The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-23
BUFFALO IS PLUCKY
EXPOSITION HARD HIT BY AsSAs-
SINS BULLET.
IT'S SUCCESS THREATENED.
EIT CITIZENS HAVE RALLIED To
IT'S SUPPORT.

Did Mt the Hight of the Exposition,
Threw a Pail Over the Entire City
and Naturally Distracted Attention
inns, Proud of the Great show,
Have RedoubIed Their Efforts That
Its Conclusion May Realize the
Promise of Its Inception.
Buffalo. N. Y, Sept. 22.-This city is
pulling itself together again after a
fortnight of anxiety and sorrow, such
as it has never known. What was in
tended to be the gala period of its his
tory was turned into unspeakable grief,
which has gone into every home With
a force hard for any one not here to
realize. Buffalo was full of personal
loyalty and enthusiasm for President
Mckinley. 1t has been center of
Mckinley sentiment all through his
public career, and there was no city
in the country where friendship and
devotion for him was more marked.
Naturally, his tragic end, while it's
guevt depressed the city bey0nt ex-
preston.
crossed in a great undertaking than
Buffalo was with the Pan-American
Exposition three weeks ago. Every
man, woman and child in the city had
a direct interest and pride in the I'M
dertaking. 1t seemed that everyone
with whom a stranger spoke had in
mind the large ideal of the great good
x,,tfob tho characterization IF the MON
derful resources and abilities of the
Western hemisphere was to do for the
country. The Buffalo people seemed
rather proud that the whole expense of
the demonstration had fallen upon
them and their fellow citizens. They
would call attention to the fact that
all of the funds had been raised in
Buffalo without assistance from the
nation. the state, or even the city cor
poration.
1T is the first exposition which has
had no subsidies" so strangers were
told.
THE United States has furnished
wonderful exhibit" citizens said, far
more attractive than has ever been
seen before: the state of New York
has erected a beautiful marble palace;
the city of Buffalo has built a bridge
and has furnished water and fire and
police protection, but the funds to erect
the city of light have all come from the
private resources of Buffalo people"
Means Heavy Loss to City.
When, in his memorable speech, the
President emphasized the Pan-Ameri-
can idea and made it part of history,
the people of Buffalo realized that
I1s,. 4aI
seemed contented and proud that as
individuals of one city they had done
the work which might well have been
the nations undertaking. The revul-
sion was terrible. and now that 1T is
passed the question of what is to come
is interesting. The public feeling is
strong and all one way. Everyone
seems to realize that the stockholders
of the exposition have met a great
loss, probably of not less than $1,000
600. That practically means the citi-
zens, for about every Buffalonian has
stock in the exposition according to
his means. The dollars and cents
seems pretty thoroughly to be elimi-
mated from the calculation now, but
the work to be done and the end to
be achieved seems foremost in every
mans mind. They feel now that the
exposition must be. carried to a glorious
Il
love. President Milburn put this
thought very strongly: He said:
The Dead Presidents Policy.
There must be no faltering in our
efforts now, considering how much the
success of the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton means in the development of clos
er political and commercial relations
between the peoples of the Western
Hemisphere. That was a policy earn
estly favored by President Mckinley
and which interested him so deeply in
the exposition from it's first inception.
1t is a strange stroke of fate that the
success of the exposition should be
threatened through this fearful trag-
edy. We should be lacking in loyalty
to his memory If we did not bend all
our energies to browning the work
which he had so close to his heart.
The position in which the tragedy
found me gave me the opportunity to
know what was in that great soul dur
ing the hours just before the execra-
BILE shot. The President had taken the
deepest interest in the exposition from
the start. It's ideal and conception are
in harmony with his wise and benefi-
cent public policy. The years that
have been spent i'm the evolution and
development of the idea of the essen
tial independence of the nations of this
hemisphere, which we call the Pan
American idea, have their first full eX-
preston in this exposition. 1t gave the
opportunity which he utilized in that
great speech which has already passed
into history as the highest note of
American craftsmanship and the most
perfect expression of the Pan Ameri-
can idea. The way in which the idea
has been developed here and the glor-
ious setting which art and industry
have given 1t gratified and even sur
prised the President. He was deeply
impressed by the beauty and mag
nitude of the exposition. the wonder
full display of electrical illumination
and the evidences on every side of the
hearty cooperation of the governments
and peoples of the North, South and
Central Americas in making 1t truly
Pan American. He told me that above
everything he wished that he could
have had time and opportunity for an
extensive and uninterrupted inspection
of the grounds, the buildings and the
exhibits. / know that, had he been
spared to conclude his visit. he intend
ed to commend the exposition in his
powerful and convincing way to the
support of the public.
Has Six Weeks Yet to Run.
There are six weeks more of the life
of the exposition, and 1t is in the full
bloom of it's beauty and interest. Every
feature of 1t has been developed to its
highest point and it is being operated