Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-30
CHICAGO SMILES
To Hear a Gothamite Talk
Worlds Fair.
THE OAss A VERY DESPERATE ONE.

A Newspaper Man Tells a Tale of Woe
Four Reasons why the Eastern Metro
polls viii Get Left In the Race, the First
Being Political-A Departing View of
the Situation by q Disguised New Yorker.
CHICAGO, Sept 30-Col Frank A Burr.
the well-known New York newspaper cor
respondent, was at the Palmer the other
day. 81 came out bere,H he said, "chiefiy to
write some letters from Chicago to tell New
York what you are doing about the Worlds
fair. The idea was to stir the NewYorkers
up TO realization of the fact that il they
don't stop quarrehng and at once go to work
they will lose all chance of getting the fair.
1t is really surprising to note with what de-
gree Of unanimity Chicago has gone to work
to get the fair. Nobody is quarreling about
site or anything connected with it The sole
and single purpose seems to he to get the
fair, and settle the details afterward, and
pursuing that policy am frank enough to
say believe Chicago will win"
Tammany Is in the Way.
"Then you have little faith in the New
Workers, chr
"W hen it comes to getting up fairs no. IL
you will listen a moment | will tell you why
New York will be left out of the con
gressions al calculation In the first pace
New York is a great big Democratic city
rule d by Tammany hall Her Democratic
supremacy is assured for all time to come.
There will be $50 000,0O0 to handle in con-
nection with the worlds exposition of ls93,
and do you suppose r hpu-hc1n congress is
going to permit that amount of money to be
handled in New York in = presidential year by
Tam n. -,
much. And for the v.ry same reasons the
rich Republicans OF New York are slow to
take hold OF the enterprise.
Too Much Fuss and No Money
Item No. Like fools the promoters Of
the exposition scheme have got to quarrel
ing among themselves over a site and other
details before they have raised dollar Of
money or made the first advance toward
getting the fair. They are quarreling over
who shalt be this officer and who shall be
that, and by such Stiffness are frittering
away their strength aud infiuenc. day by
day.
Don't Want II, Anyhow.
~ltem No S-Rich New Workers do not
want the fair. That Is, they care nothing
about II Your rich and Idle New Yorker Is
the most Sc fish, unpatriotic un-American
chap to lie found in seven states What
uOts ne care ABOUT tne eNpOsltlont OF what
interest Is it to himi Wherein can il benefit
himt He would much prefer to go over to
Paris and see an exposition. He does not
believe anything creditable to the country
con be gotten up in America, anyhow, and
SO believing he hasn't dollar To put in il.
That Is the feeling of all rich and fashionable
New York, and we see it revealed in the ut
ter apathy with which the wealthy Anglo
maniac iders have regarded the exposition
idea from the first
Has No Available Location,
Item No, New York has neither a
suitable site nor the proper means of reach
ing one If he had it Her present iutramur-
al transportation facilities are crowded now
20 the utmost Two or three trsnsparta-
ton companies control every inlet from
abroad, and that whole neck of woods be-
tween Spuyten Duyvel creek and Castle
Garden Is already so crowded that not a
place available could be found anywhere.
The present idea is to locate the fair in Gen.
trail park IL that idea is adhered to il
will burst the scheme wide open The law
prevents IL, and a special act Of the Iegisla-
ture vii be necessary to put it there Again,
more than half of New York will bitterly re
s-nt and oppose such use Of Central park.
No, the exposition, l am frank TO say, will
not be.ikely 20 so 10 New York. and nobody
will grieye less than the New Workers them
selves II they don't get il. -