The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-05
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Wsthin . arsef period a wonderfal
callsz~r has taken rlace il TIE apparent
ehtsaees oE Cnseaz0 and Sew York 81 rivals
fortlse location Of tbseontemplatea Verdi
fafr ia Is2. A. the outset, to every un-
prsfadaeed observer. great pFepoHderanee
81 probabilities pointed Enthusiastically n
sae direction u Sew York. That csty ~&s
he metropolis. known the world over Is
such n fasBy countries ard 10 many Peo-
rls considered as monopoiizing claim TO
fore5en e8as Iteration a. among cities OF
sae United states. ard for these and many
other reasons ths confession vas az once
reached Lat ia fair was to Sc held IN the
United states It mEsf be located in New
York
Bar Sew York. IS in the Grant mont
naent foatter and many Others, has MUM
ble1 over It and gone 70 sleep TO dream
o. q. ard her capitalists hare kept tight
.sn.eh 90 their money bags. while Chicago
has been up and doing With the IN
uoaauerabie and ali-eonquering energy
which IL eqGaled nowhere else in the
world, Ter people have worked an almost
miraculous transformation Of public senti-
ment, both among their fellow-countrym
ans among foreign nations.
For two fun months the combined frantic
efforts OF oil her newspapers we're power
less % arouse New York from her Iethargy,
aad the bold banter OF Joseph Puli,zer's
uroffered contribution OF 5000 stood soli-
taFy and alone. cold and comfortleSs. The
great men Of Gotham stood Sowing and
towering on the selection of site il the
fair should be held there. At last, by
begging and pleading, and after the most
persistent efforts, a committee was APP
pointed TO try ard raise 100000. Con-
sidering their boast that they have sixty
citizens whose combined wealth amounts
to more than s500. 100000, it should not
have taken many minutes TO have raised
the sum they asked for. But after sub
seription lists had been scattered broadcast,
and the matter industriously worked for
five DAYS, the New York papers boastingly
paraded, total subscriptions, S67l, s36;
amounts pledged, $4,000; grant total,
sa5i. ST.
Two months before. at the very first
dash. Chicago entered the field with re-
liable subscriptions OF more than double
this sum. Today her enterprising citizens
stand ready 70 double the amount which
New York has fixed as high-water mark.
And there need &c 40 fear bat what Chi
cago viii let foreign peoples know that
there is such city, where IL is, and how
to get there And she will devise artful
ways OF convincing them that it is worth
while to get there.
1t Is safe TO say that If Chicago succeeds
in her present enaeavor there win be no
civilized city Of 50.000 population on the
face OF the earth bat win be ahundanty
supplied with Lake city literature, and
that OF the most alluring type. 1t is hardly
less certain that u6sser like circumstances
New York would consider herself the daz.
cling light on a lofty mountain top, 10
which all eyes must turn anyway, and
would consider IL beneath her metropoli-
tan dignity % address or recognize city
OF less than 10000 population.
The American people like nerve, energy
and enterprise. They detest sleepy-hol-
Iowness In their estimation anything
that is worth having Is worth striving for.
Let New Yorks stupid pride and sordid
selfshness take a tumble. Let Chicago
have the show,