Wichita eagle., 1889-12-10
HARRISON IN CHICAGO.
The Rabble Fairly Run Over the Chief
Executive and Party.


in the ceremonies attendant upon the
formal opening of the auditorium build.
ing. Mayor Crieger, General Crook, Post
master Sexton, President Peck, Of the
Auditorium company, and the other mem
bers of the reception committee boarded
special Panhandle train and &C
companied by number of other promi-
nent citizens and press repl esentatives
| were taken to Western avenue and Eigh-
tenth street, where they awaited the ar
rival OF the presidential train. When It
arrived the presidents car was attached
to the special train. The trip into the city
was without event. Within all was hand
| shaking and congratulations. Over twenty
suburban trains had discharged their
passengers on the depot during the time
between and O'Clock. AT last the train
stopped and the president was ready to
alight on Chicago, soil. Three cheers for
Harrison. "Hurrah; hurrah hurrah." A
roar that ratified the big windows of the
Union depot burst out from 5000 threats.
There was hush and then a crush and
scramble and the passage way between the
crowd that had been made by the police
closed up with the vicious snap of a mob
mad for look at the chief executive,
closed up behind the president. who
was compelled to walk hurriedly if
Mayor Cregier and Major General Crook
to the stone steps leading to the entrance
to escape the fighting screaming mob be-
hind him. In a moment the president was
at the top of the steps and in an open bar
ouche waiting to take him away. II the
police arrangements were bad while the
president passed up to the carriage it
seemed to be the general opinion that
they were worse when the balance OF the
party left the train. Mr.. Peck escorted
Mrs. Clarkson and Mr.. c. f. Bissell fol.
lowed with Mrs. Mckee and Mr.. Clark
sons portly form, followed by that of
Russell Harrison and nurse
bearing the irrepressible and crow
ing baby Mckee The only excuse
the car to the carriage was made SO sud
denly that they were unprepared. There
was line of blue-coats extending from
the bottom of the entrance steps to keep
the crowd back, but as soon as the presi-
dent got to these doors the officers deserted
their posts and ran up behind the head of
the nation like SO many schoolboys tag
ging after the village magnate. The re-
suit was crush, as any one can readily
guess when it is known that mob of 5000
people, hot and eager, were thrown against
the narrow exits. Three boys were
badly hurt against the great oaken doors,
the sharp corners of which pressed
into their delicate frames and made them
screech in agony. Many grown people
were hurt, too, but none seriously.
1t was only through the personal efforts
of Mayor Cregier that Mrs. Harrison was
saved the indignity of being pressed upon
by the throng, and the rest of the party
were actually pushed up stairs in most
undignifed way as a result, and there was
Strengthening of bonnets by the ladies
and smoothing of silk hats by the gentle
,ban bou Of ioc inf
riages
The escort was drawn up on jackson
street and when the presidential party
passed received it with present arms
When the carriages had gained the head
of the line each organization fell in behind
and the march down Michigan avenue was
taken to the residence of Mr.. Peck, where
the president will stop during his stay in
Chicago.
All along the route the distinguished
party was received with cheers from the
thrOngs of people massed on either side Of
the streets. ..
Later in the day the president visited the
auditorium buildings. While he was be-
ing shown through the great audience
room his presence was discovered by the
opera people, who were engaged in re-
hearsal. The rehearsal was at once
stopped and the orchestra struck up with
the Star Spangled Banner"
THE AUDITORIUM OPENED.
CHICAGO. H., Dec. 9.-An audience of
5000 of people and an outside assemblage of
IL, 600 enthusiastic spectators tonight wit
messed the dedication of the largest and
grandest operate structure in the world.
Five thousand electric lights iilumi-
mated the interior Of the colossal
structure to the brightness of MONDAY,
and the thousand iucandescen5 border
lights of varied colors that hung over the
stage, the magnificent proscenium
arch and the mammoth organ,
the grand foyer and carved
mahogany pillars, the handsomest gilded
rows Of boxes known to modern decorative
art, combined with the presence of one of
the most distinguished and critical
audiences in America, rendered the oc-
casion truly one long to be remembered by
the queen of the evening, Madame Adelina
Patti, the sovereign of song. Four years
ago Fred w. Peck and a large number of
other Chicago capitalists conceived the
idea of forming themselves into a joint
stock company for the pur lose of erecting
a building SURPRISING any other structure
of its kind in the world The result to-
night is an editice costing 100000, and
lenged rs representing the grandest
achievement of modern architectural and
decorative skill. The a ditor.um is
equally wonderful in design, size and
beauty. The design is unique in that it is
the first theatre ever butt with the in
terror shaped like a cone or speaking
trumpet, the stage being taken as the apex
of hollow cone. The arched roof and di-
verging walls retreat in a series of con-
stantiy increasing circles, being the acme
OF acoustic achievement.
\ few minutes past s o'clock the presi-
Dental party entered the boxes reserved
for them, and, as the vast audience fully
recognized the chief magistrate Of the ma
ton, the momentary applause deepened
into long-continued ovation. The mag
nificent 175-stOp organ, with its 1000 pipes
and bells, breathed forth IN accompani-
ment with the orchestra the triumphal
fantasia composed by Theodore Dubois for
the memorial occasion. The scene was
one long to be remembered. Beauty
crowned with jewels, craftsmanship with
honor and wealth, with dignity, harmon
lied becomingly with the magniticence of
this grand temple of art.
Among the prominent people who occu-
pied the boxes were President Harrison,
Vice President Morton and Mrs. Morton,
Secretary Halford Fred w. Peck and Mrs.
Peck, Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son and Mrs. Clarkson. Prof David Swing,
General r. a. Alger, Mrs Alger aud Miss
Alger: United States Judge Gresham,
Governor Fifer and Mrs. Fifer, General
George Crook and Mrs. Crook, Hon. j. S.
Rnnnells and Mrs. Runnells, General II.
c. Corbin and Mrs. Corbin, Mayor Crieger
and Mrs. Crieger, Governor Merriam and
Mrs. Merriam, Governor Larrabee and
Mrs. Larrabee, Governor Hoard q nd Gov
ernor Gordon, of Georgia
There was another burst of applause as
the form of Mayor Creiger was seen ad-
vancing TO the front OF the mammoth
stage seventy feet deem and ninety feet in