, 1890-01-12
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Rivals Before the Congress.
siOnal Fair Committee.
Chauncey M. Depew and
Mayor Creiger Talk.
Condition of SPANS Infant
King More Favorable.

NNoW ioih representatives tO-uAy pre-
sented their claims for the location
of the worlds fair before the sen
ate special committee. Mr.. De-
pew was the first speaker for New York
and after abiding to the Paris exposition
and 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 our invi
tations and in its inequalities that all
people who can produce. who want mater
ials, or have the opportunities for trade,
shall come here with their products to ex-
hibit and see what We can do.
IF our friends from Washington, Chi.
ago and St. Louis would dismiss from
their minds local preiudices and local am
bltion which they have. and would fix
their eyes and impartial Judgment on the
question. they would say. if a fair in
Great Britain was to be held at Man
chester. birmingham or Liverpool GREAT
cities), 1t would be a failure and they
would not go. They would say that if a
fair Ia France would be held in Mar.
settles or LYONS great %cities), they would
not 20. Now | take it there is no dis
cussion as to what is the metropolis of
this country, | mean its financial and
commercial metropolis. New York is
certainly the metropolis OF the United
States"
Chicago and St. Louis had a memorial
fund OF $4,000, 900 each. New York a
collective assessment Of S.. 300, 900, and
q bill was now ready to be presented to
TIM Man NarH a,,Ituo IL
expenditure of $4,000. 900 which would
pass without a dissenting voice. The
Paris exhibition bad cost $40, 900, 900, and
this one would cost at least 81 900, 900.
Unless there was that much money in
sight the tair would be Che said a failure.
Washington is %unequaled Ia venues
and in public buildings and we admit il.
st. Louis had age. She has also an un.
equaled position in the great valley of the
Mississippi and we admit what she prom
ises to be. Chicago is the most phenom-
email development of urbane progress the
world has ever seen and we admit it. Not
only in all that constitututes a great central
commercial metropolis but also in arts to
culture: all this we admit and still we
claim New York is the great representa-
tive city of America. New York has no
s~ectionalism, no ~jealousies. If the gov
eminent should to-day appropriate to
every family in the United States money
which would carry them to one place with
the distinct understanding they could Sc.
lect no other the vote with unauimity un-
equalled in expression of desire from
Maine to the guilt from the Atlantic to
the Pacific wnuld be: Take me to New
York"
Congressman Bourke Corcoran, of New
York, Their addressed the committee. He
reviewed at length the transportation DOS
sl5ilitles OF the competing cities, and said
that New York was the only city in the
Union that could possibly accommodates
the crowds that would make the exposi-
ton a success. One hundred thousand
people who would visit the exposition
every day would not he noticed on the
streets of New York. In conclusion he
said that New York was willing to leave
the decision OF the question to the calm,
unbiased judgment OF the committee and
OF congress.
The first speaker of the afternoon was
e1. Senstor Warner Miller who, with
James Wood, president of the New York
State Agricultural society, closed the case
for New York.
The first gentleman to present the
claims Of Chicago was Mayor Cregier Of
that city. We are here, he said, before
you to-day as citizens of a common coun.
try representing a great Western city.
deeply in earnest that this great ex-
position which is designed, to be held in
1892, to commemorate the discovery of
this hemisphere by that intrepid navi-
gator. Christopher Columbus. | say they
arQ daanlu IpfaracfoA in - o-I lAasl, g.
earnest in its behalf, and it ought to be
held in the far West. Applause.
l represent in some measure the people
OF chicago who while that Is their desire,
are also united in the desire and deter
mination that wherever this exposition is
held, wherever in the wisdom of congress
1t shall be assigned. nothing shall be
wanting to make it eminently successful,
and they will unite to make it comport
with the dignity of this grand and pro.
gressive nation. (Applause) There is
rivalry between the Empire CITY of
Amerioa-New York-and the Empire
City of Great West-Chicago-her peo-
pie are actuated by higher and noble mo-
tiyes. She desires greatest good to great
est number.
New York has been growing and ma
buiihk -oO years. SuiCdRO has Dee0
growing from the time the city was
named. only fifty three years. When
that ffty-three years was at an end, it
was wiped out by the most terrible calam.
ity that history records. Since then she
has been recuperated and resurreoted by
power OF will and new blood, and is now
really only eighteen years old and you
senators and you people from abroad,
everywhere in this country, cannot deny
your pride that such a thing occurred I'M
der the benign influence of this great
government. Let New York not forget
she must depend for her future progress,
not altogether, but largely on the fertile
fields of the West. Remember this young
giant of the West is constructing q grand
water way to the Southwest; that she has
undertaken that stupendeous work and
will any man from st. Louis. or from
this beautiful capital, say that the city
that IL able to cops with, and find means
to carry on that work, shall be set aside
in her claims for this great exposition.
NJ. B. Bryan was the next speaker.
After referring in humorous manner to
New York's claims and Mr.. Depew, he