Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-27
A TALK WITH MRS. LOGAN.
Her Interest In Grand Army of the
Republic Matters Unabated.
CHICAGO AND THE WORLDS FAIR.
She Thinks That Even Paris Does
Not Offer the Accommodations
Afforded in the City BY
the Lake.
On Her Way 60 NIilwaukec.

CHICAGO, August 26.-[Special Telegram to
The BEE. Mrs. John. A. Logan was here
to-day on her way to the Milwaukee G. A.
II. encampment, where she will be the guest
Of the department Of Illinois. She was ac-
companied by General and Mrs. Alger. To
q reporter she said:
~ felt that l could not allow a single
meeting Of the c. A. II. to pass without see
ing it. You know that General Logan was
so much of a Grand Army man, was 80 en-
crossed with it and everything concerning it,
and then / have so many old time
friends and acquaintances whom l shall see
there that l could not let a single year go by.
The veterans are growing fewer and fewer
every year. Doath carries away so many
from the time of one encampment to the
next that feel it sort of sacred duty to
see every year whom are left OF an organiza-
tion which possesses SO many hallowed asso-
Citations for me-"
Mrs. Logan has been an interested OBJ
server of the struggle between New York
and Chicago to secure the worlds fair. II
am of course most anxious" she said, ITO see
the worlds fair success and OF course am
entirely IN favor of Chicago as the place to
have 1t. III the promoters want to have it q
success they should not have moments
doubt about the matter. Chicago is the only
measure of success is possible. While was
abroad visited and gave good deal of at
tention to the Paris exposition and l will
say that, although 1 was impressed with the
mdgnihcence of that great enterprise, and
while it must be acknowledged that Paris is
IA beautiful city, yet am firmly convinced
that Chicago offers more facilities for such an
exhibition and is better suited for it in every
way than Paris. The hotel accommodations
are infinitely superior here to those of Paris.
Why, they have no idea over there of the
mag uificent scale upon which we get up our
great hotels in America But the variety and
magnificence of the exhibits in that Paris ex-
position are absolutely bewildering. Some
of those from the east surpass in magnih-
cence any ever dreamed of, but am sorry
to say that our American exhibition is very
small, poor and insignificant. Our people
are spending immense sums of money
over there and the promoters of the
scheme are affording them every opportunity
to do so, but they have not much OF n repre-
sentatlon in the exposition. In fact, am
sorry to say, was almost ashamed Of the
American section. The Edison exhibits and
the Tiffany jewelry exhibit are good; in fact,
what there is is very good, but they are so
few and are in such backward location that
there is not much attention paid to them"
SLOW is this state of things accounted
'Well, think Mr.. Cleveland was most un-
fortunate in his selection for the commission,
and General w. b. Franklin, who is in
CnarPe, IL wholly unnb IOr Gne pOSItlOu. f1e
hasn't the breadth of ideas nor the business
training to qualify him for it, and the result
is that, so far as the American section is
concerned, the thing is almost a failure.
"There is one thing I want to point out
before leave this subject" said Mrs. Logan,
(which may be of some interest to the peo-
Pile who have the worlds fair project in
charge The Paris exposition was originally
gotten up in the shape of huge lottery to
replenish the treasury of the French govern
ment, which was then in bankrupt con-
dltion. In this it has been most
ment has cleared 3S,000,O0O francs
by the project. Americans should profit by
this There are great many rich people in
France and other European countries, but if
they are rich they know how to hold on to
their wealth, They differ very much from
Americans in this respect. Your European
millionaire spends his money by no
means so lavishly as the American,
and 1 therefore believe that it
is mistake to look forward
to an influx of European capitalists as q
great monetary benefit to this country or
any section of it. Instead of coming here to
spend their money my impression is that they
will try to get over here loaded down with
goods and carry our money back with them.