The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-23
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Drowning the Queen of Love
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Special 10 the BALTIMORE IaZelte.
CENTENNIAL GROUNDS PHILADEL-
PHIA, October l9.-In the evening the
roration of the queen OF love aDd beau
ty took place in the judges hall in the
presence IT large and fashionable as
semblage, only limited number OF tick
cts having been issued at five dollars
u piece tor gentleman and lady. The
hall was beautifully decorated and the
building was brilliantly illuminated. AT
7 o'clock the company began to arrive,
and the hall was soon crowded.
Precisely at O'clock the chief mar
shall, accompanied by the assistant mar
shalls, Major Harry Gilmor, Wilson Tai
bot, Edward f. Gallagher and Fred.
Handy, of Virginia, and Messrs. William
Hammond, p. Quinn, A. Brown and
Shannon, with the knights, entered the
ball room and took positions upon the
raised platform wherein the chair OF
state had been placed for the queen OF
love and beauty. Immediately follow.
ing the knights came the queen and her
four maids of honor, presenting galaxy
of beauty rarely, if ever, surpassed upon
such occasions. Taking positions direct
ly in front of the successful knights, the
roval maidens were addressed by Mr..
Stewart briefly as follows:
The smile of beauty has ever been the
need Of valor, and the true knight Is
never so happy as when bestowing honor
upon fair woman. Love is a theme as
exhaustless rs the ages, and as limitIess
as the universe. 1t comprised heaven
and earth. 1t WAS implanted in the
hearts of our first parents in Eden, and
described as the highest attribute of
divinity itself. 1t finds expression In
the literature, sacred and profame, OF all
people, which touches the secrets and a
pirations of the heart and soul As Co
eridge says, all thoughts, all passions, a
delights whatever stirs this mortal franz
are ministers of love and feel his sacred
fame. He next spoke of beauty as the
unvarying accompaniment of love, that
ALWAYS beautitied the object OF itsadora-
ton. He referred to Helen of Troy, and
Cleopatra of Egypt. The practice OF
coronations is as ancient as history itself,
having existed in prehistoric Egypt, an
cient Greece and Rome, whose examples
haye been followed by the moderns in
GROWING good qualities with embematic
crowns from the queen of the may to the
king of the Schuetzenfest. 1t argues no
lack of devotion to the principles Of re-
publican government which we the cltl-
zens of the United States are enjoying to-
night on centennial occasion. The
ial col
sceptre. She personates those good quail
tiles only which characterize the fair
daughters of our republic. Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia and the
District of Columbia each has its fair
representatives here tonight. "A star
OF beauty in constellation OF glory, en-
blematic not only OF the graceS OF woman,
but of devotion TO the union. Let us
while browning the daughters remember
the mothers of our forest who helped our
revolutionary sires to create the federal
republic, which in single century, with
prospects without parallel, has developed
a wilderness Of thirteen colonies INTO a
grand republic OF thirty-eight states.
manitesting the highest civilization and
giving nOules W loIty Hiililous VI P0OPio'
Upon the conclusion of Mr., Stewards
address the successful knight of Della
ware, Mr.. Il. j. Kane, elected as the
queen of love and beauty Miss Parke 2.
Perkins, of Buckingham county, Vir-
ginia; the Centennial Knight crowned
Mi ISIS Ada Griffin, of Surratts, Prince
Georges county, Md; the knight of
Connecticut crowned Miss Bessie Hol-
land, of Florida; the knight OF South
Carolina crowned Miss Ida w. Taylor,
and the Knight of Maryland crowned
Miss May BLADDER, of Philadelphia.
Upon the conclusion of the coronation
scene the queen and her maids held II
general levee. Amorg the first to pay
suit were Colonel Thomas Scott and Mr..
WI Ying ling, a mandarin Of China,
dressed in Chinese court costume. who at
tracted much attention as he promenaded
the large assembly room arm in arm with
the great railroad king. Ex-Postmaster
General Jewell, General Hawley, r. Z.
Stevens and number of prominent men
and ladies followed, after which dancing
commenced and continued until late
hour, all expressing themselves delighted
with the termination OF the days cele-
bration.