The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-04
MEDlLL On THE wORLDsPAlR.
He Says It Should bs Postponed n Year
When Columbus Discovered America.

He Says It Should bs Postponed q Year
When Columbus Discovered America. {
NEw YoRx, March 3.-Mr. Josepl
Medill, gentleman who has been en-
thusiastic in tho project OF a great fai
to DO held to commemorate tho discov
cry OF America, arrived in this city
Saturday night. The first thing tha
Mr.. Medill talked about was the ab
surdity Of holding fair co.nmemorat
ing the discovery Of America by the
great Columbus in 1902. "Why," he
asked, SHOULD the fair be held 1902 7? II
could only be opened In the spring o
that year, and In tho spring OF l40:
Columbus met with only defeat. Hay,
Ing been spurned by Ferdinand and Isa.
bella, the only Christopher departed In
May or June, 400 years ngo, TO seek as.
sistancc from tho English or. Frencl,
government iu the vehthresome plan be
PROPOSED. Then Isabella sent for him
and brought him back to tho capital OF
Spain to listen to her august command,
II was then, in April, May. or June,
l402, and when tho gracious Queen gave
her consent to tho expedition, driving
what Mr.. Medill called hard bargain,
It was all Columbus could do to get OF in
the tag end Of the summer. He didn't
discover America until October 12, 1902,
and why under tho sun, Mr.. Medill OBJ.
served, should the fair not begin Octo.
ber II, 1902, or therpafter2 Chicago was
ready, he said, but why hold the fair be-.
fore the time before 1t came? October
y, 1892, was the day for it to begin, but
tina. period was just the usbering in Of
a winter that might be a rigorous one,
but "then again it might not" But the
chances were too much to take. There.
fore, so Mr.. Medill argued, there should
be a great day celebration on October
IL, 1892, and then the fair should be
opened six or seven months later-say
May !, 1893, when the climate had rot.
ten pretty well regulated in tho matter
OF good weather. ,5g .g~@ 4
I'VE will have the fair" Mr.. Medlll
continued, smiling pleasantly, "and it
Will oe great success. But we want not
only outside financial assistance, but the
presence Of New York's great men. We
want Chauncey Depew. We want him
to open the fair witk one Of his great
speeches. We want your Mayor Grant;
we want all your big men. We want
Tom Plat. We look on him as a great
friend Of ours and we want him ut our
fair. We want everything you have got.
We want your pictures and your statues
and your celebrities.
New York has not lost ANYTHING by
having the worlds fair at Chicago. All
the Europeans who come TO attend the
lair have got to stop here, and when
they come back they've got to stop here
again. You will see all the foreigners
here just as much as if the fair were
held IN the creates. city Of the United
States. Chicago never said that she
could put up as much money rs New
York could raise. We haven't got it.
We never expected 10 pay all the ex.
penses Of the fair. We will raise SlO,-
100000 and we will ask Congress to ap-
proprlate like amount. II it is to be 4
national fair the nation ought to help
up, and We will ask such help. The
benefit is not to be derived by Chicago
alone. All the United States will be
aided by the fair and every State in the
Union ought to contribute to its sue.