Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-12

World Fair before the Senate special com
mittee.
Mr.. Depew was the first speaker for New
York. After abiding to the Paris Exposi-
ton, and the meagerness of the American
exhibit there. he said Nov, il becomes
our necessity 10 hold an exhibition of the
United States which shall be so broad in
its character, 50 international in its invita-
tons and in its inequalities, that all the
people who can produce, who want materials.
or have the opportunities for trade, shall
come here with their products to exhibit
and see what we can do. If our friends
from Washington, Chicago and st. Louis
would dismiss from their minds local pre-
judices and the ambition which they have.
and would fix their eyes aud impartial
Judgment on the question: they would say
II the fair in Great Britain was to be held
at Manchester, Birmingham or Liverpool,
great cities, it would be failure and they
would not 60. They would say that if a
fair in France would be held in Marseilles
or Lyons, great cities they would not go.
Now / take it there is no discussion as to
what is the metropolis of this country. l
mean its financial and commercial metrop-
oils. New York is certainly the metropolis
of the United States"
Depew said he had been interested in the
circle theory presented by st. Louis and
which seems novel method of duplicating
and reduplicating the population of the
United States. a center of 100 miles from
Peekskill. n. Y, includes the Hudson with
its unequalled cities, it includes the me-
tropolis, and yet Peekskill is not here as an
aspirant for this fair on the circle theory.
Within the limits of what constitutes the
city of New York, jersey City, ETC., YOU
have three Chicagos. Eight millions of
in I,a Vic
fair at New York for Il sum not more than
81. 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 go home
from st. Louis or Chicago could not dis
perse at the rate of more than % 600 per
hour and this would take eight hours, and
the next day the fair would close, while
New York could distribute a crowd more
rapidly than was done in Paris.
he reviewed at length the transportation
possibilities Of competing cities, and said
New York was the only city in the Union
that could possibly accommodate the crowds
that must make the exposition a success.
The 10000 people who would visit the
exposition every day would not be noticed
on the streets ef New York.
In conclusion, he said that New York
was willing to leave the decision of the
question to the calm and unbiased iudg-
ment of the committee and of Congress.
The committee then took a recess to al
low the members to attend the funeral of
Judge Kelley in the House. When the
committee reassembled the room was again
crowded to its fullest capacity. The Chi
cago delegation had front seats The first
speaker of the afternoon was ex-senator
Warner Miller, who with James Wood,
President of the New York State Agricult-
ural Society, closed the case for New York.
The first gentleman TO present the claims
of Chicago was Mayor Creiger, of that city.
"All are here, he said, before you to-day
as citizens Of common country, represent
ing the great western city, deeply interested
in this great exposition which is de-
signed to be held in 1892, to commemorate
the discovery of this hemisphere by that
intrepid navigator, Christopher Columbus.
| say they are deeply interested in it, ard
are deeply in earnest In the belief it ought
to be held in the far West. [Applause.l
Il represent in some measure, the people
Of Chicago, who, while that is their desire.
are also united in the desire and determin-
alton that wherever this exposition is held.
wherever in the wisdom of this Congress
it shall be assigned, nothing shall be want
ing on their part to make il eminently sue
mite to make 1t COMFORT with the dignity
Of this grand and progressive nation.
Applause.
There is no rivalry between the empire
city Of America, New York, and the en-
pire city Of the great West, Chicago Her
people are aciuaJed by higher aud nobler
motives. She desires the greatest good to
the greatest number. We accord to the
empire city, New York, all and everything
she claims. But, Mr.. Chairman, Senators.
gentlemen, there is a new empire and g
new gateway lying on the other side of the
Allegheny Mountains. We recognize the
grandeur and greatness of the city of New
York, and her ability to do all that may be
demanded, but that does not mean that the
second grand city in population, commerce
and manufacturing importance does not
possess like characteristics.
We think, in Chicago, we can meet
every demand required by this great expo
siuon, and are very earnest that it shall be
held in the great West, that sphere of adj
yanced civilization, out of which are to
grow the arts and sciences as the offspring
of this progressive empire. We do not for
get to accord ST. Louis like requisites. We
sck nowledge all, but in doing so we ask
you shall not detract from this marvel of
the nineteenth century, Chicago. New
York has been growing and maturing for
200 years. Chicago has been growing from
the time the city WAS named, only fifty
three years, when it was wiped out by the
most terrible calamity that history records.
Since then she hes r5cnperated and resusci-
tated by the power aud will of her new
blood, which is now really only thirteen
years old, and you Senators, and you peo-
pie froui abroad, everywhere in this coun-
try, cannot deny your pride that such
things have occurred under the benignsnt
influence of this great Govern ment.
She stands ont boldly, claiming the
right of your protection.
Remember the thousands of square miles
that lie on the other side of the Allegheny
mountains. Remember the great chain of
lakes Remember st. Louis, the mistress
city of the worlds greatest river. Let New
York not forget that she must depend for
her future progress, not altogether, but
largely, on the fertile fields of the West.
Remember that this young giant of the
West is constructing q grand waterway TO
the Southwest; that she has undertaken
that stupendOus work. aud will any man
from St. Louis or from this beautiful Capt.
tai say that city that is able to cope with
and find means to carry on that work shall
set aside her claims for this great exposi-
ton.
Chicago wants this exposition. she Is
ready to meet every requirement The
West must be noticed, and it was without
that he said be spoke for six
teen sovereign States of the new West
Thomas Z. Bryan was the next speaker.
After referring in a humorous manner to
New Yorkis claims and Mr.. Depew, be
proceeded to argue that of all the large cit
les Chicago had the coolest, most comfort
able and pleasant climate, and that she
had unequalled railroad facilities and &C
No other city was equally
accessible alike for the bulk of exhibits
and for visitors.
The gentlemen from New York could
make beautiful pictures of their sites, while
poor chicago people must content them
selves with building shaft of truth on 8
pedestal of facts. Could any honest, fair
disp&ssiouate man say the site Sc
Ieeted By New York was 8 proper site?
The truth was the site was not the right To-
cation for 8 Worlds Fair. 1t had physical
Il was uneven. 1t would
require vast expenditure of money to
pull down the buildings. 1t required large
sums to blast its rocks. II required dyna-
mite to blow up the Constitution of the
State in order that it might be occupied. !
Chicsgo had thousands Of acres at the dis 4
possl of the fair, no. house 70 buy, not I
cubic yard 10 level Throughout the I
length ard breadth Of the land there could