St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-22

Chicago day were the living witnesses
of the indomitable courage, the unfail-
ing enthusiasm, the comprehensive wis
dom and the brilliant genius which con-
ceived and executed upon such superb
lines by worlds exhibition the cele-
bration of the four-hundredth year
of the discovery of America. No
cred upon civic occasion within
the walls of the temporary abid-
lug place of a fair dedicated to industry
and art. Properly concentrated and
distributed, they would form conStitu-
ency sufficiently large to be represented
in the United States senate by enough
senators to block the wheels of legiSla-
ton and stop the movement of
government for the next century. L
will not pretend TO pr edict how many
would have been within the boundaries
of the fair on New York day had this
exhibition gone to New York. Figures
are too commonplace. and Imagination
is unequal to the task. But New York
was as proud and as happy as Chicago
at this magnificent demonstration Of
interest, Intelligence and municipal
pride in her sister city. Without stint,
without limit, without reserve, New
York has felt an eyer-increaSing adj
miration for the results on these
grounds of Chicago's pluck and power.
We entered into the contest with Chi
cago, seeking to have the worlds lair
located in New York. | am within
bounds when | say there is today no one
in New York WIN is not glad that Chi
cago succeeded i'll that struggle. There
is no one in New York who fails to ap-
preciate the burden which was assumed,
| and the sacrifices necessary to carry It
to completion.
With thousand miles to ira verse
each way. we could not he expected TO
bring here our hundreds of thousands of
visitors, but | speak authoritatively for
the 3.00D,000 of people who constitute
| the metropolis i'll conveying TO Chicago
their cordial congratulations upon her
unequaled success in this great under
taking. The world needed demon
stration of what the American people,
in new country, under new conditions
and without traditions, could accom-
| pliSh, and they have had it. Not only
| has this exhibition excited the interest
! of all nations and tribes OF men, but the
wonderful gathering of 100000 citizens
of single city, only fifty years of age,
| to show their confidence in their town
and their welcome to its guests, has
been the talk of London and Paris, of
Vienna and Berlin. 1t has been dis
cuSSed under the shadow of the pyra-
midS, and has accelerated thought aud
action Oh the banks OF the GangeS.
There is no rivalry, and can be none,
between New York and Chicago. New
York is misunderstood, because she has
got 80 big that she has passed beyond
the possibilities of exhibiting her inter-
est and enthusiasm. Things happen IN
New York every day. pass unuoticed,
which take rank with cyclones and
earthquakes in other places. At the
time when the press of this country
and abroad was filled with the prodig-
iouS growth or the towns of the West
and Northwest, there was develop
ment going on in real estate west of
Central park which, in increase of pep
ulation, i'll the cost of construction of
buildings and enhancement of value of
land, was greater than i'll any three or
four booming towns of the country.
The period of the rivalry of cities in
the United States has passed; the period
of the competition of municipalities for
competitive trade has gone by. TIE
prodigouS development OF the Internal
commerce Of the country and the equally
remarkable increase of transportation
facilities to meet il have thrown OH the
great cities OF the United States oppof-
tunltleS and responsibilities greater THAI
they can manage. 1t was possible
twenty-five years ago for one great city,
by increasing by Liberal appropriations
its rail and water communication, to
sidetrack rival. But that day has gone
by. The depoDulation of the country
and the overcrOwding of the city pre-
sent to each municipality problems of
employment and support which, I'M
solved, are dangerous to peace and
property, ana whose solutions are not
yet i'll sight. The genius of the Ameri-
can people for government will meet
and overcome these perIis, but at pres
ent they confine the energies Of munic-
Qualities within their own limits.
The United States, stretching as it
does from ocean to ocean, requires two
commercial capitals. one for the coast
and the other for the interior. The
capital OH the coast, which must neceS-
sarily be the capital of the continent,
has been fixed for half century. The
capital of the interior has been locate d
by this fair. Chicago is to be the CEN
ter gathering the products of the fields
and of the mines, and New York the
reservoir for their distribution through
the country and abroad. New York
can afford to exercise the quality for
which she is distinguished, or recognize
ing and applauding the merits OF BOS
ton and Philadelphia, of Chicago and
st. Louis, of New Orleans and San
Kansas City, of Portland. Or, and
Portland, Me, She Knows that by
the attraction of gravitation and Oppor-
funity which have made London and
Paris, the best products of literature, of
the professions, of the arts, of the dra-
matte and of the lyric stage seek fame
and fortune in New York. She knows
that she is, and every year will become
more p0tentially,the literary and inan-
cial center of the North American and
South American continents. Every
university, every thriving community,
every condition of remarkable enter
prise is nursery for New York. The
intellectual and material development,
the growth and progress of any part OF
the country While creating states and
cities, are also creating new sources of
wealth and power for the cosmopolitan
city of the new world.
All hail, Chicago! All nail, New
York!
Keller's American hymn, sung in
excellent style by the great Columbian
chorus, was followed by Hon. John Il.
Fellows, of New York. r..
Then the stirring notes of the battle
hymn of the republic, the song which
III CT biiC UCdllo VI HIGH
over third of century back, rang out.
1t was too much for the vast audience,
and it joined in the swinging martial
chorus with fervor.
Hon. Seth Low, president of Columbia
college, then spoke briefly.
America" was then sung and the
days exercises closed with the bene-
diction, delivered by Archbishop Cor
rigan. AS the voice of the prelate died
away, the vast crowd began to scatter;
in TACT, some hundreds of irreverent
souls had begun the scattering process
while the archbishop was speaking.
With the last echo OF applause follow
ing the exercises in Festival hall, the
throng rushed frantically toward the
stock pavilion at the southerly end Of
the fair, where the parade formed. In
the military display the old guard, with
its display of gray boards and snowy
uniforms, was the feature. The 120
ypora oSoOrfad Inv ha Cbioa On