Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-28
GIVEN TO THE NATION
WORLDS FAIR BUILDINGS FOR
MALLY TURNED OVER
To tho Country-An Event In American
History-The Spectacle of the March,
Ing Soldiers and tho Dedicatory Exer-
cises Magnificent Beyond Description.

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-The ceremonies
of the Columbian week reached
their elimination this after
noon in the dedicatory exercises
at jackson Park. Under the noole
roof of the manufacturers hall the all
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 Presl-
dent), who in turn dedicated them IN
impressive terms TO the memory OF the
great Genoese 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 We're enacted sat
1000 of the choicer spirits from every
quarter of the globe. The Vice-Presi-
dent was fianked by the mem
bers of the Cabinet of his
chief, gathered for the first
time in the history of the government
Mt point thousand miles removed
from the 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
chief officers of the army and navy
were present, surrounded by the flower
of their respective stats One of the
two living ex-Presidents of the United
States held seat of honor The Gov
ernors of thirty States, officers of the
Philadelphia centennial, members of
former cabinets, the Mayor OF Chicago,
greet divines, orators, merchants,
scholars and lawyers-these were a
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 PARKWAY 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 70 share in the glory of its in
auguration.
Uncle Sam S preliminary to the great
browning event of months of labor, the
dedication of the worlds fair, in the
shape of beautiful military parade
and review, at Washington park to-
day, was an unqualified success. Fully
sc, 900 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 APP
probation to the reverberations of the
nineteen ear-piercing salutes from the
cannon of Rodney's battery, located
behind clump of trees north of the
mere. 1t was battle of Gettysburg
on a level moor without the clash OF
troops, the whizzing 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 al
the great maneuver grounds At Char
lottenburg, but the review IN the zoe
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 oil
military encampments and place then
all before your eye in the perspective
of 200 acres, and a fair conception o.
what Gen. Miles review was to-day
can be gained.
The dedicatory ceremonies wert
| 1Ornally Openeu ny tiC pSiiOtihdhCOo
Prof. John X. Paine's columbus
March and bymm," in the manner O
Wagner's Kaiser March" 1t is {
stirring composition, full of stirring
effects, and well calculated to awakeI
the echoes of patriotism in the soul o
every nearer.
After the opening march Bishop
Charles ii. Fowler, ID. D., of Califor
mia, offered magnificent prayer.
When Bishop Fowler had closed hi
eloquent prayer and the orchestra hat
made the immense building echo agar
and again with the strains of beautiful
music, Director General George II
Davis, as master of ceremonies Of tn,
dedicatory services, made the introduc
tory address, telling of the cause an,
the aims and objects of the Columbian
exposition.
When Col Davis had concluded hi
address he introduced Mayor Hemp
stead Washburue who rendered tn