The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-02
WORLDS FAIR GOSSIP.
Chicago's New Years Gift to Columbia.
Plans for National Fair Revival"
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Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Dec 16.-There will be millions
of stockings hung up over the length and
breadth of the North American continent
week or SO hence, but one will be miss
ing. Santa Claus has decided to postpone
his visit to that sprightly damsel, Miss
Columbia, for precisely one week. The
dainty silk of her neither extremities will,
however. be hung up at the fireplace on
New Years eve, and when she awakes
with the sunlight of the first day of 1891
she will find in the toe a good, fat present
IN the shape of bonds to the total value of
s5,0Oo,oO0. This will be the New Years
gift of the people of Chicago-by consent,
OF course, of the voters of the state-to
Columbia's pet enterprise, the Worlds ex-
position.
The present, it is true, has string at
tached to 1t IN the proviso that SO much of
it per centum shall be returned out of the
profits as is repaid per centum to the individ-
ual stockholders, but it is not the less pres
ent ON that account, for, without it, the
great undertaking could not be advanced
another peg. 1t is necessary, moreover,
that in order that Columbia may not wake
up to find her stocking empty, there shall
be at least So, 100000 of the S5,0OO,O0 guar
anteed by popular subscription in the
Worlds fair treasury by the close of bank
ing hours on the last day of the old year.
There is no doubt that this condition will
be fulfilled to the letter.
The local board, it is true, has been I'M
der very heavy expense-altogether too
much, so some people think, for the earlier
stages of the pfoject-but at the same time
1t has one-half of the amount required in
its vaults, and delinquent subscribers are
paying up at gratifying rate. Four-fifths
of the bonds will be of the denomination
of $1,000 each and the other fifth of $500
each. They will run for thirty years, bear
ing per cent. annually, although the CITY
reserves the right of calling in the whole
or any proportion at any time within that
period that it may see fit New York CITY
Is honored by being made the source from
which the purchasers of the bonds will
draw interest in exchange for coupons.
Very soon after the new year the country
Will be in the throes of a Worlds fair
awakening or revival. The fact is being
recognized with more force each succeed
ing day that, to quote one of the prominent
officials, More noise is needed" There is
plenty of hustle and activity and exposi-
ton talk inside of Chicago, but not enough
outside of it. Hence it has about been de.
clded TO send out two parties of mission
aries, one to the eastward, and the other
through the west and northwest, thence
over the Pacific coast states and thence
back again through the southern states
west of the Mississippi river. The state
capitals and the legislatures in session
w q 40 r,ri,, oh, e
though the missionaries will be expected to
do little eNhorting at wayside stations,
when a crowd can be got together.
1t will not be Il junketing tour, however,
by any means, for the missionaries, who
Will all be prominent men and speakers of
the first ORDER will have full sense of the
responsibilities of their mission and of the
fact that much of the success of the enter
prise will depend upon their energy, elo-
quence and diplomacy 1t is thought that
this scheme will arouse widespread inter
est in the fair, and possibly create ma
tonal furore. On tho routes mapped out
each party will cover something more than
10000 miles of ground, and it will interest
very considerable portion of the total
population of Uncle Sam to know that
one of the very first things decided upon
when the scheme was preached was that
no Intoxicating liquors should be carried
upon either of the coaches
A somewhat novel scheme has been de-
vised with the view of interesting the peo-
OF Jamaca in the fair, and securing their
cooperation ina distinctive exhibit A
national educational exhibition is to be
held on the island early next month, under
the auspices of its representative public
men, and space has been secured for large
exhibit of drawings and models made by
the pupils in the public schools of Chicago
and Cook county. This exhibit will be
practically historical picture of Chicago
its growth, development and present
greatness-and will probably give the peo-
pie OF Jamaica, or the bulk of them, bet
ter idea of the Garden City than they have
ever had before HENRY NJ. HUNT