The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-01
Worlds Fair Matters

CHICAGO, Jan. 27-Little Oklahoma, with
its population of60, 000-notmany more peo-
pie than are to be found in a single ward
IN Chicago-is fired with a laudable ambi-
ton to be creditably represented at the
Worlds fair. Commissioners Miles and
Beeson express the opinion that at least
$4,000 will be set apart by the legis-
lature for this purpose, and, consider
ing the meager resources of the territory,
this amount may be regarded as very
generous. The people of Tennessee that
have engaged in the task of arousing state
pride have decided that one of the features
OF Its exhibit shall be a palace constructed
of Tennessee marble, and a quarter of a
million dollars Is the neat little sum that
the Legislature has been asked to appropri-
ate for the entire state display. Nebraska's
gift, II the legislative committee to which
was referred the task of inducing the legis-
lature to make large appropriation has
Its way, will be Sl5O,000, while down in
Arkansas the auxiliary convention has al
ready commenced an organization of the
state by districts in order TO create a pub
lie sentiment in favor of the passage of a
bill appropriating $500
Here in Illinois the grounds and build
ing committee of the directory has put
forth an ultimatum that not less than
half million dollars shall be provided for
the state building, while the bill passed by
the Wyoming legislature, aud granting
10000 for the state exhibit, has received the
governors signature, and is consequently
thus early law. These figures are inter
esting, not only as demonstrating that the
various commemorative are taking time
by the forelock, nut also as illustrating the
material progress that they have made in
the last fifteen years. Arkansas, for in
stance, contributed but SIS, coo toward the
centennial, and probably at that time the
bare suggestion of quarter of million
appropriation would have produced panic
within its borders. Illinois showed up
with a paltry ten thousand, while Nebraska,
so far as can be determined by the records,
gave nothing at all.
The largest amSunt appropriated by any
state came from Massachusetts,, the legis-
lature of which handed over $4,000. or
one-third more than the Empire State.
Indiana could not see her way clear to sub
scribe more than $1,000, thus putting her
self on level with the town council of
Wilmington, Del, while even Minnesota
did not feel able to afford more than $500.
-hSdnh IIile eCGlNe preparations are DelnS
made to transfer some of the American
enthusiasm across the Atlantic and to add
minister it in homeopathic doses to the
people in the leading cities of England and
the continent whose cooperation is neces-
sary to a foreign exhibit that shall eclipse
anything that has gone before. This in
itself is no easy task, for opponents of the
Columbian exposition have been industri-
oEsly engaged for months in spreading
erroneous reports regarding the enterprise
over the continent If all the mean, I'M
kird and untruthful things that have
been written and printed in foreign
tongues could be pasted together in a sim
gle string it would make roll of formida-
bic dimensions. Promoter General Handy,
however, is organizing a special force of
literary men conversant with foreign lam
guages for the purposes of European cor
respondence, and by the beginning of Feb
ruary the journals that have been most
fragrant in their presentations will be
deluged with good matter and cuts
HENRY M HUNT