The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-30
Courier of Progress Expo
sitiOn Invites All Keno
sha to Chicago.
IAN IDEAL VACATION

"how-do-ye -dos" of business men in
regular clothes. The curio in the
masquerade makeup was the official
crier for the Pageant of Progress to
be held in Chicago from July 80th to
August 14th; he had come to Kenosha
to solve the battling question, Where
shall l spend my vacation?"
His answer follows, just as he de-
livered it to Mayor Joachim with deep
voice and appropriate gestures:
Il am the town crierl I come from
the Pageant of Progress Exposition
which will be held in Chicago from
July 30th to August 18th. I depict the
cation, and although 1 hold the bell
that summoned citizens of old to
central point to receive the news of
the day, still I am a modern messen-
ger from great city. l have come
by motor to invite you, Mr.. Mayor,
and you, citizens of Kenosha, to the
Pageant of Progress Exposition. l
cordially invite you, on behalf, of Chi
cago, to spend your vacation with us
at the Pageant of Progress"
A Great Business.
The scene of the exposition will be
the city's magnificent $5,00O00O MUM
cipal Pier, extending 5000 feet into
Lake Michigan and swept by cool
breezes, no matter what the weather
may be inland,
The exposition is primarily a great
business show, designed to support
Chicago's claims as a great central
market, but combined with the bust
ness and industrial display will be an
amusement and entertainment program
of a character impossible of presenta-
ton except as an adjunct to a great
exposition. It will be the greatest
event this city has seen since the
worlds fair of 1898.
Two great sheds, each 2340 feet long
and 81 feet wide, on the upper deck
of the Municipal Pier, will house the
main portion of the exposition. Here
will be placed the exhibits of furni-
ture, shoes; furs, automobiles, both
passenger cars and trucks, food pro-
ducts, clothing, building materials, of
fee appliances, paper products, must
cal instruments, electrical devices, ma
chinery, chemicals, dry goods, bever-
ages, and the thousand and one other
products which Chicago manufactures
or distributes.
In connection with the exposition
Iyr7i11 10 Io1J IL
exhibition, being given its second
presentation under the direction of DR..
John Dill Robertson, health commits
sioner of Chicago. The actual cash
value of good health and how to OBJ
tain and maintain it will be shown
in many striking ways.
A baby show in which the best
babies of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Iowa will compete for
a grand prize will be central feature
of the health show.
Exhibits of Exports.
In addition to the hundreds of Chi
cago business men and firms who will
exhibit in the exposition scores of
manufacturers from other states will
also be represented. The tremendous
business getting possibilities of the
exposition have also been recognized
by twenty-one republics of Central
and South America, who will have
exhibits of the products which they
export to the United States.
Mayor Thompson, president of the
exposition, a corporation not for
profit, insisted from the first that the
exposition be "seventy-fve per cent
business and twenty-five per cent con-
fetti," but the confetti" section alone
will be twenty-five shows in one.
The naval reserve of six lake states
will hold their annual summer prac-
tice maneuvers off the Municipal Pier
during the exposition. Five gunboats,
three destroyers, and a whole fleet of
subchasers and smaller craft, with full
crews of members of the United States
Naval Reserves, will participate in sham
battles and naval evolutions, and 1000
tars from the Great Lakes Naval Train
ing station will establish a camp
at the pier and take part in the
naval events and parades through the
city in the evening.
A Choral Contest.
A song festival will be another feat
ure. More than 700 church choirs and
singing societies, including in their
membership more than 10000 trained
singers, will take part. At night 1000
singers will be placed on each gun
boat. The gunboats will be ranged in
a circle off the pier, and on a barge
in the center of the circle will be a
band of 200 pieces, directed by a
leader with an electric lighted baton,
which will accompany the great chorus
in popular and patriotic songs, in
which the entire crowd on the pier
will be invited to join.
The fastest speed boats in the
country will take part in a four days
racing program over a two-and-a-half
mile course laid out between the pier
and the outer breakwater, in full sight
of the spectators all the way. 1t is
estimated that from the pier and
the shore 100000 persons will be able
to view these races.
The Flying Circus.
Aeroplanes from the United States
army and navy and mail service will