Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-10-19
BIG PEACE JUBILEE.
CLOSE OF THE WAR CElEBRAT.
ED BY CHICAGO.
President Mckinley and the Nations
Dignitaries Participate in the Great
Festival City Is Filled with an I'M
mense Throng of People.

mense Throng of People.
Chicago special
Not since the Worlds Fair has Chicago
witnessed such stir and enthusiasm. such
| decorations and marchings and festivities
| or such maSsed and cheering crowds as
during the peace jubilee week In some
| respects the peace jubilee has discounted
any of the Worlds Fair festivities The
President and large part of his cabinet
| took part in the exercises, with numerous
| congressman, statesmen and DIPLOMATS,
and all the leading war heroes except
those in the far-off Philippines. In its
military features the jubilee has surpa ssed
anything Chicagoans have seen since the
| days of the civil war. The city donned
holiday attire such as it has never worn
| before, the display of electric lights alone
breaking the worlds record on that score
President Mckinley and most OF the
| other high officials, soldiers and civilians
who We're to take a leading part in the
| weeks exercises arrived in the city Satur-
| day afternoon, coming direct from a tour
of the middle West, which they found
| brlmming over with patriotism. They
| found in Chicago the same sentiments
which animated the people all the way
from Washington to Omaha, but reflected
| on larger scale. If the West taught the
visitors that all other sentiments are merg-
ed IN the one feeling of patriotic pride
| Chicago emphasized the lesson.
Streams of visitors from all over the
| country poured into Chicago. Hundreds
| of thousands of meu and women all over
| the West turned their faces toward the
great commercial capital, and everybody
| who came has been fortunate. 1t was
| worth coming long way merely to see
| the miles of bunting, the million hagS. the
decorated arches, and the myriad electric
| lights that spanned the line of march for
the great civic and military parade. Per
| haps never again will there be an equal
| opportunity to see SO many high digni-
| tarles of the nation at once, and so many
| of the generals and other officers whose
| names have become famous in battles on
| Cuban and Porto Rican soil 1t is not
likely that the present generation will
see the celebration of the close of another
foreign war or any other kind of war.
Those who witnessed or participated in
the Chicago jubilee took part in unique
|
can tell younger generation of the dra-
matte scenes and events witnessed in Chi
cago at the great peace jubilee at the close
of the Spanish war. Its memories will be
worth cherishing for it has been an or
ganic part of great chapter in American
history
Chicago's peace jubilee, which began
| with the Thanksgiving services at the
| Auditorium Sunday night. was a fitting
commemoration of the deeds OF yalor that
swept the Spanish flag from the western
hemisphere. Amid the cheers of six thou
sand people President Mckinley entered
the Auditorium and quietly took seat
in box. The peace jubilee was formally
begun. The enthusiasm and interest dis
| played at the thanksgiving services which
constituted the first event of the great
| celebration of the return of peace were aus
picious auguries of memorial hle week.
The atmosphere was electric with respon-
sive enthusiasm, and Notwithstanding the
religious nature of the gathering Mt the
| Auditorium, every speaker was roundly
| cheered whenever the results of the war
| or any of its heroes were mentioned. But
| this enthusiasm, which seemed warm
enough a all times grew to a white heat
| whenever the President was referred to
| Then the great audience would rise as one
man and fairly go wild. Thousands of
handkerchiefs would iutter, and the clap
| ping of hands, shouting and cheering be-
| came deafening.
Several times the President was moved
by the spontaneity and warmth Of the
greetings to rise and bow Then the de-
| Iohf Of ba INV nn 4
the cheers would last for five minutes at
a time.
| Jews and gentiles. Catholics and Prot
| estants, united their voices in mighty TIE
| Deum in gratitude for peace. The prai ses
OF the Lord were sung that the sword was
sheathed. Glory to God in the highest
was sounded that the red stream of strife
was stopped in its flow and war was at
an end, All the churches of Chicago were
represented in the aSsemblsge that filled
| the vast auditorium from the recesses OF
the great stage to the highest perched seat
in the topmost gallery, aud they were
| represented. too, in the speakers and the
singers WHO gave voice to the services in
| honor of peace between the United States
and Spain
The President Of the Uniled States was
| there listening to Jewish rabbi, Catholic
priest and Protestant minister, standing
when others stood and singing when 9TH
ers sang. The Chinese plenipOtentiary oc-
| cupied another box aud rose and sat as
others did, making himself one Of the cele-
| brants of peace. In another place was
the representative of the distant and iso-
| lated king OF Corea. looking with amaze
| ,,,;fr krf1
| that yose upward from the proscenium
| line like sweeping hiIsides that are rich
with the lmson and gold of autumn
And above these were the galleries rising
| higher and higher and painted with the
| hutterings of ribbons and feathers and
| founces like the harvest colors on the
| hilltops. All the scene was as if it had
| been arranged TO its very details by some
great artist who would fix for the eye a
| living picture that brought to mind the
| time Of gathering the fruit and gram,
| for that is a time of peace.
| How many other thousands >ud have
| lent their ribbons and feathe and
| founces aud the lights Of their faces to
make the picture greater can only be
vaguely estimated. Tho streets all about
the Auditorium were jammed so that even
| in the cool, clear ana bracing October air
J women were suff0cated ana crushed and
were carried away fainting from the surg
| ing crowd struggling in vain to get admis-
sion TO the building
This jubilee. which was projected as if
by a spontaneous impulse and developed
unexpected proportions as the plans near
ed completion, surprised ev'i its project
ors. The President upon his public ap-
pearances was greeted by crowds which
We're counted not by thousands hut by
hundreds of tbousa nds II has been a
week of festival uproar-a week Of i'm
mense parades, great mass meetings aud
glittering illumina atiOns the streets sound
ing with the tread OF soldiery and the
blare Of bands, naval and military officers
in the places of honor, the nations digni-
taries at the head
But greater than all this was the out
pouring of the people In the minds Of
even the idlest spectators it was not the
spectacle bur the occasion which made
this jubilee an event. Many persons who
would have been willing TO miss the dis
play. as a display, felt that they must not
fail to witness historic episode. Pa
rades and public ceremonials may be seen
often enough 10 BECOME tiresome. The
formal celebration OF a nations victorious
peace may come only once in lifetime.
Notes of Current Events.
Mrs. Lille Tzenherg Of Nicksburg Miss,
died Sunday night FROM the effects Of a
spiders bite.
Ex-Treasurer Weber of San Francis