The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-12
FOR THE WORLDS FAIR


rcoouto0vc8 tu-uay preSeuteu Sneir csossAsS
for the location OF the worlds fair before
the senate special COMMITTEES. Mr.. Depew
was the first speaker for New York. After
alluding IN the Paris exhibitiou and the
measrenes. of the American exhibit
there. he said: SNOW Il becomes our NE
cr..isy 70 hold tins exhibition of h
United States ON a plan which
shall b. so broad IN its char
acter, SO International i'm its invi-
t~ntions, i'm It's h~ospitalities, that all people
have the opportunities for trade
shall come here with their pro-
ducts to exhibit and see what
we can do. II our friends
from Washington, Chicago and 81. Louis
would dismiss from their minds the local
prejudiccs and local ambition which they
have, would fix their eyes and impartial
judgment ON tine qIesti on, they would say
IL n fair i'm Great Britain was 10 hc held
at Manchester, Birmingham or Liverpool.
all great cities, il would bc n failure and
they would not go. They would say that
IL the fair was i'm France and would TIC
held held IN Nm M"r rsnlS nor or I .Sa Sa Ss'h ErsIs
there il mo discussion as to what IN tho
metropolis of this country: 1 mean its
New York is certainly the metropolis of
the United States"
Mr.. Dcpcw said he had been Interested
Louis, and which seems q novel method
of duplicating and rcsluplicatinR the pop
ONE hundred miles from Pcckskiii, New
York, includes the Hudson with ITS UNI
equaled cities. and includes the metrop-
oils; and yet Peekskill il not here an AS
pirant for this fair ON the circle theory.
Within the limits Of hat constitutes the
city of New York, Jersey City, etc., you
pie i'm the vicinity could visit the fair mt
New York for q sum not more than two
dS,' sss n ssan ,sS% snas ao Sros 81 mxa he es sni5.
depended largely the salccess OF the fair.
Two hundred Thousand wishing to 60
could not disper.e at q rate 81
hour and thi. would take eight hours and
York could DISTRIBUTE crowd more rap.
idly. than was done in Paris. Chicago and
a. 81; I .oSS. h Ned q %s%osiH sd fSnS Of 5000.
snent OF b. 10000, n bill was now ready 10
be presented 10 the New York Legislature
voice. The Paris exhibition had cost
about 1000 GOO; and his one would cost
much money in sight the fair would be n
failure.
in public baiid.nss, and W. admit ~. 81.
Louis Inns aHO. She has also an ~unequaled
position i'm the great valley Of the Missis-
sipi, and We admit what she promises To
be. Chicago is the most phenomenal de-
velopmcnt of urban progress the world
has ever seen. and we admit il. Not only
Us 50 So" Y tSttSth httsb
commercial metropolis, but also in The
arts and cultur. All this we admit; and
representative city of America. New York
has M sectionalisnI, no j~ealousics. II the
government should to-day appropriate To
every family in the United States money
which would carry them to one place with
the understanding that they could select
no other. the. vote with unanimity
from Maine tn the Gulf, from the Atlantic
70 the Pacific would be, Take me To New
Ex-Congresslman Bourke Cochran, of
New York. then addressed the commit-
tee. He reviewed at length the transpor-
and said New York was the only city in
the union that could possibly accommo-
date the crowds that would make tho ex-
nifty thousand people who would visit the
exposition every day would not be noticed
sion, he said that New York was willing to
biased Judgment of the committee
took u recess to allow the emb to at
tend the funeral of Judge Kelley ian the
house.
When the committee rcasscmblcd the
room was again crowded tn it's fullest ca
pacity. The Chicago delegation had front
ssa.. :x Ins iirs' M Spsnnsr I n the S after w;,n
James Wood. president of the New York
State Agricultural society, closed the casc
The first gentleman to present the
claims Of Chicago was Mayor Creiger. of
that city. I'VE are here he said. "bcfore
you to-day as citizens representing the
greatest western city deeply in earnest
about this great exposition which is de-
signed tai be held in 1s.,2 to commemorate
the discovery Of this hemisphere by that
intrepid navigator, Christopher Columbus.
/ say they are deeply interested in il and
deeply i'm. earnest In the belief that il
ought to he held in the far west. ZAP
plause.D i represent i'm some measure the
people Of Chicago. who while that il is
their desire, are also united i'm the desire
and determination that wherever his ex-
position IL held. wherever I'm the wisdom
of this couRres il shall he assigned, moth
ing shall he wanting OH their part tai make
il eminently successful. and they will en-
deavor Ia add their mite to make IT, COM
port with the dignity of this grand and
progressive nation. Applause, There
Is no rivalry between the em-
pire city of America, New York.
and the empire city of the great west,
Chicago. Her people are actuated by
higher and noblsr 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. senator's. gentlemen, there il
a Sew empire and a new gateway lying on
the other aide Of the Allegheny noun
tains. We recognize the grandeur and
greatness of the city of New York md her
ability "a do all that may be demanded.
But that does not say that the second
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