Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-22
THE WORLDS FAIR.
A Great Banquet Given by the New
York State Commission.
DOCTOR DEPEW'S GREAT GRAFTON.
He Saws Many Nice Things About the Far and
It's Inausncss-Addresses by Palmer, DAVIS
Baker, and Othsrs-A Noted Gathering
Of Business and Professional People

New YORK, December 2l.-Delm0n-
ico,s hiv bapouet hall had no more DIS
tinguished or representative GaIhet,ne
within its walls this season than lnaU
which assembled tonight to partlcIpat
in the dinner given by the New iolA oll
State Commissioners Of the Worlu's 20
lumbian Exhibition, DIR. Chauncey Nj.
DeDew, John Boyd Thacher, OF Albany
aud Orton w. Allen, of Auburn. :.
DR.. Depew as chief host, was on hano
at an early hcr-, and as the notable OF
the East and West arrived he was ready
with a hearty handshake and ''glad to
see you," that proved his fitness to play
the part of entertainer quite as success
fully as post prsndial speaker.
President L. w. Palmer, of the Com
mission, and Gen. George P. Davis, OF
Chicago, the Director General, held an
informal reception in the RED Room"
previous to going into the banquet hall
and shook hands and chatted with
Major Moses p. Handy, Col. Elliott f.
Shepard, Hon. j. SlOat Fassett, Gen.
VIM. II. Seward, Col. Dan Lamont,
Perry Belmont, Hon. Thomas L. James,
Hon. Thomas NJ. Waller, George William
Curtis, Ex-senator Warner Miller,
Frank Thompson, George NJ. Pullman,
Morris X. Jessup, Jas. G. Fargo, Geo. j.
Gould, and many others equally promi-
nent in the commercial, professional,
literary and political circles of the
country. Among those expected, who
sent regrets, were Ex-President Cleve-
land, Vice President Morton, Mayor
Grant and Senator Daniels Of Virginia.
The chime clock on the stairway told
the hour of ten before the good things
OF the banquet had been discussed and
the company were ready to listen to the
speeches. DR.. Depew arose TO speak
while the clock was striking and was
welcomed by a generous outburSt OF
applause.
Mr.. Depew said:--
Our Columbian Exhibition comes at
most opportune time. The unprecedented
crops which our fields nave produced TINS
wear aud the equally unprecedented demand
for our food products abroad will give US
for twelve months an eXhilerating period
of prosperity.
Farm mortgages will be paid off, new
enterprises will be started, old railroads
will be extended and new ones will be con-
structed. values will rise IN market price,
everybody will be richer and in accord
with the spirit and temper Of our people,
credit will be strained to the utmost TO
realize the largest returns from these
phenomenal cSmmercial opportunities.
But this gseat industrial exhibition at
Chicago will &ke up the frayed tareads OF
the opportunity, too lavlshly employed
and weavel him into new cables
TO draw the. Of American progress
The vast movement of people over rail
ways, the stimulus given TO business at
cities and railway centers, the hundreds
of millions Oldollars brought into active
use, which would otherwise be unem-
ployed, will save US as a nation from
dangers which threaten and crystalize into
permanency tue thousands of enterprises
which othervlse would fail from lack OF
confidence or capital.
The expense of the national enterprise
should not be wholly born by the locality
where Congress has placed it. The nation
should do its Glrt to second the efforts OF
the citizens Of Chicago TO make this
Worlds Fair exhibition surpass in every
respect any ever yet held in any country.
In the presence Of this representative
body, speaking for them and through them
for the people of the commonwealth, can
say TO the country east and west and north
and south, New y York will be at the Colum-
bian Exhibition, and she will be there in
the full grandeur of her strength and de-
velopment.
Senator Palmer said:
r,The charge has been made that partisan
politics has had TO do with the management
of the Exposition. To me- The charge seems
~ 81 rbtact foundation Tho
President of the Commission, a Republican,
the Vice Chairman OF the Executive Com
mittee is Democrat. The Secretary Of
the Commission is Democrat and the Di-
rector General Republican. They were
elected by acclamation, and man must be
devoid of all sensibility who would not feel
under the circumstances that be was COM
mitted thereby to observe the strictest neu-
trality.
Mr. w. Il. Baker reviewed the history
of the organization of the Fair and said
he was happy 10 see that almost every
trace OF bitterness over the loss OF the
Fair to New York has disappeared, and
that with the past unsigned for and the
future sure, the project was going ahead
steadilywith the cooperation in all need
ed ways OF al the people OF the nation.
Mr.. Baker resounted the details of the
vast undertaking by Chicago citi-
zens, and Ssid that the estimated
cost Of the conpleted structures includ-
ing laudscapa stationery, fountains,
police ana tird stations and all that may
be necessary br the comfort and con-
venience of vsitors, will be SIS, 1880,
exclusive of tie cost of administration,
which is estinated az 81, 10000 up to
the opening i the Exposition May /,
1891.
Director General Davis said:
What is the ntent of the Worlds Fairl
What lesson isit TO inculcate! What intiu-
ence is it to sxert upon the world and
upon our naticl. A general answer it
NAV be said t1at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition is INTENDED TO express our
gratitude to 81 nations Of the earth that
have in any way promoted our prosperity
and made our rational life possible.
The Exposition is to be Of American sun :
shine and soil, American skill and genius,
American scholarship and thought against
all the world nd the world will he the
prouder and allthe better If we g...n the
| victory.
Boomfown Banks Bust.