The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-17
HOWTORUN THE FAIR
suggestions From Depew, De
Young and Henry Clews.
sTATE APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED
No Politics in the Exposition-Attitude
OF European Nations Tho
Financial Aspects.

How 10 make the Worlds fair at Chicago
! success. is a question that has engrossed
The attention of many of the ablest minds
81 the country for the past six months.
II is easy in q broad generalization to say
that il depends upon management and To-
cation. If it be granted that the manage
mcnt is able and experienced, then loca-
ion is the first consideration.
The facilities for transit 20 and distribu-
ton from the fair of its visitors arevital to
lis pcrmanence 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.
whe total number who go once form an
Insignificant part of the aggregate neces-
nary TO make great exhibition. 1t is those
Who go many times over and over again
rho increase the numbers to the proper
limit.
Unless the grounds are quickly and
sheaply 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 80 but once
md the fair will be a failure.
The Paris and London exhibitions were
10 phenomenalIy successful because they
could be approached by innumerable means
pfcheap conveyance, and tens OF thousands
leaving the same moment, namely, the
hour for closing, could find themselves
without delay in steam cars, cable cars,
street surface cars, stages, and carryalls on
their way home.
The management of the fair requires
during its continuance as much OF the
mind, the entire time and intelligent and
enthusiastic attention of as experienced
and able mer as are needed to run state
government or great municipality.
To permit politics to appear anywhere
hi the management of fair of this char
acter would be fatal to the enterprise. The
exhibition will be nothing if not universal,
and if il incurs rightfully the hostility of
sither Republican or Democratic states 1T
will be q one-sided and very tame affair.
The exhibition viii not be national UNI
less all of the states are appropriately rep
resented The states cannot be present in
m attractive way without the assistance of
large appropriations by their respective
legislatures.
composition, administration, patronage
and appointment, the absence of common
wcaths controlled by the party in opposi-
ton TO the fair would make the celebra-
ton meaningless and absurd.
am absolutely confident that there are
no politics in the Chicago fair, and that
none will be permitted to enter. ] 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 hundredth anniversary of their
discovery by Columbus an event worthy
our civilization.
believe that the domestic character oil
the exposition will be its predominant
feature. 1t will be the best representation
of the progressed the country in the arts
inyentions and manufactures; in the de
velopment of its mines and agriculture; in
the expansion of its educational facilities
In all that relates to religious and mora
development, and in everything which
displays the increase in the comfort, bet
ter living. more vigorous health anC
greater happiness of the people, which i
Is possible to concentrate, and which ha:
ever been gathered.
The foreign exhibit will undoubtedly b,
fine, but distance and expense anl othe,
obvious causes will unnecessarily even'
European nations being representa- will
anything like the fullness and trhnes
that they were ut Paris in 1889. II
The benefit of fairs of this chad Der t,
the nations where they are held, Tsincal
culable. The French fair in Paris adde'
such an enormous sum to the normal bust
ness of France that it produced prosperit,
in every department of industry, saved tn
Republic from dissolution which was I'm
minent, and placed it upon permanent
Aasis