Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-17
AN IDEA BY DR.. wlNSnlp
Boston Editor Expresses His Views Relative
to the Exposition,
BETTER THAN WORLDS FAIR IN MANY WAYS
Admits TINT National Educational As
sociation Made II Mistake In Not
Bringing Its Annual Com
vention to omaha.

DR.. A. E. Winship OF Boston, editor Of
the Journal OF Education, was one Of the
first eastern visitors at the exposition. He
was in Omaha during the last week in May
and In the last issue Of his journal he writes
a most enthusiastic description of the mag
nifcence and beauty OF the Transmississippi
show. He commends the manner in which
the enterprise has been inanciered, the
large number of conventions that are to be
held here this summer and the prominent
speakers who will be heard here on various
occasions. incidentally he expresses his
emphatic opinion that the National Educa-
tional association made a serious mistake
in not locating it's 1898 convention in the
exposition city. He sums up his ideas OF
the exposition as follows:
mo twenty men of my acquaintance could
have made me believe that half that | have
seen in Omaha at the grounds of the Trans
mississippi Exposition, which is to open
June |, could be true. | saw the Worlds
fair a week before 1t opened, ! saw 1t on
the opening day and the closing, on the
Fourth of July, New York day and Chicago
day. l saw California's mid winter car
nival on Mardi Gras day and the Atlanta
exposition on several days, so that what is
here written is from experience with the
rivals of the Transmississippi Exposition.
Neither the San Francisco nor the Atlanta
expositions is to be mentioned with the
Transmississippi. In both those there was
n sense of sadness in remembrance of the
Worlds fair, but not so with Omaha.
More BenutifuI Than worlds Fair.
How often has 1t been said that the
world would never see another White City,
but 1t has. Irreverent as it may seem for
one who admired the White City almost
to devotion to say it, ! venture the state
mcnt that the view of the Court of Honor,
UP the lagoon, to the administrator build
ing, is more beautiful than any possible
view in Jackson park in 1898. In proper
tons, in uniformity OF beauty, in perspective
in continuous line of building and colonnade
presenting an unbroken, graceful white line
back from the winding shores of the lagoon
by day and a maze of electrical glory by
night, there is a beauty unknown at Chi.
cago.
The government exhibit is in every re.
spect more elaborate, more interesting
more instructive than it has before made
The electrical exhibit far outshines that a
the Columbian exposition. The world ha!
moved electrically in five years and every
latest beauty and device of harnessed light
ming will be on dress parade from June
to October 81. The agricultural exhibit il
to be larger and up-to-date. Out-of-doors
as well as indoors, there will be a CRANE
display of these resources of the west, nota
bly, of the wheat, corn and sugar beet in
dustries.
Art Nhibi a Good second.
THE art exhibit is a good secont
to that at Chicago. There will be casl
prizes for stock competition and the displa.
of blooded horses, cattle, sheep and swim
will far outshine all previous stock ex
hibits. The Transportation building equal
that at Chicago; the Manufactures building
is not so extensive, but is very interest
ing; the mining exhibit will very nearl
equal that at Jackson park, and the Mid
way!-well, there will be as much fun I
the square inch as on the Plaza. The Street
of Cairo, the Streets of All Nations, tn
Moorish Palace, the Japanese and Chimes
villages will rival the same Worlds fai
displays. The general arrangement of tn
merry making will be more satisfactory an
the instructive foreign features will be al
most as good. Several things will be MISE
Vienna will not be there, nor the un
dressed South Sea Islanders, but the suppl
of fun will be ample"