The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-10-19
THE DAY OF DEDICATION.
OPENING OF THE WORLDS FAIn
BUILDINGS OCT. Ell.
chicaso's Ger, monials. A Great Crowd
of Distinguished People Will
Gath'r to View the Expo
s.tion Grounds.
XTXAHE dedication exercises Of IN,
GUWB Worlds / air will be held in the
W great hall of the manufacturer

M w great hall of the manufacturers
and liberal arts buildings ut Chi
N,cA cagn. and the imposing cere
monies Of national and official dedication
will take place. II will he memorable
day, the proudest IN the history of Chicago.
IL will he preceded by an Introductory day
of street para,les and followed by day oi
festivities and rejoicing-three days of dis.
play, Outdoing by far eve ything heretofore
witnessed on this continent.
The audience itself will he historic. The
president and cabinet have been invited,
and many members of the supreme court
and both houses of congress, governors, ora.
tors, generals and statesmen, distinguished
foreigners of various ranks and eminent
mea and women of our o.n land will lie
the central iguics. In the audience will
be people uf almost every race on earth. es
pecially from our own 3.5Ol,OD0 square
miles Of territory. There will indeed be 9
union of states, hearts and hands. AN ideal
ly pertect representation Of the greatest re-
public, the greatest single nation the world
has ever seen.
Th. orators will be worthy of thA occa
sion. Hon. Chauncev VI. Dcpew to deliver
the Columbian Grafton. the venerable and
eloquent William G. Z. lIreckinridge, OF
Kentucky, to give the de iicatorv Grafton
and trace the upholline of the nation in
which his own family has held 80 dstin.
guishei place for more than century.
Poetry will lend its aid. music OF the grand.
est sort vii enliven the OCCASION and art In
its highest development will add is inrffa.
ble charm.
This will be the great day of the three. as
II is roper for the cOmmemoration Of an
event by far the most important in the his
tory of the last is centuries But the pre-
ceding and following days will be only
second to II in Importance and display. On
Oct. 20 will occur the great civic procession
the principal organizations in the, nation
passing in review before the president and
cabinet. At night Jackson Park will be II.
been, and The last day Oct. y, will be de-
voted tu military reviews and the evening to
grand social features.
The exposition bull lings are practically
compl to- The Inst Of the iron work on the
great machinery hal was placed early in
| September, aud the principal carpentry
work Is in finishing She two spires The
| exterio. covering is nearly all finished on
the north front of the main building. The
annex is practically finished exteriorly and
| is being lathed The final estimate Of the
Edgemoor Bridge company for the stool
work on the manufacturers building shows
that in the roof of the central hall there
have been placed 1919 S,775 pounds Of steel,
| costing s52S l59.77.
The example has stimulated the men in
charge of the stat buildings, and every one
| will be completed in gooi time. The visitors
pr seilt on tlit llfst uay Will look on u conf
| pleted exposition. When the electric cir.
cult is closed. which shall start the pom.
derous machinery going, II will be far as
| possible n show complete and entire. The
State buildings now enclosed and rooted
with the rough work done and interior fin
ishing progressing, are Illinois, Kansas
| West Virginia, Rhode Island Ma.sachu
setts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Iowa
/ Maine, Arkansas, Indiana, ohio, Pennsyl
| vanla, Nebraska, Montana, Maryland and
| Delaware
Seventy buildings are now in progress oI
construction III the exposition grounds, as
| follows: Main exposition building,-Ad-
ministration, agriculture and annex, DAIRY,
electricity, fisheries, forestry, fine arts and
annexes. horticulture. manufactures mines
machinery, transportation and annex, wo
| plan's-l3.
Minor exposition buildings BAT leship
boiler house casino cleaning works, cod
storage house, colonnade, freight shed,
(three) fuel, oil tank. greenhouse, Hyd,
bark police stations, life-saying station, mu
sic hall, office of ground and building, per
istyle, Photographic building, pump housr
Woodlawn police stat'on--l7.
The State and foreign buildings number
%, and the concessions of special buildings
are: Bakers cocoa, German village. Libby
glass works, Moorish palace, New England
clam bake, nalatorium, panorama of thu
| Burmese Abs. panorama Of the volcano vi
Kiiauea, Puck, sliding railway, White Star
| line-.ll
1t may be we'll to add that there are 22iC
employees on the pay roll, their wages aver
| aging so per month. Enough has beef
done to strike visitors with astOniShmen
even now, and there yet remains six months
for active work.
OF course, the finances of such a big en-
terprise will be OF interest to the American
people, Down to Sept. ] the total receipts
from all sources were sl0,i0l 0i5, Of which
Chicago had paid s5003, 726 and S5,03S, ,g3.
had been paid on current installments ot
stock subscriptions. The government!
contribution was not counted OIL as yet
and only s6S, 800 had been received in sou
yenir coins, OF the total S,l3, $50 haC
been paid out, leaving cash balance o.
81, ,657, 1856. 1t is painful TO find the Follow
Ing item at the close of the report:
'Six hundred and iorty-eight accidents
had occurred up to the time of the compile
ton of the report divided as follows as Il
the extent of injuries: Killed IL fatal y in
jured, 2; seriously injured 25 slightly in
jured, 6O7. OF this humber only Que was {
visitor
At the same data foreign government
had expended S12i,000. England of course
leads with an expenditure of Sll 1855 Tn,
Argentine republic, Uruguy and Paraguay
have together expended Sl9,670 Neither
France nor Spain has yet expended any
| sum worth inehtiohing, Dut Will 40 80, o
course, before the exposition opens. Ex
elusive of work done by foreigners tn,
total paid on building to Sept. was S+,3Sl,
100 o.
There can be no doubt that in extent
beauty, artistic effect, completeness. adapta
bility to 1t purposes and IN all respects tha
appeal to the sense and the taste even o.
the most critical, Jackson park 10 1893 vii
be the most beautiful exposition spot III,
world has ever seen.
Tho Worlds ship,srecks.