St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-23
OPENING OF THE FAIR.
When the Button Is Pressed May
I a Wonderful Sight VIII 81
Be Presented. 49,,
One Hundred Thousand Lights
Will Flash in the Twink
ling of an Eye.

CHICAGO, April %. The prediction
is made tonight on good authority that
next Monday week, when President
Cleveland stands i'll front of the admin
istration building and places the middle
finger of his good right hand on an
electric button and gives it push, there
will follow such buzzlng and whirllng
of wheels and flashing of lights rs was
never seen before. The little but
ton which the president VIII
touch will be connected with a
wire extending from the platform on
the grand plaza to Machinery nall.
There the wire connects with an cleo
trio valve. This valve is very delicate,
and has to be protected with the greatest
care. 1t will fly open OH the slightest
provocation and let the steam escape
which will set things going. A very
slight touch of Growers finger will sut-.
flee. The current will dart, the
valve will open, the steam
will escape and the great Ais
engine will begin to move. At the
same time 100000 incandesCent lights
will fash-all in the twinkling OF an
eye, and in the presence of probably
upward of half million people. The
big engine covers an area of 37X62 feet
and weighs 400 tons. The large West
inghouse switch board of the electric
light plant is said to be the most gl-
gantlc thing of the kind ever attempted.
This morning the last nail was driven
and the last model was placed in the
United States geological display in the
government building at the worlds
fair. The exhibit will be in charge of
an employe of the survey department,
who will be on hand from May to eX-
plain all the mysteries of the curious
looking charts and maps. Among the
exhibits is a line of geological surveys
of Northeastern Iowa, Crater lake. Ore
gon; Mount Shasta, Wash, and vicinity.
The annual report of Health Commits
siOner Ware was published today, and
declares that the general health OF the
city of Chicago has never been as good
as at the present time. The water sup
ply, he declares, is better than at any
previous period of the city's existence.
Since January, 1890, to the present time
there mas been a steady decrease in the
annual death rate, and the rate is now
lower than any city in the country or III
Europe which has over 100000 inhab-
itantS.
At meeting of the ceremonials COM
mittee tonight the details of the recep-
ton of the distinguished visitors who
will attend the opening of the fair were
completed. The presidential party, which
under the present programme, will be
the first to arrive, will be met at the
Illinois state line on the Pennsylvania
railroad by Director General Davis,
Gov. AItgeIt and Mayor Harrison.
From the depot will be mounted police
state militia and one company each of
United States cavalry and artillery.
The presidential quarters will be at the
Lexington. When the hotel is reached a
national salute OF twenty-one guns will
be fired from the Michigan side
from a special battery here for the day
or from battery on the lake front.
The vice president will be rendered the
same honors as the president, and will
also be at the Lexington. The
cabinet will be escorted to the
auditorium by the same kind of an
escort, and salute of seventeen guns
will be fired In their honor. In the
evening the board of national directors
and other officers of the exposition and
officers of the city will pay their respects
to the president and vice president.