Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-08-26
THE SAYS.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AND
ARTIST OF THE JOURNAL .DO"5
THE CELEBRATION.
The 500 celebration in Bismarck
Saturday last was covered by a special
representative of the Minneapolis Jour
nal, who came up on the 500 train and
remained during the day. Not the
least interesting features of the ac-
count lies in Frank Wings sketches
OF prominent persons caught during
the day. There are excellent like
nesses of Chairman E. A. Williams Of
the speaking exercises. Col. w. c..
Plumber, Farmer Wallace, Mayor
Register, D. r. Streeter, Suct. Derrick,
A. H. Bright, general attorney for the
500, and last but by no means least,
Hon. Dennis Hannifn, squatter gov.
ernor Of North Dakota. Dennis was
caught n the steps Of the Northwest as
he was explaining old times and new
to Chief Engineer Thomas Greene Of
the 500. Wing is a genius at obtain
ing facial lkenesses, and his sketches
are life like and true to, nature. Speak
ing OF, the celebration the Journal cor
respondent says:
The Bismarck of 1902 is no more
like the. f rmer neighborhood Of "sGoy-
ernor' Hannifin's claim than Mime
apolis now is like the west side' Of.
st. Anthony Or Chicago is like the par
ade ground os old Fort Dearborn.
Thus Bismarck celebrated Saturday
an event of much social, political and
commercial Importance in a fashion
that was no less dignified, no less up
todate as it was enthusiastic and en-
joyable.
The town nee famed for '..the dead
Hest likker On the Missoury'' is now
the decorous capital of a prohibition
state. The street that Haunted over
two doors out of three such signs as
"The Sweetheart Dance Hall" Faro,
Roulette-Clean Games for Gentle
men!'' "All Fancy Drinks Carefully
Compounded" is now filled on both
sides, block after block. with handsome
modern brick buildings accommodating
not one saloon but wholesale and re-
tail stores of which many would be a
credit to Nicallet avenue or to State
street.
These circumstances. aided by Da-
kota sunshine and a fine prairie breeze,
brought 5000 or 5000 visitors to Bis
marck Saturday and more than doubled
the population of the capital.
Although the local committees had
less than ten days to prepare the Gel
ebrationl they arranged a program that
recalled stories of the great Willard fes-
tival at St. Paul when the Northern
Pacific road was completed to the
coast. Bismarck was admirably dec
Grated Saturday afternoon with ban
ners, bunting and street arches and
was made brilliant Saturday night with
electric lights Of many colors and with
fireworks. a long procession of art
istic floats, of Philippine veterans from
the new Fort Lincoln, of pretty chill
dren that wuld purse any mothers lips,
and o fcowboy horsemen, riding
ranchers, that would inspire the hen-
Gil Of a Remington, started soon after
the screech of factory whistles, the
basso notes of cannon. and the cheers
of waiting thousands had welcomed the
flag bedecked engine that hauled the
first SooNtrain.. ISL ,
The speeches that followed the pro-
cession conveyed merited c%ongratula-
lions to Bismarck and Dakota from
| speakers worthy of a state known for
it's persuasive orators.
A ball game that achieved the met
ropolitan score of 1 to 0 kept the spec