The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
Iauds the state of which He Is the
Chief Executive and Also Pays
"a Tribute 10 Ohio.
PROUD DAY FOR A SISTER CITY
1T CELEBRATES THE CENTENNIAL
OF ITS INCORPORATION.
weII-KnoVvn Men Deliver Addresses-
Message of Regret from Pres
fdent Roosevelt.

CINCINNATI, March 5.-Tne centennial
of the incorporation Of Cincinnati was
celebrated to-day with appropriate exer-
cises by the municipal authorities. both
executive and legislative. the Chamber OF
Commerce and other organizations On or
ders from the War Department at Wash
ington a salute of twenty-One guns was
fired at noon from the batteries at Fort
Thomas, situated several miles from the
city in the Kentucky highlands. At the
City Hall in the afternoon addresses were
made by Mayor Fleischmann. City Clerk
Edwin Henderson, Police Commissioner
George Henshaw, Fire Commissioner w.
4. Perkins. Judge Moses F. Wilson, George
Puchta, president of the Business Mems
Club, General Michael Ryan, of the Board
OF Trade. and others.
The centennial of the city was celebrated
by appropriate exercises in all of the
schools At noon the Aims Battery fired
one hundred guns from Eden Park on one
OF the highest hilltops. At that hour the
fire bells rang for some time and other
elements of demonstration and noise were
in evidence.
The closing and browning event was a
banquet tonight by the Chamber of Com
ton in the city. The decorations with pic
lures. bunting and electric lights in the
great hall of the chamber were very elab-
crate. There were $50 plates turned. AS
the guests filed into. the great hall it was
illuminated with over two thousand candles
which soon gave way TO a great transfer
nation of electric lights. At the time
the figures of 1902 at one end of the hall
dropped down and those of 1902 were light
ed up.
Before introducing NJ. +. ingalls,, presi-
dent of the Big Four Railway, as toast
master Of the evening. President w. w.
Granger. of the Chamber of Commerce,
delivered address. and Secretary Charles
Il. Murray read letters of cOngratulation
from President Alexander Allison, of the
Merchants Exchange at Memphis; Presi-
dent Joel Cook. of the Board OF Trade Of
Philadelphia; w S. Harvey. president of
the Chamber of Commerce of New York;
$ w. Wamsley. president of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange. members of Con-
gress and Others on their inability TO be
present Among the letters of regret was
the following from President Roosevelt:
II have been much gratifed by the cor
diality of the invitation extended TO me
by your committee to attend the Cincinnati
centennial banquet. aud am more than
sorry that IL will be impossible for me
TO De present. ! thank you and your as
sOciates most heartily for your kind
thought of me. and | send through you
10 the people OF Cincinnati my sncerest
congratulations, and best wishes for the
complete success of the celebration"
President ingalls, delivered an address
on the application of art in beautifying
the city in its second century. Mayor
Julius Fleschmann delivered a most fell
citous welcome on behalf of Cincinnati and
Governor Nash on behalf Of Ohio The
latter also spoke at length on the centen-
nial of Ohio. which was admitted into the
Union in the same year that Cincinnati
was incorporated.