The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-17
ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS
The Worlds Fair Discussed by
Chauncey M. nepew, M. H. de
Young and Henry Clews.
Features That Should Be Observed
and Managed With the
Utmost Skill
The Matter of transportation tho Most
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Prospects
OF the Columbian Exposition.

How to make the Worlds fair at Chicago
a success, is a question that has engrossed
the attention of many of the ablest minds
of the country for the past six months.
It is easy in a broad generalization to say
that it depends upon management n To-
cation. If it be granted that the manage
ment is able and experienced, then loca-
ton ia the first consideration.
The facilities for transit to and dis
tribution from the fair of its visitors are
vital to its permanence and financial pros
perity.
Both the gate money and the character
and extent of tho exhibits will depend upon
the number of people who daily visit the
fair.
The total number who go once form an
insignificant part of the aggregate neces-
sary to make a great exhibition. 1t isthose
who 60 many times over and over again
who increase the numbers to the proper
limit.
Unless the grounds are quickly and
cheaply accessible and the great crowds
always present at the close in the afternoon
and on fete days can be comfortably and
quickly carried, visitors will go but once
and the fair will be a failure.
The Parts and London exhibitions were
SO phenomenally successful because they
could be approached by innumerable means
of cheap conveyance and tens of thousands
leaving at the same moment, namely the
hour for closing, could finl themselves
without delay in steam cars, cable cars.
street surface cars, stages and calryalls on
their way home.
The management of the fair requires
during its continuance as much of the mind,
the entire time and intelligent and enthusi.
astic attention Of as experienced and able
men as needed to run a state government or
n great municipality.
10 permit politics to appear anywhere in
the management of a fair of this character
would be fatal to the enterprise. The exhi-
nltlon will be nothing if not universal, and
u 1T incurs rightfully the hostility of either
republican or democratic states it will be a
o~ne-sided and very tame affair.
The exhibition will not be national unless
az 81 the states are appropriately represent
ed. The states cannot be present in an
attractive way without the assistance of
iarge appropriations by their respective
legislatures.
II the exhibition was political in its COM
position. administration. patronage and
appolntmeLt. the absence of ommon-
Wealths controlled by the party in opposi-
non to the fair would make the celebra-
ton meaningless and absurd.
am absolutely confident that there are
no politics i'll the Chicago fair and that
none will be permitted to enter. 1 know
that the local committee, the general com
mittee of the fair and tho city authorities
OF Chicago are patriotically intent upon
Making the celebration by the Americas of
the 4OOth anniversary of their discovery by
columbus an event worthy of our cole.
brntion.
l believe that the domestic character of
the exposition will be its predominant fea-
ture. 1t will be the best representation of
the progress OF the country in the arts, in
ventions and manufactures; in the develop
ment OF its mines and agriculture; in the
EXPANSION of it's educational facilities in ali
that relates to religious and moral develop
ment, and in everything which dis, lays the
increase i'll the comfort, better living more
vi orous health and greater happiness of
the people, which it ia possible to concen-
trate, and which has ever been gathered.
The foreign exhibit will undoubtedly be
tine. but distance and expense and other
obvious causes will necessarily prevent Eu-
ropean nations being represented with any,
thing like the fullness L richness that
thev were i'll Paris i'll 1889.
The benefit of fairs of this character to
the nations where they are held, is meal
culable. The French fair in Paris added
such an enormous sum to the normal bust
ness of France that it produced prosperity
in every department of industry, saved the
republic from dissolution which was immi-
nent, and Placed it upon q permanent basis.