Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-05

SMARCh WEEKLY YRlB1
xalr omclals. The ducal party was sue.
ceeded by carriages occupied by Ambas.
sad"r to England Thomas F. Bayard
and ex-Minister to Belgium Lambert
Tres, Major General Miles and Admiral
'sherardi and aides, and Governor Alt.
ge!d. The carriage of Mayor Harrison.
Who was accompanied by three mem.
bers of the board of aldermen, brought
up in the extreme rear.
An American Welcome.
AS the procession moved southwark
on Michigan avenue, thence along
Grand Boulevard to F~ifty-first street,
thence through South park by way of
Bayard avenue to Palmer avenue, enter
ing the midway plaisance through the
western gateway, making a short de-
tour in order to avoid the Ferris wheel,
and then resuming the broad promenade
at the entrance gate, it was attended by
an almost unbroken diapason of cheer
ing. On sidewalks, and steps, and
lawns, here in windows, there on roof
tops and the mantions of the million
aires, and the frame houses of the wage
workers, on the green sward of the
parks and in the mud of the plaisance
the populace had collected.
This II was Cosmopolitan.
Up to the boundaries of the plaisance
the welcome had been distinctively
American, but from here on to the gates
it was partook of a decidedly cosmopoli-
tan flavor. Arabs Frustrated them
selves on the ground, and cried aloud to
Allah. Cingalese in long white flowing
robes described Saalams with their arms
and shoulders. Eunuchs stood in line
with beauties of the harem, and the
donkey boy of Cairo knelt by his sleek
coated companion. The street in Cairo
was emptied of it's residents, and the
Esquimaux colony did not even leave
the six weeks baby in doors. So the pro-
cession slowly wound it's way, past
groups of Algerians and Mongolians and
Africans, and japanese, and Lapland-
ers, and Moors, and Persians, through
a Dahomey village. and a Japanese
camp, past the blue grotto of Capri,
and the Moorish palace, the japanese
settlement and the Zoopraiscope, under
the captive balloon and through a lane
formed of two score female beauties of
half as many nations. Even the lions,
and tigers, and the panthers, fresh
from the wilds of Africa, roared and
howled a welcome as the troops and
carriages passed by. Never before,
probably, had such a cosmopolitan
greeting in the same stretch Of terri.
tory been accorded to mortal man.
Inside the Grounds.
Less than IN hour had been occupied
in the journey from the starting point,
and the triumphant entree within the
great White City was now in order.
AS the head OF the column emerged
from midway plaisance it was met by d
detachment the Columbian guard, &C.
companied by Colonel Rice and his
staff. and who from this point took the
+, right of line. Slowly the procession
moved around the Woman's building,
then south again past the Horticultural
building, and the lagoon accomplishing
the wooded island, on past the Choral
hall and the beautiful structure de.
: voted to mines and mining. Here
it veered to the east, crossed the in.
| stallation track and described a zig-zae
! course to the west doar of the Admins.
tration building. Two platoons Of
cavalry had meanwhile drawn up be.
tween this structure and the termina.
station. and between these passed the
guests as fast as they alighted from
their carriages. Time was flying, how
ever, and they fingered but for a few
moments under the magnificent dome
; of the fairs executive mansion. Again
the procession was formed, emerging
from the eastern entrance, moved to
ward the platform from which the
formal ceremonies were to De con
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