Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-07-05
THE joint JUBILEE
Twin-City Columbian Gel
ebration.
WAS A SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
The Industrial Parade and Other
Public Exercises.
WAS A SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
OPENING OF COLUMBIA PARK.
The Greatest PyrOtechnic Display
Ever Seen In This Section
Other Features of the Day
and the Demonstration.

The Columbian Fourth, toward which
the twin cities of Rock Island and Moline
have been looking and striving in their
joint effort and plan, has passed and, al
things considered has, proven the mos
eventful in the history of the two cities
While the weather conditions of the
past week, and the high water particular
ly, interfered to very serious extent with
the execution of the plans on the basis
arranged for, the celebration was never
theless success and a grand affair ger
orally speaking. The weather of the
week before had among other things
blocked the progress of the improve
ments at the grounds, and the grand
stand had to 90 over without roof,
while the rain of Saturday left the newly
made track in an aim ost impossible COZ.
dition.
The committee in whose charge the
plans and details of the demonstration
had been placed had, as the events of the
day fully emphasized, permitted their
zeal in their determination to clear The
expenses involved in the arrangement of
the grounds, and thereby avoid, if pos
sible, the use of the promissory note to
which p2blic spirited citizens had ap-
pended their signatures to insure the
funds necessary, to override their juig.
ment, and had placed the admission to
the g-snd-stand too high. As the after
noon advanced the mistake was seen and
the admission cut down from so to 25
cents, while at night instead of charging
30 cents for seats and 75 for reserved
seats, the grsnd-stand was thrown open
Tor 20 cents seat. A large number of
people were of the opinion that wise
plan would have been IN the beginning to
have fenced in the grounds and charged
10 cents admission to the grounds and %
to the amphitheatre. There were two
reasons why this plan was impossible.
The first was that there was a strong
objection to charging admission to the
grounds of Fourth of July celebrs ion,
and the other was that under no ciIcum-
stances would it haYe been possible to
have had the grounds entirely fenced.
The heavy rain of Saturday afternoon
destroyed q number of floats, too, that
were IN course of preparation anG dis
coursged others, and the consequence
was that much disappointment was oc>
cssioned by the non-appearsnce of floats
that had been anticipated.
THE DAYS CELEBRATION
The days celebration opened with q
flag raising from the roof of the Armory
building at O'Clock in the morning by
the Rodman Rifles, which with the CO.
operation Of Company L, of Freeport,
fred a military salute from the roof OF
the building.
The parade IN Rock Island formed at
10 o'clock on Market square and Second
avenue under the direction of Marshal
B. Winter and his aids, G.. F. GAZETTEER,
Julius Junge and V. Dauber. The
column formed promptly and few min
utes after 10 moved east on Second ave
nue. toward Columbia park where the
Moline portion of the pageant was to be
met. The procession as it started from
Rock Island was headed by platoon of
police in charge of Chief Miller followed
by the patrol wagon, after which came
Bleuer's handsomely uniformed band of
20 men. Next came four companies of
1. N. G. as follows: the Rodman Rifles
with 30 men in charge of Capt Channon,
Company II, of Monmouth, with 25 men
in charge of Capt. Clarke, Com
pany D, of Cambridge. with 80
men in charge of Capt. Meloy,
and Company l. of Freeport with 40
men in charge of Capt. Fsubel. The mil
itary feature was pleasing one, all of
the companies making an excellent sp-
pesrance. Lieut.. Col. Foster OF Chicago
was in general charge of the Rock Island
portion of the militia with Capt. Clarke of
Monmouth sdjutant commander, Capt
Channon of Rock Island, Capt. Meloy of
Cambridge. Capt. Faubel, of Freeport. and
Lieut. Turnbull OF Monmouth in charge
OF the column.
The Tri-City Travelling Mems associa,
ton was next in line, headed BY j. W.
WEIGH, president of the Rock Island as
ISOLATION and Frank Smith president of
the Davenport association. There we're
90 knights of the grip in line each
carrying a Japanese umbrella which
made a very pretty appearance. st
Johns branch of the Western Catholic
Union with 80 men came next. it being
followed by St. Anthony's society with
90 men, st. Joseph's branch of the West"
ern Catholic Union following with 40
men. The latter carried handsome
banner costing over 300. lust purch ased.