Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-05
IT IS M'KINLEY DAY
Chief Magistrate At the Buffalo
 Exposition.
THE PRESIDENT MAKES SPEECH

Complimented the Exposition For The
 Vast Amount of Good It Will Do
 The Attendance Was Large and the
 President Was Cordially Greeted on
 All Sides-His Speech Was Listened
 To With Close Attention.
 Buffalo. \. r., Sept 5.-Presidents day at the Pan-American exposition dawned bright and clear with the tenn perature sufficiently low to make the day all that could be desired.
 It was evident from the crowds on the streets early in the morning that the attendance would be large. Busi- ness houses and private residences were gaily decorated with flags and bunting. and banners were stretched from windows and across streets, bear ing words of welcome to the president and expressive of the sentiment which the great fair is designed to foster, peace to pan-America-
 Although the time announced for departure of the president from the home of MT AIilburn in Delaware ave nue was 10 o'clock. crowds began to gather in front of the house as early as g o'clock.
 Promptly at 10 o'clock the presi- dent emerged from the home of Mir MiIburn. Mrs Mckinley, accompanied him. walking by his side. without as sistance. A great burst of cheers greeted them which the president ac- knowledged by lowing and raising his hat The president and Mrs McKin- ley entered the first carriage and John G. Milburn. president of the exposi- tion. and Mrs William Hamlin, of the body of women managers. the second.
 An escort of twenty mounted police and twenty members of the signal corps surrounded the two carriages and the cavalcade set out at brisk trot for the Lincoln park way entrance to the grounds. The carriages were followed by number of drags and tally-hos. their occupants blowing fanfares and adding animation to the scene.
 At the entrance to the exposition grounds the president was met by de fachments of United States marines, and the seacoast artillery, and the Six fy-fifth and Seventy-fourth N. G. $. N. I. regiments under General S. M. Welch. A presidential salute of twenty one guns was fired. The president was at once escorted to the stand erected in the Esplanade.
 What was probably the greatest crowd that ever assembled on the Es- planade at the Pan-American grounds greeted the president with ringing cheers as he entered the stand erected there. The Esplanade was crowded to suffocation and the vast assemblage overhowed to the Court of Fountains. President Milburn introduced the pres ident as follows:
 Ladies and gentlemen: The presi- dent"
 President Mckinley arose and spoke as follows: President MiIburn Di- rector General Buchanan, Commis- sioners. ladies and gentlemen: "I am glad to be again in the city of Buffalo and exchange greetings with her people, to whose generous hospital ity am not a stranger and with whose good will I have been repeatedly and signally honored. To-day I have ad- dItionaI satisfaction in meeting and giving welcome to theforeign represent
 
 and participation in this exposition have contributed in so marked a degree to it's interest and success. To the commissioners of the Dominion of Canada and the British colonies, the French colonies, the republics of Mexi- co and of Central and South Africa, and the commissioners of Cuba and Porte Rico. who share with us in this undertaking, we give the hand of fel- lowship and facilitate with them upon the triumphs of art science, education and manufacture which the old has bequeathed to the new century.
 Propositions are the time-keepers of progress They record the worlds ad- vancement- They stimulate the energy enterprise and intellect of the people, and quicken human genius They go into the home. They broaden and bright en the daily life of the people They open mighty storehouses of information to the student
 Every corporation, great or small, has helped to some onward step. Com parison of ideas is always educational, and as such instructs the brain and hand of man. Friendly rivalry fol- lows. which is the spur to industrial Improvement, the inspiration to use fuI invention and to high endeavor in nll departments of human activity. 1t exacts a study of the wants, comforts and even the whfms of the people and recognizes the efficacy of equality and new prices to win their favOrs. The quest r<trade Is an incentive to men of business to devise. invent, improve and economIze in the cost of pr0duc- tlon- Business life, whether among ourselves or with other peoples, is ever a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be cIinging to the clumsy and antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago. and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. But though commercial com Detifors we are. commercial enemies we must not be
 The Pan-American exposition has done it's work thoroughly, presenting M ifs exhibits evidences of the highest sz.I and Illustrating the progress of tte human family In the western hem Itrhere. This portion of fhe earth has n4 r0Q8e for humiliation for the part q. has performed fn the march of civ IIf1tltr. It has not accomplished ev- |[ [...rr q e I--