Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-13

NEW YORK WANTS THE EARTH,
And Included With It the Exposition of
1892.
BUT THERE ARE REASONS WHY IT SHOULD BIZ HELD
IN WASHINGTON INSTEAD, AND THESE REASONS
CAN BE SEEN EVEN BIZ NEW YoRKER-oPENINa
OF THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE ANNEX FOR WOMEN.
Correspondence of TEE EVENING sr.n
NEW YonK, July u.
There Is one argument for the location
OF the proposed exposition Of 1892 at
Washington which should be sufficient in itself
to need none other. That argument is politics.
There will be so much politics in the city of
New York in 1892 that no voting man is going
to care rap about whether Christopher Co
lumbus landed on these shores Just 400 years
ago or whether he didn't; and you can't get
man interested in present issues in partisan
supremacy to care a bag of beans about cele-
orating issues 400 years old. In Washington,
on the contrary, there is no Tammany, no
county Democracy, no johnny O'Brien's
Dyes, no voting. and hence no politics. With
no outside engrossing duties on their hands
and minds, the Neutrality-suspicious. would devote
themselves heartily to the exposition and to
the entertainment of the visitors from every
where. But the above is the weaker side of
the argument. If the exposition should be held
III New York during the wear of a presidential
election there Is a dead certainty that il would
be used as a means to further political intrigue.
inns Is the stronger side of the argument. Pol
ltlclans are not angels it isn't necessary to saw
And we don't want the greatest American ex-
positon controlled or manipulated by poll
ticians.
ARGUMENTS FOR NEW YORK.
New York says: But we have the best loca-
ton IN the world for an exposition. Look at
our great parks" Well, look at them Where
are they? Away off up in Westchester county,
the nearest of them not less than a Journey of
an hour and twenty minutes from our city hall.
central park has been proposed, which would
bring the exposition right down in the center
OF the city, but if the park commissioners at
tempt to rae to the ground the lovely shade
trees with which Central park is so beautifully
supplied In almost every portion. or to level
the ravlnes and sloping hills the citizens would
raise such howla about their ears as would soon
stop the dissertation. The new parks are far to
the north of the Harlem river. New York's rapid
transit facilities in this direction are even now
inadequate to carry the population of the up
town districts to and fro daily
We're the exposition held in Washington the
buildings could be erected in the very heart of
the city in park already level and practically
clear OF distractions. From any of the lead
ing hotels it is but a few minutes walk and one
of the greatest railroads in the country lands
Its passengers directly on the grounds.
ACCOMMODATING THE CROWDS.
New York says it can accommodate the hordes
of people that will visit the exposition better
than Washington can. Now. New York in every
portion where it is built up is over-populated
1t has more hotels than Washington. but when
these hotels are filled the lodgings-hunter will
mud the boarding houses. the flats the tene-
ments already filled up to their limit. During
the Washington centennial here visitors were
compelled to lodge at Jersey City, Newark,
Elizabeth and Passac, in New JERSEY; at
Brooklyn, Coney Island, Rockaway, and Flush
ing. Long Island, and on Staten Island
Washington Is accustomed to doubling up
Tor the accommodation of crowds, as she has
done 1t every four years for many decades
The whole city transforms itself when neces-
sary, into an immense boarding house. There
is no over-popuiation, hence there is plenty of
room to spare. And if New York has suburban
accommodations. so has Washington, easily ac-
cesSlble and ample for every need.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
New York claims that it is the great terminal
point of through railroad lines from all direc-
lions. and that vessels from all portions of the
world bring their passengers and their freight
to its docks and piers. While all this is quite
true. it is equally true that every visitor to the
exposition and every consignment for exhibit
ton that reaches New York by steamship can
be carried to Washington in from five to ten
hours after reaching New York. The great
railroads Of the south, southwest west and
north have their arteries flowing right into
Washington city, with facilities ample to ac-
commodate every carload that NAV be en- route
to the exposition, whether from Aroostook in
Maine or Palestine in Texas. The difference
in ease, rapidity and facilities for transporta-
ton is so slight that it really counts for moth
ing.
NEW YORK WANTS THE EARTH.
No matter where the exposition is held, New
York, the metropolis Of the new world, will be
visited by the strangers who come from abroad
to attend our exposition. New York will make
more money out of the exposition than Wash
lngton will, even if the capital city gets the
coveted honor. New York, with other manu-
featuring cities, will get all the trade benefits
| of the exposition. Washington manufactures
| nothing. and is probably the only prominent
city III the Union that will derive no future
trade benefit from the affair. 1t therefore
looks as If New York were indeed in want of
the earth for her to so persistentlv badger and
bully for still further benefits from the Three
| Americas exposition of 1892. But then any
| one who stops to think moment will readily
see that the exposition belongs to Washington
as the national capital, no matter what might
be the advantages of other cities.
CoLUMBIAs ANNEX FOB WOMEN
New York women have capacity for great
deeds when they choose to exercise it. A work
of great importance to the education of women
has been put in the way of rapid completion by
New York women during the past two or three
years, and their committee now announces
that on October next Barnard college, an an
mex to Columbia college, will be opened for
women students. Nopublicity has been sought
by the ladies who have labored quietly but
earnestly to raise the money necessary to carry
out this enterprise, but their work must have
been as arduous as it has been earnest Not
enough money has yet been subscribed to &C
commodate the number of students that would
no doubt apply for admission; therefore
this coming autumn only a freshman class
will be admitted, the hope being
entertained that by another year women pre-
pared for any grade may be accommodated
The college is named after President Barnard
of Columbia. who was one of the first cham
pions of co-education. Its building is situated
on Madison avenue (No. 34S), near 45th street,
not many squares from the buildings of Column
bia college. The tuition fees will be the same
as are paid by mail students in the college
proper, and the entrance examinations are the
same as for male freshmen. II. II. 8.
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