Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-10

Workers.
 There were many mistakes in management of course, chief Of which was that which placed the management of the entire show in the hands of snobs who ran it for snobs. The musical ex- ercises and fireworks display would dis grace a country fai1, the exhorbitant charges for seats on the stands was an outrage and the ball and banquet were made the great events-both for the qualification of an odious local fashion able element. Beyond bringing the visitor here and inducing the masses of these great cities to turn out on the streets absolutely nothing seems to have been thought of. It mattered not that not one in ten of the persons who hoped to see the parades could do so prevented alike by lack of forethought in the man. agement and extortionate prices for the privilege of sitting on bare board. The men who handled the centennial show knew nothing of the real necessities of such an occasion to the masses. The four hundred they could cater to intel1i- gently.
 But, all the blundering considered, the fact remains that the show was great one. How miserably small must these caterers to the four hundred element have felt in the presence of the magnificent l multitude that swept away disappoint- l ments and proceeded to make show of itself.
 Chatting with friend who has been more or less intimate with the manage ment of the centennial committees and l he said, "Hcre IS the whole cause of the l McAllister-Fish rumpus in nut shell. l There Is no doubt that McAllister cannot be surpassed by any one in New York in
 he arrangement and management of l balls. but heretofore he has had only to 1 deal with men of his own class who knew him to be gentleman and trusted him unreservedly with all the funds. He has never had to make an accounting, 1 and knew nothing whatever of business l methods as applied to matters like these. 1 The committee, knowing his ability and his knowledge of social life in New York requested him to take charge of the ar- engagements of the ball, and at their first meeting asked for his reports to which he replied with good deal of asperity kthat he had none, and was not accus- toned to being called upon for such things; that if they could not trust him to disburse the funds they never should have selected him. The. committee ex- plained over and over again that this 1 plan would never serve in dealing with public matters however well 1t might work i'll private; that he was to have the spending of something like ,OOO, for every cent of which they were responsible, and for which they must show exact figures, and with out reports from him this would be inn possible. All of which was reasonable enough, only that by this time MoAllis- ter was too angry to listen to reason and l refused to obey their commands. He
 was too powerful and too important for the committee to demand hls resignation 1 so, as last resource, e new committee
 was formed which, under the title of plan
 and scope, undertook to have an eye
 upon matters and to make reports to the
 central committed. As soon as the mat
 again and perhaps the best and only way
 out of it all was the one McAllister took
 of resigning."
 But McAllister has been avenged. The fine champagne he purchased was used so freely that even some of the 400 got
 drunk. McAllister was, in some respects
 made victim no doubt-a scapegoat fo1
 the snobbery of others as well as hii ! own-and wonderful Is the gossip that is
 circulating about that ball and the re
 suits of the wrangling over 1t.
 The great mistake made in the mili tary parade was in allowing all the regi
 ments to march in open instead of clos,
 order, which would have reduced tht
 length of it by 6 quarter at least; mod
 ern warefare and its deadly engines O
 distraction has discouraged the massins
 of men. but there Is no reason why thes,
 tactics should be brought to bear on, tn, parade and it certainly detracted yer, greatly from the stirring effect of com pact bodies of men bristling with steel | How fine this effect may b6 made wa : shown by the South Carolina and vir
 ginia troops, and in fact by all tn Southerners, who for tho most par marched in close order and thus gave al ! appearance of greater briskness an, ! conpaotness. The New Workers wer
 moet generous in applauding the south , erners, and IL S~w man in the whol procession was S cheered as hand ~ x& Come, whitehall M >@ ed Governor Lee NJ of Virginia; O.
 a .1S& most of the bal
 comics where boo
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