The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-07-05
Of the Country Beat In Unison
With Chicago rs Head
Center.
The Celebration ut the White City
the Greatest Ever Reid In
America.
Chicago's Two Million and Half a
Million From Other Points
Participate.

WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, July A.
The worlds fair was ablaze with
patriotism all day. 1t was the center
from which the patriotic pulse of a
liberty loving people, enjoying the
manifold blessings of a land of the free
and q 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 a populace ran riot, when for
more than half a day men and women,
old and young, native and alien,
marched almost without a 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 were enacted, and
In the metropolis of the West, the Sec
end worlds exposition of the republic
gave occasion for a still greater demon
stration of love of flag and country, one
zrl.s,h - sc -,,yv;%raa and IN, rrasssuo-
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 mil
lion of permanent population kept
holiday and half a million of strangers
FROM outside points, far and near,
helped it to celebrate. All over the
city, in the suburban residence districts
MS well 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 a night of it,
90 that the worlds fair Fourth might
be appropriately ushered in with the
True American Spirit.
Daybreak to, the accompaniment of a
salute of LOG guns from the gunboats ON
the lake, and the reverberations OF the
cannon, awoke the sleepers and gave
them notice that it was time to be up
and moving. The procession south
ward to jackson park began as early
as 6 o'clock. when 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. as well as the
big steamboats, plying the lake found
their facilities taxed as never before.
When the numerous gates of the big
enclosure were opened at Z o'clock the
ticket men at each found a crowd
awaiting them and thenceforward
there was a ceaseless click-click as the
turnstiles revolved and the mass of
humanity pressed inward. The grounds
themselves had taken on some of the
glory of Solomon.
Prelude to the Exercises.
The exercises of the day had a pre-
lude in a procession OF the leading par
Elephants. 1t left the city hall at 9
o'clock with a company of the Second
regiment headed by its band to blaize
it's way over the b~oulevards. Heading
b 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
~n1an IN fha fnwrn ~ %hn 1ss~-1
Tag 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
vehicles Of all descriptions, carry
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 a remarkable reception AWAITED
IT. Inside the gate, lining the roadway
SAX deep in military order, invent,
Thousand exposition exhibitors of ali
nations were drawn up. Every mar
carried an American flag, and eacl
division according to its build
ing or department was head
I'd by the department. CHIEF
and n band. As the procession passe,
through the ranks the exhibitors un
covered and waved the flags, while tn
bands broke forth iii unison with tn
Star Spangled Banner. When tn
mayors carriage had reached the hea,
ct the column the word 6: comman,
Was given. the EXHIBITORS faced rank
gCntagE=Tc. and the combined process
sions moved through the grounds bring
ing up in the immense plaizer betwee,
Administration building and termina
station. A portion of this had bee
dkl1ed in with chairs and benches an
extemporized seats, while in the rea
sn0ngh standing room had been left ia
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