New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-06
CHICAGO DR. HER BEST.

After the proceedings OF FRIDAY afternoon
in Chicago no professional sceptlc III EXISTENCE
CON no so audacious as to doubt that, whether
there is to be Columbus Far III 1898 or noo'
an immense amount of cOntemporaneous HUE
man interest is going to lie around loose III inc
interim And this is a good thing According
to current hymnology the world is Vaie Vi
tears Without accepting TINS mciahcholy
dogma at par. there is no use in denying that
q large supply of grief has been put into CIR
cuIa,ion of late wears Our climate has been
doconcratinr ever since the blizzard at the
nrcscnt moment the Mississippi is too full to
run straight: a baseball fight is on bismarck
has resigned iced drinks are gong 10 po
frichtfully expensive; Old Grimes is dead
Yale and Harvard can't agree to "A dlal league
Joseph II. Choate and ID. l.. Moody don Ike
Sunday newspapers; rapid transit II IN the ar
and nowhere else the churches can I agree rs
70 what ails the heather; and cats are multiply
ing incontinenty in every backyard. Ana
bcnce il is that we owe debt of gratitude that
we can never pay to the rcsolutc band OF Vest
cidcrs who refused TO be butchcred to make a
Chicago holiday. and to their gallant and IN
trcpid leader. the Hon. Carter Harrison,
vcritablc and wel-approycd son Of thunder.
The occasion was a meeting of subscribers to
the bvpothctica guarantee fund which has been
waxing and waning in the most criatlc ana
mysterious manner for the last three months
and the business on hand was TO elect directors
of the Worlds Fair. The cntrails had been
insnccted and the auspices all appeared to he
favorable. when suddenly il was announced IN
behalf of a number OF painstakins ana sell
sacrificing gentlemen, that they had prepared
a list of forty immortals for the purpose ol
saving unnecessary trouble and delay. ms
might have been all right, but the West Siders
intuitivcly perceived that it was all wrong
Then arose Carter Harrison to his full hclSh',
Mus the height of a lid-bottomcd char.
do not want a ring fair" he cred, IN tones
that in,tantancously converted the welkih mo
an alarm clock and walked the echoes want
4 Chicago peoples fair There has been
supposition that a Worlds Fair is what Is want
ed but LET that pass. \ large and indisputable
gauntlet had been thrown down, and there was
= tumultuous rush to pick it up while two thou
sand threats exploded and the air was filled
with scramble But Carter Harrison had not
finished lie is a man Of peace but hc knows
his rights; and when he said that the names
added 10 the concession the portcntous dcclara-
ton that Caesar was a good man. shudder
PASSED over the as,cmhage. and the benevolent
individual who had loaned him pig stlcker' on
the snppostion that he desired 10 refresh him
self with a sausage. tainted dead away.
such was the beginning Of hostitlcs. but no
man lives who is fit to describe what followed
nav. more il wasn't tit to be described. I'm
cxpurgatcd and merely categorical version OF
the proceedings is quite enough. Suffice 1t to
say that it was made 10 appear beyond pcr'd-
venture that Germans and ScandinayianS
Catholics and Calyni,ts, doctors. lawyers, and
the reverend clergy are all "kicklng' IN me
most agile and aggressive manner that che
South side Elevated Road and the First Ma
tionaI Bank and for aught we know, BABY
Arson have entered into an unholy alliance
10 thrust into the sewer those whom the I'M
cago press is wont 10 describe aS the hon popuh,
and To capture and appropriate To themselves
all the glory and rcnown in sight that tho cN-
element produced Ly Carter llarriSons al
lusion 10 Caesar was nothing but zephyr TO
the hurricane that ragged when the chairman
WAS accused of having concealed a ham about
his person for use in an emergency; that the
guarantee fund is just where 1t was before :;
and that il was unanimously resolved, in view
Of the character and enthusiasm. the capacity
and resources. the brains and blood and native
worth of those present. and the eternal fitness
of things, to telegraph to the Worlds Far
Committee at Washington that now was the
time TO get together 20 to work and pass the