Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-10
WAY OUT OF SIGHT
Attendance at Chicago's Day at
the Exposition.
SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND THERE
Nearly Double the Number That Was
High Water Mark at Paris-An
InvinCible Record.
GREAT CRUSH AT ALL THE GATES

An Enormous Multitude that Required the
Wagon Gates to BE Opened for It's Ad-
mittance-Description of the Night Pa
geant-A Magnificent Spectacle i'll the |
Windy City's Honor-Mayor Harrison's
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Accidents.
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, Oct. I0-SiXty- |
year old Chicago has been honored as |
none in the New World has ever been. |
Chicago Day closed upon the Worlds fair |
in a blaze of glory and a grand illumina'
tion from the electric power and pyro-
technics. Hundreds of thousands of peo-
pie from all parts of the earth, but mostly
from the cities of the republic which
helped financially by contribution, food
and clothing and other goods to rebuild
the burned Chicago of twenty-five years
ago were drawn together by the common
impulse and desire to show their apprecia-
tion and admiration of the genius which
made the Columbian exposition.
Nearly Three-Fourths of a Million.
Seven hundred thousand people-doubt-
less the greatest crowd that ever congre-
gated-visited the fair on Chicago day,
breaking the greatest one day record at
| Paris by an overwhelming majority-com-
I pletely smCthering the "big day" figures
of any other exposition ever held, and es-
| tabiishng mark which, it is safe to pre-
! dict, the present generation will never
see attained. When the morning sun,
/ looking through a light mist, peeped over
! the white Peristyle at > o'clock many peo-
! pie were nearing the different entrances
| to the grounds. and by the time the gates
| opened G:5O-fully 1,0)0 people besieged
| each passage eager for admission. Off
cial figures of the attendance are unob-
taina5le at this writing, but 100000 is a
conservative estimate.
The Procession of Floats.
The crowning glory of the anniversary
day was the pageantry which 100000 thou
sand people viewed within the gates of
the Columbian city last night soon after
the sun vent down, to be replaced by the
power of elect ricity when he procession of
twerty-six magnificent floats with their
occupants of both sexes entered the fair
grounds through the Sixty second street
gate. The first represented Chicago in her
growth receiving all the nations of the
earth: the Chicago Hussars in their trap
pings Of silver and black followed as an
escort and the Iowa state band made the
music Then came the genius of music,
surrounded by a select chorus of fifty
women The next float represented Chi
cago and its typical motto Il Will"
guided by liberty and surrounded by all
I states of the Union and welcomed by ell
/ people of the Union. At tie four corners
Were music, sculpture, science and lItera-
ture
1t Was All About Chicago.
Chicago in 1872 a trading post. was next
portrayed. Chicago in war and peace fol-
lowed in floats which called forth thunders
of applause from the multitudinous
throng The fire fiend came next, repre-
senting Chicago prostrate in 1871 This
float was manned by the Chicago fire de-
partment. The commerce of Chicago was
represented by an argOsy with single
sail on which the world, which is symbolic
of Chicago, was emblazoned. The most
magnificent float in the procession was
illustrative of Columbus at the court OF
Isabella The characters of the float were
assumed by the members of the Columbian
club of Chicago
Symbolic of the Old World.
The next section of the procession con-
tanned floats supplied by the eign-born
residents of Chicago, and illustrating for
eign characters and events in some cases
showing their relation to American insti-
tutions, which was notably the case with
the British float which led the column of
foreign floats. This contained figures ot
Cabot, Raleigh and other eminent British
discoverers, with a group of the Pilgrims
/ including Miles Standish. Following this
were the others IN this order: Sweden
=
Z Germany in art, science and industry
German-Americans of the United State:
1916 and 1861; Ireland, St Brandon, the
first discoverer; Ireland, the genius o
Erin: Bohemia, art, science and agricul
8 ture paying homage to Bohemia; France
! LaGrande Hermine; France, Marquette
{ landing at Chicago, 1913; Denmark, Dania
I Norway 1000 years ago; Norway at pres
4 ent; Poland, Washington, Kosciusko auC
u Pulaski, etc; Poland, Sobieska with the
Polish duke before Vienna; adoption o
4 the constitution of Poland, 1871; Poland
n Copernicus, etc.
The Electrical Wonder.
h The closing float of the pageant was tn,
great float Electra, showing the genius O
electricity, represented by an enormous
dragon, the color of which changed at in
tervals from green to red; flaming breatl
of steaming nostrils was made realistic
4 while dazzling lights extended along tn
4 wings. The entire body of the monste
was flood of light. Two thousand in
csndescent lamps were used in lighting it
This brilliant pageant marched all owe
81 the grounds so that there was room 70
8 many thousands to see it, and its line O
march was packed
PROCESSION OF THE STATES.