The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-21

THEY ARE BOTH FIGHTING HARD FOR
THE WORLDS FAIR.


in Her Behalf.
| ESPECIAL CHICAGO CORRESPO NDENCE.
The spirit of enterprise W hich Chicago
is showing in her efforts to secure the
Columbian Exposition is marvellous and
not without effect It is noticeable that
in all parts of the country, and especially
in New York City, there is o feeling
cropping out in favor OF Chicago as the
one site for the exposition.
To hold the exposition in Chicago
would insure such q knowledge of our
national life, resources and the beauty of
our domain as could not be obtained
were it held in seaboard or threshold
city. Chicago includes within her popu-
| lace larger representation of the nation
alities of the globe endowed with the
| privileges and inspired with the oppor-
/ tunities of American citizenship than is
| elsewhere found; hence it is that city in
which the people of the world are inter
ested. The l,160 hotels in Chicago
there are only us in New York City
| guarantee accommodation for the thou
| sands of visitors and their guests who
are assured of the best treatment at the
usual rates
That Chicago is fast gaining friends in
| the South is demonstrated by the action
| of the farmers convention at Montgom-
| cry, Ala. Both ST. Louis and New York
made vigorous efforts for Endorsement,
but the Illinois delegates had worked
their forces so well that when the res olu-
| ton was presented the vote for Chicago
stood 26l for and GO against. Following
| is the full text of the resolution adopted:
WHEREAS, The Importance to the people at
| large of the United States that great World s
| Exposition be held in 1892 cannot be overesti-
| mated; AMI
| WHEREAS That as agriculture with it's kindred
pursuits is the greatest of our productive in
| dustries and unless large space were devoted to
/ 1t the Exposition would come far short of v hat
| it should be; and
| WHEREAS The magnitude of our domain and
the grandeur OF its various productive resources
| of soil and mine such as to demand that the
| Exposition celebrating the fourth centennial of
| the Columbian era be projected on a scale sur
passing anything the world has ever SEEM and
commensurate with the resources of our coun-
try, or the nation fails to perform is duty to
itself; therefore
fesol0ed, THAT some central point offering
the best transportation facilities and other
accommodations for its visitors be selected for
the location Of the great enterprise repr
ing the commerce of farm and mine.
ReSCJUed, That this congress indOrse Chicago
as the most suitable place at which to hold the
Worlds Fair for 1892 and the Secretary be in
structed to send copies of this resolution TO all
members of Congress and urge that they vote
for it's selection
In reply to Senator Farwell's article
published ia the New York Cosmopolitan
MGgG@ine the same magazine contains q
paper contributed by William Waldorf
Aston, a member of the plutocratic fam
lily of that name, who has some literary
pretensions, and who has devoted his ell
egant leisure to the production of one or
two so-called novels, whose fame has not
yet far transcribed the limits of Mr..
Ward McAllister's gilded four hundred.
Mn a CT NV 10 o1f
cordially of Senator Farwells opinion,
that the emulation between the two cities
should be conducted without bitterness or
partisanship, and thereupon falls to
abusing and vilifying Chicago, like a
person destitute OF breeding or fairness,
and to insulting her business men in
most gratuitOus manner. A single quo
tat on will show the arrogance and
the impertinence of the dude writer: "The
Senator furt her advances the architectural
magnifcence of Chicago's private resi-
dences as logical reason for placing the
great Exposition within their aureole. Chi
cago is the London of America, possessing
metropolitan imperialism and worthy of
the designation of the young giant of the
prairies. It's houses, he declares, are
palaces. We know them we'll, those
palaces, all of which were built with bor-
rowed money, and most of which to-day
are mortgaged from corner stone to sky
light. We know them we'll, those pal
aces, where every sign Of wealth abounds
and where the front door is opened by a
housemaid. We know them we'll, those
palaces, whose occupants are all out on
their doorsteps, as they used to sit in
New York seventy years ago, when our
palaces were built on twenty-five foot
front lots, and when social life was
primitive in the extreme.
Iir. Astor has mind above stock
breeding and farm products. I'VE in
New York, he says, conceive the signi6-
canoe of this exhibition to be something
more than lumber, iron, and live stock.
We have not IN mind the agricultural
show the Senator meditates. He does
not want any reminders of horses,
cattle, sheep, hogs, and the great bust
ness of the country, or the products of
the horny handed farmers, of the iron,
STEEL, and metals, of the cotton of the
South, or the products Of the looms, an
wills, turning lathes, laboratories, or the
inventions of the nation.
Such things would only tend to re-
mind him of family traditions and pedi-
gree. They would he strikingly sugges-
tive Of bear skins, mink skins, beaver
skins, cat skins, dog skins, and the skins
of skunks and polar rats. The ladder by
which he climbed into the ffth-story
window must be taken down so that it
may not be seen by the visitors. VIM.
Waldorf Aston does not care 10 be re-
garded as the result of the peltry trade,
but as one of Mr.. McAllister's four
hundred, who do not sit on their front
door steps of summer evenings, and
whose housemaides do not answer the
BELLS
In reply to Mr.. Astor's contention that
New York is the only proper place in this
country for the holding of the Worlds
Far, and in answer to his vulgar and i'm
pertinent shifting at Chicago, we have
this to say: New York is not able to
organize and conduct IA fair of this kind
to a success. She has never had but one
fair, and that was a conspicuous failure.
The only successful far Oh large scale
near New York was held in P Philadelphia.
The New Orleans Exhibition, though n lot
a complete success, was more successful
than New York's. She has not the en-
terprise or public spirit to organize even
such faits as are held annually in Chi
cago, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee,