The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-05-12

form at the Auditorium and PICK up
the president and his cabinet when the
Lexington hotel had been reached, but
questions of diplomatic usage and
etiquette were interposed, and it was
determined that the ducal party should
rendezvous at the Lexington and that
the parade should start from that point.
1t was $50 when the party left the
Auditorium and ten minutes later they
were shaking hands with President
Cleveland in the blue parlor of the
Lexington.
Stevenson and Party Arrive.
While the hand5hal ing was in pro-
gress Vice President Stevenson and his
party, which had been hurried out OF
the Palmer House under conditions
similar to those experienced by the
guests of the Auditorium, put in an ap-
pearance. On their heels came the
members of the national commission,
and the fair directors who were to
act as hosts and escorts to the dis
tinguished guests on a memorable day.
Meanwhile the procession was In course
of formation on the avenue north OF its
intersection with Twenty second street,
and promptly at 9 o'clock, right on the
moment set in the official orders, Major
T. A. Baldwin, of the Seventh United
States cavalry, in command of the es-
corting division, was preparing to give
the signal for the procession to move.
How the Procession Moved.
At the head, to clear the way, mount.
ed on handsome chargers, was platoon
of gray-coated South Park police, behind
them, in their brand new blue uniforms,
a detachment of city police on horse
back. Next in line came Company B.
of the Seventh United States cavalry,
under command of Captain F. A. Var
mum, and Company K, of the Seventh
United States cavalry, under command
of Captain l.. R. Hare.
The fourth division was the Chicago
Hussars, headed by Captain E. L..
Brand and Adjutant ThomasS S. Squincy,
and who appeared for the first time in
their Americanized Russian uniforms.
Twenty trumpeters, heralded the
approach of the Hussars, and bringing
up in the rear of the military division
was mounted troop A, of the Illinois
national guards.
The Distinguished Guests.
Following the advance guard came
carriages, the first IA of which were
occupied by the president and cabinet,
vice president and worlds fair commits
sioners. Then came the Duke Of
Veragua and party and more worlds
fair officials. The ducal party was sue
ceeded by carriages occupied by Ambas-
sador to England Thomas f. Bayard
and ex-Minister to Belgium Lambert
Tree, Major General Miles and Admiral
Gherardi and aides, and Governor Alt
geld. The carriage of Mayor Harrison
who was accompanied by three men,
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 Fifty-tirst street,
thence through South park by way of
Bayard avenue to Palmer avenue, enter
ing the midway plaisance through the
western gateway, making 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 One 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 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 its way, past
groups of Algerians and Mongolians and
Africans, and Japanese, and Lapland-
ers, and Moors, and Persians, through
a Dahomey village, and 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 welcome as the troops and
carriages passed by. Never before,
probably, had such cosmopolitan
greeting in the same stretch of terri
tory been accorded to mortal man.
Inside the Grounds.
Less than an 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 a
detachment the Columbian guard, ac-