Show THE BIG WHITE CITY Colored People Take Possession of tho Grounds Fred Douglass Speaks CHICAGO Aug 25This was colored peoples day at the Worlds fair The weather was clear and bright Large numbers of the black race from the city and surrounding country and many from the far south were present There gathered gath-ered in Festival hal the finest specimens of this race in the country The venerable venera-ble Fred Douglass delivered an oration in which ha mildly scored the exposition management for having in a measure ignored the American negro He said the people of the north yielded to the white prejudices of the south in excluding the negro from representation He spoke rather bitterly of the treatment of the negro throughout the country in general gen-eral and said he would like to be able to say that a white man who murders a negro ne-gro in any part of the country is as certainly I cer-tainly brought to justice as i he had murdered a white man but this ho could not say America said Mr Douglass I does not allow her colored children to praise her Sisseryia Jones the black Patti sang delightfully and there were various other exercises of an interesting character Buffalo Bills Wild West show paraded through the grounds for their benefit The financial affairs of the exposition are in a very favorable condition and i the improved attendance continues it will be a marked financial success aH well as artistic There was no abatement of interest in the live stock exhibition Thousands of people were there all day witnessing the the awarding of prizes to Shire and French draft horses and the Aberdeen Angus and Angus cattle Angs catte The total admissions today were 17i 392 of which 140111 paid |