The Green Forest tribune., 1903-05-09
WORLDS FAIR DEDICATION.
The Great Event as Seen by the
 Editor of The Tribune.

Combining business with pleas- ure THE TRIBUNE editor went to St. Louis last week to witness the exercises and ceremonies attend ing the dedication of the build ings of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held in that city next year..
 Neither time, space nor ability permits us to make compre- aK KoEive report of the event. We shall only give it small mention. The great procession was head ed by platoon of mounted police, followed by carriages car rying the president of the United States, distinguished guests, and diplomatic corpse. Then came governors of states and terri tories, followed by a military column embracing every depart- of arms of the United States, numbering more than 12000 troupes. Regimental and ma- rine bands furnished music for each section of the parade. Every species of gun now used by the war department were ex- hibited in this great display, in- cluding number of 10-inch guns, the largest ever brought to the interior of the country.
 It took the parade more than two hours to pass given point. Besides the march through the fair grounds the parade passed over about three miles of streets {, of the city and on both sides of se line of march the people were 7crowded about as long as they could be damned. Temporary seats erected for the purpose of resting while viewing the parade sold as high as two dollars each.
 Our scribe was fortunate ill getting standing room in the second tier from the wire enclos- ing the street and, having been provided with an official outline of the order of the parade, we were prepared to check up the different departments as they passed and know at all times where we were "at." The two and a half or three hours spent in the same tracks, as the wind whistled a fierce gale that was extremely chilly, would have grown wofully monotonous but for the extraordinary event to be Witnessed.
 Beside President Roosevelt and President Cleveland, there were at the head of this great parade probably more than two hundred distinguished na- tional characters. The president rode standing in an open carriage, Facing the rear, and with uncov- cred head he bowed his acknowl- Judgements of the thousands of cheers that filled the air as he passed along.
 the fair grounds President
 Msis of the exposition com
 y formally presented the
 ldings of the Louisiana Pur-
 hse Exposition to be held next
 gar to the people of the United Ptates for the purpose of exhibit ng2 2o the people of our own country as well as to those of pther portions of the world the rue greatness of every section of the United States. In behalf of me people President. Roosevelt responded accepting the tender aad predicted that this fair will pc by far the greatest interna-
 lonal exposition in the worlds history.
 The fireworks on Thursday
 ight was something gorgeous, to
 e sure. It was perhaps the
 nost spectacular display ever had
 n the United States, the cost
 eng $50, 1000. It is estimated nat fully a half million people Witnessed this event.
 Having not been present on Plher occasions of the kind the liter is not prepared to measure
 erssonally the success of the
 eolcatory exercises and cere-
 'onies of this great fair, but we ave to pronounce. it all grand,