The St. Louis Republic. [volume], April 30, 1904, PART I, Image 1

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EVEKY INDICATION POINTS TO BROKEN RECORDS
IN OPENING ATTENDANCE AT THE GREAT WORLD'S FAIR.
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Sound of First Click. on
Key From Washington
Bunting Will Wave
From Fair Buildings.
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WILL BE EXACTLY AT NOON.
VISITORS
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Painty Nashville and Grim Law
rence Attract Crowds Who
View Vessels.
CURRENT PREVENTS CALLS.
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Arrangements Completed for
Electric Current Prom White
House to Exposition.
TO USE HISTORICAL KEY.
Machinery Will Be Started Simul
taneously With the Signal
Coming From the Nations
b;- .' Chief Executive.
When President Roosevelt In the
- White Houeo at Washington In the pres
ence of the members of the Diplomatic
Corns, the Chief Justice and Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court, members
of the Cabinet, the President of the Sen.
ate, the Speaker of the House and others
dlstlncuUhed In official life, shall press
lub vuiiun uiaci opens me jxpositlon to
day, he will uso ah Instrument that Is his
torical. The telegraphic key that will be used by
the President Is the same that was used
for the opening of the World's Columbian
Exposition In Chicago In U9S. The one
used by President Francis this morning
at we Exposition grounds is of gold, and
' has been specially constructed for the
purpose by the Postal Telegraph Com
pany. I
-All of .the arrangements for the clicking
message from -Washington, which pro--
- uww xne .ucposuon ope navr. . bn
completed 'by' that '-company. 'Two!drcu
running between 8t. Lou and Washing
ton have been set aside by the company
for, use In opening the World's Fair. They
run over different routes, having been ar
ranged with a view to overcoming any
possible Interruption, so that It is reason
ably assured that one circuit in almost
any contingency may be in service.
-P. V. Da Q raw. Eastern representative
of the Exposition Company, will test the
circuit at 8t Louis at 9 this morning.
- Captain B. F. Montgomery of the United
States Army, who Is in charge of. the
telegraphic department at the White
House," presiding at the key In Washing
ton. These expert telegraphers will have
charge of the circuit until President Roose
velt starts the machinery of the Fair and
It is formally declared opened.
The arrangement perfected late yester
day contemplates a Morse telerrachlc at.
j'.A - n' ?m President Francis to President
nooseveit. stating that the management of
the Exposition awaits his pleasure.
According to the scheduled arrangement
the President ai Washington will then
press the Morse telegraphic key located In
the east room of the White House, which
will transmit the electrical energy to the
World's Fair instrument in the rostrum at
the base of the Louisiana monument,
whence it will be Instantly distributed to
Machinery Hall, the Cascades and' other
points throughout the vast area of the Ex-
Itlon.
While the band plays "The Star-Span-
Banner' and the cheering crowds
ad with uncovered heads, the effect
l-be briefly wired to President Roose-
J by President Francis, standing with
. hand touching that of Mr. DeGraw,
3 will do the actual key work.
TO UNFURL THE FLAGS.
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than 1,000 flags on the' palaces and build
ings or the Fair will be simultaneously
unfurled. .Two hundred men will be re-.
quired1 to loosen the 1.03) buntings on the
exhibit buildings and around the lagoons.
The State and foreign pavilions will ar
range their parts In the flag ceremony
themselves.
Exactly at 12 o'clock, when the singing
f the national anthem 1 finished, the
Ptteldeht will press the button. Colonel
Edmund Rice, Military Secretary of the
Conjnlttee of Ceremonies, will give e. sig
nal to B. D. Allen, Superintendent of
Flags, who will be stationed between the
Louisiana Purchase Monument and the
Varied Industries building.
He In turn will wave to George Rush,
Foreman of Flags, who will pull the hal
yard tied around a big American 'flag on
the southeast corner of the Palace of
Varied Industrie.
At the same instant flags on the cor
ners of Manufactures, Education and
Electricity will drop, and as they descend
he KX men on the roofs and along the
agoons will pull the ropes In their hands.
ch of, the men has at least two ropes
vend In some cases, where the flags are
close together, four and Ave.
.- The flag poles are about twenty feet
apart as a rule, and the flags are held in
iiace by .two strings. The Jerking of the
breaks these strings and the flag
Is thus loosened.
' In 'the western Exposition palaces the
E-4 men. will not be so numerals, but will
ji? Jerk .every rope as they pass the poles.
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lAj flags securely m place they wfllrdescand
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j.-,:''.e released from work until f o'clock.
: wnso tney wiu uio mem m ror we nignt.
';.- After the opening ceremonies a regular
xorOQ-OL iwtajr-wu. uicu uduvt vrenexmt
uperlntendent J. S. Trttle will bo kept.
Buy. on uiv szaTuuos 10 raise uxe
rery morning, at t a. m., and lower
at - toe oorresponaing- nour every
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Boats Dash in Before the Recep
tion Committees Are Ready
Officers Visit Mayor
and Fair.
Without warning and while official har
bor boats, private yachts and Immense
excursion boats were waiting at their
wharves for the public reception commit
tees to arrive, the United States gunboat
Nashville and the torpedo-boat destroyer
Lawrence steamed up the river and an
chored below the Ead.i bridge at 8:30
o'clock yesterday morning.
Ko one expected the strangers until
noon, and It was thought tbat by leaving
at ltr o'clock local officials and the public
mifht board their steamers and be far
dewn the river to greet them.
The two representatives of the navy
had been making good time In spite of the
seven-mile current that opposed them, and
had come to anchor before any boat had
m. chance to cast loose her cable.
The Nashville, with her two great yellow
smokestacks looming sixty feet above the
water line, and with Pilot Bob Gaines at
the wheel, led the procession up the river
until within a half mile of the Eads
bridge, when. like a dart from a bow,
the grimy, smudgy Lawrence in her war
paint of "torpedo-boat green." shot past
her and cast anchors In the soft mud a
hundred yards north.
With three-Inch cables attached to her
anchors the Lawrence could not hold the
bottom, however.
"It was not that our anchors would not
hold." said lieutenant A. M. Proctor, her
commander, later, "but the bottom of tha
river would not hold "
While the long-pa. -out chains attached
to the. Nashville's anchor helped to drag
them deeper and deeper In the mud, the
Lawrence's anchors fouled, anil tha cables,
affording no ballast, ah was compelled to
dlrft away.
Ones again ah attempted to anchor be
low the Nashville, and again she failed,
and, as though Indignant at her recep
tion, she broke her leash and darted down
the river at a rata that made the oldest
pilots stare. Lieutenant Proctor Anally
p&clfled his ship sufficiently to Indues her
to tie up against the Government snag
boat Wright At the foot of Merameo
street, where she remains.
GREETINGB BT MEGAPHONE.
t Curing all this time reception commit
tees representing the city government and
gentlemen who had Invited private parties
on btfard their yachts were blowing
whistles In despair and wondering when
the formal ceremonies of the day were to
begin.
The little launch Outaga. bearing John T.
Davis, F. D. Hlrachberg and Thomas Mc
Eittrick, finally managed to make fast
next tha Nashville "and were enabled to in
form Commander Hubbard that Mayor
Wells and the city officials would be glad
to see him ashore.
In the meantime tbeharbor boat Mark
Twain, whose name seemed to Inspire
happy memories among the crowds tbat
thronged the Levee, steamed out with the
following official! aboard: Captain Thomas
Cooney. Joseph P. Whyte. Harbor Com
missioner E. A. Hoberg, Assistant Harbor
Commissioner; Paul Young, T. E. Green,
Charles Wltthoefft. Robert Aull, Luther
Tennent. 8. B. Edwards. Thomas C. Hen
nlng, James P. Newell, J. R. McCarthy,
Fred WIdener, William Flyzm And E. J.
O'Nsin.
The Twain could only circle about the
gunboat and megaphone good wishes,
however, for the swift current and the
new paint of the Nashville would brook
ni familiarities.
Captain Rnssen Gardner had a delega
tion of carrlagtraifers aboard bis hos
pitable yacht Annie Russell, and they, too,
were unable to accomplish anything mors
than quaff good cheer to the Nashville,
while her orchestra played airs from the
qcrrter-deck and the commander called a
special session of this carrlagenuLkers to
gether In midstream.
By this Urns the big excursion boats
Belle of Calhoun, tbs Corwln E. Spencer
rnc Providence had left their wharfs,
crowded with passengers.
Out among the craft ahot the tug Re
liance, bearing mails to the gunboat. Cap
tain Edwin Ledger was at the wheel, and
With him were Captain H. W. Brolaskl
of the World's Fair Navigation Company,
Hiram Phillips, President of the Board of
Public Improvements; Ben Adklns, Water
Commissioner; Edward A. Hoberg, his
chief clerk; Thomas B. Carter, Superin
tendent of City lighting,- and P. J. Clif
ford. The Reliance had captured the
United States mall that arrived at the
harbor offices and delivered It to Com
mander Hubbard.
Meantime the tug Henry C. Haarstick,
bearing Postmaster Frank Wyman, E. 3.
PUcher, W. X. Kavanaugh, W. F. Saun
ders and other representatives of 'the Busi
ness Men's League, had steamed out and
shouted their welcome to the ship.
OFFICERS MAKE CALLS.
Later In the morning Commander Hub
bard came ashore, where he was met by
Commander A. M. .Baker; Inspector of the
Fifteenth lighthouse District.
Commander Hubbard and the Nashville
party called tippn the Mayor and' made the
trip to the World's Fair grounds In the
afternoon, calling upon President Francis.
Commander Hubbard was delighted with
Ms first visit to St. Louts and much'lm
pressed with the Exposition.
' "W "never navigated In a more obsti
nate current,'' said Commander Hubbard,
WHERE THE FAIR OPENING CEREMONIES WILL TAKE PLACE.
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,THH LOUISIANA PURCHASE MONUMENT,
the base of wlilcli the World's Fair opening ceremonies will take place to-day. The monument Is Immediately
north of the Grand Basin.
"and we must ask that visitors do not
attempt to come aboard until the river
falls, as barges cannot be taken care of
by the Nashville for fear of dragging. I
am charmed with St, Louis and my recep
tion here and expect to enjoy the Expo
sition as greatly as I did the Phlledalphla
Centennial In UTt and the Paris. Exposi
tion In 187S. These .were my last efforts In
this direction.
Accompanying Commander Hubbard
were Lieutenant Commander Horace M.
Witsel, Lieutenant Roscoe C. Moody. En
sign James C. Kress, Ensign William S.
Case; Midshipman Roy M. Ryden; Assist
ant Surgeon Herbert O. Bhlffert; Assistant
Paymaster H. D. Lamar, Par Clerk L. E.
Conner. On the Lawrence are lieutenant
Andre R. Procter and Lieutenant Roland
i. Curtln.
There was no fuss and feathers, no re
ceptions, no visitations on the part of the
officers and crew of the little Lawrence.
Provoked at her inability to keep the bot
tom of the river from slipping beneath
her anchors, she steamed far down be
neath the Workhouse quarries and tied
up along the Government snagboat
Wright.
TO RECEIVE VISITORS MONDAY.
The Lawrence Is simply a Uttle terror.
Two hundred and forty-six feet on the
water line,' with 3 feet beam and S feet
draught, she can carry enough coal to
cross the Atlantic Ocean, if necessary, at
a nlneteen-knot clip- There are no glint
ing brass works on her decks. Her guns
are as black as her black-green hull. Her
two torpedo tubes, with her four white
Whitehead torpedoes, could dismantle any
ship afloat.
The Nashville to her Is a toy, a play
thing. In warfare she and her commander
would be alert for battleships to ensnare
by false lights In the night, or torpedo
boats to destroy in the noonday. Her
seven six-pounders can shoot with prize
precision sixteen shots per minute and
make buil's eyes at 2,000 yards every
round.
Her Lieutenant Commander, A. M. Proc
tor, is the son of a sturdy son of the
Vermont granite bills, the late United
States Senator Rcdfield Proctor. Her sec
ond officer, R. L Curtln, is the grandson
of the famous war Governor of Pennsyl
vania, Richard Curtln. the friend of the
Camerons and of Lincoln.
By Monday the Lawrence may conde
scend to come up and anchor alongside of
a wharfboat "and let the public come and
tramp over her, but until then, at least,
she Is going to cleave close under the
lee of the snagboat, and she cares not
whether anyone sees her or not. To-day
and Sunday the big excursion boats will
leave every hour for two-hour trips around
both ships.
It Is not expected that either ship will
be ready to receive guests before Monday,
but the river Itself Is an Interesting sight
for visitors.
HOW TO REACH WORLD'S FAIR
BY STREET CARS AND TRAINS.
Olive Maryland and (Mire World's Pair Lines With Delmar Transit
Cars, Go Direct to Main Entrance of Exposition Grounds, run
ning on Minute Schedules Chouteau, Laclede and Market Cars
Run to State Building Entrance, on Southern Side of Fair,
Near Inside Inn Olive Through Service Terminates at Skink
er Loop Page Avenue Trafflo Is Direct to Administration
Building Easton and Taylor Lines Operate to Pike Entrance
Suburban Main Line Runs to Skinker Entrance, While
Brentwood, Clayton and Kirkwood Oars Stop at Administra
tion Gate Wabash Shuttle Trains Will Run From Union Star
tion to Main Fair Entrance Every Fifteen Minutes.
GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS
READY IN EVERY DETAIL
Federal Buildings Will Be Opea to
Pablio To-Day President Fraa-
ds Congratulates Board.
The United States Government building
at the World's Fair, as well as the United
States Fish Pavilion, are completed, and
the exhibits are installed. W. V. Cox, Sec
retary of the Government Board, an
nounced yesterday that both buildings,
will be opened to the public at noon to
day. "The Government Board has accepted
both .buildings," said Mr. Cox, "and so
pleased were the members with the work
of the 'contractors that a vote of thanks
was extended to them. The report that
the board was dissatisfied and had refused
to accept the buildings Is the most ab
surd canard of the season.
"The Government exhibits have been In
stalled In every detail, and President
Francis yesterday congratulated the Gov
ernment Board upon the success of its
wont'-
CAPACITY OF RAILROADS AND STREET-CAR LINES TO FAIR.
Line and Destination. Capacity Per Hour.
Olive (Maryland car) Main entrance 1000
Olive (World's Fair car) Main entrance .000
Olive (through car) Skinker loop ,O0O
Delmar Main entrance 12,000
Chouteau State building entrance 6,500
Page Administration loop ( 6,600
Easton -Pike entrance ni..-.w 6.500
Laclede State building entrance 6,000
Market State "bunding entrance 6,500
Taylor Pike entrance .... 8.000
Total hourly capacity of Transit Company lines 65,000
Total capacity of Suburban lines an hour 10,000
Wabash "Shuttle" Train Main entrance 13,000
. Grand total, per hour 110,008
Buburban lines and destinations are:
Main Line Skinker entrance.
Brentwood, Clayton and Kirkwood .Cars Administration entrance.
Brentwood and Forest Park Line West End Heights entrance.
Union Avenue .line To south end of Union avenue and under Wabash and
Colorado tracks.
It Is estimated that, operating under the
fastest possible schedule, the street and
steam railroads of St. Louts, operating be
tween the World's Fair grounds and points
in the city, can carry 110,000 persons to the
Fair every hour.
On the strength of these estimates, it is
believed tbat the capacity of these lines
for carrying persons from the Fair will
greatly exceed 110,000 perrons an hour, as
it is generally conceded that cars can be
loaded and sent out much more rapidly
than received and unloaded.
Officials of the Transit. Buburban and
the Wabash Railroad Company have been
working night and day for many weeks
over the 'final problem of adjusting the
route and -schedule of traffic to meet the
enormous demands that are expected in
St. Louis for many-4ponths, beginning to
day. As a result. It Is. practically possible for
a person in almost uny part of the city to
reach any point of the Fair, which Is a
source of -great convenience when the
distances at the Fair are considered.
The Olive street lines will have Fair
terminals. The line known as the Mary
land line and bearing a red sigh Indicating
Its route, has a loop at the main entrance
of the Fair. This line proceeds out Olive
to Boyle avenue, turns west from Boyle
avenue, thence to the main entrance.
The Olive street World's Fair car will
also proceed to the loop at the main en
trance. This car' goes out Olive to King's
highway, thence out McPherson, thence
to the, main entrance, at Da Ballvlere and
De Giveryllle avenues.
The Olive through line, which .also has
a sign Indicating what It Is, will have a
loop at the Skinker entrance of the Fair.
This car proceeds out Olive to Taylor ave
nue, goes north on. Taylor to Delmar and
on Delmar west
The Delmar' avenue line will also have
a loop ,at the" 'main 'entrance. It starts
downtown on Washington avenue, pro
ceeds thence to Finney avenue, and leav
ing Finney avenue at Taylor, goes to
Delmar, and from Delmar to De Baliviere,
thence to the Fair.
The route of the Chouteau avenue cars
will be made to the southeast corner of
the Fair, known as the State building en
trance. At this point are situated the In
side Inn and the State buildings;
The Laclede and Market lines will also
have terminals at the State building en
trance. The Easton avenue line will also use the
loop at the Pike entrance. This entrance
leads directly Into the Pike. These cars
start downtown on Franklin avenue, leav
ing Franklin at Lefflngwcll to Easton, and
out Easton to De Hodlamont, from thence
to the Pike entrance.
The -Page avenue line also originates
downtown on Washington avenue, and
proceeds thence out by the same route as
the Delmar lines to Taylor, thence out
Page to Hamilton, and from Hamilton to
the Fair.
The Taylor avenue line will have termi
nals at the Pike entrance.
The main line of the Suburban will have
terminals at the Skinker road entrance,
which Is east of the Administration build
ing. The Suburban will also run Its line on
Union avenue under the tracks of the Wa
bash and Into Forest Park, and has ter
minals for Its Kirkwood, Brentwood and
Clayton line near the Administration
building.
The Rockhaven line of the Suburban will
also have a convenient arrangement for
entrance to the Fair.
The Wabash shuttle-train service was
thoroughly tested yesterday and found to
be satisfactory. This service will be op
erated between .Union Station and the.
Fair grounds, and the present schedule
permits traffic to depart from each of the
terminals every fifteen minutes, but, if
the traffic demands, this service can" be
Increased to a marked extent.
: POMP, PAGEANTRY AND ELOQUENCE
WILL MARK OPENING OF FAIR.
The Rates of the World's Fair will be opened this morning for vis
itors at S o'clock, elosing at 11 o'clock to-night.
At 0 o'clock a grand band concert will be given on the Plaza Sr.
Louts, facing the Louisiana Purchase Monument, just north of the
Grand Basin. Participants in the exercises will assemble at 0:45 a. m.
at the rostrum at the base of the monument, the audience occupying
the Plaza St. Louis and facing the monument.
Promptly at 10 o'clock President Francis will call the assemblage
to order.
Immediately afterwards the Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulua will of
fer up the Invocation, closing with the Lord's Prayer, In which all are
requested to Join.
The first address of the day will be delivered by President David
R. Francis, following the invocation. At the conclusion of the address
the President will recognize William H. Thompson of the Grounds and
Buildings Committee, who will present Isaac S. Taylor, the Director of
Works.
The keys of the Exposition palaces will' be delivered to the Presi
dent of the Exposition Company by Director of Works Taylor, who
will then present diplomas of merit to the chiefs of his staff.
Van der Stucken'a march, "Louisiana," will be performed by Sou
sa's Band, John Philip Sousa leading.
The exhibit palaces will then be transferred by the President to
the Director of Exhibits, Frederick J. V. Skiff, and the latter Invest
ed with his official commission and insignia of office.
Director of Exhibits Skiff will deliver an address, following it with
the presentation of their official commissions and insignia of office to
the chiefs of his division.
The "Hymn of the West," the words by Edmund Clarence Stedman
and the music by John Knowles Paine, will be sung by a chorus led
by Alfred Ernst.
The Honorable Rolla Wells, Mayor of St Louis, will follow with
an address.
At the conclusion of bis address Thomas H. Carter, President of
the National Commission of the World's Fair, will deliver an address.
Following him James A. Tawney, member of Congress, will deliver
an address on behalf of the House of Representatives.
On behalf of the domestic exnlbltors at' the World's Fair Edward
H. Harrlman, President of the New York Commission to the World's
Fair, will then speak.
Albino R. Nuncio, Commissioner General to the World's Fair from
Mexico and dean of the Foreign Commissioners .accredited to the Ex
position, will speak In behalf of the foreign exhibitors at the Fair.
At the conclusion of Mr. .Nuncio's address "America'' will be sung
by the chorus, all in the assemblage rising and uncovering while the
national hymn is being sung.
When the hymn is finished the representative of the President of
the United States, the Secretary of War, the Honorable William H.
Tuft, will deliver the final address.
At the conclusion of his address the President of the United States
will, in the White House at the national capital, press the button con
nected by wire with the Exposition grounds, starting the machinery,
by the same act unfurling the flags on all the buildings and releasing
the flow of water on all the Cascades.
When the click of the Instrument connected with the President's
key at Wosnington has formally opened the Exposition the chorus will
render Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner."
With the close of the hymn the formal order of opening exercises
will have been completed. At noon all of the exhibit palaces will be
opened to the public and lunch will be served to .1,500 Invited guests
In "the Palace of Varied Industries.
At 1 o'clock the grand parade of peoples and beasts from the Pike
will start on Its procession through the grounds, this being the form
al opening of that thoroughfare.
DETAILS OF CEREMONIES
FOR THE FAIR OPENING,
Objective Point in Forenoon Will Be the Plaza St. Louis, Where
Band Concerts Will Begin at 9:15 Dignitaries to March
From Administration Building to Stands Facing the Cascades.
St Louis and all her bedchambers in the suburbs, across the river that
divides Missouri and lUlnoig, and in the many suburbs beyond the city lim
its, is aroused to the greatness of to-day's event in her history. Such a
gathering of her people with thousands of those from all over the United
States and beyond the seas will be present at the World' Fair grounds as
certainly never before has been In the city.
While estimates of the probable attendance of visitors to-day at the Ex
position site are difficult to obtain from Exposition officials, it is thought
that the throng win number from 100,000 to 200,000. This estimate is held
by many familiar with the situation to be conservative rather than unwar
rantably optimistic
Only tha most adverse meteorological
conditions, it seems, can operate to pre
vent to-day being a rod letter day In the
history of St Louis and witnessing at the
World's Flair grounds, on the occasion of
Its formal opening, an unprecedented
gathering.
The day Is a holiday. All roads will
lead to the Exposition site, and thither
will travel many thousands of the citizens
of St Louis, besides many of the most
distinguished foreign and national celebri
ties. In tha forenoon, at least the objective
point of the throngs will be the wide an I
beautiful Plaxa St Louis, which stretches
northward from the tall shaft of the
Louisiana Purchase monument which.
forms a central feature of the splendid
plctur of the Exposition, facing the cas
cades and Colonnade of States, on Art
Hill.
At 8 o'clock this morning the gates of
the eleven entrances of the Exposition will
be thrown open to the world, and will re
main open until 11 o'clock this evening.
There will be at each entrance separate
turnstiles provided tor the holders of
passes and for the paid tickets of admis
sion. The price of admission for adults is
50 cents, and for' children under 12 years
23 cents. For children under G years ad
mission is free. Booths for the sale of
tickets are 'provided at all of the en
trances. From 9-M to 10 a. m. the official pro
gramme of music as completed by Director
of Musio' George W. Stewart provides for
Sousa's band to furnish the grand assem
bling concert from the east band stand In
the Plaza St. Louis while the audience and
participants are gathering for the opening
exercises.
EARLT CONCERTS.
In the meantime "the Philippine Scouts'
Band will lead' the first division of the
parade from the Administration building J
to the rostrum at tha base of the Louis
iana monument The officers and directors
of the Exposition Company, with tha
members of the National Commission and
the Board of Lady Managers; an of whom
will be In the parade, win meet at tha
building at o'clock and will walk wit
escort to the Plaxa St Louis.
The order of this parade will be as fol
lows: Detachment of Jefferson Guards,
Filipino Scouts' Band. Filipino Geouts.
under command of Major Johnson, Sousa's
Band. Ceremonies Committee following
twenty feet in the rear; President Fran
cis, with Lieutenant Colonel Kingsbury,
commandant of the Jefferson Guards,
walking at his left several paces in the
rear; the officers and directors of the Ex
position In the following order: The Vice
Presidents, Directors, Mr. Parker escort
ing the Reverend Frank W. Gunsaulus.
the Director of Exhibits and the Director
of Works walking abreast the Director of
Concessions and the General Counsel
abreast six chiefs of the Division of
Works, three chiefs of the Division of Ex
hibits, two chiefs of Concessions and Ad
missions, the heads of bureaus of the Ex
position. Including the Medical Director,
the Auditor, the Collector and the Traffio
Manager: the members of the National
Commission and the Board of Lady Man
agers in carriages.
OFFICERS IN UNIFORM.
Representatives of foreign Governments
will assemble In the Hall of Congresses at
1:15 a. m.: those who are members of the
Diplomatic Corps or tha army or navy
of. their respective countries being In un!
form. They will walk with escort to tha
places assigned them for the opening cer
emonies In the Plaza St Louis.
The following order will be observed In
their progress to the plaza: Detachment
of Jefferson Guard; Well's Band; Officer
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