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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22
THE GREAT AUDITORIUM.
Ninety Thousand Persons seated, Seventy
Five Thousanc Standing.


At 9 o'clock the visitors began to stroll
into The grounds. and by TO o'clock 30, 900
people had passed through the gates. From
this time on the multitude was augmented
by tens of thousands. AS the visitors ar
rived most of them made their way di-
rectly to the crest dedication building.
anxious TO obtain desirable seats. and in a
short time every one of the 10000
seats. except those reserved for distin-
gushed guests. was occupied by early
corners.
At 10 o'clock the parade outside in which
II 900 regulars aud state militia partici-
pated had hardly begun and it was evident
that the many thousands who were comm z
IL must be content with standing room and
that at least two-thirds Of the visitors 10
the grounds would never get within hear
ing OF the speakers voices. Among the
first to enter were members OF the grand
choruses filing the seats assigned them to
the number of 5, 800.
Shortly after 10 O'Clock the band struck
I'D and great volume of sound from $500
threats joined in the preliminary practice
of the dedication ode, several stanzas OF
which have been set TO music. In spite of
this huge volume of sound 1t made M more
impression In the vast building covering
thirty acres than would an ordinary choir
in a church. Practice though 1t was. it
was heartily cheered by tbs great audience
1t was the throug of a century. the scene
of 8 lifetime. spectacle that shall in com
ing years mark an epoch In the march of
the nations Of the earth. No human pen
can adequately describe it. One must see
il to appreciate IL Words and figures fail
and when one says the great audience room
was capable of seating $4,000 persons com
fortably with space left for $1,000 more il
is simply big approximation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22
in HONOR OF COLUMBUS.
The Great Worlds Columbian Exposition Com
memOratiVe Of the Discovery Of America.
DEDICATED WITH IMPOSING CEREMONIES.
ALI Nations on Earth Represented Through Their Enjoys
Bow to the Sentiment
GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATE
romp spno. with
Representatives Of NaOus
cred building The Second Greatest
of the United satest the
Fair of Is
Fair Of Iaes Is lnaugurated.

and here we're four riders of pomp that
should make 1t as big day IN
local if not in national history tax
ing their position near the auditorium
these regulars awaited the appearance of
notables upon whom they should attend.
Shortly after troop of beautifully mounted
and richly uniformed cavairymen from the
state of New York elattered In from side
sireet anG took their position as an escort
TO Governor Flower. These followed in
turn by state militiamen from Pennsyl-
vania and other states as escorts TO their
respective governocs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22
THE OBLIGATORY EXERCISES.
The Formal Opening of the Great Columbian
Exposition.

The Formal Opening OF tie Great Columbian
opposition.
1t was half past when the last guest
was finally seated ana the exercises of
dedication began with "The Columbian
March" by the orchestra.
When the last notes died away, Bishop
Charles Fl. Fowler, of California, advanced
to the desk and with bowed head, while the
people were hushed, delivered an eloquent
prayer beginning with thanksgiving to Al
mighty God for blessings bestowed on this
nation and for His benifcience to the
world and following with petition for His
blessing, beginning especially with the
president Of the United States in his afflic-
tioa, and following through the series of
government. state, municipal. foreign and
exposition officials.
At the conclusion OF the prayer Director
General Davis advanced to the front and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22
THE COLUMBIAN GRAFTON
Delivered by Hon. Chauncey II. Dspew of
New York

This day belongs not 10 America, but to the
world. The results OF the event It commemo-
rates are the heritage OF the people of every
race and cline. We celebrate The emancipa-
ton OF man. The preparation was the work of
almost countless centuries. the realization was
the revelation Of one. The cross on Calvary
was hopes the cross raised on San Salvador
was opportunity. But for the first, Columbus
would never have sailed; but for the second.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22
FOREIGNERS ApPKoyE THE IDEA.
An Example Delica,ely ret Followed by the
Big Audience.

AS the ice-president closed and uttered
the dedicetory words the members of the
diplomatic corps arose simultaneously to
their feet in graceful approval of the senti-
ment and the example so delicately set by
foreign nations was instantly followed by
ali the thousands assembled beneath the
vast roof The Hallelujah chorus which
followed added to the solsmnity of the scene.
Then Hon. Henry Watterson advanced aud
delivered the formal dedicatory GRAFTON.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22
THE OBLIGATORY GRAFTON.
Delivered by lion. Henry watterson of
Kentucky.

Among The wonders of the creative and con
structive genius in the course OF preparation
for this festival of nations, whose formal and
olicial inauguration has brought US together,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22
HOW 1T LOOKED.
Graphic Description Of the Building and
the Decorations.

Let US endeavor to get an approximate
idea Of this unique scene. Imagine thirty
great steel arches $50 feet span and FOG feet
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22

CONTINUED on page 8
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22

LEADING DRY GOODS
HOUSES ADVERTISE
IN THE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

some hundred miles or more farther South,
as it must eventually, another remarkable
region will be in communication with Pitts
burg. That is the Pocahontas coal and iron
ore district, located partly In Virginia, but
mostly in West Virginia.
The only line now running through this
section is the Norfolk and Western extern
sion. The country is so wild as to battle
description. The railroad follows what is
known as the Flat-top coal vein, and the
only settlements are around the collieries
Nothing is grown-not even potatoes. The
only crop is coal, but of that the supply is
inexhaustible. The development has prac-
ticallv only commenced and so far the rail-
road company, which owns and leases most
of the land, has averaged profit of 5000 an
acre.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
THE CROP OF COAL
In West Virginia Is Only Ri
vailed by the Great
Lumber Supply.
GROWTH OF A FEW YEARS.
The Immense Region Which Should
Be Tributary to Pittsburg.
EFFORTS OF COMPETING CITIES.
Territory to Be Thrown Open BY the Nor
gantoWn-UniOntOUn Line.
TuF rTTTpE Ou Tup pIpTurp cnunu
GROWTH OF A FEW YEARS.
EFFORTS OF COMPETING CITIES.
Territory to Be Thrown Open BY the Nor
gantoWn-UniontOVn Line.
THE FUTURE OF THE FARTHER SOUTH
FFRONf A STAFF CORRESPONDENCE

tFROM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
CAMDEN-oN-GAULEY, W. VA, Dec "a.
This place is representative OF the great
region with which it is so desirable for
Pittsburg to open up reciprocal trade If
any one had predicted four years ago that
there would be town at this point he
would have been laughed at. 1t was In the
midst of an apparently inaccessible wilder
ness, where deer and bear still abounded
and where even the log cabins were many
miles apart.
Now Camden-on-Gaulev, as it has been
named, Is at the terminus of the Camden
Railway system, so far as 1t is in operation.
The line is still being pushed to Washing
ton, to join with a branch of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, but this is the extreme
point in the interior which has vet been
penetrated by the shrek of the locomotive
whistle.
Camden-on-Gauley now has a lumber
plant employing GOO men, with capacity
for saving 60,000,0 00C feet year. The logs
can be tioated down three streams to this
point-Gaulev river, Williams river and
Cherry creek. There is enough timber
within easy reach to keep the mill and en-
plOyes busy for 80 years
Almost Direct Line.
The accompanying map shows that Cam
den-on-Gauley is almost on straight line
south Of Pittsburg, and will be eaSy of ac-
cess when the Baltimore and Ohio branch
from Morgantown to Uniontown is COM
pleted. This branch is marked on the map,
but about 20 miles of it are still
to be constructed. A road is now
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
THE GROWTH OF THE HAIR.
The Peculiar Way Certain Kinds of Diea
Act Upon the Hirsute Growth.
Washington Star.I

The Peculiar Way Certain Kinds of Diea
Act Upon the Hirsute Growth.
Washington Star.l
The influence of diet upon the growth of
hair is the subject of paper in which the
writer says: Several cases of shedding of
hair after influenza has confirmed my opin-
ion that diet has much to do with the pro-
duetion and with the cure of sympathetic
alopecia Hair contains five per cent of
ulph ur, and its ash 20 per cent of silicon
and ten per cent of iron manganese
Solution OF beef Cor, rather, part Of it),
starchy mixtures and even milk, which con-
stitute the diet of patients with inhuenza
and other fevers, cannot supply these els-
ments, and atrophy at the roots and falling
out of hair result.
The color and strength of hair in young
mammals is not attained so long as milk is
the sole food. As to drugs, iron has prompt
influence. The foods which most abund-
antlE contain the above named elements are
the various albumenoids and the oat, the
asi: of that grain yielding p per cent of sill
con.
have often found dietary largely COM
posed of oatmeal and brown bread to greatly
promote the growth of hair, especially when
the badness was preceded by constipation
and sluggish capillary circulation. Those
races of men who consume most meat are
the most hirsute.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

therefore excusable When ConEellsviIle
coke is hauled to Chicago for making Besse-
mer steel, in every 100 carloads there are
hauled 10 carloads OF ash. In 100 carloads
Of New river coke less than five are ash.
There is gas coal enough to supply all the
leading cities in the country. Fourteen
Thousand cubic feet of 1S candle power gas
can be made from every ton, and when in
many places the natural gas gives out 60, 900
feet of gas can be made from ton of this
coal, better, too, than the natural gas it will
supplant."
In speaking of the Pittshurg vein Mr..
Hotchkiss said: 'There is no other known
bed of such continuity in thickness and in
character as this which has given such a
reputation to PIttsburg. West Virginia
has 5000 miles of this into which she has
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

That the West Virginians do not exag-
gerate their coal claims is proved by such
an authority as Major Jed Hotchkiss. of
Staunton. Va. In discussing the subject he
SAYS: 'West Virginia has three great coal
measures, each 1000 feet thick. Coming
down the New river among the rugged hills
whose towering SUBMITS extend in almost
perpendicular lines toward the heavens we
see the first great measure, and when from
the Falls of the KanRwha we look up to
the hills from which the Indians made their
arrow points of flint we have seen the first
1000 feet of coal. Following down the
valley to Charleston another 1000
feet of coal is passed, and when
the Ohio river is reached at the
mouth of the Kanawha the third great
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

built along the stream running from Sutton
10 Charleston known as Elk river Among
other features which Camden-on -Gauley
boasts, though only two years old, is $780,
600 hotel, and the pioneers of the place are
confident that it will be the leading city of
Central West Virginia in the near future.
An examination of the map will show
that the Camden system penetrates the
very heart of wide territory reached by
no other line, and that Pittsburg should be
the depot of supplies for the entire region.
The branch which strikes out at Weston
penetrates to Pickens, where there is an
other great lumber plant, one of the most
extense in the country. Farther east Is the
new river country, where hundreds of thou
sands of dollars are now being invested.
The coke made from the coal OF this district
commands higher price than the Connells-
wills article, and is claimed to be the best in
the world.
When the railroad dsvelopment extends
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

Great Kanawha The Kanawha and Michi-
gan is now shipping it from the Raymond
City mines, but at few other places have
mines been opened. 1t is practically un-
touched and can be counted on for an
az .rage of at | east six feet of coal"
Can Be Multiplied Thousand Times.
After moments reflection the Major
continued: ri once asked Governor Flem-
ing how much the assessed value of West
Virginia's %, 900 square miles of land was.
He said it was S120, 900, O0O vanderbilt
could buy in and sell us all out. But this
valuation does not express our real wealth.
1t is entirely within che bounds of reason
to say that these $4,000 square miles have
an average thickness of ten feet of coal un-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
GAS TURNED ON AT PARKERsBURG.

The Happy, Deluded Populace Swallow a
Promise of Lower Rates to Come.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, Dec. 24-[Spe-
ciaL Natural gas was turned on here to-
day, and Parkersburg has high hopes that
the new fuel will help to boom the busy
town. The price charged is 20 cents 200
feet, but it is promised that this rate will
be lowered. Two hundred applications for
gas have already been made, and there are
not enough plumbers in the place to make
connections as they are called for.
The company supplying the city controls
the gas fields of Writ. Pleasant, Tyler,
Doddridge, Ritchie and Wood counties,
and the supply is practically inexhaustible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

der them. On this basis we could multiply
the real estate assessment thousand times
and still not touch it. You can hardly
dream of such enormous wealth of re-
sources.
Cincinnati is making great effort to Sc
cure the trade of this section of the State,
and convince the people that the city most
noted for pork and beer is their proper
headquarters. To certain extent the work
has been successful, but there is everywhere
a most friendly feeling for Pittshurg, which
only needs acquaintance and cultivation.
BANCROFT
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

The Terrible Ride of Man Who Was
Struck by Limited Train.
CHICAGO, Dec 24.-Charles Griggs, a
drug clerk, was taken to his home
in Keokuk, Ia, last night, suffering
from the nervous shock of a
hair-breadth escape. He was struck
by the Milwaukee limited on the
Northwestern Railroad, travelling at the
rate of 10 miles an hour, and carried six
miles into Evanston on the pilot of the
locomotive in an unconscious condition.
Though black and blue with bruises, not
bone in his body was broken.
Mr. Griggs was bewildered by trains ap-
preaching from opposite directions. With
forlorn hope he jumped into the air He
was struck by the front of the engine and
dropped half stunned on the pilot, where
his hands Instinctively clutched the braces
None of the trainmen saw the accident
Doctors fear the nervous shock will prove
fatal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
AMONG XMAS BUYERS.
A Busy Time in the Pittsburg Head
quarters for st. Nicholas.
FUNNY SCENES AND INCIDENTS.
Few Hours in Cne of the Fig Mercantile
Establishments.
THE DISPLAY OF CHRISTMAS TREES
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l

WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
"Jes' buy one! Jes' oneP'
''What, are you stuck?" asked, looking
at the pile of papers under his arm. There
were only three, and it was early in the
afternoon.
mo, amt stuckp' returning the look
rather contemptuously, and glancing at his
diminished pile of newspapers Theh the
hook turned to one of smiling entreaty, and
"newsy" repeated it:
"Jes' one; jes one. You see Christmas is
comin'."
And it was, in two days. The DISPATCH
had sent me out to find Christmas cheer.
found it at the verJ door.
A little later 1 was carried by the cur
rent of crowd into the doors of an
immense establishment, where people
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
A Long Balloon Journey.

The recent balloon journey of NJ. Mallet,
the French aeronaut, lasted S616 hours, and
would have been the longest on record if
he had not landed for time in the middle
of it. He left Villette on October %, at
P. NJ, and next morning landed at .Alsace,
TO clear the snow from the balloon. At the
end of % minutes he started again, and
landed near Coblenz at p NJ. An hour
and a halt later he landed once more in
valley Of the Tauna Mountains, and finally,
Hesse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
w0RK1NGMEE AND POLICE.
Labor Demonstration in England " Nhich
Was Feared by the Authorities.

BRISTOL, ENGLAND, Dec. PA great
Norkingmen's demonstration, in which
thousands of gasworkers and dockmen took
part, was held in this city tonight. The au-
thorities had expected the demonstration
would be attended with disturbance, and mad
taken the precaution to obtain troops from
Aldershot; but with the exception OF few
slight scuffies with the police, no disorder
occurred.
A detachment of military cleared the
streets at late hour A few casualties are
reported.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

surged to and fro, pushed and crowded.
1t was like the grinding of handful of
wheat between the burrs, when you tried to
stop. The in-goers pushed you ahead, while
the outgoers showed you the other way,
pummeling your side and arms with their
bundles
In a Crush of Bargain Seskers.
Somehow landed in a crowd of women
and sprinkling of men, around several
tables, on which was a mixed-up mass of
cheap books. Dickens, bound in cloth,
at 50 70 a set; Longfellow's poems,
Owen Meredith's "Lucille," Scott's
''Marmion, each bound in leather, at 81;
Seven Lectures on Representative Men,"
by Emerson, at At cents; pocket edition of
Shakespeare, in handsome case, ranging
from So 81 to $11 81, according to binding;
E P. Roe's novels, at 80 cents apiece;
Scottish Chiefs, "Dora Thorne," "Gulli-
veI's Travels" and "Arabian Nights" st At
cents apiece; books ranged from cents
upward.
And such q scramble! Men and women
pushed and crowded, trampled on toes and
snarled angrily at each other whenever
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

FINE diamonds, rubies. emeralds, SAP
phires, opals and other precious stones, sst
in all the latest styles, at NJ. G. Cohen's. M
Fifth avenue. We set all our own goods ana
save you jobbers' profits
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
Holiday

Holiday Excursions via PennsyIvania
Lines.
December 4th, 25th. Goth and 3lst, 1892, and
January 1st aud I'd, 1898. excursion tickets at
low round trip rates will be sold from sta
tions on the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pitts6urg to points on those lines in West
eIh Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Kentucky and Wcst Virginia. Return
coupons valid until January Sd
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

favorite corns happened to be stepped on.
You would have supposed they were all
litterateurs, if you hadn't pushed in among
them and heard the expressions used. But
occasionally you noticed the careful book
buyer, who examined closely the print and
binding, and was particular in the selection
of his authors. 1 noticed two women, one
pulling and nudging at the other, trying to
get her away from the books.
"Ain't you going to buy that silk?" she
would say.
81 don't think will, ;" the other answered
ruefullY gazing at the pile OF books she
had purchased, and then peeping into her
fattened purse.
'Thosc books were straight this morn
ing, said a saleslady, sand now look at
'em.
Peculiarly of the New Father.
And 1 did look at that conglomerated
product of the work of weary brains, and
those myriads OF fingers diving into the
pile, and fed wildly up the stairs, until 1
collided with q man, who was going my
way, smile on his face as broad as your
hand, exclaiming: Gimme the infants de-
partment.
He found it on the top floor. But there
were girls behind the counter. His smile
changed to look of despair, as he rushed
to the floor-walker and exclaimed:
Cant 1 have man wait on me?"
And not stopping for an answer, he
turned and walked down stairs
On went through the different depart
ments, Everywhere there was the same
pushing crowd, cash girls running hither
and thither their arms piled high with the
purchases of bargain-getters and Christmas
buyers. The most unhappy individual
saw was the saleslady, who had worked
hard all the year to build up trade. A
crowd of women. pressed around her coun-
ter, refusing to be accommodated BY the
other ladies, clamoring in chorus for Miss
Jones. to wait on them, while poor 'Miss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
Details of the Natural Wealth.

'To go into particulars, continued
Major Hotchkiss, ''there is a mine in the
Pocahontas field that is we'll nigh as high as
this ceiling, where you could drive a coach
and four through and never touch their
heads In that prince of coal felds-the
Nuttalburg-the coal may be safely count
ed on not to yield more than per cent of
ash, not more than 20 per cent of volatile
matter and to contain 70 per cent of matter
for making heat Comparisons are needful
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25

measure has been passed. Just think of it
Three thousand feet OF coal measures They
are not all alike. We have here what no
other portion of the United States has-a
coking coal field 80 miles long and l5
broad. Maps of other States show fields of
this coal 10 miles long and broad and they
are considered large. They have %, 600
acres of coking coal; we have a million
acres. That Is the comparison we can
make.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
SIX MILES ON A COWCATCHER,

The Terrible Ride of a Man Who Was
Struck by Limited Train.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-05-06
THE New BUILDINGS.

Mr.. RI. L. Sheldon has the rear wall of
his block moved back four feet. in ac-
cordance with the arrangement made with
the village trustees for widening the
street the side wall next to the creek is
completed and work has begun on the
front wall. Mr.. George Abbey and his
assistants are doing the stone work.
Mr.. Battcll has a largr force of mon en-
gagged in digging the cellar for his block
and in leveling off the ground. He has
built heavy wall of stone along The riv-
cr front and will use the materials from
inside this wall. His masons will begln
at once and the work Will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-05-06

ly" side of him of which the Reformcr
tells. In short, he is person whom the
State, for the sake of its own safety from
ludicrous misrepresentation on some i'm
portant occasion, would do well to keep
in retirement, or, at any rate, out of the
highest office within its gift.
The second objection is no less weigh
ty. 1t is about time, in the opinion of
a portion at least of the people of
Addison county, to sit down upon self
constituted candidates for such offices
as this of governor, who put themselves
up, run well-oled machines for the pur-
pose of furthering their booms and
make use of every means that money
will buy to foist themselves upon the
people. That is Just what Col. Fuller is
doing and has been doing for the last
six months. The cold fact is that no.
body except Col. Fuller and possibly a
few members of his family want him
for governor. His support is largely
manufactured, and almost everybody
except the Free Press knows it.