The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-10-20
PREPARING FOR THE FAIR.
THE DECORATION is BEGUN
IN CHICAGO. n
Preparations Being Made for the
Dedicatory Exercises by Citi-
zens of the Worlds Fair ..~
City-ArriVal Of the ..M
Militiamen. r.% ~"
To Be a Great Event.

~ DE- q Event.
Chicago, Oct. 1S.-Great activity was
Gu III decorating their buildings
- tlept'ratory for the dedication. On all
.nu' DOWNTOWN thoroughfares crowds
ooAiectea and watched the decorators ut
WORK upon the business houses. All the
orloSes over the Chicago river are being
decorated, while veSs Almen are using
every effort to get their boats out of
port, tearing that the bridges will be
practically closed to boats Il good part
or the time by reason Of the great crowds
surglng across. 1t seems rather hard
on the crews to be hurried out of town
just before the spectacles. but vessel
owners say they cannot afford to lose Il
day at this season of the year. It is
likely that the river will be comparative
~ free of boats by Wednesday. Those
particularly of the regular lines will be
profusely decorated. All the tugs will
have more or less bunting
a clamOrous expression of disappOint-
ment was raised to-day over the official
announcement that the great military
parade would be confined to the outskirts
of the city, consisting only of IL short
march from Washington Park to the
ayers of the parade declare that there
never was any intention of parading the
downtown streets there is no doubt that
this idea was generally entertained by
the public, and that the consensus of
opinion this afternoon was that those
responsible for the arrangements had
made Il grave mistake which would hard
~ fail to lead to widespread criticism
and i'll feeling.
The list of Uncle Sans boys to ar
rive to-day were the Sixth cavalry and
two troops of Indians from Fort Mo
brara, Neb. Those that followed came
from Niobrara. Neb., Fort Riley, Kan,
Forts Reno and Sill, Ind. IT,, Fort Sheri-
dan, ILL.,. and Washington, D. c. The
remaining troops, including those from
Leavcnworth, Fort Meade, Fort Smell
ing, Omaha and Fort Robinson. will not
get. to the city before Wednesday morn
ing.
Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland and
Baby Ruth will not come to Chicago aft
er all. In letter received to-day by
Secretary Culp, of the committee on cere-
monies. Mr.. Cleveland declined the invi-
tation which the exposition officials had
sent him to take part i'll the festivities.
He had been expected to participate i'll
all tie official and social events, and his
coming was awaited by thousands of
friends. Mr.. Clevcland's refusal to come
to Chicago at this time was not at all the
result of political or business engage
ments. He is not coming simply because
he does not wish to gain any political adj
vantage over an opponent who IS de-
tanned by so sad q circumstance rs that
which keeps President Harrison from at
tending the dedication exercises
Il may be oversensitive and even NOR
bid on the subject reads the letter,
out | can't allow myself to make poIit-
lcal advantage of the opportunity af-
forled in the sad sickness that keeps
PRESIDENT Harrison away from Chicago"
The cX-president went OH to say that
ever since his trip to Chicago was first
thought of his political friends had fig
ured on the amount of good that would
accrue to his campaign, and that he could
not permit himself to take any such adj
vantage of an adversary as the present
circumstances present.
tynlcagr has already donned a cOnsil ar-
able part of her gala dress. Notwith-
SttndinS the fact that Yesterday was the
Sabbath an army of decorators worked
all day on the down town buildings, and
by night time a coulplete transformation
had taken place Oh several of the princi-
pal business thoroughf&res. Many of
the sky-scrapers received the gorgeous
and patriotic coats they are to wear dur
ing the Columbian dedication ceremo-
MES. while others wore being prepared
for the more elaborate trimmings they
will receive within the next twenty-four