Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-19

not secure even passing comment in north
ern India. There the streets Of the cities
are damned from house line to house line
from early morning TIL late at night in the
mere transaction of the days work. A
view of one of these everyday crowds go
ing about its business cannot fail to in
spire one with feeling of awe at thought
of the vast, compact population which
makes such crowds common.
Northern 1ndia's real crowds collect on
the festival days. Then, in the words of an
English officer who has grown weary trying
to convey some idea of the size of these
crowds, they are fundamentally enor
NOUS" The thousands Of every day become
tens of thousands, side streets as we'll as
the principal thoroughfares are jammed,
and to an occidental it would seem that all
the swarthy Caucasians of the universe
have been brought together in one spot.
Americas Record Crowd
One of the worlds record breaking crowds
was that which assembled at the Chicago
worlds fair on Chicago day, October 9. 1899.
1t was the largest crowd this country has
ever known, and this also holds true of
Europe, at least as far back as the records
reach.
The crowd began forming long before
dawn, and by $50 o'clock many as a
thousand persons were packed about each
of the gates to the grounds. By 4 in the
afternoon over four hundred thousand had
passed through the gates, and those who
hocked fairward after that hour brought
the attendance up to seven hundred. thou
sand, round figures. In fact every Chica-
goan who could crowd into the great inclos-
ure to help along the celebration OF his
city's greatness.
Perhaps the two men of this vast crowd
who attracted the greatest attention were
Simon Pokaron and Chief John Young, Pot
tawatomie Indians. Chief John Young, fac
ing a of upturned pale faces. told how
his father, OF the same name, had given
Chica IT'S and with true aboriginal
candor he interpreted it to mean where
the skunk dwells." Simon Pokaron stood
by Chief John Young's side because he was
born on that September q sixty-three years
before, when his father decided to govern
ment agents the land on which Chicago has
been built
The Chicago worlds fair was notable for
It's great crowds. Illinois day brought out
nearly 244,0 persons; Independence day,
2S3 600: transportation day, 231 900; Polish
day. 222 ,0o0:N railroad day, 100000.
Prior to Chicago day the greatest crowd
ever at an exposition numbered 397 $50, to
a man, and 1t collected at that Paris exposi-
ton made famous by the Eiffel tower. The
record breaking crowd at the Philadelphia
exposition numbered PIT 526
Our Most Famous Crowd.
The most famous of all American crowds
assemblies once every four years. 1t is the
presidential inauguration crowd. and an
English writer who beFeld the patriotic tens
of thousands massed about the inaugural
stand, and standing patiently In down
pouring rain during the ceremonies, wrote
that it is lone of the most inspiring among
the events of the world" Many persons
who would fight shy of crowd at any other
time travel long distances to become COM
ponent parts of this crowd, and the average
American undoubtedly has a more or less
definite notion that before he dies he will
journey to Washington to witness inaug
uration.
Our sea resort crowds ever grow larger. 1t