New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-07-05
PATRIOTIC PULSE {: j
With Chicago as Head
Center.
The Celebration at the White City
the Greatest Ever Held In
America.
ChicagO's Two Million and Half a
Million From Other Points
Participate.

Participate.
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, July A.
The worlds fair was ablaze with
patriotism all day. It was the center
from which the patriotic pulse of a
liberty loving people, enjoying the
manifold blessings of land of the free
and home of the brave, beat throughout
the nation. There were many in the
White City whose mirds went back to
that glorious Fourth OF July of the
centennial year in the Quaker City.
when, commencing with the tolling of
the midnight hour, the patriotic i'm
pulses of populace ran riot, when for
more than half day men and women,
old and young, native and alien,
marched almost without break up
Chestnut street and saluted with barred
heads and ringing shouts the
| Old Landmark of Liberty
in independence square, when Sherman
and Sheridan, all numbered with those
that have gone, stood arm in arm be-
fore the old Liberty bell and bowed
their heads in reverence and honor.
Seventeen years have elapsed since
these stirring scenes we're enacted, and
in the metropolis of the West, the Sec
ond worlds exposition Of the republic
gave occasion for still greater demon
stration of love of flag and country, one
which in it's magnitude and impressive
ness kept pace with the growth of the
country in the intervening years, and
with the magnitude of the Columbian
exposition as compared with those that
have gone before. Chicago's two mill
lion of permanent population kept
holiday and half million of strangers
from outside points, far and near,
helped it to celebrate. All over the
city. in the suburban residence districts
as we'll as in the commercial center,
the usual stiffness of the night was
broken by the cracking and booming of
fireworks and the shouts of merry
makers who were making night of it,
so that the worlds fair Fourth might
be appropriately ushered in with the
True American Spirit.
Daybreak to the accompaniment of
salute of 100 guns from the gunboats on
the lake, and the reverberations of tho
cannon, awoke the sleepers and gave
them notice that it was time to be ND
and moving. The procession south
ward to jackson par, began as early
as 6 o'clock. wien the Illinois
Central started the first of its
two minute trains. each car filled to the
doors and from that hour on, the steam,
cable and elevated roads. us we'll as the
big steamboats, plying the lake found
their facilities taxed as never before.
When the numerous gales of the big
enclosure were opened att o'clock the
ticket men at each found a crowd
awaiting them and thenceforward
there was cease!ess click-click as the
turnstiles revolvad and the mass of
humanity pressed inward. The grounds
themselves had taken on some of the
glory OF Solomon.
The exercises of the day had pre-
Jude in a procession of the leading par
Elephants. 1t left the city hall at 9
o'clock with company of the Second
regiment headed by it's band to blaize
its way over the boulevards Heading
the line was a carriage occupied by
Mrs. Perry Stafford, of Martha's Vine
yard. and two lady friends. and who
held and at intervals waved a priceless
relic in the form Of the original
flag under which Paul Jones
sailed with the authority of
congress. Behind came carriages con-
joining Mayor Harrison and the city
officials, the members Of the board of
aldermen and the members of the Lib
erty Bell committee headed by w. o.
Mcdowell of New Jersey. The process
sion moved slowly for the boulevard.
From curb to curb was packed with
ing their owners and guests
towards the park and it was nearly II
o'clock when it reached the Fifty seventh
street entrance.
A Remarkable Reception.
Here remarkable reception awaited
it. Inside the gate, lining theroadway,
! six deep in military order, twenty
thousand exposition exhibitors of all
nations were drawn up. Every man
carried an American flag, and each
division according to its build
ing or department was head
ed by the department. chief
and band. As the procession passed
through the ranks the exhibitors I'M
covered and waved the flags, while the
bands broke forth in unison with the
Star Spangled Banner When the
mayors carriage had reached the head
of the column the word of command
was given, the exhibitors faced ranks
southwark, and the combined process.
sions moved through the grounds bring
ing up in the immense plaizer between
Administration building and termina
station. ABORTION Of this had beer
filled in with chairs and boRchea anl