Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-22
MUST HAVE A CHANGE.
Business Men Protest Against Present
Exposition Methods.
CITIZENS WILL HOLD A MEETING.
They Also Demand That the Great Show Be
Kept Open in 1898.
CHANGES IN TIE DIRECTORY EXPECTED

A meeting of the business men and stock
holders of the Pittsburg Exposition Society
will be held early next week to take action
in regard to the proposition of some of the
officials of the Exposition to hold no exhibi-
tion during the Worlds Fair in Chicago
and to protest against the management of
the show generally. William Bingham,
Clarence Johns, Peter Young and others of
their class of business mem, are arranging
for the meeting and they propose to make
their disapproval of the management of the
recent big show as emphatic as possible.
They have canvassed the business men gen.
orally Of the city. They have found, they
say, that it is the unanimous opinion that
Pittsburg's Exposition would not be aban-
doned under any circumstances and all
agree, they say, that the last show was not
managed advartageously.
Want the Management Changed.
At the meeting next week it is asserted
that movement will be set on foot asking
for a complete change in the management of
the local enterprise. An effort will be
made to change the directory, with view
to giving the exhibitors square show.
''There was no good reason why last falls
show should not have been as profitable as
was the one of the preceding year" bus
mess man said yesterday. Following that
failure comes the announcement that our
Exposition is to be abandoned simply be-
cause the Worlds Fair will be going on in
Chicago. On the same line of reasoning
it might be argued thst We should go to
New York for our meals, just because Del
monico runs the greatest cafe in the country
there. In the year of the Columbian Ex-
hibition above all others Pittsburg should
make an effort to appear at her best. People
from the East will pass through her to Chi
cago, and vast number of them will likely
stop off to visit and inspect our great city.
home, and few if any foreigners
will pass through here without stop
ping off long enough to inspect
our varied and extensive industries.
Must Have an Exhibit at Home.
"No where can they better see displayed
our energies and enterprises than at Our
Exposition. Yet we are asked to turn them
away without allowing them to inspect our
real stock in trade just because Chicago is
having an Exposition on larger scale than
we contemplate.
SIT is safe to assert that our business men
will not stand that Kind of treatment. Our
business will go on regardless of Chicago's
and the meeting next week will leave
little doubt in the minds of the
management of our Exposition as to where
the business people of Pittsburg stand on
the question of closing up our concern. We
will send postal cards and invitations to all
the prominent business people of Pittsburg,
and we will earnestly request their attend
ance at the meeting. Everybody will be
tbeu heard and ve will nrobahly formulat,s
our protest to or our disapproval of the pres
ent management in the shape of resolutions,
and we will endeavor to induce the present
management to change its mind on many
things that are now considered ill-advised.
Especially will we insist that our Exposi-
tion shall not be abandoned just because
larger one is being held in another city aud
in another State. Come to the Meeting"
the gentleman concluded.