Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-16
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION DAY
SET FOR APRIL 80.
GRAND ARRANGEMENTS
Freedom of the City Given to the Pres
ident and Notable Military Par
ade One 0. the Features-BaI-
loon to be Set Loose-FloraI Clock
Novelty.


plete. The exercises will occur April
30, but the great fair will not be
opened to the public till next year.
Gen. H. c. Corbin will be grand mar
shall and at 10 in the morning the
freedom of the city will be rendered
F., to the president of the United States
by the mayor of ST. Louis. The mil
itary parade, composed of United
States troops and the national guard
in attendance, will occur. 1t will be
preceded by the president and official
guests in carriages through Forest
park to the exposition grounds, where
presidential salute will be fired and
the parade will be reviewed by the
president. In the afternoon a grand
band concert will occur, and later the
assembly will be called to order by
David r. Francis, president of the ex-
position The ceremonies will be as
follows :
! Invocation by Cardinal Gibbons.
Presentation Of the buildings by
President Francis.
Dedication address by President
Roosevelt.
Chorus, Unfold, Ye Portals.
Address by Grover Cleveland
America with chorus and band ac-
compartment.
Prayer by Bishop E. R. Hendrix.
| Benediction by Rev. Henry C. Pot
ter
! Centennial salute of 100 guns
Evening a grand pyrotechnic dis
play.
For the two following days the Gel
ebration will continue, with speeches
, by the French and Spanish ambassa-
doris and by various governors, music,
cannonading and fireworks.
Prize Balloon.
| A curious feature OF the fireworks
program during the ceremonies will
be the release of a large balloon made
of the finest and lightest oil silk, and
filled with the best of hydrogen. To
this balloon will be attached, under
proper safeguards to prevent injury,
a notice directed to the finder that on
return of the notice to the exposition
officials a season pass to the fair will
be given. 1t is estimated that the
balloon under moderately favorable
conditions will travel a thousand
miles before returning to earth. 1t
is likely that much interest will be
displayed on the night of the balloons
release as to the direction of the wind,
and that localities in the fortunate di-
rection will be on the lookout for the
treasure-laden messenger.
A Floral Clock.
With its mechanical frame quite
beneath beautiful flowers and vari-
colored foliage plants, a mammoth
floral clock that may be seen at the
exposition in 1904 will be by far the
largest timepiece ever constructed.
The mechanism is buried and the
huge dial. 100 feet in diameter, shows
its face six inches above the ground.
The minute hand is SO feet long and
moves feet at each move, and all OF
flowers as to conceal any mechanical,
contrivances. The numerals mark
ing the hour are Is feet in length and
are made of bright colored coleus,
| foliage plant that grows dense and
may be pruned with the gardeners
shears and kept symetrical without
fear of impairing the growth. In
circle surrounding the numerals are
collections of IL distinct plants, each
collection being 25 feet long and IL
feet wide Nature has ordained that
each of these plants should open its
! blossom at a certain hour of the day,
and the great floral clock shows how
the laws of nature are as exact as the
mechanical laws discovered by man.
| AS the hands of the giant clock reach
the mineral naming certain hour
the flowers in the great bed at the
back of the hour so designated begin
to open their buds and to exhale the
perfume peculiar to the plant
Still another mode of computing
time will be shown and this is by the
primitive hourglass. On the south
side of the dial, behind the numeral
that denotes midday or midnight, is
built tower, IL feet square and Is
feet high. The tower is of wood
The top is surmounted with a mann
moth hourglass, made of the heaviest
and clearest crystal, with the recep-
tacles for holding the sand each six
feet in length and four feet in diane
ter, at the base. The hourglass is so
suspended that when the sand Is spent
the glass automatically reverses itself
and another hour is being told off.
Concealed in the tower is the pictur-
esque massive machinery. weighing
tons and controlling the powerful steel
shaft that extends under the center
of the floral dial more than fifty feet
distant The powerful machinery is
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