146 New York at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



there spoke the seer. He perceived long before most of his contempo- 

 raries the vast possibilities of land carriage by steam power over an 

 artificial roadway. Thus it is that a world's fair in Chicago has a signifi- 

 cance that it could not have upon the seaboard. It is significant not only 

 of the New World but of a new era in human affairs. It will be true, 

 therefore, that while a modern Columbus would have no more worlds to 

 discover, a modem Galileo might still proclaim: "The world moves." 



Fellow-citizens of Chicago, it has been the pleasure of New York to 

 aid in every way the success of this exposition. How much the architects, 

 the artists and the merchants of New York have contributed to its success 

 this is not the place to say. As the exposition draws to a close, amid 

 signs of a popular appreciation justly its due. New York has but a single 

 word to say, we congratulate and we thank you citizens of Chicago. You 

 have made us more proud than ever to be Americans. 



