Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1900-10-03
Spokane Exposition Opened.

Spokane Exposition Opened.
The Spokane Industrial Exposition
opened its doors promptly on time
Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock.
Among all the other attractions at the
Exposition this year, and there are
many of them, the one first mentioned,
most often spoken of and most enjoy
ed was the music of the royal marine
band of Italy.
A large crowd was present at the ope-
ming of the big fair. The band led a
procession which marched down River
side avenue amid the cheers of the peo-
pie. Next to the band came the God
dess Of Plenty, Miss Lula Kirby, the
choice of Nez Perez county, Idaho,
which last year won the first prize for
the best exhibition of fruits, grains,
grass seed, roots and vegetables. She
rode in the same carriage which was
presented to Abraham Lincoln by the
business men of New York city after
his second election. Her costume and
that Of her attendants was of the CO.
lOnial style.
On reaching the grounds the Goddess
Of Plenty and her retinue halted at the
pavilion and the band proceeded the
Goddess and her Attendants, then enter
ed the pavilion, and as she assembled to
the platform, chorus made up of 1000
children, selected from the best voices
in the public schools above the fourth
Uradn ca1I1fod har. xrrifh ha
bars of the grand chorus. This chorus
was under the direction of DR.. R. A.
Heritage.
Following the rendition of the open
opening ode, which formally opened
chorus the Goddess announced the
opening code, which formally opened
Spokane's Industrial Exposition. This
ode was composed by Miss Pauline
Dunstan, the Spokane elocutionist, and
Ii as follows:
Loyal subjects, one and all,
Gathered at my mandates call,
Greeting here your Goddess brings,
While the joyous welcome rings.
For your pleasures you will find,
Treasures rare in form and kind,
Golden grains and fruits SO fair,
Ores from old earth's hidden lair,
Dances tripped by dainty feet,
Music grand and songs most sweet.
These your Goddess gives to thee,
For your pleasures, full and free.
Take them, use them for your cheer,
Emblems Of bounteous year.
Thus let gladness have full sway
And begin our festal day.
The ode was followed by the opening
address by DR.. e. D. Olmsted, president
of the Exposition and by Mayor ]. M.
Comstock.
The Exposition this year as far as
the exhibits are concerned is fully up to
those of former years ano in some re-
spects is better. In the agricultural
and fruit departments the exhibit
from Neg Perez county, under the
charge Of the Hon. Thomas G. Kirby,
is very large and contains about every
thing which can be raised in the North
temperate zone. But a striking
change in the agricultural department
Is the large number of exhibitors who
are competing for the different prizes
offered for the best individual exhibits
of farm and fruit exhibits. There are
many more of these than ever before
and they are much better. This is one
of the striking features of the agricul-
tural departments.
The mineral departments is all that
1t was last year with many new camps
represented. This is one of the best
and most important parts of the big
show. A poultry department and ma
chinery department are interesting
sections.
But the attractions at the Exposition
which brings more people and which
holds them there longer and causes
more admiration than anything else
and everything else is the band. Such
a musical organization never before
came west. 1t is wonderland; is
equally admired by the best musicians
and by those who do not pretend to be
musicians or Judges OF music. There
are forty members of this band and in
eluded in that number are a dozen So
loists whicl 4 ,kes very attractive,
part OF the Z gram.
Outside OF the t,nd, t. rs kedt at
traction at the Sition Is Atlantis,
the globe and and juggloressl
who Is the line ever eelen'
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