Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-23
LOOKS LIKE SUCCESS.
The Worlds Fair Commissioners Now
Working Well Together.
A DUAL SITE DECIDED UPON.
Located at Washington and Jackson Parks
and the Lake FroRt.
Mr.. ABEEs TALK ON THE PROSPECTS

Mr.. Charles Abel has Just returned from
Chicago, where he went some time ago on
business connected with the Worlds Fair
Commission. He has been attending most
of the public meetings of the commission,
which are being held in the Council
Chamber at Chicago. Mr.. Abel has been
in South America, and only recently
returned to this country. He has been
frequently informed that on account of the
delay IN choosing a site there would be no
Worlds Fair. There is no doubt but that
the long delay in choosing the site has
Djured the prospects of the fair, but. he
says. since it is now settled upon. it has
made vast difference in the sentiment of
the country. In conversation with a
DISPATCH reporter yesterday, Mr.. Abel
said:
81 have unbounded faith in the success
of the Exposition. Neither the United
States nor the city of Chicago could afford
to let it be failure. The reputation of the
nation and the city would not permit it.
There has never been a body congregated
together in the country, so unprejudiced and
working together so well for the success of one
object as this Worlds Fair Commission. Every
State seems to have sent some of her best citi-
Zens to represent her on this commission.
General Palmer, of Michigan. President and
Chairman of the Executive Committee. has
shown himself equal to the occasion by his
uniform courtesy IN his rulings. Being our
late Minister TO Spain, and considering the
connection of that country with the coming
exposition, it seems fitting and right that he
should be at the head of the Worlds Colum-
bian Fair Commission. He is ably assisted by
all the Commissioners, who have shown them
selves free from partisanship, knowing neither
Democrat nor Republican, no North, South,
East or West, and all are working unselfshly
for the one object of making this one of the
grandest eXpositions the world has ever seem
ana. again opened the question with apowerful
argument for a single site. He was followed
by General Palmer who gave, in few words,
the real meaning of a dual site. 1t was simply
the entrance to the fair to be on the Lake
Front and the fair proper will be at Washing.
ton and jackson Parks. The reason why the
Lake Front was chosen was only to erect two
permanent buildings, one for an exhibition of
fine arts and the other for an electrical display.
Ex-Governor Waller, of Connecticut, followed.
and made the matter clear as TO the dual site.
1t was simply the way it was put before the peo-
pie that gave out the wrong idea. He and most
of the Commissioners preferred a single site,
but it would be wrong to put them all at sea
again BY the discussion of a settled question.
1T was a great disappointment TO Pennsyl-
vanians that General Hastings was not elected
to fill the position of Director General. But the
most of the commission well as the local di-
rectors preferred General Davis, of Chicago.
The local directors. naturally, out of State
pride, wanted to see Chicago man in the posi-