The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-26
THEY LIKE cH1CAao's PLu,K.
New York the Place For the Far, But
Savannahians Fail in Lins

New York the Place For the Fer. But
Savannahians Fail in Lins
The interest in Savannah over tle action
of the House of Representatives N voting
the worlds fair to Chicago WA as great
Yesterday as it was the day OF tie election.
The lobbies Of the De Soto, Pulaski and
the other hotels were crowdes last night
with people whose chief conversation turned
on the fair. A good man were New
Workers and not few werf Ctlcagoans.
Chicagoans, especially me ladies,
at the hotels, are overJoyed.
They are proud of their western
TnetTopOlis. and they ay that the
reason WHY Chicago got tn fair IS plain; it
is oply place to have it. Whatever that
CITY has undertaken, they ay. has brought
credit to itself, the state, nd to the coun-
trv II is a net work of ailroads, and the
idea that the facilities ae not as great as
those of New York is sc0lted-
A good many SavaIaahians who have
claims TO the heritage ofthat thriving city
ioin hands with the Wiling Chicagoans,
and are glad that it has Jecome the choice
of location. The ladieslre as much inter-
ested in the fair as ANYBODY else.
1.-THE fair will be atended as much by
the ladies as anybody else. and why may
they not have a say-o about it2n asked a
lady yesterday.
The New Workers ae the people to whom
defeat is sting. Tat usual glibness and
free air that they diplay everywhere was
lacking in a goodmany of them at the
hotels. 1t is not { political matter with
them. and whether the democrats gain or
the republicans losdby the location of the
fair out of New Yok, they are sorry. They
blame their representatives, and they
blame the south as we'll ''If New York is
a southern city, a the people down here
claim. why did rot al the southerners
stick to herr" asked New Yorker last
night.
'Wiu New York have anything to do
with the fair now?' hs vas asked.
''She is too magnannous not to. Yes, /
venture that she will % twice as much to-
ward making it succss as any other city.
She has been beaten, bit it was because she
was too certain that, bng the greatest city
in America, the fair cald not be success
anywhere else. She q not exert herself.
This defeat stings her Iople, but it will not
discourage them. 1t nil not last long.
New York is too bus. to brood over the
NATTER
A New Yorker ventJed the opinion that
putting Chicago forwai was only another
way of killing the fairor 1892. He said
that it was pretty well sttled among good
many in congress thathe fair should not
be held earlier than 49, Their objection
to holding 1t in 1892 is lat it will be neces
sarily mixed up in pdtics. Senator du-
Bignon, who informedimself on the ques
ton when he VS. north a few
weeks ago, is content that the fair
will be held in chicago in 1892.
He is not inclined to t, opinion that the
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The republicans, witha majority in the
Senate, will hardly re,rse what the House
has done, and KNOWN that they had ma
joritleS In both Housend Senate it is not
reasonable that they vuld have clamored
for vote ON the selecOn, if they did not
expect to make their ,lection permanent.
The senator is disappdted that New York
was not selected. ''Call cities" he said,
"New York is the pla to hold the fair. ,
1t is very natural, held, that every south
erner should sympatte with New York in
the contest between Il two cities. 1.-THE
one," he said, sis alnst a southern city,
evincing at all times strong sympathy for
southern people, whithe other is a hotbed
of republicanism whittier prejudices."
81 think it would bmuch better to post
pone the fair until 1872 Mr. duBignon
said, "but if it is dermined to have it,
and those who aremore particularly
charged with the pay policy, should see
no reasons why it shdd not be held, L am
sufficiently patriotioto hope that it will
excel anything of 10 kind ever held in
America, and think is the duty of every
one of us in his humb way to contribute
owards making it sd
"There is one conatory reflection about
it," he said, sit willO a good deal towards
making New York sure democratic state.
1t will be hard Aatter to convince the
people in New Yorthat Boss Platt and his
co-workers ever Jared New York"
Gen. Lawton sal that he did not expect
that the amountf vigor and push, and
thrift and hard wk displayed by Chicago
will bear no fruitIn August, when he was
north, he saw thathe Chicagoans were at
work, and later, jSeptember, he said that
work had amound to something, and the
workers were edoubling their efforts.
Some people in lew York were disposed
to sheer at Chicao for her ''gall" in setting
herself up to be sDlace suitable for a world
fair site; but dicago was too busy to
resent the attack The announcement that
Chicago had we the fair was not, there
fore, such Disappointment to Gen. Law
ton. He favord New York himself, but
he admires the luck of Chicago. He be-
lieves that she vii make the fair a success
but it is doubtful it will make the exhibit
that New York would have made. Many
articles for exhibition transportaole by
steamer to NewY ork cannot be transported
to Chicago by rail. But, said he, Chicago
has evinced a spirit Of pluck and enterprise
which commends her to the world, and thu
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