Show WHERE SHALL IT I 1 BE now york and chicago present their clai claims lill BRIL RECORDS El fORDS BIT BY bilth BOTH CITIES the Commit lea ilar arguments Arsu ments by the resen lathen of the ino ireat great citko la a comp washington jan 1 11 1 alie chicago and nw N iw york representatives to today city Preen presented ted their claims for the me location odthe worlds fair before the senate special committee mr air depew wag was the drat first speaker tor for new york after all ding to the paris exposition and the mpa breness 0 of f the american exhibit there he be bail said now it becomes our necessity to hold an exhibition in the united states which shall be eo elo broad in is its charac character I 1 er so inter international national in its invitation an I 1 in its hospitalities ho that all people who can pro produce who want materials or hive the opportunities for trade shall come here with their product products to exhibit and arid sea see what we cando can do if our friends from washington DI agton chicago and st L lwis luis uis would daeing diem ss from their minda minds the local prejudices ure ices and ambilio a which they have anil would fit fix their eyes and I 1 impartial i m I 1 argial judgment on the question they would say it the fair in great britain wa was to be held at manchester birmingham or liver liverpool poo I 1 great cities it would be a failure and they would not go would say ilia aliat liat atif if a fair in france would be he held II 11 in marseille marseilles or lyons greit great cities thy aou would ill not go now I 1 take it I 1 thera is no discussion as to m what bat is the tile me metropolis tro polis of this country 1 man m an Us its financial and commercial eg rrie metropolis trop new york Is certainly the metropolis united states depew faid he had bean interested in the circle theory pr ars sned anted by st louis and which seems a method of duplicating and delupl cating eating the population population of the united state states A center c anter of I 1 miles from peekskill Peek ekil skill includes the hudson with its unequaled n e cities inc includes lules the metropolis gizi r ro polis anahed and yet Peek peekskill skill is not here as an aspirant for this fair on the circle CH I 1 theory within the limits of what constitutes the tile city of new york jersey city etc you yon hive three chiama Chi Ch lagos aoa eight million of people in the vicinity could visit the fair for a sum not more than fa 2 and from that down to five cents on the transportation question be he said depended largely the success of the fair two hundred 13 d w wishing to go home from train st L lilii hii or chicilo could no di diperte dip therse erae at the rate of in ra r than pr per hour aad clad this would take eight hours and the next day the fair would clore elope new now york could distribute a crowd more rapidly than was done in paris chicago and st 64 louia louis had a memorial fund of it each new york a collective assessment of ta the tile bill was not realy to be presented to the new york it legislate authorizing the expenditure of 10 which would pass without di dissenting milting voice the tile paris exhibition had coat cost about and this one would cost a at t least unless there filers was that much money in sight the tile f fair ai r would be a fai fair orb washington I 1 is a unequaled in avenues irl in kulil public i c buil building dingi we admit it st LW luis h haa a s age ge the she has also u equaled position tion i in n the tile valley of the bilissis mississippi A P pit and we admit what fhe file mies e 0 to o be chicago is the moat most phenomenal development devel development of pro gres a the tile world has aai ear feen and we adal admit it ir it not only in a I 1 that constitutes a grat central and commercial me metropolis trop lie but also in the arts and culture all this we admit and find still we wellam that new york city is the great representative city of america new york lia no sectionalism no jealousies it if ho lie government should today to day dav appropriate to every family in the un united tell states money which would c irry them to one place with the dist net they could select no oher other vote with unanimity une in expression of desire from maine to the gulf from the atlantic to the tire pacific would be take the men to new york I 1 ex Cor congressman grossman bourke cockran of new now york lit ii addressed the tile committee lie ile reviewed at length tha transports trane tran puria spurts ion possibilities of the corni comi eting cities and said that new now york etina was I 1 the I 1 is only city in the tile union that could P pa sibly accommodate the crowds thit would make the tile espos expos exposition 1 tion a success the one I 1 hundred igind red and fifty thousand people who would visit the exp eap every day lay would not riot be noticed on the streets of new york in conclusion he be said I 1 that new york was willing to kayo leave tha the decision of the question to the calm un baided judgment of the committee and of congress the comm atee then to took 0 k a recess to allow ilia deml membra ri to attend tho the funeral f judge kelley in the blouse when the committee reassembled tho the room was again crowded to its fullest capacity the chicago delegation had front feats seats the first speaker of the afternoon after ocon was ex senator warren miller who with james wool woo 1 president of the new york state agricultural society I 1 clofed the cipe else fur for new york the first gentleman to arese prese present tit the file c claims failing of chicago was mayor creiger of t that flat city we are cirp ho he said before you today to day as citizens of the common cc country representing a great western c city ill deeply in earnest that this great ex expedition sedition Jedi tion which is designed to be hen held in 1892 to the tile discovery of this navigation christopher columbus I 1 ray ay they are deeply interested terestea te in it and nd deeply in earnest that tho the it lief that it ought to bo be held in t lu far west applause I 1 T represent in borne some measure the peoer people of chicago who while that is their der dor depiro piro are also united in the desi desire e and determination that whether ti this Is e exposition 11 is held whether in tl the is wisdom of thi congress Con gresa it hall be assigned ed nothing shall ba be wanting on their their part to make it eminently eminent lv successful cess ful and they will mill endeavor t to add their mite to make it comport A ith he ilia dignity of this grand and pr progressive gres sive nat on applan Ap applause plau II 11 there ie is no rivalry between the empire city of america new york and I 1 lie empire city of the great west chicago her ifer cople people are actuated by higher and nob nobler t er motives she desires the greatest good to the tile greatest number we accord t the ernp empire iril city new york all and everything she claims but mr chab Chai man iman eena aena tore for gentlemen there I 1 in a new now empire and a new gateway lying on the other eido aide of the allegheny mountains we recognize the grandeur and arid tile greatness of the city of new york and her heir ability to do all that the t may be demanded but tha that t does doea not mean that the second grand city I 1 11 41 ar r it ita v in population commerce and manufacturing fac turing importance does doe 8 not posses possess like characteristics wo think in chicago we can meet me et every amand demand required by this great exposition and are very earnest that it shall be held in the great west that sphere of advanced oust out of which ara are to grow ho the arts and sc sciences leFes as lie the offspring of this pro heashe ieng ie sg empi c e we do not forget to accord st 8 louis like prerequisites we acknowledge all but in tiding doing po flo we vie aek ask you that it shall not detract from tills this marvel of the tile nineteenth century chicago new york lias ilia been grow ioe ine and two hundred year yeara ChIca chicago golias has been growing arm the lime time the city was named only siree fifty fly three years when that fifty three yeara years was wiped ou out t by the moat most terrible calamita tv that tha t history records since then she has ilia recuperated and rt by a powerful will and a new blood she is now really only beigh eighteen teen years old and you senators rs and yon you te people ale from abroad everywhere in this country cannot deny in your pride that such a thing occurred under the benign influence of this great government IS S ie le stands boldly claiming claim ng the tile right of your consideration remember the thou thousands sands of sooae e alei tint lie on the other side bide of ilie tile allegheny mountains it m aber the tile great chain of lakes it 11 member st louis the mistress C cay V of the worlds great river rive r L lt t new ow york not forget that she must d depend pend for her future progress ei not altogether but larg ly on oa the tile fert ie le fields of the west is constructing a gracd grand waterway waYt to the southwest sOut south hest aest t that hat she has ila undertaken that stupendous work and wi will 1 I 1 any mai man from st louis or from t aliis 1 i i s beautiful capital fay that t the lie city th that at is able to cope wita and find means to cary cany car y on that work shall be set act aside in her claim for this great exposition chicago wants this exposition she is rea ly to meet every requirement the tire west must be noticed and it I 1 is wIt without holit presumption that I 1 speak for sixteen sovereign states of t the e new west thomis thoman 11 IL bryan wag was the next speaker after referring in a humorous manner to new yorks cla claims me and 31 dapel he proceeded to argue that of all the tile large cities chicago has the coolest ino mc t comfortable and PIO pleasant amant climate aid wid that the had unequaled railroad facilities and accommodations no other city was e equally bally accessible alike for balk buak of exhibits and Irv I 1 r visitors isitoro thi gentlemen from new Y rk could make beautiful picture of thir th ir sites while poor sl chi 1 11 cago people must content themselves them selve with building a shaft of truth and arid a idestal pedestal aa 1 l facts could any honest fair r minded dispassionate man pay the tile eight selected by york wai the proper site the tile truth wai tho the sita site was aai n t the right IccA location tiou fr tile worlds wair it had physical phy seal obstructions str it was mas uneven it would require a vast ex pend iture of money to pull down buildings it bequir required a d large BUUM sums to blast its ite rocks atre al ires dynamite dyn clyn anite arnite to blow up the constitution ution r bof of elate state in order that it might be occa occupied pied chicago hid thou thousand sandi of acres at it tile dispo disposal al of the fair not a house hou to buy not a cubic yarl to level throughout the length and breadth of of tile land coald not be found any city of adequate resources and population that could present t to 0 the congress of tho the united gatei such 1 plans 1 an a and arid such adaptability of grun ground 1 for the purposes of a araud exposition ai aj could tb the F city of chicago chicago had hall within ten minutes es of her els asile w aich seemed to have been made and left unoccupied for this excess pu purpose e the tile farmers farmer of the at country ry by an overwhelming ve rw helming ma jonty wan anad ard Chi chicago cato and when alien he lie said id this he lie spoke advise advisedly dIV tit the e a agricultural sc ri journals wanted the fal fair r in chi chicago ago because in the magnificence of new brkl yorks 8 appropriation it had appropriated ten acres for an agricultural exhibit why one single agh horse of the west would paw the earth and snort bia his contempt at such a pitiable appropriation ten acres I 1 and what hat for for the vast domain of america south america and 51 mexico exico as well ten acres laughter the tile great majority majority of the people in this country ba had said chicago new now york owes nine tenths of lie her to the west to ba be sure she had sent lier her money to us but butcha she has got high interest inte reit for it and it has lieu been returned to help fill coffers her iler merchant marine had been made glorious clorious bythe by the pro ducts of tha the vast kV western it estern empire the tile dependence of the 1110 west upon new york wa was nothing as compared with alio dependence of new now york upon the west in the inte interest reit of the entire country chicago is forthe for the west and the welt west asfor is tor allica a tile worlds worlds fair would ba be a curse to new york and many new yorkers know it because they have told me to fo Laug laughter liter the gentlemen know in their hearts that it would be a curse because they know new now york is unequal to the occasion the capacity of the roada roads and the hotels is already overtaxed lie ile pleaded leaded not for chicago but for tile 1 west eat for tha tile miner the agriculturist the manufacturer the lumberman MR n the west had bad a claim I 1 it t was for her turn she has waited patient enly enily and long deterring Ke to speech mr brian sald depew never opened his biou mouth t h but that ho he revealed a rich casic casket et of gems of wit and wisdom but as they rolled led out this morning he vi blied abea they could be changed into a block of marble and arid then the tile goddess nf liberty might have had a pedestal sooner and her eyes would not grow weary eary waiting for the promised washington triumphal arch and the tile grant monument laughter there basone as thing new now york lacked tatt chicago h had ad she lacked public spirit and public spirit was a ration of true patriotism li T jeffery of chicali Chic agi said the tile task had bad been to him of endeavoring deavo ring to show allow in dome detail the ability of chicago to satisfactorily and in proper manner conduct the tile exposition t ion tile first requisite was a financial basis and lie fie presented tho the certificate of the ex committee certifying that five million dollars had been subscribed in aid of the enter price lie ile hid had prepared a lift list of estimated receipts ard expenditures ol 01 the tile exposition showing allowing receipts from subscriptions sales vales of privileges admissions eales ales of material after the close oft of the bi exposition etc etca amounting to about tl expenditures I 1 the he same divided as follows building preparations of the grounds tou WU administrative and other expenses contingent fund As its rc arcia the site be he proceeded to direct the attention of the committee to the tile extent of chicago and anti the number of parks which might ba be utilized for the tile proposed fair there are one hundred and anti sixty five square miles within the limits of chicago and lie the population is over one million and one hundred hund rod thousand he lie emoke I 1 oke of the tile lake front park and others in to the city all connect connected el by a boulevard system and in the aggregate more than two bbous thousand and acres over nine hundred acre s wre were in jackson and washington with a half mile of ech other and connected he lie ciloke of the great number of ra ireada twenty tour four centerino cen entering terin g in chicago and having their terminals impre and said thee the e were moro more tona tons of 0 freight arriving in fill shipped p p e dout out of and pas passing aing through chi chicado e s go by fly rail and water than in any other city in in the world As to the lake com commeree cr he said that in in the number of arriving and was the tile first port in the unite united i states and in tonnage the second last year 29 vessels arrived and cleared with ith a tonnage fa tona tons As to the lie facilities for handling passengers within chicago mr air |