Show THE WORLDS FAIR it to is a little more than half a year the four hundredth hundred th mile poet on highway of time aduce the tamed genoese navigator embarked disembarked dla dis at idan salvador anu ana threw open the gates of it a new dew corli previous to that thai the azores wore were the limit of vo voyaging westward and the ships had gone no DO further south than to round me lilt birett great reat projection projects in into the atlantic oin ahe african chasu CO with ail this an and the meagerness of 0 the capacity of 01 sailing craft at that time considered to gether with the primitive anu ABU in effi dent LAIC apparatus available th the voyage the waste of waters waa line ise plunging into the depths ut of auroe in quest ot of a new star it was waa ren dei cu all the more irksome and questionable by reason of u every wing resting ILIg on oil laith IU in one man ih rough whose persistence and the providential interventions which came 0 ure ere ana aad manned followed loll owed UY by a saries ot of rev reverB erobb CB an ani i each tending loading to diminish the like confidence ao long in ILA forming and to increase increate the then so BO pr valcoi to r render uder ing aid it wan wait a laak to 10 bblain anything for th thu kandea were ignorant and poor tile the others were haughty and seif lisbon aunt tile the only scientific flo society aud portugal would go 0 o nothing how many mon men lu in this day of laut fast ship perfected willing crebb aria and socia tiet and governments govern mente ready tu aid presuming there thereto to be an endia louvered continent iu home and distant quarter could tm be found ad khat in lue face of rebuff after rebuff at every turn luras poverty 1 I m OOL he y expression anu the she firby kuempl on which everything every thin deemed to haug baug proving a 4 fall ure would not have abandoned the enterprise in despair and ad let the butilla bouic grand lerish where it id wy was born la Is it not plain mat here a anu and alpar antly ILLA Possible task Is IB to lo be peri penora orm ou oj there arises at the proper time alai and in the proper place the proper man epan LU iu do it cue whom it could not lut or bouli nut not be done at all columbus wars waa an in man maju tie be nad dad a work L li and toe melting uway away of all carrien erected by unyielding nature and lid man between him dun anu and it have been as an irain lain to him when caurto and begging for ared UM wile when with his mortal vision tie it bezelj it little lilile by litlie lime ny gave way tv thinning ana reason re mg lug and eventually benold upon the tag croad billowy branst of the atlantic A little fleet with a galiant crew bidding adieu to me ene old world and headed fur for no une one knew no ono one but Colt colum ign s and he could not tell anal was waa the beginning of the grand t rat st consummation oy DY man relating to oln old mother earth today amid all i ne pomp pride and circumstance which the cultivated minu mind conlu ue vise alae or the trained hanl hana execute the of tuat consummation was waa i cached benched and crowned in the ibe prea enoe t vast multitudes irom beyond the seas and from all parts of columbia r presenting every clime from the equator to the polo poles every condition rum rm the prince to the peasant every jai form of worship from the intelligent and devout follower in the footsteps of the master down to and including the worshiper of graven images or the BUD every occupation in life and well nigh every product of every land the greatest and grandest expo ekpo sitio of which history gives us any account was opened the gates of tile the white city were thrown ajar the ponderous mechanism was set in motion the countless objects ot of interest and curiosity and mechanism aud and art were brought into view it was in every way I 1 eting that the chief magistrate of the me united states stales should be assisted in the work of opening the fair by a lineal descendant of the man MAID through whose mission not only the show but the nation itself weye were made possible po wible As nearly as could be the discovery and the fruita thereof were brought face to face the intervening incidents by which the two are connected are matters of record slid and familiar to most civilized people ople in both but nothing notha C a osuld cpu id give such vividness and virility tu to the epochs of the immediate past as the spectacle of the discoverer 18 descendant mingling min Kling freely with the newer race brought into being through the dis discovery covery and how bow appropriate how bow PO poetic abic it is that one of the grandest est objects confronting him and them at t the fair is a commodious and elegantly appointed structure by and for women but for the work and influence of a woman his ancestor could not have sailed and had he not sailed there would be no a thousands admiring the wonderful and the beautiful in chicago today the sincere hope that should find lodgment in the breast of every citizen to is that no unfavorable elements may prevail and nd nothing unpropitious occur to curtail iu in the slightest lightest degree degre the general effect of the scene or t e enjoyment of those who visit it but that all ail may be favorable and each particular feature be at its ita best it is no less a patriotic than a cosmic and scientific exhibition and as such we take pride and pleasure in it whether present or absent let the go forth from tar lar and wide all hail and every success to the worlds columbian exposition I 1 |