Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-22

had been set to music. In spite of this
huge volume of sound, it made no more
impression in the vast building cover
ing 80 acres, than would an ordinary
choir in church. Practice though it
was, it was heartily cheered by the
great audience.
Itwas the throng of g century; the
scene OF lifetime; a spectacle that
shall in coming years mark an epoch in
the march OF the nations of the earth.
No human pen can adequately describe
1T. One must see it to appreciate it,
words and figures fail. When one says
the great audience room was capable of
seating $4,000 persons comfortably, with
space left for $4,000 more, it is simply
big approximation.
PEN PICTURE OF THE SCENE.
Let US endeavor to get an approx
mate idea of this unique scene. I'm
agine thirty great steel arches, 1856 feet
span and 206 feet high, covering space
1400 feet long, this covered partly with
wood. partly with glass and surround
ing in its entire length broad gall
lery with raised seats. Imagine great
starry banner hung from the center of
each arch, with the clustered flags of all
nations, gathered in sheaves on the
front of the balcony between each pair
of arches. At one end imagine great
platform filed with musicians, vocal
and instrumental; in the middle
of one side great stand with
pulpit-like projection in the
middle, draped with white and
yellow festoons. This is the official
stand. Imagine it filed with governors
and their resplendent stats; dignitaries
of foreign nations, with jeweled, strange,
but vivid costumes; in front of this
stand, upon the main floor "a large rallied
off space set with desks and occupied
by newspaper men from all quarters of
the globe, working furiously, trying to
picture the scene before them; back of
them and to the left,and right sea of
human faces, the great audience sitting,
standing, filing the immense space un-
til itcan not hold another human being;
till boys and men take hold of the great
steel arches and Chamber through the
braces high up above the heads of
the gathered throng. Imagine de-
pending from the roof, midway
down, streamers of yellow, red and
white bunting. Imagine festoons Of the
American flag draped here and there,
while in the center great carved stone
eagle forms the nucleus of the glorious
standard of colors. On one side of this
hangs the banner of Spain, with its lion,
its castle towers Of red, white and black;
on the other side the green cross of Fer
dinaDd and Isabella, upon a white
ground, where their initials, surmounted
by crown blazoned in yellow;
near by the official banner Of
the worlds Columbian exposition,
triangular in form, divided evenly,
one-half of the ground being
blue, signalling Lake Michigan the
sition building; fringe of dark gold,
which, with the white, makes the colors
of Isabella; in the tassel dark red
strand, at once the crimson of Ferdi-
nand and Columbus, and the terra Gotta
of Chicago, which, with white, make
the new municipal color; in the field
near the staff of oak, wreath enclosing
four."C's," intertwined, the initials OF
Cyclus, christopher Columbus and Chi
cago; the oval form of the C's being
expressive of the Romanesque charac.
teristic of the worlds fair buildings, the
four typifying the quadro-centennial of
the discovery of America.
RECOGNITION OF POPULAR FAvoRITEs.
Suddenly shout creeps up from one
end of the vastbuilding, gradually grow
ing, approaching the stage till near at
hand the form of Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew making for his place on the
stand, furnishes the reason therefor.
And 80 it goes as one after another of
welt known people are recognized by the
great gathering, there being sometimes
half dozen eddies of hand-clapping in
different parts of the house to signalize
the approach OF as many different per-
sons of note.