Show THE CHICA CHICAGO O CE CELEBRATION I Opening of or the Columbian Pete Feto by a It lie Ite S ant ami a Halt naU Tho The dedicatory dedicator ceremonies of Columbian Colombian Exposition were inaugurated on the te beginning with th the tM rc reception entertainment It of distinguished by the Various committees on their arrival In the city and fo followed in the te evening by a magnificent mag S ball bal A A. dispatch from Chi Chicago go s says ys m I For three tree days Chicago go is I lobe tobe tOb given giren over l La t pageantry and pleasure and aud the Ind Indications are arc that tat the attending ceremonies formal format and Informal official ial and social will wi be witnessed by nearly 60 people from from abroad S Elaborate te arrangements nave been becu made td to tc give the ceremonies s of dedication that tat official clarc el which shoula should attend an enterprise of such euch international and representative Importance Im Im- Im e bd abd the Worlds World's Fair Fair is I attired In Jn a I of many colors clor From ev every ry Important edifice in Chicago from rom every peak and nd from fro from every balcony and window ar are arc suspended the colors olos that have fo for t tIle the e adornment of oI oJ this occa- occa oca Je slon The re stars and stripes stripe naturally predominate pro pre pre dominate but the c colors lors bf bf all 11 nations mass massIn massin ma maIn in PI producing the grand aggregate result The Then n municipal nl lp I colors Of vf Chicago i a D new V fad called ca fn to being by the supposed exigency of the occasion are arc seen on every band hand And al although although al al- though n now nv and then some i representative merchant may be lie found who has hiss omitted to suspend the stars star and stripes over his por portal l the triangle banner of the terra ra cott aud and white hit pal pride wanting wanting- to t attest S his Ishm- Ishm Portraits Portrait Portrait of Columbus are arc eh seen everywhere ever and for the tireS first frt time since the this con con- the familiar features s of PU political lead ad- ad era CIS 15 are arc banded handed down clown an and obscured by the tho portraits of Oft Columbus Isabella or George Washington tn Every Ever train brings hundreds of visitors visitor to the Worlds Fair efy city and many of them ar participants are in j i-ho i official The Tho railroads day to-day were were nearly nely swamped I In Jn the h tremendous tremendous' rush b bt people eople rom from all ail allover ai over eyer the c cOuntry The he extra ere counted only In dozens dozes rom From every ever passers passenger ger get depot dept in Chicago people poured in hoods Boods and ad for a time after the arrival of every train the sidewalks k In the te vicinity y of of depots depot were impassable Many Mapy the lh trains arriving were were much longer louger than usual extra ext cars as h having haying hay hav vIng v- v ing to t be added to t ui them to t ac accommodate the passengers and ey every rT scat in all aU of them theirs was wa S S S v occupied A ball bal was given in the evening In b behalf hal of f other other oter patrons and and pats patronesses of ot i the toe ia ball Major Majo General Gener WaIburn Washburne F F. IC X FaIrbank George andlar- andlar shall hall FI Field ld had ha invited 40 prominent citi- citi i zens Sens zens of the te various states Jo to participate In a 3 reception at the Auditorium tendered to o the prel president a and n ex presidents ex of i the the representatives of for for- tor I governors Q of the te states and md nd territories and other oter distinguished guests I This reception was wa a n brilliant on one and was I followed by t ball baU which was wa avery ayery vers swell i affair t j t s 's v v vii s. s 1 |