmon-sense Pan-American sentiment should exist\\nbetween the people of the three Americas than is\\nnow apparent, and as to why the suspicion con-\\ncerning the attitude of the United States toward\\nthem that has lain not wholly or always dormant in\\nthe Latin American republics should be wiped out\\nfor all time. Among these would be the building\\nof an isthmian canal the possibility of a continental\\nrailway some day connecting the two ends of the\\nhemisphere; the benefits and advantages in our\\nrelations with Latin America that are certain to\\nfollow the assimilation among us of the Spanish\\nlanguage since the Spanish war, which is now going\\non in every direction, and the striking changes our\\nrelations and business dealings and contact with\\nPorto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines will bring\\nabout. These are all factors and things of interest\\nand value to all the people of the Western Hemi-\\nsphere, and each and all will be aided and benefited\\nto some degree in every way by the holding of the\\nPan-American Exposition.\\nIf this international enterprise shall therefore do Results**^\\naught in any of the directions I have indicated, and\\nif it shall in addition, or as a result, to any degree\\nadd something to the better acquaintance stock", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "LIBRPRY OF CONGRESS\\n000 207 799 1\\nof the people of the Western Hemisphere, and\\nthus tend to bring to them all a more accurate\\nknowledge than they now possess of each other s\\nneeds and opportunities, and a truer appreciation\\nof their industrial interdependence upon each\\nother, it will not have been created in vain.", "height": "4358", "width": "2867", "jp2-path": "panamericanexpos00buch_0022.jp2"}}