The record-union., 1892-10-22

glnDotnam OF the Worlds Fair Company,
where Vice-President Morton and the
joint Committee on Ceremonies Joined
the procession. Following the Vice
Presidential parties in carriages were the
members of President Harrison's Cabi-
net, members OF the Diplomatic Corps in
the glitter of brilliant uniforms and the
insignia of office, Then came mem bers
OF the supreme Court, Mayor Wash
burne and cX-President Hayes Next
members of the United States Senate and
the House of Representatives, and fol-
lowing them representatives of the army
and navy, including General Scnoiield,
General j. b. Brooks, General Frank
Wheaton and Lieutenant-Command j.
I. Hutchns of the United States Navy.
Then string of carriages containing the
Governors of the States and Territories,
with their stalls. in the order of the States
entrance into the Union. The Executives
OF ONO, Massachusetts, New York and
Iowa were most cheered as they passed.
After these came the orators and chap
lains, including Bishop Chas. Ii. Fowler
OF California, Hon. Henry Watterson of
New York, Cardinal Gibbons OF Balti-
more, Rev. II. G. McCook of Philadel-
phia, and Mrs. Sarah Cowell LIE Moyne Of
Boston. Then came the Commissioners
of foreign Governments to the Columbian
Exposition, and then the foreign Consuls.
Next. in thirty carriages, were members
of the Worlds Coiumb bian National Com
mission, and then the Board of Lady
Managers, headed by Mrs. President Pot
ter Palmer. They We're saluted as they
passed by the general raising of hats by
the multitude. Then came the represen-
tatives of eleven of the thirteen original
States. This part of the procession was
heartily cheered. After them ten carriages
contained the Board of Directors of the
Worlds Coin man EynnCitInr wit
their officers. After these came the man
ayers of the United States exhibit at the
fair, then seven carriages containing the
sixteen chiefs of the departments in the
exposition, and next the staff of the Di-
rector of the works i'll eighteen carriages,
along with the architects of the various
exposition buildings. Last came as
civic escort the City Council of Chicago.
The route was from Thirty-fifth street
by the way OF the grand boulevard and
Midway Plaisance to the fair grounds.
AT Washington Park, on the way down,
the troops encamped there, regular and
State, formed by brigades in lines of
masses, and as the Federal representa-
tives neared the park, the Presidential
twenty-one guns were fired by the ar
tillery, while the troops stood at present
arms" The military display was most
imposing. Two regiments from Ohio and
one from Iowa were stationed on Midway
Plaisance with three regiments of the
Illinois militia.
AT THE GROUNDS.
At 9 o'clock visitors began to stroll into
the grounds, and by 10 o'clock $4,000 peo-
pie had passed through the gates. From
this time on the multitude was aug
mented by tens of thousands. AS the
visitors arrived most OF them made their
way directly to the great dedication
building, anxious to obtain desirable
seats, and in short time everyone of the
$4,000 seats, except those reserved for the
distinguished guests, were occupied by
early-cOmers. At 10 o'clock the parade
outside, in which 1900 regulars and
State militia participated, had hardly be-
gun, and it was evident that many thou
sands who were engaged in it must be
content with standing room, and that at
least two-thirds of the visitors to the
grounds would never get within hearing
Of the speakers voices. Among the first
to enter were members of the grand
dedicatory choruses, filling the seats as
signed them to the number of $500.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the band struck
up and the great volume of sound from
the $500 throats joined in preliminary
practice of the Dedication Ode," several
stanzas of which had been set to music.
In spite of this huge volume of sound it
made no more impression in the vast
building covering thirty acres than would
an ordinary choir in church. Practice
though it was, it was heartily cheered by
tie great audience. 1t was the throng of
a century, the scene of q lifetime, a spec
tacle 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 appreci-
ate it. Words and fingers fail. When
one says the great audience-roOm is capa-
bic OF seating $4,000 persons comfortable.
with space left for $1,000 more, it is sim
ply big approximation.
THE EXERCISES BEGIN.
1t was 1:36 o'clock when the great vol
ume of band music fioated through the
building, signalling the approach of the
Federal and other officials connected in
the parade which left the Auditorium
some hours before. The cavalry escorts
at the head of the column rode in full
marching order directly through the por-
tails into one of the wings that flanked
the big structure. The horses and riders.
seen at a distance, had the appearance of
mere toys with which children fight
battles. These were followed by other
military, and finally the notables, who
had been served with luncheon in one of
the other buildings, and who then took
their seats amid the rattling of canes and
hand-clapping, and the official pro-
gramme began with the Columbian
AAdICl1 Wy LIZ O1G1iSStId.
When the last notes died away, Bishop
Charles II. Fowler of california advanced
to the desk, and with bowed head. while
the people were hushed, delivered an elo-
quent prayer.
DIRECToR-GENERAL DAVIS ADDRESS.
At the conclusion of the prayer Di-
rector-General Davis advanced to the
front and, after the applause of greeting,
delivered his address.
The irector-General said it was his
pleasurable duty to present the noted per-
sonages who at this hour, IN their several
functions, are to contribute to the exer-
cises with which the grounds and build
ings are dedicated. "The Worlds Co.
lumbar Exposition" said he, lis the
natural Outgrowth of this nations place
in history, The ceaseless, resistless
march of civilization, westward, ever
westward, has reached and passed the
great lakes of North America, and found
ed on their farthest shore the greatest
city of modern times. Chicago. the peer
less, has been selected for the great cele-
bration which to-day gives new fire to
progress, and sheds its light upon ages
yet to come. Established in the heart of
this continent, her pulse throbs with the
quickening current of our national life.
and that this city was selected as the
scene Of this great commemorative festi-
val was the natural ougrowth of pre-
destined events, Here all nations are to
meet in peaceful, laudable emulation on
the fields of art, science and industry, on
fields of research, invention and scholar
ship, and to learn the universal value of
the discovery we commemorate; to learn,
as could be learned in no other way, the
nearness Of man to man, the fatherhood
OF God and the brotherhood of the human
race. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the
value of the exalted purpose of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition. May it
be fruitful of its aim. and of peace for
ever to al nations of the earth.''