, 1890-01-16
THE FAIR SITE.
New ork and Chic lgo's
Claims.
EARNEST ARGUMENTS
The Committee Listens to
Advocates OF Both.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEW'O SPEECH.
ew York's Superior Advauta ges
Set Forth -- Mayor Cregier
Speaks for Chicago.

WAsHrSGros, Jan. 1.-The Chicago
and New York representatives. to-day
presented their claims for the location of
the worlds fair before the senate special
committee.
MIR. Depew was the first speaker for
New York. Aitor alluding to the Paris
exposition and the meagorness Of the
American exhibit there, he said; "Now
II becomes our necessity to hold an eX-
hibition In the United States
which shall be so broad, 50 in
ternational in It's invitations and in its
hospitalities that all the people who
can produce, who want more, or have
the opportunities for trade, shall come
here with their products to exhibit and
see what we can do. flour friends from
Washington, Chicago and ~. Louis
would dismiss from their minds the 10
cnl prcjudices and local ambitions which
they have, and would fix their eyes and
impartial Judgment on tho question,
tIey would say that II u fair in Great
Britain was to be held at Man chester
birmingham or Liverpool great uities)
II would be a failure, and they would not
20. They would say that II fair was
in France and should be held In Mar
scilles or Lyons (great c.ties) thuy would
not 90.
Now, state that there is no dis
Cussion as to what Is the metropolis of
this country. lmean its financial and
commercial metropolis. New York is
certainly the metropolis OF the United
States"
Depew said that he had been interested
in the theory presented 10y st. Louis,
and which seemed To be a novel mothod
of duplicating and rcduplicating the
population of the United States. "As
the center OF circle with q
five hundred mile radius Peekskill
includes the Hudson, with itSunequaled
cities includes the metropolis and yet
pcckskill is not here rs an aspirnnt for
this fair on the circle theory, Within
the linlts 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 of not more than
81, and from that down to cents
On the transportation prdbleaN. he
said, depended largely the success. r the
fair. Two hundred thousand wishing
r
could not disperic at the rate of more
than -, 900 per hour. This would take
eight hours after the tair would close
Sew York could distribute tho crowd
more rapidly than was done in Paris
Chicago and II. Louis had memorial
fund of 100000 each. and New York u
collective assessment OF $500, COO
4 bill was now ready to be presented to
to the New York legislature, authorizing
the expenditure Of SlOUD,OOO, which
would pass withoutu dissenting voice.
| The Paris exhibition cost about $lO,OOO,-
go, aud this one would cost at least
Sl2,OCO,OOD Unless there was that much
money IN sight, the fair would be iall-
ure.
lie continued: "Washington is un.
eQualed in avenues and ia public build
| ings, and we admit 1t. ST. Louis has
age; she has also unequalcd position n
| the great valley Of the Mississippi, and
We admit what she promises to be. Chi
[ cago is the most phenomenal develop
mcut OF urban progress the world
[ has ever seen, and we admit IT, not only
I In all that constitutes u great central
and commercial metropolis, but also in
the arts md culture. All this We admit,
and still we claim that New York city is
the great represon tatiye city of America.
Z New York has no seCtionalism and no
jculOusics. II the government should
today appropriate to every ialully IN
the United States the money which
wound AIRY them TO one place, with the
distinct understanding that they could
have no other vote, with u unanimity
unique the expression Of desire, from
Name to the gulf. from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, would be, Take Us TO New
York.
Ex-coSGREssaAS COCHRAN,
Ex.Congrossmau Bourko Cochran of
New York then addressed the com
mlttee.
lie reviewed at length tho tran,porta-
tion possibilities Of the competing cities,
and said that Now York was the only
city in the Union that could possibly
accommodate the crowds that would
make the exposition success one
hundred and iifiy thousand people who
would visit tho exposition every day
would not be noticed on tile streets of
New York. In conclusion, he said that
New York was willing to leave the de
cision OF the question to the calm and
nbiased Judgment of the committee
and of congress.
The committee then took q recess to
allow the members to attend the funeral
of Judge Kelley In the house.
When the committee r. assembled the
room was again crowded to its fullest
capacity, aud the Chicago delegation had
the front seats.
The first speaker of the afternoon was
ex-senator Warner Miller, vino, with
James Wood, president of the New
York State Agricultural Society, closed
the case for New Y ork.