Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-01
A Worlds Fair In Boston.

The project to hold worlds fair in New
York in 1886 having from various causes
fallen to the ground, the enterprise is taken
up in Boston with degree of enthusiasm
and unanimity of purpose as well as with
more substantial signs of encouragement,
that promise to lead to the holding of q
worlds fair in that city in 1885, Informal
meetings in which the scheme has been dis
cussed, the cost estimated and the sources Of
income canvassed, have been held. A large
meeting of citizens representing every i'm
portant interest was recently held at the
Hotel Vendome, and an adjourned meeting
will soon take action upon the further ex-
pressions of public opinion, and develop
ments for or against the enterprise. Mean
time the expression Of public sentiment is
favorable and on the side of prompt and
energetic action.
The estimated cost of the exposition is
three million dollars, and a guaranteed fund
Of that amount will be required. From adj
missions, from the sale Of privileges, and
from other sources it is estimated that an
income exceeding this amount will be real
lied. The site for the exhibition, which was
the source of much bad blood in New York,
is beyond dispute. The fair would be held
in the heart Of the city on the back bay
lands, where the expense Of grading so large
an item in the cost of the centennial exposi-
ton grounds, will be comparatively slight.
The locality, an important seaport town
with the advantage thus afforded to foreign
exhibitors and the coastwise communities of
the nation, its numerous lines of railways
radiating inland like the spokes of a
wheel, holding the position of the Hub
in the world of travel and commerce as
well as aesthetics, is exceedingly favora
BILE. These advantages, which may be pos
sessed by other cities in an equal or greater
degree, are all subordinate to the posi-
ton of Boston as the metropolis of the
great manufacturing region of this country.
A manufacturing, producing country, is
the natural patron Of industrial exhibitions.
The builder of machinery, the manufacturer
of goods Of any kind or quality, the raiser Of
fine stock, or the cultivator of the fruits of
the earth, has an Unborn pride akin to
parental regard for the works of his hand
or brain, to which the merchant or the COM
mercial operator, who merely buys and sells,
is stranger, The emulation among pro-
ducers, whether in agriculture or in the me-
chanic or higher arts, to produce the best
and to compete successfully for the patron
age of the world is the inspiring source of
all expositions, from the smallest local exhi-
bition of an agricultural or mechanical so
ciety up to the worlds fair. This immense
advantage Boston, as the metropolis of in
dustrial New England, possesses, and the SYM
pathy and substantial support she will receive
from large and wealthy New England COM
whose prosperity is intimately
identified with her own will be no insignif- |
cant source of reliance and encouragement |
As the chief market of the nation for many |
staple lines of goods, her prominence in
art and science, literature and education, |
her powerful historic associations, her Fan |
euil Hall and Bunker Hill, all will give in
terest and eclat to a worlds fair in Boston. |
Boston has ample financial means To prepare |
for such fair; in the city and in her
the finest in this country, she has
abundant accommodations for visitors the |
natural growth of four years will greatly in
crease all these advantages; the sanitary
conditions of the city are unrivaled what
aver Boston undertakes is carried out to
perfection in all its details, and if she under
axes worlds fair the people of the world
may look for the cap sheaf of all similar