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Show TIIK WOKI.U'S 1'AIlt. 'How to Get Cash. Tho Question that is Puzzling Our World s B'air Directors, Fifteen M illions Wanted." These startling headlines appear on the first page of yesterday's Chicago Tribune. Wo read thcin with Intense sorrow, because we had been led to believe by the Tribune that rolling off a log would be a task Mirrounded by terrible difficulties compared with the raising of money in Chicago for the .benefit of the World's Fair. Wc are now convinced con-vinced that it is easier to roll off a log than to raise ten or fifteen millions for the Chicago fair. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The envious newspapers of St. Louis and New York would naturally be pleased to see Chicago becoiuo finan cially embarrassed lu its great undertaking. under-taking. The people of t he west, however, how-ever, would deeply regret any such result. re-sult. Hut there need be no fear that Chicago will fail to raise the required money. In her lexicon there is no such f 'ord as fail. She is tho most remark able and most enterprising city ou the ; face of tho earth. A city that was vis- i itcd by tho most destructive lire in the history of the world destroying $200,-! $200,-! 000,000 worth of property and nearly wiping the place out of existence and in less than five years was rebuilt on a : grander scale than before tho conila- ' gratiou, displaying more energy and enterprise than ever before known, such a city, we say, will not fail in securing se-curing the funds necessary to make tho World's fair a stupendous success, put-. put-. ting all previous exhibitions of tho kind completely in the shade, and making them appear, by comparison, as more sideshows. |