Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-01-12
BATTLE ROYAL
GOTHAM AGAINST THE WINDY CITY.
New York and Chicago COntesing for the
Fair.
ARGUMENTS MADE BY BOTH
Before the Worlds Fair Committee Of The
Senate.

Worlds Fair before the Senste's special
committee. Mr.. Depew was the fret
speaker for New York. After alluding to
the Paris Exposition and the meagreness
of the American exhibit there, he said
"It now become our necessity to hold
an exhibition of the United States, which
shsll be 80 broad in its character, SO inter-
national in its invitations, in its hospitali-
ties, that all the people who can produce,
who want materials, or VINO have the op-
portunities for trade, shall come here with
their products to exhibit and see what we
can do. That exhibition must necessarily
be the best representation Of the growth,
of the opportunities, of the inventions, OF
the skill, OF the arts, of the manufacturing
power of the United States, that has ever
been gathered on this continent.
NEW YoRK's CLAIMS.
If our friends from Washington, st.
Louis and Chicago would dismiss from
their minds the local prejudice and the
local ambition which they have, and would
fx their eyes and impartial Judgment on
the question, they would say that if fair
in Great Britain were 10 be held at Man
chester, Birmingham or Liverpool (grest
cities) it would be a failure and they
would not 20. They would say that if
fair in France would be held in Msrseilles
or Lyons great cities) they would
not 20. They would say that if a fair
in Italy was to be held in Genoa, Naples
or Florence great cities) they would not
90. They would say that if fair in Ger
many were to be held in Dresden or Leipeic
they would not 90. But they would say
that if a fair is to be held at London, Paris,
Rome or Berlin, and if the imperial hospi-
talities of the country which that metrop-
oils represents were 10 be extended them,
the world would be represented there.
Now, I take il that there is NO discussion
az tc what is the metropolis of the country
i mean its financial and commercial
metropolis. New York is certainly the
metropolis of the United States.
GoTHAM's RICHBs GALORE.
Referring to the financial problem, he
said that the Exposition could not 60 on
record. 1t would not be possible to sell
bonds 60 the "chromo business" could
not be success. Chicago and st. Louis
had memorial funds Of 81, 600, 600 each
New York q collective assessment OF So,-
300, 600. The bill was now ready to be
presented to the New York Legislature
authorizing the expenditure Of SIC, 900, 600,
which, he said, would pass without dis
senting voice. He ridiculed the ap-
prehension that Tammsny Hall could
derive a political benefit from
the fact of the Fair being held in
New York, and said in conclusion
Washington is uDequslled in it's avenues,
in its public buildings, and we admit 1t;
st. Louis slso has an unequslled position
in the great valley Of the Mississippi, and
we admit what she is and what she prom
isss to be. Chicago is the most phenome-
nal development of progress that the world |
has ever seen, and We admit it, not only IN |
all that constitutes great central and
commercial metropolis, but also IN the arts
and culture. All this we admit, and still /
we claim that New York is the greatest
csntre.
NEW YORK IS THE GREAT METROPOLIS. |
New York is the great representative city
of America. New York has no sectional
ism. New York has no jealousies. l
submit to you, Mr.. Chairman, that if the
Government should to-day appropriate to
every family in the United States the
money which would carry them to one
place, with the distinct understanding
that they could select no other, the vote,
with an unsnimity unequalled in the ex-
preston of desire, from Maine to the
Gulf. from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
among farmers, ranchmen, nine men,
merchants, artisans, professional men,
journalists, artists, would be take me to
New York"
Ex-Congressman Burke Cochran, OF New
York, then addressed the committee. He
reviewed at length the transportation pos
sbilities of the competing cities, and that
New York was the only city in the Union
that could possibly accommodate the
crowds that must make the Exposition
success.
Ex Senator Warner Miller, snd James
Wood. President of the New York Agri-
cultural Society, closed for New York.
CHICAGO AT THE BAT.
The fret gentleman to prerent the claims
of Chicago was Mr. Cregier, the Mayor of
that city. After alluding to what his
mission was in this city, be said: l desire
here. in the name Of the people of Chicago
to fully reciprocste the kindly expressions
l have heard this morning Of true frater-
nity. There is no rivalry between the
Empire City of the East and the metropo-
liz of the West-Chicago. Her people are
sctuated by higher and nobler motives.
She desires the greatest good to the greatest
number. But Mr.. Chairman, Senators,
Gentlemen, there is now On Empire and !
New Gateway lying on the other side Of
the Allegheny Mountains. We recongize
the grandeur and greatness OF the City OF |
New York, and her abilities TO dc sll that [
may be demanded, but that does not mean
that the second grand city in population |
and manufacturing interests does not possess
like characteristics. We think, in Chicago Z
we can meet every demand required by {
the great Exposition, aud We are very !
earnest that il shall be held in the great ,
west: that she has advanced civilization .
out of which are to grow the arts and sci I
ences as the offspring of this progressive
country.
THE FIELDS or The WEST.
She stands boldly, claiming the right of !
your consideration. Remember the thou :
sands of square miles that lie on the other |
side of the Allegheny Mountains. Re Q
member the great chain Of lakes, remem-
Der st. Louis, the mistress city of the {
worlds greatest river. L;t New York
not forget that she must depend for her !
future progress and greatness mot alto
yetber, but largely on the fertile fields Of :
the West. Remember that this young +
,iant of the West is constructing grand a
water way to the southwest, that she has !
undertaken that stupendoue work, and 9
will any man from st. Louis, or from this v