Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-05-05
OPENING OF EXPOSITION.
Great Exposition Has an AuspIcicus
..... Beginning.

Great Exposition Has an AuspIsicus
..... Beginning.
st. Louis, May 2.-Representing a
larger expenditure than any similar
enterprise heretofore attempted on
this continent, greater in it's ambition
and wider in its scope than any pre-
vious effort of it's kind, the Louisiana
Purchase exposition was formally
opened Saturday afternoon.
The inaugural exercises could hard
ly have been improved upon. They
were simple and were carried through
without delay and wilAout a halt of
any description.
The weather, Notwithstanding the
predictions of the weather bureau,
which promised a gloomy morning, a
threatening noon and rainy even
ing, was without a flaw. No fairer
day from dawn to sunset could have
been hoped for. The sun was warm,
but tempered by pleasant breeze
whose temperature was sufficient to
cool, and too mild to chill.
The handling Of the crowds, the
guarding of the enclosures, sacred to
the participants in the exercises, and
the police work generally could not
have been beltered. This work was
in the hands of officers of the regular
army who directed the exposition
guards in all their duties and was
done as the regular army man does
things in general-promptly, thor
oughly and without fuss. .-....r
Extreme care had been taken in
the arrangements of the days pro-
gramme. Its length had been calcu-
lated to a nicely that all things
might be finished at noon exactly.
but as is usual in such cases, the
programme dragged out beyond its ex-
pected time. 1t was arranged that
President Roosevelt should press the
button at exactly II O'CLOCK, but when
that hour arrived several of the ad-
dresses had not been completed.
At approximately AL:15, st. Louis
time, the signal was given to Presi-
dent Roosevelt that all things were
ready. His response was quick and
in few seconds came the answer.
ing touch over the wire from the
White house This officially opened
the exposition, but 1t was determined
to conclude tine programme, and the
signal for the actual opening, for the
unfurling of flags, the ringing of bells
and the operation Of the great cas-.
cades was not given by Director OF
Works Taylor until 1904. 1t was sew
eral minutes later than that when
President Francis of the exposition
formally announced that the fair was
open to the world.
He made the declaration with a
laugh, for the bands were playing
the crowds were cheering and the
people were scrambling from their
seats to watch the rise of the curtain
upon the drama with whose prologue
of five long years they were all fam
iliar. From the time that director
of Works Taylor waved his baton
with the fiuttering ribbon Of white
as a signal for the actual opening
the exposition as the epitome Of hui
| man achievement was the thing with
the people, and speeches of men were
in the back ground. President Fran
! els was the first to realize this, and
his hearty laugh as he shouted to
his fleeing audience showed his I'M
qualified joy in the fact.
| MARCHING ON vLAoIVosTok.
Third Japanese Army To Make That
Port Objective Point.
London, April 29.-It is announced
from Shanghai that the third Japan
csc army now mobilizlng will COM
| prise the fifth, tenth and eleventh
| divisions Preparations are on foot
to mobilize a fourth army should it
| become necessary.
The destination of these armies
| is a matter of considerable specula-
| ton, though it is supposed that 1t
may be the intention to use them
| against Vladivostok or Port Arthur.
! No further light has been thrown
| on the operations on the Yalu and In
! the absence of official dispatches little
| attention is paid to Russian reports
! of Japanese reverses. which it is be.
| lieyed are spread with the motive OF
| influencing the European money mar
| kets I'm favor Of Russian financial
! operations.
! No definite news has been received
regarding the whereabouts of the
| -Vladivostok squadron, but the indi
| cations are that it has regained
| Vladivostok harbor.
! Japanese Vessels Off Port Arthur
! st. Petersburg, April 30.-Viceroy
AIexieff telegraphs under yesterdays
date that Japanese ships were sighted
six miles off Port Arthur Thursday
night and that yesterday morning ten
| Japanese cruisers and six torpedo
| boats were seen in an adjacent bay
TWO Hundred Were Drowned.
Nagasaki, Japan, April 30.-Ths
! Japanese steamer Kinshui-Maru, which
was sunk by the Russians near Gen
San, resulting in the drowning of zoo
Japanese troops, was attached to the
| feet as q dispatch boat.
"Let us at least give trolley cars
and automobiles the credit for making
us very active race" remarked thu
thoughtful theorist.