The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-01
THE CORN PALACE
THE PAN-ANIERICAN ExCURsIONIsTS
STUDY KING CORN,

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THE PAN-ANIERICAN ExcURsION1sTs
STUDY KING CORN.
A Notable Reception for . notable
Company-Sonhe Of tho GOOD Things
That Were Uttsred--incidentf ~ tito
harry i'll Iowa.
: The Pan-American Eight-seers reached
Sioux City at or early hour on the 18th,
and were met by the local reception com.
mittee and o delegation Of Omaha citizens
who brought q cordial Nebraska welcome
with them:
It was about ten minutes to 8 o'clock
when the diplomats began to appear on
the depot platform, and at 8 o'clock the
committee had them seated in carriages
and aligned In the procession toward the
Peavey Grand. Each delegate and visitor
wore q gold corn palace badge on his
breast. AS it reached the opera house the
police opened q p%assageway through tho
dense crowd that lined the pavement from
the curb line to the main entrance. Com
pnny H passed into the corridor of the
main entrance, opened ranks on each side
OF the entrance way aud presented arms.
The mounted division Knights of Pythias
took q position on the opposite side of the
street, facing the main entrance. Then
came the carriages and unloaded their oc.
cupants at the foot Of the opening made
by the police.
In the theatre the foreign Representa-
tives, Mayor Cleland, Senator Allison,
Gov. Larrabee and Hon. John A. Kasson
occupied the stage.
The House was packed to its utmost CO.
pacitS, the ladies being present in large
numbers. After the visitors lad all en-
tered the large crowd that occupied the
Sidewalk, which also included number Of
ladies, started for the interior. But only
q few of them secured entrance and the
doors closed on at least 1000 anxious citi-
zeEs unable to obtain admission.
The orchestra, stationed in the balcony
loges, enlivened the occasion with music.
AS soon as the confusion from seating had
subsidized Mayor Cleland stepped forward
and said:
Brother Americans: We are here this morn.
Ing to welcome you to our city and our state
and tho great northwest. It perhapa would be
proper upon al occasion Of this kind TO advert
generally to our local Importance, etc., and
While have some carefully prerafed statistics
I feel sure that ypu will pardon mo if l do not
read them. / understand that YOU have heard
something Of them. | have the pleasure Of pre-
senting Gov. Larrebee, who Wilt say a word Of
welcome or behalf OF the state.
Gov. Larrabee said:
1t gives me great pleasure on behalf Of our
people to meet you and greet you this morning
upon your trst entrance to this great gateway
on tho northwestern border of our state. 1t
would have pleased our people very much could
you have made it convenient to spend G few
days within our borders, and !, regret exceed
ingly that We can not hayo the pleasure of well
coming you to our state capital. While we have
much to shpw YOU there, it would have been ex-
! nohtI II n " al N Hf,Y fr~ ,,, ~ Ia,o S--l-
eordi u greeting there. We have 2,0O),0}0 peo.
pie. in Iowa, and If you judge of their enterprise
and progress by what you SOC in this beautiful
Corn Palace City l think you will get q fair cs.
innate of what we are doing in this state. These
people have selected our distinguished senator,
VIM. i; Allison, to welcome you, whom 1 take
great pleasure in presenting to you, and l cnn
assure you that our people will endorse most
heartily what he may say.
Senator Allison a dressed the visitors as
follows:
Gentlemen Of the International Congress OF
America we cordially greet you in this por-
before entering upon tho great duties which you
have before you you are to see much of GU,
pecplo and much OF what we are doing hero
We anticipate from this congress great results
Our country, Ike yours, is @ new county, com.
pared with the old world, We are engaged here,
as you are south OF US, in developing o civil:
zation that is entirely new. You have seer
something of OUT progress as you have passed
through our country. You are now in TIC midst
| of IN agricultural country. The state of Iowa
is especially SO. We regard corn here rs king
and you will have the pleasure of visiting his
palace in q few minutes. We have watched
with great interest the development of Central
and South America. We have seen that whilst
we ore ero"ing and developing here in the
north that you, too, have within the last few
years, with us, enjoyed o growth and deyelop-
ment marvellous in its character AID nature.
You have many things that you produce that
we do not and cannot; We have some things
that we produce that perhaps you do not end
will not. Ours Is q country OF peace; it is q re.
public governed and controlled by on enlight
ened public opinion; we IRE glad to know that
all of the countries south tool atagonia, ALTHOUGH
goS m, if bS nn epl RgH t,ss1l m y y5ic YOU Oni; too NJ!
the people control your destinies and you
policies. ~
think I speak for the enlightened publ
opinion of America when 1 say that rich as W
are and strong as we arc we ure now more read,
than ever before to establish between YOU
countries AMI ours such cordial relations a
will enable US to engage in direct MN
with you. lApplause.1 On behalf of all on
people, L extend to you q sincere and heart,
welcome: I am sorry that your rspid figh
through these prairies and states of the north
west will prevent you from seeing what we ar
and what We do, but we hope that you will Sc,
something from the faces that gladden. you ant
welcome you of what our people arc and o
what we feel toYard those who come among u!
from our ueighboring sister states. Therefore
in conclusion, l y Welcome you heartily and sin
cerely into our country and into our state. Il
Is but u type of our country. tApplause.l
Mayor Cleland introduced Carlos Marti.
nez Silva, of Colombia, who responded or
behalf of the visitors. He was frequently
interrupted by applause, and when he
closed the large audience cheered- sMi,s
heartily. He said:
Mr.. Mayor, Mr.. Governor, Mr.. Senator: II is
O cause Of lively satisfaction and high homo
among US that upon our arrival in this interest
ing city the address of welcome should be made
BY one SO distinguished as yourself. You dou.
ply represent your people upon this occasion
Your amlable and cordial expressions are the
faithful echoes of the sentiments of those in
whose name you spenk.
We know by experience the worth and signif.
canoe OF your words. Among this great Ameri.
can p~eople-noble, simple and generous-out OF
the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh
as say the scriptures.
Our vocabulary of thanks is alreadv exhausted
but our hearts reveal from day to day q senti.
ment of fraternal sympathy, of warm esteem
for the people of this great republic, which we
pave always regarded as n rid; but which
from day 70 day must ever be our older sister,
IN the name OF my colleagues, overpowered
with gratitude, I beg you to receive "a cordial
grasp of the hand, and to believe that we,
the Americans OF the south, i'll whose veins
flows the blood of CASTLE, have one virtue
which is our seal of honor that of knowing how
to love and how to thank.
lion. John A. kasson responded to a
call in a brief and telling address OF fifteen
minutes, after which Government Repre-
sentative Curtis came forward upon re-
quest, but only to express thanks for the
cordial reception.
After the opera house exercises con-
Guided the visitors proceeded IN carriages
to the corr palace. There again were
they greeted by an immense multitude.
1t was 10 o'clock when they entered the
palace, and for hall an hour they looked
with wondering and admiring eyes on the
novelty.
Citizens conducted them through
the building, explained the reasons of it's
construction and the significance of the ex-
position to this part of the northwest. The
many decorations were an interesting
panorama for the eyes of the visitors, and
they evinced great pleasure in what they
saw. The old men as we'll as the young
nen of the party climbed the stairways to
the top floor of the tower. The visit at
the corn palace was a very pleasant feature
of the visit.
Out from Sioux City the Pan-Americans
crossed the Missouri on the great bridge
and sailed away towards Fender. the Mace