Milford chronicle., 1939-04-14
NEW TORK'S WORLD FAIR


George Washington took the oath
of office as the first President $50
years ago. and after the preliminar-
les were over on Wall Street, New
York, the President and the first
Congress made the best OF cOndi-
tions in the hick-town that had no
street cars, buses. autos or other
modern conveyances and walked up
Broadway to ST. Paul's Church and
prayed to the Great Almighty that
everything would come out all right
with their experiment. After giving
the burg a fair trial the whole Ad-
ministration packed its luggage and
tried Philadelphia for awhile. before
making permanent headquarters in
Washington.
The original Constitutional expert
ment proved so successful that near
ly every President since that time
has furnished supplementary exper-
iments, and most of them have been
so good that New York has schedul-
ed Worlds Fair to celebrate a CEN
tury and half of Democracy. Ev-
erything has to be Big-to suit New
York-and the metropolis promises
that this is to be the Biggest
Worlds Fair of all.
! Just why New York should pull a
Worlds Fair out on Long Island
when the wonders of the World are
perpetually on exhibit in Manhattan
is not plain. But they will work it
out and get away with this stream
lined show.
In the yesterdays of Democracy
the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876
showed only three electrical exhib-
its. Today. electricity is as common
as clothes wringers. Tomorrow
therell be television. safe highways.
and our children may live to behold
the Government balance the national
budget.
Today's Worlds Fair spreads over
1916 acres. 1t is typically New York
in the splendor of colors, mural art
and heroic sculpture. II has unbe-
lievable triumphs in machines for
human needs. Farm efficiency Is
glorified in metropolitan conception
as swell as the show windows at
Wanamakers' or Macy's. You'll see
the Carrel-Lindbergh mechanical
beating heart. You'll also see the hu-
man and mechanical heart of New
York City of Today grown from 80
thousand people in $50 years to Z
million. Much is expected of Tomor-
row.
The thrills of the county and State
Fairs are yesterdays. and the old
time kick over exhibits of big pump |
kins and squashes. fat pigs and fine
draft horses, and butter and eggs. or
the new corn-planters have passed.
Farm. dairy and food exhibits are
shown principally in packaged goods
or bottles. !
The Philadelphia Centennial of
1876 drew 9.91O966 visitors. They
saw Bells telephone, Morse's tele-
graph. Howe's sewing machine, il
gas. photography. Hoes
press and Fields cable. Sta
tistics of the annual prosperity wage
showed an average of 1877 year.
The Worlds Parliament of Relig-
ion was outstanding at the Chicago
Fair in 1898. and it has never been
even rivaled since that year. The Z
greatest International display of for
aign navies ever gathered in peace
lines followed the Spanish feet
which brought over Columbus des-
,endant the Duke of Veragua, and
he Princess Eulalie, to America.
Everybody walked. and everybody
stayed a week or tw at the Colum-
,ian Exposition. A trip on the rail-
Dad to far away Chicago was the
lext thing to Heaven.
The old-time Worlds Fairs were
Ioused in elegant buildings-built as
hough intended to last for century.
sut in 1933-34 Chicago cut out such
and gave the first
-reat exhibitions where modernity
vas the biggest idea. The buildings
we're intended to last only year or
wo. What they lacked in stone.
teel, and brick they made up for in
ay and lively colors. {
The New York Fair is a show of
'oday. Tomorrow looks after itself. /
he theme typifies progress of To-
ay. It's all there in machines, SCI :
nee, man power, electricity. COM |
transportation, educa- &
ion, medicine. arts, agriculture,
peech, music, religion, commerce, {
eace, war. national and foreign gov ,
society, building, the rights {
( the masses and of the classes, the
ses of national resources, finance, s