The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-21

eSpeCIally concentrated IN Lne coiADfa.
tions OF the several States of the Union.
The lesson has been enforced over aud
over again until 1t has become the morn
Ing aud evening saiutstion In every
household In this broad land, that
we are one people the citi-
zens of one great Repub-
lie, and that whatever there is In
any department of civilization or liberty
which constitutes the peculiar merit Of
any State is the common property OF all
the Commonwealths of the American
Union.
Tho world needed demonstration of
what the American people in new
country, under new conditions and with.
out traditions could accomplish, and
they have bad It,
CHICAGO FAIR TIE WONDER OF THE WORLD.
''Not only has this exhibition excited
the interest Of all nations aud tribes OF
men, but the wonderful gathering of
Ssven hundred thousands of the citizens OF
ssipgle city. only fifty years OF age, to
show their confidence In their town
and their welcome to it's guests has been
the talk of Lsnden and Paris, of Vienna
ana Berlin. 1t has been discussed unner
the shadow of the Pyramids, and has ac-
celebrated thought and action on the
banks of the Ganges.
There is no rivalry. aud can be noue
between New York aud Chicago. New
York is misunderstood because she has
got so big that she has passed
beyond the possibility OF exhibiting
her interests or en- thusiasm. Things
happen in New York every day aud pass
unDoticed 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 prodigious growth of the towns of the
West and the Northwest. there
real estate west of Central Park.
which, In increase of population. In the
cost of construction Of buildings aud
enhancement of value of land was
greater than in any three or four of the
booming towns Of the country.
1.-THE period OF the rivalry OF cities in
the United States has passed; the period
Of competition Of municipalities for COM
petitive trade has gone by. The United
States, stretching as 1t does from ocean
to ocean. requires two commercial capi-
tails, one for the coast and the other
for the interior. The capital on the
coast, which must necessarily be the
capital of the continent, has been
fixed Tor halt century. The capital
Of the interior has been located by this
Fair.
Chicago is to be the centre. gathering
the products of the fields aud 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 10 distinguished, of
recognizing aud applauding the
merits of other cities. She knows
srasitation land opportunity which
have made London and Paris, the best
products of literature, OF the professions
of the arts, of the dramatic and lyric
stage seek fame and fortune In
New York. She knows tnat she
is, and every year will become more
potentially. the literary and financial
centre of the Mort American and South
American continents. Every university,
every thriving community, every
condition of remarkable enterprise
anywhere In the United States is a
nursery for New York. The intel
lectual and material development,
the gro with and progress OF any part
of the country, while creating States aud
cities. are also creating new sources of
wealth aud power for the cosmopolitan
city OF the New World. .e,
'All hail Chicagol All hail New York.
Seth Low, President of Columbia Col,
lege then spoke eioQuently.
HARRISON VEL COMES NEW YORK.
Mayor Harrison welcomed New York
to Chicago. in chara cteristtc address, In
which he alluded to the early opposition
New York TO Chicago having the Fair.
Mayor Gilroy replied appropriately, and
Archbishop Corrigan closed the celebra.
tiOn with the beuediction