Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-07-14
AMERICAS DAY.
A Glorious Fourth on the Worlds
Fair Grounds.
The Biggest Day Yet, 274,9l7 Paid
Admissions.

The Worlds Fair was ablaze with patriot
ism. 1t was the centre from which the patri-
otto peas of lberty-lovlng people, enjoying
the manifold blessings Of land of the free
and home OF the brave, beat through the
nation. There were many in the White City
today whose minds went back to that Glorl-
Gus Fourth of July OF the centennial year in
the Quaker City, when, commencing With
the toiling Of the midnight hour, the patrl-
otto impulses of populace ran riot when
for more than half day men and women,
old and young, native and alien, marched al
most without break up Chestnut 8 rect and
saluted with barred heads and ringing shouts
the cid landmark of liberty in Independence
Square when Sherman and Sheridan and
Dom Pedro, all now numbered with those
that have gone, stood arm in arm before the
old Liberty Bell and bowed their heads in
reverence and honor. Seyente years have
elapsed since there stirring scenes were en-
acted, and, today in the metropolis OF the
West, the second worlds exposition OF the
republic gave occasion for still greater de-
monstration of love Of flag and country, one
which in its magnitude and impressiveness
kept pace with the growth OF the country in
the in ervening years and with the magni-
tude Of the Columbian Exposition rs COM
pared with those that have gone before it.
Chicages two million OF population kept
holiday today and half n million OF stran ers
from on side points, far and near, helped to
celebrate. Al over the city, in the suburban
residei ce districts a. well as in the CONNER
cial centre the usual stiffness OF the night
was broken by the cracking and looming of
fireworks and the shouts OF meny-mayers,
who were making night of it, so that the
Worlds Fair Fourth might be appropriately
ushered in with the true American spirit.
GATHERING AT zaE FAIR.
Day broke to the accompaniment OF "a
lutte Of hundred guns from the gunboats in
the lake. and the reverberations CT the can.
non awoke the sleepers and gave then no.
tice that it was time to be up and moving.
The procession southwark to Jackson Park
began as early rs 6 o'clock, when the Illinois
Central started the first Of its two-minute
trains, each ear filled to the doors, and from
that hour on the steam, cable and elevated
roads, as well rs the big 'teamboats plying
the lake, found their facilities taxed as never
before.
"Old Glory" was TO be seen everywhere,
Hundreds of thousands of them, some OF the
avenues leading to Jackson PARK being liter
ally lined with the tri-coored bunting and
the stars and stripes, as though in honor OF
the coming Of some conquerlng hero. Nearly
everybody out of doors, too wore either a
button of the stars and stripes or miniature
flag or q tiny bit of tri-colored ribbon. When
the numerous gates OF the big enclosure were
opened. at o'clock, the ticket men at each
found a crowd awaiting them, and tnenceior-
ward there was ceaSelesS click-clck as the
turnstiles revolyed and the mass of humanity
pressed inward. The grounds themselves
had taken on some of the glory OF Solomon.
Thousands of people who originally in
terdej. 10 enter the fair grounds by the Stony
Island avenue gates were SO entranced by the
Unparalleled sight which met their eyes Oh
reaching the Paisance entrance by the cable
trains that they at once joined in the patriotic,
pleasure-seeking procession, which for hours
file tho broad Plaisance from side to side.
Across the Plaisance from Cottage Grove
avenue to the Stony Island avenue viaduct,
which forms the east entrance inside the
grounds. were strung at intervals OF lew
yards the prettiest arrangement OF bannerettes
and Chinese lanterns that the eye OF man
ever beheld. On each side of the Plaisance
throughout its whole length were also dane
ing fluttering lines OF the same heterogeneous
colored mass connecting with the cross lines.
Midway Paisance is at all times gorgeous
in decorations and constant variation OF
s.ene. but the display male by the people OF
all nations in honor of Uncle Sans birthday
anniv, rsary changed the whole aspect Of the
cosmopolitan thoroughfare. Tho moving
mass OF humanity seemed to be passing under
one huge continuous canopy of everchanglng
bright colors.
In the White City itself the extra decora-
lions in honor of the day W re to be seen at
every turn, on every Flagstaff and pavilion,
foreign and State buildings and every place
where flag or banner could be fixed to har-
monize with the artistic surroundings. The
landscape was eglow with the glorious flag OF
freedom and every human being, no matter
if his birthplace was in the Orient, the arctic
region or the torrid zone, seemed to enter into
the spirit Of the American day with hearty
desire to make it memorable in the history
OF the republic.