The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-05

that the conquest and settlement; the crea-
ton of new states, and finally the vim lica-
ton of the principle of the republic, for
from pole to pole not monarchy exists
The British possessions are practically all-
tonomous, and Canadian premier has
more to say about the conduct of Dominion
affairs than the queen and the parliament
at Westminster.
Then think of the heroes who followed
in the train of Columbus and made effect
i've his discoveries. True, many were actu-
ated in their trials and triumphS only by
the lust for gold, but the results remain
the same whatever may have been their
original purpose. What crowd of splen-
did spirits fit before the mental vision
Cortez and Pizarro overthrowing the an
Gent dynasties of Montezuma and the
Incas; Balboa planting the flag of Spain
on the shores of the Pacific; Ponce
de Leon hunting for the Fountain of
Youth in the glades of Florida; De Soto
struggling westward in his futile search
for gold; Coronado crossing the deserts of
the southwest that he might reach the
famed but fabulous Seven Cities Of Cibola;
the founding of st. Augustine and Santa
Fe. Then the voyage of Hendrick Hud-
son; the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers;
the establishment of the jamestown
colony; the rivalry of Dutch, English and
French; the wars with the Indians, and the
final supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race.
How the names of the heroes of that
formative period rise up in demand for
recognitionl Carver and Bradford and
Standish. Winthrop and Penn, Williams
and Eliot-but the list is long and known
of all men who honor their country enough
to learn her history. They were giants
in those days, and they fought as relent-
lessly as the warriors whose deeds are re-
corded in the Old Testament On sea and
land it was the Latin against the Saxon,
and the latter won. In the north he
whipped the French and in the south he
forced back the Spaniard. AL the while
the restless spirit of freedom seemed to
pervade the air, and after adjusting their
immediate chickering's the colonies both
Latin and Saxon, set at defiance their rul-
ers beyond the sea. The results were
Washington and the United States, Itur-
bide and Mexican independence, Bolivar
and the South American republics.
These but barely hint at some of the
things which naturally suggest themselves
in connection with the dedicatory cere-
monies. The 400 years between Columbus
and the Columbian exposition have been
SO stupendous in their outcome of pro-
gress despite woes and disasters, that it is
fitting that the Worlds fair should be
stupendous exponent of the doings of this
mighty and unexampled era
Speaking of the enterprise recently, Sir
Henry Trueman Wood, the British COM
missioner, said:
81 suppose few people realize the i'm
mense area that will be covered by the
Chicago exhibition. 1t is absolutely with
out comparison. The site comprises Jack
son park, occupying SIS acres; Washington
park, a mile away, of 81 acres, and strip
of land called the Midway plaisance con-
Meeting the two and contributing fur
ther area of eighty acres. The latter will
be converted into a bazaar and street of
nations, and sliding water railway, very
like the one in the Paris exhibition of 1889,
will run along the whole length. Thus there
is a total of 1037 acres available for the
purposes OF the exhibition. The Washing
ton park will not probably be built upon,
SO that the ground actually covered will
be about $50 acres-that is, four times as
great as that OF the French exhibition in
1889
1.-The little lagoons, which give such a
curiously Venetian aspect to the Worlds
fair, will be crossed by little electric steam
launches, of which there will be a regular
fleet. The grounds will be reclaimed and
laid out by the most celebrated landscape
gardeners in America-the same who SO
admirably designed Central park and the