Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-11

foreigner comes to see a national exposition TO
commemorate the discovery OF America he
should come here. Nowhere else in this broad
land can he get a just conception OF what this
government is.
REPRESENTATIVE M'coxAs.
Representative McComas, who was next called
out, added another strong and eloquent speech
to the series that made this banquet memora-
BILE occasion. In introducing him Mr.. Noyes
referred to the work Mr.. M.Comas had recently
done for the District in putting the appropria-
ton bill through the House. Mr.. McComas
remarked that the chairman might have IN
cluded in his statement of what is TO be great
avenue across the river to Arlington, another TO
Baltimore and another to Gettysburg and An
tietam. These things would come. he said. not
SO soon, perhaps as the exposition, but these
and other glories will be added to the national
capital when the second exposition is
held. He referred to the fact that
all great national expositions had been
located in the capitals of the countries hold
ing them. After reference to the great
advantages Of the city as the exposition site
and the propriety of holding the exposition
here, he said that before the exposition opened
they could lay out the land for great park
between the confines of the city and the Mary
land line. which would afford breathing space
for the people. He could not, he said, escape
the influence of locality, which gave him
especial interest in the capital city. There
were few acts, he said, more gratefully remcm-
bered than that Of Senator Harris and his col
leagues when they fixed the principle that the
federal government should put down dollar for
dollar. The beauty of the capital belonged to
the nation as well as to the citizens of Wash
ington. If Congress intended to speed its pro-
gress it could do it in no better way than by
planting the stakes early in 1880 to mark out
the sites for the buildings of the national expo
wQ al int car
fully harmonized. In this way Congress Will
do more for the advancement OF the city IN
one session than has been done in the last
twenty-five years. That first expression of
compromise that placed this capital on the
banks of the Potomac may now place this ex-
position here.
GEN. FELIX AoNUs.
Gen. Felix Agnus of the Baltimore American
made speech, which was brief because he was
suffering with an infamed throat, but was en-
phatic and well received. He referred to the
reason that brought him here yesterday TO
speak for Washington as the site of the worlds
fair. 1t appeared strange to him that 1t should
require pleading as to where the exposition
should be held. When he turned from the
committee room yesterday and looked from the
windows of the Capitol he had been amazed at
the beauty, the grandeur OF the capital. He
described Its appearance when he came here
In 1861 with knapsack on his back, and con-
when a great and beautiful city stretched out
before his gaze.
COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS
Mr.. Douglass, the president Of the board of
District Commissioners, spoke next. He said
that when they asked man on LIST street what
Is best to do to aid in the development of the
capital the first thing he thought of was an APP
preparation. Down there they believed in an
appropriation and incidentally in the flag. He
thanked Mr.. McComas and his colleagues for
seeing that the appropriations were speedily
provided for. So far the District government
was concerned it saw one way OF advancing
the interests of tho city, and that was the
honest disbursement OF these appropriations.
With that purpose and intention the members
OF the District government would see that the
appropriations were fairly distributed through
out all sections of the city. He thanked those
members OF Congress who had spoken for their
bold utterances regarding the site OF the worlds
fair. He believed that III the judgment of the
majority of both houses of Congress they we're
ahead. Still every time one gives utterance to
his preference 1t helped a hundred Others. The
logic OF propriety required the exposition to be
held here. When it is held the main emblem
will be the stars and stripes, and they will float
over the national capital.
Ex-coSTRoLLER KNOX.
Ex-Controller Knox made brief speech,
describing himself as a New Yorker by birth, a
westerner by adoption, but washingtonian by
preference He paid an eloquent tribute to the
beauty of Washington. He described wittily
his experience in a recent western trip, and
especially in Chicago, where every one was for
Chicago for the exposition.
MR.. s. W. WOODWARD.
The closing speeches were made by members
of the club. Mr. S. W. Woodward, of the firm
Of Woodward & Lothrop, first called upon.
Mr.. Woodward said that if the time ever was
when one fellow countryman was not proud of
Washington that time past. Now scores
and hundreds are coming here to seek place
of delightful residence to spend their years
of leisure, after wealth had rewarded their en-
terprise. He believed the best thing the bust
ness men could do would be to combine and
make the board Of trade, recently organized, a
great success.
MR.. J. @. JUDD.
Mr.. j. G. Judd of the firm of Judd & Det-
weller, who followed, urged unity among bust
ness men and a determination to make this
city the model city of the land. They wanted
no appropriations he said, except the appro-
priatiOn that the nation owed to the capital.
They asked, ne said, no favor or pittance. but
only what was justly due from the government
as tax payer, as the government property
here increased, he said, 1t paid less. Every
time the government took up private property
it wiped out just as much from the assets of the
CITY, reuuciIiS INC iucoiuo rum tdAatlou Oh
private property.
MR.. +. A. REED.
The last speaker of the evening was Mr. F. A.
Reed Of Alexandria, who urged that they must
educate and promote the sentiment of pride
in the national capital He urged the import
ance OF the Potomac river improvements and
incidentally referred to the river and the Chesa-
peake bay, where navies could maneuver as one
of the advantages OF the city as the exposition
site. II the exposition comes in 1892 the avenue
to Mount Vernon becomes a necessity to ac-
commodate the hundreds of thousands who
would visit Mount Vernon.
At the close of the evening the chairman an
nounced that Mr.. s. W. Woodward would pre-
side at the next banquet
THOSE PRESENT.
Seated at the main table with the chairman
Mr.. Theodore w. Noyes, were the chief guests
of the evening and some of the prominent
members of the club. This company included
Senators Harris, Vance and Pettigrew, Repre-
sentatives Compton, McComas, Atkinson, Lee
Burton and Delano, Gen. Felix Agnus of Bal
tmore, District Commissioners Douglass, Hine
and Raymond, Gen. Stewart Van Vliet ex-Con-
troller of the Currency John Jay Knox, b. ii.
Warner, A. S. Worthington, NJ. NJ. Parker,
II. A. Willard, c. s. Moves, Matthew c. Emery.
L. G. Dean, Jesse b. Wilson. DIR. L. NJ. Gal
laudet. George Truesdell. L. Kurtz johnson,
ii. L. Blount. Prof Thomas Wilson.
The others present were Joseph Il. Edison,
l.. q. Davis, VIM. j. Cowing ex-Commssioner
Wheutley, John A. Ruff, +. NJ. Detwciler, Rufus
II. Darby, Ii. X. Willard, +. S. Parker, Major