Huntsville gazette., 1893-07-08
FOURTH. AT THE FAIR.
Old Glory and the New Liberty
Bell Inspire Loyalty.
A Fig Day at the Worlds Columbian Ex.
position-Oceans of Bunting and
Seas Of Tpturned Faces-The
New Liberty Bell.

/ W OhLO Alh OROtNDSs OHICA9O,
July 5.-The Worlds fair was ablaze
with patriotism yesterday. 1t was the
center from which the patriotic pulse
of the liberty-loving people, enjoying
| the manifold blessings of a land of the
free and home of the brave, beat
throughout the nation. There
were many in the White city
| whose minas went back to
that glorious Fourth of July
of the centennial year in the Quaker
city, when, commencing with the toll
ing of the midnight hour, the patriotic
impulses of populace ran riot; when
for more than half day men and
women, young and old, native and
alien, marched, almost without a
break. up Chestnut street and saluted
with barred heads and ringing shouts
the old landmark of Liberty in Inde-
pendence square; when Sherman and
| Sheridan and Dom Pedro. all now
numbered with those that have gone,
stood arm in arm before the old Liberty
Bell and bowed their heads in rever-
ence and honor
| Seventeen years have elapsed since
| those stirring scenes were enacted, and
| yesterday in the metropolis of the west
the second Worlds exposition of the
|republic gave occasion for still greater
demonstration of love of flag and coun
try, one which in it's magnitude and
impressiveness kept pace with the
| growth of the country in the interven-
ing years and with the magnitude of
the Columbian exposition as compared
with those that have gone before it.
Chicago's 100000 of permanent pop
ulation kept holiday and 500, 900 stran-
gers from outside points, far and near,
helped it to celebrate. All over the
city, in the suburban residence dis
tricts as well as in the commercial CEN
ter, the usual stiffness of night was
broken by the cracking and booming
of fireworks and the shouts of merry
makers who were making a night of it
so that the Worlds fair Fourth might
be appropriately ushered in with the
tr,ae A,nerieen spifiS
Day broke to the accompaniment Of
hundred guns from the gunboats in
the lake, and the reverberation of the
cannon awoke the sleepers and gave
them notice that it was time to be up
and moving. The procession south
ward to jackson park began as early
as o'clock, when the Illinois Central
started the first of its two-minute
trains, each car filed to the doors, and
from that hour on the steam. cable and
elevated roads, as well as the big
steamboats, plying the lake, found
their facilities taxed as never before.
''Old Glory" was to been seen every
| where, hundreds of thousands of them,
some of the avenues leading to Jack
son park being literally lined with tri-
| colored bunting and the Stars and
Stripes as though in honor of the COM
ing of some conquering hero. Nearly
| everybody out of doors, too, wore
either button Of the Stars and Stripes
a minia ture flag or bit of tricolored
| ribbon.
| When the numerous gates of the big
| inclosure were opened at 7 o'clock the
| ticket men at each found a crowd
awaiting them, and thenceforward
there was ceaseless click, click, as
| the turnstiles revolved and the mass of
humanity pressed inward.
| The grounds themselves had taken
on some of the glory of Solomon. /,
| Thousands of people who originally
| intended to enter the fair grounds by
| the Stoney Island avenue gates were so
entranced by the unparalleled sight
| which met their eyes on reaching the
| plaisance entrance by the cable trains
| that they at once joined in the patri-
| otic pleasure seeking procession which
for hours filled the broad plaisance
| from side to side. Across the plaisance
from Cottage Grove avenue to Stoney-
Island avenue viaduct, which forms
| the east entrance into the grounds,
were strung at intervals of few yards
| the prettiest arrangement of banne RS
and Chinese lanterns that the
| eve of man ever beheld. On
| each side of the plaisance
throughout its VIII ole length were also
dancing futtering lines of the same
| heterogeneous colored mass connecting
with the cross lines. Midway plaisance
is at all times gorgeous in decoration
and constant variation of scene, but
the display made by all nations in
honor of Uncle Sans birthday ami
versary changed the whole aspect of
the cosmopolitan thoroughfare- The
moving mass of humanity seemed to
be passing under one huge. continuous
canopy of fever-changing bright colors.
In the White city itself the extra deco
rations in honor of the day were to be
seen at every turn, on every flagstaff
and pavilion, foreign and state build
ing, and every place where flag or
banner could be fixed to harmonic
with the artistic surroundings The
| landscape was aglow with the glorious
| flag of freedom, and every human be-
ing, no matter if his birthplace was in
the Orient, the Arctic region or the
torrid zone, seemed to enter into the
spirit of the American day, with
| hearty desire to make it memorable In
the history of the republic.
The exercises of the day had pre-
| lude in procession of the leading par
| ticipants. 1t left the City hall at
y clo..te with A eof.frany OF the SECOND