The Holt County sentinel., 1892-11-04
GIVEN TO THE NATION.
Worlds Fair buildings FormpIy Turn
cd Over.

Chicago, Oct. 22.-The ceremonies
of the Columbian week reached
their elimination yesterday IN
the dedicatory exercises at Jack
son Park. Under the noble roof
of the manufacturers hall the ali
but completed Columbian buildings
were formally rendered by the local
corporation to the national commission
and then to the Vice President of the
United States (acting for the Presi-
dent, who in turn dedicated them IN
impressive terms to the memory of the
great Geuoese and the honor and glory
of the republic. And thus the Column
bian exposition passed at length INTO
the keeping of the nation.
No circumstance. save only the Ia
mentable absence of the President OF
the United States, was wanted to con-
tribute to the solemnity and impressive
ness of these ceremonies. On the ros-
trum where they were enacted sat
1000 of the choicer spirits from every
quarter of the globe. The Fice-Presi-
dent was fsnked by the MEM
bers of the Cabinet of his
chief, gathered for the first
time in the history of the government
at a point thousand miles removed
from thS capital. For the first time,
also. since the republic was born, the
Chief Justice and his associates Of the
Supreme Federal bench came together
outside of their court. The Senate and
the Representative House of Congress
sat together almost en- masse. The
go rrasent. SURROUNDED BY the flower
Of their respective staffs. One OF the
two living ex-Presidents OF the onlteu
St.tes held a seat of honor. The Gov
eruors of thirty States, officers OF tne
Philadelphia centennial, members OF
former cabinets, the Mayor of Chicago
great divines, orators, merchants
scholars and lawyers-these were
few of the sons of America who came
to sit beside the officers OF the exposi-
ton in their hour of final triumph.
Nor were the other nations of earth
absent from the scene. The heir of
Catherine of Aragon sent his deputy
to sit beside the venerable minister OF
of that nation. which, if it did not
give aid to the Columbian venture,
gave birth to Columbus himself.
From that faraway Cathay which
| Columbus thought to find came
ministers still fixed in the laws
! and customs which never change,
though new worlds are found and new
| nations born. The new republics of
| the south, whose heritage is the very
soil touched by the foot of Columbus,
sent messengers to bear their greetings
| to their older sisters of the north.
| Ministers, consuls and commissioners,
| in a word. Of all the nations who will
partake in the great exposition were
| present to share in the glory of its in
| auguratlon-
Uncle Sans preliminary to the great
| crowning event of months of labor, the
| dedication of the worlds fair, in the
shane of a beautiful military parade
and review, at Washington park yester-
day. was an unqualified success. Fully
Sc, 600 people thronged that beautiful
| pleasure ground, and in undulating
| lines checked by hempen ropes an inch
| in diameter the citizens and strangers
| added their cumulative shouts of ap-
| probation TO the reverberations of the
nineteen ear-piercing salutes from the
cannon of Rodney's battery, located
behind a clump of trees north of the
mere. 1t was a battle of Gettysburg
! on a level moor without the clash of
troops, the whining of grape and can
| mister and the shouts of the wounded.
| Chicago was never more fortunate
enough than to witness review such
as Emperor Frederick would inspect at
the great maneuver grounds at Char
lottenburg, but the review in the 200
| acres Of meadow at Washington park
was by far the grandest that this city
has ever seen. Imagine any fifty guard
mounts that you have seen at State or
military encampments and place them
all before your eye in the perspective
of 200 acres, and fair conception of
what Gen. Miles review was to-day
can be gained.
The dedicatory ceremonies were
formally opened by the performance OF
Prof. John X. Paine's Columbus
March and hymm.' in the manner of