Omaha daily bee., 1898-08-16
SETTLES one PASS QUESTION
Department Of Publicity and Promotion is
Left in Control.
DIRECTORS REJECT THE HITCHCOCK PLAN
Indiscriminnte Distribution Of Free
Tickets is Not e BE Permitted
Plans for Advertising the Ex-
position Fully Endorsed.

Tickets is Not TO he Permitted
Plans for Advertising the Ex-
position Fully Endorsed.
The resolution offered by G. NJ. Hitch
cock a week ago, which instructed the bu-
reau of admissions to issue passes indis-
criminately regardless of the authority of
the Department Of Promotion and Publicity,
was defeated by the unanimous vote of the
board of directors at the adjourned meeting
yesterday afternoon. Incidentally the mo-
tives Of the mover of the resolution were
very seriously questioned and several direc-
tors plainly declared that Mr.. Hitchcock was
seeking to crafty his personal antagonism
toward Manager Rosewater without regard
for the interests of the exposition.
The matter was the first subject considered
by the board and in the absence of Mr..
R~osewater. Herman Kountze stated what he
understood TO be his objections to the reso-
luton. The question was then laid on the
table until Mr.. Rosewater's arrival a few
minutes later. At the request of the board
Mr.. Rosewater then called attention to the
ridiculous proposition the resolution con-
templated. The board had first passed a
resolution authorizing the Issuance of GER
tain passes to newspapers at the discretion
of the manager OF the Department OF Pro-
motion and Publicity and at the same time
declared against an indiscriminate use of
that authority. Then Mr.. Hitchcock had
rushed through another resolution which
directed the issuance Of passes indiscrimi-
nately in entire conflict with the first reso-
luton. Mr.. Rosewater declared that IL IL
was not proposed to allow the department
any discretion in the matter it was useless
| for him IN no hntharad by ,yorl, +ho+ oo,,1a
as well be done by any clerk. His depart
ment has made upwards of 500 contracts
with the publishers of weekly. newspapers
for passes in return for mention of special
events at the exposition from time to time.
If this resolution is adopted the people who
have entered into these contracts in good
faith will be put on the same footing with
others who have absolutely refused to give
the exposition the slightest support. 1t will
also work an injustice by putting the small
est weekly on a level with a daily.
No Politics in II.
In reply to a question Mr.. Rosewater
stated that no distinction has been made
in the issuance of passes on account of
the political tenets of any newspaper. That
feature has never been even considered
and he cited several cases in point in sup
port of the assertion. The whole difficulty
results from a great effort on the part of
Mr.. Hitchcock TO make out that Mr.. Rose
water is antagonistic to the country ed
itors, when, as a matter of fact, he per-
sonally insisted that the editors of weeklies
should be allowed thirty-day passes when
other members of the executive committee
were DISPOSED to limit them to five days.
C. S. Montgomery said that there was a
good deal of truth in what Mr.. Rosewater
| had Gai1 Hn n hfpncnlf nA-u,rn1l tho,
this resolution originated in an improper
motive and he thought so from the start.
When Mr.. Hitchcock precipitated this mat
ter on the directory he did not have the
good of the exposition in mind so much as
his own personal antagonism to Mr.. Rose
water. His resolution, which is certainly
in direct conflict with the previous resolu-
tion, was rushed through in three minute.
after the other had been adopted and no one
believed that the board had intended that nc
discretion should be exercised in the matter
of passes.
Mr.. Kountze said that the remarks OF
the previous speaker were very pertinent
The course contemplated by the Hitchcock
resolution was entirely out of order and il
t was not a good business transaction. After
some further discussion the resolution wal
put to a vote and lost by the unanimou:
vote of all the members present.
S A request from the publishers Of th'
Omaha Excelsior to have monthly passe:
exchanged for a season pass was referred
to the Department of Publicity and Promo
ton.
At this ~juncture Mr.. Hitchcock again ap
peared in evidence through a letter. ii
which he vented his stereotyped complain
= in regard to Manager Rosewater's depart
ment. He declared that General Mandersol
= has written that he has found people II
Boston who know nothing of the exposition
A commercial agency has been asked by
Philadelphia correspondent for information
on the same subject and even the editor o
the New York Evening Post is densely ig
norant of the transmississippi show.
S Manager Rosewater took occasion to shoI
a that these allegations are ridiculously false
as their only recommendation is the super
Il abundance of gall with which they are ex
5 plotted in the face of facts that are self
evident. AS far as Philadelphia is con
- cerned, all the large papers of that cit
have printed page after page of illustrate
g matter concerning the exposition. Only re
Gently the Pennsylvania State commissio
has been designated and every paper !
Philadelphia has printed an article relativ
to the exposition and the plans for the par
ticipation of Pennsylvania
)r II might be true tnaL Ienerdi anu
j. son found someone in Boston who did M
know much about the exposition. B,
a everyone knows that a party that include
IS the lieutenant governor and other prom
nent state officials was entertained hel
In on Massachusetts, day and their visit WI
81 given great prominence in the papers q
III over the state of Massachusetts,. The al
sertion relative TO the editor OF the Pc
l. is even more mendacious. This is apparel
W. because this editor sat beside the speak
" at a banquet at the Commercial club som
A time ago and heard him speak at leng
81 on the subject. Mr.. Rosewater added tn
lie long before that he had conferred wi
the editor Of the Post in New York in T
gard to the exposition and that this pap
ne has published a considerable amount
Id matter descriptive OF the enterprise. !
proceeded to still further administer to I
u Hitchcock complaint by briefly referring
lo some OF the extensive advertising avenu
i1 through which the exposition has be
-, brought to the notice of eastern peop
Oh The Octave Thanet letters alone go in
sixty Of the largest newspapers in I
b. United States every Sunday through I
He Mcclure syndicate, and large exposition pc
&C. tiers have been billed In upwards of fiji
cities.