The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-19

yst today, but twenty-five Yesrs distant
from the '.great IRE. " Chicago has ses all
these prophecies ~ naught- With > popu-
istsoa gzintupied sfaSe the Ere she poased
-Doy0go ye0ais n single day into the
greatest os Worlds fairs. which her own
eaerey bad organized and pushed 20
condition 81 unexanpied excellence ard
Gnancsai sHccess in face Of extraordinary
diseoarsxrn.ents.
Today the astonishing superiority and
success Of this Worlds fair IL confessed By
ST Eureps and America With every
dollar Of tee debt paid. il stands not only
an artistic and executive success. bat
financial frinmph In the most terrible
year Of financial wreck and disaster that
the eoussEy has known since 1887
The argument against giving the CoIam-
bian exposition 70 Chicago was that
large percentage Of the attendance comes
from . comparatively small area surround
ing the place ia which the fair is held.
Taking Chicago IS . center, . 5o-miie ra-
dsus will include about 250O. 90 peo-
pie. 4o0-mfis radius about 5000
COO people. and a 501mile radius about
1906, GO people. The same radl with
Paris ne q center will include respec-
lively iOo.Go 90 people. 1900. 900 people
and ~. 60 900 people. So Paris had about
four times the population 70 draw from
that Chicago has. The price Of admission
az Paris vas only . franc. or less than %
cents. ana millions of tickets were sold
through o lottery for 10 cents. while at
Chicago It is 50 cents. And Jet, in spite
Of these unfsvorabie conditions, Chicago
will hare az least three-fourths and prob
ably four-ffths IS large an attendance as
Paris The total attendance as Paris was
-. 70. 49, The attendance at Chicago will
foot up at least q. 0oo, go and may go near
9, COO, 90
AS an exhibition of American energy,
courage and executive genius for the out
door world OF practical AFFAIRS IL is without
parallel or peer in the history of this conn
try. Chicago 10 the typical American
city; New York is ~ cosmopolitan as Lon
don or Paris. but the thoughtful American
tourist. who seeks to know the American
people. will catch on to their peculiar
national quality and characteristics best
In Chicago.
New York city would not have secured
an attendance Of 10000 on New York's
day II she had obtained the Worlds fair;
not because New York lacks people: she
has 500 900 more than Chicago, but because
New York is not an intensely American
city like Chicago. Chicago is full of that
kind of provincial pride which has built
Chicago and rebuilt it; the kind of pride
which made alIi Chicago determined that
the fair should be success; great event
in the history OF the city. But New York
would have treated the fair. had it OBJ
tanned IL, not as a great event. but as an
agreeable aud interesting incident
New York is and always will be the
greatest commercial mart and the most
cosmopolitan city of our country. but for
an intensely American city, which reflects
the national quality that has made Us a
great country. We must go to Chicago
An Englishman might live In New York
city Eve years and If he never stirred out
Of IL he would have very small knowledge
Of the public sentiment of the great mass
of the American people. The heart of the
American people beats more strongly In
the region of which Chicago is the great
center. Chicago is really the West; and
is emphatically an American city, while
New York is one of the great cities Of the
world like London or Paris.
The foreign element has become exceed
ingly strong in Chicago, and yet the Amer
lean spirit is stiii predominant when Chi
cago seriously seeks to do anything, and
the success of the Worlds fair is worthy
of the sons of those rugged men whose
united energy and push planted a great
city At the mouth Of river that was little
better than ditch. dug out the ditch and
made harbor. The spirit that built and
rebuilt Chicago made the fair a success.