The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-09

committee on building and site made
Mr.. o. F. Lasche, of Brookfield, Mo.
the caterer for the occasion, and he
has been on the hustle for several days
getting tables, dishes, etc, out to the
park. Provision was made to serve
about 1000 Missourians and their
friends with sandwiches, salads, roast
pig and pickles, and an abundance of
claret pinch. The members of the
Missouri commission acted as the hosts,
and put on the white aprons. Hugh
j. MCGOWAN carved the roast turkey
at the governors table.
No Missourian will he made
made to blush on entering any of the
rooms of the building. and the socie-
ties of Kansas City, st. Joseph and st.
Louis. Joplin, Brookteld, Clinton,
Nevada and others may well feel
proud of their efforts. At the present
time it looks as though Kansas City's
would be the most richly furnished of
all. To Brookfeld will be given the
distinction of furnishing the largest
single piece of uniture, the same be-
ing an oak mantel made at a manufac-
tory in that city from native wood of
Linn county. The mantel is twelve
feet high and nine feet wide, richly
hand-carved and will weigh nearly a
a ton. 1t cost over 81 900.
IOwA's BUILDING.
CHICAGO, May 1.-The Iowa state
building was formally dedicated this
afternoon. After music, President J. c.
Crosby. of the state board, delivered
the address. This was responded to
by the secretary of state, Mcfarland.
After more music the board of lady
managers was taken upon the stage
and each delivered a brief address
which ended the exercises.
ALMOST A PANIC.
Whether by inexperience or lack o!
numbers the Columbian guards failed
to control the throng at the beginning
of the ceremonies. As the ceremonies
progressed the multitude surged over
the guards linesand became packed in
a dense mass. Cries went up and out
in the centre of the plaza a woman's
head and shoulders appeared
above the level of all heads.
She was unconscious. Cries
of sympathy went up from those who
saw her. Almost at the same moment
a lad of ten or twelve was lifted bodily
aloft by a brawny negro. Fred Doug
lass applauded from the platform and
cheers went for the n.gro's act.
mingle with cries of apprehension
and fear
President Cleveland was watching
with strained interest and uneasy
features. He spoke to President
Higginbotham, who sat near and that
gentleman went to the edge of the
platform and ordered a squad of po-
lice to force their way through the
crowd to rescue the stricken people.
This was impossible until mounted
calvarymen were ordered to break the
way of release. A passage was finally
effected and the senseless woman and
injured lad were borne out. The efforts
of the guards to keep the crowds back
were so hopeless that a detachment of
Fort Sheridan regulars were ordered
to clear a passage way through the
plaza. They had great difficulty in
Obeying orders. A panic seemed i'm
inent when ceremonies which had in |
the meantime been begun, came to an
end and the crowd dispersed of its own
accord. !
WHITE CITY NOTES.
Enthusiastic MissOur;ans were
found in every corner of the fair
grounds to-day, their breasts covered
with badges of blue ribbons inscribed,
Missouri Building Dedication, May
lst."
Amid the deafening cheers of the
multitude and the noise of guns,
etc, President Cleveland
ouched the key at 1908 and the
greatest fair in the history of the world
vas set in motion.
AT 1880 for first time in the day,
beam of sunlight pierced the gloom
hat hung over the Lake shore and il
animated the White City in perfect
,laze Of glory. The many thousands
hat thrOnged the grounds accepted ,
his as suspicious omen and for the |
irst time in the day a mighty cheer I
Fent up not for the president or any ,
ther distinguished guest but for old
'ol. From this time on there were I
tful rays of sunlight but the a
Teather still continued threatening.
AT the instant the President I
ouched the button, men at ropes at
he foot Of each of the great flagstafs T
aid hold with q vim,aud the monet rome :