The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-21
THE PAN ERICAN.
Florida Day Will BE Sept. 11-"DIx-
lie" Enthusiasm on the Midway.

Il Florida Day VIII BE Sept. l1-"Dix-
lie" Enthusiasm on the Midway.
Buffalo, Aug. 20.-Large parties are
here from Louisiana, Alabama, Geor-
gia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia. Reports say the trains from
the South are heavily loaded every day.
and that everybody from Dixie who
can afford it is spending his or her
holiday in or near the Exposition City.
Gov. w. w. Heard of Louisiana, tel
egraphed the commissioners here that
he would be pleased if the exposition
authorities would invite all French
Canadians to unite with Louisiana in
celebrating August the 21st, Louisiana
4 Day, at the exposition. Congressman
j Broussard and Prof. Fortier will speak
4 in French, in the Temple of Music on
4 that day. The Governor of Louisiana
and his staff, with the ladies of their
families, will arrive here on a through
train from New Orleans Monday morn
ing at 11:30.
Sept. 5, Presidents Day at the Pan
N American Exposition is expected to
break the record both as to the at
Il tractivenesS of the programme and size
of the crowd. Wednesday, Sept. 4, the
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Mckinley, accom-
panied by party of eleven from
4 Canton, O., will arrive in Buffalo. They
& VIII be the guests of the Hon. John G.
Milburn, president of the Exposition
company. Thursday morning. the
President and Mrs. Mckinley, Mr. and
Mrs Milburn, Director General and
Mrs Buchanan and J. N. Scatcherd.
Esq, VIII drive to the Exposition with
appropriate escort. Inside the Lin
coin Parkway entrance all the United
states troops on the grounds, the Six
ty-n1th and Seventy-fourth State Reg
lhents, will be drawn up to receive
Ihe President. The plan is for the
resident to go to the Stadium, where
ne VIII review a magnificent pageant
ana speak. From the Stadium the
" President will go to the New York
state building, where the New York
State Commission, headed by the Hon.
DANIEL N. Lockwood, will give a lun-
a cheon In the Presidents honor to IT'S
invited guests. After the luncheon the
resident will hold card reception in
tne rotunda of the government build
ing After dinner at President Mil
VIII return to the Triumphal Cause
way to see the illumination.
sept II has been definitely decided
upoh as Florida Day, although futile
eV.oIt was made to change IL. Gov.
w. ;. Jennings and his staff escorted
py three military companies and two
ponds from Florida, will enter the
grounds at II o'clock and proceed to
.ue temple of Music, where the direc-
,or general will deliver an address of
NeIeome. The Governor will speak on
ne resources of Florida. The orator
y. the day will be Charles Parkhill,
I1sq'' or Pensacola, Fla, one of the
Trost eloquent speakers in the South.
me ne presiding officer will be Col
iHonas M. Wier OF Tampa, special
.olninlssioner to the Pan-American Ex-
I9S, llon for Florida. Appropriate music
III De interspersed. This programme
l!4y De elaborated II the Press Associ-
auon OF Florida. 800 in number, can
"'Tehd on the date designated, Sept. IL.
last night many of your readers
tWouId have felt very much at home on
ne Midway. Some of them, especially
eIe confederate veterans, would have
.Hperlenced peculiar sensations when
ey saw groups of West Point cadets
Earring uniforms the color OF the genu-
~ ~ old Confederate grayi A group OF
..eeese cadets stopped in front of the
Tueets OF Mexico" when a sightseer
called out TO them:
what's you slater"
diets. ieu SeVerai Vi 'ne ca
lth this some one cheered and the
SS@HNinaster overhearing the reply, or
usIe1 Dixie" to be played. This was
-. signal for a spontaneous outburst
~ ""ieh swept the Midway from one end
'He other. The darkies in the "Oid