Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-13
WORLDS FAIR PROGRAM.
Row the Great Columbian Exposition at
ChIcnnn VIII SAnnt

Chicago win Start.
CHICAGO July 3.-Plans for the dedi-
catory exercises of the worlds fair from
Oct. II to IA, 1892, have been adopted
by the committee on ceremonies.
| The military encampment will last
four days and the president of the
United States will be asked to direct the
| proper officer to assume command of
the troops. The military parade and
review will take place Tuesday, Oct. IL,
and the subsequent DAYS of the encamp-
ment will be devoted to regimental and
brigade drills and other military features
of an attractive nature, including Fri
day, Oct. IA, illustrations of an attack
and defense of u position with all arms
of the service-not sham battle as or
dinarily conducted, but one ON military
principles.
During every evening there will be
magnificent displays Of fireworks at
Jackson park and on the lake along the
entire front of the city. Wednesday,
Oct. IL, will be dedication day proper
and the memorial services which will be
of brilliant and imposing character,
will be held in the main building at
Jackson park. The ceremonies of the
day will be ushered in by the firing of
national salute of forty-eight battery
volleys by all batteries in attendance.
AT 10 o'clock a. m. the troops will be
in readiness to receive the president of
the United States with appropriate
honors. He will then pass into the
building, and surrounded by his cabinet,
diplomatic corps and distinguished for
eigners, will receive the thirteen original
states with proper ceremonies, and then,
with reasonable rapidity, the different
states in the order of their admission to
the Union. The states will be repre-
sented by their governors, uniformed
statfs, banners emblazoned with the
coat-of-arms and such allegorical repre-
sentatiOn as each state may design.
The program to follow will be:
America, with full choral and orches-
tral accOmpaniments; prayer; Star
Spangled Banner" with full chorus and
orchestral accompaniments; commemor-
alton ode, set to music. with full chorus !
and orchestral accomplishments; address
and report from director general;
presentation of buildings by the presi- |
dent of the national commission; can
tata arranged expressly for these cere-
monies; presentation of buildings by the |
president of the national commission to |
the president of the United States; adj |
dress by the president of the United |
States; dedication Grafton; hellelujah |
chorus; national salute of forty eight |
battery volleys.
During Wednesday evening the presi-
dent of the United States will give re-
ception to distinguished foreigners and
invited guests. Thursday, Oct. 13, the
grand civic and industrial display.
which is to be one of the crowning
features of the celebration, will he
formed by 10 o'clock u. ln., and move
directly to jackson park through some
of the principal streets of the city. 1t
is designed on this display to give repre-
of the principal events in the
life of Columbus and of the first 300
years of this country subsequent to its
discovery.
The last century will illustrate the
growth of the United States
since the adoption of the constitution,
the improvement in mechanical appli-
ances, the advance in science, art, liter
ature and education.
There will be grand dedication bail
Oct. -, in the evening. Fri
day evening, Oct "A, the officers of the
worlds Columbian exposition will give
a reception in the administration build
ing.
Further details will be elaborated from
time to time.