The morning call., 1891-05-17
How TO RUN
THE Big FAIR.
Opinions Of ClaulGGy NJ. DGpGW and
Henry ClGWS About Il.
One Urges State Appropriations; the Other
Believes That Financial Success Will
Insure General Success.

How to make the Worlds Fair at Chicago
a success is question that has engrossed
the attention of many of the ablest minds OF
the country for the past six months.
1t is easy, In broad generalization, to say
that it depends upon management and lOca-
ton, If it be granted that the management
is able and experienced. then location is the
first consideration.
The facilities for transit to and diStri6u-
ton from the fair of its visitors are vital to
its permaneuce and financial prosperity.
Both the gate money and the character
and extent of the exhibits will depend upon
the number of people who daily visit the
fair.
Unless the grounds are quickly and
eheaply accessible and the great crowds
always present at the close in the afternoon
and on fete days can be comfortably ami
quickly carried, visitors will go but once and
the fair will be failure
The Paris and London exhibitions were
so phenOmenally successful because they
could be approached oy innumeraDle means
OF cheap conveyance.
The management of the fair requires dur
ing its continuance as much OF the mind, the
entire time aAd intelligent and enthusiastic
attention of as experienced and able men as
are needed 10 run a State Government or a
great municipality.
TO permit politics to appear anywhere In
the management of fair of this character
would be fatal to the enterprise. The eX-
hibitiOn will be nothing if not universal.
and If it incurs rightfully the hostility of
either Republican or Democratic States 1t
will be one-sIded and very tame affair
The exhibition will not be national unless
all OF the States are appropriately repre-
sented. The States cannot bs present in an
attractive way without the assistance OF
large appropriations by their respective
Legislatures.
| am absolutely confident that there are
no politics in the Chicago Fair, and that
none will be permitted to enter. l know
that the local committee. the general COM
mittee of the fair and the city authorities
of Chicago are periodically intent upon
making the celebration by the Americas of
the four hundredtE anniversary of their dis
c0very by Columbus an event worthy Of our
civilization.
| believe that the domestic character of
the exposition will be its predominant feat
ure. 1t will be the best representation of
the progress Of the country in the arts in-
ventl0nS and manufactures; in the develop
ment of its mines and agriculture; 10 the
expansion of its educational facilities, in all
that relates to religious and moral develop
ment, and in everything which displays the
increase In the comfort, better living, more
vigorous health and greater happiness Of
the people which II IS possible to concentrate
and which has ever been gathered.
The foreign exhibit will undoubtedly be
fine, but distance and expense and other
obvious causes will unnecessarily prevent
European nations being represented with
anything like the fullness and richness that
they were in Paris in 1889.
The benefit of fairs Of this character to
the nations where they are held is incalcula-
bic. The French Fair in Paris added such
an enormous sum to the normal business of
France that it produced prosperity in every
department of industry. saved the republic
from dissolution, which was imminent, and
placed it upon permanent basis.