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       At The Columbian Exposition
   DIR By: HowBrown1953
       Date: July 25, 2026, 5:18 am
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       New Orleans Times Picayune
       August 3, 1891
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       Drop the Museum Idea.
       It is to be feared that Chicago, in its thirst for rain and its
       love for something pertaining to the sensational or criminal,
       may seriously cripple the best interests of the big fair in
       which every section of the country should be equally interested.
       The Columbian exposition was designed to be an exhibition of the
       resources and manufactures, and the arts of the
       different states and foreign countries, rather than a display of
       dime museum attractions.
       Enterprising fakirs are scouring the country in search of
       something criminally unique for exhibition at the fair.
       Recently, the old home of the James boys was secured, and this
       may soon be at Chicago in '93.
       The room where “Frenchy No. 1” committed the most brutal murder
       of the year in New York may be shown—and so on down a long
       list.**
       The average visitor who will attend the fair will care nothing
       for these things. It will be no special credit to Missouri
       to have the former room of the James boys exhibited to the
       world. Nine-tenths of the visitors will not have heard
       of them, and the other tenth will care nothing about it. What
       foreigners expect to see when they come to the fair
       is a representative display of those things which most
       fittingly show the advancement and resources of America
       instead of a collection of poor attractions for a first-class
       museum.
       **It wasn't.
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