Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-02
WORLDS FAIR NOW OPEN
The President Started the
Machinery in Motion.
FINANCIAL CIRCLES ARE EXCITED.
The Reading Road Defaults
-- It's Interest.
their LITTLE ROMANCE Is ENDED.
Mrs. Canning Takes Her
Daughter Home.
their LITTLE ROMANCE IS ENDED.
WORLDS FAIR OPENED.

Daughter Home.
WORLDS FAIR OPENED.
Brief and Simple Exercise at tn
Grounds-The Machinery Started b,
tho President in the Presence o
Hundreds OF Thousands of People
A Heavy II ain All Night - A Lower
ing Sky During the Day but the PEG
pie Were Very Enthusiastic, anG
They Wildly Cheered When Presi
dent Cleveland Pressed the ButtoI
and Set the Machinery In Motion.
CHICAGO, May with the cheer O
thousands of people, the boom of cannon
the whirr and roar of machinery, tho blair
ing of brass bande, Autterihg of newly un
furled flags and banners and speeches
teeming with patriotic enthusiasm, tn.
worlds fair opened to-day. Surrounded
by members of his cabinet, by high officer,
of various states, by emissaries and dis
tinguished representatives from foreign
lands, and in the presence of mighty
gathering of american citizens President
Cleveland few moments after noon to-day
pICccoA Cn0 CAOCL1Lo OubbOa Luab 66b tuo Cdu-
non booming, the bands playing, the ma
chinery In motion and the people to cheer.
ing and last, but by no means the least
opened the worlds fair.
At the moment that the national salute
was fred from the guns of the Andrew
johnson lying in Lake Michigan, off the
fair grounds, seven hundred flags, released
from their stops at concerted signal,
swung loose and streamed out to the sky.
Over in Machinery hall q roar arose as the
wheels began to turn, but this was quickly
drowned in the great volume of sound
which came from the throsts of the 400
600 persons who gathered about the grand
stand and who cheered the presidents act
to the echo.
All night long dismal rain fell that
dampened the spirits of the worlds fair
officers. Everything about the white city
was soaking wet by the uncomfortable
drizzle. The rain continued until o'clock
this morning, when the clouds parted end
through the slight rift CLEAN Of sunshine
sparkled in the pools of water about the
grounds. 1t did not last many moments,
however, but 1t did one thing that greatly
encouraged the officers of the fair. 1t was
an augury that there would be no more
rain, and there was none. The clouds
still lowered over the city, the wind blew
family from the east, and the flags and
other decorations tapped dismally, and all
about was mud ankle deep.
But the rain and mud and the east wind
could not dampen the enthusiasm of the
thousands of men, women and children
From long before daylight, even when the
rain was pouring steadily from the clouds,
Michigan avenue, the avenue leading to
the fair grounds, was alive with pedestri-
ans and vehicles of all descriptions. In
their rooms on the second floor of the Au-
ditorium hetel the Duke of Versgua and
his party could hear the continuous rum
BILE of wheels, the shouts of the drivers, and
later the Gathering of the military escort
which was to conduct the president and
the invited guests to the fair grounds, and
by the time breakfast was concluded the
committee of escort appeared, and after
greetings had been exchanged the members
of the ducal party were shown to their
carriages.
THE PROCESSION TO THE GROUNDS.
1t had originally been intended that the
parade should form at the Auditorium and
pick up the president and his cabinet when
the Lexington hotel had been reached, but
questions of etiquette were interposed, and
finally it was determined that the Duke of
Versgua and his party should assemble at
the Lexington, and that the parade should
start from that point. The procession was
formed on Michigan avenue north of its
intersection with Twenty street. At
the head was q platoon Of gray coated
South Park police. Behind them, in new
blue uniforms, came detachment of city
police on horseback, fifty in number, rid
ing five abreast. Next in line was Com
pany of the Seventh United States cav
airy, under command of Captain f. A.
Varnum, and Company K of the the Sew
enth United States cavalry, under COM
mand of Captain I. P. Hare.
The fourth division, the special escort
of the visitors, was the Chicago Hussars
led by Captain R. I. Brand. They appeared
for the first time in their AmericanizsG
Russian uniform. There were six score Of
them, mounted on magnificent blacl
horses. They wore uniforms of blu,
broadcloth with white trimmings, Prussia1
black hussar riding boots, and blae- blacl
helmets, with white plumes falling belov
the shoulders.
The procession of carriages was led b,
one containing National Commissioners P
A. B. Widener OF Pennsylvania and Brad
ley R. Smalley of Vermont, with Director
| Thomas B. Bryan and James W. Ellsworth
Other commissioners and directors occu
pied the following five carriages. Thel
| came the carriage containing Presiden
| Cleveland with President T. W. Palmer o
| the worlds fair Columbian commission
| and 81. N. Higinbotham of the worlds Co
| lumbar exposition. Vice President Stew
| enson rode with two worlds fair ex- presi
dents, Lyman ]. Gage and William 7
Baker. Secretary Gresham rode with Ma
| tional Commissioner Davidson B. Penn
Secretary Carlisle with George V. Masse.
of Delaware, Secretary Herbert witt
| Charles b. Sehwab, Secretary Smith witt
J. W. st. Clair of West Virginia, and Sec
rotary Morton with Director d. B. Stone
The foreign division was led by a CARR
age occupied by the Duke of Veragus, tn
first vice president of the commission, e1
Governor Waller of Connecticut, the firs
vice president of the exposition, Ferdinan
W. Peck and Commander Dickins of tn
United States navy. Tho Duchess of Vel
aqua with Mrs. Potter Palmer, president @
the board of lady managers, and Mr.
Dickins were in the next, and the Asrqui
of Barbolee, the son of the duke, and
81. deYoung of California followed. Tn
ducal party was succeeded by carriages o.
eupied by the ambassador to England
Thomas F. Bayard, and ex-Minister to Be
gIum Lambert Tree, Major-Gsnsral Mile
aides and Governor Altgeld. The oarriae
of Mayor Harrison, who was accompanie
by three members of the board of aide
men, brought up the rear.
The procession moved southwark G
Michigan ayenCe, thence along Gran
Boulevard to Fifty-frst street, them
through South Park by way of Bsyard av
nue. to Palmer avenue, entering the Midwi
Plaisance through the western gatewa