The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
THE WORLDS FAIR.
It's Importance and Influence on
the World.
The Unique Offering of the Woman of
Utah Gratefully Accepted, and it
VIII in Itself be One of the
Attractions.

When one comes to consider the i'm
portance of the Worlds fair and its in
fiuence upon the world at large, and the
United States in particular, the subject
grows in magnitude as it is considered in
detail. Since the early ages great fairs or
markets have been held in the various
countries of the Old World, the object
sought being the creation of a market
for the sale of certain wares by collecting
the people of foreign lands together in
order that they might inspect the mer-
chandise and rare articles offered for sale.
] say the primary object of these early
fairs was for trade and barter, yet they
suggested the great fares of modern
times, because when the merchant princes
in search of rare and costly merchandise
came together and met in the fair mar
kets the tradesmen and artisans who pro-
duced the various articles on sale, natur-
ally the interchange of ideas and the sug-
gestions of merchants served to promote
the growth Of many important industries
and created new ones, because the trades
men and artisans, ever anxious to in
crease their business, profited by the sug-
gestions of their customers, and the COM
parison of their work one with another,
and sought to excel in the quality Of their
work with each recurring season of the
fair.
As the world progressed and civilization
increased and spread out over the earth
great fairs became more educational in
their character and the progress of civili-
cation was greatly promoted by collecting
the handiwork of man from all sections Of
the earth and exhibiting to the world the
progress Of the age. AS the arts and in
dustries of the world were improved BY
comparison and the dissemination of
knowledge at these fairs, so were the fairs
improved by the broadening OF ideas
among mankind.
The great World S fair at London, our
own Centennial and the great Paris ex-
position are but recent evidences of the
progress of the world and the rapid ad-
vance science and civilization is making.
As the Paris exposition was an improve
ment over the Centennial exposition, so
will the Worlds fair of 1888, in comment
grafton of the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the discovery OF America, be
marked improvement over the Paris ex-
position. AS compared with all former
world s fairs, the Columbian exposition
is far in advance OF anything that the
world has ever known, and in Importance
and advancement the comparison is as the
improvement noted in the Paris EXPOSE
ton of 1889 over the first real worlds fair
held in London forty years ago.
No one can comprehend the magnitude
of the World fair to be held in Chicago
in '93 without visiting the grounds and
seeing the work now being carried on in
preparation for the great show.
Buildings that outstrip in beauty and
design of architecture the most magnifi-
cent temple OF ancient Rome and Greece
are being erected on every hand Exact
counterfeits of style of architecture that
required years of patient toll and thought
to fashion in stone and marble for the
beautiful structures of ancient times are
springing from the ground, and while
they do not possess the stability of the
ancient buildings, to the eye they are all
that they seem-magniticent piles of
carved stone and marble.
The very fact that such structures can
be erected in the space of few days