Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-05-21

IUIIOu0s ~ NV
few weeks ago came to the conclusion 70
have the next world's Fair In or near
that extensive town. They had got the
obelisk, and Why should they not have
The Worlds Fair Z But the obslisk vss
bought, transported from Egypt, and
10, up oil right in New York at the phi
vats expense Of Vanderbilt. The
Worlds Fair would have 10 b sslf.sup-
porting. or At the expense Of New York.
The sntsrprisins New yorksrs felt that
the Fair would bring noteristy. import
anos and wealth to their river-bound
city, bot the terrible item OF expense
worried them. They appointed . COM
mission to attend to the matter. and
that commission thought Il . big stroke
Of policy to elect Ell. President Grant -
its head and front piece. Grant. hsv.
ever, soon found that there was moth.
ing in it," and r~epudiated the empty
honor - well a. the project. The oom-
mission concluded that the rsquisits
funds to start the thing with could not
BE- raised. % they also rspudiaisd and
gave up the whole matter.
And now Boston. after msdsstly walt
ing till her sister. New York, has utterly
failed and given mp the proposition.
steps confidently forward and ssrsss to
have the Worlds Fair In that city. in
1884. The Boston folks have plenty Of
money and are not afraid to spend II.
even at . risk Of not getting some Of IL
back. Neither do they. like the New
Workers. stop to quarrel about the loea-
ton Of the Fair. They have net %
much spare ground - the New Yorksrs.
bat win. nevertheless. give moro space
TO the sxhibition-yss. even more than
Philadelphia would or did-ous-third
more. Boston will have NO less than
sixty acres Of IL. She asks no outside
coin. but will run the concern to the
best advantage. and pay for 1t. inviting
the whole wsrld, New York especially.
TO come and enjoy Il to the utmost s1-
tent.
This sction on the part Of the Boston
people sxcitss and ~sssravstss the New
Workers. terribly. They are just turn.
ing green with envy and jealous sIas-
psrstion. The idea that Boston should
ever presume to have . world's Fair at
oil 10 bad enough; but TO impudsnily
propose to pay for IL without asking
help from anybody IL perfect hsrssy.
Sin worse. those horrible goldfish and
b~san-satiss. aesthetic Bostonians even
propose introducing new features. ideas
and attractions beyond the conception
Of either New Workers. or Philadslphians.
And those same dreadful Bostonisns
will 90 right straight ahead without any
sidstalk and get up the srsndsst and
most thoroughly satisfactory Worlds
Fair the world has ever yet seen.
It will be perfect success In
every respect. and Boston will make
money out Of IL. The New York Yantses
should try and b rssigssdly masnani-
nous In this matter. They car afford
to. They tried the same proposition and
made Q miserable failure. They should
rejoice at the superior enterprise and
ability Of their Boston nsishbors. and
not allow any missrably dissrsosful and
improbable Jealousy TO keep them away
from the Fair. The Boston folks would
NO doubt even pay their railroad fare II
they asksd IL. The New York Graphic.
which 20 ably reflects the general opin.
ions and ideas Of New York ~ we'll -
Of some Of the outside world. gives Q
well written editorial article on the sub
jsct. not altogether untainted with sb-
sorbsd or inherent local bias, from which
We make the following specimen sx.
tracts:
The Worlds Fair. which New York re-
iscted, 10 to become . keystone In Boston's
future greatness. The metropolis will
not know how precious . pearl 10 has
thrown away until the Hub has picked II
MP and Get II In her Back Bay diadem.
Then, Of course, 10 will b too late. and
the hotel keepers and manufacturers and
merchants whose habitations are on Man.
haitian Island will gnash their teeth with
rage, tear their hair from its roots. and
dsmolish every bronze statue within the
city limits, while the far.sighted Boston
man will stand eomplacsntly on the top Of
his State House and thank God that be ID
not like these other foolish people. who
know not Q good thing when IL II thrust
under their very noses.
The advantages Of Boston over New
York for the holding Of a international
exhibition are, Of course. manifold. but
NO one can have any idea Of their i'm.
msnsity except BY reading . Boston paper.
Here II one issue Of the Boston Herald
alone wherein ~two-thirds Of . large page
are devoted to an outline plan Of the
0ulioiubs sas sesn - RsAt WV Wv
wonders at frst whether IL 10 intended for
q map Of the battle Of Gettysburg or Of
the dynamite mines under st. Petersburg.
The buildings arc to cover sixty acres
twenty more than did those ct Philsdel.
phia. They are to b arranged In . semi
circle. and an elevated railway over . mile
long IL 70 run around them % that no
time may b wasted by going from one
department to another-in fact. the visi-
tors could be shown everything from the
car windows after the Of . PAN
oramic exhibition-a new idea. and de-
cidsdly B~ostonian. And then Boston II
the center Of tho railroad system Of the
Union. and the spot whore the exhibition
buildings are TO DO erected is-or will b
in 1855, when the exhibition 10 to be held
In the center Of Boston. And then, -
the Herald assures N. New York has hotsl
accommodations for only 5000 strangers,
while Boston's facilities In this respect
are practically unlimited.
And Boston u modest. too. despite cer-
tain occasional Appearances 10 the con.