Huntsville gazette., 1893-10-14


fore me-
Chief John Young was then present.
ed to the people, but he did not speak.
The two chiefs, Miss Sickels, Thad-
deus S. Taylor, who came to Chicago
1887, and whose father Lathrop NJ.
Taylor, of South Bend, Ind, was
witness to the sale of Chicago's site by
the Pottawattamies, grasped the red,
white and blue covered rope made
from scores of contributions from
all nations at the fair, and
gave the big bell number
of quick strokes. followed by the
plaudits of the multitude. The chiefs
then held levee on the go-as-you-
please and acknowledgements plan.
After being photographed they re-
tired with their friends to see the fair.
The ground of the terminal plaza
could not be seen for the mass of peo-
pie who filed it in front of the stand
erected for the chorus of 1900 voices
under the direction of w. L. Tom
Inns, an orchestra. The united ex-
position bands and the Eighth
cavalry Mexican band, accompanied
the chorus in a mighty melody which
aroused the $4,000 people in front to q
high pitch of patriotic enthusiasm.
While the festival of song and instru-
ment | music was in progress Chica-
go's crack society cavalry troop, the
Chicago hussars, passed by on their
fine horses from the Midway plaisance.
A path for them was made through the
multitude with difficulty.
THE GROWING GLORY.
The crownlng glory of the anniver-
sary day was the pageantry which
600, 900 people viewed within the gates
of the Columbian city last night.
Soon after the sun went down to be
replaced by the power of electricity, the
procession of twenty-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 hussars, in their trappings of sill
yer and black, followed as an escort,
and the Iowa state band made the mu-
sic. Then came the genius of Music
surrounded by select chorus of fifty
women. The next float represented
Chicago and typical motto 81 will"
guided by Liberty and surrounded by
all the states of the union and well
coined by all people of the union. AT
the four corners were Music, Sculpture,
Science and Literature.
Chicago in 1912, trading post, was
portrayed in a realistic picture. Chi
cago in war and peace were next de-
picted in floats, which called for thun.
ders of applause from the multitude
nous throng in the Court of Honor. The
Fire Fiend came next, representing Chi
cago PROSTATE in 1871. The Commerce
of Chicago was represented by an ar
COSY with , single sail on which the
world, which is symbolic of Chicago,
was emblazoned.
The most magnificent float in the
entire procession was illustrative OF
Columbus at the court of Isabella. The
characters of the float were assumed
bv the members of the Columbian club
of Chicago.
Floats were also furnished by
foreign born residents of Chicago,
illustrating foreign-born charaters and
foreign events. Great Britain, Sweden,
Germany, Ireland, Bohemia, France,
Canada and Poland were represented
by one or more floats after the Chicago
pageant had passed between the black
mass of humanity, partially illumi-
mated by the electric lights.
The last float in the procession was
Electra, the Genius of Electricity"
drawn by eight horses. 1t was repre-
sented by enormous dragons changing
color from green TO red and lighted
within with 1000 electric lights.
There was break in the procession
after those illustrating Chicago had
passed and thousands started HON E.
ward under the impression the night
pageant was over.
The fireworks display exceeded in
magnifcence anything heretofore
given in the United States, if not in
the world The special pieces were
illustrative of Old Fort Dearborn, the
Old City Hall, Chicago Welcoming the
World; Old Glory, carried by Mr..
Baldwin, the aeronaut, to the heavens;
Chicago Triumphant, being a repro
duction of Niagara Falls along the
peristyle; the Burning of Chicago,
covering an area of $4,000 square feet.
produced in four scenes, and the picture
of Chicago's first mayor. The whole
scene was blaze of fairy lamps.
The force of guards was entirely in
adequate for the occasion, and COM
plants of pocket-picking, fainting
women and struggling men were heard
and seen during the half hour which
was occupied by the interesting cere-
mony.
THE ATTENDANCE.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand
! people-the greatest crowd that ever
regated-visited the Worlds fair
Yesterday breaking the one-day record
at Paris by an overwhelming majority.
completely smothering the big fair
figures of any other exposition ever
held, and esta ablishing mark which
it is safe to predict, the present gener-
alton will never see again attained.
When the morning sun. looking
be.