The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-13

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capitalists are Indifferent 70 the success of
the fair; nor do believe them TO be true.
On the contrary, the business men and the
money interests OF New York are warmly
favorable . II, and az the proper time will
show, by their attitude and their readiness
70 assist IN making II great success, that |
am accurately informed on this point
Long before our plans are matured you
VIII see SUCH an en- husiasm over tue fair as
IS not now dreamed Of, and all the talk 70
the contrary will be shown to be ridic-
ulous
Il am not aware. personally, that any
! attempt has been made by outside la d
spectators 10 influence the selection of q
site for the fair. At all events such at
tempts, II made, could only have resulted
In failure. There were too many vigilant
eyes open, and besides, the site as chosen
entirely precludes any such possibility
1T may be decided by tue proper COM
mittee that there should be some supremely
distinctive feature to make the fair con
spicuOus-some such creation as the Eiffel
tower, which is the talk of the scientific
and mechanical world. Many suggestions
have been made on the subject 1t may be
decided by the COMMITTEES on buildings to
give American genius chance by Offering
premium for the most striking and orig
lnal design for such feature. The fair is
an event which will naturally stir up the
Inventive genius of the country, aud the
latter no doubt will be equal to the task of
producing something worthy OF the coca
sion. The fact that here America will be
put in competition with the world should,
OF itself be sufficient to excite emulation ia
this respect.
"While | would not attempt to predict
the action OF the committee on building, or
any of the committees, / think that all
things being satisfactory in other respect, il
may be decided TO have some permanent
buildings with the view of maintaining cer-
tain features of the fair in an enduring
form. Just what the features will be. it Is
for the committee TO deter nine.
1T is somewhat late in the day to speak
of the claims of other cities with respect TO
the fair. / have received communications
pretty much from all over the union on the
subject. and, with a few unimportant ex-
ceptions, they have enthusiastically favored
New York as the proper place for holding
the fair. The advantages claimed for
Chicago, and upon which her persistent
candidacy is based, exist in name only.
Neither in travelling accommodations, in
noIeis, nor IN any business aspect can she be
compared with New York, although adj
nit Chicago has made surprising prog ess.
The offer to defray the cost of transporting
the goods OF foreign exhibitors to Chicago
from the east free, will hardly be consid-
cred by such exhibitors who will be dis
posed to regard the bid as cheap one in the
interest Of section determined to have the
fair If possible at whatever cost. 1t is a
waste of time for Chicago or it's officials to
patriotism apart. must be dealt with purely
as business problem. New York is the
| place for it, and nowhere else. Mayor
| Cregier's assertion that New York has
reached the limits of its ambition and, hav-
| ing nothing more to wish for-all its chief
inhabitants being millionaires-it is con-
tent to let well enough alone and not
trouble itself about raising funds for the
fair, is simply ridiculous. It's more than
ridiculous. Since he lived here, New York
has doubled its population twice over; it
| doubles every fifteen years. Its facilities
have kept pace with this expansion. He
has no idea of the growth of New York, nor
have Chicagoans, as a rule. They are to ,
intensely Interested in watching the phe-
| nomepal growth of their own section to
have any time left to study New York.
People will come here to the fair from
every country under the sun, only frac-
ton of whom would take the trouble to go
to an inland city. / see according to the
latest reports 100000 Americans have
visited Paris this summer Well, we will
do better than that. But our own people
alone would make the fair success in point
of attendance"
How to raise the $l50O0,0o0 is the ques-
ton now being discussed, and variety of
plans, OF all sizes and denominations, have
been showered upon the unoffending heads
of the Fl ance committee. One of the latest
suggests the adoption of the system resorted
to in France: A popular loan to be raised
on certificates of small amount, which can
be taken up by the working classes, the
certificates to be neg Dtiable and guaranteed
by the city of New York. A few millions
will probably be needed at the very start 20
acquire either by lease or by purchase the
land adjacent to Morningside and Riverside
parks.
Present indications are that before No
veInber the existing committees will be
merged into general committee which will
take entire charge of the work, delegating