Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-09-23
xANcAsrER, PA. September %, 1889.


From the earnestness displayed by
New York and Chicago I'm preparation
for the 1892 centennial one would think
that there were to be two celebrations of
the Kind. We believe, however, that it
h u(ssefstood that there is to be but one,
and that Congress will decide where IL
Uhallbe held. II bids fair to be the ex-
';Oiting question of the coming session and
swe must get ready to advise our repre-
sentAtives how to vote. We see that
Mayor Edgerley has promised Lancaster
tclty's support to New York, though
whether he has done II by the authority
OF our congressman we doubt, as Mr.
Broeius, being about TO make his debut
IN Congress, will I've duly solicitous not
TO make any niissteps, and will want to
know what Lancaster county says he
fore making any promise Of support 20 n
centennial site.
And what does she say? Is she for
New York, M her neighbor, or for Chi
cago, as her relation? For there are
vastly more Lancaster people In Chicago
than In New York, and we incline to
think that there is a good deal more
sympathy and fellow feeling between
these two sections than there is between
Lancaster and New York. We have
little social and not vast deal of busi-
ness connection with New York which
city Is a city Of its own kind, that serves
our purposes as a market house
and that we are done with when that
business Is over So that Lancaster, in
deciding where the centennial should be
held, is not prevented from taking an
-.unpreiudiced view Of the question by
any>claim that New York has upon her.
Viewing the question in the interests
of foreign exhibitors II may be conceded
that New York is the place, since their
goods will he placed there at somewhat
less trouble and expense than at
the inland port Of Chicago but
for the same reason Chicago's situation
suits best the people Of our own coun-
try. It's central location and hotel ac
commodations have made it the favorite
assembling city for national conven-
tions and no better evidence could pe
offered of the superior advantage of its
site for the location Of national fair.
1t Is little farther from us than New
York, but when we go to that centen-
Mai we will have TO make n business of
II and camp down for some days or
weeks to see its sights; so that IL does not
matter much to us whether we have to
travel few hundred miles more or less
to reach 1t.
And then, as we have suggested,
most of us have relations out West that
we want to see and whose centennial
and other visits IL is about time that we
are thinking of returning; and the
worlds fair at Chicago would give
US fine opportunity of settling up
these scores and of seeing the great
West that everyone wants to see. And IL
does not take much to persuade us to go
long way for one purpose when we have
another one still dearcr To our heart that
we want to crafty. We even know that
grave young gentleman of our town
attended the last Republican convention
at Chicago, TO excuse his purpose to wit
ness big base ball match that was to
b. played in the West about that time,
somewhere between Detroit and st.
10Ns and he attended it, too, after he
had taken the hasty look which his
duty required him to cast upon the con-
vention.
30 that we are inclined to think, our
mayor to the contrary Notwithstanding,
that Lancaster would be better pleased
to have the fair held in Chicago than In
New York. Her sense of fairness in
spires her to desire that 1t should be
held at the most central place to all the
people a sense that is all the stronger
because II takes the show among her
relations out West.