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RACES IN ENGLAND.
CINCINNATI SHOW,
President Hayes Address.
CINCINNATI,S BIG SHOW.

IhOUsandS OF ViSttOrs-AddreSS OF
the President.
CINCINNATI. OHIO, Sept 1O.-The scene pre-
Sented by the streets this morning was very
gay and animated-the building on every hand
being handsomely decorated with flags and feS-
toons Of evergreens, while the sidewalks were
thrOnged with people to wItne.s the ceremonies
OF the day. Thousands OF people from abroad
gan, and Minnesota are here. The governors OF
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, accompanied by
their staffs, are present to participate-the two
1o,mer also having handsome military organ
last night and went. into camp on the
hills; The center Of attraction was the
Hayes, Gen. Sherman and Lieutenant. General
Sheridan are stopping. From 10 to II O'Clock
the President received his friends In his apart
and lasted for an hour and a-half, during which
and Mrs. Hayes At O'Clock the distinguished
irving at the exposition building the Presi-
Dental party was escorted to places on the
stage, where the formal opening ceremonies
dress, tracing the history OF the grounds now
covered by the exposition building from the
time OF their purchase by the city In 1857 up to
exposition board, followed in an address Of
welcome. In the course Of his remarks,
he recalled the incident that the gov
clnnatl exposition, attends the opening OF
the seventh as President OF the United States
President Hayes then responded as follows:
Mr.. President:-The seventh Cincinnati indus
trial exposition Is held at most auspiciouS
period In the commercial history of our coun-
try. The reat business depression which fol-
lowed the financial crisis OF 1873, after five long
and anxious years OF Distress embarrassment
and bank kiuptcy, has at last been succeeded by
revival OF prosperity which is surely and rap
IDLY extending to every branch OF useful In
dustry with all values measured and steadied
by currency which Is worth its face in the
markets Of the world, with business no longer
peIplexed and crippled by an uncertain and
huctuating standard. With credit which,
according to Daniel Webster, is the vital
air OF modern commerce upon q cound and
staple basis; with restored hopefulness and con-
fdence shared alike by the capitalist, by the
business man and by the laborer; with
agricultural crops and products abundant
ard rapidly saleable at fair prices; with
our manufacturers seeking and finding
ax.das a market In foreign countries to an
material burden of debt expenditure and taxa
ton becoming every year less difficult to man.
age ard carry; with our country maintaining
h0n0rable'and peaceful relations with all man.
kind, the merchants, the manufacturers
ana the WOrHngmen OF Cincinnati may
well be congratulated that at such an aus
pic1ous time their countrymen have assembled
lrom far and near to enjoy and to be Instructed
Dy this great exhibition. We thank you for the
invitation, which we in such countless num-
Ders have accepted, for your hospitality, and
standing as it does nearer than any other grea
city to the center Of population of the United
states, may be rightfully called the central
city OF America.