The sun., 1889-12-06
WORKINGMEN BOOM THEFAIR
MASS MEETING OF THEIR REPRE-
SKNTA TITKs At COOPER UNION.

The Omcial List or subseribsrs t. the
Guarantee Fund AIready Contains 500
Nhmes-Yerterday's Contribution.
But few subscriptions to the Fair fund
came in yesterday. the aggregate amounting
10 only S14,027. Edmund c. Stanton Of the
Metropolitan Opera House put his name down
in the Mayors book for $780, The alphabetical
list Of the subscribers to the t5000,00O fund,
which Mr.. Wilson, the Secretary OF the Finance
Committee, is now preparing to accompany
the memorial to Washington, will contain
about 1900 names. This is an average OF
something over $1,000 from each subscriber.
This is the record OF the fund up to date:
yesterday sue,sieriptions ms, @ HSSat
Remainder OF amount pledged by brewers.... 5s23s
Total to date S,itaso4
This Is TmR sUNs list
Subscribed to date By TnT sUS and EVENING Sun
YssterGsy's EvtSiSG s1S dollar subscripiions. lis
Previously subscribed. e5l2
Grand total
Through the World .o-.
Various subscribers
Through the Mayors once; 49,
Edmund G. Stanton. 500
T. S S i49
Robert Mayer Co 80, ....... i
sS5se ssssSfy f.inSHrS q
Delahod, MoGovern Co Co....................... $50
Daniel a. 100
Elias liynms ~
Richard Evans..... 100
Total. 1874
BY the New York Jewellers Association' .,oo,
Brooklyn atch Case Company. OOO
Shnfer DuSass 500
w. ~
By II. S. Mendelson;
;sSsrmnp R,;b '' PIN
Total SIPS
Ry the Real Estate Exchange:
Alfred Marng ........................ %
Mr. C. Colne OF winslow, Lnnier & Co. has
prepared careful plan for the proposed EX-
position of 1892: which he has submitted to the
Committee on Permanent Organization. He
says that his plan is principally drawn from
four months as a member OF the international
Jury OF Awards. and also having been in 1879
Of hs H. % hS
should authorize a permanent committee. with
power TO decide all questions relating to the
the committee small I The SECRETARY aF OF the
Paris Exposition, Mr.. Colne says. told him that
Gonstructien Committee, which were ,perpetp:
allv In conflict and that there should be only
one committee with power:
tho big hall of the Cooper Union last night.
under the direction Of the Central Labor Union;
presided, and among the well known working
men on the platform and In the audience were
Z. ]. Doody Henry Enrich. George Cavanagh.
J; Aman, Lewis Page; John b. Lennon, August
Boselly. Matthew Barr. Andrew d. Best James
Quinn. Charles Rogers George Warner, and
Oscar Cole. Mr.. Archibald said there could be
no doubt that the Fair would greatly raise the
wages OF workinRmen in the city.
We have no Louvre" he said. with It's
miles Of picture galleries. We have no Ner-
sailles and St Cloud with their historic recol-
lections: but we have the energy and purpose
and brains of a great laboring people. and we
can show the work OF four centuries OF inVen
tions."
:. President Samuel Gompers OF the American
Federation OF Labor, said that the Fair would
give labor and the labor movement here the
greatest impetus 1t had ever received.
want TO say" said MIR. Gompers. that II
the Fair is held here the manual work done
upon It will be done by union labor II union
labor does not do It, and do 1t all. shall op-
pose the Fair with all my strength. We will
not have this Fair a monument of cheap labor
and degraded manhood"
Speeches were also made by John Barends,
representing the Brooklyn labor unions. and
by Oscar Cole and Thomas Ford.
Resolutions were adopted demanding that
the Fair should be held in this city and recon-
mending the adytsability Of having an Inter
national La Dor Convention in this city in 1892.
Chairman Archibald WINS authorized to ap-
point committee Of fifteen workingmen TO
carry out the sentiment OF the resolutions.