The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-31
Last Day Of tho Worlds Fair DeYoId
Of Merrlment
WE'RE NO ORATORS OR MUSIC.
All the Flags Of the White City Were 1T
Half Mast - Resolutions Of Regret
over tho Murder Of Chicsgo's Mayor
UnapimousIy Adopted.


Jackson park was quiet yesterday In
honor OF Chicagos dead mayor. Instead
Of oratory, music and fetes aud the fut-
tering Of thousands of banners, there was
everywhere the evidence of silent regret.
The great exposition merely closed by
limitation of the act Of congress; the flags
we're at half mast, but at sunset the ma
tionsl salute Of VI guns was fired as an an
nouncement that the nations fair had ofii-
cially closed.
AT II o'clock, In Festival hall, the big
meeting which had been planned for
speeches OF congratulation and of present.
Ing to foreign commissioners the evidences
OF success Of their exhibitions was aban-
doned, so FAR as those features were con-
cerned.
When the In vited guests and the public
reached the hall it was to hear resolutions
OF regret over the taking away Of Carter
Harrison. The ceremonies were simple
and impressive, Tor they ended with the
adoption OF the resolutions.
Mourning Everywhere.
From turret, dome and spire of the
white city's palaces hung the emblems
OF the nations at mourning height on the
dying day of the Worlds Columbian ex-
position.
The people came and, looking toward
the sun-lit sky of blue, realized that not
only Chicago mourned. but also the whole
world OF humanity as represented at the
exposition. They found no evidences OF
rejoicing over the crowning achievement
Of the age; no sounds of sweet music In
the court OF honor; no merry throngs, no
celebration-only solemn stiffness, an
unparalleled tribute to the memory Of
Chicago's mayor.
The multitude laid their tribute of re.
spect on the bier of the assassin's victim
ss much by their presence and their quiet
actions ms If they had laid rich flowers on
the casket and eulogized the dead in elo-
quent speech. The greatest exposition the
world has witnessed died in the same
gloom and silence which pervaded the
home OF the afflicted family.
Tribute to the Dead Mayor.
At11 o'clock the committee OF i2 which
was chosen to draft the resolutions which
were read to the people in Festival hall
met ia President Higinbotharn's office.
The resolutions expressed at some length,
and in the most sympathetic language at
the committees command, the general
bOIEOW duu sHoCA WuiCu tuc bIdeiC cuu Va
the Worlds fair city's chief magistrate
created in the hearts and minds of the ma
tional commissioners, foreign and state
representatives, the board of lady mana
gers, the exhibitors, the directors and
executive officers OF the exposition.
At Festival hail. later, came the formal
announcement by President Palmer of
the mayors death and a statement that
all exercises of the festive character would
be omitted. The resolutions were then
presented without any accompanying
speech, although many eloquent orators
were present. The resolutions expressed
in their sympathy and sentiments all that
orators could say.
The foreign aud American representa-
tives, as we'll as the governing bodies 4
the exposition, who were seated on (! o
platform and Ia the body of the hall,
showed by their rising, In response to the
request from President Palmer, that the
resolutions voiced the sorrow and SYM
pathy OF all he world, because the world
was represented there.
President Palmer then formally an.
nounced that in compliance with the act
of congress the exposition was officially at
an end as Worlds exposition. After
Rev. DR.. Barrows had offered up short
prayer and pronounced the benediction,
the gathering OF mourners quietly dis
persed
The Worlds fair, like Carter Harrison,
was no more.