Abstract :
The Sixth National Exposition of Chemical Industries will be held in Grand Central Palace, New York, during the week September 20th to 25th inclusive. This will be the largest distinctly industrial exposition ever held, surpassing its own predecessors by one-third. It is to be divided into three special sections, one, the Electric Furnace Section, another the Fuel Economy Section, and the third a Materials Handling Section. The first will as its name implies be one of electric furnace exhibits; the fuel economy section will consist of exhibits of machinery and apparatus, furnaces, producers, stokers and all devices for the economic utilization or more efficient combustion of fuel. The possible exhaustion of our fuel reserves in the not far distant future and the present high cost of fuel makes this section one of much interest to all industrial plants. The Materials Handling Section will be a series of exhibits of machinery and equipment for the handling of material such as: conveying, transporting, elevating, included in this will be weighing, measuring and power transmission equipment. So important have these mechanical features become for all industrial plants due to the shortage and high-wage for man-power that an unusual interest is expected in this new Section.
