Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-12
WHICH WILL GET IT?.
The Rivalry for the Worlds
Fair Site.
THE EMPIRE CITY's CLAIMS
Ably Championed by Chauncey NJ.
Depew-ChicagO's Cause Quite
as Well Pleaded.


as Well Pleaded.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD,
WASHINGTON, January IL Chicago
and New York representatives today
presented their claims for the location of
the Worlds Fair before the Senate
special committee. Mr.. Depew was the
first speaker for New York. After allud-
ing to the Paris Exposition and the
meagerness of the American exhibit
there, he said: ''Now it becomes our
necessity to hold an exhibition of the
United States, which shall bs 80 broad
in it's character, 30 internati onal in it's
invitations and hospitalities, that all
people who can produce, who have ma
terials, or who want opportunities for
trade, shall come here with their pro.
ducts to exhibit, and see what we can
do. Ii our friends from Wash.
ington, Chicago and St. Louis
would dismiss from their minds
the local prejudices and local
ambitions which they have, and would
fix their eyes and impartial judgment on
the question, they would say if fair in
Great Britain was to be held at Man
chester. Birmingham or Liverpool, great
cities, 1t woHld be a failure, and thew
would not go. They would cav that if a
fair In France would be held in MarseilIes
or Lyons, great cities, they would not
go. NOW take it there is no discussion
as TO what Is the metropolis of this coun-
Try mean its financial and comm mercial |
metropolis. New York is certainlv tho
metropolis of the United States.''
Depsw said he had been interested j.,
the circle theory presented by Sd. Ionis
and which seems a novel method of
duplicating and reduplicating the NOM
lation of the United States. A center Of
100 miles from Peekskill, NY, includes
the Hudson with it's uneuualed cities.
includes The metropolis; and yet Peeks.
XII is not here as an aspirant for this
Ialr on the circle theory. Within the
limits OF what constitutes the city of
New York. Jersey City, etc., you have
three Chicagos. Eight million of popn.
latlon in the vicinity could visit the fair
at New York for sum of not more than {
80, and from that down to five cents.
On the transportation problem he said.
depended largely the success of the fair.
Two hundred thousand wishing TO 90 4
home from st. Louis or Chicago, could
not disperse at the rate of more than 25.-
000 per hour, and this would take eight 9
hours, i,,' ana ma the next day the fair would :,
crowd more rapidly than was done in L
Paris. a
Chicago and st. Louis had a memorial c.
fund of 100000 each; New YORK. a =
collective assessment of Sc, 100000. Al =
bill was now ready to be presented to g
the New York Legislature, authorizing q
the expenditure of $40 100000 which a
would pass without dissenting voice. b
The Paris exhibition had cost about fr
$40, 900 600, and this one would cost at .
least $l2 900, 900. Unless there was that 9
much money in sight the fair would, he
said, be failure. "Washington p
Is unequaled in avenues and in public fs
buildings, and we admit it. St. Louis 81
has age, she has also an unequaled posi- p
lion in the great valley of the Mississippi, y
and Wa admit what she is, and what she 4
promises to be. Chicago is the most v
development of urban pro. .
gress the world has ever seen; we admit
it, not only in all that constitutes r
great central and commercial metropolis,
but also in arts and culture. This we =
admit, and still we claim Nav
York city is the great repre-
sentative city OF America. New
York has no sectionalism, no
jsalousies. If the Government I
should today appropriate to every fam q
lily in the United States the money c
which would carry them to one place,
with the distinct understanding that Q
they could select no other, the vote, with !
q unanimity unequaled in the express
sion of desire, from Maine to the Gulf,
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific, would
be, Take me to New York;"
ExCongressman Bourke Cochran, of
New York, then addressed the commit
tee
He reviewed at length the transporta-
ton possibilities of the competing cities,
and said New York was the only city in
the Union that could possibly accommo-
date the crowds that must make the ex.
position success. The ono hundred
and fifty Thousand people who would
visit the exposition every day would not
be noticed on the streets of New York.
In conclusion he said that New York was
willing to leave the decision Of the ques.
ton to the calm, unbiased judgment OF
the committee and of Congress.
The committee then took recess to
allow the members to attend the funeral
of Judge Kelley in the House. When
the committee reassembled the room was
again crowded to it's fullest capacity.
The Chicago delegation had front seats. |
TIE first speaker of the afternoon was |
ex-senator Warner Miller, who with |
James Wood. President of the New York |
State Agricultural Society, closed the |
case for New York.
CHICAGO,S CAUSE.