New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-17
A CHICAGO DREAM.
TO EXHIBIT AMERICAN CHILDREN IN
PARIS.

TIE PRETTY FANCY OF THE DEAR DELIGHT
FIJI. uNBUs1NEssLrKE CHICAGO FOLKS.
II there Is anv city in the world where all the
reople ought 10 know all about worlds fairs that
city Is Chicago. Therefore any suggestion as to
worlds fair that comes from Chicago must be
considered with reverence. II is pure reverence for
Chicago that prompts the printing here OF scheme
proposed with owsh seriousness by the Educa-
iional Tours Association Of that city. With no
other motive would line on the subject ever get
into these coAns. II is not safe to give the plan
IN any but of.sal language and therefore quo
taton is here given from words said to emanate
from Robert J. Thompson secretary of the Lafay-
cite Monument Association:
The proposition made by the Educational Tours
is that hat the United States Io S
tories shall select one delegate and one alternate
tory to take an active part in the unveing OF the
La Fayette Monument at the Exposition on United
It is proposed not only TO select boys and girls
W ihsir bhysics and health conditions so that
the world may see what healthy class OF young
templates the chartering Of a steamer carry this
crowd Of exuberant American young folks TO Paris
geo bright sHhy 6Sys 2aa girls ss ht6
children 10 France on United States day at the
Exposition Of 1900 will be one Of The most UNIQUE
The suggestion is respectfully made that as
method Of choosing the delegates and alternates,
the just given be submitted TO the school
children OF each State. and that those who can
make the best and fullest corrections OF its gram
mar and rhetoric be Paris TO join in 'one
Of the unique events. etc. But it is said that
the selections will be made upon the representa-
tive conditions OF the applicants" That Is sure 10
make trouble Suppose the Governor and the Sen
ators Of Kansas decide after lying awake for seven
nights that Willie Smith and Sally Jones are
qualified by their representative conditions 70
represent that State before the eyes Of the cen
serious world IN Paris Dare they say so What
would Mr. and Mrs Brown and Mr.. and Mrs Rob
,nson do? Would they not feel moved 10 inquire Of
the Governor and the Senators what was wrong with
the representative conditions" Of Tommy Brown
and Minnie Robinson? Surely the Governor and
Senators would have 10 barricade their houses The
condition Of a wretched Partisan Anti-Senlite
would be nothing to theirs. And would that Gov
ernor and those Senators ever get another vote out
OF MI Brown and Mr. Robinson? Now is the time
for Governors and Senators all over the country 10
resign, II they have any political sagacity al all
II Is said that these exhibits OF American products
are 10 be unpacked when they get 70 Paris, ana
are 10 do military drill and casthenics before 'he
ayestruck ewes Of the terrified world on United
States Day. July T. 1900. Suppose they should hap
pen 10 do them better than the French Army, as
they probably would? Would that prove 20 the
Latin that il was time 10 sk Woas not aS the Mns
-e- OF War arrest these innocent ch4dren ah9
accuse th fFns 9 Saf NOBODY understands
suppose some fanatcal Anti-semite SHOULD sa049{
Chicago do then ...-.
,rhe trouble is that Chicagos views OF everything
are TOO much pOeucal ana not enough placllCadl.
has al the since uTsl me SHloht
Of the soft coal enveloped the city in its romantic
haze What affair going 10 cost, ano VINO IS
10 nav the cost? OF course the parents OF the CI
dren cannon he expected to pay the cost uhless
Representative conditions Is interpreted 70 mean
the wealth OF the parents, ana nothing eIsS- -
any one person or commission or syndicate Tres 10
nav the expenses il viii make quite a little Dill
The items of printing and postage ma! pe US
missed for the present trivial. though they SCI
dom urn ot 10 be trivial In such cases But these
cbiIdren are 10 trained in military drill ana
together for some weeks before they start Ihere
will be in round numbers, two hundred OF IhtIil;
counting a boy and girl delegate ana d boy ana
q rirl alternate from each State ana Territory.
Their transportation 10 a central pony anu s.le
hoard for several weeks Of training will amount 10
somethfng The chartering Of a steamship Will also
b something II Robert j. Thompson mas ever
chartered q steamship to take his farn!ly 70 Eu-
rome for q week he knows this. II ne has not u
may burst him all at once ana come as d SUI
VIGOROUSLY expensive, Dut piB .Liel VI
even a tramp steamer costs more, and MT 1hoinP-
son will and that his small family is a very OH
fArent thing 10 support from TWO nundreo GhlIoreh
ives Then they got to be kept In Paris 1or
a day or two, anyway, and That Us not solhe 70 De
cheap city 10 live In next summer ana theh tHey
must be brought back on the chartered sIeaHlshp,
and even after that they cannot be expected 10
T. would be perfectly lovely 70 exhibit repre-,
,sr+s.ive American children at Paris II u cOutu
CIV he done in some inexpensive MIDWAY, Plal-
sarca Uay like a Javanese village or the streets
- 'Ss,ro.' nut Chicago ideas are too magnificent
Nobody can help admring Chlcago t9r us lucas
iut nobody can be expected TO carry them OUT