Evening journal., 1899-10-25

Delaware Day exercises at the Ma
tional Export Exposition in Philadel-
phia yesterday were a decided success.
Many people of this city and all parts
of the state took advantage of the cheap
excursion rates and the pleasant
weather with which Old Prob deigned
to provide.
There were no bitches of any sort
in the arrangement or carrying out Of
the program, every exercise going off
without friction. The members Of the
Board of Trade, and the committees on
arrangements and on advertising and
transportation, to whom the credit
of the success of the occasion is given,
are particularly pleased with the happy
result of their labors.
The train bearing Governor Tunnel
ard his staff. Chairman vandegrift
ii0 lis. Of the Board Of Trade COM
H. .cs. the First Regiment Band, the
siaN Saengerbund and about 300
excursionists boarded the special train
that left the p, w. & B. railroad sta
tion at 1915 a. m. The members of the
governors stan were Adjutant-G General
Garrett J.Hart, Brigadier- Generals r. i.
Holiday and Willie N. Ross, Colonels
A. d. Chaytor. Enoch Moore, e. P.
Stacey and o. d. Robinson.
Others in the party were: William
Lawton, president, and Daniel W. Tay-
lor, secretary Of the Board of Trade;
Lewis c. Vandegrift. chairman; Anthony
higgins, L. Irving Handy, Samuel X.
omIln, howard n. Wallace and Henry
&. Conrad, of the program committee
Chairman George fl. Hollis, John S.
Mullin, of the transportation and ad-
yertising committee; General Samuel
A. Macallister, United States consul to
Barbados; United States Marshal John
Cannon Short, Pennock Pusey, George
S. Capelle Councilman, j. B. Oberly
Robert Pennington, Francis +. Gala
CHER, Charles e. White, Harry Both
man, Thomas N. StaytOn, Mrs J.. c.
Vandegrift, J. wilkins Cooch, Edward
COoch, Francis Baldwin, Samuel II
Baynard, o. c. Purdy, Levy COurtmar
Harry NJ. White, Thomas Davis, DR.. e
w. Cooper, of Camden; William r
Finn, OF Newport; Deputy Sheriff:
Benjamin Groves and +. S. Bradley
Deputy Customs Collector William A
Comegys, City Treasurer w. L. Ha
mann and wife, Harry j. Stoeckle, vii
liam II. Kurtz, Charles G. Kurtz, Clar
ence Holt Edward Holland, Thomas
Sterling.
The train arrived at South stree
station at about IL o'clock, where tn,
officers and directors Of the exposition
were on hand to welcome the party.
procession was formed at the railroad
station and, headed by the First Regi
ment Band, the visitors were escortel
to the exposition. The procession wen
direct to the auditorium, where, in an
ticipation of the special exercises, sew
eral thousand persons had congregated
a the stage we're seated Governo
Tunnel and his staff, the Board o
Trade committees, officers OF the Phila
delphia Society of the Sons OF Della
ware. numbering in all about thirty.
Former United States District At
torney Vandegrift presided and opene
the exercises By calling for a selection
from the First Regiment Band. A med
ley of national airs beginning wit
Maryland. My Maryland" and endin
with Yankee Doodle" was played.
Mayor Ashbridge, then, on behalf {
the city, extended a cordial welcome {
the Delawareans. He said:
"One Of the pleasures and honors con
nected with the great National Expol
Exposition is for the city of Philade
phia to extend a welcome to the citie
and states who come to visit us. Thes
buildings are erected to entertain, IN
terest, and, better still, to enlighten nC
alone Philadelphians, but our visitor
not only from sister states, but froi
across the wide ocean.
It does not belong to Philadelphi,
nor to Pennsylvania, but to the Amer
can people from one end of the coui
try to the other. II is to bring II
great industries of our country n,
into competition with one another hi
to let the world know that free Anne
lea can compete for commerce with a
nations.
We extend welcome to you. the pe
pie Of Delaware, who have honored ,
with yonr presence. You wear n
badge Of your state. a badge of homo
YOU are a small state, but you are gre
in all that is great I welcome Won
our homes as we'll as to the expositio,
the gates OF the city are wide omen
you rs are the homes and hearts of.tl