The House of Representatives at Washington has decided that the
"World's Fair," or great Exhibition to be opened in 1891, shall be held in Chicago. That city had for rivals New York, St. Louis, and Washington, and five ballots were taken ; but the majority for the Lake City grew steadily larger, and at last included a majority of the entire House. The vote is a remarkable evidence of the growing power of the West, and of the fact noticed by recent travellers that Americans no longer think of their Republic as a maritime State. They do not mind the convenience of exhibitors beyond the sea, but think of their own Western population, which only knows by report that a sea exists. Chicago has a splendid situation, and can entertain a world of visitors, but the manufacturers and artists of Europe will not like the extra risk and expense involved in the long railway journey from New York. The anarchists, too, who are so numerous in Chicago, may blow the Exhibition to pieces as a most effective advertisement.
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