St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-09
SOLID FOR CHICAGO.
Fpenchmen Favor the West
as the Location Of the
Worlds Fair.
Chicago Is the True Type Of a
Progressive American
City.
For That Reason Foreigners
Will Give New York the
Shake.
The British Steamer Queens
The British Steamer Queens
more Burns and Sinks on
the Irish Coast.

PAETs. Noy. S.-The French, proud
and iuhilant over the success of their
own great worlds fair, naturally feel
a special interest in the American prof.
ect for a still greater universal EXPOSE
ton in 1892. Naturally, also, they feel
themselves we'll qualified, in view of
their experience, to Judge OF the merits
of various propositions Affecting the
main features of the coming exhibition:
The first essential TO the success OF
such an enterprise is, of course, adYan-
fageous location. and the controversy as
70 where the fair shall be held has been
followed with much attention here.
The weighing OF arguments pro and
cen has resulted in a cryStaliZatlOn or
opinion in favor of Chicago as
the site, and the editorials which
are now appearing in the leading
Paris newspapers give strong express
sion to the popular feeling IN that Gil
rectiou. The Journal DIES DEFEATS, now
as for hundred years the leading po-
litical and philosophical journal IN
France: LIE Petit Journal, whose clrcu-
Iation among the masses exceeds that
of anv other paper in the world, and
Galignani's Messenger, the most cos
mOpOlitan of French newspapers and
she one most read by visitors TO tarlS
from other countries. are among those
which have expressed their Judgment
in favor of Chicago. The Journal des
DebatS saws:
The exposition should be held in Chicago.
because that city represents the pest type OF
the civilization and progress Of the WeStern
republic New York Is 8 great and wonder
fui city, bit il is essentially cosmopolitan
city. Chicag0, on the other han0. Is hOtoili!
u great, but Thoroughly American cItA-
oh al AnleFl
can QUE iucaTnating the CIVILIZATION OF
young America; and no other city meets the
requirements OF the situation so 1utlF as the
great Western metropolis. But, wherever
the exposition is held France WILL 90 AtE
utmost 10 insure its success.
GalignaniS' Messenger says:
It is only reasonable that Chicago. whose
phenomenal history and achievements tyPIfy
the brilliant and TeStlesSly energetic quailties
of the American character. should be CHOSEN
for an event exceeding in splendor any Slfni-
lar enterprise the world has ever seen. But
indeed. the choice of Chicago seems ineylta-
bic since that city has already guaranteed
the necessary sum to secure the location,
while her chief rival, New York, seems una
bic to advance beyond the preliminaries-
The choice is 4 fortunate one in ell respects.
Chicago is hundreds of miles nearer the CEN
ter of population than New YORK and IS thus
the most convenient location for its lnllllonS
of American visitors, while no foreign VS.
StorS 10 the fair, wherever held, Would care
TO leave America without visiting one or lis
chief places of interest-Chleago- ne rela-
tive cost for transportation charges Tor eX-
hibits does not figure in the matter at all,
since foreign exhibitors have been assured
that the charges will be made the same to
Chicago as to New York. The question may
now be regarded as settled, for congress.
though as yet unoficially, shows majority
of members in favor OF the Chicago site
LIE Petit journal, after saying Amer
fcan kilograms confirm the announce
ment first made by the Petit Journal
that Chicago has been chosen as the 10
cation of the worlds fair of 1892" pru-
ceeds to express its satisfaction with
this result. 1t urges substantially SINH
lar considerations to these quoted
from other Journals, and in addition
points out some interesting reasons why
the French view the choice of Chicago
with satisfaction. The selection of
the great entrepot of the North
west as the focus of Americas
achievement reflects luster upon
the Judgment and foresight OF
those great Frence pioneerS-La Sale,
Marquette and others-who. when that
country was wilderness, peopled only
by saVages, foretold its future great
ness and INDUCED in projects for max
ing a maritime port in the vicinity of
the present Chicago, which later gener-
atoms have but tardily adopted. BY
1892 the canal connecting the MISSISSIPPI
with the great lakes, already nearly
complete. will have been finished, add
ing another artery to the pleXuS of Chi
cago's communication with the world.
1t is touching TO see projects Of cid
France for the welfare of America eff
fected by the modern republic of the
Nest