Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-10-14
GREAT DAY FOR CHICAGO
She Is Honored as No Other
City in the New World
Has Been.
Over 100000 People From All
Parts Of the Earth Visit
the Fair.
a Grand Pageant and Pyro-
technic Display in the
Evening.

technics. HHnureQS OF thousands or
people from all parts of the earth, but
mostly from the cities of the Republic
which helped financially and by contri-
buttons of food and clothing and other
goods to rebuild the burned city of Chi
cago % years ago We're drawn together
by the common impulse and desire to
show their appreciation admiration of
the genius which made the Colum bian
exposition.
Tie orening of the fair and subse-
Quert big days have been occasions Of
rejoicings, and the people of the globe
have proclaimed their approval by their
attendance. When Chicago planned a
days exercises and festivities, the
characteristic push and enterprise at
onte asserted itself. and special COM
mittee appointed by the city council,
assisted by worlds fair officials. began
the preliminary arrangements q to make
Chicago day the biggest Of the exrosi-
tion. After several weeks of work the
programme was arranged sa tislactorily.
The Day Was Grand Success.
It WAS the banner event of the fair.
The avenues were rot filled with equip
ages OF state, but the common eorle
were here by the tens of thousands, the
school children, laborers, mechanics,
in fact, citizens from every calling
came in squads.
Sreechmaking was no feature. Long
ago exposition crowds have shown a
| for oro r,,p+artc
Eli interests We're SO numerous as to
turn the head of the average visitor,
one grand feature followed another.
Before the sun had peeped above the
blue Of Lake Michigan people hurried
to the depots to take trains for the
White City. Down town business
houses were locked up. Merchants,
actuated by the pa riotic impulse. pur-
chased tickets for heir employees; every
body was in holiday attire and Chicago
was at her best. Every mode of trans
portation was taxed to its limit. Peo-
pie hung on cable trains three deep.
Visitors We're armed with souevnir
tickets. and Chief Tucker of the de-
partnlent Of admissions had every
available man at work.
! l.tulntians at the Fair
F., we're SUI ert. -'..uG t..e aass,t.-.Is OF
the Zig buildings, keeping company
with the stars and stripes, the colors Of
every nation waved Il greeting to their
countryn:en. The state buildings were
loaded with bunting ana fl gs. In many
instances flowers were banked about
Tie doors.
1t was 10 o'clock when the Chicago
Eussnrs, la.der command Of Ca, tain
| Erund, entered the west end OF Mid
way. AS tie conf any made tour Of
the grounds, Battery D, under the di-
recticn Qf Lieutenant Russell, was
firing a shlate over tie lake front.
Elal king ii G grand basin and stationed
on the Ieristyle. Administration. Man
ufa ctures and Agricultural buildings,
rum etels IN lerald's uniform played
short farfure OF leace and then in
unison splitting The air to the ends of
the glcurds, Peace en- Earth. Good
Vii 10 Men," was played. The CON-
bired bands, numbering several hun
dred musicians, played the air Of ''AAll
Nations"
nc StCls, Int C1 enthusiasm
was reached. however. when a chorus
Of 9. OtG voices. under the direction Of
Professor Toinlins, sung The Star
Spangled Banner" Tie refrain was
taken up by 10000 people, and as the
singers executed the notes of the Amer
lean hymn tie United bands swelled
the volume to an extent rarely heard.
Then tie cLorus sung soft Southern
airs, including "Dixie's Land" Mary
land" and Kentucky Home" ''Co-
lumb;a, Gem of the Ocean, was then
sung, and the United bands marched
from the grand plaza to the west en-
trance of the Administration building
Here the new liberty bell was rung by
Mayor Carter Harrison, in honor of the
day. Eight hundred voices, directed ly
Pl ofessor Tomlins, sang DIE Wacht
Am REein," ''Marseillaise" and other
national airs on a platform west of the
Administration building. The morn
ing exercises were closed by an exhibi-
ton drill in the stock pavilion by the
Chicago Eussars.
Never In the History
of the fair We're there SO many people
together. From early morning the
crowds came in unbroken columns. A
full force Of men We're stationed at the
gates, and thousands of the Chicago
day crowd lined up at every entrance.
At tie Sixty-third street entrance it
was next to impossible to gain adlnis-
sion, so dense was the crowd. 1t was
the same story at most OF the other
gates. The people came from every
direction. Thousand were compelled
to sleep in stairways, restaurants and |
hotel Offices, as the city was completely |
filed. Rooms were impossible to se-
cure and cots were at premium.
Train loads of people were deposited
down town and in the exposition dis
trict during the morning. All had one
chject in view, and that was the White |
City. The line of those seeking admis-
sion was endless. Luckily about half
Of the visitors had secured tickets and /
the crowd around the ticket Offices was
not SO great.
The Growing Glory
of the anniversary was the rageantry
which 600, 900 people viewed within the
Columbian city at night. A procession
Of 26 magnificent floats with their oc- !
cnpants of both sexes entered the fair
ground through the Sixty-second street
gate soon after dark. The first repre-
sented ''Chidago in Her Growth" re-
ceiving ali the nations Of the earth. !
Then came the Genius of Music" sur |
rounded BY a select chorus OF so women.
The next font represented Chicago and /
its typical motto, Il Will,'' guided by
Liberty and surrounded by all the
states Of the Of the Union and well
coined by ali reollo Of the Union.
"Chicaso in 1872, Trading Post" was
next portrayed i'll realistic picture.