Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-27
CURTAIN FALLING
On the Great Exhibition at Jack.
son Park.
BUT TWO WIDE OPEN DAYS LEFT

n And Then Lights Are Out" VIII he
Sounded at the White City-Programme
for Today-Preparaiion for Tomorrow
and Monday-The Columbian Souvenir
COins-An UnsoId To Re Reunited Into
Ordinary Half Dollars.
CHICAGO, Oct. 37.-Today at the Worlds
fair is Coal, Grain and Lumber Day.
The principal features of the day are ex-
ercises in Music hall and parade of cart
horses The latter comes first This at
ternoon at {? O'Clock most OF the draft
horses and other working teams of this
city viii form in parade at the Live Stock
pavilion and march north past Agricul-
tural building, west TO Administration
building, north to Electricity building.
east to Manufactures, north across north
inlet, west TO Dakota building. south to
Woman's building, south past Horticul.
tural hall and transportation building TO
Machinery hall. then TO Stock pavilion.
Judges have been appointed and after the
parade the different teams will appear in
the Stock pavilion and their merits will be
considered, the horses, harness. wagons,
drivers, keepers, and all fittings in daily
use for business purposes only being the
points TO be decided upon. Prizes have
been offered for the best turnouts.
Exercises mt Music Hall.
A, $3.50 p. III. coal dealers, operators, and
owners OF mines. docks, and yards with
many Of The city merchants will meet al
Muse hall. f. J. V Skiff, chief Of the de-
partment Of mines and mining. will make
the opening address and Mayor Harrison
the closing. Other addresses will be by
W. :. Boyle. Colonel W Z. Repd and |.
c. Derring. The Mining building will be
closed to the public after $3.50 O'Clock. From
that hour until 10 o'clock it will be re-
served for the coal, grain, and lumb Der men.
There will be d number of concerts daring
the day, and music will be feature in the
Mines aud Mining building both afternoon
and evening
Closing Days of the Fair.
Tomorrow and Monday will he the red
letter days OF the close. Tomorrow the
reunion OF American cities takes place
and the y. y. L. ". holds its celebration.
For the latter there has been prepared an
interesting programme and for the former
there Is entertainment of the widest ya=i-
ETY.. Many mayors from various parts of
the country will be present and the city Of
Chicago is the host, the city council hay
ing large share in making up the pro-
gramme, assisted by the fair authorities.
Over 1000 mayors have been invited. many
of the invitations being made from cour-
tesy, not expecting that the invitations
would be accepted. Still there will be
quite number present
Columbus Day the Last
Some persons are making big figures for
Columbus Day, and doubtless there will
be vast throng at the fair on that day.
But there is hardly possibility that the
crowd will reach the proportion Of that
on Chicago Day, SO that no one need stay
away because of possible jam. II the
weather is fine, however, there will be
enough for comfort. For the day is the
last one CT the complete exposition, and
thousands will want To be ''in at the
DEATH The attendance this week has
been good, but not extraordinary and will
hardly justify the q, 100000 estimate set
for The whole attendance. Yesterday
there were 2,646, paid admissions. Tue
day was rainy in the morning and cloudy
all day.