Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-09-11
international Exhibition, 1902.

international Exhibition, 1902. ED. JoURNAL-MINER:
 While there 10 an evident unity of sentiment throughout the country thst there should be grand exhibition of arts, industries and progress in ls9s, to celebrate the discovery of the Americas by Columbus, there is not that unity of feeling in regard ,c the place for the exhibition. This is unfortunate. There is no time to be lost in the dissipation of energy. Washington, D. C., Chicago, St. Louis and New York are in the field, each clamorous for recognition by the whole country as the place best fitted to have the fair.
 Prescott, 60 far, has becomingly abstained from . presentation of its claims and the great advantages it can offer, particularly climate and space. Within . few days, however, the in-
 3uence of the Prescott Board of Trade
 
 has been sought by the Washington Board of Exhibition promoters in favor of the capital of the whole country s the best place for the celebration. St. Louis has also appealed to us in favor of that great and interprising city.
 If we are really going to have . national expedition and invite all nations to join with us, let us have it at the place where success would not be doubtful and where the benefits to the whole ot the United States and to the world would be greatest, That place is New York.
 A great exhibition to succeed requires . large population and great facilities of access. These are the great factors. Comfort and attractiveness are, also, of prime importance. For an interns- iional display, a sea port city, with an established worldwide commerce, has advantages which interior cities cannot offer, although they may be able to boast of great railway facilities. The railways of Paris and Vienna were over- tasked by the exhibitions and goods were often delayed. Water, as well ss rail transportation, is important, not only for goods, but for passengers. A very large proportion of the visitors to the Paris expositions reach the ground by boats on the Seine. The Danube was an i'm. portant highway for Vienna and the Thames for the London exhibitions.
 At New York, Long Island Sound and the Hudson, besides the msgnif- cent bay, give cool and cheap transpor- ton to the population of important cities and towns, and all of them centres of great manufacturing industry.
 The existence of commercial agencies and branches of foreign houses in such a place as New York is great induce ment to foreign producers and exhibit ors. Such producers abroad already have their trusted agent on the ground, and are the more ready to participate in the cost and labor of exhibiting
 There is one great reason fer an im- mediate and unanimous decision in favor of New York-the shortness of the time for preparation; little more than two years Exhibitions require time to grow and to mature. No un- dertaking responds better to expert pro- motion. We began to prepare for the exhibition of 1876 as early as 1870 The patriotic citizens of Philadelphia raised $50, 900 in cash for the preliminary ex- pences years before they undertook the task of getting the millions together for the construction.
 To organize a great international fair is no slight undertaking; it requires long, arduous, self-sacri6cing and in- telligent labor, and wherever the ex- hibition is held, money must be ex- pended by millions before there is one cent of return.
 It was gratifying to note that the editor of the S. F. Chronicle, who foi merly favored holding the fair at City, after his experince at l Paris gracefully acknowledged the error and conceded that New York by reason of its population, accessibility, weslth and other advantages should be the site
 The N. Y. Tribune, last February. | editorixlly commended the proposed at Washington, but it can- not be doubted that with further knowl- | edge and careful attention to the of exhibitions, the same journal would pronounce, if it has not already pronounced in favor of New York as the place which would not | only ensure the greatest success of the but the greatest national and international good
 WM. ?. BLAKE,