St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-12
RIVALS FOR The FAIR
Continued From First Page.

Mr.. BRYAN reviewed the disadvantages
Washington labored under, and the
lack of transportation facilities In New
York. He said he pleaded for the agri-
culturlSt, the miner. the lumberman and
cattlemen of the West. He wanted the
people to come to Chicago, and see what
the West could show them. The orator
who had spoken so eloquently for New
York this morning was one whose lips
were the opening to jewel casket He
would have wished that the Jewels that
dropped in such profusion from his lips
wer blocks, and blocks of marble, too,
aud then liberty would not have had to
wait as long for pedestal prolonged
laughter, and her longing eyes would
before this have seen the memorial arch
and the Grant monument. Laughter
They had spoken of the climate of Chi
cago. and of its heat in summer. He
would speak of the time in midsummer
when he visited New York. when the
hotels were crowded to repletion. 1t
was not pleasant to spend the night in
sometimes better than to miss a
whole nights sleep. But it was
distinctly disagreeable to have that I'M
known and unidentified bedfellow wake
you in the middle of the night with the
cry that he was drowning in the bay;
and to learn that he was struggling in
the sweat of his own bed-clotheS. PRO
longed laughter The West has bowed
in worship with its face to the East too
long. All that her orators had said of
New York was true, but she lacked one
thing which Chicago had
SHE LACKED PATRIOTISM.
This Chicago possessed, and she
wished to display. Let the fair come to
Chicago and New York would say:
1--WE have proSpered through your
fair" and the people of Washington
would say: You have taken from us
what would have been great nuisance
and yet you have let us see the elite of
Europe" and the farmer, and the
your name. 4. l.. Jeffrey, the next
speaker, said that it was useless to waste
time in endeavoring to show that any
other city would not be able to handle
the great exposition properly. He would
endeavor TO show that Chicago would
handle it properly. The principal ques-
tons to be considered were the finan-
cial and physical advantages. He pre-
scented TO the committee a certificate
that S5,000.00u had been subscribed to
the Chicago guarantee fund; also Il
statement of the estimated receipts and
expenses, as follows; Receipts. guar
antee fund, 5000, 600; sale of privileges,
$1,000, 700; admissions (15,00O,000 at so
cents. S7,500,000; sale of material after
exposition, $500, 900; total receipts, Sl4,-
100000. Expenses, buildings, ETC.,
S7,000'000; executive, S3,0O0,000: con-
tingent fund, S4000.000; total expenses,
Sl4,000,00O. Itwould be impossible now,
in view of the absence of information
on the question of the amount of space
required, to make q satisfactory estimate |
of hn mr. hn I'M ri
By means of map Mr.. Jeffrey illus |
trated description of the transporta- |
ton and harbOr advantages, and the !
public
PARK SYSTEM OF CHICAGO.
He described in detail the proposed !
site of the exposition. Chicago, he said,
had "a railroads with terminal facilities;
ST. Louis, II, and New York IA.
Mr.. Jeffrey presented a comparative
table of mOrtuary statistics, and also a
comparative statement of temperature
for 1882 both of which were in favor of
Chicago. He gave figures showing the |
number of vessels arriving at and leay- |
ing Chicago during number of years,
to show the great amount of traffic that |
passes through Chicago. As to the con-
venience of people wishing to come and |
go from Chicago, he said no city in the |
world had the railroad facilities that she |
had. He also presented statistics show |
ing the number of people landed IN New
York by the different steamship lines
from Europe during the past year, and |
placed the extreme number that could |
be landed in twenty-five weeks with in |
creased facilities at 1000. Should
these people, ne asked. be inconven-
fenced by having to travel from New
York to Chicago, or should the millions
of people in the United States be forced
to travel from the West to the coast?
In conclusion he urged the committee,
on behalf of Chicago and the North
west, to select Chicago as the site for
journed. The representatives of the
four cities have been accorded the privi-
lege of filing supplementary statements
or answers with the committee.
The members of the New York worlds
fair committee called in body upon
President Harrison this afternoon, and
were informally received.
BOOMERS RENDERED A RE CEPTIoN.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1l.-Congress-
man Flower and Mr. Belden of New
York gave 4 reception to the worlds
fair committee from New York city at
the Arlington hotel tonight which
the Arlington from o'clock
until midnight, with crowd
of worlds fair people not only from
New York but from st. Louis, Wash
ington and Chicago. Conspicuous
among those present were Chauncey NJ.
Depew, Mayor Grant, Senator Warner
Miller, ex-Secretary Whitney, F. r.
Thurber ana Assistant Secretary Bach |
elor, of New York: Congressman
Mason, j. w. Scott and T. B. Bryan,
of Chicago: Gov. Fletcher and George |
Balm, of st. Louis, Secretary Anderson |
and NJ. M. Parker, of the Washington
board of promotion, were present. Mr..
Depew, Mr.. Ryan and Congressman
Mason made speeches, in which was
evidenced a good-natured rivalry be-
tween the two cities and sections for
the honor of securing the location of the
great auadrl-centennial exposition.