New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-24
THE BOOKS OPEN TO-DAY.
NOW SUBSCRIBE FOR THE WORLDS FAIR
THERE WILL BE LISTS INSTRUMENTATION
GRANT MAKES AN APPEAL-JoHN
rAv,c LETTER.

THERE WILL BE LISTS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
JAYS LETTER.
Secretary Wilson OF the Worlds Fair Committee on n
nance said yesterday that the books prepared for sub
scrptons to the guarantee fund of IS 900 900 would be
formally opened about noon to-day. Ledger-sized
copies viii be furnished first TO Drexel, Morgan Co..
August Belmont e. Co., J. a. W. Selgman Is Co.. and
10 President Edward Simmons, of the Fourth National
Bank who Is treasurer of the Finance Committee
These are the principal repositories designated
by tho committee Similar copies then will DO furnished
to other banking Institutions and TO every newspaper
in this city and Brooklyn The pochet-size books
win be distributed among members of the General
Committee and other trustworthy persons. All appl
cations for the books will be passed upon by the
committee
Mr. Wilson wished to have It announced that there
was no occasion for the employment of salaried
solicitors The books will be distributed that all
who NAV wish TO subscribe do so without diff
Guilty. and public interest will do the rest.
Members of the Committee Site and Buildings
particularly and Worlds Fair committeeman gener-
ally are greatly pleased at the action of the Arch
tectural League of this city in deciding TO have for
tho subject Of its third annual prize competition grand
entrance the Exposition grounds After discus
SION the committee appointed decided upon grand en-
trance as a subject the specifications providing that
the central feature must be Of stone in the form Of
an arch The designs must be handed in by December
TO- and the awards will be made at the close of the
present seasons exhibition, which continues from
December 90 TO January H.
The Mayor received yesterday afternoon a letter
from Chairman Babcock, of the Finance Committee,
suggesting that the Executive Committee, appointed
on October g. select from the General Committee sub
committees of three five to make personal appeal
to the leading firms and corporations in the various
hU In hfc ,Ifx Nav
piled that he would place the letter before the Ex
ecutive Committee, which will meet Friday, but
had issued the following appeal TO citizens TO hasten
the affair as much possible:
The Finance Committee recommend that $4,000 900
be raised as a guarantee fund for the International
Exposition proposed TO be held in the city of New
York in 1892 This recommendation was adopted by
the committee for the International Exposition OF lo92
and the Finance Committee has carefully prepared
a form for subscriptions TO this fund.
1t is of great importance that this fund Should De
subscribed at once, every days delay being an en-
barrassment l earnestly urge you 10 subscribe
thereto literally and promptly that the people OF the
United states may know that the citizens of New
York are ready do all that is essential to make the
proposed Exposition worthy of the position the United
States hold among the countries of the world
Subscriptions will be received at the Mayors Office
as soon as the Finance Committee sends the Mayor
subscription book. He has called meeting Oh INC
Executive Committee for Friday afternoon at O'CLOCK
to act Mr. Babcocks letter.
John Jay sent a long letter TO Mayor Grant yeser-
day. in which he said, among other things regarding
the selection OF the members Of the Site Committee OF
Central Park as a site:
Mr.. Towne's suggestion that II they, intended TO
take Central Park should be declared psi am
that IT would be unwise TO exclude Cential Park' I3r.
Mr. Grace's remark on the folly of the city spending
so much money for private lands when IL , naa -
much already that could be used'; by Mr. lilltoh
suggestion as TO the buildings that might be con
venently erected in the Park, ana by MS ftihdLh
mod mic lG avoided
change Of front in regard to the Park will facilitate
their work that it will certainly tend TO conclliate
Larmonze and unity public opinion in favor OF her
fbe State and The Nation They can hardly be &C
compIshed without the aid of the legislature at
Albany. representing the entire state and their inter.
national character renders essential the cooperation OF
Congress Admitting the sincerity OF
Mr. Cooper and the other gentlemen o., OF
The General Committee, who assure sur p,ri us
that we need have no fears OF injury to me faTk
that only part of II shah be taken i 1t shall De iSo
BY the buildings they may 9et 6 or py ali g the U
it may deserve 10 their argument that me aOily 10
negotiate advant ageOusly with the of private
property which be still the oqeS s S b
and secure or to reiard and endanger their success
This question was not discussed in the General Com
mitee, although It is known that opinion in that body
was by means unanimous in favor OF abandoning
TRe pea Of nece o now Put forth as an apology
for the announcement that the committee may require
tncty indicate that they have already decided that #
is necessary and that they intend TO take it-mleht
carry weight not perfectly familiar win
the plea used by practical politicians" that
whatever they want must be had, and that the claim
of necessity dispensing with and with proofs,
is the end Of argument. -:
In answer to the argument of Mr.. Cooper that they
take only part of the Park is there no force in the
reply that while the resolution Is confined 10 part Of
the Park. the principle involved applies equally 10 the
rest and that consent the taking Of part will be
surrender Of the exclusive right Of the people to the
whole?
II the people have no right to the Park north Of
Ninety -scventh-st what better right have they TO
the part south of Ninety seventh-st.? If the law
affords no protection to the part, why should il
protect the other? If the General Committee can
take the one the ground that II IS for the
purposes Of the Exhibition, why may they not, the
same or another committee, If they find it necessary,
take another part? Why, Mr. Grace argued,
should they spend money for private lands when there
is much that be used belonging 10 the city
Possibly in this view the General Committee may
find that the Interests of the Exposition Will be adj
vanced by prompt abandonment of the policy urey-
eminent members disap proved. 20 occupy Central Park
above Ninety seventh-st and by voluntary and grace
full return 10 the judicOuS conclusion of the SubCOm
mittee on sites that Central Park shall not be invaded
that the law shall not be modified and that tn" Park.
remaining under the Park Commission, shall be used
only for refres hmcnt and repOSe.
The following subscriptions were received yesterday
for the preliminary fund John D. Jones. $3.50
Randolph Guggenhemer. $537 CA r. H. Macy & Co..
81 900 George Hoady, 800; Lord d Taylor 81 900;
frank Curtiss president of Sixth Avenue Railroad,
1857 SO.
PRESSING THE CLAIMS OF WASHINGTON.
A MEMORIAL To CONGRESS PREPARED BY THE