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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[May i, 1895. 
making a deirlonstration in one of the largest stores 
in the City of Brooklyn for Messrs. Joseph Tetley 
& Co., that has been most successful. Since Octo- 
ber 1st to date she has disposed of fifty-three hun- 
dred pounds of tea, a most excellent record. That 
speaks well for Mrs. Buna's capability — and she cer- 
tainly merits all the praise that can be bestowed 
upon her for her earnest and conscientious labours 
for the teas of India and Ceylon. 
Although the department stores are not looked upon 
with favour by the trade, yet, as a result of this de- 
monstration, it's hard to find a first-class grocer in 
Brooklyn that does not sell Tetley's teas. 
I had a call last Friday from Mr. Beling, the 
Manager of the Ceylon Importing Company of 
Davenport, Iowa, who reports progress for his Com- 
pany and the teas of Ceylon. He feels quite sanguine 
and looks forward to a large business being done in 
the future. Hardly a day passes that I do not hear 
of some word of encouragement for Ceylon's staple 
product — tea. 
For your information and that of Ceylon, 
I would state that the late Ceylon Planters' Tea 
Company of New York at a meeting of Directors, the 
name of the Company was changed to that of the 
Sinhalese Ceylon Tea Company, and under that name 
went out of existence, and on the fourth of the 
present month a new Company was formed under a 
charter granted by the State of Virginia to be known 
as the Ceylon Planters' Tea Company, with Mr. 
Elwood S. May as President, and Mr. John Farr as 
Secretary and Treasurer, for the purpose of dealing 
in Ceylon tea and coffee. The Company is in posses- 
sion of its charter and seal. Trusting that the ex- 
perience of the past will prove profitable to them 
in the future, I am sure we wish them well and success 
Without end. 
My informants as to the new Company are Messrs. 
May and Farr with whom I had an interview yester- 
day when down-town. 
THE CENTENARY OF CEYLON AS A BRITISH COLONY. 
In looking over the Ceylon Almanack for 1895 
and under the heading of Important Events in the 
History of the Colony, it struck me that it would 
be befitting, to one of the brightest jewels in the 
diadem of Great Britain, to celebrate the event of 
Ceylon's centennial by some great demonstration, 
and I am very much pleased that the Obsener is 
putting the same forward. It seems to me that 
Ceylon should not hesitate to take up an Exhibition 
and put it forward boldly as the " Ceylon Centen- 
nial and International Exhibition," and if I might 
be allowed to make a suggestion I would name 
1898 as the year for holding the said Exhibition, thus 
allowing ample time for perfecting all arrangements. 
In the meantime the tea interests of Ceylon can 
be vigorously pushed in America : the Cotton States 
and International Exhibition at Atlanta this year, 
the Great Canadian Exhibition at Montreal in 180G 
and the Baltimore Centennial and International 
Exhibition in 1897 can be attended to by making 
suitable demonstrations, and with successful results 
the year 1898 may open brightly for Ceylon tea in 
America, and may warrant an additional Jubilee on 
accouut of winning over of America to Ceylon's 
favoured and staple product tea ; I am sure America 
will not be ungrateful, but will participate and aid 
in making your Exhibition a success, and, in this 
connection, if I am permitted to do so I should taka 
great pleasure in nominating the Hon. Sir John J. 
Grinlinton,Kt.,asDirector-General; his connection and 
experience at the Great World's Columbian Exhibi- 
tion I know would be valuable to the interests of the 
CEYLON CENTKNNIAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 
I' am to see your Delegate again on his return 
from the West, and I trust that after our next 
interview the "Thirty Committee" will have his 
favourable report, particularly as to the Atlanta 
Exhibition ; it will need steady and hard work so as 
to make all arrangements and be ready in time. On 
the opening day I should wish to be able to serve 
the first cup of tea and a multiplication of cups before 
we get through with the Atlanta Exhibition, and in 
order to show good results we shall need to be ready 
on the first day so as not to lose a single day's 
business, and I hope the importance of this will be fully 
recognized by Ceylon. I am sure such will be the 
case. 
In closing, 1 would say that Mr. Cockburn and 
myself are watching and waiting most anxiously to 
get to work to push along vigorously the interests of 
Ceylon in America, and we fully believe that with a 
fair showing we can fully demonstrate our ability, 
and trust tliat the confidence may be reposed in 
us, and that we may be the mean through the Atlanta 
Exhibition and innianv other ways to bring about a 
victory for the pure and delicious teas of Ceylon in the 
United States of America. 
With best wishes for Ceylon's prosperity and kindest 
regards to yourself and all Ceylon friend*. — I am. faith- 
fully yours. S. BJKRACH. 
February 20th. 1895. 
Copy. 
To William Mackenzie, Esq., Ceylon Represent- 
ative to America. 
Dear Sir,— It would be quite a difficult matter to 
prepare a detailed proposition covering the Atlanta 
Exhibition, quite as difficult as it would have been 
to do so for Chicago. 
2. In my mind the proper course would be to 
make an appropriation of, sav, $10,000 and run the 
show within that limit ; and when we finish and find 
that it has cost less so much the better, but it must 
not exceed that amount ; 80,000 to be expended at 
this end for construction and maintenance and $4,000 
at Ceylon for exhibits, tea, freight Ac. to New York 
and passage for native staff. 
3. As to my remuneration I should ask $*J0 per 
month before and alter the close of the exhibition, 
but during the progress of the exhibition $250 per 
month with a commission of 5 percent on all sales, 
with a free hand to engage the necesBary help to 
run the exhibit to good advantage — and if the ex- 
pense can be reduced to a certain limit I think that 
I should be entitled to a fixed bonus, the limit to be 
agreed upon. 
4. And as I hope, if the Atlanta Exhibition ter- 
minates satisfactory to Ceylon and the Canadian 
Exhibition be taken up in turn, that I will be con- 
sidered in the representation and on similar terms 
for the large Baltimore Exhibition to follow in '97. 
5. Owing to the distance it will be of vast im- 
portance that Ceylon act on the enterprise at an 
early date, and I think the moment favorable action 
has "been taken, that it would be well to cable the 
result, so that without any further loss of time the 
required and suitable space be secured for the re- 
presentation. 
6. This one fact is worth considering: by making 
the representation direct it is a saving of not less 
than $4,000. Any private firm or company making 
a commercial exhibit would have to pay $1.00 a square 
foot; by direct commissioner or commissioners ap- 
pointed by Government the space will be free, other- 
wise it would be impossible to make the demonstration 
for the figure named. 
7. Trusting that you will look upon my proposi- 
tion and enterprise with much favor, and that Ceylon 
will have your speedy and favourable report, I 
can assure you that I shall leave no stone unturned 
to bring about a successful and a satisfactory result. 
As my proposition reads I shall exhibit and adver- 
tise Ceylon tea at this exhibition in a way never 
done before. 
8. I have the names of the wholesale trade thiough- 
out the United States and Canada, and it is part of 
my scheme for this exhibition, as far as practical, to 
interest the trade, inviting those who are handling 
Ceylon tea in a large or small way to make the 
fact known ; also sending a list of their customers 
among the retail trade who are selling Ceylon tea 
to be placed on record at the exhibition and said 
trade to be advertised among the consumers who 
shall visit the exhibition from day to day. 
9. It is also part of my scheme that all firms 
putting up packet teas, upon satisfactory investiga- 
tion as to the contents of such packets, be invited 
to place same on exhibition ; no one firm or com- 
pany being allowed a monopoly one over another. 
Thi s is to encourage particularly American compani e* 
