Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-13
DEDICATION OF LIBERTY BELL
A Half Dozen Different Days" Crowded Into
One at Jackson Park.


One at Jackson Park.
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS CHICAGO,
H., Sept. 9.-Early this morning the
avenues of the White City were
thronged and all indications point
ed to a great attendance. It is gen
orally believed that the record for
attendance will be broken. The
programme for the day is great. The
Grand Army veterans were out en-
masse and took prominent part in the
exercises. The day belonged to them
as well as others. 1t was also Califor-
MAS day, Utah's day, civil engineers
day, transportation day, the. day to
dedicate the new liberty bell and to
transfer the Columbia caravels from
Spain to the United States. These were
strong cards.
The Grand Army hosts paraded the
grounds and with them thousand
school children dedicated the new lib
erty bell in front of the west entrance
to the administration building. Alice
Scott, winsome child, daughter of
President Scott of the California com
mission swung the iron tongue of the
bell for the first time, and the other
children filed around showering the
bell with flowers. Director-General
Davis and the COMMUNICATIVE chief of
the Grand Army stirred up enthus-
iasm with patriotic speeches and
Alice S. Mitchell, the Chicago
vocalist was heartily applauded at the
conclusion of her new song, ''The New
Liberty Bell" One by one, young
women, representing the states and
territories, advanced, and as their re-
spective flags were run up, sounded the
hol ho hn1 Fo
four stokes for the states, five for the
territories and one for universal free
dom. The Salt Lake City Tabernacle
choir of 800 voices sang america" and
the "Star Spangled Banner" and brass
bands lent their music for the occasion.
Two big camp-fires assembled, one in
festival hall and the other in the stock
pavilion, at the conclusion Of the cere-
monies.
Californians came and stamped them
selves the most hospitable people Of the
country to-day by giving away a train
load of fruit grown in the rich soil of the
Golden State to Worlds Fair visitors
Regardless of the fact that the state
marks the extreme western boundary
of the United States, fully ! 800 Of her
citizens arrived here to take part in the
interesting exercises planned for the OC-
casion. What California lacked in num-
bers it made up in hospitality. A large
crowd assembled in the state building
to take part in the exercises of the day.
The Third Regiment Band of Wisconsin
was stationed in the building, and played
good music. The exercises began
by James D. Phelan, vice-president
of the state commission, making
speech of welcome to the visitors from
California. Senator Stephen NJ. White,
of California, then delivered the ora
ton of the day. Miss Alice S. Mitchell
sang California" President T. W.
Palmer in a short address compliment
ed the state and it's people on their en-
terprise in erecting such beautiful
building and filling it with the prod
ucts of the state. Addison Ballard,
forty-niner and president Of the Pho
neers' Association, related anecdotes of
early California life. Edmund Russell
then read an original poem by Emma
Frances Dawson entitled ''The Voice of
California The programme was con-
Guided by the Demoss family OF lyric
bards singing "The Golden State"
The day was the anniversary of Cali
fornia's admission to the Union.
Gov. West and the Utah commission
ers had their hands full in receiving the
guests who called at the territory build
ing during the day. 1t had been decid-
ed by the commission 10 give ToCep-
ton to the general public instead of
having parade, in view of the fact that
several other parades had been planned.
The pretty little building was decorated
extensively and here in the main par
lor, Gov. West, his staff and the com
missioners received citizens of Utah
and the public. The Mormon choir
rendered music during the reception,
During the past week the West has
been arousing a sentiment among the
people and they have been coming to
the fair in vast numbers. In all this
rush Utah has sent it's full quota of Wis
itors and to-day they invaded their
state building, shook hands with their
governor and viewed the beauties of the
exposition. The exercises which had
been prepared in honor of the day
were carried out in festival hall, that
building being better adapted to hold
the crowds than the state building.
Gov. West made an address in which he
praised the exposition management for
what it had prepared for the people of
the world and complimented his own
! people for having come SO far to do
honor to themselves and the fair. Pres
idents Smith, Cannon and Woodruff,
heads of the Mormon church made
speeches. If anybody attended with
the expectation of hearing the Mormon
faith expoundeG they were disap-
pointed as the great opponents Of Nor
monism were full of other subjects re-
| lating to what thew had seen since their