The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-01
ST. LOUIS HAS OPENED
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.

HE GhEAI EkPUSI Jun.
(Continud From First Page.)
hymn was by John Knowles Payne, and
its words which were as follows, were
written by Edmund Clarence Stedman:
0 Thou, whose glorious orbs on high
Engird the earth with splendor
round,
From out Thy secret place draw nigh
The courts and temples of this
ground.
Eternal Light,
Fill with Thy might
These domes that in Thy purpose
grew,
And lift a nations heart anew!
Ilumine Thou each pathway here.
To show the marvels God hath
wrought
Since first Thy peoples chief and seer
Looked up with that prophetic
thought,
Babe Time unroll
The fateful scroll,
And empire unto Freedom gave
From cloudland hight to tropic wave.
Poured through the gateways of the
North
Thy mighty rivers join their tide,
And on the wings of morn sent forth
Their mists the far-off peaks divide.
BY Thee unsealed,
The mountains yield
Ores that the wealth of Ophir shame.
And gems enwTought of seven-hued
flame.
Lo, through what years the soil hath
lain
Al thine our, time m Give ipcraa Sc
The greater and lesser grain.
The ripening boil the myriad fleece!
Thy creatures Craze
Appointed ways;
League after league across the land
The ceasless herds obey Thy hand.
Thou whose high archways shine most
clear
Above the plenteous Western plain,
Thine ancient tribes from round the
sphere
To breathe its quickening air are
fain;
And smiles the sun
To see made one
Their brood throughout Earths green
est space,
Land of the new and lordlier race!
Hartman on Railroads.
Addresses were then made by Mayor
Rolla Wells for st. Louis. ex-senator
Thomas II. Carter, for the National
Commission; Senator II. T.. Burnham
for the Senate, and Representative
James A. Tawney for the House, and
f. II. Hartman. for the domestic ex-
hibitors. Mr.. Hartman, in discussing
the railway question, said
The combination of different rail-
ways should be regulated by law. SO
&c haa v1ooog.sarrr bo in,
terest should be protected by law, but
in so far as the law Obstructs such
combinations without public benefit it
is unWise and prejudicial to the public
interest. l do not deny that such I'M
friendly and obstructive legislation
may have been in part caused by I'M
wise and arbitrary acts of railway
managers, but the evolution of expert
ence has largely removed the condi-
tons which produced & conflict be-
tween state and railway interests, and
the time has certainly come when the
state should no longer unnecessarily
burden or obstruct these interests, but
should cooperate in improving the
condition of transportation"
After Michel LaGrave, commits
sioner general for France, spoke for
the foreign exhibitors. Secretary of
War w. II. Taft, acting as the repre-
otlitdliNt VI lHE IitSlutIl VI the
United States, delivered the address of
the day.
Immediately upon the conclusion of
the address of Secretary Taft, Direc-
tor of Works Isaac S. Taylor, who
stood at the base of the Louisiana
monument, waved a white ribbon to
men at the various industrial build
ings as "A signal, the mechanism used
to unfurl the banners was put in opera
ton, and instantly thousands of flags
futtered from the poles on the many
buildings of the exposition. To the
thousands of visitors who could not
be at the scene where the exercises
were being conducted, 1t was the first
sign that the fair was formally OPEN
ed to the public. AS the hundreds of
emblems floated in the breezes, the
crowds of sightseers, with shouts of
admiration in many portions of the
grounds, started for the various view
places, the banners lending an air of
activity to the impressive scene, while
bands throughout the grounds render
ed inspiring music BETTING the occa-
sion.
The throng of visitors promenaded
the various boulevards, saw the i'm
mense cascade-the first public view of
1t in operation-sought the exhibits that
appealed to them, and viewed the in
teresting sights of THE Pike" corre-
spending to the Midway of the Worlds
Columbian Exposition