The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-04
Grand Street Pageant and Opening
Of the st. Louis Exposition
and Music Hall,
The Old French Town Shakes Off Her RiE
Van Wrinkle Sleep, and BlaSes Forth
With Real Yankee Enterprise.
The Scenes Of the Arabian Nights Put tt
Shame by the Gorgeous Display
of Mechanics and Art.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, September 3.-The
great Inter-Stat Exposition and Music
Hall building will be thrown open to the
public this evening. The event will be
inaugurated by one Of the most magnifi.
cent street pageants ever witnessed in
an American city. The building has
been described so often, its purposes
are so well known aud the features of
the Trades display have become so
familiar, that there remains very
little to be added that will be
either new or interesting. The public
VIII from this time on be able to form
It's own judgment as to the merits of the
enterprise. Those who came from dis.
lance to witness the opening exercises
VIII be well repaid, although there will
OF necessity be considerable disappoint-
ment during the first week. Every effort
has been made to complete the building
In time for the announced opening.
Money and labor have been expended
lavishly. Night and day, SUNDAYS as
well as week days, an army of working
men have been employed in putting on
the finishing touches and arranging the
exhibitors quarters. Marvellous as the re-
suit has been there is still much to be done.
No more workingmen could have been en-
ployed without obstructing instead of
facilitating their labor. There is scarcely
square yard OF the vast area of the Ex-
position floors upon which a mechanic,
laborer or exhibitor does not stand to.
day. But with all their work united the
Exposition will be incomplete when the
guns boom the opening signal at seven
O'Clock this evening. But even as it is.
There are attractions enough inside the
vast structure to repay either the citizen
or the visitor, and IL is but fair TO pre-
sumo that great majority of those who
enter the building tonight will come out
well-satisfied with the sights they have
beheld and the wonders they have seen.
IN THE UPRoAR.
III the Exposition when fully completed
will amaze and astonish the visitor by the
magnificence OF its various an multitudin-
GUS details, the preparations for the open
Ing are in themselves most interesting
spectacle. It would be Impossible to
make a pencil. picture of the animated
scenes In and around the building to-day.
Everything Is being done on mighty
scale. There is nothing small about the
arrangements from the basement floor
to the glass and iron roof. Working.
men are not employed in pairs, or dozens
or In companies, but in whole rcgi-
ments. Lumber enough TO start yard
OF large dimensions is strewn upon the
floor; there is a plate glass enough inside
the building to glaze every display win
dow on Fourth, Fifth and Olive streets !;
there is merchandise enough to supply a
city of 100000 inhabitants; there Is ma
chinery enough to start a manufacturing
town; lamp-globes enough to supply 500
buildings, and electric lights enough to
illuminate metropolis. To this might
be added that there is noise enough to
drown the uproar of all the saw-mills IN
the Michigan lumber region and enough
force expended in driving nails, If con-
centrated, to tunnel a mountain.
FROM THE BALCONIES.
Looking down from the balconies of the
upper floor upon the booths, pagodas and
crystal palaces in which merchandise are
displayed below, the scene is an enchant-
lug one. The merchants of this city have
shown the greatest taste in building their
display houses All of them are elegant,
some of them gorgeous. Polished wal.
nut houses, large enough for avery large
family, with plate glass walls, are not
built for nothing. The designs are va.
rlous as they are rich and beautiful. The
upper floor displays are also very hand
some, and some of the most enterprislna
firms of the city are represented on the
spacious halls OF the second floor. But
little can be said of the machinery and
art departments as yet. They will be In
readiness, however, very soon.
OPENING EXERCISES.
The Inauguration exercises will com
mence at seven O'Clock sharp this even.
ing, when battery of artillery will fire q
grand salute at Twelfth and Pine streets
One hundred guns will be fired at inter
walls throughout the evening. At 7:l5
the ceremonies proper will commence or
the grand stand, Olive street front They
will be as follows:
!. Music by the Arsenal Band of thirty.fvt
| pieces.
2. Invocation of the Divine blessing by Rt
Rev. Bishop Robertson.
3. Opening address by Sam NJ Kennard
President OF the Exposition and Music Hal
| Association.
4. Music and artillery salute.
8. Address by Hon. VIM. l.. Ewing, Mayor.
D. Music and artillery salute.
Z. Address by Senator George G.. Vest O
| Missouri. ~"
| 8. Music and artillery salute.
9: Address by John ID. vincil.
10. mpromptu addresses by other distin
IL. Review Of the grand pageant of tn,
Trades Display Association and of the mill
tary and civic forces.
| IL. The whole to conclude with the forma
opening of the doors Of the Exposition Hall I,
the public.
General Sherman, Ex-Governor Hub
bard, Of Texas, Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks
of Indiana, Senator Vest, ex-Governo
John S. Phelps, and other distinguished
men are expected to be present.
TRADES PROCESSION.
The procession of the Trades Displa,
Association will start from Broadwal
and Ch0uteau avenue at seven o'clocl
and proceed north on Broadway to Wash
ington avenue, west on Washington ave
nue. to Nineteenth street, south on Nine
teenth to Olive, east on Olive to Sixth
north on Sixth to franklin avenue, cas-
on Franklin avenue to Broadway, soutl
on Broadway to Washington avenue, cas-
on Washington to Fourth, south OF
Fourth to Chouteau avenue, where tn
procession will disband.