The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-14
WE PAINTED HER RED.
The Biggest Celebration The Dalles Has
Ever Had.

Inc DalleS painted her red last night
The rain kindly ceased about dark, anc
at o'clock the business of the evening
began to take shape. The first thing tc
attract attention was the factory of the
Boston Shoe and Leather company
across the river. 1t was really as hand
some thing in the shape of illumina-
tion as we ever saw. The building
stands alone on the high bank across the
river, and every window in the immense
structure was ablaze with light making
three rows one above the other and in
the cupola big bright light shone like
the star of Esperance. From the Una
tilla House porch the lights were re-
hected in the placid waters of the Col
umbia, which flowed unruffied by, I'M
mindful of the disturbance the matter OF
their utilization was causing near at
hand, and danced and twinkled repeated
thousand times. The boom of the big
anvils soon drew the crow away, from
this beautiful scene, and soon a thous-
and or more of our citizens had gathered
in the neighborhood of the Vogt Grand.
From Harris corner that Mr. Glasier
sent up magnificent fire balloon which
rose rapidly, and pausing a moment as
If to choose its direction sailed gaily off
to the east, as If to carry the glad It'd
1ngs of hope to our good neighbors.
Second street was a blaze of colored
lights, and all the time as the crowd
gathered the anvil doomed, the electric
light whistle and that of the fire engine
answered the shrill calls from the North
Dalles shops, bells changed, and from
the armory A and g companies marched
out preceded by the brass band, and fol-
lowed by big torch light procession,
paraded the principal streets. Many
transparencies were exhibited, and the
notices were appropriate. One was
From Idaho to the sea-" another, "We
are free from bondage - ''The Hunt Rail-
road, The Legislature and the Gov
ernor," etc., etc.
Shortly after O'Clock the Vogt Grand
was filled with eager, happy ladies and
gentlemen, and, after music by the
band, Mr.. Macallister, president of the
board of trade, and of the meeting, in a
few well-chosen remarks introduced one
of our oldest and best known citizens.
Mr.. Robert Mays, who was greeted with
hearty applause. He said: 81 greet Won.
neighbors and friends; 1 feel that we
have met tonight to rejoice in common
victory, aud to congratulate ourselves
npon the success we have achieved. We
have begun new era, for the greatest
event that has ever happened for Wasco
county, is the passage of the portaee
railway Dill. L want to say word right
here about this present legislature. RI
have lived here for nearly forty wears
and have had more or less experience
with our legislative bodies, and 1 wish
TO Impress upon you the fact that this is
the most liberal, the most fair-minded
and broad-gauged legislature this state
has ever had. tell you now that they
have not only done their entire duty by
you, but it is my honest belief that they
Will do their duty as legislators by our
long suffering neighbors east of us, and
will pass Senator Raley's bill. We have
passed the dark days of The Dalles-we
have sometimes struggled for the neces-
stiles of life, but now its luxuries are
within our reach. We have plodded on
towards our destiny, slowly, sometimes
but always towards the goal.
md never a step backwards. We will
now grow rapidly until, instead of three
or four, we will have a population of
thirty or forty thousand, and when the
crop now growing is ripe a line of steam
ers will be on the river to send it into
'he markets of the world" He then
paid glowing tribute to our soil and
climate, compared The Dalles of today
70 the spot where it now stands, when
he, after the weary march across the
plains in 1858, first saw it, and said that
ne telt like Moses as he stood on the |
banks OF the Jordan and looked over into
he promised land, that if he was not to
enjoy it, he rejoiced to feel that his peo-
pie, his neighbors and friends would.
He was greeted with hearty applause
throughout.
Hon. A. j. Dufur followed in a telling
speech. He said we had been, to use
Buffers expression, bottled up, but
hanks to Senator Watkins bill, and the |
oregon legislature, the cork had been
pulled. Railroads, said he, are built by
Individuals or corporations for their own
Jain, but the Columbia is fresh from the
land of God, and no man or corporation
ould con troll it now.
Col. Lang followed Mr.. Dufur and