New-York tribune., 1910-05-10
MAYOR AFTER KNOCKERS
Says City's "Degraders" Should
"Shut Up or Go Away"
CoMMENDs WORLDS FAIR
Presides at Dinner Designed TO
Mark Real Beginning OF
the Project.

Mayor Gaynor presided as. POSTMASTER a'
the dinner Of the Citizens Worlds Fair
Committee at the Astor last night, ana as
Tho nronos;tion of holding worlds fair III
New York In 1918 struck him as co'h-
rneudabls idea he took occasion to aoo d
few words of criticism for those who were
not boosting but knocking New horh-
HIt is befitting that our leading peoPie
now and then do something 10 further .i7
fair name and repute of our city, saiu .ii0
MAYOR, especially as there are a ie" poO.
nile here-and the fewer they are the niofe
noise they nake-and two newspapers ~
particular, who seem to be bent on ooins
everything they can to degrade the city "
New York
Every vice, every low thing, every n'ean
thing about our city they spread ali oEs
the country, all over the world, coiunln W
column. They picture this city as the mos
despicable on earth, when we all know 'na'
it is the most moral, on the whole ana tne
most decent Of all Of them. 1T is uhas ior
those people and those newspapers VINO
think otherwise either to shut UP or SO
| away"
| Henry Cleys introduced the Mayor 10
the gathering of some six hundred dinerS.
and also spoke about the project of hoid1nS
A worlds fair in New York in 1873 OF
which undertaking the dinner was TO marx
| the beginning.
M|vor Gaynor said that he understood
that the dinner was solely to launch the
| project, and that he had been assured that
no permanent committee had been tormeo
! as vet.
! "As I understand it," said Mayor Gaynor'
"this dinner is to call the attention OF every
| cne to the fact that q fair is to DC he'o'
| and that later g. permanent committee en-
braciug ALL walks of life, is to be appointed
| by the Mayor"
Mr. C1ews, in introducing the SUBJECT u
| the diners had explained that the fair was
| to be held in celebration of the aooth ami
yersary of the settling of Manhattan lsiand
! II, 1919 nv the Dutch. and he was proceed
| ing to elaborate on this theme, when Her
man Metz. who is the temporary treasurer
i of the worlds fair project, whispered loud
| X and hoarsely from behind the rostrum:
"C.ut il Clews! Sit down! They're get
| ting tired
Mayor Gaynor also joined in the good
natured criticism of Mr.. Clews.
! .T've attended a good many dinners,
! said the Mayor "but this is the first time
have had the opportunity of presldlns'
which MIR CIews finally gave me-
The Mayor expressed the belief that the
| fair would become an actual success, aho
| after proposing tOasts to the PRESIDENT, the
| Governors of all the states and their repre-
| sentatves present at the dinner, ana the
! rulers of all nations with their representa-
| tives present, he introduced Frederick w
| Stevens as the representative OF one or the
| busiest Governors in the United States, the
Governor of New York"
| Mr.. Stevens rendered Governor Hughes $
regrets at his inability TO be present, and
conveyed to the gathering the Governor
best wishes for the success Of the project
Governor James n. Gillett of California
admitted that New York and New Workers
had impressed him favorabiy.
There is a great work for The East anc
the West before US now" said the Cali
fornian: Eve ought to be closer to one an
other We have q great mission In the
West: we are confronting the Orient, and
we are trying TO capture that commerce
for the American flag We need population
| in the West, and you have too much popu-
lation in the East and we want to bring to
the Pacific Coast class OF citizens Whc
will help to build up there empire equa
to the one on the eastern coast.
| Modestly then the Governor of the Golden
State put in word or two for the exposi
tion they are planning for San Francisco IL
1915 in celebration OF the completion of the
! Panama Canal, and bespoke cooperation
of the two projects-the fair in New York
in 1913 and the San Francisco celebration
in 1916. which he said would not only cele
brate the great canal but also the marvel
lous progress of the rebuilt San Francisco
DR. William P. Wilson, director of the
Philadelphia Commercial Museums, ant
Harlow y. Higinbotham, representing Gov
ernor Charles S. Deneen of Illinois. ant
who was president of the Columbian Ex
position IN Chicago, also spoke, giving 6
word of warning to the management of thu
prospective fair on what things to avoid.
| The guests included specially appointed
representatives of the Governor of eaci
state and several South American republics
and letters of comInendation for the projec
of the New York worlds fair in 12l;
were read from Secretaries Balinger and
Dickinson of President Tafts Cabinet
General Frederick d Grant and Admira
Dewey.