The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-09-21
GATES THROWN OPEN.
Magnificent Ceremonies at tho
Atlanta Exposition.
sixty Thousand Persons Witness . Fine
Parade aud Listen 20 Eloquent Speeches
President Cicseiand's Magic
Touch starts the wheels.

ATLANTA. Ca. Sept President
Grover Cleveland touched button at
Buzzard's Bay at 6:54 o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon. and instantly the
wheels OF tho machinery at the
Cotton States and international
exposition, 1000 miles away, lcaped
into life Cannon blazed and thun-
dered. 10000 people cheered. 1000
flags fioated from the tops of many
buildings and the great south's indus
trial exposition was officially opened.
Atlanta is alive with people.
Strangers have been coming In for two
weeks 10 be present at Wednesdays
exercises. but they were as moth
ing in number compared to the
thousands who arrived Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning. The
city is profuscly decorated with bunt-
ing and The national colors. Tho
crowds are good naturcd and, as in old
carnival times. everything goes
The list OF distinguished personages
and historic organizations here is "a
long one. New York. Pennsvlyanin,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Vermont,
New Jersey, Maryland. Virginia, I'LL
nois, Indiana, Arkansas, Cali
fornia, Texas, Alabama, Florida. South
Carolina and Ohio and many other
states are officially represented.
either by the governor or members OF
hisstaff, or board OF state commits
sioners. Many OF the larger newspa-
pers OF the country are represented by
staff correspondents.
The parade OF civic and military
bodies, which acted as an escort to the
officials OF the exposition and its
guests was the most imposing process
sion ever seen in the south.
Several thousand grand army men,
beers came down from Chickamauga and
were conspicuous on the streets. They
received marked attentions from the
citizens. The identical flag which
waved from Kennesaw 10 Altoona,
the famous signal on which was writ
ten the song: Hold the Fort for am
Coming" was brought here from Mas
sachusetts The lieutenant who orig
inally waved the flag went upon
Kennesaw mountain about the time
the exposition was formally pro-
nounced open. and waved the same sig
nal which he received thirty-one years
ago from Gen. Sherman and waved To
Gen. Corse.
When the parade reached the EXPOSE
ton grounds the official party proceed
cd 70 the auditorium. Judge Emory
Spcer, OF the United States court at
Macon. delivered the address of
the day lie was followed by
Mrs. Joseph Thompson, chairman OF
tile woman's board. Booker T. WASH
ington, OF Muskeqee, Ala, one OF the
leading colorcd men Of this country,
spoke on behalf OF the negro board.
Mr.. AlbcrslIowcll, prominent menu
Der OF the Atlanta bar, read stately
ode written by Mr.. Frank l.. stanton,
the south's best known poet of to-day.
An address by Gov. Atkinson, of
Georgia, was read by Gen Brown.
President Charles Il. Collier. of the
exposition company, reviewed the work
OF building the exposition.
When he concluded his speech he
called Gray Gables, which had direct
wire communication by the Western
Union line with the auditorium. This
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President Cleveland touched the cleo
trio button and thereby started the
ponderous engines ia Machinery hall.
Then pandemonium Of noise fol-
lowed and the exposition was formally
open
A great crowd OF people gathered in
the machinery hall before the close OF
the exercises in the Auditorium. walt
ing to see the magic influence Of
the touch that came over the
wires for 1000 miles 20 set the
machinery in motion. The big Prick
engine was In readiness, and row Of
batteries rested near the engineer.
just at 5:54:e0 the president touched the
button, the whistle sounded, and
the engine moved of at lively
gait and all the machinery followed
suit The great crowd sent up shout
that shook the roof Almost stimuli
taneously hundreds OF arc lights
flashed out ON the plaza, and myriads
OF incandesccnt lights CLEANED and
scintillatcd from the cornices
and domcs OF the womans' build.
ing and the Government build
ing. IL was dusk, and in
he gathering darkness. the shouts Of
the crowd. the flash OF the lights and
the noise OF the bomh1 OF the presiden-
tlal salute emphasized the formal open
ing Of the exposition.