The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-31
Hath AT CHICAGO
he Exposition Closed "For
| Time and Eternity
|Tu SHOUTING AND SHOOTING
|nhyeeS of for San Francisco, to the
/ Nidwinter Exposition.
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CmoAGo, Oct. 3l.-As the sun
in the west, last nj ght, the flags
umerable that have proudly
ated in the breeze upon towering
fs-over buildings and entrance
ss day in and day out since that
mors ole May day-it seems but
,uday, when Grover Cleveland
President of the United States,
med The expedition an accom-.
he'd fact, were furled for ever.
re-a token Of surrender. A
hours later, when the moon
high in the heavens and the
IKE we're Ginning the hour Of
Knight, each passing stroke was
death knell Of the greatest, and
ndest and most glorious exposi.
of the worlds art, and science,
manufacture that tna universe
ever seen, or Is likely to
for a century TO come. 1t is
e that the gates are not TO be
ked and barred, that tom orrow and
next day, and the day there
er, and perhaps Tor many weeks
months to come there will be
bugh and more than q sutficlencY
tempt the way farer into making
journey from the bueiness part
I the city to that portion of the
BIDS of Lake Michigan where for
mouths the White Metropolis
reigned supreme. 1t is never.
eless true that, on the stroke of
midnight hour, so far az it il
idalIy concerned, the great
bite City-the pride of the re-
blic, the admiration of millions
stfan .ers from every part of the
Filized globe, the wing tri.
ppm of a century or more of
nerican Independence, of the
|ars of the new republic planted
the earth of the new world
ased to be living, q breathing
animate thing.
Perhaps ii was that sentimentality
az induces nine people out of ten
be In at the dea b and to mingle
cir tears with the expiring breath.
erhaps it va an exemplitication
that spirit / lat1lotism tina. wac
ade so manifest on that bright
aY morning when Grover Cleve-
n0 touched the button aud a
barter OF million voices did the
st-a spirit of patriotism that
fompted as hearty fare we'll to the
Rstllg guest as marked his first
Ppearance on the scene. Let it go
pom record that the multitude was
ere and that the Worlds
Clamblan Exposition went out in
c m OF glory.
The booming of cannon on the
1sront awakened the sleeping
Va daylight, and less than an
paf thereafter the exodus to the
outward limits was in full swing
Ze'plte the fact that the day had
Pt been declared a general holiday
seemed as though the entire popu
( ", of the city, together with a
Pr million OF transient guests had
tioed out to the Obs qaies Of the
opposition. At : O'Clock the
'fmlnals of the various steam,
|leet railroads and elevated roads
'ere besleged by crowds. At 9
,V'ocK 1t was simple case of traffic
question. Men, women and
'alldTen fought. and tore and strug
'eu LOT chance, not merely to get
sue OF the cars, but TO stand on
y platforms, or even Sit on the
~, ~ 1t was Chicago Day over
gam only that, for tina time being,
y pressure was more tremendous.
, =, al the fair grounds the forty
~. entrance gates were
r. on an eternal click
,, Ioi Vhe moment that the ticket
' 'saS nad reported for duty, and
''nou9h crowds are deceptive, ii
liz calculated at noon that fully
b., 6. million people had passed
- stony Island avenue into the
b. AUG OF the White City. There
|orn no formal programme for the
(.m 1g As the noon hour was
a ~ , the guns doomed greeting,
'hls was interpreted by the mul.