Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-02
BIG SALARIES
Eating Large Holes in the worlds Fair
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CHICAGO, April ?. ~ Now that the
worlds fair is asking an additional ap
preparation of 5000, 600 from congress
and an investigation is pending, lei
everything come out, and after that lei
there be a strengthening up, settling
down and 4 squaling out. Then let her
go, Gallagher! and good luck and god
speed. 1t is claimed by the fair people
| that the national committee adopted q
classification which made it ''impossil (
for Chicago" ITO complete the fair with
| $10,000,O00, and that $l8,000,0 coo will
have to be spent before the gates are
thrown open.
The Paris Exposition Not In 1t.
1t is claimed that the buildings and
grounds will cost $12.000,000. In this
connection it is argued that the Paris
exposition only cost, in its entirety, 49,
500, 600; but Chicago says that Paris is
no criterion for her-is not in it. The
Chicago management paid ten of the
best architects in America $4,000 each,
for designs.
Congress originally appropriated ST.
200, 900 to maintain the national COM
mission two members from each state
and territory and eight members at
large.
The first year $l75,000 was expended
in meetings of the national commission
and the salaries of its officers.
At first President Palmer would only
receive his expenses and now only the
pay for his private secretary.
/ ,oct uaar AS0 000 1yoc xyota1 49,,
gress to pay the salary of the director
general $t5,000, secretary $4,000 and
rent of officers, etc.
The remainder went for expenses of
the national commission, each meeting
costing 1856
In Chicago they claim they have no
knowledge of what was spent of the
original 81 ,200,000 appropriation by con-
gress, as it is in the hands of the gov
ernment board.
Each member of the cabinet has
charge of the exhibit from his depart
ment, and nominates a man to take
charge of its exhibit.
The government building will cost
$340,000.
On March the acting secretary of the
treasury sent a communication to con-
gress stating that $500,000 will be re-
quired during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1898, for collecting and pre-
pairing the government exhibit"
In talks with Chicago men who were
enthusiastic friends of the fair, the cor
respondent was told that there had been
undoubtedly wanton extravaganza by
the local board, the president of which
is w. t. Baker, the board of trade man
who squeezed Harper, the Fidelity bank
president, for $1,000,000 in the wheat
freeze-out.
Baker gets a salary of $12, 900, and the
vice president $4,000.
The payroll of the officers of the local
board aggrC gates $3.50 900 annually, and
this is for three years. why" said a
Chicago gentleman and friend of the ex-
position in the bureau of construction,
''the high priced officials and employees
are SO numerous that they are falling
over each other when they move. There
is not enough room for them to move
about. There is a chief of division for
everything imaginable at big salary"
There are 900 employees in the con-
struction department alone.
Nothing Too Elaborate.
Mr.. Burnham, the chief, has very ex-
travagant ideas, and there is nothing too
elaborate or expensive for his contem-
plation
The Chicago directory of the worlds
fair ask for the $5,000,000 appropriation
by congress to be placed in their hands
for expenditures, and say they will pay
back 40 per cent. over expenses, but they
do not guarantee anything.
If congress is to put up this extra $5,-
100000, would it not be better to have
it spent under the direction of the ma
tional board or a special commission.
And right here congress ought to ex-
act a guarantee from the local board
and municipal authorities that visitors
are not to be imposed upon or robbed in
the matter of transportation, hotel rates
and all that during the fair.
A uniform price for everything should
be settled and warranted to stand in ad-
vance if the government is to pay so
much for the show with the peoples
money.
change.
Chicago said in the beginning: "Give
us the site for the worlds fair; touch
the button and we do the rest" Now
they have the sites but oh, how differ
ent they talk.
They want about 81, ,0JO,O0O from con-
gress. They claim to have put up $11,-
900, 900 in private subscriptions and city
bonds, and claim that another million
will be voted if necessary.
Then there are the appropriations by
the states and territories and foreign
governments for exhibits, which will
constitute the chief attractions of the
fair.
From the estimates of its own people
the fair will be a paying concern, all the
extravaganza notwithstanding.
One of the officers said that
he considered $15,000,000 gate re-
ceipts-a conservative estimate, and that
the concessions and privileges would
net $3, 100000. Here we have SIS,
900 in profits, and the salvage from tie
buildings will amount to $l,000,000 or
g., 900, 900 more.
The buildings are all to be removed
from the grounds within six months
after the fair closes and under the direc-
ton Of the local board, and it is for
them to say how much it has "cost u.s."
and "Uncie SAM there is very little
left for you, after all expenses are
paid"
UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS.