The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-15

the presiding officer, will tender the
buildings and grounds to Hon. Thomas
II. Carter, president of the national
commission. who will then turn them
over to the president of the United
States.
The religious portion of the exercises
will he conducted by Cardinal Gibbons
and Bishops Hendrix and Potter, as
sisted by chorus of 1000 voices COM
posed Of members of the Choral Sym
phony society. the Saengerfest chorus,
the Morning Choral club and the
Apollo club.
The exercises will be attended not
only by President Roosevelt and the
members Of his cabinet, but also by the
foreign ambassadors and ministers at
Washington. the chief justice and as
sociate justices of the United States
supreme court, numerous members of
both houses of congress, army and
navy officers and governors of many
states and territories.
Prior to the dedicatory exercises.
which will be held in the afternoon Of
April 30, there will be military pa
rade under the command of Major
General Henry G. Corbin as grand
marshal.
The governors of the Louisiana pur-
chase states will be present. accompa-
MED by their stats. The governors of
many other states will also participate
in the ceremonies. In the parade there
are expected to be over 5000 govern
ment troops and 10000 members Of the
national guard of Missouri and ada
cent states.
Pyrotechnic displays will form not
able feature of the celebration. The
fireworks display will cover the entire
three days and provide both day and
evening displays. Among the features
will be the unfurling Of an American
flag 300 by 400 feet in size and the
flags Of several of the leading nations
of the world 200 by 800 feet in size.
These will be carried 1000 feet into
the air by seven immense balloons, and
there the fireworks Of which they are
composed will be set off
One OF the set pieces will be a repre-
full size. of the illuminated
cascades and colonnades of the Cas-
cade gardens. This will be more than
fifty feet high, with the central fea-
ture 200 feet high and the whole over
quarter of mile long. There will be
flights of 100 rockets of various kinds
flights of 100 bombs, LOCO triple stat
candles, 500 mammoth prismatic whiI1-
winds. volIeys of 1000 showers. grand
bouquet of 5000 large eolored rockets,
d Jacobs ladder consisting Of 1000 spe.
cial rockets and an illumination of the
park.
Abundan means of entertainment
will be provided, including numerou
musical events. and three days of gay
ETY. such as no American city has ever
before furnished are promised, In which
It Is expected more than 10000 people
will join.
1t will be Il fitting prelude to the form !
II opening of the great fair aud furnish
visitors with something of a forefaste
Of the delights that await them next
rear. BY the way, the preparations
Tor the exposition go on apace.
The demand for exhibit space in all
is such that it will I'M
Ioubtedly pe all taken months before
he opening day. Allotments are being
made rapidly. The value of the annual
,roduct of manufacturing industries in
he United States has increased 30 per
.ent since tie Columbian exposition at
Chicago Notwithstanding the far
greater area of exhibit space for the
Louisiana Purchase exposition in COM
,arison with the Chicago fair it is real
y less in proportion to the probable
demands from the manufacturers and /
PRODUCERS in the United States and for
ign countries.
JOSEPH E. BUCK.