The record-union., 1893-05-02

tered carriages and drove rapidly to the
Lexington Hotel.
Meantime the city at large seemed GO
ing in body to the White City by the
Lake. Nine big steamers from early
morning were plying, loaded, from Van
Buren street 10 the fair grounds. Every
cable car was thronged to the tail board.
The elevated cars were crowded with hu-
manity. The steam cars reaped a har-
vest, and the great Michigan boulevard
was thronged with private carriages and
conveyances of all sorts.
Soon after 9 o'clock President Cleve-
land and associates appeared at the en-
trance OF the Lexington Hotel and were
conducted to carriages.
THE PROCESSION.
When all was in readiness the pro-
cession moved in the following order:
Platoon of mounted police, two COM
panies of United States cavalry, the Chi
cago Hussars and troop of Illinois Ma
tional Guard.
The Worlds Fair officials occupied the
first six carriages, and in the seventh
were President Cleveland and the Chair
man OF the Columbian Commission and
President of the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position. Then came five carriages con-
tanning the Presidents Cabinet and fair
officials, then the Duke of Veragua and
party in five carriages, followed by
Thomas F. Bayard, ambassador to Great
Britain; Major-General Schofeld, Ad-
miral Gherardi, Governor Altgeld and
Mayor Harrison bringing up the rear.
Down Michigan avenue, cheered by thou
sands who lined the curb, clattered and
rumbled the cavalcade. 1t turned into
the grand boulevard at Thirty-fifth street,
into Washington Park at Fifty-first
street, from the park into Midway Plai-
sance, now medley of all nations, and
from it into the great White City, and to
the Administration building. where the
ceremonies of the day We're to take place.
AT THE GROUNDS.
Passing through the buildings, the not
ables came out upon the platform at the
east side, looking out upon the grand
plaza and the court of honor. The plaza
was black with people, the whole scene
forming one of the most remarkable and
enchanting in history.
Already the officials and invited guests
not in procession were seated on the plat
form, and as the head of the Nation
walked down the main aisle to his place
at the outer edge a tumult of cheers
shook the air. He and those accompany
ing him were soon seated.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the opening
ceremonies began with Professor John
X. Paine's columbian March," followed
by prayer by the blind Chaplain, Mil
burn of the United States Senate:
All glory be to the Lord God of Hosts,
that Thou hast put it into the hearts of all
tongues, peoples and nations to keep the
feast of the tabernacle in this place, in
commemoration of that most moment
Gus of all voyages, in which Columbus
lifted the veil which hid the new world
from the old and opened a gateway of the
future for mankind.
Thy servants have builded these pal
aces, many-chambered and many-gal-
lerled, more than imperial in splendor, in
which to show the victories of man over
air, water, fire and earth. The engines of
use, the treasures of beauty, are signili-
cant as illustrating the worlds advance
within these 400 years.
Woman, too, the shackles falling from
new time, joyously treading the paths of
larger freedom and of the responsible
and self-helping life that is opening be-
fore her; woman, nearer to God by reason
of the lntuitlonS of heart and the gran
deur OF self-sacrifce, brings inspiration
to her genius, the products of her brain
and sensibility to shed over the spot love-
illness and a charm of her own, thus max
ing the house beautiful.
To the hpliaSt arnOuor H.
mightiest among the holy, whose
wounded hand has lifted the gates of great
empires from their hinges and turned the
stream of history into new channels-to
the risen and assembled Lord-we dedicate
these trophies of the past, achievements
of the present, prophecies of the future.
reverently and with humility. Upon
thine honored servants, the President
and Vice-President of the United States,
members of the Cabinet, Judges of the
Supreme Court, Senators and Represent
ives of the people, and upon all other
magistrates throughout this broad land:
upon that most illustrious sovereign OF
the world, our kinswoman, revered and
beloved in this land as in her own, gra-
cious lady, Queen Victoria; upon the
Presidents, Emperors, Kings, Queens,
rulers of whatever name or degree, and
upon the peoples over whom they bear
sway, let the benediction of the King of
Kings and the Lord of Lords descend and
abide, fastening the time when the nations
shall know war no more, but the sword
shall be beaten into the plowshare and
the spear into the pruning-hook; Thou,
alone, oh Lord, knowest the well-niph
insuperable obstacles surnounted, the
envies, jealousles, chickering's, open hos
tility and unjust opposition mastered by
dauntless courage and inexhaustible pa
tience and kindness. Thou knowest the
unexampled fertility of resources and the
resistless energy by which the men and
women charged with the conduct of this
mighty undertaking have brought it to a
triumphant conSummation.
Crown their labors and victory with
Thy gracious word, well done good and
faithful servant" and move the world TO
echo Thy plaudit upon this great city.
which is the wonder OF the world, upon
whose site, within the memory of living
men, has been found pasture for the wild
beasts, the lair of the wolf, the nest of the
rattlesnake, and which now sits en-
throned as one of the capitals of the
earth, and throws wide its gates of hos
pitable welcome to the people of all Ian
guages and classes.
Send upon this city and all its people
dwelling within its borders Thy bless
iugs which maketh rich and bringeth no
sorrow.
our prayer through Him who taught us
10 say: "Our Father, who art in Heaven.
hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom
come, Thy will be done on earth as it is
in Heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread, and forgive us our trespasses as
we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation, but de-
liver us from evil, amen"
Then Miss Jessie Couthoui, the dra-
matte reader, recited "A Rhymed Proph-
esy," by w. y. Crofut of Washington.
ADDRESS OF THE DIRECToR-GENERAI.
After the orchestral overture Director
General Davis, as Master of Ceremonies,
made the opening address, as follows: