The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-12
THE EAST OR WEST?
The Claims of New York and
Chicago Ably Presented for
THE SITE OF THE WORLDS FAIR
By Chauncey NJ. Depew and Mayor Cregier
Before the Senate Select Committee
Argument and BuffoOnery.

claims for the location of the worlds fair
before the Senate special committee. Mr..
Depew was the first speaker for New
York. After abiding to the Paris exposi-
ton and the meagreness of the American
exhibit there, he said "Now it becomes
our necessity to hold an exhibition of the
United States which shall be so broad in
its character, so international in its invl-
tations and in it's Inequalities, that all peo-
pie who can produce, who want materials
or have the opportunities for trade,
shall come here with their products
to exhibit and see what we can
do. If our friends from Washington,
Chicago and st. Louis would dismiss from
their minds the local prejudices and local
ambition which they have and would fix
their eyes and impartial judgment on the
question, they would say if fair in Great
Britain was to be held at Manchester,
Birmingham or Liverpool great cities),
it would be failure and they would not
go. They would say that if a fair in
France should be held in Marseilles or
Lyons, great cities), they would not go.
Now, | take it, there is 10 discussion as to
what is the metropolis of this country, |
mean it's financial and commercial metrop-
oils. New York is certainly the metrop-
oils of the United States"
Depew said that he had been interested
in the circle theory presented by St Louis,
and which seems novel method of dupll-
eating and reduplicating the population OF
the United States. A centre of one hun
dred miles from Peekskill, n Y, includes
the H idson, with it's unequalled cities, in
cludes the metropolis, and yet PeeksAill is
not here as an aspirant for this fair on the
circle theory Within the limits of what
constitutes the city of New York, Jersey
City, ETC., you have three Chicagos. Eight
millions of people in the vicinity could visit
the fair at New York for a sum not more
than two dollars and from that down to
five cents.
On the transportation problem he said
depended largely the success of the fair
Two hundred thousand wishing to go home
from St Louis or Chicago could not dis
perse at the rate of more than %, 900 pei
hour, and this would take eight hours, and
next the fair would close. New York
could distribute a crowd more rapidly than
was done in Paris.
Chicago and ST. Louis had a memorial
fund of 100000 each; New York had a
collective assessment of $1,000, 900. A bill
was now ready to be presented to the New
! York legislature authorizing the eXpendit-
ure of Sl0000,000, which would pass with
out dissenting voice. The Paris exhibition
has cost $4,000, 600 and this one would cost
at least Sl2 100000 Unless there was that
1uucn money in sight, the fair would be, he
said, failure. Washington is unequalled
in avenues and public buildings, and we
admit it. St. Louis has age. She has also
an unequalled position in the great valley
of the Mississippi, and we admit what she
promises to be. Chicago is the most phe-
| 1nr,onn o1 nf rot c
that the world has ever seen, and we
admit, not only in all that constitutes q
great central and commercial metropolis
| but also in the arts and culture. AL
this we admit, and still we claim that New
York city is the great representative city
of America. New York has no sectional
ism, no jealousies. If the government should
to- day appropriate to every family in the
United States money which would carry
them to one place, with the distinct under
standing that they could select no other
the vote, with unanimity unequalled il
expression, of the cities from Maine to The
gulf, from the Atlantic to the Pact
would be, take me to New York ="
| EX-CongreSsman Bourke Cockeran, Of
New York, then addressed the committee
He reviewed at length the transportation
possibilities of the competing cities, an6
said that New York was the only city in
the union that could possibly accommodate
the crowds that would make the exposition
a success. The 100000 people who would
visit the exposition every day would moi
be noticed on the streets of New York. Ii
conclusion, he said that New York was
willing to leave the decision of the question
| to the Columbian judgement of a commit
tee of Congress.
The committee then took recess to allow
the members to attend the funeral of Judg,
Kelly in the House. When the committe,
re- assembled the room was again crowded
to the fullest capacity. The chicago delega
ton had the front seats The first speake
OF the afternoon was Ex-senator WWarne
Miller who, with James Wood, presiden
of the New York State Agriculture
society, closed the case for New York
The first gentleman to present tn
claims of Chicago was Mayor Creizer, o
that city. 1--WE are here" he said, "befor
you today as citizens of common country
representing great wester
city, deeply in earnest that thi
great exposition, which is designe
the discovery of this hemisphere by tina
intrepid navigator, Christopher Columbus
1 say they are dearly interested in it al
deeply in earnest in the belief that it ougt
to be held in the far west (applauSe).
revere in some measure the people of Chi
cago who, while that is their desire, al
also united in the desire and determinatio
that wherever this exposition is hell
/, wherever in the wisdom of Congress
| shall be assigned, nothing shall /
wanting on their part to mal
it eminently successful, and they will el
] deavor to add their mite to make it con
port with the dignity of this grand and pr
gressive nation. (Applause) There is L
J rivalry between the Empire City of Anne
lea, New York, and the Empire City of tt
Great West, Chicago. Her people al
actuated by higher and nobler motives. ST
desires the greatest good to the create
number. We accord to the Empire Cit
New York, all and everything she claim
gentlemen, there is "a new empi
and new gateway lying on IL
other side of the Alleghaney mountain
We recognize the grandeur and greatne
of the city of New York, and her ability
do all that may be demanded, but that do
not mean that the second grand city
population commerce and manufacture
Importance does not possess like chara
teristics. We think in Chicago that v
can meet every demand required by tn
s. great exposition, and we are very earnh
20 that it shall be held in the great west, tn
sphere of advanced civilization out
which are to grow the arts and sciences
the offspring of this progressive empi1
We do not forget to accord ST. Louis t
like pre-requisition. We acknov
g edge all, but in doing g
7, we ask that you shall n
Ii detract from this marvel of the NH
d teenth century, splendid Chicago. Nc
York has been growing a
l. maturing two hunered years. Chica
If has been growing from the time t
" city was named, only fifty three yea
n When that fifty-three wears was at an Ell