The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-05-24
philadelphia.
Opening Of the CcNtenm tRi-Sighss
and incidents Of the Day

| PHILADELPHIA, Nay ~, ic'o'
The great and memorable 10Th OF May
has come and gone, bringing with II the
opening of Americas one hundredth
anniversary of her independence. On
the 9th. It rained, making the streets
awfully muddy. and the 10Th opened any.
thing but pleasant, clouds hanging low,
and rain coming down occasionally.
Nevertheless, at 6:;D o'clock. your cor
respondent, with the rest Of the +. VI. A.
cadets entered the cars, and in the course
of forty.fvc minutes reached
PHILADELPHIA.
Marching and countermarching on
Broad street, the line was at length
formed, the p. NJ. A. Battalion having
| the extreme lett that is, the second post
of honor. About 8 a. m. the line began
to move. and entered upon the following
ROUTE.
Up Broad to Walnut, up Walnut to
Twenty.second, over to Market, up Mar
kct to Forteth and over TO Lancaster
avenue to the I.ansdown entrance OF the
grounds. Aswe said before, the mud was
terrible, and the marching not quite us
good as it might otherwise have been,
but still the procession was imposing,
taking an hour to pass given point.
Below is found q list of the organizations
in the line. and In their order:
| ORGANIZATIONS.
Black iIussars, 80; Washington Troop,
80; keystone Battery, 50; 100 Marines;
80 Sailors; Third Regiment National
: Guards. 800; sixth Regiment National
Guards. $50; State Fencibles, 1902; Grey
J Fencibles. First City Troop, %; Boston
Cadets, $50: Boston Lancers, l20; Sec
ond Regiment National Guard, 3'5 First
, Regimen, National Guard, 800: Easton
Greys. 40: Eleventh Regiment National
: Guard. 200: Pennsylvania Military
Academy Battalion, 100: making in all
: about 800 mon. General Grant and his
suit was between the City Troop and
Boston Cadets; Governor Rice was be-
tween the Boston Cadets and Boston
Lancers. After the latter, Gov. Kellogg
G aud staff. Although it may seem some
! what wrong to say it, yet we tell the truth
when we say that the Pennsylvania Mill
tary Academy corps was considered
about the best organization in line. as the
: repeated applause we received on Walnut
street, Oh the grounds and elsewhere,
testified. Reaching the grounds about
II m, the military at last got into
POSITION
and patiently waited the arrival of the
President and other notablcs. The T.
NJ. A. corps was formed between the
Main Building and Machinery Hall, and
opposite to it was the First Regiment
After a while the great iron gates swun.
back, and amid the Ginning of bells and
shouts, the
PRESIDENT.
Governor Rice, Secretary Fish, Dom
! Pedro, and all the great men stepped
, from the Main Building and passed from
IL through the long lines of military tC
Machinery Hall, where, soon after, the
firing Of cannon, ringing Of the chimes
and shouts proclaimed that the President
and Dom Pedro had taken hold of the
bars and turned on the steam upon thu
great
: CORLIsS ENGINE,
! setting the many miles of shatting run
: Ming, ana formally proclaiming the Cen
u tcnnial open to the world. At 2:l5 p. IN.
: after doing quite good deal of polio
duty, we were relieved, and immediatel,
5 your correspondent meandcred IN tn
direction of restaurant, to get some
= thing to stay the cravings OF the innc
:, man, who was by this time crying loudly
- The desired object was at last gained
/" and soon We were devouriny
Z! DINNER
- with Il great deal of relish, having ha
nothing to eat since q a. IN. Dinner OveI
y we wandered to the
=, GOVERNMENT BUILDING,
but rs our time was short, we could nc
see half that we wished to see. I'll
rs main objects Of interest were the maxim
III OF guns, cartridges, etc., "A great variet
n Of cannon of the --latest pattern, iIclu,
~ ing some beautiful Calling Guns, Rifle
TO bore, ETC.; torpedoes, machines for setti
us of the latter, great many models; pre-
ire tor printing weather reports, specimen
III of pcnmanship from public school
cassins, models of guns, pictures of d
- the different species of fish found
he American waters, bark canoes. in 10
ne everything one could think OF In the W,
I'm Of American production. Going to Il
all MACHINERY HALL
)se we hurried through ii. OF course Il
ch chief attraction is the immense Corli
Vo- Engine, which moves noiselessly al
We. without Jar. All around were print,
SEES presses, locomotives from many railroa
on ana shops, miniature ships, displays
rk, cutlery, sewing machines, wooden al
ex- cotton manufacturing implements, gla
la blowers, fire eStinguishers, different al