Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-21
CHAUNCEY DEPEW.
The Breezy New Yorker to
Chicago Reporters.
a LITTLE ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

The Vanderbilt Roads and the Big Four
Some Reflections on the World, Fair
Big Thing tor the CITY That Is Lucky
Enough to "Get There"-a Word for
Gotham-rhe Au-Amrrics Congress Dis
cussed.
CHICAGO Oct 2l -Chauncsy NJ Dspew,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, H. w. Webb, A Nc
Twombly, aud C F. Cox, of New York, ar
rived at the Grand Pacific late Saturday
afternoon. They started back TINS morning,
but while they were here Mr.. Depew was
found, as ever, willing to talk to the report
srs in his breezy style on any subject that Is
up.
Little Railway News
The visit to the west began with a tour of
Virginia and an inspection of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, recently acquired by the
Vanderbilt system.
Il never knew Mr.. Vanderbilt so we'll
pleased with the condition Of his properties"
be said. "The Chesapeake and Ohio, which
we have been over for the first time, is in ai-
mirsble shape. We look upon this as a val
liable acquisition to the system, in its power
to attract or divert business
as it to be united with the Big Fourg'
"Only in so far as their interests are iden-
tical aud that it has the same ex scutive
management The roads will be in hsr-
mony of course, Mr.. Ingalls, being president
of both, but they are not to bs consolidated
The Worlds Exposition.
Tbs worlds exposition was suggested to
Mr. Depew He said: hen get away
from New York my ideas of proportion in
this matter change We think out in New
York, he said, laughing, that the claims
of Chicago, St Lous and Washington are
only made half seriously ami to attract at
tsntion- Is Chicago really in esrnesti OF
course we want the fair in New York, but il
were a Chicago citizen I should certainly
work for my own city. Few people realize
what IL means Wherever it goes, 1t will be
the biggest thing We ever had in America,
and the city that gets it will find that it has
not worked for nothing. NY belief is that
il will bring so, 0oO, 90 into this country,
and the city that secures it will fui in SIX
months an Instantaneous increase in its busi-
ness that ordinarily could only come in five
| years But the guarantee fund ! do not be-
| lieve will decide the location
! He put in a good word for New York just
| here as follows: "How many people would
| have gone to the French exposition If it had
| been located at Lyon, Comparatively
none And yet Lyons the second city in
| France Ii is amazing how little the French
| people know of Us. They know of New
| York, and that is alb Ut ALL / venture to
assert that in ali Paris there are not 800 peo-
| pie who know the name o. our president, OF
| that there are COS, U0J IN the 80, U00, 900 in
the country who have any definite knowl-
edge about this country. They know New
York as they know Shanghai, Berlin, and
ST Petersburg. Ii is fair comparison u
say that of the country generally EuropI
| knows about a much of know oil
| the Argentine Republic, and yet the Argen
tine Republic is now making greater progress
in the same time than We ever did"
TIE AH-Am-ricsn Congress
MIR. ID pew Is very much intere led in the
visit of the Internal onai cnngress TO this
| country, aud as he observed the decora lions
| in the hotel corridors in honor of their ar
| rival in TINS city he sd his pleasure
at being in the city with them Il hsven'i
met any Of them vet he sal l. "out will be
glad 10 60 so. This congress is a great
event About 500, 0JJ,0 1J Of Igl;sh CAPT.
tai has gone into the Argentine Republic
during the past five years. The Z lglish
own the trade Of the country, and for no
reason but that the people don't know Us
Everyt thing is at fever heat down there
They are building railways and cities as i
by magic. We have allowed the English Il
do this too long Now we are waking up.
predict the congress will revolutionizs things
not only in the Argentine Republic but ii
the other republics This trip the delegates
are making will be a revelat ion to them