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President CLEVELAND, the British Guiana and Liberian 
Courts were the only ones of those above mentioned 
in a complete and finished condition, The Spanish 
West Indian Court was not ready for the reception 
of the public until the visit of the Princess EULALIA 
in June, and truth to say there was precious little in it 
worth looking at even then. The whole appropriation 
seemed to have been expended on the pavilion itself, 
the exterior of which was designed to represent an 
arcaded courtyard, and the material used in the con- 
struétion being plaster the showers of thin white dust 
formed a fruitful source of annoyance to our Commis- 
sioner, who at length had to insist on the workmen 
periodically sprinkling the ground with water so as to 
mitigate the nuisance in some measure. As to exhibits, 
the Spanish West Indian Court principally consisted of a 
series of more or less elaborate showcases filled with 
varieties of cigars and cigarettes, and these ‘“‘ fixings” 
seemed lost on the carpeted area. Alhambra-like out- 
wardly, from an internal point of view the Court gave 
you the impression of a first-class jeweller’s showroom 
or the inside of a slap-up drug store. Our B, G. Court 
was an actual and theoretical Museum. How Cuba con- 
trived to obtain so enormous a space for sucha beggarly 
array as she turned out, was a standing mystery. Even 
with our circumscribed and altogether too limited allot- 
ment, Mr. QUELCH succeeded in arranging a show that 
was universally admired from first to last, but if he had had 
a ground area equal to that secured by his Spanish neigh- 
bours, the British Guiana Court would have refleéted indeed 
the importance of the “ Magnificent Province,’ Mexico’s 
agricultural exhibit was opened while I was there, 
