The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-06-02
FIRST OPEN SUNDAY.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand
People Attend the Worlds Fair, Listen
to Grand Music and View the Great OBJ
ject Lessons ON the First Open Sunday
Most of the State Buildings and the
GnHernmanf RnIldEnr GInand

Most of the State Buildings and the
Governments Building Closed
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, CHICAGo,
May 29.-One hundred and twenty-five
thousand people, after a week of toll,
came to the Worlds fair grounds yes
terday, and with souls freed from care
drank inspiring music and feasted their
eyes upon the artistic and natural
beauties of the White city, while their
minds were improved by studying the
works of genius and industry. 1t was
the first open Sunday, and it was sue
cess.
The sabbath sun was but two hours
old when the people began to come
into the grounds All modes of trans
portation brought their quotas and
from the steamer piers and the rail-
roads came long lines of people. But
the masses did not begin to arrive un-
til after noon. Beginning about z
o'clock the multitude focked into the
grounds at every gate, and by o'clock
60, 900 people were inside the enclosure.
The people kept on coming the entire
afternoon and overfowed into Mid
way plaisanoe, whose every show was
crowded until the attendance mark
had been elevated to 100000. After
dark the grounds were lighted up
and this, together with other features
of the illumination, attracted still
more, and when the crowds were
about ready to go home a conservative
estimate placed their number for the
day and evening at 125, 900. 1t was an
orderly, well-dressed crowd, who were
evidently of the opinion that it had al
ready been kept away from its property
altogether too long, and they took pos
session in the name of ''Toilers' day"
The music during the day was of an
elevating character and the band
stands were surrounded by large
crowds which grew enthusiastic over
Schubert's ''Serenade," selection fir ON
''Lohengrin," Gonouds sacred song
''There is Green Hill Far Away"
Wagner's ''Hail, Bright Abode the
good old hymn Nearer, My God, to
Thee" and the Coronation march from
Meyerbeer's lie Prophetic" The music,
which was continuous from 1:30 in the
afternoon until 10 at night, was furn-
ished by Sousa's, the Chicago and Gin
cinnati bands. Sunday opening
was frowned upon, however, in
the north end of the park,
where the American state build
ings are grouped to suggest a
happy and united family. The mem
bers of the great American Union were
estranged on the dawn when the Cos
pei of peace and good will is preached
from the Christian pulpit. The multi
tude of visitors did not throng the state
circle, and the few thousands who
passed that way were not disappointed
apparently to find many of the build
ings closed. There was so much else
to see that was more attractive than
the inside of the state buildings.
A few of the state commissioners
were left no alternative but to close
the doors of their buildings as the
legislatures had SO ordered, but the
great majority of the state boards
acted on their own authority in refus-
ing admission to visitors. The doors
of fifteen state and territorial buildings
were locked for this day only, and visi-
tors were generally informed to this
effect by cards. Missouri, Delaware,
New York, Virginia, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Maryland and Massachusetts,, were
among the buildings of which the peo-
pie obtained only an outside view.
The influence of the Anglican
church was seen by the visitors who
desired to enter the buildings erected
by Great Britain and her majesty's col
onies. All were closed tight, and no
L l. L
was not the case with the ''closed''
state buildings. The great carved oak
doors of Victoria house were shut, al
though the Union Jack foated from the
roof. Canada's flag was flying also, but
the doors were closed, and not even a
sign was put out for visitors to read.
New South Wales supplemented the
''Closed To-day"sign with the following
unnecessary words: "Keep Out. This
Means You" Even at the India build
ing, which is chiefly a private COM
mercial enterprise, the CLOSED" sign
was hung out.
Machinery hall, under whose domes
the Sabbatarians thinks the acme of
sabbath breaking is sheltered, was a
remarkably quiet place. Two or three
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Buckeye-were all that ran during the
day to furnish the power necessary to
run the fair, and their hum could
scarcely be heard 100 feet away. The
crowd in this building was not very
large, but every other departmental
structure was jammed.
Columbia avenue in Manufactures,
and the main aisles of Transportation
and Fisheries, were crowded all day,
and it was with much difficulty that
spectator could force passage.
As indicative of the character of the
crowd it may be stated that the Fine
Arts building he'd the greatest multi.
tude. Every salon was packed and
the foyers were jammed by quiet and
orderly crowd of picture lovers.
The officials in charge of the great
buildings and the battle-ship Illinois
did all in their power to show the thou
sands of visitors who passed by that
Uncle Sam officially did not approve
of allowing American citizens or for
eigners TO view on Sunday the pano-
rama of art and genius or the indus
trial works of the nations.
Painted signs CLOSED" which were
used originally when the government
building was not finished, were placed
on the front doors and guards were sta
toned there to keep people from break
ing sin and disturbing Uncle Sans
peaceful observance of the sabbath.
Even Old Glory was hauled down
from every fag-pole on the big dome
of the building. The other structures
which form part of the United States