The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1893-07-20

into the grounds at an early hour to
escape the final racket and fusilade
of the small boys tirecrackers in the
streets of Chicago. Nc ssah crowd
of people ever gathered upon the
grounds before since the gates were
opened to the public on May 1. The
ceremonies were very appropriate to
the occasion. The most impressive
scene and at the same time the one
which most stirred the blood of a pa
triOt was that furnished by the raising
of Paul Jones' old flag by the wife of
the grand son of Lieut.. Stafford, who
rescued the flag from the sea after IL
had been shot from the staff in the
fight between the Scraps and the Bon
HOmme. 1t was the first American
flag to be raised aloft as the emblem Of
the United country, and Paul Jones,
the old Scotch private, who carried the
war right ON In English waters, was
pre-eminently the right man to have
first raised this flag. The old flag has
only twelve stars for all that time,
only twelve of the states had Joined
the Union, and Georgia was yet not
one of them. The tremendous cheer
ing, the salyos of artillery, the general
unfurling of flags and the grand chorus
of two thousand voices which greeted
this great relic of the past and en-
blem of daring presented an incident
to the eye and ear, perhaps the most
impressive that has ever occurred of
the kind in the worlds history. The
grounds presented an appearance which
probably 20 scene ever before pre-
scented in It's variety Of many colored
costumes, embracing the A4aQy styles
of all nations; in thousands Of flags
of all nations and in the other gay
bunting apd decorations displayed eY-
erywhere. Fine whole celebration must
have given the foreigners here an ex-
cellent idea Of the patriotism and 10y
atty Of the American people il such
way as to make the descendants OF
kings and princes just a little epYious
over the fact that republics caa retain
the respect of the people and their
answering fealty to such an eminent
degree. OF course, the great spectac-
ular feature of the day was the great
fireworks. display in the evening,
which cost the arrangement of the
exposition SOME $4,000 end which
brought ENORMOUS crowds Upon the
grounds, It WIS fEte HIrrSt- EassPfeiyJ-
which has ever been seeil in Chicago.
The works were shot Off upon the lake
shore south Of the great battleshlp I'LL
nois, and opened with the sending up
of a balloon carrying streamers Of fire
representatives of the American flag.
TAe appearance of this beautiful
REPRESENTATION IF tf1he national flag was
received with = peffqet stqrrq Of ,toots
and whistles from beats OF TUE lakle.
No sooner did the celoPs Of the starry
banner burn away than d number of
bombs were let off from the shore.
These made tremendous racket, and
on bursting high in the air kicked up
another horrible dir, bgt did not fling
shower of eoIored stars into tAS Eky.
After twenty one of these noisy bombs
had seu4ded TIE national salute a hum
Der of rockets weFe shot fpto the lHeaH-
ems. The display of FIREWORKS HAT f3l-
lowed surpassed the splendid e8hibi-
ton given on dedication night. After
the heavens had been bonbarded for
several minutes with a fierce fire of
sheHs aud rockets that burst into