People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — OPINIONS OF THE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

OPINIONS OF THE FAIR.

The grandest scheme ever originated by man has been successfully executed. The world s fair at Chicago will be recorded as the most wonderful accomplishment of the nineteenth century. Nothing like it was ever undertaken before and it is safe to say nothing will surpass it during the present century. -- Little Rock Democrat. No American need await the verdict of the future of the more deliberate judgment of this generation on the influence and fruits of the greatest and best display yet made of the achievements of mankind. The glorious memories of the Columbian fair are as rich and true as they seem. The heritage for good which remains is beyond the power of any finite intelligence to measure. —Cleveland Leader. It was a costly enterprise, but there will be few to contend that it has not been worth all that has been expended on it, if not in material benefit to the country, then in its educational influence and what it has shown to the world of American capabilities. It is an event of the closing years of the nineteenth century which is certain to be long memorable as by far the greatest of its kind. It is safe to say that while other nations may attempt to imitate none will surpass it—Omaha Bee. The American people have made this fair great It is their success. Triumph did not come at first. It was slow in it dragged; predictions of failure were not lacking. But when the American people came to realize and understand what they had in hand they gave the support that has made this undertaking one-of the wonders of the world. It was a colossal work; it has been well done. And the carping spirit of sectionalism that appeared in its earlier period has been silenced before the greatness of the success. Post

The world will awaken in a little while and the fair will be only a memory, a dream, sweet and beautiful to those who saw it, hardly to be told in wcrds; yet only a story of the past to all who have missed it, only a shadowy tale to all the future. The breezes that sweep over Jackson park will find no more flags to flutter, no more white statues to kiss and leave, and will no longer bear to the sparkling waters of the lake the music of the bands. At night the pale moon, looking down on the scene where once the glory of the stars was reproduced, will find darkness aud silence.—Rochester Post-Ex-press.