Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
CHANCE FOR GLORY.
How the Petroleum Exhibit Could
Be Made a Feature of the Fair.
SOME UNIQUE DISPLAY NEEDED
To Impress on Visitors What Great State
Is Pennsylvania.
INTERESTING TALK WITH Mr.. BREWER

Eben Brewer, of Erie, who was in the city
yesterday attending the funeral of his
father, is one Of the secretaries for the
Worlds Fair. He was also a commissioner
of the Erie Canal, and did much to have the
survey of the route to the lakes completed.
Mr.. Brewer thinks that Congress is not
doing the right thing in refusing to pass the
appropriation asked for the Fair.
'The Chicago people," he said, ''have
already planked down 81, 900, 900 to pay
the expenses, and if Congress will not ap-
propriate the $4,000, 900 the city will raise
the balance of the money needed and bond
the gate receipts, which ought to be about
$12,000,000. What we want is an indorse-
ment of the Fair by the Government. The
invitations to foreign nations to participate
were issued in the name of the President
The Grandest Fair Ever Seen.
'tNo worlds exhibition ever held cost as
much as the one in Chicago will. In the
beginning the national commission raised
the hopes Of the people in the city, and the
buildings were planned on a more extensive
scale than intended. If Uncle Sam contri-
butes s5.0oo,OOO, Director General Davis has
recommended that part of the money
he used in erecting a building exclusively
for the educational display. The exhibit
now will be placed in the main building. but
educators in the country are growing q
freat deal about their cramped quarters.
The educational display at the Centennial
was crowded into gallery: and the people
interested have complained ever since about
their treatment. They claim, and with
truth, that the exhibit was overshadowed
by Others and visitors went away without
any distinct impression OF the school dis
play The trouble is that the applications
for space are five times larger than the
amount at the disposal of the management
4O0, 900 square feet of floor space and will be
located on the island in the lagoon.
Chinese Will sulk at Home.
Gall the nations of the world except Cbire
have agreed to make exhibits. The Chinese
Governments feels sore over the Scott ex-
clusion bill, and the Mongolians, as people,
will do nothing Several large Chinese cor
promise to have a fine display. The Scott
bill, by the way, is blessing to the country.
China could easily dump enough of her
people in the United States to control us
without noticing q reduction in the pOpula-
ton.
81 hope the Pennsylvania display will be
fine one My idea is that the State should
take some line, and make 1t characteristic,
different from anything else in the fair. so
that when the people return home thev
will carry away with them some leading and
prominent Pro MI en-, feature Of the Keystone Stmte
but the producers have lost much of their
enthusiasm and they are not carrying out
their original promises. The Standard Oil
Company doesn't seem to be doing any
thing, though they furnish. the fair with oil.
Because the managers held the oil exhibit
under advisement for a time on account of
the danger from fire, the producers became
discouraged and lost interest.
Farquahr Is Pre- pairing Plans.
,iu
sioner Farquahr. He said he had two
things in view that would stamp Pennsyl-
vania and its industries in the minds of
visitors. He didn't say what he intended to
do. Lewis Emery's scheme was to build a
large oil tank in a good location. Inside
galleries could be built on which every
article made from petroleum would be ex-
hibited. A well was TO be bored in the
center to show how the crude petroleum
was drawn from the earth. The people
could gain access to the inclosure from be-
a fine oil museum at his homo and
would loan his specimens. The old
tools used in the Drake well can be had, and
play would be historical and representative
of the business as developed to-day. 1 think
oil is the most original of our resources,
and if properly handled would attract great
Congressman w. A. Stone returned to
Washington last evening. He said a minor
ity was trying to control the majority of the
House. but rather than allow them to win,
lie for one is willing to stay ali sum.
mer He added that higgling over an
appropriation for tho Worlds Fair
was outrageous, and sets bad example for
foreign ma lions. 1t looks as if the people of
the United States are not interested. when
it should be made a great national affair.
He stated that the money was guaranteed,
the appropriation. He expects to see the
minority break up in a few days.