The ores exhibited were many specimens of quartz and placer gold, silver, lead, copper, and magnetic iron, of which there is practically an inexhaustible supply.  The work of the natives was shown in hats, baskets, hammocks, etc., being of a high order of perfection.  Many of the finest panama hats are made by the Indians in Honduras.  The different kinds of sisal and hemp shown were pronounced by manufacturers to be of the very highest grade.

Many people, when the name Honduras, Central America, is mentioned, think of a far-away land untrodden by man.  As a matter of fact, it was pointed out that it is not as far from New Orleans to Honduras as it is from St. Louis to either New York or Boston.

HUNGARY.

Several causes prevented an appropriation by Parliament for Hungary’s participation at the Universal Exposition held in St. Louis; consequently the royal Hungarian minister of commerce, anxious that Hungary should be represented at the Congress of Nations in St. Louis, decided to furnish a sufficient sum out of funds at his disposal to make this participation possible.

Acting upon this decision, he appointed George de Szogyeny, LL.D., at that time commissioner of commerce, and accredited to the State Department in Washington, D.C., as commissioner-general, and commissioned the Hungarian Society of Fine Arts and the Hungarian Society of Applied Arts to arrange the exhibits in the Fine Arts Building and to arrange for the exhibit of applied arts.

The Hungarian Society of Applied Arts sent Paul Horti as its representative.  Mr. Paul Horti is a well known art critic of Hungary.  Mr. R.E.  Rombauer was also a member of the commission.

The cost of Hungary’s participation was approximately 200,000 crowns.  The value of exhibits was as follows: 

Fine arts, 150,000 crowns; applied arts in the Manufactures Building, 600,000 crowns.  There were other individual exhibits scattered through the palaces of Agriculture, Mines and Metallurgy, and Education, but they represented only a small value.

EAST INDIA.

The government of India and the provincial governments of Bengal, Assam, and Mysore jointly contributed the sum of 105,000 rupees (equivalent to about $35,000), and the Indian Tea Association, Indian Tea Cess Committee, and the United Planters’ Association of southern India, contributed 90,000 rupees (equal to about $30,000) for the erection of a building and expenses attendant on the work of the exhibition proper, which was designed to promote and encourage the use of India tea and coffee in America.  When it was decided that India should take part in the exhibition, exhibitors of Indian manufactures, for whom no space had been reserved in the exhibition palaces, were referred by the government of India, the exhibition authorities, and by the British royal commission to the commissioners in charge, and their exhibits, together with those made of tea, coffee, cardamoms, and pepper, were installed in the government building and formed practically the entire exhibit from India.