Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-19
A MACEDONIAN CALL.
Chicago Asks Pittsburg to Aid it to
Secure the Worlds Fair.
A DELEGATION OF PROMINENT MEN
Sent as Ambassadors to the People Of Their
Native State
RECEIVED By THE MAYOR OF THE CITY

representing the Worlds Fair Company,
who are visiting this city to secure the
cooperation of Pittsburg business men in
Chicago's effort to secure the fair, reached
here by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
1 o'clock yesterday afternoon and proceeded
to the Hotel Anderson. Mayor McCallin
had been wired that the delegation was
coming, but expected them over the FIT.
Wayne Railroad. Carriages were at the
Union depot to receive them.
The Chicago Worlds Fair Company was
incorporated last June with capital stock
of S., ,000,OOO 1t is intended to double this
capital The nine gentlemen now here COM
pose a special committee from that CON-
pany, and, with one exception, are natives
of Pennsylvania. Judge w. B. Cunning
ham is the Chairman of the committee, of
which the other members are: Addison
Ballard. retired capitalist; George G..
Newbury, real estate dealer and capital
list; DR.. W. o. Osgood, representative of
Chicago interests in Central America; h.
Rarkhardt, retired iron merchant; G. R.
Hopkins and S. F. ReQua, insurance men,
W. H. Esch. wholesale plumber, and Har-
old r. Vynne, of the Chicago EUening
Journal. Mr.. Esch did the plumbing tor
the Chicago Auditorium, job which
amounted to S1500O0.
The gentlemen took dinner at the Ander-
son. At $50 o'clock they we're visited by
Mayor McCallin, President Marvin, of the
Exposition Society, Colonel Unger and D.
G. Ripley, members of the Exposition
Board Of Managers. The meeting occurred
in the hotel parlor. Judge Cunningham,
addressing Mayor McCallin, said:
HIS PoLITIC SPEECH.
"We come from Chicago as a delegation
of former Pennsylvanians, to enlist your CO.
operation and support in locating the
Worlds Fair in Chicago. When we came
to-day near your great CITY, wath Its familiar
hills, valleys and rivers, we felt that we
were again amid the scenes of our boyhood.
We do not come as strangers, but more like
children returning to the home of their
fathers. These are some of the gentlemen
who represent the business interests of Chi
cago. We do not pretend to be wise men
from the East. but we represent the broad
shouldered, big-hearted, enterprising gen.
tlemen who have stood by Chicago IN all
her history, when reverses came upon her
and when the waves of panic and war and
fire rolled over her. They have helped to
build Chicago twice, and are ready to help
build her again if necessary to make her
the greatest and proudest city of the West.
"We do not forget that this city of Pitts
burg has been like mother to us. When
our CITY was in ashes, and our people almost
naked, Pittsburg was then our mother. In
rebuilding the city, in furnishing material
for Its reconstruction, Pennsylvania has
been like a father toward it. The great
engine that distributes water to all our
homes was made here. The largest plate
glass ornamenting our store fronts was made
in Pittsburg, and in ten thousand ways
Pittsburg and Pennsylvania have contrib
uted TO the building of Chicago. Nearly
every prominent business house of Pitts
burg has established branch house in
Chicago, for the purpose of reaching the
great Western markets. While Pittsburg
assisted us by way of building up our city,
we in turn furnish market for all the
productions of your great manufactures,
The interests of our people are the same.
The 38 railroads that lead into Chicago
radiate like the spokes of wheel over the
mighty West, and by all those avenues the
products of your great manufacturers are
scattered to the West, the South, and the
North.
A PERMANENT MARKET.
This market for your products can never
be satisfied. 1t is a market that will re-
main permanent for all your business
houses. We think that the people of
Pennsylvania would be blind to their
interests, to the interests of this great
business center especially, if they do not
take advantage of this great avenue for
fore our business is cooperative.
1--WE do not speak for Chicago as a city in
contradistinction from other cities; we do
not put our claims for the fair on the basis
that we are better city than any other, but
upon the broader, fairer basis that patriot
ism and interest upon the part of all of us
require that this fair, which is to be ma
tional, should be located where it will do
the most good to the greatest number of peo-
pie. When we consider the mountains on
the east and the west, with the great Misss-
sippi Valley and the unmeasured prairies
between, we find that our region is nomi-
mated, by the force of circumstances, by the
shape of the country, as the location for the
Worlds Fair. 1t is right that other nations
should see our country. Our country itself
is the greatest exhibit that the nation can
ever make to the other nations of the world.
1t is the grandest panorama that ever the
stars of heaven looked down upon.
sour city itself, we claim, is the truest
and best type of American progress. 1t is
the grandest achievement of the American
people. She sits like queen on the pebbly
shore of her inland sea, the wonder and ad-
of the world. Because it is the in
terest of the whole people, we ask you, gen.
tlemen, and all Pennsylvanians through
you, to unite with us in locating the
Worlds Fair IN Chicago or in the Missis-
sippi Valley"
THE MAYORS REPLY.
Mayor McCallin, in reply, said; cal
low me, as the executive officer of the CITY
of Pittsburg, to extend to you hearty
welcome in behalf of the city. Our folks
from the Exposition have asked me to ex-
tend to you an invitation to see what they
have. In regard to the Worlds Fair of
1892 cannot speak now. Anything that
we can do to introduce you to the merchants
and manufacturers of our city we are pre-
pared to do.
Messrs. Marvin, Unger and Ripley were
then introduced in turn to each of the
visitors. Carriages were ready and con-
veyed the party to the Exposition. There
they met Mr.. Herbst, of the Board of Man
ayers, and Mr.. Marshall. who built Me-
chanicaI Hall. The Art Gallery was first
seen. and then a tour was made of the main
building, where the delegation listened to
the playing of the Thirteenth Regiment
Band. Last of all the Mechanical Hall
was inspected, and there the delegates
spent the longest time. They were inter-
ested in the manner of its construction,
which was explained to them by Mr..
Marshall
In conversation Mr.. Ballard said: "We |
DO not object to the location of the fair in
St. Louis, Omaha or Kansas City. We only