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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎35r] (74/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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1892 CHICAGO AND I
to be growing up a rivalry as strong in its way, though of a very
different character, as the old feeling between North and South.
The strong young communities of the West will have themselves
acknowledged, are no longer content to be regarded as quasi-colonial
appendages of the empire of the East.
When the great national function was decided upon, the West
put in her claim, and her representative was of necessity the ad
mitted metropolis of the West, Chicago. So the struggle narrowed
down to a fight between the two great cities. The western city en
forced her arguments by promptly undertaking to find ten millions
of dollars—say 2,000,000L sterling—and this powerful argument
settled the matter. New York was at first incredulous, then exaspe
rated. She does not love her pushing, energetic sister. Probably
the feeling is mainly one of sentiment. The two cities must be too
far apart for any injurious trade competition. There is work for both
of them. The prosperity of Chicago has in no sense grown at the
expense of New York. On the contrary, Chicago has, to a large
extent, been built up with New York capital, and the interests of the
two cities are in many respects identical. But the pride of the older
city was touched. When an individual has enjoyed admitted pre
eminence in any line of life, he does not like the notion of a younger
man coming in to share his honours with him, and the same rule
holds good of communities. New York is the capital of the
United States. The idea of a second capital arising for the western
division of her empire cannot be pleasing to her. Mr. Warner—to
refer once more to his interesting volume—shows this in his own
person. He is taken quite aback by the fact of anybody seriously,
and without any sense of incongruity, comparing Chicago and New
York, but after a little thought he admits that after all it is not so
unreasonable for an outsider unconsciously to place the two cities in
the same class, and to apply the same standard to both.
This is somewhat of a concession, and when it is made by Mr.
Warner's neighbours as well as by Mr. Warner, a good deal of the
feeling of rivalry will be dead. That it still exists is certain, even
that it has been temporarily embittered by the success of Chicago in
getting chosen as the site of the ' World's Fair.'
The Chicagoans, having obtained the concession, set about to
make the most of it. They promptly subscribed the necessary
guarantee fund, which—according to the terms of the Act of Congress
—justified the President in appointing a commission, and in inviting
the co-operation of foreign nations. It might be thought that it
would have been more consonant with the general tendency of Ameri
can politics to make the exhibition a national one only. It seems
hardly reasonable that a country should one day establish a tariff in
tended to keep out foreign trade, and the next organise an exhibi
tion of which one main purpose would be to encourage foreign
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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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