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| MILITARY PARADE ON DEDICATION DAY - This
photograph recalls the greatest festival ever seen in the west or in
America - namely, the gathering in Chicago of the National
Government, the State Governments, and the Foreign Legations, to
inaugurate the World's Columbian Exposition, in the secular week
beginning October 17, 1892. On Wednesday night the Ball of Nations
was held at the Auditorium; on Thursday the Civic Parade took place;
on Friday the opening exercises at the Manufactures Building offered
to mankind the spectacle of its largest indoor assemblage; on Friday
night Archbishop Ireland dedicated the World's Congress Auxiliary,
and on Saturday the New York, Ohio and other State Buildings were
dedicated by their respective Governors. Millions of people were in
the city, and the General commanding the militia of the United
States, then incamped at the west end of Midway Plaisance, refused to
let the soldiers come up town on grounds of prudence. The picture
represents this militia marching into Jackson Park on the morning of
Friday, October 21, 1892. The advance is in front of the Transportation Building, and is about to
wheel to its left into the road to the centre of the vast edifice.
The old restaurant stands on the site of Festival Hall, and a
temporary viaduct leads to the Horticultural Bridge. Boyle's statues
are all in place on the Transportation Building, and Golden Door begins in the left foreground. |
