Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-08
AMERICAS DAY.
A Glorious Fourth on the Worlds
Fair Grounds.
The Biggest Day Yet, 274,sl7 Paid
Admissions.

The Worlds Fair was ablaze with patriot
ism. 1t was the centre from which the patri-
otic peals of a liberty-loving people. enjoying
the manifold blessings OF land OF the free
and home OF the brave, beat through the
nation. There were many in the White City
today whose minds went back to that gori-
Gus Fourth OF July OF the centennial year in
the Quaker City, when. commencing with
the toiling Of the midnight hour, the patri-
otto impulses OF a populace ran riot when
for more than half day men and women,
old and young, native and alien, marched al
most without break up Chestnut s rect and
saluted with barred heads and ringing shouts
the old landmark Of liberty in Independence
Square when Sherman and Sheridan and
Dom Pedro, all now numbered with those
that have gone, stood arm in arm before the
cid Liberty Bell and bowed their heads in
reverence and honor. Sevente n years have
elapsed since these stirring scenes were en-
acted, and, today in the metropolis Of the
West, the second worlds exposition OF the
republic gave occasion for a still greater de-
monstration of love of Nag and country, one
which in its magnitude and impressiyeness
kept pace with the growth of the country in
the in ervening years aud with the magni-
tude OF the Colum.ian Exposition as com
pared with those that have gone before it.
Chcage's two million of opulation kept
holiday today half million OF stran gers
from on side points. far and near helped TO
celet ra E. A over the city, in the suburban
reside; ce districts "a we'll as in the CONNER
clni centre. Inc usual sill nv IS OF the night
was broken by the cracking and looming of
fireA orks and the shouts OF mer y-ma GERS
who werA making NIGHT of il tbnf th.
Worlds Fair Fourth might be appropriately
ushered IN with the true American spirit
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Day broke to the accompaniment OF sa-
lutte of n hundred guns from the punh,ats i'm
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non awoxe tue s'eepers ani gave the no.
tice that it was time to be up and moving
The procession southwark TO Jackson Park
began as early as O'Clock, when tn Illinois
Central started the first of its two. minute
trains. each ear filled to the doors. and from
that hour on the steam, cable and elevated
roads. as well as the big amboats plying
the LAKE, {, und their facilities taxed as never
befo'e.
''Old Glory was TO be seen everywhere
hundreds OF thousands Of them. some OF tho
avenues leading to Jackson PARK being liter
ally lined with the tri-eo,ored bunting and
the stars and stripes, as though In honor OF
the coming of some conquering hero. Nearly
everybody out Of doors. too. wore either Il
button OF the stars and stripes or miniature
flag or tiny bit OF tri-colored ri bon When
the numerous gates of the big enclosure were
opened, at O'Clock, the ticket men at each
found a crowd awaiting them, aud thencefor-
ward there was a ceaseless elick-click as tine
turnstiles reyolved and the mass of humanity
pressed inward. The grounds themselves
had taken on some of the glory Of Solomon.
Thousands of people who originally in
tended to entefthe fair grounds by the Stony
Island avenue gates were so entraneed by the
unparalleled sight which met their eyes on
reaching the Paisance entrance by the cable
trains that they nj once Joined In the patriotIe