Omaha daily bee., 1893-10-29
THE END OF THE GREAT FAIR.

But two days remain OF the official
life OF the Columbian exposition.
Within forty-eight hours the greatest
enterprise of the kind aver undertaken
and carried to q triumphant success will
have become a thing Of the pasta
memory, and to the millions whose priv
ilege it has been to visit it and to give
it intelligent and discriminating inspec-
tion, a memory that will afford peren-
NAL qualification. What man or woman
with an appreciation of the imposing,
the grand and the beautiful, will ever
forget the picture that was presented by
a view from the court of
honor" or from the promenade
of the Manufactures building? The
impressive yastness and the sumptuous
splendor Of the architectural achieve
ment alone was sufficient to leave an in
effaceable effect upon the mind, and
when one considers in addition the mar
velous works of art and science and
mechanical skill collected in these white
palaces, wonder at the magnitude and
the magniicence of this greatest of all
worlds fairs grows as thought and i'm
agination dwell upon it. No pen has
yet lone justice to its glory and its
grandeur, no orator has spoken the
words that convey In adequate idea of
its splendors and it's beauties, the pencil
or the brush OF the artist has given but
an imperfect impression of its vastness
| and its imposing character.
The mayor of New York City, in his
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was one sad reflection connected with
the White City, and that was that all
the magnificent specimens OF architec-
tural art, together with all that they
contain of human greatness and civiliza-
ton, will soon have passed away. ~
cannot help but think that any out
lay, however great said the mayor
of the national metropolis. ''that
would tend to preserve these magnifi-
cent buildings in monumental marble
would be an expenditure for which
the country would receive a hun
dred-fold in the liberal education
which our population would re-
ceive in visiting them and in the
expansion of mind and elevation of
thought which they would evoke" In
this Mayor Gilroy voiced the sentiment
OF hundreds of thousands who have
visited the fair. Few men or women of
Intelligence who have looked with pro-
found interest and enthusiastic admira-
ton upon those structures have not felt
that their preservation would be a great
thing for the country. But this is i'm
practicable as to most of them, though
there is promise that one or more will
be preserved to become the home OF ex
hibits which will attract and instruct
the coming generations of Americans.
Another New Yorker spoke elo-
already referred to, which may be appro-
priately quoted in this connection. Con,
gresham Fellows said: ''These build
ings will soon disappear. The limita'
tion is almost reached. All this phys
zeal grandeur will have faded away and
disappear, but the lessons which have
been taught, not only to this republic
but TO all of earth, will survive the
flight of all the years. This, after all, Ii
the mightiest lesson which the fair has
taught. 1t has beer an education to al
OF us. 1t has been the qualification Of
every sense. No cultivated taste but
that has been gratilied even beyond it
capacity to receive in looking
upon this scene" This great achieve
ment, this triumph OF the geniu
and energy of the American people
has not only justly stimulated n~ationa
pride and patriotism, but it has mad'
tho American name more respected AM
honored than ever before ~throughou
, the world. 1t is no insignificant boas
: that in this exposition we have SUI
passed all like enterprises of other Ma
tions vastly beyond what was expects