Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-04-30
READY
FOR THE
DEDICATION

al day before the Worlds fair dedica-
ton finds the streets packed with
people. Special trains are bringing In
thousands every hour.
Fourteen thousand soldiers are now
here and ten thousand more will ar
rive before midnightGeneral Miles and
Adjutant General Corbin are here, and
also Senators Depew, Cullom Doliver,
Burnham. Berry, Martin, Foster, Hans
brough, Teller. Mitchell, Penrose, Lat
inner. Clark, Hepburn. Gamble, Smoot
Hanna and Spooner, Many congress-
men, governors with STATS, State
Worlds fair boards and others are en-
route or already present.
President Roosevelt arrives This af
ternoon and will Immediately make
speech before the National Good
Roads convention. Tomorrow in the
Liberal Arts building the president
will address the largest audience ever
assembled under one room.
ST. LOUIS. MoM., April pa null
titude OF visitors is pouring into St
Louis in anticipation of the coming OF
President Roosevelt and the dedication
tomorrow of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition. During the past twenty
four hours, all incoming trains have
been heavily loaded, and reports from
railroad authorities indicate that by
nightfall the crowd will be the largest
ever gathered in this city Hotels and
boarding houses are filed to overflow
ing, and the streets of the down town
district are literally jammed with peo.
people. Since last night parties of no
tables have been arriving in quick
succession. The reception committee
has stupendous task on its hands.
but the thoroughness with which 1t
has made its arrangements is evidenc-
ed by today's results. Foreign diplo-
mats governors and their staffs and
innumerable other. public men have
poured into the city on every train,
from the North and South. the East
and West. AS rapidly as they arrived
they have been received at the station
uy members of the reception commit
tee and escorted to the quarters as
signed the.A Marching soldiers and
playing tinds are to be encountered
at every turn. The number of troops
that are pouring into the city is with
~out precedent. An idea of the tre-
mendous total may be had from the
statement that New York state alone
has sent 1000 soldiers, representative
of all branches of the service Iowa
Ohio, Kentucky. Illinois and many
other states are well represented In
the great army of militiamen that has
invaded the city. Under the able man
agement of Adjutant General Corbin
and his aides the soldiers welfare is
being looked after. The governors
and their military STATS. the militia
men from score of states, jackies
from the monitor Arkansas and Unit
ed States troops to total of several
thousand will combine to make a mill
tary pageant tomorrow worth going
hundreds of miles to see.
The presidential special is due to
arrive here late this afternoon. The
president will be met at Keokuk by
Governor Dockery of Missouri and a
citizens reception committee, who will
accompany him to St. Louis. Upon ar
iiving in the city, the distinguished
guest will be escorted to the home OF
former Governor Francis. whose guest
he will he during his stay in the city.
Former President Cleveland and a
humber of other distinguished visitors
also are to be entertained by Mr..
Francis. The stay of President Roose-
welt is so brief that there will be little
tine for him to participate in any pub
Lc functions except those Immediately
connected with the dedication of the
exposition. The Siegel monument as
sociation, however. has obtained the
consent of the president to attend a
gathering in behalf of the memorial to
he held in Music hall tonight. 1t is
expected that Mr. Roosevelt will make
brief address.
At the Worlds fair today the vari
ous officials and their assistants were
literally working with their coats of
setting everything in readiness for the
festivities of the next three days. The
Grand Court, the Liberal Arts building
and other portions of the grounds tha
will be brought into prominence b,
tie dedicatory exercises hav beer
dressed in rainbow fashion with thous
..s.s.is of flags and yards upon yards o
red. white and blue bunting. The ia
cedes Of all the great palaces facini
the court are apparently in finished
state. When the president rides III
the avenue between the great struc
lures tomorrow the scene that vii
greet his eye will be practically tbs
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"oi,eate- the gates of the exposi
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: the undersigned
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