Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-13

tional Commissioner Davidson, Of
Pennsylvania. Secretary Carlisle with
dignlfied, judicial looking George ".
Massey, of Delaware. Secretary Her
bert with Charles ii. Schwab, Secretary
iIoke Smith with the fire brand of the
national commission, j. w. st. Clair, Of
West Virginia, and finally Secretary
Morton with Director II. B Stone.
The American contingent having thus
led the way, an official escort having
been preserved, the third, or foreign
division was inaugurated with the four
teenth carriage. This was occupied by
the duke of Veragua. the first vice pres
ident OF the commission, Ex-Governor
Waller, of Connecticut; the first vice
president of the exposition, Ferd w.
Peck and Commander Dickens, of the
United States army. The fair sex APP
peared for the first time in the vehicle
that followed. the duchess of Veragua
being escorted by Mrs. Potter Palmer,
who did the honors as president of the
board of lady managers, and by Mrs.
Commander Dickens. In the sixteenth
carriage were Marquis de Baaaboles,
son of the duke and duchess; NJ. H.
De Young, commissioner from CALI
fornia, and second vice president Of the
commission, and Robert A. Waller, of
the board of directors. In the seven
teenth honorables Christobel Aguilera
and Marie Del Collar Colony Aguilera,
son and daughter of the duke, and
Spanish Commissioner Thomas c. Gut
tires. In the eighteenth the Hon
Pedro Colony Bertenado and Carlos
Aguiiery, the Marquis Villa la Obor
ND har rln T. I,tn
The ducal party was succeeded by
England Thomas +. Bayard and ex-
Minister to Belgium Lambert Tree,
Major General Miles and aides, Ad-
miral Gherardi and aides and Governor
Altgeld.
The carriage Of Mayor Harrison, who
was accompanied by three members OF
the board of aldermen, brought up the
extreme rear
AS the procession moved southwark
on Michigan avenue, thence along
Grand Boulevard to Fifty-first street,
thence to South park by way Of Bayard
to Palmer avenue, entering the midway
! plaisance through the western gate
way, making short detour in order to
avoid the Ferris wheel, and then re-
suming the broad promenade to the
entrance gate, it was attended by an
almost unbrolsen diapason Of cheering.
On sidewalks and steps, and lawns,
here in windows, there on roof-tops,
at the mansions of millionaires, and
the frame houses of wage workers, on
the greensward of the parks and in the
mud Of the plaisance the populace had
collected. Up TO the boundaries of
the plaisance the welcome had
been dstinctively American, but from
here on to the gates it partook of a de-
cided cosmopolitan flavor. Arabs pros
trated themselves on the ground, and
cried aloud to Allah. Quingales in long
white flowing robes described salaams
with their arms and shoulders, while
eunichs stood in line with beauties OF
the harem, and the donkey boy of Cairo
knelt beside his sleek-coated compan-
ion. The street in Cairo was emptied
OF its residents, and the Esquimaux
colony turned out enmasse. SO the
procession slowly wound its way past
groups Of Algerians and Mongolians,
and Africans, and japanese, and lap
landers, and Moors and Persians,
through Dahomey village and Jap
anese camp, past the blue grotto OF
Capri, and the Moorish palade, the
japanese settlement, under the captive
balloon and through lane formed OF
| two score of female beauties of half as
many nations. Never before probably,
had such cosmopolitan greeting in
the same stretch of territory been ac-
corded to mortal man.