The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04
NEW YORK NEEDS
NO WORLD FAIR
Suggested Project VIII Be
Abandoned for Number of
Good Reasons.
MURDOCH MAY REPRESENT
KANSAS IN THE SENATE
Railroads Adopt Systematic
Plan of Educating Farmers
Along Lines.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.

BY Leased Wire 10 The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Ncw York is
not TO have Il world Is fair in 1913, nor
al any other time, perhaps. The com
mittee appointed some time ago by the
mayor TO consider tho scheme has de-
cidcd that the city does not need 4
fair. Among other drawbacks was
that there was no suitable site near the
city; that the business and commercial
interests are generally against the
scheme; that it would conflict with the
fair to be held either in San Francisco
or Row Orleans in 1915, to celebrate
tho opening Of the Panama canal, and
. that tho public had had in the past
few years, n surfeit of such amuse-
meuts, anyway.
AS a matter of fact it is felt that
New York is really world IS fair IN
itself There is hardly anything to be
seen at one of these expositions which
cannot be seen in New York almost
any time. IL is not perhaps in such
concentrated form, but it is here. This
is not the first time New York has de-
cidcd she did not want fair. Back
in the SOS a committee was formed
to hold world IS fair here In 1888, if
NV memory serves General u. S.
Grant was at the head of it, but there
WAS not enough interest shown, and
the project died natural death. New
York is too big for an affair Of this
kind.
The esteem in which the late Mark
Twain was held was demonstrated at
Il meeting held at Carnegie hall We'd
nesday, under the auspices Of the Mark
Twain memorial committee of the
American Academy of Arts and Let
tcrs. William Dean Howells presided
The speakers were the Hon. Joseph Fl.
Choate, the Rev Joseph hopkins
Twltchell, long pastor of the church
at Hartford which Mr.. Clemens IS fam
lily attended, and Champ Clark, the
Hon Joseph c. Cannon and Colonel
Henry Watterson, all warm friends of
The great humorist. DR.. Henry Van
Dyke read "A poem 1t is doubtful if
any other American of recent times
could have brought together so remark
able a gathering of warm personal
friends.
Crusade Against Rats.
E'Our city has an Improvement on
the system of cvicting rats described
in the old German legend of the piper,
who rid Il town OF the pests by charm
ing them with his music, and then
took all the children away by the same
magic says n. G. Crume of Seattle.
For three years the Seattl autbori-
ties have been carrying on crusade
against rats. 1t was begun as a result
Of the panic which followed the report
shat case of plague had been dis
covered IN the city Rats, you know,
nre supposed TO carry the contagion,
and Seattle was not going TO take any
chances.
Gas result of the activity of the
health department, the larger part of
the city is free from rats They have
been caught in every way imaginable,
and the work Of determination has cost
the municipality pretty penny. But
the pests have been driven TO their last
haven of refuge, the ground beneath
The docks along the water front. The
health authorities have finally devised
n means of warning upon the rodents
in this stronghold that bids fair TO
make rat rs much an object of
curiosity in Seattle rs snake is sup
posed TO be in Ireland, -
Railroads Educate Farmers.
"Wcsterp railroads have begun
svstema tically to educate farmers iu
scientific cultivation of the SOIL said
H. Morris, a railway official Of st,
Louis. ''Tbis is being done by cx-