Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT ]


WASHINGTON, December 3.-New York
is about to join the lobby which is here and
pulling in three directions for the World's s
Fair, and when Chauncey M. Depew and
a few other good diners out and post
prandial orators come down from Man
haitian Island, the rivalry between New
York, Chicago and St. Louis for the
possession of the 1899 Exposition will
begin in earnest. Each delegation will
have its elegant suite of rooms, orientally
decorated with rugs and divans and works
of fine art in the form of magnificent pictures
Of the streets, buildings, parks, etc., OF the
respective cities. Nice little private din
ners will be given where they will do the
most good, and the 130 novices in Congress
slonal phenomena will be led merry race
in the genteeler forms of dissipation.
Chicago has dozen or so of its most
social citizens here. The st. Louis lobby
no longer consists OF two gentlemen and
demUohn, but has blossomed into a coterie
of solid men, just conviVial enough to be in
huenIial. New York, slow to subscribe
money for shows and monuments, will try
to outdo all rivals in glittering inducements
to other people to spend money for them.
NO MONEY IN IT.
OF course there will be no money in this
lobby for anybody. No one will be bribed
to vote for this or that site. The Congress
sional diner-out will simply accept all invi-
tations to sherry and champagne and har-
monious edibles most dear to the heart of
the gourmand, and will then vote as they
please. 1t is probable the question of the
site OF the fair will be decided very early in
the session, as it will be impossible for
either the convival lobby or the Congress
men who accept its rounds of invitations to
endure the strain for very long.
If there were any doubts before in the
minds of Columbians, that is, citizens of
the District, in regard to the site of the
fair, there is none now. They are convinced
that these princes Of good fellows who
come here to lobby for their respective capi-
tails will kill each other off, The local COM
mittee is, however, keeping a wide-awake
eve on the movements of the three lobbies,
and while it may not have such rolIicking
time now, it will have grand banquet after
the close of the tair at Washington, in the
late autumn of 1892.
ONE OF THE sTRAws.
On the block bounded by Connecticut
avenue and Desales, Seventeenth and L
streets, stands the immense building of the
Catholic school, the Academy of the Sacred
Heart. The purchase of this entire block
by Mr.. j. NJ. Flagler, the oil prince, was
announced this afternoon, the consideration
being S650,00o. The real estate brokers
through whom the deal was made will not
explain the intentions of Mr.. Flagler, but
it is intimated that he will cover the block
with hotel. on the magnificent plan of the
Ponce de Leon and Alcazar at st. Augustine.
This is also accepted as evidence that capi-
talists are looking to Washington as certain
to be the location of the Fair of 1892. The
site is a fine one for a hotel, being in neigh
borhood of fine residences, about half way
between the Dupont and Farragut parks,
block from the Russian Legation, and two
blocks from the British legation.
LIGHTNER.