The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-04-12
THE BUSINESS CARNIVAL
HoW WESTERN MERCHANTS BUILD
THEIR INTERESTS.

for Chicago-The Taikative Barber ana
the Poet woman's Opinion of New
Haven.
You see that building going up over
there?" said the talkative Chicago bar
Der. "Well, that Is to be twenty-seven
stories high, finished and occupied by
November first; just three months from
the digging of the foundation. Now in
New York it would take them year to
complete that lob"
The barber continued to blow, but
when was free from the keen razors
edge, I got a word in edgewise by ask
ing him wher he was born,
New Haven, Conn.," said he, "a dead
slow town.
On my return from the fair an elderly
lady who occupied seat in front of
me kept up a running fire about the
greatness and o-ahead-itiveness of the
west
pardon me. madam" said ] as she
stopped to catch her breath, may l ask
where you were born?"
"In New Haven, Conn, where I am
on my way now, to visit some moss
grown relatives"
That is the way these westerners talk
about the people of the east, notWith-
standing that Connecticut owned the
whole state of Ohio at one time, and
is now teaching the young idea to
shoot with the money received for
that goodly territory.
Yes, the people OF the east settled the
great Northwestern Reserve, which is
the only place in this country that has
more divorces than England.
| 1t is all very well to dub Chicago and
other western cities as windy" but
their blowing has amounted to some
thing.
| Chicago's motto, II WILL, won for
her the greatest fair the sun ever shone
upon. At the inception Of the great
undertaking Chicago provided $10,oOo,-
900. Thirty-two states voted So, 900 to
assist the carrying out of the stupen-
dous work. Her business men realized
| 5 per cent. on the $5,000,000 subscribed
4 ay them.
/ On the evening of October s, 1871, Mrs.
| OLearys COW kicked over a lantern in
| the little stable on De Koven street
Chicago, and started a fire which in six
| hours and a half travelled five miles,
destroying $192000,000 worth of prop
erty and rendering homeless 100000
| people. While the embers We're still
smouldering, business men who had
never handled anything heavier in bust
ness than a pen were at work with their
coats off wheeling barrow loads of deb
ris away, making way for the rebuild
| ing of a greater city.
That is the western pluck of to-day.
/ Now the very same principle which
| rebuilt Chicago and carried through
| the mammoth fair is the principle
| which, if acted upon by the merchants
| of New Haven in carrying out the
1 coming business carnival, win produce
| like results.
1 The principle is enthusiastic energy
and the spending of some money. The
amount subscribed to date to carry
on a three days business carnival is
less than $1,000.
The committee, it would seem, wants
at least $4,000 to prove the Chicago
barber and the laxative woman wrong
/ 1t does seem that the several mil
lions of dollars worth of store property
on Chapel and contiguous streets, the
banks and the great manufacturing in.
terests of the city are interested In this
i Merchants carnival sufficiently to sub
scribe generously to the fund.
| Hon. T. Attwater Barnes suggestion
was that 1t be not altogether an occa
sion of gain-getting, but also a demon
stration of New Haven as a great ant
profitable center for supplying thu
needs of the vast population in ant
about it.
The merchants ought, by their en-
ergy on those three days to prove t
that contingent local population which
spend large sums in the New Yorl
stores, that whatever can be purchased
here, all things equal ought to be pur
cased right in New Haven.
Business carnivals are not expert
nents in the west. Almost every west
ern city conducts them, not once
year, put several times year. Tn
people look forward to them witt
pleasure Free trains, paid for by tn
merchants, are run from long distances
. the country people crowd them, tn
business men decorate their stores, AM
provide for the comfort and amuse
ment Of the people and the excursion
lists divide their time between shopping
) and pleasure seekers. Let the Ney
Haven merchants sow literally an,
they will reap literally.
Let them at least be as alert for
big bargain as were their forefathers
who purchased Quinnipiac and we sur
rounding country from the Indians 70
twelve coats OF Elgish cloth, twelv
Allegheny spoons, twelve hatchets
twelve hoes, twelve porringers, and a.
assorted lot of knives and scissor.
| A r