Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-26
cuIoAoo AND THE FAIR.

about town yesterday. A few or tne many sxpressions of opinion and sentiment on the subject in this oity are ss follows:
 Ex-Governor Ingersoll-New York Is pre- sminsntly tho place for it. No other place could make 1t SO much of . success.
 R. E. Lyon-If had the say shogld de- elAsss in favor of Washington; plenty iof room for it there. .l- -s:e
 B. K. Brown-I should prefer to haveit tin New York; that Is really the appropriate place for 1t. The largest practical represan- sation of Roodr could easily be transported
 sJudee YorK-New York people were too indifferent about the fair; they did not work for ct. The brokers were opposed to 1t and also all the theatrical managers. New York is the proper place for 1t.
 Thomas Forsyth-The great tendency of things Is westward. Ny choice of places for tho fair would be Washington. But when the question became New York or Chicago was in favor of New York. I hope it will be . success.
 w. J. Atwater--New York is my choice; that is the best place for 1t.
 George N. Alling, the druggist-We have much to be thankful for. I am glad am over the grip and the pneumonia and the typhoid fever which followed. But am sorry that the "hoosiers" out west are going to have the fair. Old New York Is good enough for mo and decidedly the most appro. priats place for 1t.
 P. Ferry, the baker-From selish stand- point would declare in favor of New York, but to represent the whole country l think after afl Chicago is the place. This is big country and Chicago is very contemplating town. Let the people from the east and other sections travel little. It will do them good and give them Q more appreciable idea of Uncle Sam's domain.
 R. W. Meigs, tea dealer-Yes, New York by all means was my choice. It is the me- tropolis, and with its splendid harbor and railroad communications, the display there town can accomplish, particularly owing to tho greater difficulty and expense of trans. porting foreign exhibits.
 City Auditor Lake-It will be lesson to New York. Too much politics and too little work lost the fair. It is an experiment at the best and time only will tell whether enough people will get out to Chicago to make 1t Q success.
 Frank G. Anthony-Chicago will have to people. Unles they improve wonderfully on thsir rstions of few years ago when the Knight Templays were there visitors in 92 had bsttsr take their lunch with them. Fred Fl. Waldron-Of course we all have national pride in tho fair wherever is is To- cated, but considering the distance of Chi cago from the seabosrd we must not be sur- prised if Russia follows with @ worlds fair and locates 1t in Moscow or some other inter. for town in the vast empire.
 Mir. Crane. proprietor of the Elliott house Yes, New York was my irst:choice. New Haven In some respects would have been e gainer. Hundreds when visiting New York from the west would have taken a run to New Haven to see Yale college, and hundreds would have come up here and stopped at our hotels over night in preference to taking the officers there. They could slip back from here to New York in couple of hours in the morning on our fast trains on the Con- solidated, and return here to spend the night.
 Paul Weil-New Haven Merchants gain from 3150, ,000 to $250, ,000 by the fair being located in Chicago, as with the. fair at New York, thousands of New Haven people visit- ing the fair would have spent money in Now York at the New York stores, instead of pa- tronizing New Haven stores, and they might do here. But then New York was the best place for having truly grand national ex- hibit.
 MT. Fairchild, the coal dealer-An immense amount of money would have flowed into New Haven through the fares being located hero. Look at the great travel there would have been over our railroads to and from New York and the transients our hotels would have received.
 Lawyer P. Goodhart-Chicago Is my choice and has been right straight along. Il is more central and New York doesn't want 1t; New York is too busy @ place for it. But I must hasten as leave for New York to- morrow to join my wife at Nassau, thence we go to Havana, thence to Florida and return at leisure.
 MT. Foote, at B. Booth's-Chicago and the railroads centering in Chicago will get big boom for the fair in Chicago. looked tc see Chicago stocks take boom to day owing to the news, but they didn't. But the rail roads out there will get an immense traffic, and 90 probebly will the Lake Shore and Canada Southern, and for that matter the New York Central.
 T. Parsons Dickerman-The fair in Nov York would have been very convenient to all of us in the Elm city. New York was the place for . worlds fair on account of foreign exhibitors and ease of communication with foreign ports.
 Druggist Mix of Klock & Mix-New Yorl was the proper place for a national exhibi | tion. Many foreign exhibitors would be de tered from Chicago owing to It's inland situ ation.
 Superintendent Dutton of the public schools-New York was the place for grand | international exhibition. Chicago for ar American exhibition. New York deserves to lose 1t. There was too much clashing an6 they did not get up and hustle as Chicago did. They have too many late dinners fl New York.
 D. 8. Thomas-New York, with all of he arguments for the worlds fair, seems t' have overlooked the most important point 10 is doubtful if foreign manufacturers as rule will go to the extra trouble and expens
 of transporting large freights to Chicago
 msros of the Atlantic. They knov
 the cost of passage and they cal figure to cetsinty the freight tariff between European ports and New York. But thes
 merchants and manufacturers are not 90 fa
 miliar with our inland transportation, ant
 the difficulties encountered in reshippinl
 heavy exhibits and the additional expense in
 cured in railway transportation must seri
 ously affect those imports. A gen
 tleman from Paris who was in Nev
 Haven few days ago remarked to me as h
 left: elf the worlds fair is in New York
 shall see you in '82; if not, not" Yes.
 think 1t will affect the foreign exhibits whel 1t becomes known abroad that even whel they get their freight to New York they ar still one thousand miles from their destins tion. The civilized world knows all about Ne, | Ysrk. But when 1t comes to our wester country about one-haf of the civilized worl
 takes under the impression that . man ca
 stand in tho back door of any Chicago hous | and shoot 6 bear. To such intelligen
 minds, this trip of one thousand miles ir land, will appear like Stanley penetratin | the clark continent"
 GATES ON ELAGMAN NECESsAR ' | This is she Opinion Of the Selsctmel | About the Pleasant street Crossing A New Trustee for she Almshouse.
 After the accident which resulted in th
 death of the young student Ritzinger at th
 Pleasant street crossing in the annex the se
 lectmen began . correspondence with th Consolidated road to effect more safe COT
 dition of the crossing. It was shown as i'm perative that gates or fsgman, or at least
 timely whistle, should be had at this danger ous spot. The board of selectmen have re
 csived no official reply from the road and th
 matter was again discussed at last night meeting.
 Sslectman Fleischner said it was evider
 the railroad company had Intentionally C
 otherwise ignored the boards request fe
 provisions of safety, and he thought 1t woul
 be best to take the regular course of law |
 compel the road to render the crossing lsl
 dangerous.