Trans-Mississippi&International Exposition

CONDITION OF THE WEATHER

SHOW IS ALL THEIRS

Chicago People Take Possession of Exposition Grounds and Buildings.

OMAHA'S HOSPITALITY IS ACCEPTED

Even Their Home Brand of Weather is Provided for the Visitors.

FORMALITIES ARE SOON OVER WITH

Ceremonies at the Auditorium Carried Out Under Schedule Arranged.

WARM CONGRATULATIONS ARE EXCHANGED

Mayors of the Two Cities and Presidents of the Exposition and Illinois Commission Vie in Saying Nice Things About the Situation.

The radiant sunshine that welcomed the representatives of the Sunny South was pertinently succeeded by lowering skies and damp, misty winds when Chicago came this morning to pay her respects to the only exposition that has rivaled her own marvelous achievement. Is​ was as nearly a counterpart of the brand of weather for which the Windy City is famed as nature could suggest, and the visitors unpacked their mackintoshes and umbrellas and felt entirely at home. The clouds were draped in that slaty shade of gray that distinguishes the heavy canopy of mist that a stiff east wind blows up from Lake Michigan. The rain drizzled at intervals, with the same chilly persistence that it falls on Michigan avenue on several days of the 365, the southeast wind was damply suggestive of a journey over miles of angry water, and the Chicagoans had only to close their eyes and imagine that they could hear the muffled pounding of the insistent billows on the sturdy riprapping of the Lake Front. They had every reason to feel at home and they did. They showed their appreciation of the cordial sincerity of their welcome by simply taking possession of the grounds and lavishing their admiration on the show as enthusiastically as though they had not had a slightly bigger one of their own. They had come with the announced intention of making Chicago day one of the great events of the transmississippi show and the atmospheric inconveniences of the morning did not prevent them from carrying it into execution.

The delegations that were brought by the various railroads included some of the most notable figures in Chicago citizenship. Many of them were accompanied by their families and together they formed the biggest and most enthusiastic crowd that has visited the exposition. They swarmed into the Illinois building all through the morning and kept the pretty rotunda full of animation and pretty costumes. As the excursionists whose trains had been switched directly to the grounds joined those who came up from their down town quarters the pretty red badges were conspicuous all over the grounds and by 11 o'clock there were enough of them to fairly fill the Auditorium and still leave a representation in every other quarter.

Officials Finally Arrive.

The official party was belated but in the meantime the crowd was pleasantly entertained by the Omaha Concert band and was not perceptibly restless. The speakers and official guests arrived at 11:30 and were escorted to the stage by President Wattles and Mayor Moores and accompanied by nearly all the Omaha city officials. After an earnest invocation by Rev. T. J. Mackay, Chairman William H. Harper of the executive committee of the Illionis​ commission called the meeting to order and introduced President Clark E. Carr of the Illinois commision​ as the presiding officer. President Carr said to his Chicago hearers that, proud as they are of the splendor of their imperial city, they were now in the midst of that which had made that splendor, the great northwest. He introduced Mayor Frank E. Moores, who welcomed the visitors in behalf of the city of Omaha. He declared that every citizen of the west is proud of Chicago. He regards [?]ter, around which the universe revolves and feels a personal interest in its triumphs. But Omaha is to the transmississippi west what Chicago is to the whole country, and he expressed the belief that when his hearers had inspected the magnificent enterprise that they are here to visit they would be as proud of Omaha as Omaha is of Chicago. In conclusion he presented Mayor Harrison with the keys to the city and invited the visitors to take the fullest advantage of the liberties afforded.

In behalf of the exposition management President Wattles said that the inspiration and ambition of our people to build this exposition on the banks of the Missouri had been received from Chicago's great World's Fair, and, while this was but a shadow of the ideal, the west is proud of its child and is glad to welcome its distinguished visitors. He referred to the intimate commercial relations that exist between the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. Chicago is the great clearing house for the immense products of this fertile territory. Its business interests are so closely connected with the transmississippi territory that it is practically the great heart of the west. He spoke of its wonderful growth and transcendent enterprise and paid a high tribute to the progressive spirit of its citizens.

Mayor Harrison's Response.

In response to these sentiments Mayor Carter H. Harrison spoke of "Chicago" and his introduction was followed by a generous ovation. He said that they were here to return the thanks of Chicago for the designation of this day in honor of their city. They represented all nationalities, all politics and all creeds. They sometimes differed at home but they were a unit in extending to Omaha their sympathy and encouragement and their congratulations on its magnificent achievement. He declared that this celebration came at a time of glorious significance to this country. We had learned that the untried volunteers were of the stuff of which heroes are made and that Sampson, Dewey and Schley are worthy successors to Farragut and Perry. We are not only a peace loving nation but we have found that we have the ability to make our enemies on the battlefield desire peace rather than war.

Referring more particularly to Chicago, Mayor Harrison said that on most occasions a Chicagoan could not tell the truth about his city without being accused of exaggeration. The truth about Chicago seemed like an extravagant dream to the citizen of New York, or Boston or Philadelphia. But Omaha can understand Chicago. Her people had the same inherent spirit and the same pluck and enterprise had made each city what it is. In conclusion, he declared that not only on this occasion, but in every achievement of its future, Omaha commands all the sympathy and encouragement and inspiration that Chicago has to give.

Chicago and the West.

"Chicago and Its Relation to the West" was the subject of an able address by Charles G. Dawes, ex-congressman and assistant comptroller of the currency of the United States. After an enthusiastic hand clapping had greeted his introduction, Mr. Dawes said:

Twenty-seven years ago fifty of the leading citizens of Chicago gathered themselves in a little meeting under most distressing circumstances. Around them, in smoking and somber ruins, lay what had been but a few days before the magnificent city of Chicago. Their own homes had been burned over their heads; their property of all kinds was in ashes; around them all was desolation and cheerlessness and the future seemed as dark as the present. Some of these men rose and spoke of the city as destroyed and lost forever. Its rebuilding seemed to them impossible. To their minds the great Chicago, the city of their pride and affection, was numbered among the things of the past. But from among them there rose a young man who amidst depressing surroundings lifted his voice in remonstrance and in prophecy of the future. "Chicago will live," said he, "and live to be so mighty and so vast that this great fire will be but an incident in its past." And Chicago will thus live because beyond her there lies the giant forces, the teeming millions and the imperial area of the mighty west, which having before created Chicago as the necessary gateway to the east must re-create it under the same necessities." That speaker, now the secretary of the treasury of the United States, has lived to see Chicago re-created by the west and his prophecies fulfilled to the uttermost.

I have thought of no better way than by the telling of this incident to indicate the relation of Chicago to the west.

Chicago is the child of the west, dependent upon her for her prosperity and progress—almost for her very existence—and far be it from her to belittle the debt she owes [?]ern men, sustained largely by western resources, she feels the keenest and most vital interest in the west, and I believe the great west takes equal interest in this young giant among the cities of the world.

Some Hard Boiled Facts.

The details of the social and commercial relations between the west and Chicago, daily growing more intimate, daily growing more vast—relations which may well challenge the deepest attention of the student of economics and of American history—can receive from me today but a passing and superficial word. From this great section 125 passenger trains carrying over 12,000 people roll daily into the depots of the city of Chicago, and an equal number of trains depart daily from Chicago for the west. During the last year 20,000,000 bushels of western wheat, 116,000,000 bushels of western corn, 118,000,000 bushels of western oats and 17,000,000 bushels of western rye went to or through the great commercial gateway of Chicago. Of the 46,000,000 pounds of second class printed matter entered for the year ending June 30, 1896, at the Chicago postoffice, the authorities of the office estimate that from three-eighths to three-fourths went to the west. Taking the postoffice average of five pieces to the pound, we find that the total annual circulation of Chicago periodical issues in the west must be between 130,000,000 and 172,000,000 copies—a circulation of most surprising and portentious​ magnitude. The combined mileage of the railroads east and west of the Missouri river, binding and knitting together the west and Chicago in ties of common interest, is 67,180 miles.

But no catalogue of the evidences of the intimacy and vastness of the commercial and sociological relations of the west to Chicago can add to our sense of their importance.

Affects the National Life.

The degree of contentment and prosperity experienced by the western people under these relations of western cities like Chicago and Omaha to the western country is so important as affecting our national life and progress that these relations now command the interest and attention of the entire people of the United States. It is generally realized that when the social problems involved in them are solved all the internal problems which confront our young republic will be solved. These people—the people of Chicago and the west—are not waiting for other peoples or other nations to solve the great problems of today, but strong in the consciousness of their competency for the task they eagerly seek after right solutions.

The rapidity of the development of the west has in less than two generations brought them face to face with the problem of existence under all social conditions from the most primitive to the most complex.

What has thus happened before the eyes of one generation in the west has consumed several hundred years even in other sections of our country and in continental Europe thousands of years. Crowded into the lives of the people of the west has been the marvelous sight of an empire builded from a wilderness.

Past and Present.

We stand today in the midst of this magnificent exposition—an exponent of the highest art of the world—located in this beautiful city of Omaha with its complex nineteenth century civilization and architecture, and are startled by the thought that the Indians and buffalo which have been brought here as objects of curiosity lived in their native state upon this very site less than fifty years ago.

Little wonder is it that the people of the west are interested in these relations of the western city to the western community. The fingers of fate move in decades and not in centuries, in setting the problems for western humanity to conquer.

Little wonder is it that no solution seems too difficult of attainment for those who have seen such great transformation in the west through the successful solution of earlier problems, equally grave.

And now as the genius of America, at the close of a glorious war so bravely fought by a gallant army and navy under a great and wise president, stands upon the threshold of a dawning century and a dawning destiny, with her face toward the fair islands of the Pacific west placed by God's hand under her guardianship, little wonder is it that these people of the west, themselves but a short time ago the adopted children of the wilderness, should not doubt that the path of national duty toward the new western possessions shall again by the path of national glory.

On the Louisiana Purchase.

Cogressman​ J. R. Mann also received a flaering​ welcome from he​ audience. He discussed "The Louisiana Purchase," as follows:

We celebrate today the victories of peace and peaceful pursuits. Where a magic city and a beautiful exposition now stand the wild buffalo was chased by the savage Indian within the lifetime of many here. In the midst of this fitting celebration of the successes of our arts of peace, while enjoying the benefits of bounteous plenty and prosperity, it is proper to recall the history of those events which have made these western states an equal part of that nation which is today the embodiment of progressive civilization and which flies[?]

"Large streams from little fountains flow; tall oaks from little acorns grow." The little narrow fringes of settlements along the Atlantic coast has grown into an empire which sweeps across a continent and embraces the islands of the sea.

The Louisiana purchase more than doubled the national territory. It gave to our country the exclusive control of the mighty Mississippi and its tributaries. It planted our possessions on the Gulf of Mexico. It acquired for us the Columbia river and a coast line on the Pacific ocean. It brought into our country a region having the most fertile farm and grazing lands, as well as varied mineral resources, to be found in the world, and yet its acquirement was, as it were, only a chance shot.

Spain owned the entire western bank of the Mississippi river and the eastern bank below the Thirty-first parallel of latitude, the boundary line fixed by the treaty of 1795. After the war of the revolution our country west of the Alleghenies had begun to fill up with a class of sturdy and independent pioneer settlers. These settlements depended for transportation of their products wholly upon river navigation, the only outlet for which was through the mouth of the Mississippi, owned and controlled by Spain.

In 1800, by the secret treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain retroceded the province of Louisiana to France, but without delivering possession at that time.

It became evident to the statesmen of that time that we could have no lasting peace until we should possess one bank entire of the Mississippi river, with a consequent right to its free navigation.

Jefferson was president and did not believe that the constitution warranted the purchase of new territory, but overcoming his scruples he rose equal to the emergency and he commissioned James Monroe to act with Robert Livingston, then minister to France, in an effort to purchase that part of the Louisiana province east of the Mississippi, including New Orleans, from France, and congress appropriated the sum of $2,000,000 for that purpose.

War a Fortunate Incident.

"It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good." Fortunately for our own interest, France and England were then on the verge of another war. They had just concluded a treaty of peace, but each country was looking with dread suspicion upon the other. England viewed with grave objection the retransfer by Spain of the immense Louisiana province to France; and Napoleon, who was then the first consul of France and its ruler, quickly say that in case of war the English, with their superiority at sea, would immediately seize New Orleans and the Mississippi river valley. On Easter Sunday, April 10, 1803, he called two of his counselors who were most familiar with the foreign possessions and asked their advice. He said to them:

"I know the full value of Louisiana, and I have been desirous of repairing the fault of the French negotiator who abandoned it in 1763. A few lines of a treaty have restored it to me, and I have scarcely recovered it when I must expect to lose it. But if it escapes me, it shall one day cost dearer to those who oblige me to strip myself of it than to those to whom I wish to deliver it. The English have successively taken from France Canada, Cape Breton, New Foundland, Nova Scotia and the richest portions of Asia. They shall not have the Mississippi which they covet."

And after hearing from his advisers, one in favor of selling the province to the United States, the other in favor of retaining it, Napoleon said:

"Irresolution and deliberation are no longer in season. I renounces Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede; it is the whole colony without my reservation."

Monroe and Livingston had no authority to accept the offer which was made to them by Napoleon.

They could not cable for instructions. They had no time to communicate with the home government by letter. Napoleon was not a Spanish diplomat; he wanted his offer promptly accepted or rejected.

Monroe and Livingston, however, proved equal to the ocasion​, and after negotiations, which lasted but a few days, the purchase was agreed upon, the United States to pay France the principal sum of $11,250,000 payable in stocks or bonds due in fifteen years, with interest, and the further sum of $3,750,000, to be paid by our government to American citizens having certain valid claims against France.

Had Its Opponents.

When the treaty became known in this country some of the haters of President Jefferson raised a violent outcry against its confirmation, and dire predictions were made about the danger of extending the country in violation of the constitution, and burdening the people with an immense debt for the purpose of buying an uninhabitable wilderness.

The treaty of purchase was dated April 30, 1803, was ratified in October following, and on December 20, 1803, the American flag was raised over New Orleans.

No one can measure the future possibilities of the states embraced in the Louisiana purchase. The development since the purchase in 1803 has been more splendid than an alchemist's dream. The future will [?]outrival the present and the past.

[?] value of the Louisiana purchase cannot yet be appreciated. In 1854 Omaha [?] a bare trading post. Its growth [?] as rapid as the mushroom which [?] in the night, but as strong and [?] the steel beams which constitute [?]

The acquisition of the Louisiana territory was the greatest prize ever gained by a nation at one time. By the stroke of a pen an empire changed hands. In a moment of doubt a construction was placed upon the constitution which authorized the vast increase of territory.

The Louisiana purchase will soon have a greater population than the country which sold it to us. A single false step might have lost us its possession. All the circumstances at the time of its purchase conspired to give us a single opportunity to gain an empire. The opportunity refused or neglected might never have come again.

The France which today maintains an army of more than half a million men because she was compelled to cede Alsace and Lorraine to Germany gave way to us a possession worth many times Alsace and Lorraine, and gave it in friendly peace.

Not one of us can look far into the future. The progress of a century has enabled us to utilize all our possessions. The lightning's fluid puts far distant territory in a moment's communication with the capitol. The expansion of our domain and the increase of our possessions made more keen the intellect and genius of our people. It broadened the hearts and deepened the souls of our citizens. With the new wants, caused by long distance and varied interests, came new ideas with which to supply those wants. New discoveries in the fields of science, art, mechanics, followed closely the new discoveries regarding the surface of our territory.

The last address was to have been made by Hon. William E. Mason on "Our Country." But the senator was unable to be present at the exercises, having been called to Washington on business Thursday. The program was concluded by the band playing "The Star Spangled Banner."

INVITE NEW YORKERS TO THE FAIR

Committee on Transportation Tells How Omaha Will Welcome Them.

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—George L. Miller of Omaha is in this city, together with Hon. J. Sterling Morton, ex-secretary of agriculture. These gentlemen compose what is known as the committee on transportation for the Transmississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, whose purpose is to tender personally to persons in this city invitations to be present at the celebration of New York day at the Omaha exposition and also to invite a delegation to represent New York at the Peace Jubilee to be held at Omaha directly after the celebration of New York day.

Mr. Miller said: "We are anxious that New York City be represented. The west holds out the hand of friendship to New York and her men of affairs ask the men of affairs of New York to drop for a few days their work and accept the hospitality of the thriving city of Omaha.

"New York day will be celebrated on October 8. Dr. Depew will deliver an address and possibly there will be other addresses. We, on our part, will assure you a royal welcome and a good time.

"I want to thank the people of New York for the courtesies that have been extended to members of our committee and I only want a chance to reciprocate on the part of Omaha when your people come out to see our city."

FRUIT MEN READY FOR INSPECTION.

Iowa's Exhibit Changes Hands and All the Rest Are Hustling.

A change in the superintendency of the Iowa fruit exhibit in the Horticulture building became effective yesterday, J. W. Murphy of Glenwood succeeding J. J. Coleman, who has looked after the exhibit since its installation. The new man who takes charge of the Iowa exhibit is experienced in the fruit business and promises to put up an exhibit that will compare favorably with any in the building.

J. W. Stanton, treasurer of the Illinois State Horticultural society, returned from home yesterday, where he went a couple of weeks ago for the purpose of having a large supply of fruit sent here for exhibition during the closing weeks of the exposition. He says that from now until the close of the great show there will be no difficulty in securing everything that he will need. Illinois will feature apples and pears, while all of the varieties of grapes will be shown in abundance. The grapes will come from the growers and from the etate​ experimental station.

In order that the big crowds of today may have an idea of the possibilities of Nebraska as a fruit raising state Superintendent Youngers has covered his tables with peaches, having more on exhibition than all of the other states combined. Besides peaches the state is making a great exhibit of apples, plums, prunes and a large quantity of late summer fruit that was presumed to have been out of market weeks ago. Superintendent Walker of the Douglas county exhibit has and is putting up an exhibit that is even better than weeks ago, when it was pronounced the best in the building. Grapes is the strong card of Douglas county just at this time, but there are plenty of apples, peaches, pears and plums.

[?] Superintendent Nelson is showing more apples than ever before and all of them are of an excellent quality. The favorites are the big red ones, but there are plenty of others that are also admired.

Kansas keeps working away at its exhibit and it is constantly growing, Secretary Greef and Commissioner Glick having made arrangements for the shipment of fruit at regular intervals. Heretofore the non-arrival of fruit has been a serious drawback to the state exhibit, but now it is said that there will be no more trouble of that kind.

Music Last Night and Today.

The Wagner concert announced for last night brought out an immense crowd. It is safe to say that about every local musician of prominence was present. In spite of the high grade of music rendered, the vast audience seemed to be more enthusiastic ever than usual. It seemed as though many feared they would be unable to secure seats, so intense was the interest in the musical feast which had been prepared, but when the grand organ-like tones of the "Tannhauser" overture fell on the ear a sudden hush came over the assemblage. Never has this supreme work been heard here to greater advantage. It was given with an authority which at once removed it from the domain of criticism. In response to the determined encore the band gave Innes' "Love is King" two step, which seems to have leaped into universal popularity. Following this came the beautiful "Isolden's Liebested," from "Tristan." And then came the gem of the evening, the "Magic Fire" music from "Die Walkure," which was played with a perfection and delicacy which it is hard to believe possible from an organization composed almost exclusively of wind instruments.

Some of the announced numbers were omitted, unfortunately. This was owing to the necessity of giving some special feature in honor of the visiting Georgians and it took the shape of a series of illuminated pictures thrown on a screen by a stereopticon. Dewey and Hobson and the explosion of the Maine were all received with favor by those who had not yet seen this pleasing feature. The spectacular anvil scene and cannon accompaniment, which was announced for the concert tonight has been postponed in consequence of the inability of the electrical department to give the necessary attention to the details of the electrical effects, but will be given next week as soon as the immense preparations necessary for Chicago day have been completed. A special feature of the Sunday afternoon concert, which will be given in the Auditorium at 3 o'clock, will be Handel's celebrated "Largo" by band and organ, the organ obligato being played by Mr. Thomas Kelly. Much interest is being manifested in the request concert of Monday night.

Puebloes Putting Up a House.

Yesterday morning the Puebloes commenced the erection of their adobe house. The work was watched all day by numerous delegations of whites, who took a great interest in the proceedings.

When the Indians made their brick they dug their clay from a place near the center of their encampment and spread them about the hole to dry. Yesterday in commencing the erection of their adobe habitation they leveled off the ground around this hole and then with square and compass, both of which were crude instruments, prepared for laying the walls. First they placed plank upon the ground and covered the surface with mortar, mixed in the hole from which the clay for the brick was dug. Then the laying of the brick was commenced, each brick being laid to a line. The walls will be about seven feet in the front and six feet in the rear. The building will be 16x20 feet and will be covered with poles, on which will be spread hay, which in turn will be covered with earth. There will be a floor in the house and underneath will be a cellar, which will be the hole from which all of the material for the walls of the structure has been taken.

Sham Battle Plans.

Everything is in readiness for the sham battle that will take place at the Indian grounds at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Captain Mercer has put up his own seats and has accommodations for 5,000 people.

The battle will be between the Sioux and the Blackfeet, about 250 Indians appearing on each side. The Sioux will be under Goes-toWar, who will direct their movements from the eastern portion of the battlefield. The Blackfeet will undoubtedly be led by Little Man as head chief, with Looks High assisting. Both sides have been furnished with an abundant supply of ammunition and they promise to put up the hottest sham battle that has been seen upon the grounds.

Iowa Veterans.

Scores of gray-haired men wearing bright yellow badges were upon the exposition grounds. They were the surviving members of the First Iowa cavalry, organized June 13, 1861, and mustered out March 16, 1866. The old veterans had been holding their annual reunion at Council Bluffs and, having adjourned, concluded to spend a day at the exposition.

The Cook County Democratic club was between 400 and 500 strong. Congressman James R. Mann, accompanied it and nearly every candidate for a county position in the coming election, as well as about all the city office holders. Mayor Harrison, Congressman and the club generally was informally welcomed at the Paxton by President Wattles of the exposition, and the following members of the Illinois commission: Colonel W. F. Harper, L. O. Goddard, O. Williams, C. H. Keeler and the president of the commission, Colonel Clark E. Carr.

A few of the more noted members of the Cook County Democratic club are the following, as they registered ata​ the Paxton: John Powers, its president; City Attorney Miles Devine, Chairman Thomas Gahn and Secretary Burke of the democratic committee, Walter Thomas Mills, the well known democratic orator, Attorney M. V. Gannon, formerly of Omaha; James H. Farrell, the club's marshal; Alderman O'Brien, Ballenberg and Cook, Chief of Police Joe Kipley, James McAndrews, building commissioner; Robert E. Burke, oil inspector; Charles Thornton, corporation counsel; John Shubert, smoke inspector; Inspector of Police Hartnett; Howard S. Taylor, city prosecuting attorney; Thomas Gaines, candidate for county treasurer; Fred Eldred, candidate for county clerk; Judge George Kersten, candidate fo rsheriff​ of Cook county; James J. Gray, the north town assessor; Frank E. Davidson, superintendent of the sewer department; A. J. Toolen of the Board of Public Works; City Treasurer Ernst Hummel; Peter Kiolbassa; ex-Alderman Robert Mulcahy; Street Commissioner John Doherty; Corporation Inspector John W. McCarthy; James C. Martin, candidate for county judge; James Markham, Chief Kipley's secretary; Vincent H. ePrkins​, candidate for president of the Cook county board; C. C. Stilwell, chairman of the Sixth district congressional committee; Emil Hoechster, candidate for congress for the Sixth district; City Clerk William Seffler; ex-Alderman John Colvin, Judge A. J. Sabbath; John Dullard, sergeant at arms of the city council; T. J. Corcoran ,secretary of the civil service commission of Chicago; Frank W. Solon, superintendent of the street and alley cleaning department; Frank Ryan, superintendent of the water pipe extension, and Lieutenant George Perry of the city detectives.

Some Other Delegations.

A special train from Chicago, carrying several delegation from various Chicago clubs, arrived at the Webster street station over the Northwestern line shortly before 11 o'clock this morning. The train left Chicago at 7:30 last evening and ran one hour behind the Union League special. On this train the Chicago Athletic club occupied two cars; the Marquette club, one car; the Standard club, one car, and a number of members of the Chicago Board of Trade, two cars.

The regular "Overland Limited" train of the Northwestern was run in three sections, and all of these came into the city at the Union depot. They were from one to two hours late on account of the extraordinary number of special trains on the road between Chicago and Omaha last night. All of the three sections of the regular train were well filled.

Incidents of the Affair.

The badges worn by the Cook County Marching club were made especially for this occasion. They are very handsome affairs of blue silk plush.

Out of the thousands of people who crowded the Burlington and Tenth street depot platforms to witness the arrival of the trains fully 65 per cent were women.

William Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton Detective agency, and Chief of Police Linden of Philadelphia, with Chief of Police White, welcomed Chief of Police Kipley of Chicago at the depot.

So closely were the crowds guarded by the local detectives and Pinkerton men that not one case of pocket-picking was reported and it was a rich field for this class of criminals about the densely crowded depot platforms.

One of the local marshal's aids, who was riding a fractious horse, was thrown from the animal's back at the corner of Tenth and Dodge streets. He was not injured and pluckily mounted the animal again amid the cheers of the marchers.

Among the Northwestern officials on the Union League special were: General Passenger Agent Kniskern, Assistant General Passenger Agent Ferguson, General Agent Kuhn and Division Superintendent Ashton. The train was brought in by Conductor Cook.

As Mayor Harrison stepped from his car a young, handsome and very stylishly dressed woman, unknown to him, presented him with a very large bunch of American beauty roses. A card attached bore this, "From a former Chicagoan." The act was loudly applauded.

In the Cook County Marching club the Chicago police department was represented by nearly fifty men, headed by Chief Kipley, Inspector "Jack" Hartnett, Captain Matt Homer and "Jimmy" Markham, private secretary to the chief. Company F contained fifteen central office detectives.

LIBRARY CONGRESS SESSION

President Lane of the American Association Presides at the Meeting.

VALUE OF LIBRARIES TO COMMUNITY

Various Phases of the Subject Are Handled by Speakers Who Have Made a Study of the Matter Under Consideration.

The transmississippi congress concluded its discussions this morning and adjourned. The first paper was one by Mis​ Electra Dayton, the librarian of Dayton, O., on emphasized the necessity for proper training for the cataloguing feature of library work and the establishment of training schools. This paper was discussed fully by William Richard Watson of Pittsburg, the assistant librarian of the Carnegie library there.

The next subject taken up was the relation of the library to other formal educational work. Papers were read on its relation to the public school by Purd B. Wright, librarian, of St. Joseph, Mo.; its relation to the college, by William C. Lane, president of the American Library association and librarian of Harvard university, and its relation to the club (the woman's club in particular), by Mrs. T. K. Sudborough of this city. The general trend of the discussion of these papers was that librarians and teachers should come closer together in educational sympathy. Miss Kate McHugh, assistant principal of the Omaha High school; Miss Virginia Dodge, librarian of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and William Wallace and Mrs. W. W. Keysor of this city all took part in the discussion. The views expressed on Mrs. Sudborough's paper were that woman's clubs should not conflict with the public libraries.

Resolutions of appreciation of the hospitality of Omaha were adopted and Victor Rosewater and Miss Edith Tobitt, the local librarian, expressed the obligation of this city to the visitors.

President Lane Presides.

At last evening's session of the Transmississippi Library congress William C. Lane, librarian of Harvard university and president of the American Library association, was introduced as chairman for the evening. He spoke briefly of the librarian's privilege of imparting knowledge and power to his fellow men and of his responsibility as a public servant. "The program to follow," he added, "will deal with the missionary aspect of the public library. Librarians have what they know to be good and it is their wish to impart it and the purpose of the speakers tonight will be to make that conception more clear and broad." The general subject was announced to be "The Value of the Library to the Community," and the different phases of the material, the social and political and the spiritual values were taken up.

The material good which the library brought with it was presented by Henry J. Carr of the public library of Scranton, Pa., who said that there was no expenditure of public money which brought such an immediate and extraordinary return as that invested in libraries. They are less expensive, he said, than prisons and reformatories and a great deal more effective. Mr. Carr outlined the history of the growth of public libraries in America from the origin of the crude school district libraries in 1835 to the first important gain, when a free library law was passed in New Hampshire in 1849. The next important date in library annals was 1853, when the convention was held in New York which proved the forerunner of the American Library association. The first material value in a library, Mr. Carr said, was naturally in the tangible worth of the volumes and other property attached to it. A more presumptive but none the less real value was in the feeling of ownership taken in it by citizens, thus stimulating pride in their community. Its value to workingmen in their pursuits was pointed out as well as to the unemployed tradesman who is in need of a wholesome distraction.

Value in Other Ways.

The social and political value of a public library was spoken of by Charles R. Dudley of the city library, Denver, Colo. He said that our government was run on the theory that every citizen was a political expert. Although it is a thinking age, he remarked, it is too often the case that people are ready to let the other man do the thinking rather than make the exertion themselves. No physician would be allowed to practice, said Mr. Dudley, and no lawyer would be called to a case without specialized knowledge along his line and the American citizen should similarly learn of the science of government from infallible sources. Preparation to hold public office should be made a matter of the most thorough study and at present branches of political science are taken up very seldom in high schools and are often only elective in colleges. The library is able to take up a large share of this burden and can offer material more trustworthy than hearsay or newspapers.

The same topic was discussed by Superintendent C. G. Pearse, who mentioned incidents in his experience with school children showing the good brought to them by the public library. Many children, he said, who have had no opportunity at home to acquire good breeding or to learn social usages get an invaluable glimpse into higher things from books in which pleasant views of life are taken. They obtain a taste for good reading that will last beyond their school lives.

The value of the public library to the education of the individual was spoken of by Miss M. E. Ahern, editor of Public Libraries, Chicago. She remarked upon the unsuitable reading which had formerly been offered to children in public schools when they had grown up in the narrow and unfruitful atmosphere of McGuffie's readers. Only 10 per cent of the students who enter public schools, she said, ever reach the high school, the large majority falling out either from the necessity of earning a livelihood or through the poor judgment of their parents. To such as these the library offers a boundless field of self-culture. If the lives of men who toil seem to them commonplace and narrow they have a refuge in a realm as unrestricted as the world's history, where they may commune with the greatest minds that have come to earth. To the tradesman the public library is an Aladdin's lamp, which opens a new and unsuspected world of beauty. A short discussion on the same theme followed by Johnson Brigham, librarian of the Iowa State library, Des Moines. He presented the view rather of a taxpayer who saw the necessity of the distribution of clean and elevating literature among his neighbors. A few remarks along the same line followed by W. P. Payne of the public library, Nevada, Ia.

Spiritual Benefits Also.

Rev. Mary A. Safford of Sioux City, Ia., concluded the program with an earnest and scholarly address upon the spiritual value of the public library to the community. She said that the library was a blessing not only to those who read but to all who even indirectly felt its influence. The debt of religion to the library, she said, is far greater than is usually realized for religion not grounded in intelligence is nothing higher than superstition. Religion, she added, cannot rise above the level of the popular intelligence. It is not enough to mean well; good intentions must be wedded to right thinking. So much of wrongdoing and suffering is brought about simply by ignorance that the library becomes a most important factor in the uplifting of the nation's life. The palliative measures of penal institutions are valuable because they are necessary, but they are not so important as those which are preventive. The speaker did not deplore the fact that a large amount of the present reading is in fiction, for she said that in this commercial age the stimulus was helpful to the imagination and broadening in its tendency.

LECTURES AT THE ART CONGRESS.

American Painters and Golden Age of Italian Art Discussed.

There was an improvement in the attendance on the Art congress yesterday afternaan​, but the same feminine predominance was apparent which characterized the audience in the morning. The lecture was by Charles Francis Brown, an instructor in the Chicago Art institute, and his subject was "American Painters." He illustrated his lecture by the aid of a stereopticon, the room being darkened for the purpose, and the pictures were thrown on a canvas stretched over the front of the pipe organ.

The lecturer said he had been impressed by the logical arrangement of some of the exhibits in the Government building at the exposition, showing the development in some particular branch. He mentioned the hammer which is shown in the crude shape of stone which was used centuries ago and the finely finished article which is used by the skilled workmen of today in accomplishing the development of the trades. The same is true, he said, of the display in the Art building and he would seek to illustrate this development in the course of his lecture.

Mr. Brown divided the history of American art into three periods. The first was the colonial or revolutionary period, closing with the death of Gilbert Stewart; the second extended down to 1878, when the Art Student league and the Society of American Artists were founded in New York and the third, or modern period, covered the time   from 1878 to the present. In the beginning American art was under the influence of the English and Italian school, but since American students began to go abroad for their education and training the influence of France and Germany is more noticeable.

The speaker then gave a short sketch of the different American artists, with criticisms of some of their work, beginning with Benjamin West, the first American painter, following with John Trumbull, John Copley, Gilbert Stewart and others down to those well known today. Throughout it all specimens of the work of the artists were thrown upon the canvas for the benefit and instruction of the audience. The lecture was entertaining and of great value to all interested in art culture.

Miss Caulfield's Lecture.

Miss Anna Caulfield gave a lecture before the art congress at the First Congregational church last evening, on the "Golden Age of Italian Art," illustrated with stereopticon views in colors, which to many was a revelation in art, poetry, philosophy and history all combined. She has been strongly impressed with the natural trinity of architecture, sculpture and painting and for an hour treated her charmed audience to a most instructive transition from the Gothic to the Renaissant in architecture and painting in a very philosophical resume of the progression from the thirteenth century in Florence to the sixteenth century in Rome and Venice. Mrs. W. W. Keysor introduced her.

Her endeavor was to answer the questions, "How shall we awaken an interest in art in America?" "How shall we convince the people that art is something more than a mere form of amusement?" and "How can it be best introduced into our cities, our schools and our homes?" We need eye culture as well as soul culture, she said, speaking more particularly of the American people, and she advised that we turn from God's art in nature to man's art in architecture, sculpture and painting. The American people can do as did the ancients—cultivate a love of beauty from the continuous scene of the beautiful in which this country abounds in its natural scenery. She stepped aside a little to add a word of praise to the Transmississippi Exposition as an object lesson in art.

Stress was laid upon the value of color and she rather deprecated the decoration of homes with pictures in black and white and brown and white. The women's clubs, she thought, could awaken an interest in art by going about it the proper way. An awakening in the direction of art, however, she said, is going on in America as in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there was a revival in Europe in the Renaissance. The capitol at Washington and the congressional library building she had thrown onto the screen to emphasize this point and by way of comparison with Florentine architecture in the Duomo which, having grown from a study of the Pantheon, had become the original of all great domes from St. Peter's at Rome to the national capitol. As a treatment of the subject of architecture itself the lecture was a most profitable one to her listeners.

Her Stereopticon Views.

Her stereopticon views were of a very high order, numerous and versatile. They covered everything of note from the day of Lorenzo the Magnificent in Florence, to Michael Angelo's frescoing of St. Peter's and the vatican in Rome and the masterpieces of Titian in Venice. Fra Angelico's works of spiritual beauty in his religious paintings, Andrea del Sarto's faces, Raphael's madonnas, the style of Leorardo da Vinci and Giorgioni's pageantry scenes all found a place in her interesting sweep of the four centuries. Florence she considered the heir of Rome's magnificence and Venice that of the marine beauty of Constantinople, each inheriting a special feature of the respective divisions of the Roman empire. Form was the prevailing characteristic of Florentine art and color that of the Venetian. Her illustrations were brought to a happy finale by a reproduction of Titian's Assumption and a moonlight scene of the grand canal of Venice, for which she was compensated by spontaneous bursts of admiring applause from the select audience which had accompanied her in her entertaining tour from the Armo to the Tiber and thence to the "bride of the Sea," whose doge lives now only in the immortalization that has come from Shakespeare's pen and Titian's brush.

This morning at 10 o'clock Miss Isabelle McDougall, art critic for the Chicago Post, will talk on "Municipal Art." At 11 o'clock L. H. Griffith will speak on "Practical Application of Art Education." This afternoon at 3 o'clock Lorado Taft will lecture on "French Sculpture." This lecture will close the congress.

CHICAGO WILL DO OMAHA ALL TODAY

Lakeside City People Expected to Take In the Exposition and See the Sights.

Famous Cook County Democratic Club With an Immense Band of Music Will Storm the City and

Twenty Sleeping Cars Filled With the Crack Marching Club of the World Arrives in Omaha Early Saturday Morning on Special Trains.

Today, according to the exposition calendar, is Chicago day at the exposition, and the indications are that the event will be a hummer—a record breaker. The Chicago excursion proper is under the auspices of the Cook County Democratic club, and that noted organization will come in full force. This is perhaps the most remarkable political organization in the country today. It is a powerful body, and has grown in numbers and influence. While it is not a "machine" controlling body, it is an organization that runs the political affairs of the democracy of the Lakeside city to a large extent. In the membership are men of all conditions and social standing in the party. Chicago is rapidly growing to the proportions of the political center of the northwest, and this club is no small factor in the work of organization and controlling the party in that city and in Illinois.

This club keeps up its organization year in and year out. From time to time meetings are held—social meetings, business meetings, and during campaign times, frequent business meetings in which great events are discussed. The organization, as some one has said, is always in the saddle, ready for business. When distinguished men of the faith visit Chicago this club does the nice thing in a royal manner. Notable days in democratic history are commemorated in a becoming way by this organization. The club never does anything by halves. The motto of the club is, "What is worth doing at all is worth doing well."

The anniversaries of this club, such as Jefferson and Jackson days, and other notable ones in democratic history, are events, not alone in the history of Chicago, but of consequence also to the country and party the country over. Nothing in the way of splendor and magnificence in the way of arrangements and program are left undone.

This club has a membership of thousands—men of all conditions, from the day laborer on the streets to the millionaire in his palace. They meet from time to time, and discuss matters of much interest to the city, county, state and nation and themselves as individuals.

MARCHING CLUB.

Inside the club proper is an organization known the world over as the "Marching club." This is an organization within an organization. It is composed of the real workers, those who are ready in season and out of season to go forth in behalf of the party principles. They are what might be called the "rough riders" in Chicago political affairs. On them depends largely the work of the great organization. During campaigns this club meets night after night to plan, devise, suggest, execute plans calculated to bring about desired ends. In short the "Marching club" is the cabinet for action.

In times of peace this wing of the organization takes pleasure and business trips to different places, carrying cheer and astonishment with them. Their trips are events not only in the history of the club's life, but in the annals of the places visited, as well. When they go they go in royal style. They do the thing up in elegance—and money is no object with them. Some years ago the Marching club went to Syracuse in a train, the car service alone costing $7,000. The club went to Nashville to the exposition last year and the car service account alone was larger by considerable than was the cost of the Syracuse trip.

SOME NOTABLE TRIPS.

The trip of seven days through the south during the Cotton States exposition at Atlanta, Ga., in 1895, was a memorable one. The club participated in Chicago day services in Memorial hall and serenaded all the Illinois dignitaries assembled on that occasion, who were Governor Altgeld, Chairman Ferdinand Peck, General Wheeler of the national guard, A. S. Trude, George Adams and Chief of Fire Department Swenie. Governor Atkinson of Georgia and the mayor of Atlanta were also serenaded. They were received by the staff officers of the governor and leading citizens. Other points visited were Memphis, Tenn., where they were received by the Tennessee committee, composd​ of leading office holders and citizens; Birmingham, Ala., where they were received by the mayor and citizens of that beautiful and enterprising city, and serenaded by the ladies in charge of the Chrysanthemum exhibition, held there are the time, and stops were also made at Tuscaloosa and Holly Springs, Miss.

When Governor Boies was inaugurated at Des Moines, this club was a feature of the exercises. It was the admired of all. This trip was one of the most noted in the history of the club, and consumed five days, during which time the weather was extremely cold, the thermometer registering 10 degrees below zero on inauguration day. Two hundred members and forty musicians from the First regiment band made up the company.

SURPRISE FOR GOTHAMITES.

When Mayor Van Wyck was inaugurated at New York the club was the seven days wonder of Gotham. The body paraded to Tammany hall and won eulogies as the finest appearing body of men that ever marched down Broadway. A reception was given them next day by Tammany. On the return home a stop of five hours was made at Niagara Falls. Upon arriving in Chicago 500 citizens, headed by a band, received them as conquering heroes and gave them a reception and banquet in Oriental hall.

The trips and triumphs of the club have been many. October 7, 1897, the club made an invasion of the southland and added another peace victory to the many laurels won on civic battlefields. The famous "swing around the circle" in October, 1897, into the heart of the campaigns of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee will live in political history. As a result democracy triumphed at Lafayette, Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati and Nashville, where the county democracy sojourned and was entertained. The parades of the organization awakened great enthusiasm, with Mayor Harrison at the head—a plain democratic mayor marching in line with "the boys."

Saturday is Chicago day, and that does not mean that only the famous Cook County Democratic club will be here. That club comes, to be sure, as a body, to swell the ranks and to place organization behind the exercises. energy. Mayor Harrison will be here. Thousands of people will be here—people of all political faiths as well as people who have no political home. It is Chicago day—a day in which every loyal Chicagoan can take part and enter into the exercises with freedom and He responds to "The Mayor," and his address will be the chief one of the day. Others will speak, and the Auditorium exercises will be somewhat out of the usual.

To give a list of the prominent people who will be here would be an impossibility. President Powers of the noted club will head the list; ex-President Burke, Mayor Harrison, ex-Governor Altgeld, leading judges, noted members of the Chicago bar, men famous on 'change, county and city and state officials, and two or three congressmen, and Senator Mason is of the pary​.

This will be the club's only real extensive outing for 1898, and it is their purpose to make it an affair worthy of the great young city of which it is a representative. They come to have a good time; to show the people of Omaha a good time; to meet and greet old friends, and to form new ones; and incidentally to make a display worthy of the name of Chicago. A Chicago man expressed the idea when he said: "They would come to Omaha loaded, and would unload—and maybe, some of them fill up again."

PARADE IN BURLINGTON.

Months ago the club decided to come to Omaha, to see the exposition and to do Omaha. From time to time committees have visited the city perfecting arrangements for the outing, and plans at both ends are now perfected, and are on a scale at once grand and magnificent.

While here the Paxton hotel will be headquarters. The club will arrive in the city Saturday morning, leaving Chicago at 2:30 p. m. Friday. They have chartered twenty sleepers for the members of the club alone. Two engines will draw this immense train. Enroute the train stops briefly at Monmouth, Galeburg and Burlington. At Burlington, Ia., the club leaves the car and makes a parade through the principal streets, early Saturday morning. There are 500 in the marching party. The famous club band of seventy pieces furnishes the music. Arriving in Omaha the club will fall in and march from the depot to the Paxton.

While here a street display will be made, and the parade at the exposition Saturday afternoon will be something worth seeing.

In addition to the marching club a large number of Chicago people will come, and it is estimated that at least 10,000 people from that city will be in Omaha today.

GEORGIA'S DAY A RED LETTER

Statesmen and Orators From the Great Cotton Commonwealth Here.

They Come in Force to Exposition---Generous Tribute to the West---Pioneer and Children's Day, Also,

Nebraska's past, present and future, its labor, its achievement and it promise met by chance on the exposition grounds yesterday. The territorial pioneers and the old settlers were there to see epitomized the results of forty or fifty years of effort in the land beyond the Mississippi—the conquest of the prairie schooner which President Olson the other day called the grandest sort of battleship. Their sons and their daughters were there to feel satisfied with their present undertakings, and their grandchildren were there to share in pride for the past and to be filled full of hope for the future.

ALL CHILDREN'S DAY.

It was all children's day, too—a day for the youngest and the oldest. No one knows just how many of the little people there were, but they piled off every train that arrived in the morning. The most imposing body of them came in from Blair on a special about 9:30. There were about 1,000 of them. They made a pretty looking army as they marched from the Elkhorn station into the grounds and down the boulevard to the main part. They were in the general charge of Superintendent N. K. Fowler of the Blair schools, but the detachment from each township and school district in the county had its own chaperon.

Bundles and packages were deposited at the Children's building and then the grounds were free to the excursionists. There were no formal exercises, and the only special entertainment for the children was a display of Japanese day fireworks on the plaza at 1:30.

OLD SETTLERS, ALSO.

There were, of course, fewer of the old settlers, but there were many for them. They moved about the grounds more slowly than the children, but they were yet lively enough to see the exposition. They made headquarters at the Nebraska building, where shortly after noon a reunion was held.

GEORGIA TO THE FORE.

The day was further distinguished by a visit of the prominent citizens and the Press association of Georgia, with exercises in the Auditorium at 11 o'clock. The southern excursionists met at the Georgia building and marched to the Auditorium to the music of the Omaha Concert band.

Ex-Governor Northen presided. He said that the people of Georgia were here to congratulate the brave men who had made the exposition so grand a success in the face of such serious discouragements at the start. The south had been in the exposition business and the governor said that he thought at the time that the Cotton States' exposition was second only to the World's fair. He believed he was now safe in saying since he was 1,000 miles from hime​, that the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition had not been surpassed by any other ever held. (Cheers.) The governor referred to the same spirit that had moved both the north and the south in the war with Spain, and declared that the conflict was worth all its cost in money and blood, because it had wiped out forever the last vestige of sectionalism. (Cheers.)

The greeting for the exposition was extended by President Wattles. His commendation of the enterprise shown by Georgia in participating in the exposition was received with much applause, as well as were his remarks regarding the disappearance of the remnants of sectional animosity. Not less well received were his remarks regarding the prosperity of the new south and his prediction that it would soon be working up in its own factories its own cotton.

EDITOR RICHARDSON ELOQUENT.

Henry Richardson, editor of the Atlanta Journal, and one of the prominent members of the Georgia commission, was profuse in his praise of the substantial and the more airy splendors of the exposition. He did it with a great deal of fervor and a great deal of wit, and found frequently before him a thousand laughing faces. He declared that here about the main court were shown more grandly the works of man than at any other time and place. "And," said he, "if that be treason, let Chicago and Atlanta make the most of it." He repeated with great satisfaction the facts regarding the attraction of northern capital and northern men to the south and shouted that they were welcome. They would rather have down there good, regular, well-seasoned American citizens, with American traditions and American spirit than the population continually dumped down in New York from foreign shores. "We appreciate," said he, "what the northwest has done for the south and we want more of you."

Discussing the resources of Georgia and its agricultural advantages, Mr. Richardson entered on a cheer-causing part of his address when he began talking about one flag and one patriotism. He has, as a boy, he said, seen the city of his hope riddled with federal shells and fired by federal torches, and yet, today, when one there turned his eyes toward the sky he saw nothing but an array of American flags, and devotion to the common interests of the whole country was nowhere so strong as in the empire state of the south.

Manager Rosewater of the department of publicity and promotion followed with an address more particularly to the members of the Georgia Press association and on the theme of the work of the press in contributing to the success of the exposition.

SPEAKS OF GEORGIA PRESS.

Response was to be made by Captain John Triplett, vice president of the Georgia Press association and editor of the Thomasville Times, but he contented himself with acknowledging the courtesies extended, and introduced Colonel J. H. Estelle of Savannah.

Colonel Estelle said he felt like repeating the old story of the queen of Sheba, but Mr. Richardson had already told that, and he would speak of the Georgia press. He commended it for its boldness through many trying times and for its honesty at all times. He and and his friends would carry back the most pleasant recollections of the exposition, profoundly impressed with its beauty and with the power and intelligence that produced it.

After "The Old Kentucky Home" by the Omaha Concert band the final address was delivered by John Temple Graves, whom the chairman said all Georgia regarded as a second Henry W. Grady.

JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.

Mr. Graves began with a very gracious compliment to the president of the exposition and his associates for their great accomplishment. With much fluency and apt description he spoke of the exposition and the spirit of the people of west. He aroused the most ardent enthusiasm as he spoke of the interests of his section and pronounced the Nicaraguan canal the logical outcome of the Spanish war, and was cheered at the end of every sentence as he progressed in his chief theme—a reunited country, and a north and south linked by new commercial and industrial ties.

TERRITORIAL PIONEERS.

Oldest Settlers of Nebraska Gather in Numbers to Rejoice.

That Nebraska is not so young as she used to be one must admit after a glance at those who gathered at the Nebraska building yesterday responsive to a call for a meeting at noon of the Territorial Pioneers' association, ex-Governor Furnas president and W. R. Bowen secretary. Long before noon the building was a hive of activity—a gray and venerable activity. White beards, bald crowns and bent shoulders were much in evidence; but so also was the spirit of fire and courage which has made these men worthy to bear the name of pioneers.

Prior to the meeting no definite plan or program had been arranged for the day's entertainment, the purpose of the meeting being to perfect arrangements for such manner of celebrating as would be most acceptable to the guests. Nor did there seem any urgent desire for any form of enjoyment other than that of exchanging greetings and renewing old-time friendships. So busy were the graybeards with this pleasure that the meeting had not been called to order at the hour of 12:30.

It was expected that other old settlers' associations would join with the Territorial Pioneers' association in this celebration. The Lancaster County association had signified its intention of doing so, but at the last moment this plan was abandoned and the only organized body concerned in the festivities is that of the Territorial Pioneers.

The afternoon meeting was called to order at 1 o'clock by the president of the association, ex-Governor Furnas, with about 200 members present.

Governor Furnas, in addressing the assembly, said this was the most largely attended meeting of the association which has yet been held, despite the fact that the material available for the making of members is constantly decreasing. He spoke briefly of the astonishing contrast between the condition of the territory a generation ago and its condition in this great exposition year—a contrast impossible in any other country within so limited a period of time.

Secretary Bowen read the minutes of the meeting of last year, which was held at Lincoln. The secretary also submitted the financial report and report of auditing committee.

Ex-Governor Furnas then briefly outlined the purposes and objects of the organization of the association, which has in view the preservation of some authentic record of the days of territorial pioneering. He urged the increase of membership, which is available to all who came to or was born in Nebraska prior to March 1, 1867. Children of such pioneers, if born in Nebraska, are available for membership in the second class. It is desirable that there be the largest co-operation among old settlers for furthering the purposes of the organization before death shall make such co-operation impossible.

The association has adopted a specially designed and characteristic badge of bronze, the design being a buffalo head, inclosed within a horseshoe.

Robert W. Furnas was re-elected president of the association for the ensuing year. W. R. Bowen was also re-elected as secretary.

At the conclusion of the formal business of the meeting many of the members were called upon for five-minute addresses. Ex-Governor Boyd was the first to respond to this call, and spoke feelingly of the early days, and hopefully of the days to come. He was followed by Colonel Champion S. Chase, who urged the need of attempting to preserve the "inside" of territorial history while its makers are still living.

Major D. H. Wheeler spoke of the conditions that prevailed in Nebraska in the '50s, when cottonwood timber was legal tender, and when there was a race of real estate boomers who must have put the modern boomer to shame.

Short speeches were also made by Dr. Daniel Freeman, Beatrice; Isaac Hascall, Omaha; Dr. Harvey L. Link, Millard; Dr. George Smith, Omaha; John B. Furay, Omaha; A. Yost, Fontanelle, and others, all in reminiscent mood. The remainder of old settlers' day celebration was a go-as-you-please.

Missouri Editors at the Exposition.

Fifty Southwest Missouri editors and their wives are at the Mercer. Yesterday after a brief informal session the party left the hotel in a body for the exposition. Press Commissioner R. W. Richardson was on hand and presented each editor with tickets to the exposition. The southwest editors will stay over Sunday in the city.

WANT ANOTHER VIEW.

Georgia Editors Plan to See Salt Lake and Revisit Omaha.

The Georgia editors were up betimes yesterday. At 9 o'clock they assembled in the parlors of the Millard to discuss and arrange plans for a western trip. The entire party was present, the meeting being very interesting. It was decided to go to Denver, at any rate, the party already having an invitation to that point. A committee was appointed to complete arrangements for that outing; also the committee to see if arrangements can be made to go to Salt Lake, many of the editors being very anxious to go to that city while in the north. That committee was requested to do all in its power to arrange for the Salt Lake trip.

It was further decided to leave Omaha for Denver, Saturday evening, spending three or four days in Denver, returning to the city next week and spending two or three days more at the exposition. Should arrangements be perfected to go to Salt lake they will return to Omaha October 8, spending the 9th and 10th at the exposition.

After the meeting the editors went in a body to the exposition, and held an informal meeeing​ in the Georgia state building, at 10:30 just previous to the Auditorium building.

Chicagoans Coming.

The hotels are already filling up with Chicagoans, and there are at this time several hundred people from that city in Omaha. Every incoming train adds to the number, and by evening at least 1,000 Chicagoans arrived to participate in the exercises. These are the advance guard, coming to complete arrangements, and to avoid the rush today. Commercial men, representing Chicago houses, are coming in very fast. There have been several hundred of them at large in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and almost to a man they are rolling into Omha​. Many of them live in Chicago, and their families will meet them here. Some are members of the Cook County Democratic club, and come to have a lark with their comrades. The Paxton, Murray and Millard are filling up with Chicagoans. At each of these hotels quarters have been engaged for weeks in advance for today, and the indications are that the hotels will have few idle rooms Saturday night.

Indian Sham Battle Saturday.

Great commotion and turmoil will again disturb the Indian congress this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, for at that hour the six Sioux tribes and their friends, consisting of one or two of the smaller tribes, will wage conflict with every other tribe in the village. It will be another of the sham battles that have become the drawing cards of the grounds on the day that they occur, preceded by a grand review by tribes in which Geronimo and his Apaches dash up the last of all.

Accommodations for seating 3,000 people in the shape of solid plank tiers thoroughly braced have been provided. The Indian braves will have their usual number of Springfield carbines and blank cartridges.

Notes of the Exposition.

The fireworks tonight in honor of Chicago day will be on a scale not before witnessed. More than double the quantity of fireworks ever yet used on the grounds will be sent up.

October 20 has been set apart as Eastern Star day. There will be no formal exercises. The local members of the order will entertain visiting members from all points.

General Superintendent Newell of the Chicago & Easern​ Illinois railroad will be one of the visitors tomorrow. He will be attended by a party.

The special cars of President Purdy of the Rock Island and of George H. Daniels, the general passenger agent of the New York Central, stand near the railroad entrance. They and their friends will remain over tomorrow.

The St. Paul & Omaha road brought in twelve coach loads of children to the exposition. The Union Pacific had three extra loads from Columbus, and the Burlington brought in 10 0children​ from Minden.

MORMON NOTABLES COMING

Three Members of Presidency, Snow, Cannon and Smith, Will Lead.

Accompanied by Governor Wells and Utah Officials, Will Arrive October 18 or 20.

Eight of Cannon's Sons and Daughteas​ From Five Families Visit Exposition--Going East to College.

Dignitaries of the Mormon church have advised Superintendent Whittaker of the Utah displays that they will arrive in a large party to view the exposition October 18 or 20. In the party will be the three members of the presidency of the Mormon church, the president proper, Lorenzo Snow, recently elected to succeed the later President Woodruff; the first councilor, George Q. Cannon, ex-territorial delegate and father of the present United States Senator Cannon, and the second councilor, Joseph F. Smith. Perhaps the governor of Utah, Hon. Heber M. Wells, will be a member of the party, which will also include several other officials of both the church and the state.

The Utah exhibits are now being visited daily by a dozen or more young people en route from their Utah homes to eastern colleges. Among the number during the last two days have been four sons and four daughters of George Q. Cannon, three of the sons bound for Cornell university and the others for other eastern institutions. It is said of the distinguished churchman that he has four or five families. Although now having renounced polygamy, he is most generously providing for each of his families, and is giving all of his children liberal educations, his immense wealth so permitting.

He was president of the Trans-Mississippi in this city two years ago last winter, which by reolution​ fixed upon Omaha as the representative city of the Trans-Mississippi states for the exposition.

SALMON HATCHING OUT.

One of the interesting features of the fisheries exhibit in the Government building, which became especially so yesterday, is the hatching out of a large number of Quinat salmon. Twelve days ago a large quantity of the delicate pink eggs were received from the government hatching station on the McCloud river at Baird, Cal. The eggs had been in the water twenty-five days, and in the ordinary course of events they would have remained in water at the temperature of 48 degrees, and would not have been hatched for several days yet. So most of the eggs are now being kept.

But one jar was put in Missouri river water at the temperature of 68 degrees, the water being gradually warmed to that point, and these are the eggs that yesterday began bursting open for the active little salmon with big food sacks fastened to them, so heavy they cannot swim for two weeks yet until the food is absorbed, although they are ambitiously trying. It is feared that the little fellows will be more delicate than those raised in colder water.

CANADIAN DAY.

Canadian day has been fixed by the dominion government at October 15, so Mr. Mathew A. Hall, British vice consul of the Canadian-American club, has wired from Ottawa. He went a few days ago on the mission in behalf of the exposition. To make the day truly representative of Canadian interest and enterprise, it is announced that a large delegation of prominent Canadian officials will arrive to participate in the events of the day, in which it is believed that they will be heartily seconded by the 2,000 Omaha Canadians, as well as the large number from the Trans-Mississippi territory.

SPECIAL RAILWAY PARTIES.

Six special cars with parties of people prominent in railroad circles will be on the tracks within the exposition grounds this morning. A New York Central party consists of General Passenger Agent George H. Daniels, Mrs. Daniels, Miss Harriet M. Daniels of New York; Mrs. L. B. Hamlin, Miss Maud Hamlin, Mr. A. W. Hamlin and Mr. Clinton Hamlin of Elgin, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Dickinson, Mr. Mansel Clarke and Mr. R. T. Crane, jr. They arrived last evening on the New York Central private car "Corsair," but will occupy two cars during their stay. A Rock Island party consists of President W. G. Purdy, the Misses S. E. Purdy, E. F. Purdy and B. A. Purdy, Mr. C. F. Drake and Miss A. B. Sanger. General Superintendent J. C. Stewart, wife and daughter of the Omaha are expected today, as are also a party of Port Arthur officials and their families.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has written the National Flax, Hemp and Ramie association that he will be in the city during peace jubilee week, and will be pleased to participate in the contemplated flax fiber congress. Plans for the congress have not been definitely formed as yet, save that it will be held during the second week in October.

WITH THE DAKOTAS.

It is anticipated that during the next few days the North Dakota agricultural exhibit will be greatly augmented by a collection of the best agricultural products of the state direct from the state fair being held this week at Mandan, and later by another collection from the Grand Fork street fair, a fall festival peculiar to the larger North Dakota cities, the one at Grand Forks being held October 5, 6 and 7, including all kinds of fruit and cereal displays, Midway and balloon attractions, and Paine's Fall of Santiago produced on the Red river. The Richland county collection of Wealthy and Duchess apples has been largely increased.

South Dakota day is October 6, but as yet Mr. J. E. Pilcher, superintendent of the Black Hills mines exhibit, has received no definite information of the program save that Hon. C. E. Davis of Deadwood will deliver the opening addresses. It is rumored, however, that extensive preparations are being made, and that a large delegation from the Black Hills region at least, will be here. Mr. Pilcher has just received a miniature working model of a ten-stamp gold mill, and in operation shows the work of the two five-stamp batteries, one with clean plate and the other amalgamated with quicksilver.

NEW BRIGHTON HONORED.

T. L. Kennedy Selected as One of the Twenty-two Commissioners of Pennsylvania to Attend the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha on Pennsylvania Day.

By request of the management of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, now open at Omaha, Nebraska, Governor Hastings appointed twenty-two commissioners to represent the State on Pennsylvania Day, which will be October 6th, 1898. Among those appointed are Col. John W. Woodside, president; Col. Thomas Potter, vice-president; Thomas Bradley, treasurer; William A. Conner, secretary; George Knox McCain, chairman executive committee; T. L. Kennedy and others. The commission is composed of practical representative men and Governor Hastings is receiving praise for his wise selection.

The exposition is intended as a counterpart of the World't​ Fair, and in points of exhibits in electricity and fine buildings, is said to be the finest ever attempted in the United States.

John A. Wakefield, formerly of New Brighton, is secretary of the exposition, and by the selection of Mr. Kennedy as a member of the commission, Beaver county should certainly feel honored.

The commission will leave Philadelphia to-morrow evening at 4:30 o'clock and will pass through New Brighton early on Monday morning. It will be one of the few commissions that go outside of the state whose members pay their own expenses, so far as the state is concerned. However, the Pennsylvania Company, through George M. Boyd, general passenger agent, has kindly tendered free transportation over their lines and also furnished special cars. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company, through John R. Pott, general passenger agent, kindly furnishes transportation over that line from Chicago to Omaha and return. Mr. Boyd and Mr. Pott will accompany the commission in person.

Mr. Kennedy stated to a TRIBUNE reporter to-day that the state of New York has a large building erected on the exposition grounds which has been tendered to the Pennsylvania commission for use as a headquarters on Pennsylvania day. The offer has been accepted and the building will be used on that occasion, when the address of the day will be delivered by Postmaster General George Emory Smith. Mr. Smith and his wife will accompany the commis-[?]

SECOND TO CHICAGO

Omaha's Exposition Leads All Others in Point of Attendance.

WORLD'S FAIR HONORS TRANSMISSISSIPPI

Visitors from the Windy City Take Full Possession of the Grounds.

MADE TO FEEL VERY MUCH AT HOME

Weather Man Prepares a Lake Michigan Fog for Their Benefit.

EXERCISES ARE UNUSUALLY INTERESTING

Speakers Exchange Compliments and Congratulations of Undoubted Sincerity and Unite in Exalting the West and Its Resources.

True to its promise and its well known hustling ability Chicago came to the exposition yesterday and made its visit the biggest, liveliest and most enthusiastic municipal celebration in the history of the exposition. And incidentally Chicago day will be remembered as the date on which the Transmississippi Exposition made good its promise that it would be the biggest exposition since the World's fair. Last night the total attendance passed the record of the total attendance of the Nashville exposition with several thousands to spare. In its six months of existence 1,703,328 people passed through the gates of the Nashville show. At the end of the fourth month the Omaha record was within 15,000 of the total Nashville attendance, and yesterday added this and thousands more. The total attendance at the Atlanta exposition, which was also a six months' show, was 1,287,863, and that at the Midwinter fair was also decidedly less than that at Nashville.

The radiant sunshine that welcomed the representatives of the Sunny South was pertinently succeeded by lowering skies and damp, misty winds when Chicago came to pay her respects to the only exposition that has rivaled her own marvelous achievement. It was as nearly a counterpart of the brand of weather for which the Windy City is famed as nature could suggest, and the visitors unpacked their mackintoshes and umbrellas and felt entirely at home. The clouds were draped in that slaty shade of gray that distinguishes the heavy canopy of mist that a stiff east wind blows up from Lake Michigan. The rain drizzled at intervals, with the same chilly persistence that it falls on Michigan avenue on several days of the 365, the southeast wind was damply suggestive of a journey over miles of angry water, and the Chicagoans had only to close their eyes and imagine that they could hear the muffled pounding of the insistent billows on the sturdy riprapping of the Lake Front. They had every reason to feel at home and they did. They showed their appreciation of the cordial sincerity of their welcome by simply taking possession of the grounds and lavishing their admiration on the show as enthusiastically as though they had not had a slightly bigger one of their own. They had come with the announced intention of making Chicago day one of the great events of the transmississippi show and the atmospheric inconveniences of the morning did not prevent them from carrying it into execution.

Make Their Presence Manifest.

The delegations that were brought by the various railroads included some of the most notable figures in Chicago citizenship. Many of them were accompanied by their families and together they formed the biggest and most enthusiastic crowd that has visited the exposition. They swarmed into the Illinois building all through the morning and kept the pretty rotunda full of animation and pretty costumes. As the excursionists whose trains had been switched directly to the grounds joined those who came up from their down town quarters the pretty red   grounds and by 11 o'clock there were enough of them to fairly fill the Auditorium and still leave a representation in every other quarter.

During the afternoon the clouds scattered and the drizzling rain of the morning was succeeded by occasional bursts of sunshine that were suggestive of real Nebraska weather. This gave the visitors an opportunity to see the show under the most favorable conditions, and they made the most of it. They furnished a big crowd at the sham battle, and the Cook county democrats were so thoroughly enthused with the scrappy tactics of the aboriginal contestants that they wanted to colonize them for delegates to the next county convention. This band concert and the special fireworks display in the evening caught the fancy of the visitors, and then they proceeded to give the Midway a little the warmest turning over it has had yet. Most of them will remain over Sunday, and the Innes band will play two exceptionally attractive programs. The feature of the afternoon concert in the Auditorium will be the rendition of Handel's Largo by the band and the Auditorium organ manipulated by Director Kelly.

Officials Finally Arrive.

The official party was belated but in the meantime the crowd was pleasantly entertained by the Omaha Concert band and was not perceptibly restless. The speakers and official guests arrived at 11:30 and were escorted to the stage by President Wattles and Mayor Moores and accompanied by nearly all the Omaha city officials. After an earnest invocation by Rev. T. J. Mackay, Chairman William H. Harper of the executive committee of the Illionis​ commission called the meeting to order and introduced President Clark E. Carr of the Illinois commision​ as the presiding officer. President Carr said to his Chicago hearers that, proud as they are of the splendor of their imperial city, they were now in the midst of that which had made that splendor, the great northwest. He introduced Mayor Frank E. Moores, who welcomed the visitors in behalf of the city of Omaha. He declared that every citizen of the west is proud of Chicago. He regards it as the center, around which the universe revolves and feels a personal interest in its triumphs. But Omaha is to the transmississippi west what Chicago is to the whole country, and he expressed the belief that when his hearers had inspected the magnificent enterprise that they are here to visit they would be as proud of Omaha as Omaha is of Chicago. In conclusion he presented Mayor Harrison with the keys to the city and invited the visitors to take the fullest advantage of the liberties afforded.

In behalf of the exposition management President Wattles said that the inspiration and ambition of our people to build this exposition on the banks of the Missouri had been received from Chicago's great World's Fair, and, while this was but a shadow of the ideal, the west is proud of its child and is glad to welcome its distinguished visitors. He referred to the intimate commercial relations that exist between the Mississippi and Missouri valleys. Chicago is the great clearing house for the immense products of this fertile territory. Its business interests are so closely connected with the transmississippi territory that it is practically the great heart of the west. He spoke of its wonderful growth and transcendent enterprise and paid a high tribute to the progressive spirit of its citizens.

Mayor Harrison's Response.

In response to these sentiments Mayor Carter H. Harrison spoke of "Chicago" and his introduction was followed by a generous ovation. He said that they werewe are here to return the thanks of Chicago for the designation of this day in honor of their city. TheyWe represented all nationalities, all politics and all creeds. They sometimes differed at home but they were a unit in extending to Omaha their sympathy and encouragement and their congratulations on its magnificent achievement. He declared that this celebration came at a time of glorious significance to this country. We has learned that the untried volunteers were of the stuff of which heroes are made and that Sampson, Dewey and Schley are worthy successors to Farragut and Perry. We are not only a peace loving nation but we have found that we have the ability to make our enemies on the battlefield desire peace rather than war.

Referring more particularly to Chicago, Mayor Harrison said that on most occasions a Chicagoan could not tell the truth about his city without being accused of exaggeration. The truth about Chicago seemed like an extravagant dream to the citizen of New York, or Boston or Philadelphia. But Omaha can understand Chicago. Her people had the same inherent spirit and the same pluck and enterprise had made each city what it is. In conclusion, he declared that not only on this occasion, but in every achievement of its future, Omaha commands all the sympathy and encouragement and inspiration that Chicago has to give.

Chicago and the West.

"Chicago and Its Relation to the West" was the subject of an able address by Charles G. Dawes, ex-congressman and assistant comptroller of the currency of the United States. After an enthusiastic hand clapping had greeted his introduction, Mr. Dawes said:

Twenty-seven years ago fifty of the leading citizens of Chicago gathered themselves in a little meeting under most distressing circumstances. Around them, in smoking and somber ruins, lay what had been but a few days before the magnificent city of Chicago. Their own homes had been burned over their heads; their property of all kinds was in ashes; around them all was desolation and cheerlessness and the future seemed as dark as the present. Some of these men rose and spoke of the city as destroyed and lost forever. Its rebuilding seemed to them impossible. To their minds the great Chicago, the city of their pride and affection, was numbered among the things of the past. But from among them there rose a young man who amidst depressing surroundings lifted his voice in remonstrance and in prophecy of the future. "Chicago will live," said he, "and live to be so mighty and so vast that this great fire will be but an incident in its past." And Chicago will thus live because beyond her there lies the giant force, the teeming millions and the imperial area of the mighty west, which having before created Chicago as the necessary gateway to the east must re-create it under the same necessities." That speaker, now the secretary of the treasury of the United States, has lived to see Chicago re-created by the west and his prophecies fulfilled to the uttermost.

I have thought of no better way than by the telling of this incident to indicate the relation of Chicago to the west.

Chicago is the child of the west, dependent upon her for her prosperity and progress—almost for her very existence—and far be it from her to belittle the debt she owes. Willingly, freely, she acknowledges and rejoices in it. Peopled largely by western men, sustained largely by western resources, she feels the keenest and most vital interest in the west, and I believe the great west takes equal interest in this young giant among the cities of the world.

Some Hard Boiled Facts.

The details of the social and commercial relations between the west and Chicago, daily growing more intimate, daily growing more vast—relations which may well challenge the deepest attention of the student of economics and of American history—can receive from me today but a passing and superficial word. From this great section 125 passenger trains carrying over 12,000 people roll daily into the depots of the city of Chicago, and an equal number of trains depart daily from Chicago for the west. During the last year 20,000,000 bushels of western wheat, 116,000,000 bushels of western corn, 118,000,000 bushels of western oats and 17,000,000 bushels of western rye went to or through the great commercial gateway of Chicago. Of the 46,000,000 pounds of second class printed matter entered for the year ending June 30, 1896, at the Chicago postoffice, the authorities of the office estimate that from three-eighths to three-fourths went to the west. Taking the postoffice average of five pieces to the pound, we find that the total annual circulation of Chicago periodical issues in the west must be between 130,000,000 and 172,000,000 copies—a circulation of most surprising and portentious​ magnitude. The combined mileage of the railroads east and west of the Missouri river, binding and knitting together the west and Chicago in ties of common interest, is 67,180 miles.

But no catalogue of the evidences of the intimacy and vastness of the commercial and sociological relations of the west to Chicago can add to our sense of their importance.

Affects the National Life.

The degree of contentment and prosperity experienced by the western people under these relations of western cities like Chicago and Omaha to the western country is so important as affecting our national life and progress that these relations now command the interest and attention of the entire people of the United States. It is generally realized that when the social problems involved in them are solved all the internal problems which confront our young republic will be solved. These people—the people of Chicago and the west—are not waiting for other people or other nations to solve the great problems of today, but strong in the consciousness of their competency for the task they eagerly seek after right solutions.

The rapidity of the development of the west has in less than two generations brought them face to face with the problem of existence under all social conditions from the most primitive to the most complex.

What has thus happened before the eyes of one generation in the west has consumed several hundred years even in other sections of our country and in continental Europe thousands of years. Crowded into the lives of the people of the west has been the marvelous sight of an empire builded from a wilderness.

Past and Present.

We stand today in the midst of this magnificent exposition—an exponent of the highest art of the world—located in this beautiful city of Omaha with its complex nineteenth century civilization and architecture, and are startled by the thought that the Indians and buffalo which have been brought here as objects of curiosity lived in their native state upon this very site less than fifty years ago.

Little wonder is it that the people of the west are interested in these relations of the western city to the western community. The fingers of fate move in decades and not in centuries, in setting the problems for western humanity to conquer.

Little wonder is it that no solution seems too difficult of attainment for those who have seen such great transformations in the west through the successful solution of earlier problems, equally grave.

And now as the genius of America, at the close of a glorious war so bravely fought by a gallant army and navy under a great and wise president, stands upon the threshold of a dawning century and a dawning destiny, with her face toward the fair islands of the Pacific west placed by God's hand under her guardianship, little wonder is it that these people of the west, themselves but a short time ago the adopted children of the wilderness, should not doubt that the path of national duty toward the new western possessions shall again be the path of national glory.

On the Louisiana Purchase.

Cogressman​ J. R. Mann also received a flaering​ welcome from he​ audience. He discussed "The Louisiana Purchase," as follows:

We celebrate today the victories of peace and peaceful pursuits. Where a magic city and a beautiful exposition now stand the wild buffalo was chased by the savage Indian within the lifetime of many here. In the midst of this fitting celebration of the successes of our arts of peace, while enjoying the benefits of bounteous plenty and prosperity, it is proper to recall the history of those events which have made these western states an equal part of that nation which is today the embodiment of progressive civilization and which flies the most beautiful and beloved flag ever lighted up by the sunshine or kissed by the breezes.

"Large streams from little fountains flow; tall oaks from little acorns grow." The little narrow fringe of settlements along the Atlantic coast has grown into an empire which sweeps across a continent and embraces the islands of the sea.

The Louisiana purchase more than doubled the national territory. It gave to our country the exclusive control of the mighty Mississippi and its tributaries. It planted our possessions on the Gulf of Mexico. It acquired for us the Columbia river and a coast line on the Pacific ocean. It brought into our country a region having the most fertile farm and grazing lands, as well as varied mineral resources, to be found in the world, and yet its acquirement was, as it were, only a chance shot.

Spain owned the entire west bank of the Mississippi river and the eastern bank below the Thirty-first parallel of latitude, the boundary line fixed by the treaty of 1795. After the war of the revolution our country west of the Alleghenies had begun to fill up with a class of sturdy and independent pioneer settlers. These settlements depended for transportation of their products wholly upon river navigation, the only outlet for which was through the mouth of the Mississippi, owned and controlled by Spain.

In 1800, by the secret treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain retroceded the province of Louisiana to France, but without delivering possession at that time.

It became evident to the statesmen of that time that we could have no lasting peace until we should possess one bank entire of the Mississippi river, with a consequent right to its free navigation.

Jefferson was president and did not believe that the constitution warranted the purchase of new territory, but overcoming his scruples he rose equal to the emergency and he commissioned James Monroe to act with Robert Livingston, then minister to France, in an effort to purchase that part of the Louisiana province east of the Mississippi, including New Orleans, from France, and congress appropriated the sum of $2,000,000 for that purpose.

War a Fortunate Incident.

"It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good." Fortunately for our own interest, France and England were then on the verge of another war. They had just concluded a treaty of peace, but each country was looking dread suspicion upon the other. England viewed with grave objection the retransfer by Spain of the immense Louisiana province to France; and Napoleon, who was then the first consul of France and its ruler, quickly saw that in case of war the English, with their superiority at sea, would immediately seize New Orleans and the Mississippi river valley. On Easter Sunday, April 10, 1803, he called two of his counselors who were most familiar with the foreign possessions and asked their advice. He said to them:

"I know the full value of Louisiana, and I have been desirous of repairing the fault of the French negotiator who abandoned it in 1763. A few lines of a treaty have restored it to me, and I have scarcely recovered it when I must expect to lose it. But if it escapes me, it shall one day cost dearer to those who oblige me to strip myself of it than to those to whom I wish to deliver it. The English have successively   taken from France Canada, Cape Breton, New Foundland, Nova Scotia and the richest portions of Asia. They shall not have the Mississippi which they covet."

And after hearing from his advisers, one in favor of selling the province to the United States, the other in favor of retaining it, Napoleon said:

"Irresolution and deliberation are no longer in season. I renounce Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede; it is the whole colony without my reservation."

Monroe and Livingston had no authority to accept the offer which was made to them by Napoleon.

They could not cable for instructions. They had no time to communicate with the home government by letter. Napoleon was not a Spanish diplomat; he wanted his offer promptly accepted or rejected.

Monroe and Livingston, however, proved equal to the ocasion​, and after negotiations, which lasted but a few days, the purchase was agreed upon, the United States to pay France the principal sum of $11,250,000 payable in stocks or bonds due in fifteen years, with interest, and the further sum of $3,750,000, to be paid by our government to American citizens having certain valid claims against France.

When the treaty became known in this country some of the haters of President Jefferson raised a violent outcry against its confirmation, and dire predictions were made about the danger of extending the country in violation of the constitution, and burdening the people with an immense debt for the purpose of buying an uninhabitable wilderness.

The treaty of purchase was dated April 30, 1803, was ratified in October following, and on December 20, 1803, the American flag was raised over New Orleans.

No one can measure the future possibilities of the states embraced in the Louisiana purchase. The development since the purchase in 1803 has been more splendid than an alchemist's dream. The future will far outrival the present and the past.

The value of the Louisiana purchase cannot yet be appreciated. In 1854 Omaha was but a bare trading post. Its growth has been as rapid as the mushroom which springs up in the night, but as strong and certain as the steel beams which constitute the superstructure of its great buildings, and it is but an example of the genius of the west.

The acquisition of the Louisiana territory was the greatest prize ever gained by a nation at one time. By the stroke of a pen an empire changed hands. In a moment of doubt a construction was placed upon the constitution which authorized the vast increase of territory.

The Louisiana purchase will soon have a greater population than the country which sold it to us. A single false step might have lost us its possession. All the circumstances at the time of its purchase conspired to give us a single opportunity to gain an empire. The opportunity refused or neglected might never have come again.

The France which today maintains an army of more than half a million men because she was compelled to cede Alsace and Lorraine to Germany gave way to us a possession worth many times Alsace and Lorraine, and gave it in friendly peace.

Not one of us can look far into the future. The progress of a century has enabled us to utilize all our possessions. The lightning's fluid puts far distant territory in a moment's communication with the capitol. The expansion of our domain and the increase of our possessions made more keen the intellect and genius of our people. It broadened the hearts and deepened the souls of our citizens. With the new wants, caused by long distance and varied interests, came new ideas with which to supply those wants. New discoveries in the fields of science, art, mechanics, followed closely the new discoveries regarding the surface of our territory.

The last address was to have been made by Hon. William E. Mason on "Our Country." But the senator was unable to be present at the exercises, having been called to Washington on business Thursday. The program was concluded by the band playing "The Star Spangled Banner."

During the course of the exercises Chairman Harper read the following cablegram which was received during the morning from Ferd W. Peck, commissioner-in-general from the United States to the Paris exposition:

GENEVA, Oct. 1.—William H. Harper, Chairman Illinois Commission, Omaha: Paris exposition greet Chicago day at sister exposition.

After the exercises in the Auditorium Mayor Harrison's party was escorted to Markel's casino, where they were banqueted by the members of the executive committee and the city council. The party occupied the long table on the north side of the room on the second floor of the north restaurant. Aside from the dinner there was no set program and speeches were not indulged in. After dinner the party broke up and the time between then and the sham battle was devoted to visiting the exposition buildings.

Chairman Harper of the transportation committee left for Chicago at 4:30 yesterday afternoon.

RECEPTION TO THE CHICAGOANS.

Major and Mrs. Hambleton Keep Open House for the Guests.

The Chicagoans were given a reception at the Illinois building last evening from 9 until 11 o'clock. Along the walks and among the trees surrounding the structure 1,000 incandescent lamps had been strung to light the way of the visitors to the warm welcome of Major and Mrs. Hambleton. Within, the rooms were hung with evergreens and decked with roses. The punch bowl stood in a conspicuous place near the entrance. The orchestra, stationed on the balcony, furnished music for the occasion.

Out on the veranda members of the Cook county democracy and the Union League club, forgetting politics, spoke only of the beauties of the exposition, or watched at a distance the display of fireworks whose scattering stars lighted the sky in the north.

Nearly 500 guests called during the evening to pay their respects to their fellow citizen, the major, and do homage at the shrine of their mother state. It was the unanimous verdict of all that Illinois had done itself proud at Omaha. All agreed that there was no better state building on the grounds and united in congratulating Major Hambleton on the beauty of the home that he has made his during the summer, and spared no praise for the taste and art displayed in its decoration for their reception and entertainment.

The headquarters of the Union League club in the north room upstairs were especially inviting and had its share of guests until a late hour.

PENNSYLVANIA'S DOUBLE DAY.

Celebration at the Exposition to Be Followed by Picnic at the Park.

Pennsylvania day at the exposition is Wednesday, October 5. The headquarters for Pennsylvanians on that day is to be at the Nebraska State building. Postmaster General Smith is to deliver the oration. Governor Hastings and staff, with a large party of prominent Pennsylvanians, are to be present. Ten thousands Nebraska Pennsylvanians are expected. Badges and buttons for Pennsylvanians can be obtained at Balduff's, Dalzell's and several other places in town. The Pennsylvania basket picnic will be held on Thursday, October 6, in Hanscom park. All Pennsylvanians are cordially invited. A program of short addresses by General Manderson, Governor Holcomb and other prominent Pennsylvanians, interspersed with plantation melodies and songs, instrumental and vocal, will be rendered. Everybody who attends is expected to be on the grounds in Hanscom park by 11 a. m. as refreshments will be served at 12 o'clock. Every person from far and near is invited to bring their own basket, as it is to be a typical Pennsylvania basket picnic, consisting of meats, sandwiches, cold slaw, salads, apple butter, scrapple, pumpkin pie, cake, cider, etc. The headquarters for the picnic people until 10 o'clock of Thursday, October 6, will be at the Young Men's Christian association building in Omaha. Street car accommodations run direct from there to the park. A beautiful souvenir Pennsylvania button has been prepared and can be obtained from any of the committee by applying for the same. One hundred and fifty Pennsylvanians have been appointed on the reception committee and everything has been done that was possible to make this a great day for Pennsylvanians in the west. One county has promised to send 500 representatives and other counties all over the state are expecting to send in large delegations.

ALL READY FOR THE STOCK SHOW.

Hundreds of Cars of Fat Stock Received and Hundreds More Coming.

The live stock show, which opens on the North tract Monday and which includes cattle, horses, jacks, jennets, mules, sheep and swine, promises to be one of the greatest exhibitions of its kind ever held in the United States. The entries number 2,550 animals, nearly all of which will be here. For the accommodation of the stock fifty-one barns have been erected, with 192 horse, 400 cattle, 332 swine and 186 sheep stalls and pens.

Yesterday was a busy time with the owners of the stock and also with the exposition people, as trainloads of animals were arriving from early morning until late at night, coming from almost every state and territory in the union, as well as some from Canada. While Monday is the opening day of the show it is not expected that all of the stock will arrive before Tuesday morning, as that exhibited at the Illinois state fair at Springfield will not leave its destination. Two hundred and fifty carloads of stock arrived yesterday and as much more is billed to come in today. The stock that has arrived up to this time is of excellent quality and most [?] fairs previously held. One ewe, in particular, ha arrived that has just been brought from England, where it took first prize in the Cotswold class a few weeks ago.

The horse show will be good, but it may not compare favorably with some of the shows held years ago, as it is a difficult matter to find any large number of fine horses in the country, breeders having gone out of the business to quite a large extent.

The judging at the show will not begin until Thursday morning. For the purpose of showing the animals before the judges and the public a large amphitheater has been erected, capable of seating several hundred persons. This is located just inside the east entrance to the grounds and is directly in the rear of the Dairy building.

GIVEN A GREAT SHAM BATTLE.

Chicagoans and Others See What Savage Warfare Was Once Like.

Nearly all the Chicagoans and thousands of other visitors witnessed the sham battle fought yesterday afternoon between the Sioux and their allies and the Blackfeet and their allies. The battle was preceded by the usual parade of the members of the Indian congress, all in gala attire.

The preliminaries having been disposed of the forces divided, the Sioux and their supporters going to the east end of the field, while the Blackfeet and those who were to fight with them occupied the ground at the west end of the camp. Then the fight was on and unlike some that have been seen upon former occasions this one was a draw.

With the grandstand crowded and thousands standing along the ropes, with hundreds of spectators perched upon the roofs of surrounding buildings, the shrill notes of the bugle were wafted over the field and the fight was started. A party of Sioux had been out in Blackfeet territory hunting buffalo and two of them had been captured. A council of war had been held and it had been decided that they should die at the stake. Following out the text of the decision the two braves, Comes Running and Falls-As-He-Runs, were brought out into the open space and in full view of the audience. The first was tied to a stake and a fire kindled about him, while the latter Indian was securely roped and laid upon the ground to be disposed of at a later date. Around the unfortunate Indian the Blackfeet danced and howled, waiting for the flames to reach their victim. Not satisfied with this method of torture, however, they added to the misery of their victim by throwing dust in his eyes and prodding him with the burning ends of sticks.

Luck Was with Them.

It is probable that Comes Running would have journeyed to the happy hunting ground had it not been for an incident. Two other Sioux had heard that there was game in the vicinity of the spot that had been selected for the burning and happened to be close by when their comrades were prepared for the slaughter. At about the same time, however, their presence was discovered and two fearless braves were sent out from the ranks of the Wichitas to dispatch them. The Wichitas went, but they never came back, for the Sioux ambushed them, brained them with the butts of their guns and tearing their scalps from their heads, fled to the camp of the Sioux, where they gave the alarm. Within a remarkably short space of time the Sioux came riding down upon the Blackfeet and fired a volley into their ranks. The volley was returned and then the fighting became general. In the early part of the fight Big Brave, the chief in command of the Blackfeet, was killed by being tomahawked by Goes-to-War, who was leading the Sioux. The fight was a hand to hand encounter and was one of the most exciting scenes of the battle.

As Big Brave fell to the ground his scalp was torn off by Goes-to-War, who waved the gory trophy over his head and gave vent to a war cry that was taken up and echoed over the entire field. For an instant after the fall of their chief the Blackfeet seemed dismayed and there were indications that they were about to retreat. Right at this moment Touches-the-Cloud, a Cheyenne, assumed command and riding into the thick of the fight and waving his wand high above his head, cheered the wavering ranks on. The fight, however, was not for Touches-the-Clouds at this time, for in another part of the field his forces had become routed and the men were rapidly riding away, followed by the Sioux who were doing great damage to his columns. The old chief saw that the fight was lost, and starting to fly, discovered that he was alone, surrounded by half a hundred savages who thirsted for his blood. Clubbing his gun and urging on his pony, he rode against the ranks of the Sioux, cutting his way through and reaching his retreating men in safety.

Exterminating the Blackfeet.

In this fight the Sioux killed and captured nearly half of the Blackfeet and their allies. They dead they scalped and the captives they conducted to the open space and prepared for burning them at the stake. One man, Dust Maker, was lashed to the identical pole to which he had assisted in lashing a Sioux but a short time previous and around him was kindled a bright, blazing fire. Around this fire the Sioux danced and howled, executing the same dance that is employed when business is intended. The squaws came in for their share and assisted in torturing the captive. Around and around the Indians danced, while the mounted red men circled about and gave vent to the most unearthly yells. Just as the man was about to give up the ghost the Blackfeet, who had been creeping up on the Sioux, arrived with reinforcements and engaged the Sioux in a most desperate battle. They dismounted from their ponies and turning them over to the squaws and children to hold, secreted themselves behind stumps and trees and opened a fire upon their enemies with telling effect. The Sioux retreated under the galling fire, but were rallied by Goes-to-War and his aid, Medicine Horn, both of whom seemed to be everywhere present. By directing the fire of their men, although outnumbered two to one, they held the Blackfeet off, piling the ground with the dead. What would have been the result of the battle cannot be predicted. It was nobody's fight when the supply of blank cartridges run low, which was the signal for the cessation of hostilities.

Even after the firing had been concluded the Indians gave the audience a fine exhibition of hand to hand conflicts. A dozen or more Indians engaged in such an encounter right in front of the grand stand, showing the methods in fighting at close range.

The sham battle interested the visitors immensely and was declared to have been one of the best things ever seen.

Welcome to the Plumbers.

Among the Chicago visitors in the city yesterday were John S. Kelly, national president of the Journeymen Plumbers' union; John Mitchell, president of the Chicago local union, and Frank Kennedy, president of the examining board for union plumbers in Chicago. They were the guests of the Omaha Plumbers' union, No. 16, and at the close of the regular union meeting last night were tendered an informal reception at Labor temple. A welcoming address was made by John M. Buggy, presdient​ of the local union, and there were responses by the visiting brothers and also by Andrew Young, chief inspector of the Chicago Board of Health, who was of the party.

MUSIC LAST NIGHT AND TODAY.

Innes Band Wins More Praise—Programs for Sunday Concerts.

In spite of the somewhat unfavorable weather and the counter attractions brought about by the extra features in honor of the Chicago day visitors, two immense crowds attended the concerts of Innes and his band yesterday. It was a disappointment to many that the spectacular features were not given in the evening. This was not, however, the fault of Bandmaster Innes. It is promised that the necessary arrangements will be at once proceeded with and that the first of these spectacular productions will be given at the festival concert next Saturday night. The disappointment did not interfere, however, with the enjoyment of the big crowd, as Innes and his players seemed to lay themselves out in such shape as to create an extra amount of enthusiasm as each number of the concert followed one on top of the other. Heidelberg, the undoubtedly great piccoloist, caught them on his solo. His playing was for all the world like the song of a bird. Some of the notes were as thin as paper and about as long as the flash of a fire-fly, but they could be heard by the most remote auditor. Innes and his magical trombone set them wild again. The "Jubel" overture with its concluding hymn, "America! My Country 'Tis of Thee," brought the vast assemblage to its feet with such bursts of patriotic enthusiasm as it was good to look upon. The classicists, who are so fond of Innes because he appeals to them, were especially catered to by Wagner's magnificent "Tannhausser" overture and two songs by Mendelssohn, "Farewell to the Forest" and the "Spring Song." This last, by the way, is one of the most remarkable things that Innes does, in the judgment of many people. It is his own transcription of a delicate composition written especially for piano and the beautiful arpeggio effects which he brings in here with his reeds are not only mysterious but absolutely astounding.

The "Hunting Scene," a descriptive idyl by Bucalossi, made one of the hits of the night. Heppner, the solo trumpeter of the band, quietly slipped out and in the distance gave a faint response to the calling of the hounds, which had been sounded by one of the cornetists in the band. Then came the [?]

This brought down the house and formed the climax of an evening of sensations. The program for the concert which will be given in the Auditorium this afternoon at 3 o'clock is of especial interest and is as follows:

PART I.

PART II.

A grand concert will be given by Innes and his band on the Grand Plaza tonight at 7 o'clock, for which this is the program:

PART I.

PART II.

Rounded Out with Fireworks.

Chicago day was rounded out with a most magnificent display of fireworks, hundreds of rockets, shells and bombs. There were numerous set pieces, all designed by John Due for the occasion. There was the "Welcome Chicago," a large picture of Mayor Harrison and then there was the cow that kicked over the lamp that set fire to and burned the old city of Chicago. As a companion piece, there was Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of the cow. In addition to this there was a large seal of the city, the acrobat and the phoenix, but better than all of this was the great display of bombs fired in connection with the burning of the city, which was represented on canvas by a street 400 feet in length, many of the buildings so arranged that when the bombs exploded the building tumbled down and apparently burned. The finale was a statue fifty feet high, designated as "I Will," representative of the new Chicago, built since the big fire.

Along the Midway.

There was a hot time on the Midway last night. It was not a riotous time, but just a jollification, participated in by the thousands of Chicagoans and others who were there for the purpose of seeing the sights. The shows opened early and continued in business until a late hour, all doing a good business. It as​ a jolly crowd and every member of the great gathering was in the best of humor.

From dark until midnight the street was packed and the clarion voice of the barker mingled with the laugh of the pleasure seeker who looked at the pictures, slid down all of the inclines and patronized all of the soda water establishments in his round.

FOR CHARLES EMORY SMITH

Reception to the Postmaster General in the Court of The Bee Building Next Wednesday Night.

A public reception will be tendered to Charles Emory Smith, postmaster general and editor of the Philadelphia Press, in the court of The Bee building on the night of October 5. The postmaster general will precede the presidential party by several days in order to deliver the address on Pennsylvania day, and the reception has been planned to enable the postmasters and newspaper men of the west to greet him personally. The Bee building will be brilliantly illuminated and decorated for the occasion, and the long lines of red, white and blue incandescents will blend in pleasing unison with flags and bunting. Within, the court will be resplendent with foliage and draperies, and the distinguished guest will be welcomed by an assembly of notable people. The Bee has sent personal invitations to 1,100 western postmasters and it is expected that a large proportion of them will be present to receive their chief. Other invitations to newspaper men of the west [?]

JUBILEE RATES ANNOUNCED

Omaha Lines Give Out the Passenger Tariff for the Week.

NOT SO LOW AS HAD BEEN LOOKED FOR

Promise of Record Breaking Rates Not Fulfilled and Some Criticism is Endangered—What a Railroad Man Thinks.

A meeting of the passenger representatives of the lines west of here held a meeting yesterday and decided upon reduced rates to Omaha during Peace Jubilee week, October 10-15. It was resolved that lines would act independently of the Western Passenger association and D. B. Caldwell, who is employed by that organization as chairman, was so notified.

The rate that will be made from all points within 150 miles of Omaha is one fare for the round trip, with a minimum rate of $1. Beyond the radius of 150 miles a rate of 1 cent a mile will apply, with a minimum rate from such territory fixed at $4.50. Tickets will be sold at these rates on October 10, 11, 12 and 13, and October 17 will be the latest date for the return trip.

That these rates are a signal disappointment to those interested in the success of the Peace Jubilee is most apparent. From the intimations given out from time to time by passenger men here it was believed that the Peace Jubilee rates would be the lowest ever made to Omaha, as the occasion is to be undoubtedly the greatest. Two weeks ago the passenger men said that it would be unwise to announce the jubilee rates as they would be so low that travel in the meantime will be held back. It's hard to see why anyone should hold back to travel on the rates announced, as they are about the same as are granted the most ordinary conventions that come along.

This opinion is entertained of the Peace Jubilee rates not only by outsiders, but by well posted railroad men who are not so close to the general passenger departments but that they can talk. Said one of them to a Bee reporter: "I understand the jubilee rates are high in comparison with the attraction; there can be no doubt about that. Lower rates have been made to Omaha for the Nebraska State fair. I do not know whether there is any chance of having the rates lowered or not, but certainly they ought to be.

Some Singular Excuses Offered.

"It's amusing to anyone but a passenger man to hear the explanations the general passenger agents give for keeping the rates up. I heard a couple of them say that if lower rates were made their lines could not supply sufficient passenger equipment. There never was a line that could not get hold of all the cars it needed if it new sufficiently ahead of time of the travel expected.

"The real reason for the rates is that the general passenger agents want to go before their general managers and presidents with statements showing that they have acted as wise conservers of revenue. They make money on the traffic they do handle and get patted on the back for their shrewdness, but they lose lots of traffic that would yield good earnings.

"The rates for Ak-Sar-Ben week and for Jubilee week are reasonable enough from remote points, but they are altogether too high from nearby points. One fare for the round trip from points within 150 miles for a peace jubilee with President McKinley and his cabinet here is not a fair rate at all. I heard one passenger man say that the crowds would come any way no matter what rates were made, so the railroads were justified in getting all of the money they could out of the business. I do not consider this is the wisest course to pursue, and the error may be discovered later on.

"The general passenger agents have bulled the situation throughout the exposition, as they did during the World's fair, yet you will find passenger men all over the west today telling you how admirably the World's fair rates were handled. The great error with the campaigns for lower rates here has been that they have been mis-directed. Had a movement been started for lower rates from nearby points instead of from remote points the situation would have been better today. The great bulk of the support of the exposition comes from points within a radius of 250 miles of Omaha."

END OF LIBRARY CONGRESS

Librarians Conclude Their Business and Take an Adjournment˙

SESSION PROVES TO BE PROFITABLE ONE

Numerous Important Topics Ars​ Discussed and Resolutions of Appreciation of Hospitality of Omaha Are Adopted.

The transmississippi congress concluded its discussion Saturday and adjourned. The first paper was one by Miss Electra Dayton, the librarian of Dayton, O., on special training for library work. She emphasized the necessity for proper training for the cataloguing feature of library work and the establishment of training schools. This paper was discussed fully by William Richard Watson of Pittsburg, the assistant librarian of the Carnegie library there.

The next subject taken up was the relation of the library to other formal educational work. Papers were read on its relation to the public school by Purd B. Wright, librarian, of St. Joseph, Mo.; its relation to the college, by William C. Lane, president of the American Library association and librarian of Harvard university, and its relation to the club (the woman's club in particular), by Mrs. T. K. Sudborough of this city. The general trend of the discussion of these papers was that librarians and teachers should come closer together in educational sympathy. Miss Kate McHugh, assistant principal of the Omaha High school; Miss Virginia Dodge, librarian of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and William Wallace and Mrs. W. W. Keysor of this city all took part in the discussion. The views expressed on Mrs. Sudborough's paper were that woman's clubs should not conflict with the public libraries.

Resolutions of appreciation of the hospitality of Omaha were adopted and Miss Victor Rosewater and Miss Edith Tobitt, the local librarian, expressed the obligation of this city to the visitors.

President Lane's Address.

Perhaps the most interesting paper was by President Lane of the American Library association. Briefly he said:

The public library has three main functions—the provision of entertainment, information and inspiration, in the last giving assurance of a continuity of progress in matters intellectual and moral. The duties of the college library lie in the same three directions, but the function of providing entertainment sinks into comparative unimportance, because, while the public library naturally uses this as the best means of attracting its readers in the first place, the college librarian can take it for granted that the love of learning is already planted and it is his duty in co-operation with the professors to direct and encourage this. The collection of the literature of information and the literature of power (or inspiration) demands all his energy, and his attention is principally directed toward organizing this in accordance with the needs of the various departments of instruction. The chief value of a library to a college is that it provides the means of forming a habit of independent judgment and the formation of such a habit should be the principal aim of college training.

Simple study of text books requires little aid from the library and has little educational value; the true college method of study should be to send the student to various sources of information and opinion and require him under guidance to draw his own conclusions. For this co-operation of the library is essential. Such a method of study has an important effect on the character. It begets a respect for truth, accuracy, open-mindedness, clear discrimination, qualities supremely worth cultivating. The bearing of this ideal of college study on the problems of library administration was then considered.

Principle of Classification.

The principle underlying a classification for college libraries should be to group the books according to the needs of the different departments of instruction. In classifications usually adopted by public libraries English history, English biography, English travel, etc., are shelved in different parts of the buildings, but in a college library they belong together for the sake of the use made of them by the students of English. Even with this principle as a guide the librarian will find many vexing problems in settling the details of his classification, but he must try to decide all these questions on the ground of practical usefulness rather than by some philosophical system.

In many college libraries there is a strong tendency to break up the general collection into a group of sectional libraries. The demand for this is generally strongest from the scientific departments, which want to have each its own library in connection with its laboratory. No field of science or literature, however, can be absolutely fenced off from other fields, though some cases admit of separation with less incon-[?]ways a certain common ground, in which the workers in various fields have common interest. If any scientific section of a library is separated off in this way enough non-technical works should remain in the central library to satisfy the ordinary demands of the non-professional reader.

The subjects of catalogue, loan system, selection of books were briefly touched on. Finally the use of a college library by men of learning coming from any part of the country was spoken of as its highest field of usefulness in which it contributes to the real advancement of learning. This use justifies the enormous expense at which a great college library (such as that of Harvard university) is carried on, and for this reason Harvard and other colleges always give an eager welcome to scholars coming from a distance to make use of their treasures.

Library for Woman's Clubs.

Mrs. Sudborough's paper stirred up a great deal of animated discussion. On one hand it was thought that a woman's club should have a library complete for the purposes of the club, but there were others who expressed the radical opinion that very little more than a dictionary and some exclusive feminine literature were essential to an organization of this kind. The idea was expressed that everything that could should be done to make the public library the one great source of information to the public, and, if possible, lesser libraries should be more or less discouraged; that is to say, that no effort should be made by the Woman's club in the direction of a gathering of literature that might in any way detract from the value of the public library.

Mr. Rosewater's remarks just before adjournment were by way of emphasizing the interest that had been taken in the congress by out-of-town librarians. More than sixty people identified with library work throughout the country had lent their presence to the congress and added their quota of good suggestions. Of the states represented in addition to Nebraska there had been Colorado, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, not counting the special guests from points in the farther east.

Invitations were extended to attend the meeting of the Iowa state meeting at Cedar Rapids and the convention of the American Library association at Atlanta next summer.

Close of the Art Congress.

An informal talk on "Municipal Art" by Miss McDougal of Chicago occupied the attention of the Art Congress yesterday morning. Miss McDougal laid great stress on the fact that our American cities would be much more beautiful, artistically, if more care were spent in the selection of subjects and quality made the criterion rather than quantity. She spoke of the education it was to the poor to see fine architecture and sculpture and urged the need of their adoption as an offset to unpleasant home influences.

Mr. Griffith, the art director of the exposition, talked interestingly upon the practical applications of art in matter of daily life.

In the afternoon Lorado Taft of Chicago spoke upon "Modern French Sculpture." After citing the reasons why Paris is the work shop of the workers in clay and deprecating the work of Americans abroad and at home, Mr. Taft proceeded to trace briefly the three stages of sculpture, the classic, renaissance and modern. By the aid of stereopticon views the different styles and masterpieces were reproduced with interpretations and explanations by Mr. Taft.

MISS CHICAGO SETS A RAPID GAIT

Omaha's Big Sister by the Lake Comes in With Breezy Step to Take a Look at the White City of '98.

Cook County's Regiment of Democracy Files Into the Town Like a Conquering Army—Assisted by Other Organizations Scarcely Less Warlike—Reception at the Grounds—Speeches at Auditorium.

Chicago day at the exposition was inaugurated by as fine a specimen of Chicago autumnal weather as the oldest inhabitant of the Lakeside city had ever seen. The sky was overcast with a thick curtain of gray clouds at an early hour and a driving, penetrating drizzle filled the air at intervals while a brisk wind completed the combination which made the visitors feel perfectly at home as soon as they alighted from their trains.

Special trains were the rule, the various Omaha-Chicago roads vieing​ with one another to see which could furnish the finest equipment for the big crowds which came in on every road. Vestibule trains containing all the latest improvements in the way of luxuries for the travelers were supplied in every case and even an expert would have found difficulty in determining which party fared the best.

The board of trade delegation was the first on the scene and very soon after their arrival the Paxton hotel lobby and the streets in the business districts were liberally dotted with the fluttering ribbon badges which were distributed by the new arrivals. The badge was a button and fluttering ribbon, all of bright pink with the word "Chicago" in large letters and other lettering appropriate.

These trains commenced rolling into the city at an early hour and from that time until noon the influx continued without abatement until the streets of Omaha were filled with the prosperous and well-fed citizens of the northwest's metropolis and everything had a Chicago air which carried enthusiasm with it. The streets and business houses were gaily decorated with flags and bunting, badges were everywhere and everybody and everything had a holiday air in keeping with the importance of the occasion.

In addition to the arrivals on the special trains the regular Chicago trains were all filled with people from Omaha's elder sister, and before noon the various badges carried by the different organization from the city by the lakes were in evidence on every hand.

The Cook County Democratic Marching club was delayed about an hour by numerous stops along the road and arrived about 10:30 o'clock. The Jacksonian club and a delegation of city officials met the club at the depot and escorted it through the principal streets, the greatest enthusiasm being manifested by the great crowds which lined the streets along the entire distance. A salvo of cheers marked the presence of the club at all points and the fine appearance of the organization excited the greatest admiration. The World-Herald office came in for a salute.

CAME FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.

The distinguished citizens and citizenship of Chicago was not content with striking Omaha on one side only. The board of trade excursionists, for example, piercing the town on the east, shot clear through it and got back at it first on the south side and then on the north side, for the train was run out to Summit, there switched and then run up to the north side of the grounds where the twelve coaches stand.

The rumor was that the Union league crowd would execute a somewhat similar maneuver, coming over the river at Blair and running down on the Elkhorn also, to the north side of the grounds.

The short of it is that the tactics of the four invading armies were thoroughly mysterious and bewildering. The Cook County Marching club was reported late. This was for a time at least suspected to be a ruse under which some sort of flank movement would be executed. Certain it was that the city seemed to be catching it on all sides and from directions the least anticipated. The ingress could no more have been warded off than a rainstorm. In fact a real little rainstorm accompanied it as if still further to becloud the movements of the advancing detachments.

NO GENERAL PARADE.

There was no general parade to the grounds. The visitors found their way out there, whereupon many of them rubbed their eyes, thought themselves dreaming, believed it was five years ago, and that they had simply gone down once more to Jackson park.

RALLY AT ILLINOIS BUILDING.

Of course headquarters were at the Illinois building, and Major and Mrs. Hambleton had taken good care that the guests should have a fitting reception. American flags and bunting had been stretched over the front portico of the building and a bower-like effect was given to the whole interior by the [?]   spots. Smilax, palms, asparagus and culled flowers abounded in profusion, and appeared in pretty designs wherever the architectural features permitted. Particularly beautiful was a curtain of asparagus over the mantel in the gentlemen's parlor, the corners being hidden with American beauty roses tied with white ribbon.

The badges, the daintiest ribbon badges yet seen on the exposition grounds, were distributed at this building as fast as the visitors called to register. In the afternoon a continual concert was furnished by the Sutorius Mandolin club of this city and it was the plan that at night music should be rendered by Kaufman's orchestra and that frappee and claret punch should be served.

The majority of the Chicago visitors who came on the numerous special trains will return home this afternoon or evening, although some of them will remain in the city for several days. The special trains are sidetracked north of the exposition grounds on the tracks of the Missouri Pacific and are used by the travelers as headquarters and for lodgings. The Milwaukee train was connected with the electric light service of the exposition and brilliantly illuminated last night.

COOK COUNTY DEMOCRACY.

A Regiment of the Finest Campaigners Comes in Style.

An enthusiastic welcome was given the Cook County Democratic Marching club when it arrived at the Burlington depot at 12:20 yesterday morning. The big train was three hours late, due to stops en route to parade and the weight of its nineteen coaches.

Over 200 members of the Jacksonian club, with the Omaha Military band in the lead, and several thousand Omahans belonging to all parties were at the depot and exchanged cheers with the Chicagoans.

It was planned that the prominent visitors should ride in carriages to the Paxton, but Mayor Harrison declared that he wanted to march along with the boys, and did so, the Omaha city officials also falling line.

The DeBaugh band of seventy pieces and the First Illinois regiment bugle corps from Santiago furnished music while the procession marched up Tenth to Farnam and thence over Twelfth and Douglas, Sixteenth and Farnam to the Paxton, where an informal reception was held.

There was a great deal of enthusiasm all along the line, despite the light drizzling rain, and the Chicagoans expressed themselves as highly pleased with their reception.

J. E. Riley of the Jacksonians was grand marshal of the parade, assisted by Arthur Metz, E. E. Howell, J. R. Monihan, John D. Ware and George B. Strathmann as aids. Mayor Moores and every member of the city council, and almost all of the city officials, were also in the parade. Three platoons of police marched at the head of the parade.

Compliments on the appearance of the Cook County Democracy, as it showed up in the line of march, every man with new plug hat, Prince Albert coat and cane or umbrella, were many and hearty. Cheers for "the finest," "the bravest and the best" and for the "Chicago boys" were given all along the line.

Among the prominent people were: Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Chief of Police Joseph Kipley, William Loeffler, city clerk; J. J. Corcoran, secretary of the civil service commission; John Dullard, sergeant-at-arms city council; Thomas Gahan, candidate for county commissioner; H. S. Taylor, city prosecuting attorney; Fred Eldred, candidate for county clerk; M. V. Gannon, formerly of Omaha, ex-president of the Irish Land league; Judge George Kersten, candidate for sheriff; A. J. Tollen, assistant commissioner board of public works; J. J. Gray, candidate for assessor; F. E. Davidson, superintendent of sewer department; John C. Schubert, chief sewer inspector; Ernest Thummell, city treasurer; Alderman John Powers, president of the Cook County Democratic club; A. A. Baldenberg and Cook; M. J. Devine, city attorney; Fred Eldred, citiy​ sealer and candidate for county clerk; John Daugherty, street commissioner; Frank W. Solon, formerly of Omaha, now superintendent of the streets and alley cleaning bureau; Judge James C. Martin, candidate for county judge; ex-Alderman Robert Mulcahey, Mike McFadden, the "King of the Pats;" Charles Thornton, corporation counsel; Lieutenant George Perry, of the city detective force, and nine detectives; Vincent H. Perkins, north town supervisor and candidate for president of the county commissioners; C. C. Stillwell, chairman Sixth congressional democratic committee; Emil Hoechster, democratic candidate for congress Sixth district; Walter Thomas Mills, the Chicago orator; James McAndrews, city building inspector; Inspector Hartnet Heidelmeier and Lieutenants Colloran, Perry and Matt Homer of the police department.

THREE FAMOUS BANDS.

The music of the Cook County Democracy parade was furnished by the famous DeBaugh band, W. C. DeBaugh, leader. This organization of seventy pieces has accompanied the club on its many pilgrimages. The band has been present at all the really notable gatherings at which the famous club has been a part. It was at the two inaugurations of President Cleveland, the inauguration of Mayor Van Wyck of New York, the Cotton States exposition at Atlanta, the Nashville exposition, and the inauguration of Governor Boies of Iowa.

CAME FROM SANTIAGO.

The famous First regiment, Illinois volunteer drum and bugle corps is here with the club. They were present at the Santiago fight, and spent seven weeks in that city. They were in the hottest of the fight at El Caney, and throughout that historic struggle. Sergeant E. L. Prescott is in charge of the bugle corps.

They are now home on thirty days' furlough, having arrived in Chicago September 10. In addition to the regular corps, C. H. Tolbin of the Second Illinois, and Sergeant McKay of the Seventh, are with the Santiago buglers.

The Santiago drum corps, also with the First Illinois, on the right center, near Roosevelt's Rough Riders, are with the party. This famous drum corps is composed of Sergeant William D. Codman, Henry Johnson, jr., William E. Smith, Albion Wagner and L. D. Johnson. This was the drum corps of the First Illinois state militia, and has been in existence since 1878, having a long and eventful history.

Sergeant Codman, speaking of the Santiago battle, said:

"It was hot; we were in the trenches two or three days, and kept our drums rattling. We were near the famous Rough Riders, and saw plainly the heroic conduct of these men. They never wavered, and in the face of a withering fall of lead and fire crowded on step by step toward Santiago. It was a thrilling and never-to-be-forgotten sight. And hot—my gracious, we have no conception of hot weather—sultry, and no refreshing water to drink. But our boys fought like tigers, and the world knows the result."

MARCHES INTO GROUNDS.

The long line of special cars containing the club reached the ground shortly after 1 o'clock, stopping at the big gate just north of Pinkney street. The line was formed at Sherman avenue with three platoons of police in the lead and the club, band and drum corps immediately behind them.

The various companies formed quickly and the long line entered the grounds with Special Commissioner McGarvie as pilot.

Passing over the main viaduct from the bluff tract to the main court the parade reached the broad plaza about the lagoon from the east end of the Mines building. This point of entrance created a most favorable impression on the marchers and many expressions of astonishment were heard as the classic beauty of the main court burst upon the view without warning.

The line of march extended along the south side of the lagoon to the bridges at Twentieth street, and thence north and east through the Administration arch and the Midway to the Illinois building where the parade was dismissed.

Without further formalities the members of the club dispersed and were soon distributed over the grounds.

OFFICIAL PARTY GOES OUT.

At 11 o'clock the official party left the Paxton hotel for the exposition. A dozen carriages were in waiting, and when the marching club rounded the corner at Fourteenth and Farnam, Mayor Harrison and Mayor Moores left the ranks, entering carriages. In the first carriage were the two mayors, President Clark E. Carr, and Colonel Harper of the Illinois commission.

George J. Brine, Vice President Lyon and C. C. Williams of the board of trade were in the next carriage. The members of the board of trade and prominent people of Chicago filled the ten other carriages. President Wattles and Major Clarkson being in the third carriage.

Friday night at 11 o'clock the county democracy's special train pulled into Burlington. There were hundreds of people at the depot, and the reception was an enthusiastic one. The club, headed by the band, took a spin through the streets. Thousands of people were out, the streets being lined with the people. After a march of thirty minutes the club returned to the train, at which place 10,000 people had assembled, when the train pulled out amid the wild hurrah of 10,000 voices.

In the party at Burlington were the mayor, the city officials and hundreds of prominent men of all political parties.

ALL SACS AND FOXES MOURN

Natawattamie Goes to Happy Hunting Grounds After a Mortal Wound.

Bold Warrior While Chasing a Sioux Steps on a Nail and His Medicine Men Cannot Cure.

But This Does Not Stop the Sham Battle Which Thousands of Chicagoans Enjoy--Geronimo and the Ladies.

Natawattamie, a Fox brave, yesterday went to the happy hunting grounds of his fathers, where the squaws do all the work and the bucks don't have to hustle for stuff to eat. Not in the heat of battle did he die; not when the smoke drifted o'er and unlucky prisoners were sizzling at the stake; not while bravely trying to scalp an enemy, but washed clean and white and with his clothes off did he breathe his last between white sheets in St. Joseph's hospital.

The late Natawattamie was a bold warrior, though, and to his ardor in one of the earlier battles of the present campaign is attributed his death. While rushing to his death one of his Sioux enemies he stepped on a nail and retired from the firing line a cripple. Natawattamie objected to taking the white doctor's medicine, and in the mixture of that with the Indian medicine which the Fox medicine man prescribed Natawattamie took to his bed and was in a few days suffering from malarial fever. He was taken to the hospital, but grew worse daily and yesterday died, after a visit from several friends, to whom he pathetically appealed to take him home, that he might die as an Indian and not as a common paleface.

WEDDED A WIDOW.

Shortly before leaving his native southern heath Natawattamie was wedded to the Widow Opohomock, who, with her child, survives him. Last evening they and their Fox neighbors were very busy sewing the dead husband and father a handsome burial suit of rich black and colored clothes. This afternoon at 2 o'clock the friends of the dead man mounted on their ponies will form the cortege to Swanson's undertaking parlors, from whence the remains will be escorted to Rev. C. H. Savidge's church at Eighteenth and California streets and from there to the cemetery.

Because of this death the Fox and Sacs tribes went into mourning yesterday afternoon, indicated by hanging all of their wearing apparel on the outside of their tents, and did not participate in the grand review or the sham battle.

All of the other Indians did, however, and the way the Chicagoans enjoyed the treat and asked questions was a marvel. The crowd was a crush, at least 15,000 people filling the seats and surging against the ropes till the last shot was fired. All of the various Chicago organizations were given reserved seats directly in front of the heavy killing and scalping.

GRAND REVIEW BEGINS.

At 4:30 the grand review began, first by the interpreters advancing to the grand stand and flanking so that they passed in front of the whole line of spectators. The squaws and children and "infantry" warriors, gaily attired, followed in the same manner, and then came the dashing mounted warriors, each tribe dressed in its own peculiar garb, or absence of garb, as the case might be, and artistically spread coats of paint, artistic because of 400 or more designs, no two were alike.

Each tribe introduced and then the Big-I-Am, the chief, rode up all alone, pompous as the owner of the fattest hog at the county fair, and led his bucks away.

Then every man, woman and child marched up, tribal front, a salute was fired by the warriors, non-combatants retired, and the war forces, the Sioux, Cheyennes, Kiowas and Wichitas on the one hand, and all the other tribes immediately drew off and became bitter enemies.

The Sioux and their friends under the redoubtable Goes-to-War, with Black Eagles as chief of staff and astute Towanconi im and Touch-the-Clouds in charge of divisions, went to the east, while the allied enemy under Big Brave and his chief of staff, Dust-Maker, with White Swan, the Custer massacre survivor, Blackbird, and Apache Josh as division commanders, pulled off to the west. Old Geronimo also participated in this battle, his first at the exposition, and rode around with a gun, but acted principally as a board of strategy for the allied tribes. Every man held a 45 caliber Springfield carbine.

A Sioux brave was captured and tied to a tree. Fuel was piled about his feet and a council of war was held to see if the fun should proceed further. The ayes had it unanimously, and a dance was arranged to put Cat Bird in a cheerful frame of mind preliminary to his departure from the earthly fire to that of the hereafter. The rescue came and the battle was on. The Sioux drove the allied forces from the field.

Immediately after the fight a throng of lady admirers surrounded old Geronimo, and it was an hour or more ere the smiling old fellow was released.

As if a battle were not enough for one day, the Apaches last evening gave a "wall dance," the principal occasion of which seemed to be a quantity of left-over cartridges, which were fired off inconnection​ with the ceremonies of the dance, a light and airy step for an Indian dance, apparently one of intense joy. Even old Geronimo, despite his 68 years, hopped out into the ring, clad in gray coat, a pair of white drawers and moccasins, and tripped the light fantasie for half an hour with the ease and grace of a gay young buck.

Several distinguished arrivals are expected at the Indian congress shortly, among them Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, who once upon a time led General Howard a merry chase of 1,700 miles across western deserts and mountains, and in his old days is able to come and enjoy the great exposition; Chief Red Cloud of Pine Ridge, American Horse, Sitting Bull's family, and Hollow Horn eBar​ and Two Sticks, prominent in the late Sioux war.

Much attention in the village to the adobe house being biult​ by the Pueblos. They dug a hole for the cellar, mixing the mud with straw and making sun-dried brick about the size of each of four ordinary kiln-dried brick. They are building the house about fifteen by twenty feet on the ground, seven feet high in front and six in the rear, and will cover it with a roof of poles and brush.

The Crow Creek Indian Agency Indian band will arrive October 7.

Attendance by Months.

Four calendar months of the exposition closed Friday night and there has been some inquiry as to the attendance by months. The attendance has been:

June—Paid, 166,882; free, 122,469.

July—Paid, 187,654; free, 144,030.

August—Paid, 311,943; free, 162,234.

September—Paid, 413,571; free, 179,597.

The big days in September were September 1, Kansas City day, when the attendance was 26,210; the 21st, Iowa day, when the attendance was 39,090, and the 22d, Modern Woodmen day, when the attendance was 52,725.

Passes Nashville Show.

Nashville's record is already broken by the Omaha exposition. For six months Nashville kept open the gates of her exposition, and closed with a total attendance of 1,703,328, and called it a famous success. Last night, with four months and a day, the Omaha exposition had a total of admissions of 1,709,635, or more than 6,000 better than Nashville ever had. As for Atlanta, the total of admissions at her exposition was but 1,287,863, also open six months. Yesterday's attendance was the best of the week, 21,255.

Exhibit for Sportsmen.

Standing beside the Los Angeles exhibit in Horticultural building, that of the game fish of Santa Cataline, the great pleasure resort of Southern California, attracts attention. Mr. G. W. Thompson, conducting it, has mounted specimens of the leaping tuna, the yellow tail, black bass and other food fishes of the waters of the island. The exhibit is at once thrilling to the sportsman and tantalizing to him who has not had a chance to indulge in the excitement of angling for these big fellows.

Meiklejohn, Not Alger.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 4.—Secretary Alger has concluded that he will be unable to accompany the president to Omaha, and has requested Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn to take his vacation at that time and to accompany President McKinley as the representative of the war department. Mr. Meiklejohn will therefore go west with the presidential party October 10, and, after the exercises, will enter the campaign in Nebraska, and will make speeches for the republican ticket every day until the election.

Exposition Notes.

The Nebraska building is being handsomely rigged up in the Ak-Sar-Ben colors, so as to be in perfect style next week.

Workmen were busy wiring the avenues of the bluff tract and approaches to buildings for electric light during Ak-Sar-Ben festival week and peace jubilee week.

The 100 high school pupils, brought in Friday by Prof. Thomas of Kearney county, remained over today.

Close to the kitchen wall in the northwest corner of Markel's cafe yesterday was a hot boiler, which set the wall on fire, and the flames instantly shot up two stories and threatened the whole building. Prompt work by the fire department brought the damages down to where $25 worth of lath and plaster will make them good.

Open house was kept at the Illinois building last evening for the Chicago guests. The rooms were artistically decorated, an orchestra played sweetly and ices and punch were served to the hundreds of visitors.

The executive committee last evening engaged the Omaha Concert band for another week, and received advices to the effect that Fremont children's day had been postponed from tomorrow to October 17.

W. N. Babcock, manager of transportation, telegraphed yesterday from Washington that the presidential party would consist of thirty-eight in all.

The Chinese theater in the Chinese Village was packed to overflowing last night with people who had heard that Ching Ling Foo, the great Chinese magician, was going to perform a number of new tricks. The large audience was astonished and mystified at the wonderful performances of this wonderful man, but it was awe-stricken and dumfounded​ when, right before its very eyes, he severed Hok Wai's head from his shoulders. The feat was so cleverly performed that many in the audience thought for a moment that there was one dead Chinaman and possibly there was, but in a moment Ching Ling Foo stopped the flow of blood, placed the head back on the shoulders and the boy walked off the stage very much alive.

GREATER THAN ALL THE REST

Will Be the Peace Jubilee to Be Celebrated in Omaha Next Week.

Presidential Visit Heads the List of Special Events, End of Which Is Remarkable.

For Every Day Attractions Are Offered Which Will Bring Multitudes of People to the City.

Peace Jubilee—that's the first five days of next week—has now developed a forecast of stirring events and rare treats that will bewilder the magnificent crowds hoped for and expected for a certainty. Day by day the details are being perfected as more and more distinguished statesmen and generals announce their intentions of being present, as the plans for a six days' carnival of music weave themselves into shape and as schemes for spectacular pyrotechnic displays give promise of turning the nights into wonderlands of weird beauty.

Not for a moment was it anticipated at the inception of the peace jubilee plan that such a galaxy of brilliant men of the day could be gathered within the exposition gates, nor that such unparalleled ways of royally entertaining the distinguished visitors, and the ever welcome public, would be opened to the management.

Briefly, the history of the coming jubilee is that President Wattles asked for and received permission of the exposition directory to execute the comprehensive plans he had formed for the grand western carnival in celebration of the return of peace, immediately after the signing of the protocol between our country and Spain.

It was deemed most fitting for such an event that the president of the United States should participate, and to a committee of prominent citizens, headed by Senator Thurston, was entrusted the duty of inviting the president to come to Omaha. His acceptance on September 3 to participate October 12 fixed upon that week, the one previously hoped for as the ideal, the time for the peace jubilee.

President Wattles and his staff immediately began their work; 3,500 special invitations were sent broadcast through the nation and several committees of prominent and public-spirited men were sent east to extend personal invitations.

ARRANGEMENT OF DAYS.

In general, the program designed for the week, as promulgated in a daintily illustrated souvenir, is for Monday, Mayors' day; Tuesday, Governors' day; Wednesday, President's day; Thursday, Army and Navy day; Friday, Civil Government day, and for Saturday, the festival of innocence and joy to celebrate the great jubilee of peace just ended, a Children's jubilee, in which a grand patriotic chorus by 1,000 children will be the climateric​ conclusion.

Monday or Mayors' day will begin with the opening exercises of the jubilee at the Auditorium at 11 a. m., an address by the mayor of Omaha and the mayors of the principal municipalities of the country, followed by luncheon to prominent guests, sham battle of the Indian tribes and spectacular fireworks in the evening. This is also Missouri day, which will be especially observed by state day exercises at the Auditorium at 2:30 p. m. by addresses by distinguished Missourians.

Tuesday or Governor's day. Exercises at the Auditorium at 11 a. m., including a welcome by Governor Holcomb of Nebraska and addresses by Governor Adams of Colorado, Governor Clough of Minnesota, Governor Shaw of Iowa, Governor Richards of Wyoming, Governor Barnes of Oklahoma and other governors from the Trans-Mississippi states.

HANDSHAKING CARNIVAL.

Not the least interesting event of the day will be the great north and south handshaking carnival at 2 p. m. At that hour a distinguished northern orator will deliver an address at the Government building, while at the same time an equally noted southern orator will address the public from the arch at the east end of the lagoon. Bands at either end will discourse popular military airs most appropriate to the north or south, as the audience may prefer, and at a given signal both bands will lead the now peace-loving friends of the north and south to the half way meeting place, the Administration Arch, where the bands will join in the "Star Spangled Banner," and the handshaking will begin.

Wednesday, "President's day." Exercises from the grand band stand on the Plaza at 11 a. m. Addressed by his excellency, President McKinley, and Charles Emory Smith, postmaster general. Luncheon to distinguished guests; luncheon to Mrs. McKinley at Omaha club; reception at Government building; military and spectacular parade; sham battle of Indian tribes, and spectacular fireworks, afternoon and evening.

Thursday, or "Army and Navy day." Exercises in the Auditorium at 11 a. m. Addresses by General Nelson A. Miles, John D. Long, secretary of the navy; Russell A. Alger, secretary of war; General Joseph Wheeler, General W. R. Shafter, General James H. Wilson and perhaps President McKinley.

In the evening at 7 o'clock will be a great campfire, in charge of General T. S. Clarkson, ex-commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. At that hour members of renown of the Grand Army of the Republic and Confederate Veterans' association, including nearly all of the generals present will participate.

Other events of the day will be luncheons, ascension of war balloons, sham battle of Indian tribes and spectacular fireworks.

Friday, "Civil Government day." Exercises in the Auditorium, in which members of the president's cabinet, representatives of the supreme court, senators and representatives and other civil officers of national repute will participate. The usual special events of the afternoon and evening will be given.

PRESIDENTIAL PARTY.

Saturday, "Children's day," is a problem that is being worked out by experienced hands, and is growing brighter as liberal encouragement is being given by exposition and parents.

For every day and every evening in the week will be entertaining events. Innes' renowned New York band has prepared a series of concerts, something in magnificence beyond that of which the warmest Omaha admirers of past concerts have not yet dreamed; there will be spectacular fireworks of splendor yet unknown to the west, and in the Indian congress, the most varied ethnological aggregation ever gotten together in America, will occur war dances each night, and grand reviews and sham battles every afternoon save when actual fatigue may cause a postponement for a day only. The weather permitting, the now famous Santiago war balloons will ascend daily at 4 p. m., while a complete war signaling exhibit will be operated daily, and without fail the sea coast life saving service exhibition will be given on the lagoon daily at 3 p. m.

The latest advices as to the arrival of the presidential party are that it will leave Washington by two special trains Monday at 10 a. m., arriving in Omaha Tuesday, October 11, at 10 p. m., and will include President and Mrs. McKinley, the secretaries of war, the navy and the treasury, the postmaster general and a large delegation from the diplomatic corps.

GREAT STOCK SHOW.

Commissioner Dinsmore Hustles to Keep Up With Arrivals.

"No, I can't begin to tell you of all the arrivals for the live stock show," said Stock Commissioner Dinsmore last evening. "I know that I was awakened four times last night to get up and let in exhibitors who had just arrived with stock, that I have been on the jump all day caring for the new arrivals, and am now waiting for a special train of twenty-six car loads from the Illinois state fair at Springfield.

"Among the arrivals that particularly attracted my attention today was a fine flock of sheep shipped in from Denfield, Ontario; a string of seventeen magnificent Clydesdales from St. Cloud, Minn., and a string of thirty-two high bred horses from Illinois.

"You may say," he continued, "that the sheep and cattle for their individuality equal anything ever shown in the world of their breeds; they will easily be classed among the finest ever shown in the United States. The cattle are very strong in individual character, and to see them will be a treat that lovers of stock cannot well forego."

It is anticipated that today there will arrive from Atchison, Kas., a new variety of cattle, developed by Mr. W. W. Guthrie, from a foundation of Shorthorn cows and Hereford bulls. The animals have red bodies, white faces and are hornless, a peculiarity, since neither of the parent stocks are hornless, unless freaks. The new stock has been built up from the original foundation stock and will invite inspection.

After Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock no more stock will be received, although it is probable that the bulk of the exhibits will be in today. Judging will begin Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock.

For the benefit of spectators, a capacious amphitheater has been built overlooking the three show rings, and on those rings, beginning Wednesday, all four lines of stock sheep, cattle, swine and horses will be exhibited at the same time from 9 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. This being farmers' week special facilities will be afforded the farmers to have first and best opportunities in viewing the displays.

NATAWATTAMIE'S BURIAL.

Provided With Ham Sandwiches, Etc., for His Journey.

Natawattamie has been laid to rest, and according to western parlance, is now a "good Indian." He was the Fox brave who died in the hospital Saturday, leaving Opohomock, his widow, and one child as survivors. Great were the preparations made for the burial yesterday afternoon. His Sac and Fox friends arrayed the body in the finest moccasins in the village, a pair of rich black cloth leggins and a nice new Indian blanket, making the body quite handsomely dressed.

For the long journey to the happy hunting grounds they placed in his coffin a ham sandwich, several doughnuts, a pie, half a pound of candy, a package of smoking tobacco and a pipe, a plug of chewing tobacco and other delicacies. Fearing that he might become thirsty they bought a bright new dinner pail with a tin cup on the top, filled it with water and placed it with the food.

The cortege of Sac and Fox warriors and their near neighbors, mounted on ponies, and the women and children loaded in government wagons, left the village for Swanson's undertaking parlors at 1 p. m. yesterday. From there they took the body to the people's church, where Rev. C. W. Savidge talked in a simple and earnest manner of the dead man and his future life.

Over 1,500 white people thronged about the church during the ceremonies, and at the close filed through the little church to view the remains. When all were through and the friends were left with their dead each approached the corpse, grasped the cold right hand and held it in silence for half a minute. This impressive ceremony over the body was placed in the hearse and accompanied by a few friends was taken to Forest Lawn.

REMARKABLE ROADWAY.

Martin Dodge Has One Built on Exposition Grounds.

Martin Dodge, the government good roads expert, who has been at the exposition during the past three weeks, has completed one of the most remarkable pieces of roadway ever seen in Omaha. It is just north of the Dairy building and consists of two parallel plates of steel, each eight inches in width, slightly hollowed toward the middle and inner edge, three-eighths of an inch thick, and set in cement on a base of broken rock at distances equal to the width of ordinary road vehicles. Besides being held firmly by the cement at distances of seven and one-half feet, iron cross ties connect the plates to prevent spreading.

It is maintained by Mr. Dodge that this style of roadway is the cheapest built hard road that can be built; the most durable without exception, and presenting a surface that permits the greatest traction obtainable, that of a perfectly smooth steel surface, as he purposes demonstrating by practical tests with engines and vehicles. Each of the continuous steel plates, Mr. Dodge says, forms an ideal bicycle track.

For the present Mr. Dodge is working up interest for the good roads congress that is to convene at the Nebraska building next Saturday. Delegates have been appointed by the governors of the several states and interesting and educational benefits in the good roads work will be many. Sessions will be held at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. The wheelmen, farmers, road supervisors and all others interested in good roads are cordially invited to attend.

CANADIANS WILL COME.

Minister of Interior Already Promised and Many More Expected.

Ottawa, Oct. 2.—Matthew A. Hall of Omaha is in Ottawa in connection with the Trans-Mississippi exposition now in progress there. He is here for the purpose of personally extending to Lord Aberdeen, the lieutenant governor of Ontario, and the members of the dominion and Ontario cabinets and the Quebec conference invitations to the big peace jubilee, which is to be held in Omaha in connection with the fair, from October 10 to 15.

Another object of Mr. Hall's visit is to arrange for a Canadian day, which it is proposed to have October 13 at the fair. It is proposed to have a large number of distinguished Canadians at the exposition on that day, when there will be a banquet in honor of the Canadian visitors.

The minster​ of the interior and the secretary of state have already signified their intention of accepting the invitation and other cabinet ministers will also attend.

Mr. Hall is British vice consul in Omaha and considers this a most opportune time, on acount​ of the war, to bring Canadians and Americans into closer relations.

CHICAGO IN FIRE.

Saturday's Display of Fireworks Suggestive and Beautiful.

Chicago day was a glorious success. No feature of the day in Omaha was more marked than was the fireworks Saturday night. As expressed by one, "The day came in in splendor and closed in a blaze of glory." Of the many displays by the Due Fireworks company, John Due operator, not one, perhaps, eclipsed the Chicago display. It was original in design and unique in arrangement.

The features started with a royal handshake, representing Omaha giving Chicago a hearty handshake, the word "welcome" appearing in fire in the design. This was followed by the mammoth seal of Chicago. The picture of Mayor Harrison, exceedingly lifelike, called out the hearty applause of the assembled thousands.

The illustration of Mrs. O'Leary's family cow kicking over the lantern, starting the great fire out of which came Greater Chicago, was original and was much admired. This was followed by the burning of the city, a wonderfully realistic production. The closing piece of the special display was the "I Will" statue of Miss Chicago, towering fifty feet high, being, no doubt, the tallest piece ever exhibited. One thousand rockets and bombs in great numbers, large and powerful, followed.

MISSOURIANS WILL BE ON HAND.

Governor Will Head the Party Coming to the Exposition.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 4.—Governor Stephens and family, with his military staff and the state officials and their families, will visit the Transmississippi Exposition at Omaha on Missouri day, October 10. The party will go over the Burlington route, reaching Omaha by way of Kansas City, and will remain over the 12th, President McKinley's day. Low rates have been made by the Burlington, Missouri Pacific and other roads running to Omaha, and many thousand Missourians expect to take advantage of them.

Today at the Indian Congress.

This afternoon at 4:30 o'clock the Wichita Indians brought up from Oklahoma by Prof. James Mooney, the government ethnologist, will give their unique horn dance, which always attracts so much attention when performed upon the reservation. The dance is both warlike and religious in its significance, being intended as an invocation of the war gods of the tribe and the protecting power of the buffalo spirit. For this reason it is sometimes known as the buffalo dance.

The warriors of the tribe, assisted by the young men of the allied Cheyennes, Arapahoes and Kiowas, all striped and painted, with their rifles in their hands and mounted horseback upon gaily decorated ponies, will lead the procession from the grass house, around the circle of the camps, to the center of the parade ground, where all will dismount and the chief, Tawaconi Jim, will deliver an address of welcome in his own language to the white visitors. This will be interpreted at the time in the sign language for the benefit of the other tribes, giving a practical example of the beautiful gesture speech in use among all the Indians of the plains. The women join with the men in the dance, which differs materially in step and figure from most Indian performances and winds up with the closing song of the celebrated ghost dance.

In the evening at 7 o'clock the women of the Assiniboines, assisted by those of the Crows and Blackfeet, will perform the scalp dance, of which we have all heard, but which has never before been witnessed outside of the Indian country. This dance belongs to the women alone. Dressed in the costumes of their warrior husbands and with their faces painted black, the sign of death, they exult over the scalps of their slain enemies. The scalps—genuine ones, brought down by the Assiniboines—are carried in the dance, stretched over hoops at the ends of long poles.

Delightful Concerts.

Two musical events of peculiar importance are set for next Friday and Saturday nights. Innes will have another Wagner program. It contains the "Love Feast of the Apostles," a wonderfully vivid picture of the well-known biblical episode. Then there is something from "Lohengrin." Going from the strictly classical Wagner one night to the "Forge in the Forest" with electrical and scenic effects the next shows how quickly this band undergoes the transition from an orchestra to a military band. "The Forge in the Forest" is a delightful piece, full of weird melodies and given with the foliage, forge, anvils and scenery presented under subdued lights it will doubtless thrill every spectator.

Both Director Innes and Superintendent Kelly are greatly worked up over the Peace Jubilee, one of the prominent features of which is to be a children's carnival. They have secured from the executive committee a special rate of 15 cents for each child for that one day, Saturday, October 15. Each child taking part in the singing of the jubilee number, which is to be performed, will have a nice little souvenir of the occasion presented to him or her. A petition is now in circulation among all the concessionaires asking them to throw open their concessions on this day to all the children for a uniform admission fee of 5 cents. Mr. Innes is to personally supervise the training of the grand chorus of children and he promises something in the way of a sensation when the carnival comes off. A unique feature of this day will be the singing of a group of Chinese children dressed in their picturesque costumes. Arrangements are also under way for the appearance in this festival, which will be given at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, October 15, of several well known and talented local instrumental child soloists. A boys' drum and fife band will be secured and altogether the children's carnival promises to be one of the big successes of the entire exposition.

Fussing About the Fakirs.

The exhibitors in the Agriculture building are up in arms over the influx of fakirs who have found their way into the structure during the last few days. They are getting up a petition, which is being signed very generally. In the document they declare that unless these people are driven out of the building they will cover up their [?] last few days scores of the fakirs who are selling cheap jewelry and trinkets have been let into the building until they block up nearly every aisle, making it impossible to get along. Many of them are so persistent in trying to sell their wares that they are insulting, especially to women who visit the building for the purpose of inspecting the exhibits. These salesmen are largely those who have occupied outstands during the summer, but since the cooler weather they have succeeded in getting inside, where they hawk their wares from morning until night. Their presence gives the interior of the building the appearance of a large auction house.

PRESIDENT'S OMAHA HOME

Rooms Selected for the President and Mrs. McKinley at the Club House.

Police Will Serve as Guards and the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Will Act aa​ Escorts of the Party.

Arrangements for the coming of President McKinley and party next week are being pushed vigorously. The president, Mrs. McKinley, Secretaries Gage, Bliss, Smith and Wilson, with their wives, will be entertained at the Omaha club. Ex-Senator Manderson is president of the club, and ex-officio member of the various committees. Arrangements are in the hands of the house committee, of which Edward P. Peck is chairman. This committee meets every evening to plan, devise and arrange details, and proposes to leave nothing undone that should be done to the end that the presidential party is royally received and entertained in a manner worthy of the exalted position of the distinguished guests, and the standing of the city and west, whose guests the party will be.

There are thirteen suites of rooms in the club house. The house is located at the northwest corner of Twentieth and Douglas streets. The building is three stories high. The apartments selected for President McKinley are on the third floor, room No. 4, commanding a splendid view of the city, looking south and southeast. The apartments are being placed in elegant shape and will present a charming and attractive appearance.

For the four cabinet officers who will also be entertained by the club, elegant suites are being arranged. The president, Mrs. McKinley, Secretaries Gage, Bliss, Wilson and Smith, with their wives, maids and private secretaries will complete the club guests.

Mrs. McKinley's apartments are on the main or ground floor, in the northeast corner of the building. There are three rooms in this suite, and they are being put in admirable order for the reception of the first lady of the land. The suite is composed of reception room, bed room and maid's room, all connected. These rooms will be outfitted throughout with new furniture. The best to be had will be placed for the comfort of Mrs. McKinley. A chair is being made, after the pattern of the one at the White house home, for Mrs. McKinley. It is an invalid chair, and will be arranged for carrying her up and down the stairs and about at her pleasure. Attendants have been arranged for, and will be constantly at the call of Mrs. McKinley from the moment of the arrival of the party in the city until their departure.

The party comes in Tuesday evening over the Northwestern railroad. There will be a large body of policemen at the depot to act as official guard. In addition to the police there will be 200 or 300 Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben to escort the party to the club rooms.

During the stay of the president in the city a large detail of policemen will act as guards at the building, and only those known to have business within will be admitted to the building.

The matter of guard for the president and escort has been placed in the hands of the chief of police, and he will manage that feature of the program, detailing the men who will have the honor of presidential guard and escort.

There are few more elegantly furnished places in the west than the rooms of the Omaha club. In addition to the present handsome appointments of the building, the inner furnishings will be rich in added decoration, pictures and flowers being placed in profusion, and the exterior will be tastily decorated, the national colors forming no small part of the decorations.

The presidential party will be met at the depot by the mayor, Senator Thurston, ex-Senator Manderson, Major Clarkson, President Wattles and members of the reception and entertaining committees, and returning the visitors and citizens will go direct to the club rooms.

ANIMALS HAVE THEIR TURN

Live Stock Show Will Tomorrow Be a Great Sight for Knowing and Ignorant.

Thursday the Flower of Herds Will Be Picked Out for Prizes and Blue Ribbons.

Still the Porkers and Bovines From Everywhere Come to Be Admired--Today the Exhibits Will Be in Fine Shape.

At 9 o'clock tomorrow will begin the real circus at the live stock show, something that city people who can't tell a Poland China hog from a guinea pig and know no more about milking a cow than operating a Gatling gun, can sit in a big, comfortable amphitheater with 2,999 other people as comfortable as in a parquet seat at the Creighton and enjoy the moving panorama of high-bred flesh and blood.

Then the judging of the stock will begin, and on three show rings within the half inclosing amphitheater will be shown the best collection of horses, sheep, swine and cattle without exception gotten together in America this year. From then on till October 20 the oval will be alive with blooded stock each day from 9 a. m. to 12 and from 1:30 to 5 p. m.

Stock is still arriving from all parts of the United States and will be received until 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, somebody being ready to admit it any time tonight. Commissioner Dinsmore and Superintendent Elmendorf have been busy as bees locating the choice arrivals and will today have everything in spick and span shape, all streets and alleys cleared of hay and the debris incident to moving stock, and ready for the thousands of visitors expected.

There is good reason for expecting them by thousands from the way they swarmed through the streets all day yesterday and admired the blooded beauties of many a prize ring.

FINE CATTLE HERE.

Show Stock Among the Arrivals of Tuesday.

The following are additional arrivals of show stock since yesterday's report:

Jersey cattle—J. E. Robbins, Greensburg, Ind., fifteen head, in ages from calves to aged cow and bull. There are in this herd two imported cows, Jersey Venture and Pearl Pensey. For two years Jersey Venture was the second prize cow on the Jersey islands. It required $2,000 to induce her owner to sell to the present owner, Mr. Robbins. Venture Lad, a 1-year-old bull, a calf of this famous cow, has taken first prize and sweepstakes at Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin state fairs.

Abderdeen Angus—J. E. Evans, Aberdeen, Ia., fifteen head, calves, yearlings and 2-year-olds. The majority of this display are steers for the fat stock show. They are fine animals.

W. A. McHenry, Denison, Ia., twelve head. His 1-year-old bull weighs 2,000 pounds, a yearling bull 1,650 pounds, a bull calf 1,050 pounds. One aged cow 1,900 pounds.

A beautiful 2-year-old heifer, 1,650 pounds, took champion prize at Minnesota fair over all breeds. Another heifer weighing 1,500 pounds took second in class. There are in Mr. McHenry's herd four yearling heifers that average in weight 1,250 pounds.

At the World's fair the two cows, Abbess and Progress, of this herd were the first and second prize cows over all breeds. Nellquinne III., a 2-year-old heifer, was champion over all breeds at the same show, and a yearling bull from same herd was second champion over all breeds.

Herefords—W. S. Van Natta of Fowler, Ind., has three head, two steers for the fat show and one bull. The bull is a yearling and weighs 1,600 pounds. He was a prize winner at the Illinois state fair. Clem Grave of Bunker Hill, Ind., has a bull calf on exhibition that was a prize taker at both Indiana and Illinois state fairs.

F. A. Nave of Attica, Ind., has [?] head, two 2-year-old bulls wei[?] pounds each. Dale one of th[?]

Duke of Fairview II., a bull calf, took sweepstakes over all under 2 years old at Illinois state fair.

Shorthorns—George E. Ward of Hawarden, Ia., has ten head. His 4-year-old bull, St. Valentine, weighs 2,600 pounds, was winner of sweepstakes at Indiana and Illinois state fairs.

Gold Dust, a 2-year-old bull, won first in class at the above state fairs. His weight is 2,000 pounds. Monarchs Lady, a fine cow in this herd, has been following close after Mary Abbottsburn, the noted prize winner of America. They have been in the show ring together and Monarchs Lady has taken second in class. This herd emphasizes the roan color as prize winners. They are beauties.

C. W. Sanborn of Omaha has two Shorthorn steers entered for the fat stock show, both 3-year-olds, and weigh respectively 2,000 and 2,300 pounds.

Galloways—J. H. McAllister of O'Neill, Neb., has ten head ranging in age from calves to aged cow and bull.

T. J. Davis & Son of Triumph, Ill., have fifteen head of very good animals of all ages and will be in the contest in all classes.

Holstines—Henry Stevens & Son of Lacona, N. Y., have fifteen head and will show in every class from calves to aged cow and bull.

Brown Swiss Cattle—E. M. Barton of Hinsdale, Ill., has seventeen head. In this herd are several sweepstakes winners. Their latest conquests were at the state fairs of Wisconsin and Illinois.

Devons—John Hudson of Moweaqua, Ill., has fourteen head of Devons representing all ages. The herd bull weighs 2,100 pounds. There are three steers for the fat stock display. Mr. Hudson imported the original stock to start his herd and has kept within these lines of breeding ever since. His animals are regarded as great beauties by many cattle raisers.

Sheep—J. N. Grau of Asherville, Kas., has three Delaine Merinos, a ram and two lambs.

A. F. Gamber of Wakeman, O., has fifteen head of Delaine Merinos, a full display of these very popular sheep, and will contest for the prizes in class from lambs to aged ewe and ram.

Charles Cook of Cyrus, Neb., has three French Merino rams. These specimens are quite a curiosity to many visitors; they are very large and carry immense fleeces of nice wool.

Robert Taylor of Abbott, Neb., has thirty-five head of Hampshires, Lesters and Merinos.

George Harding & Sons of Waukesha, Wis., shows forty head of Cotswolds of all ages.

George McKerrow of Sussex, Wis., has eighty head of Oxfords and Southdowns, all ages. He is prepared to fill all classes and then have a reserve to satisfy buyers who want to get some of his stock.

George Allen of Allerton, Ill., has Twenty-four head of Shropshires. He has been on the fair circuit for some time and has great confidence in his stock as winners.

R. Stuyvsant of Allamuchy, N. J., has fourteen head of the horned Dorset sheep on exhibition. These sheep are comparatively new to this district of the country and are receiving much attention from visitors. Mr. Stuyvesant says his exhibition of sheep are all American bred except one ram. This is claiming to be the greatest prize winning flock of Dorsets in America.

THE PENNSYLVANIA PARTY.

Commission Made Up of Brightest Men of Keystone State.

The Pennsylvania commission of the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition, appointed by Governor Daniel H. Hastings, is composed of some of the leading manufacturers, business men and editors of the old Keystone state. The party reached Omaha yesterday morning over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad in their special car, and are quartered at the Millard. Accompanying the commission as its guest is Hon. Charles Emory Smith, postmaster general, who is to deliver the oration today, Pennsylvania day. He was the editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Press for fifteen years prior to his appointment as postmaster general. Under President Harrison's last administration he was ambassador to Russia. The postmaster general is accompanied by Mrs. Smith.

The Pennsylvania commission is headed by John W. Woodside, president of the Atlantic Snuff company and one of the leading manufacturers of Philadelphia. He was secretary of the Tennessee Centennial commission of the city of Philadelphia, chairman of the citizens' commission of Philadelphia on the Cotton States and International exposition at Atlanta, a member of the national commission of Pennsylvania at the Chicago World's fair, and has been associated in some way with every international celebration or episode in the United States in the last quarter of a century. He had charge of having the design made for the famous medal of award for the Chicago World's fair, [?]

Thomas Bradley, treasurer of the commission, who accompanies the party, is also one of the leading business men of Philadelphia.

Colonel George Nox McCain, chairman of the executive committee of the commission, is one of the editors of the Philadelphia Press. He received his newspaper training in Pittsburg, where for eight years he filled editorial positions on the Dispatch, subsequently becoming one of the owners of the Commercial Gazette. He was afterward Washington correspondent for the latter paper. He has been an extensive traveler, visiting among other places the interior of Venezuela during the late boundary excitement. For services rendered the government of Venezuela Colonel McCain was decorated by President Crespo with the Order of the Liberator. He is a member of Governor Hastings' staff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, is a member of the Society of the War of 1812, of the University club of Philadelphia and is widely known as one of the foremost political writers in his native state.

Among the members of the commission in professional life is Dr. J. Roberts Bryan, also of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Philadelphia Pathological society, Philadelphia Pediatric society and Philadelphia County Medical society. Dr. Bryan was assistant physician of the Children's hospital in Philadelphia for a number of years.

I. O. Nissley, member of the executive committee, is publisher of the Middletown Press, one of the largest and most influential newspapers in the central part of Pennsylvania.

Christian S. Overholt, the dean of the commission in point of years, is a retired banker, merchant and manufacturer of Westmoreland county, although now residing in Philadelphia. Mr. Overholt is the uncle of Henry Clay Frick, the active head of the great Carnegie enterprises.

One of the most successful newspapers in Pennsylvania is the Wilkesbarre Record, of which Dr. Frederick C. Johnson, also a member of the executive committee, is editor. Dr. Johnson was born at Marquette, Mich. A graduate of the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania, he entered journalism, and became one of the proprietors of the Wilkesbarre Record.

One other prominent newspaper editor of the quartet in Omaha with the commission is Livy S. Richard, editor-in-chief of the Scranton Tribune. Mr. Richard is a native of Ohio, who began his newspaper work at La Porta, Ind., in 1888. In 1892 he accepted a position as associate editor of the Tribune, and became its editor-in-chief in 1894. Under his direction the Tribune has taken a foremost place among the influential interior journals of the state.

Joshua D. Baker is widely, intimately and favorably known as the manager of the Hotel Lafayette in Philadelphia. He is of Quaker stock and has come by his hotel experience through a long line of hotel ancestry.

In Western Pennsylvania at New Brighton, Thomas Livingston Kennedy, another manufacturer on the commission, has his home.

The one member of the commission who knows all about the great oil industries of the United States is P. C. Boyle, editor and proprietor of the Oil City Derrick. Mr. Boyle, who is a veteran of the late war, is known to every man in the United States who has ever been identified with the petroleum industry.

The colleges and universities and the educational life of Pennsylvania are represented by W. C. Gretzinger, Ph. D., registrar of Bucknell university, Lewisburg, Pa. Mr. Gretzinger is one of the youngest members of the commission, but he is at the business head of the largest educational institution in Pennsylvania, with the exception of the university of Pennsylvania. He is active and prominent in the business and social life of Central Pennsylvania.

Hiram Young, esq., is the dean of Pennsylvania journalists, being the oldest active newspaper man in the state. He is editor and propritor​ of the York Daily Dispatch. During President Harrison's administration he was postmaster of York.

Other members of the commission are Thomas J. Keenan, jr., of Pittsburg, Thomas M. Jones and George M. Wanbaugh of Harrisburg, J. H. Zerby of Pottsville, Asa Packer Blakeslee of Mauch Chunk and James P. Deininger of Sullivan county.

PORCINES ON EXHIBITION.

Poland China Boar Weighs More Than a Half Ton.

The whole south side of the live stock grounds is filled with hogs. Everybody is well pleased with the display, and many declare it to be the finest collection of swine that has ever been seen in the state. The pick of the stock from the half dozen best hog producing states is there. It is of all the common ages and in size ranges from the pig of a few weeks old up to A. J. Tecumseh, Thomas Stevenson's Poland China boar that weighs fifty pounds more than half a ton. There are any number of animals in the pens that run up to 700 and 800 pounds. John Blain of Pawnee [?] old, and weigh 540 pounds apiece.

This is just an indication of the general quality of the stock in this department. In the lot are a great many prize winners, and some of the exhibitors have the honor of displaying a yard or two square of premium badges.

Up to the present time the exhibitors are:

Poland Chinas—Harvey Johnson, Logan, Ia.; C. M. Irwin, Wichita, Kas.; J. Mandelbaum, Blue Hill, Neb.; Hoover & Harrison, Oskaloosa, Ia.; Thomas Stevenson, Fairfield, Ia.; J. H. Van Buren, Quimby, Ia.; D. F. Risk and Risk & Gabbert, Weston, Mo.; Kirkpatrick & Gresham, Connor, Kas.; D. S. Roush, Grand Island, Neb.; A. W. Albertson & Son, Inwood, Ia.; William Uhe & Sons, Papillion, Neb.; John O'Connell, Malcolm, Neb.; John Blain, Pawnee City, Neb.; J. R. Watts, Waterloo, Neb.

Duroc Jerseys—John Henderson, Panora, Ia.; D. S. Roush, Grand Island, Neb.; G. W. Trone, Rushville, Ill.; W. H. Taylor & Sons, Lincoln, Neb.; William Roberts & Son, Paton, Ia.; H. B. Louden & Son, Clay Center, Neb.; C. H. Searle, Edgar, Neb.

Berkshires—J. W. Townley, Octavia, Neb., Seven Oak farm, New Sharon, Ia.; John B. Thompson, Plattsburg, Mo.; Harris & McMahan, Lamine, Mo.

Victorias—George F. Davis, Dyer, Ind.

Chester Whites—John M. Ketcham & Sons, Love Lake, Mo.; Van Derslice Bros., Cheney, Neb.; G. W. Trone, Rushville, Ill.

Essex—L. E. Mahan & Co., Malcolm, Neb.

GLIMPSES OF THE MIDWAY.

Old Plantation Is Adding to Its Unique Show.

The program at the Old Plantation has been greatly improved lately and while the show has been very superior it is better today than ever. The cake walk is better, the camp meeting scene is better and the buck and wing dancing and the quartet singing elicits enthusiastic applause. Since Mr. McConnell decided to reduce the price of admission from 20 to 10 cents the attendance has been something enormous. Mr. McConnell claims that his show now enjoys the patronage of 25 per cent of all Midway visitors and from the way the people pour into the Old Plantation at each platform, one is inclined to believe that Mr. McConnell is very modest in his statements. The Old Plantation is a great show and the people, especially the Omaha people, appreciate the fact.

Fritz Mueller's new place, the Live Stock Exchange, near the stock exhibit, is a success, as is every enterprise that he takes hold of. It is centrally located, the building is handsome and inviting and when the visitors steps inside he gets the best for the least amount of money. Beer, fresh and pure, is kept on tap and cold lunches of all kinds are on sale. Schlitz Pavilion, of which Mr. Muller is proprietor, is crowded every day, not only with old customers, but new ones who have heard so much of the place.

A new feature of the entertainment at the German Village is the pie eating contest. The last one gave such genuine pleasure and satisfaction that the management has decided to have another. A dozen urchins and rag muffins will take part and three prizes will be given to the three who finish first. The contestants will eat the pies from ordinary pie pans, placed on the bottom of chairs. Contestant's​ hands will be tied behind them and they will be forced to get on their knees while eating. The contest will take place in the next two or three days and when it takes place a large crowd is sure to attend.

After considerable delay, trouble and expense the management of the Great Omaha Wild West Show has succeeded in raising the quarantine on the Mexican bulls and today at 4 o'clock a bull fight will take place in the Wild West Show. Five professional bull fighters have been secured and the fight promises to be very interesting and sensational. From all indications the large grand stand will be packed this afternoon.

ENTERTAINED BY THE TRIBES.

Scalp Dance Will Be a Unique Attraction.

Two characteristic Indian tribal dances will be given this afternoon and evening, both unique and entertaining. At 4:30 the Wichitas and friendly tribes will give the horn dance peculiar only to the Wichitas. It is a ceremonial prayer originally for the increase of the buffalo, but since none are left to increase the prayer is for the return of the big ruminant of the plains. Towanconi Jim, the chief, will give an address in Wichita, which will be interpreted in the sign language.

This evening will be given the scalp dance, both unique and grewsome​, by the Assinaboines and their northern neighbors. It is most peculiar as an Indian dance in that it is danced by the women only, with blackened faces,   wearing their warriors' costumes and dangling from long poles the scalps captured by their warriors in the last victorious campaign. Prof. Mooney, who has arranged for the dances, says that it is a style like that adopted by the young women of today in wearing soldiers' field hats, cross guns and other ornaments of war at its victorious conclusion. In the dance, however, some genuine old scalps will be used.

A quickly gotten up sham battle was given by the Indians yesterday afternoon, with a big crowd present and much enthusiasm. The plan of battle of Saturday last was followed.

In the center of the battlefield is being built a log house, a model of that occupied by Sitting Bull at the time of his death, and a picturesque feature of the next battle will be the last fight and death of Sitting Bull. Red Tomahawk, the Sioux policeman who killed him, will be here soon to be stage manager in that act.

The next battle will be given Thursday afternoon at 4:30.

CHILDREN'S JUBILEE.

Song Festival Being Prepared—Chorus of Small Voices.

Musical Director Kelly is working up enthusiasm for the Children's jubilee Saturday, October 16, which will resolve itself into a children's song festival in the afternoon. For that day the exposition management has made the reduced race of 15 cents for all children of 15 years or under. All who will participate in the afternoon chorus are requested to report at the Auditorium at 9:30 a. m., the jubilee chorus taking place at 2:30 p. m. on the plaza. To all children volunteering to participate handsome badges will be given in the morning, and it is being arranged by Mr. Kelly with the leading concessionaires that children wearing those badges will be admitted at reduced rates.

It is anticipated that on the occasion there will be from 5,000 to 10,000 children on the grounds, and from them it is hoped to select the chorus of 1,000 voices, 500 from Omaha and an equal number from visiting schools out in the state. The parents of children of such musical ability as developed in the public schools and whose children would like to join the chorus are requested to write in advance to Mr. Kelly, giving names and ages.

WOMAN'S BOARD DISBANDS.

Farewell Occasion Yesterday at Conclusion of Efficient Work.

For the last time the woman's board of the exposition met yesterday, and with lingering regrets the members bade good-bye to the work they inaugurated and now nearing a successful end. The board has met quarterly, and yesterday it was decided that the executive committee should do the work that is left, so a social day was enjoyed.

There was a greeting by Major Clarkson and an address by the president, Mrs. Sawyer. This was at the boys' parlor in the Boys and Girls' building at 10 a. m., and then luncheon was had in the library. The sentiments and ladies responding were: "Bureau of Education," Mrs. Kerr; "Woman's Sphere," Mrs. Hollenbeck; "The Genus Homo," Miss McHugh; "Finances," Mrs. McDowell; "The Scapegoat," Mrs. Ford; "Women as a Classified Exhibit," Mrs. Field; "Olive Branches," Mrs. Dutton; "The Executive Committee," Mrs. Towne. In the afternoon the courtesies of the Midway were enjoyed.

Those present from out of the city were: Mrs. A. J. Sawyer and Mrs. A. H. Field, Lincoln; Mrs. McDowell, Fairbury; Mrs. Hollenbeck, Fremont; Mrs. Giffert, West Point; Mrs. Kerr, Ansley; Mrs. Hunter, Broken Bow; Mrs. Dutton, Hastings, and Mrs. Key, Council Bluffs.

The work of the twenty-seven members of the woman's board has been the charge of all the educational exhibits, children's excursions, educational exhibits, children's excursions, educational conventions and the Boys' and Girls' building. All were much gratified at the successes attained, and left for their homes feeling that their work had been well done.

ITS FINANCIAL SHOWING.

Forty-Five Per Cent Dividend is Now in Prospect.

With $84,107.34 in the treasury in excess of all of the floating indebtedness, the exposition began the month of October, conceded to be the best, as well as the last, of the exposition. And as for more money that is to come, it may be observed by the following report that the exposition began the month with a $235,000 pace for receipts, and, after allowing $100,000 for the entertainments of peace jubilee week and the resplendent events that mark the whole month as the peer of all the others, there will be an additional surplus of $135,000 if September's pace be kept up, but with what is to come, there are sanguine exposition authorities that believe it will be doubled. Without allowing for the easily anticipated increase for October, there will [?]

This is the report of October 1:

RECEIPTS.

Mexican Bulls Not Coming.

Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 4.—Colonel A. H. Dean, chief of the stock yards bureau of animal industry, has received orders from the head of the department at Washington to have the Mexican bulls confiscated a few days ago, and quarantined on their way to Omaha, either returned to Mexico or sold for immediate slaughter.

There were only four of the ugly beasts in the car, and so far they have cost $110. If they are sold on the open market they would probably bring less than $10 per head. The animals were imported from Old Mexico by E. Mattox and billed to Omaha, but after having passed the officials on the border it was learned that they were to be used in an exhibition of bull fighting at the Omaha exposition, and Colonel Dean confiscated the property and placed the bulls in quarantine as soon as they arrived in this city. Since that time the owner has had the animals disinfected and in every other way attempted to satisfy the officers at Washington, who finally put an end to his scheme by the order to sell or return them to Old Mexico.

To Confederate Veterans.

New Orleans, La., Oct. 4.—Adjutant General Morgan, by orders of General J. B. Gordon, commanding United Confederate Veterans, today issued an order, stating that a cordial fraternal letter has been received at these headquarters from General T. S. Clarkson, past commander of the Grand Army of Republic, now general manager of the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition at Omaha, especially inviting all ex-confederates to attend that exposition during Peace Jubilee week, from October 10 to 15.

The general commanding desires this generous invitation made known to all United Confederate Veteran camps and to all ex-confederates, so that as many as desire can attend the interesting and patriotic ceremonies.

CHILDREN FROM THE HOME

Manager Lemen Takes Several Parties of Juveniles to the Exposition.

Little Ones Enjoy the Great Show and Furnish Entertainment in Cairo Street.

Half Price Charged Them on the Midway and Special Rate Granted by the Exposition Managers.

The Omaha Bridge and Terminal company some time since issued to Manager J. G. Lemen of the Christian Home of this city ten passes, each of which gave free passage over the lines of the company for ten children of the home, accompanied by Mr. Lemen and a teacher. The exposition management supplemented this by admitting each of these parties for $1. Mr. Lemen has already taken to the exposition six parties of children each from the home, and before the exposition closes will take over four more.

Most of these children are from 6 to 12 years old and never before in their little lives have they had such an experience. Inside the grounds these parties of home children have attracted much attention. They have been admitted free of charge to the Libbey glass works, where each of them has received a beautiful souvenir; to the Scenic Railway, Hagenback's and the Ostrich Farm, and at nearly all the other places on the Midway where they should be taken only half price has been charged.

These little groups of orphan children from the home have attracted attention wherever they have gone about the exposition grounds. At each visit Manager Lemen has made it a point to call at the general offices of the exposition, and each time Manager Wakefield has manifested the deepest interest in the children and has dropped his work to greet them personally and shake hands with each one. The children are quite well drilled in singing and a few days ago Mr. Lemen asked Manager Wakefield if he would like to hear a song from the group then present. The youngsters began "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," and sang two stanzas. The little song stopped the machinery of the whole office and ever clerk and other employe opened his wicket widow and listened until the conclusion.

Another interesting incident occurred on the Midway opposite the Streets of Cairo. Mr. Lemen, with his children, met two old friends of the home at this point, and after some conversation the latter expressed a desire to hear the children sing. There was all about the noise of a large crowd, and added to it the din of the drums and cries of the "spielers." Scarcely had the children sung two lines, however, before there was a hush. The men about the entrance to the Streets of Cairo hushed each other, and as the tuneful notes sounded clearer and clearer people came from every side and gathered in a great crowd about the little band. At the conclusion of the song one of the swarthy Egyptians pressed forward and asked Mr. Lemen who the children were, and when he was told they were orphans from the home across the river he appeared deeply affected.

The children manifest the liveliest interest in the various things they see at the exposition, and their visits furnish the chief topics of conversation at the home.

SMITH THE GUEST OF HONOR

Postmaster General Tendered a Complimentary Reception at The Bee Building.

MANY CITIZENS PAY THEIR RESPECTS

Beautiful Court Presents an Entrancing Scene While the Visitors Are Presented to Distinguished Editor, Diplomat and Statesman.

Hon. Charles Emory Smith of Philadelphia, postmaster general of the United States, editor of the Philadelphia Press and former minister to Russia, was the guest of honor at a public reception tendered him last evening by Edward Rosewater, editor of The Omaha Bee, in the court of The Bee building.

It was one of the most notable affairs that has even taken place in The Bee building, where so many distinguished public men have met the citizens of Nebraska, and was attended by a large concourse of people. Each visitor was personally presented to the representative of President McKinley's cabinet, and many of them enjoyed quite a little intercourse with him. The reception committee consisted of Edward Rosewater, General Charles F. Manderson, who presented the visitors to Postmaster General Smith, who in turn introduced them to Assistant Postmaster Woodard, and the latter to United States Judge Munger and Colonel J. J. Dickey.

The receiving committee occupied a post at the north end of the handsome court. A dais slightly raised above the level of the court and spread with oriental rugs formed the station of the host, the guests of honor and the members of the reception committee. In front of them hung two large American flags, gracefully crossed and suspended from the balcony of an upper floor. Back of them appeared a transplanted conservatory rich with rare plants.

Decorations Most Effective.

The grand court of The Bee building never looked prettier than it did last evening. Brilliant with hundreds of multi-colored incandescent lights the effect was softened with several choice collections of stately palms admirably arranged on the staircase and throughout the court. The most notable display of flowers was that which completely filled the fine marble fountain in the middle of the court. Instead of the usual jets of water in the tessellated basin appeared a lavish display of palms and ferns rising to a height of a dozen feet above the marble top of the fountain, one beautiful palm forming an artistic apex for the floral pyramid. About the base of the court, on all sides, were distributed more palms, while the broad stairs leading to the first main floor were lined with the same flowers and the effect of the whole was not unlike the charming appearance of the richly decorated placita of some rare Mexican mansion.

The spotless white walls of the court shone brilliantly in the reflected light of the variegated electric lights and this resplendent scene was happily broken by the moving beaux and belles about the corridors of the upper floors. The pretty gowns of the visitors looked all the more attractive in these points of vantage and the picture in the balconies of the second and third floors combined pleasingly with the animated sight in the court proper. The balustrades of the upper corridors were appropriately trimmed with red, white and blue bunting, draped in graceful festoons about the four sides of the court. Throughout the evening the Sutorius Mandolin orchestra, assisted by the Misses Lowe, rendered delightful music from the second balcony.

The guests began to arrive shortly after 8 o'clock and continued to pay their respects to the well known journalist and diplomat until after 10. After the guests had met Mr. Smith they passed out through the other side of the court and took elevators to the seventh floor of The Bee building. Here refreshments, with coffee and punch, were served to all who called, in the large assembly room. Several hundred of the visitors took the opportunity to inspect the composing rooms, stereotyping department and press rooms of The Bee after being served with refreshments.

Some Who Attended.

Among those noticed among the out-of-town visitors were: E. E. Wonder, postmaster, Holmesville, Neb.; W. S. Raker, Gretna, Neb.; F. G. Simmons, Seward, Neb.; Ross Hammond, Fremont, Neb.; Postmaster Williamson, Riverton, Neb.; Postmaster Thomas A. Healey, Milford, Neb., and many others from Nebraska and Iowa points. Prominent among the callers were eighty letter carriers and clerks of the Omaha postoffice, uniformed, who marched to The Bee building early in the evening to greet their chief from Wash-[?] fire and police commissioners called to pay their respects after the adjournment of their meeting at the city hall.

The visitors refused to disperse until after Postmaster General Smith consented to address them. Mr. Smith, when introduced by Mr. Rosewater, paid a high compliment to The Bee and its magnificent establishment as typical of the west. He said this was the first time he had visited in the transmississippi country and standing here almost in the middle of the American continent he realized as never before the greatness and grandeur of the republic. He felt sure that the visit had done him good and that when he returned to the editorial chair, as he surely would, he would be a better editor because of what he had learned on this trip. He emphasized the importance of the Postoffice department as the one branch of the government service that came nearest home to the people and represented more than any other the intelligence of the country; this was shown by the fact that out of 17,000,000,000 letters written in the world each year one-third of them are written in the United States. He concluded by calling on those present connected with the postal service to do what they could to improve its usefulness and maintain its high efficiency.

Mr. Rosewater also responded with a few words expressing appreciation of the compliment paid Omaha and Nebraska by the visit of the postmaster general.

THREE QUIET EVENTS

Celebrations at the Exposition Today Are of Minor Importance.

NONE OF THEM HAVE SET PROGRAMS

Visitors to Whom the Day is Dedicated Spend Time Inspecting.

MORNING SEES A GOOD ATTENDANCE

Steady Stream of People Pours Into the Grounds All Forenoon.

NEW YORK'S CELEBRATION ON THE TAPIS

Empire State Comes Tomorrow and Promises to Make the Showing Its Importance in the Nation Demands.

With no important features to attract the people there is a fairly good crowd of visitors on the ground today and these included a large number who have come to participate in the final festivities of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and then remain to assist in welcoming President McKinley next Wednesday. During the early morning the slight drizzle of rain had a minimizing effect on the arrivals, but later, when the clouds broke away and the sun shone out in full resplendence of a perfect October day, the crowd started with a rush and the street cars were jammed with all the people they could carry.

There are three celebrations of minor importance scheduled for the day, but none of them are attended by any formalities. The New Jersey day program was declared off, as it was found difficult to secure any representative attendance from that far-away state, in view of the superior attractions of Jubilee week. There are quite a number of New Jersey visitors on the grounds, but they preferred to spend their time in enjoying the exposition that they had come half way across the continent to see and voted speechmaking an altogether unnecessary adjunct of their holiday.

The pretty parlors on the second floor of the Nebraska building were given over to the women of the P. E. O, who occupied them with an informal reception given by the local chapter to the visiting members. The guests were received from 10 to 12 o'clock and regaled with light refreshments. After lunch the women broke up into small parties and spent the remainder of the day in sightseeing.

The excursion from Bureau county, Illinois, did not appear this morning, but Colonel Hambleton received advices that quite a representative party from that part of his state would be in during the day. The visitors will be informally received at the Illinois building and then left to their own devices.

The celebration of New York day tomorrow promises to be one of the most notable state occasions of the exposition. The presence of Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, who is to deliver the address of the day, is expected to bring out a large local attendance to add to the New York crowd and the Auditorium program will be of exceptional. interest. The other speakers have not been announced, but it is not likely that any elaborate addresses will be scheduled except that of Mr. Depew.

President A. E. Orr of the Chamber of Commerce of New York has transmitted to the exposition management a handsomely engrossed certificate bearing the seal of the organization, by which Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Hon. Warner Miller, Charles A. Cohieren, Francis B. Thurber, Richard Young, Henry A. Spaulding and D. L. Ramsey are designated as the official representatives to the exposition.

PROGRAM FOR PRESIDENT'S DAY.

Outline of the Entertainment Prepared for Major McKinley.

The program for the entertainment of President McKinley and party has been announced and no changes will be made except as the convenience of the visitors may require. The party will be met at the depot Tuesday night by the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, who will act as a mounted escort. The troops of United States cavalry that had been expected cannot be secured on account of several changes that are being made by the War department and lack of horses consequent of the recent service in the field. With the knights as a substitute for Uncle Sam's troopers the visiting party will be conducted to the city hall, where the spectacular parade of King Ak-Sar-Ben IV will be reviewed and thence to the Omaha club.

Wednesday morning the visitors will leave the club at 10 o'clock with the same escort and be conducted to the Grand Plaza, where the exercises of the day will occur. These will consist of music by Innes' band, a short introductory address by President Wattles and addresses by President McKinley and Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith.

After the speaking the official party will be lunched by the reception committee at Markel's cafe and the women of the party will be returned in carriages to the Omaha club, where a luncheon will be tendered to Mrs. McKinley. The president and his party will go to the Government building at 3 o'clock, where a handshaking reception will occupy half an hour, and then it will be rejoined by the women and the entire party will be taken in carriages to see the sham battle at 4 o'clock and the balloon ascension at 5. There will be a dinner at Markel's cafe at 6 o'clock, and at 7:30, unless the atmosphere should be too chilly for comfort, the entire fleet on the lagoon will be placed at the disposal of the visitors and they will admire the illuminations from the water while quartet and band furnishes vocal and instrumental music. At 8:30 the carriages will again be called into requisition and the party will witness the fireworks on the north tract. Later those who wish to spend an hour or two on the Midway will be given an opportunity and the others will be returned to their quarters.

GREAT EXPOSITIONS AS EDUCATORS.

Mayor Jones of Toledo Discourses at Ohio Day Celebration.

At the close of the formal exercises for Ohio day at the exposition Mayor Jones of Toledo delivered an address. He devoted a large portion of his time to the discussion of industrial problems. He spoke in part as follows:

When Lamenais said, "I love my family more than myself, my village more than my family, my country more than my village, and mankind more than my country," he showed himself the true lover in the broadest and best sense. The Omaha Exposition is Omaha's only in name. Its glory and greatness is only best understood when we speak of its as ours, and in so speaking we do not detract from, but rather add to, the glory of the people of this progressive city.

Not one of Ohio's sons or daughters who participates in these ceremonies today but feels a just sense of pride and a quickening of the pulse beat as he looks upon the marvelous beauty that has risen up out of the earth as the result of the labor of your hands. Our hearts swell with exultant pride at these manifestations of the power of creative effort, and yet I think this feeling of triumph and satisfaction is not due alone to the contemplation of the mere material things that we look upon, but rather to the spiritual thought that was behind all, that was the inspiration of all, and without which no part of this manifestation of genius could have arisen out of the ground. It is this feature of the work of the Omaha Exposition   that to my mind is more valuable as an object lesson than even these beautiful buildings that rear their graceful proportions toward heaven, more precious than the vaulted treasures that are here displayed, more priceless than the works of art that delight us with their beauty. It is the demonstration of the power of associated effort of men that leads us to exclaim with wonder, "What hath God wrought!"

So it is that I say we of Ohio feel that we have a part in this Omaha Exposition, because we belong to the same world, the same nation, the same country, the same race. It is yours, it is ours. It is the practical demonstration of what love can bring forth. Men never created by hating each other, never builded an Omaha Exposition because they hated each other, but because they loved each other. The spirit of love inspires them to erect such altars as these to say to the world, "Come and see what we have done."

We of Ohio will leave Omaha with pleasant recollections of the beautiful pictures we have here seen, with the memory of your labors indelibly written upon our heart and in the work that we are about to enter upon of fitly commemorating the birth of the great state of Ohio with a centennial at our own beloved Toledo, we shall strive, not in any spirit of rivalry, but in the spirit of brotherly love, to emulate and excell​ the work that love has wrought at Omaha.

These expositions bring a more valuable lesson in spreading the idea of democracy than in any other way, as it seems to me, and this thought of democracy or brotherhood commands the attention of the thinking people of the civilized world today. We are learning the lesson that has been taught for ages, but which we have been seemingly slow to learn, that we are all children of one common Father and all entitled to share alike in His bounty and care. We are losing the degrading sense of class consciousness that has kept us apart, one from another, that has divided us into sects, classes and factions, and we are learning through such noble efforts as have been put forth at Omaha, that we are truly one people, that we have one Father, even God, and all we are His children. In no other place is our oneness demonstrated more fully and perfectly than in our public schools, and yet as late as fifty years ago the great state of Ohio had no free schools: but today all over this broad land, the sun of the public school actually does "shine upon the just and the unjust," and we would think it a most dreadful thing to find a child in this country who is denied the right to learn to read. So it seems to me we are coming to think about and to solve other questions of responsibility, and if the Ohio Centennial Exposition in 1903 may, along with commemorating the birth of a great state, mark the era of the emancipation of a race, great masses of whom are today wearing the chains of slavery no less truly than were the negroes bearing their chains forty years ago; if, I saw, we shall be able then throughout this broad land to proclaim such a degree of industrial freedom that every man who is willing to work may have the right to live in a self-respecting manner, it will be a greater triumph than was the emancipation proclamation of the immortal Lincoln.

And why not? Why should we not issue such a proclamation of liberty? Why is it not as important that my brother shall have the right to work as that he shall have the right to learn to read or the right to vote? My friends, let us demonstrate our greatness by our love for our fellow men. Let us frankly face these problems and say these things ought not to be, and I am sure that a people who have accomplished the great triumphs that characterize our history will not falter when it comes to the solution of the problem that simply means fair play, that shall mean equality not of wealth, or station or position, but equality of opportunity.

These are the questions that confront us in Ohio; these are the questions that confront us all over this broad land; greater in their importance than the questions of foreign policy, great as they may be, are the questions of social reconstruction that are now forcing themselves upon our consideration and will no longer be set aside. Towards the settlement of these social questions the work of the Omaha exposition has contributed mightily and in the recognition organized labor, the eight-hour day and the right of our fellow men to labor, and to labor under decent conditions, you have done much to establish and plant imperishably within our breasts the truth of universal brotherhood.

I trust that we of Ohio may profit by the example that you have here shown us, and I trust that four and a half years hence, when you shall come to Toledo to look upon the work that we have done to commemorate the centennial of Ohio we shall be able to point you to a great exposition and to a truly great city, as we have already the great state. I trust that we shall be able to point you to an improved condition of civilization that should distinguish and mark every step of our progress from this time forward, a condition in which we will finally and forever pass the stage of making periodical appeals for starving miners, a condition of civilization in which the interest of all of the people shall be the music that sings us to our work. I trust that we may point you to a centennial exposition that has [?] glory of all of the people of a great state, as the manifestation of the love of that state for its people untainted with the thought of private profit from its foundation stone to the highest pinnacle from which waves the emblem of our liberties.

Handshaking Carnival.

Commissioners Peterson and Cahn of Texas have returned from their homes, where they went some time ago to work up enthusiasm in the Peace Jubilee and North and South Handshaking carnival. Both of them say that there will be large crowds here from Texas next week, as the people down there are all anxious to come to the exposition and are also anxious to meet President McKinley.

Commissioner Peterson brought along a quantity of pears, raised by himself, J. W. Tinkley and Major Robert Ford. The fruit grew near Rock Island, Colorado county, and is the finest yet seen at the exposition. The pears are the big yellow fellows and weigh from one and one-half to two pounds each. Most of those that were brought were distributed among the exposition officials and MR. Peterson's friends.

LIVE STOCK SHOW IN FULL BLAST.

First Exhibition and Judging in the Ring Held Yesterday.

The first ring showing of the live stock exhibit took place yesterday afternoon in the amphitheater west of the Dairy building. Three rings of Jersey females were brought before the judges. It has been decided that no announcements of awards shall be made until the close of the exhibit a week from Saturday. At that time, besides the $35,000 prizes offered by the management of the exposition, there will be about $3,000 distributed in special premiums.

The gathering of live stock that is now on the exposition grounds exceeds that at any similar exhibit ever held in this country with the exception of the live stock show at the World's fair in Chicago. Although there were a greater number of animals brought together at that time, they fell far short of equaling in quality those of the present exhibit. There are still a few more entries that are on the way. But the entries are now practically all in the barns. There are about 200 head of horses, 700 of cattle, 800 of swine and 600 of sheep. Among the horses the Clydesdales, Percherons and Hackneys predominate. There are twelve varieties of cattle, but about one-fourth of the entire number on exhibition are Herefords. There are also a large number of Holsteins, Jerseys and Short-Horns shown. Among the swine there are eight distinct breeds. Fine specimens are shown of the Poland China, Chester White and Yorkshire varieties. The sheep show ten breeds, the Lincolnshire, Cotswold and Leichester predominating.

Almost all of the exhibitors are owners of large stock farms and the entries they have made are the pick of their pets. Rarely has any one breeder brought more than one variety. The Holstein cattle shown by W. B. Barney, I. W. Chappell and Stephens & Son are attracting a great deal of attention, as are also the Red Polled variety shown by S. A. Converse, J. W. Martin and McElvey & Son. There are a few exhibits from Canada in sheep and swine that are somewhat different from the varieties that are so common with exhibitors from this country. They include a pen of Yorkshire hogs and a couple of flocks of Lincoln and Cotswold sheep.

The program calls for the showing of the Short-Horns, Galloways and Holstein cattle today. Besides these, several of the horses will be brought into the ring.

An erroneous impression has got abroad that an extra admission is charged for the show. This is wrong. The live stock exhibit is free to all visitors to the exposition.

Today at the Indian Congress.

This afternoon at 4:30 the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Sioux and other allied tribes of the plains will give a rendition of the famous Indian ghost dance which attracted so much attention throughout the country a few years ago in connection with the Sioux outbreak and the massacre of Wounded Knee. It will be given under the supervision of Prof. James Mooney, the government ethnological expert, who was detailed at the time of the outbreak to investigate the new Indian religion and in that capacity visited nearly every tribe west of the Missouri and interviewed the original Messiah in the Sierra Nevadas. Among the participants this afternoon will be some of the identical Indians whose frantic performances under the leadership of Sitting Bull led to military intervention.

In the ghost dance men and women together clasp hands and move around in a circle to a peculiar step, singing songs of lamentation for the old life which has gone by, while the medicine men in the center of the ring gradually work them into a frenzy under which the more sensitive subjects finally lose consciousness and go into [?] prophetic visions of the spirit world to which their departed friends have gone. To attain this trance condition is the great object of the dance and every means is used by the medicine men to accomplish this result, making the performance one of intense excitement.

Tomorrow Mr. Mooney will begin the setting up of his Kiowa Camp circle, a part of which formed the government ethnologic exhibit at the Nashville exposition. It consists of 100 miniature tepees with heraldic decorations as they existed in the Kiowa tribe at the period of the Medicine Lodge treaty in 1867.

Cheese and Butter.

The Dairy building is rapidly filling up with cheese, being entered for the contest which will be about October 28, at which time the final butter scoring will occur. Cheese is coming in from all of the states of the transmississippi region in quantities to insure the success of the exhibit.

The next scoring of butter will take place about October 10, at which time Expert Collyer will be here. The exhibits promise to be more numerous than at the September scoring, and at the same time there promises to be a larger quantity of good butter. The last scoring during the exposition will take place during the last days of the month, probably October 28. For this scoring the dairymen write that they will make their big showing of the season.

Depew on the Way.

BUFFALO, Oct. 6.—(Special Telegram.)—Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, orator of the day, with President Calloway of the New York Central lines, passed through here at 4:34 p. m. on a special train, and the Pan-American officials and excursionists fill a train leaving at midnight for Omaha. President Brinker, Treasurer Lautz, Architect Curtis, Manager of Concessions Higbee, Secretary Hill and the directors of the exposition are all aboard the train.

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—The committee to represent the New York Produce exchange at the Omaha exposition on New York day left for Omaha this afternoon over the Erie railroad. The committee included: John Valiant, Samuel Graff, John Glenhill, E. H. Dougherty, D. T. Wade, F. W. Comiskey, John W. Axley, E. A. Allen, Frank Brainard, T. H. Andrews and W. E. Truesdell.

Road Congress Plans.

A meeting of the Good Roads congress will be held in the Nebraska building on the exposition grounds Saturday morning, convening at 10 o'clock. The meeting will be called to order by Martin Dodge of Washington, D. C., who will deliver a short address, after which E. Rosewater will be introduced as vice president to preside over the deliberations of the meeting, in the absence of President Roy Stone, who is now at Porto Rico. During the day the meeting will be addressed by Charles F. Manderson of Omaha; the subject will be "Contour Roads for the West." Other speakers and their subjects will be: Richard Daniels, Guston, Va., "Simple Methods of Road Building;" John M. Staht, Chicago, "Good Roads for Farmers;" Otto Donner, Milwaukee, "Wheelmen's Relations to the Good Roads Movement;" E. J. Harrison, New Jersey, "Road Construction and Maintenance;" A. B. Dunning, Scranton, Pa., "The Supervisor System." The governor of Iowa has appointed Mesdames Beatty of Fruillart and Ewing of Des Moines, both of whom will be here and take part in the discussion of the topics that will come before the meeting.

WHEN THE PRESIDENT COMES

Special Trains Will Reach Omaha Early Tuesday Evening.

AK-SAR-BEN PARADES TO BE REPEATED

Board of Governors Arranges for Presentation of Consolidated Pageants Before Mr. McKinley and His Distinguished Companions.

The latest advices at the local office of the Chicago & Northwestern railway concerning the special trains for the presidential party are to the effect that both President McKinley's and General Miles' trains will arrive at the Omaha union depot at 8.20 o'clock on Tuesday evening.

The first train will carry General Miles and party, who will await the arrival of President McKinley and party at the union depot, both parties then proceeding to the reviewing stand to witness the grand Ak-Sar-Ben parade. The train of President McKinley is scheduled to leave Clinton, Ia., at 11:20 a. m., and a run of nine hours will be made from Clinton on to Omaha, the   daylight trip from Chicago to Omaha giving President McKinley and his party an opportunity to see the states of Illinois and Iowa and to make brief stops at towns along the line of the Northwestern where crowds may be assembled to greet the nation's chief.

President McKinley is not to be deprived of the privilege of viewing the Ak-Sar-Ben parades because he was not in the city this week. The beautiful pageants will be repeated next week while the president is a guest of the city, and the grandeur of the scenes will be enhanced by the union of the two parades into one. This will be done on Tuesday night, the time set for the arrival of the president in the city. This much has been decided upon by the board of governors.

The line of march will not be so extended as on the two evenings of this week, as the purpose of the parade is to show the beauty of the floats to the president, and they will simply be passed in review before him. The floats will be assembled along Douglas street, with the head of the line resting on Tenth and Farnam streets, and no lights will be turned on until the hour arrives for starting from that point.

The board of governors will repair to the depot to receive the presidential party, along with the escort provided for the occasion, and the reception committee of the exposition. When the visitors turn up Farnam street the parade will be started and fall in behind. When the first of the floats reaches Fifteenth street the line will be halted until the presidential party becomes seated in a position to review the parade. It is expected that the visitors will be given places on the stand in front of the city hall, as it is thought the crowd will be too great to permit the carriages to take positions in the street.

After these arrangements have been perfected the parade will move again in grand review, going west as far as Nineteenth street, then south to Harney, east to Fifteenth, and then north to the den. It may be necessary to go east on Harney to Fourteenth if it is found that the parade is too long to permit the head of the line to cross at Fifteenth street. There will be between thirty and thirty-five floats in line. All of the electric floats will be used, and most of the Samson floats. Two or three of the latter were spoiled by the rain this morning, as they had not been put under cover.

It has not yet been decided what arrangement shall be adopted for the placing of the floats. It is possible the electric and legendary floats will be alternated, and if this be not done the electric display will come first in the line. No definite time for the starting of the parade can be given until it is known just what hour the presidential train will reach the city.

MORE SCHOOL CHILDREN COME

Seward, Aurora and York Send a Fine Delegation of Youngsters to Attend the Exposition.

There are three Nebraska towns in which no school is held today—Seward, Aurora and York. The doors of their houses of learning are closed and the pupils are enjoying a day's recreation at the exposition. At 11 o'clock a special train of ten coaches drew into the Burlington station. Each car was gaily decorated with flags and bunting, while the fluttering handkerchiefs at every window and the laughter and shouting of small boys and girls as the train came to a stop clearly indicated as an excursion of school children.

The youngsters numbered 700 all told. There were 300 from Seward, in charge of Superintendent W. W. Stoner and Principal L. H. Wilson, and 200 each from Aurora and York, in charge of Superintendents F. A. Hyde and W. D. Bower, respectively. They scrambled down from the cars and up onto the viaduct and it required all the vigilance their teachers were capable of to keep them together and prevent accidents. A dozen or more trolley cars were waiting for the party and on these the children were placed and conveyed to the exposition grounds. They will return this evening.

GREETING TO THE BUCKEYES

Governor Bushnell and Seven Hundred Ohioans Welcomed at the Exposition.

Exchange of Compliments at the Auditorium---General Attendance About Like Wednesday---The

Ohio lost nothing and apparently gained considerably by the postponement of the state day exercises from yesterday to today.

The weather was as fair and only a trifle cooler and the general attendance, it was though at noon, was larger. And besides it was possible to marshal on the grounds and even in the Auditorium all the excursionists—several hundred—that left the Buckeye state on a pilgrimage to the exposition.

The distinguished guests from Ohio, escorted in carriages from the Paxton hotel by the officials of the exposition and Secretary Hiram Greene of the Ohio state commission, were led to the Auditorium by the Toledo Marine band, resplendent in royal blue trimmed with white.

While the band played a number of patriotic melodies and popular selections the excursionists and the resident natives and friends of Ohio filled the greater part of the lower floor.

The exercises began soon after 11 o'clock.

WATTLES PRESIDES.

President Wattles of the exposition introduced Governor Holcomb of Nebraska, who delivered an address of welcome on behalf of the state. He made considerable pleasant reference to the fact of the large number of people in Nebraska originally from Ohio, with much compliment to the residents of both the older and the newer commonwealths, and he seemed for the moment to be just a little inclined to regret that he was not born a Buckeye instead of a Hoosier.

HOLCOMB'S GREETING.

Governor Holcomb made mention of the important part taken by Ohio in the great affairs of the country, and in naming some of the illustrious sons of the state repeated the name of William McKinley, which called forth much applause.

"I do not know," said the governor, "but that I ought to utter a word of caution here. We are beginning to raise presidential timber in Nebraska." At which there was more cheering. "But," continued the governor, "when we elect a president from Nebraska he will be compelled, in going back and forth between here and Washington, to pass through your beautiful state.

"I want to give you that consolation." (Laughter and cheers.) Governor Holcomb concluded with remarks regarding the west, as shown by the exposition, and with a reiteration of the words of welcome with which he began.

BUSHNELL RESPONDS.

Governor Bushnell of Ohio was warmly received as he arose to respond, just as he had been on taking his place on the platform. The hospitality of the Nebraskans and of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, he said, had been so generous and their attention so constant and kind that he could not trust himself to make fitting acknowledgement extemporaneously, and so had taken a little time to make his response more proper. He was very gracious in returning the thanks ordinarily thought requisite on such an occasion. He praised the character of the citizenship of his state, and declared that in any state adopted by Ohioans their coming was welcomed and their long stay desired. He expressed his appreciation of the rapid development, the enterprise and the attainment of the great west and of the admirable general character of its inhabitants. His citations from old reports of opinions that the west beyond the Missouri river was a region where it was impossible to found agricultural, commercial or even pastoral communities, were heard with much interest, and their absurdity in the light of present facts caused much laughter.

Praising the exposition, Governor Bushnell said that in short, it was the result of American character and that therefrom all Americans could share in the just pride. Making reference, well understood, to the coming Ohio Centennial, the governor said that Ohio could and must do as well as Nebraska. The sentiment was applauded. And then, he said, the people here would [?]

WEBSTER'S ASSERTION.

John L. Webster extended a greeting on behalf of the exposition association. The sentence which attracted the most attention and caused the most astonishment was that in which Mr. Webster seriously gave assurance to the people of Ohio that all the people in Nebraska, including the governor himself, were now willing to get down on their knees and worship William Mcinley​.

Concluding addresses were made by President Kilbourne of the Ohio centennial commission and by Mayor Jones of Toledo.

NOTED LIVE STOCK COMING.

Many Champion Prize Winners Just Arriving.

Among the new arrivals of stock at the exposition are the following herds and flocks: H. C. Young of Lincoln has three head of Jersey calves, two heifers and one bull. These are very fine specimens. "Grace Manorfield" is an especially fine heifer, her native home is Tennessee. She is a descendant from some of the most noted ancestry to be found in this popular breed of cattle.

"Exile of Manorfield," a bull calf, was bred by the Manorfield Stock Farm company of Pennsylvania. He is a descendant of great butter families. "Exiles Beauty," dam of this noted calf, has a butter test of sixteen pounds and four ounces. His grand sire, "Exile of St. Lamber," has sixty-five tested daughters, making from fourteen to thirty-two pounds and six ounces in seven days.

Phillip H. Zweievel of Papillion, Neb., has a big steer at the show which will be a sight at the fat stock farm department. He weighs 3,100 pounds and is a grade shorthorn.

Charles Escher & Son of Boston, Ia., have seven head of Aberdeen Angus cattle, in ages from calves to aged cow and bull. One bull, 7 years old, weighs 2,100 pounds. One cow, 1,700 pounds.

T. F. B. Sothan, Chilicothe, Mo., has ten head Herefords. "Sir Bredwell," 3 years old, weighs 2,300 pounds. "Thick-set," a 2-year-old bull, weighs 2,200 pounds. "Benita," a 4-year-old cow, weight, 2,000 pounds. "Grandee," a yearling bull, weight 1,500 pounds. A 2-year-old heifer that weighs 1,500 pounds, a yearling heifer, 1,200 pounds, and two heifer calves, 800 pounds each. All of these are sired by the great stock bull, "Corrector." This herd numbers at home 150 animals. There is a 2-year-old steer in this show, 1,500 pounds, that was champion in the fat stock at Illinois state fair.

THE POLLED KANSAN CATTLE.

These cattle are shown as a new breed of polls. There are eight head on exhibition, representing a herd of forty head at home.

The main claim for this breed is that they are polled and resemble the Herefords. They are red and white faced, is about the only claim they can have of a resemblance to the pure bred Hereford. That they are a polled type of mixture of Hereford and a polled breed no one seems to doubt. General W. W. Guthrie of Kansas claims to be the originator of this breed.

BERKSHIRES.

Seven Oaks Stock farm, New Sharon, Ia., has twelve head large English Berkshires.

A 2-year-old boar, 700 pounds. All ages are represented from pigs to aged sow and boar.

John B. Thompson of Plattsburg, Mo., has twenty head; one boar that weighs 750 pounds.

Harris & McMahan, Lamine, Mo., has fourteen head of hogs. A 2-year-old sow weighing 800 pounds, and a yearling sow 715 pounds. Their home herd is 200 head; all recorded.

Reuben Gentry of Danvile, Ky., has fifteen head of his noted herd of Berkshires on exhibition. The reputation of this herd as a prize-taker in hog shows has few if any equals.

The famous sow, "Dutchess 158," bred by N. H. Gentry of Missouri, which was sold one year ago for $650, is in this display. There are two boars that weigh 800 pounds each, and sow whose present weight is 750 pounds. A 4-months-old sow pig that weighs 200 pounds.

This herd has been to the New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Kentucky state fairs this season and took a large share of all first and sweepstakes prizes offered for Berkshires.

HERE TO STUDY IT.

Officials of Two Coming Expositions Here to Inspect This.

The success and the general reputation of the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition have not failed to impress the officials of coming expositions.

The members of the Ohio Centennial commission are here, coming with the Ohio excursions, for the express purpose of carefully inspecting the big show and acquainting themselves with the methods of its management for their guidance. These commissioners are W. H. Stewart, M. A. McGuire, William Binkley, G. K. Otis, J. W. Davis, Henry Flesch, Dr. W. A. Belt, L. J. Fenton, M. H. Donahue, G. B. Christian, C. E. McBride, B. J. McVinney, T. J. Donaldson, J. P. Forbes, J. C. Smith, J. M. Stull and J. W. Conger. The names of the officers have been published.

General Manager Clarkson has received word that Saturday morning President Brinker, Treasurer Loutz, Secretary R. C. Hill and Architect Esemwein of the Pan-American exposition to be held at Buffalo next year, will be here. They will spend several days studying important factors contributing to the success of the show. They write that they have heard from all sources that this exposition is the most complete of its kind ever held. They will make headquarters at the Paxton.

New York Day Speeches.

The exercises on New York day, a most elaborate program, including an address by Chauncey M. Depew, will be held at 11 a. m. Saturday at the Auditorium. The gathering promises to be large.

INDIANS ENJOY ATHLETICS

Will Run, Wrestle, Jump and Disport Themselves for the Public.

Foot Race Yesterday Ends in Charges of Sioux Favoring Sioux, Flimflamming Apache.

Tipped His Friend Before Firing Revolver--Pueblo Bachelors Move Into Their Adobe Mansion.

Athletic sports have been added to the repertoire of the Indian congress, the first event of the kind being pulled off last evening in a big foot race. It is the intention to follow immediately with foot racing, football, wrestling, high jumping, and all of the characteristic Indian games of the various tribes. These programs are to fill in the days between the sham battles.

Yesterday's races consisted of three trial heats, first by bunches by ten men each, the winner in each qualifying for the final heat. Brawny bucks made ready by stripping off all superfluous garments, showing their lithe and muscular physiques to perfection, as they sprinted the 100-yard dash like the wind.

The winners of the three trial events were Sam Houzous, a Chiracauha Apache; Playing Bird, a Crow, and George Good Load, a Rosebud Sioux. They were matched for the final heat, the pistol was fired, and Playing Bird and Good Load started as if they were going somewhere the Big Crow winning out by the length of his nose. But the Apache got left in the start, and declared that it wasn't a fair deal, because Good Load's best Sioux friend held the gun and gave the tip to start a couple of seconds before firing, whereupon Playing Bird took the cue and followed closely.

When the honest Apache saw smoke he avers that his rivals were kicking dust half way down the line, and, concluding it wasn't worth while wasting his breath to catch sight of them, just waited and protested. The Crow and Sioux sprinters denied the charges made by the Apache, said they started right, and Houzous had no kick coming. They would not run again, and there the matter was left for future adjudication.

After the races came a ghost dance led by the survivors of Wounded Knee, in which several susceptible dancers had trances and saw visions wherein they conversed with dead friends gone to the happy hunting grounds, all of which will be related in songs at the [?]

Yesterday was moving day for the Pueblos. Since coming here they have camped out like common Indians, but against this their aristocratic natures revolted, so they built a Mexican adobe house with brush roof, mud fire place and chimney, and real holes in the walls for windows. The mud was dry yesterday, so the nineteen men, constituting the contingent, moved in and established bachelors' quarters. During the early evening a reception to their lady friends of the Arapahoe, Kiowa and other southern tribes was given.

Louis Batiste, best known as Little Bat, has arrived with his family and has been formally installed into his seat in the congress. Although of French-Canadian birth, and with French blood flowing in his veins, he is to all intents and purposes an Indian, having served the government as a 'scout through all of the Indian wars of the past twenty years or more. He is reputed to be a man of great influence among the Sioux.

ASCENSION EVERY DAY.

War Balloon Will Take a Sail if Weather Permits.

War balloon times have come back, and each reasonably fair day from this time hence will witness an ascension. After the trial trip of two weeks ago, successful in itself, but demonstrating the weaknesses of the balloons furnished, hard work has been done in reinforcing them to withstand the Nebraska winds. The French balloon sent to Sergeant Baldwin at Santiago was the one selected for the work, as it was of the strongest and newest material, not getting so much gas whipped out in the wind. The generators began working early in the morning, and by 4 o'clock it was as full of gas as a pickaninny is of watermelon in August.

Captain Yancey and Sergeant Briede made the trip, over 2,500 feet of cable being paid out before they telephoned down from the aerial height that they were willing to come home to dinner. So the big fellow with his two passengers was slowly reeled back to mother earth.

For the first time for exhibition a little signal balloon was sent up, a yellow one, with only 250 feet of gas, not over five or six feet in diameter. From its cable fluttered two signal flags. In time of war these little balloons are sent up a sufficient distance so that the people with whom it is wished to communicate can see it. From the cable sometimes floats a dozen flags of different designs, meaning whole messages in the signal code. If responses be made in a similar manner lengthy conversations can be carried on by alternately lowering and raising the balloons and changing the flags.

On all reasonable fair days after this ascensions and signal work will be shown at 4 p. m.

RESULTS IN BROKEN JAW.

Quarrel Over a Phonograph Results in a Bad Fracture.

Trouble and bloodshed attracted more attention than the spielers yesterday afternoon at the east end of West Midway. It was all caused by C. N. Fairly, who is now in jail, and E. P. Noland, who is now in the emergency hospital with a lower jaw crushed into so many small pieces that Drs. Lee and Campbell say can never be knit together again, if the man escapes the good chances of dying.

Fairly lives in a tent near Sixteenth and Locust streets, and is minus one eye, while Noland lives at 712 North Seventeenth street and is minus one led. Both are married.

Yesterday they were working as partners in operating a phonograph, and Fairly says that Noland wanted to sequester the funds of their employers and divide them. He refused, and in the ensuing quarrel he picked up materials and started for the home office. He says that Noland followed and began beating him with a heavy black cane, and that in warding off the blows he threw up his right hand, striking Noland. In the hand was a heavy copper phonograph cylinder roll, two inches or more in diameter and six long, on a steel shaft nearly a foot long.

Guard Sergeant Wilber, the arresting officer, says that witnesses accuse Fairly of throwing the cylinder at the slender cripple, who was but a weak physical antagonist. At all events, the jaw is crushed to fragments.

THOSE WHO COME TUESDAY

Complete List of Army, Navy, Government Officials and Diplomats Given.

Generals Miles, Shafter and Wheeler Among Those Who Are to Visit the Exposition.

Members of the Diplomatic Corps in the Party That Will Be on Board Special Which Precedes President.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 7.—Following is the complete list of members of the army and navy and the government officials who will leave Washington next Monday by special train for the Omaha exposition, preceding the departure of the president and his party:

Army and Navy and Government Officials—Major General Miles, Colonel Francis Micheler, Colonel William M. Black, Colonel Samuel Reber, Captain H. H .Whitney, secretary; Mrs. Miles, Major General W. R. Shafter, two aides and valet, Major General Joseph Wheeler, the Misses Wheeler, Brigadier General A. W. Greely, chief signal officer; Mrs. Greely, Brigadier General C. F. Humphrey, Mrs. Humphrey, Miss Humphrey, Mrs. Mary Howland, Commodore J. W. Philip, U. S. N.; Captain Arthur Paget, naval attache, British embassy; Dr. R. W. Baker, U. S. A.; Mrs. Baker, Mrs. J. V. Creighton, Hon. J. M. Thurston, United States senator; Hon. J. D. Yeomans, interstate commerce commission; Prof. W. L. Moore, chief weather bureau; Mrs. Moore, Dr. W. T. Harris, commissioner of education; Mrs. Harris, General James A. Sexton, commander-in-chief Grand Army of the Republic; G. R. Butlin, secretary; A. J. Leonard, secretary; George Scott, messenger.

Diplomatic Corps—Mr. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister; Mrs. Wu Ting Fang, maid; Master Wu Cho Chu, Mr. Chow Tsz Chi, Mr. Hwang Chung Huli, Mr. Li Kwang Hang, secretaries; the minister's steward; Mr. Chin Pom Ye, Corean minister plenipotentiary; Mrs. Chin Pom Ye, Master We Chong Ye, Mr. Tam E. Ye, secretary; Mr. Henry Guillaume, Gonzolo De Quesada, charge d'affaires Cuban junta; Mrs. Quesada, Brazilian and Argentina ministers.

Representatives of the Press—W. E. Annin, Philadelphia Ledger; George Grantham Bain, Harper's Weekly; Frederick Benzinger, Chicago Times-Herald; W. E. Curtis, Chicago Record; Louis Garthe, Baltimore American; C. A. Hamilton, Sioux City Journal; James Henry, Philadelphia Press; Raymond Patterson, Chicago Tribune; Frank Richardson, Baltimore Sun; George W. Rouser, New York Herald; John S. Shriver, New York Mail and Express; E. C. Snyder, Omaha Bee; Howard N. Thompson, Associated Press; Charles S. Albert, New York World.

The train will leave Washington on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad Monday at 8 o'clock, preceding the presidential train one hour. Both together will carry the most brilliant party of public men that ever left the national capital on a pleasant jaunt.

There wil lbe​ no change of cars, the Chicago & Northwestern sending its special cars all the way to Washington to receive the guests of the exposition at the Baltimore & Ohio depot here, the latter line surrendering them to the Chicago & Northwestern at Chicago. The train is scheduled to arrive at Chicago at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning. Leave Chicago at 8; arrive at Clinton, Ia., 10:45; Cedar Rapids, 12:30; Marshalltown, 2 p. m.; Boone, 3:30; Council Bluffs, 7:10, and Omaha, 7:30.

The president will leave Omaha at 9:30 Thursday, October 13, for St. Louis, but the special army and navy and diplomatic train will not leave until midnight Friday, October 14, arriving at Chicago at noon Saturday and reaching Washington at 1 p. m. Sunday, October 16.

WILL NOT CHANGE PRESIDENT'S PLANS.

Washington D. C., Oct. 7.—It was announced from the white house at 11:30 that the death of Saxton would not change the president's intention to visit the Omaha exposition. This was a public engagement which it was not customary for the president to forego. The president and Mrs. McKinley will leave here tomorrow night for Canton. The president will start for Omaha probably on Monday afternoon. The information as to the funeral arrangements have not been received at the white house up to midnight. it was stated that although news of the death of Mr. Saxton was received at the white house early in the evening, the reception was practically over before the president was advised of the fact.

OMAHA'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

Omaha Club, Oct. 7.—The stalwart young metropolis that has for months excited the admiration of the nation and the envy of other municipalities is about to face a problem which has staggered many an older and wealthier community. Omaha has, by her courage in inaugurating and carrying out, on broad and comprehensive lines, a great exposition of the products and industries, arts and crafts of the mid-continental states, gained the sanction and esteem of all America and has occupied a high place in the pyramid of progressive cities.

The modern Venice, with its domes and parapets, colonades and plazas, lagoons and arches, kiosks and pagodas, an archetype of design, built almost with oriental splendor and at lavish cost, has dazzled and perplexed every visitors. Such sublime and stately preparation for an exposition could not have been expected even by the most audacious frontier town extant. The magnificence of the scheme would reflect credit upon the greatest of our cities. It approximates in grandeur, though not in extent, Chicago's memorable event.

The exhibits, gathered from the farms, mines and forests of the great west, have bewildered every one who has seen them, and have astonished even those who have in a measure kept pace with the phenomenal advancement of this vast Trans-Mississippi region. The lessons these exhibits have taught are many, and they will influence further developments in multifold directions. They have proven that for another century at least here will be the granary of the world; that western wheat and corn, fruits and vegetables, will continue to supply millions beyond our own shores; that western beef and mutton will be as much the daily sustenance of all Europe as of our own countrymen; that western and southern wool and cotton will, in large measure, clothe the people of many nations; that this country will be for an incalculable cycle of time the world's mainstay and safeguard for food and raiment and for most of the essential elements of living. This exposition has proven, too, that it is not to agriculture alone, bountiful as it is, that these states owe their exceptional prosperity and the great future which no man can define. The mineral displays have outstripped the claims of the most wildly sanguine mine promoter. One would think that mining was only in its inception and that the whole face of the earth west of Kansas and Nebraska was a mass of precious substances, the list of which was constantly increasing. These displays indicate that our western mining states are not only holding their own, but that they are, year by year, giving forth more and better ores, and that valuable minerals are being discovered not heretofore utilized.

In science and invention, in the substantial progress of industry, in education and art, the exhibits have made a deep impression and have laid the foundation for vastly greater and better results. Many economic lessons have been taught, the utilization of many waste products has been assured and the construction of mills, works and shops, almost without number, will, under proper direction and encouragement, follow upon the heels of Omaha's brave achievement.

So much for the exposition!

Now, will the closing of the gates forebode good or ill to Omaha?

To this city the results will be worth incalculable millions, if only the same intrepid spirit, the same indomitable energy, the same pride, intelligence and keen foresight which molded this event are maintained and strengthened. Otherwise, the exposition, splendid as it was in conception, far-reaching as it has been in effect, pregnant as it is of rich possibilities, will prove a calamity from which will take Omaha years to recover. The inevitable reaction must be seriously considered. No American city that has undertaken one of the more impoprtant​ expositions has escaped a reactionary period of business derangement, real estate stagnation and financial depression, with the single exception of Atlanta (1881), and there a grave crisis was only averted by harmonious and vigilant exertion on the part of business men, when the exposition was over, to hold every advantage that had been gained and to secure additional benefits by constantly pressing Atlanta's facilities and the resources of Georgia upon the attention of the whole country through every available medium. It was hard and expensive work, but it paid. The people organized to fight against a reaction; they raised a large fund for the purpose and carried out a campaign of instruction through the press. In the eighteen years since Atlanta has jumped from 25,000 to nearly 200,000 population and has become the leading commercial center of the South Atlantic states.

So with Omaha! Locally considered, her work begins with the CLOSE of the exposition. Its prospective benefits are apparent, but it will require constant aggression to gather all the fruits that are within reach. Stop now and there will remain after next month only the Omaha of yesterday. Continue to work unitedly, unselfishly, liberally, and the greater Omaha of tomorrow will illustrate a rapid expansion in manufactures, in population and wealth not yet equaled in this section of the nation.

The present is Omaha's opportunity! Will she rise to it and grasp it in its fullness?

The world applauds the readiness, the valor, with which Omaha assumed a great responsibility. She is now looked upon throughout this country and beyond the seas as having all the elements of extensive growth and expansion. Omaha will seriously disappoint the producing and industrial classes if she fails through inertia or the tired feeling that is usually prevalent at the close of a large exposition, to reap all the rewards her courage has entitled her to. Omaha has never shown a weak side yet. Will she now?

PROVIDE FOR ITS HISTORY

Directors Will Have a Writeup of the Exposition and Make Appropriation.

Ten Thousand Dollars for the Purpose and a Committee to Be Appointed for the Work.

Mr. Rosewater's Desire to Be an Author Nipped in the Bud--He Will Be Allowed to Contribute.

Mr. Rosewater collided with the board of directors of the exposition yesterday afternoon, but the directors desisted just in time to keep their eminent associate from going into hysterics. In the vernacular of the sporting fraternity, the directors "handed him a hot mit," and Mr. Rosewater speedily demonstrated that he didn't know what to do with it, and that he didn't like it a little bit.

The allopathic dose of grief that was administered to Mr. Rosewater was put up in the following literary capsule, compounded by Mr. Manderson:

In view of the historical value of every incident connected with the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition and the importance of preserving in a safe public depository all material connected with its inception, its progress, its development and its triumphant success, it is

Resolved, The president and secretary of the exposition are hereby directed to obtain by purchase or otherwise one at least of every medal, souvenir, program, photograph, illustration, magazine or newspaper article and all other matters and things connected with its history that can be procured.

Resolved, That all such materials when gathered shall be placed in suitable cases or receptacles in the building of the Omaha city library, provided said library shall agree to furnish suitable places therefor and give due care to the preservation of the same. It is further

Resolved, That the president shall appoint from the directors of the exposition a committee of three to constitute and be called "the historical committee." Such commitee​ shall be authorized and empowered to employ a suitable person or historian, who shall at once proceed with the gathering of the material and information for a complete history of the exposition and prepare the manuscript and select the illustrations and plates therefor. Such manuscript and material to be ready for the printers by June 1, 1899. It is further

Resolved, That the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be appropriated for such purpose, the sum needed to be expended under the direction of the historical committee upon voucher approved by a majority of them and countersigned by the president of the exposition.

The said committee shall serve without compensation or emolument, but are authorized to employ a stenographer at not exceeding $75 per month.

The material prepared for publication shall be approved before printing by the said committee, who shall also direct the form of the book to be published and provide for its binding. One copy of said book shall be furnished to the Omaha city library, to the university of Nebraska, to the Omaha high school library, to Creighton college, to the state libraries of each of the Trans-Mississippi states, and to each one of the directors of the exposition. All other of said publications shall be sold at not exceeding the cost of printing and binding and 10 per cent addition, the sum resulting from such sales to be paid to the treasurer of the exposition.

RIGHTS OF ROSEWATER.

Mr. Hitchcock moved the adoption of the resolution, and it received half a dozen seconds.

Mr. Rosewater was so anxious to begin talking that he didn't wait to get his feet on the floor. It was rather a ticklish subject for him to handle, as modesty would hardly allow him to say that he wanted to attend to that matter himself, yet he manifestly could not   take the matter of writing the official history of the exposition out of his hands and place it with individuals who might overlook the fact that he originated and built the exposition and had been "it" all the way through.

Of course other members of the executive committee have fondly imagined at times that they were in some measure entitled to credit for what had been accomplished, but Mr. Rosewater knew better, and he proposed to see to it that when the history of the exposition was written a volume would be handed down to posterity that would do coming generations some good, and incidentally afford him a pleasing object of contemplation during his closing years.

He said that he was in accord with the general proposition, but he could not quite indorse the resolutions. He wanted it understood that the bureau of publicity had made it a point to collect a lot of material for this purpose, and would have all that was necessary for a history of the exposition on hand when the gates closed.

"So much the better," said Mr. Manderson. "That can be turned over to the committee, and will save just that much expense in time and labor."

STRUGGLES FOR OZONE.

Mr. Rosewater gasped thrice in rapid succession, but bravely continued, after putting a monkey wrench on his nerve and screwing it up to a pressure of 180 pounds. He said that all other expositions that he knew anything about had left this work in the hands of the bureau of publicity, and in support of that assertion stated that he had seen some of the matter that was written by Major Moses P. Handy about the World's fair, but that it had never been published. He declared that he was opposed to a big, bulky work that nobody would read, and said that the official history of the rebellion filled sixty volumes, which he had, but that no one would ever think of reading them.

This exhausted the supply of argument that Mr. Rosewater had on hand, and he sat down to let his think-loom weave a few more thoughts.

Mr. Manderson at once called his attention to the fact that Major Handy had not written the official history of the World's fair, and named the writers who had prepared it, and stated that the matter is now in the hands of the printing committee at Washington. "So far as the official history of the war of the rebellion is concerned," he continued, "it is a most interesting and valuable history. It has exploded more lies and blasted more bogus reputations than any other publication bearing on the war, and if it had attained no other end it has done sufficient in that direction to more than warrant its publication."

This more than confirmed Mr. Rosewater's worst fears, and he fidgeted around like the abdomen of a houchee-couchee artist. He had been busy for months trying to "got and get a reputation" in exposition matters, either bogus or otherwise, and this cold-blooded intimation that his carefully reared cob house was liable to be torpedoed at an early day was painfully disturbing.

ACCURATE HISTORY NEEDED.

Mr. Manderson said it was due the men who had carried the great work through to a tremendous and even stupefying success that the history be written, and that it be carefully and accurately done. These men had given their time and effort without compensation, and this would be a fitting monument. It would also preserve for the future all that could be preserved of the exposition when the gates were finally closed and the present fairyland had vanished like a dream, and the site again reverted to the uses of streets and alleys and city lots. It was in every way due that a faithful history be written, that it might be preserved in public libraries and schools and private homes in order that youth in coming years might receive accurate information of what the Trans-Mississippi exposition had been.

Mr. Rosewater died hard, and he executed one more spasm. He said he thought $10,000 was altogether too much to be used for the purpose, and he moved as an amendment that the amount be reduced to $2,500.

Mr. Manderson stated that he did not believe that the full amount would be used by any committee of the director unless it were actually needed, and the amendment was defeated by a decisive vote.

The original motion was then passed and the resolution adopted, Mr. Rosewater voting a solitary "No" in a very conspicuous and heartfelt manner.

The buildings and grounds department asked for instructions as to what was to be done with the property after the close of the exposition, and stated that a complete schedule of assets in that line was being prepared.

Mr. Bidwell moved that the executive committee be instructed to advertise for bids for the buildings and their removal in accordance with the terms of the ground leases.

Mr. Lindsey said this brought up the question of whether the exposition was to be continued another year, and he was in favor of selling the entire expo-[?]

Mr. Manderson was opposed to making the exposition a "warmed-over pudding," preferring that the city and state and entire western country should enjoy the present prestige rather than speculate on the dubious chances of success attending an attempt to carry the show on for another season.

Mr. Rosewater said he didn't quite know just what he would think about the matter, and wanted action deferred until after the peace jubilee.

Mr. Hitchcock was opposed to immediate action, and moved that further consideration of the matter be postponed until a special meeting of the entire board could be assembled under call of the president. The motion prevailed.

Chairman Kilpatrick of the committee of audit, revision and investigation reported that the pass situation was in excellent shape. There had been no marked abuses, and the whole board could hardly suggest any improvement if it had all details before it.

The cashier was instructed to comply with a request formerly made for a daily balancing of the cash, to avoid a repetition of a few minor seeming discrepancies. Mr. Kilpatrick stated that there was nothing to indicate any dishonesty, and read from reports made by the expert accountant, but recommended minor changes in the system.

After adjournment Mr. Rosewater looked over the directors to find a few sympathetic countenances, and proceeded to relate his troubles, as there was no policeman present for the purpose. He denounced the action relating to the history of the exposition, and employed several adjectives in making himself clearly understood, but the directors said they wouldn't get off the ticket.

CHAUNCEY DEPEW IN TOWN

Distinguished New Yorker and President Calloway Arrive for Today's Celebration.

Doctor Says His Dancing Days Are Over and Avoids Social Swim at Ak-Sar-Ben.

Major Clarkson Greets Him--President Wattles Calls and Exposition Is Seen in Its Plaza of White Light.

Smiling, affable Chauncey M. Depew, accompanied by President Calloway of the New York Central railway, came in over the Northwestern in the president's special car last evening, arriving in Omaha at 5 o'clock. Dr. Depew comes to help celebrate New York day, in honor of which occasion he will this forenoon at 11 o'clock deliver one of his characteristic addresses at the Auditorium at the exposition grounds. The New Yorkers were a little worse for wear after their long trip and glad to arrive in Omaha for a peep at the white city.

Mr. Depew was met at the depot by a reception committee consisting of Hon. Jacob Ames, ex-mayor of Syracuse, N. Y.; H. B. Hobert and A. M. Wheeler, members of the New York board of exposition commissioners, together with Major T. S. Clarkson, general manager of the Trans-Mississippi exposition, and others.

After greetings Major Clarkson, on behalf of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, extended an invitation to the distinguished guest to attend the ball in

"I trust, major, that your committee days are over and as I have heard so much about the beautiful effects of the electric lights with their varied colors playing on the waters of the lagoon at your exposition, I much prefer to spend my evening there."

The doctor was then informed that during the evening President Wattles and officials of the exposition would pay their respects. This was agreeable and the program was carried out later. The evening was spent at the exposition, the Midway being visited thoroughly and enjoyed by the party.

"The thing that interests me most just now," declared Mr. Depew energetically, "is to get located and attend to the wants of the inner man at such time and place as may have been decided upon."

As the doctor was being piloted from the depot he turned to the World-Herald reporter, and in reply to a question said: "Mr. Calloway, while he accompanies me to Omaha, does so as an Omaha man; he claiming Omaha as his home."

Mr. Depew, as of yore, years​ his beard blocked out on the cheeks, a smooth chin and no mustache. He was dressed in a black cheviot suit, cut a la sack, turn down collar and dark fedora hat.

President Calloway, who accompanied Mr. Depew, at one time resided in Omaha, being the general manager of the Union Pacific.

Mr. Depew will leave Omaha this evening for the east. He stops over at Chicago, where he addresses the Hamilton Republican club at the Auditorium in the afternoon and is banqueted by the same club in the evening.

Among the visitors to arrive this morning to attend the New York day exercises will be representatives from the produce exchange, board of trade and Merchants' association of New York city.

SPECIAL FROM NEW YORK CITY.

Excursion Party Leaves Chicago for the Exposition City.

Chicago, Ill., Oct. 7.—An excursion party of leading citizens of New York city and state east of Buffalo, and a special car containing President Brinker, Treasurer Lautz, Secretary Hill and Messrs. Curtis, Essenweine, Higbee, Van Aken and Metcalf and others of Buffalo, reached Chicago as the first section of the Boston special on the Lake Shore road this afternoon, and left as the first section of the Northwestern and Union Pacific Overland for Omaha at 6:30 tonight, having added here a fine new dining car and observation car, which were attached to the train of the northwestern officials.

The train was under the personal supervision of Assistant General Passenger Agent Charles Carns from Chicago to Omaha. The party will participate in the ceremonies incident to the observation of New York day at the exposition tomorrow, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew being the orator for the day for the New York state commission.

Judge Metcalf of Buffalo and Hon. William R. Payne of Chicago will make addresses on behalf of the Pan-American exposition. The party expects to leave Omaha on Monday, via Northwestern, to Chicago, and going east via the Michigan Central and Niagara Falls. Ex-Senator Warner Miller is with the party, and a special car filled with leading people of Boston and New England also came upon the train, and goes west tonight.

Hoosier Editors to Be Here.

Two special Pullmans, loaded with Southern Indiana newspaper men, will leave St. Louis over the Missouri Pacific this evening for Omaha. They will arrive at 6 a. m. Sunday. The visitors come to participate in the peace jubilee, and take in the exposition. In the party will be some of the most prominent newspaper men in the Hoosier state.

Peace Jubilee week will open with a grand sacred and patriotic concert Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Innes band and the Exposition chorus will combine.

AN UNWARRANTED EXTRAVAGANCE.

The action of the board of exposition directors in voting $10,000 for a history of the exposition will not be endorsed by the mass of exposition stockholders. A $10,000 history of the exposition means simply the squandering of that much money belonging to the stockholders in order to furnish lucrative employment for some favorite. There is no call whatever for such an expenditure. The publication of an exposition history in book form is no legitimate part of the exposition business that was entrusted to the directors.

So far as the history of the exposition is concerned, there is no danger that it will be lost or blotted out. All the record, souvenirs and memorials relating to the great fair are in the possession of the exposition and can be readily prepared for preservation in some public place at a small expense. If the directors want to see a many-volumed book printed to commemorate their work they need not draw upon the exposition funds for this purpose, but by joining in a subscription enterprise they can have the work published by any one of a dozen reputable bookmakers, who will undertake it upon a purely business basis.

The attempt of the directors to take the money of the 6,000 stockholders, many of them wageworkers, clerks and people of small means, and vote it away in this manner is not only unwarranted and without authority, but should be frustrated if need be by appeal to the courts. Let any laboring man who came forward with his hard earned savings for the support of the exposition when its success was in the balance and took his chances on getting back part of his money enter protest in the courts and no judge will refuse to grant an injunction to prevent this lawless dissipation of his money. With the favorable conditions enjoyed there should be a good surplus in the exposition funds at the closing of the gates. The stockholders will certainly not sit idly by while it is used up on all sorts of wild and useless projects designed simply to furnish a soft berth to somebody.

A $10,000 history of the exposition is too much of a luxury for 6,000 stock subscribers, whose money is to be thus squandered.

The popocratic candidate for congress is over-anxious to throw away $10,000 of the exposition stockholders' money on a history of the exposition. But then he has always been throwing away money which other people have earned.

SCHOOL CHILDREN COME IN

Burlington Brings a Train Load to Spend the Saturday Holiday at the Exposition.

Fifteen hundred small boys and girls who attend school in the different towns along the Burlington railroad took advantage of the Saturday holiday to enjoy a day's outing at the exposition. They were accompanied by teachers and principals, and traveled in a special train of twelve coaches, arriving in the city at 11:30 o'clock this morning.

Before alighting from the cars the youngsters from the various towns had remained together, each school in charge of its principal, and each class under the supervision of its teacher, and they had been instructed to remain together, but when the train came to a stop at the station some of the small boys unable to restrain their pent-up enthusiasm, made a rush for the viaduct, starting a stampede that resulted in the utter confusion of the entire party. All crowded about the dozen trolley cars waiting to convey them to the exposition, and an attempt at reorganization was made, but it resutled​ in failure, and they were placed aboard the cars regardless of division and order, after waiting fifteen minutes to make sure that none were missing.

The representation from the larger towns was as follows: Pawnee, 150, in charge of Superintendent Fulmer; Beatrice, 300, with Superintendent Dinsmore; Wymore, 300, with Principal Lauterback; Crete, 150, with Principal Reed. DeWitt, Liberty, Lincoln and Blue Springs were represented.

NEW YORK HAS A DAY

Empire State Celebrates Its Part in the Transmississippi Exposition.

SPLENDID REPRESENATION IS PRESENT

Strong Delegation of Distinguished Citizens Attend the Ceremonies.

PEOPLE FLOCK TO HEAR DR. DEPEW

Auditorium Filled by an Attentive and Enthusiastic Audience.

SENATOR WARNER MILLER PRESIDES

Congratulates the Transmississippi People and Presents What He Calls the Best Exhibit New York Could Possibly Make, a Man.

The versatility of the Nebraska climate was again demonstrated today, when the visiting Knickerbockers were greeted by a day reminiscent of all the beauties of the Empire state when the chestnut ridges are aglow with red and gold and crimson and the smoky October haze mantles its massive hills and hovers sleepily over its smiling valleys. The air was crisp and invigorating and tempered by the radiance of a red October sun, that shone resplendently from a sky as clear as that which reflects the incomparable beauty of New York lakes and mountains. It was the sort of a morning that inspires humanity to its highest susceptibility of enjoyment and it left nothing lacking to make the pleasure of the visitors complete.

The ideal beauty of the day, combined with the attraction afforded by the presence of so distinguished a party, combined to induce an exceptionally generous attendance for the last day of the week, and all through the morning the turnstiles clicked continuously. While thousands of visitors were scattered over the grounds to improve the opportunity to see the show under such delightful conlitions​, the Auditorium was the center of attraction. In addition to the regular visitors, hundreds of Omaha people came out solely to hear the distinguished orator of the day, and the presence of Mr. Depew was largely responsible for the immense audience that filled the building to the limit of its capacity. Long before 1 o'clock nearly every seat in the Auditorium was occupied, and by the time the exercises began scarcely an inch of standing room remained unappropriated.

At exactly 11 o'clock a burst of long-sustained applause indicated the arrival of the distinguished guests. Mr. Depew was escorted to the stage by President Wattles and followed by the New York delegation, which filled the remainder of the stage and several rows of seats in the pit, which had been reserved for them. A medley of popular selections by Innes' band was enthusiastically received and then Jacob Amos, jr., of Syracuse, secretary of the New York commission, introduced Hon. Warner Miller as the presiding officer of the day.

Warner Miller's Address.

In accepting the chair Mr. Miller said that while the New York delegation was not large, it brought the sympathy and best wishes of the Empire state. The people of New York, he declared, have an abiding interest in the west, which is the home of so many of their children. The great drama of the last few months has made us a more homogeneous people than we have ever been before.

Mr. Miller then introduced President Wattles of the exposition, who cordially welcomed the New Yorkers to the great Transmississippi enterprise. He congratulated them on the fact that New York is the only eastern state that has a building on the grounds, and assured them that the cordial good will thus manifested was fully appreciated. He added that one great object of the exposition was to bring the people of the east and those of the west closer together. During the heat of recent political campaigns it had been repeatedly declared that the interests of the west were at enmity with those of the east, and more especially with those of New York. But when the Rough Riders of the west went to victory under the leadership of the gallant son of the Empire state it showed that the same blood flowed in every American citizen, whether he come from the prairies of the west or the millionaire homes of New York.

President Wattles briefly sketched the development of the west during the last fifty years, which this exposition is designed to illustrate, and added that the events of the last few months have indicated the necessity for a broader commercial existence, and the west looked to the east for leadership in these undertakings.

Dr. Depew Presented.

In presenting the orator of the day, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Chairman Miller said that he had had no opportunity to look over the grounds to see what sort of an exhibit New York had made, but he now had the pleasure of presenting the best exhibit it was capable of making, and one that he was confident would take the gold medal, the exhibit of a man.

When Mr. Depew rose to deliver his address he received the most dramatic and inspiring greeting that has yet been tendered to any exposition orator. An ovation of hand-clapping began spontaneously in every part of the house, then the band joined in with the melody of "Auld Lang Syne." This lent new inspiration to the applause and the entire audience rose to its feet and cheered tumultuously for several minutes. After gracefully expressing his appreciation of this royal reception Mr. Depew proceeded to deliver one of his characteristically eloquent orations, which was punctuated by frequent and generous applause. He said:

Ladies and Gentlemen: Some years ago, Chicago, the metropolis of the west, itself the most marvelous of the creations of the latter half of this wonderful century, reared upon the borders of Lake Michigan an industrial city. The spirits, whose deeds in classic and eastern tale charmed our childhood, became commonplace mortals. American genius and modern science surpassed in suggestion and execution the works of demigods and genii. The stately palaces, broad avenues, lakes and canals of this home of industry and the arts drew all the world within its walls. In its conception and administration the World's fair at Chicago was a worthy celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, and a fitting tribute to the great explorer.

Our industrial progress has been during the four years since the Chicago exhibition greater than during any decade in our history. Our resources have been developed, our markets enlarged, and new avenues of employment opened. We have, in greater measure than ever before, realized our dream of producing in our country everything required for our necessities or luxuries. From practical independence of other countries for the products of their fields or factories, we have suddenly become their competitors with out surplus, both within and without their borders.

The great benefits which the World's fair at Chicago conferred upon the United States in acquisition from foreign countries and information to foreign governments, this Transmississippi Exposition at Omaha is to vastly enhance in bringing nearer together in better understanding of each other the different sections of our own country. I heard Li Hung Chang say when here that there were many provinces of China and millions of Chinamen who had not heard of the war with Japan. The light of the nineteenth century had not penetrated China's ironclad isolation. A conflict could be carried on and ended in which her territory was invaded, her fleet destroyed, her cities captured, tens of thousands of her people killed, and lands and islands she had held for centuries wrested from her, while a large part of the people of China were peacefully pursuing their vocations, ignorant of these disasters to their country. This exhibition has increased in industrial interest during every hour of our war with Spain, and yet every pulsation of its activities and every throb of the hearts of its visitors have been moved with patriotic prayers for the success of our arms and intelligent understanding of the justice of our cause. We have carried on a war with a foreign country, raised and equipped an army of 250,000 men and a formidable navy, have won great victories by sea and land, and yet though our interests and industries are so intimately connected that a blow in any section of the country is felt everywhere, this exhibition has as serenely continued its course as it has enthusiastically celebrated the deeds of Dewey, Sampson, Schley and Hobson, and Miles, Shafter and Merritt. There could be no happier illustration of the boundless resources of the United States and its powers for peace or war. It demonstrates the versatility of the Yankee character and its adaptability to circumstances. One thing at a time has had its day, and no longer forms a headline for the copy book of the American boy. Spain is thoroughly thrashed with one hand, while the other attends with energy and efficiency to the business of the nation.

Mistakes of New York.

New York has been too content with being the Empire state, and with having its chief city the metropolis of the continent, the west too eager for empire independent of the east, the south living too much upon its traditions and in its past, and the Pa-[?]   boundless possibilities and great expectations. The war with Spain has superbly restored the sentiment of nationality and eliminated sectional jealousies. But this exposition is a healthy educator for commercial union. The mission of peace is to develop the practical side of patriotism. It is to teach and demonstrate what will promote the development of the whole country and the prosperity and happiness of the whole people.

The concentrated capital of the east is the fruit of 300 years of settlement and trade. It is needed in the west for railroads, irrigation, mines, water power, furnaces and mills. It furnishes the transportation facilities which transform the prairie from the glazing plains of the buffalo and the hunting haunts of the wolf to the farm, the homestead, and productive power in herds of cattle and vast fields of wheat and corn. Its hopeful enterprise often finds for it an untimely grave in booming towns, unnecessary railroads and worthless mines. But capital is both selfish and intelligent. It never deserts a territory because the investment has failed through bad judgment. It seeks other sources for profitable employment, and finds its remuneration in other and needed work for the development of the country. Its freemasonry of fear is confined by no boundaries of land or sea. In times and in places of panic and distrust its disappears and increases the distress. With the return of confidence it moves the machinery of society and makes possible varied industries and prosperity. The state which so legislates as to take away all earning power from the money it has invited or borrowed soon learns that it has gained a temporary advantage and lost its credit, which is the most fruitful source of profit and prosperity. Differences between the east and the west have been due to distance, misunderstanding and demagogues. For a time the sections were daily becoming more widely separated. The west was encouraged to believe that it was plundered by usurers and extortionists in the east, and the east learned to distrust the integrity and intentions of the west. Far-sighted citizens of the prairie and mountain states knew that the resources of this wide territory had scarcely been touched. Drouth can be defeated by the ditch. Millions of acres from which the homesteader has fled in despair and millions more known as the Great American desert are to become, through storage reservoirs and irrigation, fruitful farms, thriving settlements and happy homes.

MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS.

Unbusinesslike Ways of Keeping the Accounts Are Reported Upon.

A large portion of the regular meeting of the Board of Directors yesterday afternoon was occupied by the consideration of a number of voluminous reports from the committee on audit and revision relative to carelessness and lack of business system in the management of the financial affairs of the exposition. These related chiefly to the failure of the cashier to strike daily balances as was directed by the board some weeks ago and to the failure of the same official to retain anything to show that a large number of vouchers and warrants had been paid.

On the latter score Chairman Kilpatrick reported that the expert examination of vouchers to August 15 had showed that there were a large number of cases in which no record had been made of the fact that money had been paid except the endorsement on the back of the voucher that had been retained by the treasurer for his own protection. A number of instances were cited, one of which referred to a voucher for $8,673.15 drawn in favor of Goldie & Son and cashed at the Union National bank in November, 1897. In this case, as in the others cited, there was absolutely no record on the books of the exposition to show that the amounts had ever been paid.

Numerous cases were also cited in which pay checks had been cashed without exacting a receipt or making any entry on the books to indicate that the employe had received his money. The same unbusinesslike policy prevailed in the matter of checks which were drawn and issued while no receipt was taken or record made beyond the endorsement of the recipient on the back of the check when he presented it for payment at the bank.

Three Cases that Are Suspicious.

Several directors suggested that these facts were very important and that the situation called for vigorous action. This led President Wattles to ask Mr. Kilpatrick if the committee had discovered anything that seemed to indicate that any funds had been misappropriated or embezzled. Mr. Kilpatrick stated in explanation that nothing of that kind was suggested except in three casse​ in which amounts of $15.69, $3.50 and $175, respectively, had been returned to the exposition and had not been credited to any of the funds. This left one of two conclusions. Either the employe who received these sums had put them into his pocket or the cash for the days on which they were received should be over to that extent. It was impossible to tell whether the latter was the case because no daily balances had been kept.

In reference to the daily cash balance Chairman Kilpatrick included a report from the special examiner, who declared that the records of cash as kept by the cashier showed that the cash was nearly $500 over when he begun​ his investigation and was still about $130 over. He added that the cashier kept an incomplete record of the cash for various days on slips of paper which were subsequently entered in the books. No proper cash balance had ever been made.

Continuing, the committee report referred again to the three amounts previously cited, in which the failure to maintain a daily cash balance made it impossible to tell whether or not a fraud had been committed. The committee recommended that the cashier should be compelled at once to make the daily cash balances and after a motion to this effect had been adopted the reports were referred to the executive committee.

Reports from the same committee showed that the bills receivable on September 16 amounted to $6,115.16. The amount unpaid by exhibitors was $13,525.05 and the amount overpaid exhibitors was $3,394.65. A number of errors had been discovered and the committee recommended that the accounts should be carefully checked up by the exhibits department at once. This matter was also referred to the executive committee, that the collection of these unpaid claims should be vigorously pushed.

Provides for a History.

The following resolution by General Manderson provoked quite a sharp debate, which ended in its adoption:

In view of the historical value of every incident connected with the Transmississippi and International Exposition and the importance of preserving in a safe public depository all material connected with its inception, its progress, its development and its triumphant success, it is

Resolved, That the president and secretary of the exposition are hereby directed to obtain by purchase or otherwise one at least of every medal, souvenir, program, photograph, illustration, magazine or newspaper article and all other matters and things connected with its history that can be procured.

Resolved, That all such materials when gathered shall be placed in suitable cases or receptacles in the building of the Omaha City library, provided that said library shall agree to furnish suitable places therefor and give due care to the preservation of the same. It is further

Resolved, That the president shall appoint from the directors of the exposition a committee of three to constitute and be called the Historical committee. Such committee shall be authorized and empowered to employ a suitable person as historian, who shall at once proceed with the gathering of the material and information for a complete history of the exposition and prepare the manuscript and select the illustrations and plates therefor. Such manuscript and material to be ready for the printers by June 1, 1899. It is further

Resolved, That the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be appropriated for such purpose. The sum needed to be expended under the direction of the historical committee upon voucher approved by a majority of them and countersigned by the president of the exposition. The said committee shall serve without compensation or emolument, but is authorized to employ a stenographer at not exceeding $75 per month. The material prepared for publication shall be approved before printing by the said committee, which shall also direct the form of the book to be published and provide for its binding. One copy of said book shall be furnished to the Omaha City library, to the University of Nebraska, to the Omaha High School library, to Creighton college and to each one of the directors of the exposition. All other of said publications shall be sold at not exceeding the cost of printing and binding and 10 per cent additional. The sum resulting from such sales to be paid to the treasurer of the exposition.

Unnecessary and Extravagant.

Manager Rosewater opposed the resolution on the ground that it contemplated as unnecessary and unjustifiable expenditure. He said that the bulk of the material referred to in this resolution had already been collected by the Department of Publicity and other souvenirs and records were in the hands of the secretary. He contended that to appropriate so large a sum for the purpose mentioned would be to let down the bars for all sorts of extravagance in the preparation of the "history" contemplated and that it was at the least poor policy to tie up so large a sum. He moved that the appropriation be reduced to $2,500, but this was lost and the original motion prevailed.

Auditor's Balance Sheet.

Secretary Wakefield furnishes the following auditor's account of receipts and disbursements to October 1:

Disbursements from December 1, 1896, to date:

BY DEPARTMENTS.

BY REQUISITION.

Innes' Band Concert.

The Wagner program give by Innes and his band in the Auditorium last night opened with a brilliant rendition of the "Rienzi" overture. In response to the encore which followed the band gave Mendelssohn's dainty "Spring Song." Then came "Isolde's Love Death" from "Tristan," which was substituted for the programed "Nachtgesang." Following this came the highly dramatic "Love Feast of the Apostles" and then the gem of the evening, the "Lohengrin Vorspiel," which was given with a delicacy, finish and dramatic fervor which the vast audience rewarded by such a demonstration of enthusiasm as has seldom been heard in an Omaha concert room. Tonight's concert will conclude with the sensational composition, "The Forge in the Forest." This is a wonderful musical contrivance of the most startling and thrilling character, requiring the highest order of interpretation of which any band is capable. In order to properly present it arrangements have been made to have electrical illustrations in its rendition. For instance, in signifying the forge in the forest, the lights in the building will be subdued and the finest electrical contrivances yet invented will be brought into play to illustrate in forms of fire and many-colored brilliancy the scene which the music undertakes to portray.

The third of Innes' Sunday afternoon concerts, which will be given in the Auditorium at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon, will introduce a program of especial merit, the notable features being two numbers by the Exposition chorus and Batiste's beautiful, "Communion in G," which will be given by Mr. T. J. Kelly on the grand organ accompanied by the band.

WIGWAGGING ALONG THE COURT.

Signal Service Men Send Messages to Show the Public.

The first exhibition of flag, heliograph and flashlight signalling, as carried on by the War department, was given yesterday afternoon and evening by the members of the United States signal corps. It started with the flag or wigwag system, men being stationed upon different buildings along the grand court. Armed with small flags, they carried on a system of telegraphing that was understood by each operator. Questions were asked by a wave of a flag and an answer was given by another wave of the little square. Next the heliograph was brought into action and the light, aided by mirrors, was flashed through the air like sunbeams. According to the code each flash meant a word or series of words, and a man with a heliograph threw his signals from the lagoon off into space, where they were read by the officers for whom they were intended.

The work of signalling at night was even more interesting than during the day. A small light working upon substantially the same plan as a searchlight was brought into action and a series of signals flashed up against the sky. In carrying on this work a code system is in use, each flash representing words, figures and sentences.

NEW YORK'S FAIR DAY

Empire State Draws a Prize in the Weather Man's Lottery.

SPLENDID REPRESENTATION WAS PRESENT

Strong Delegation of Distinguished Citizens Attend the Ceremonies.

PEOPLE FLOCK TO HEAR DR. DEPEW

Auditorium Filled by an Attentive and Enthusiastic Audience.

SENATOR WARNER MILLER PRESIDES

Congratulates the Transmississippi People and Presents What He Calls the Best Exhibit New York Could Possibly Make, a Man.

With the great attractions of Jubilee week only a day ahead it was not to be supposed that the exposition would receive more than a limited patronage yesterday. But the show provide big enough to command attention even if thousands of people were waiting for the great spectacles that will begin tomorrow, and it was one of the biggest and most enjoyable Saturdays since the exposition opened.

The versatility of the Nebraska climate was again demonstrated when the visiting Knickerbockers were greeted by a day reminiscent of all the beauties of the Empire state when the chestnut ridges are aglow with red and gold and crimson and the smoky October haze mantles its massive hills and hovers sleepily over its smiling valleys. The air was crisp and invigorating and tempered by the radiance of a red October sun, that shone resplendently from a sky as clear as that which reflects the incomparable beauty of New York lakes and mountains. It was the sort of weather that inspires humanity to its highest susceptibility of enjoyment and it left nothing lacking to make the pleasure of the visitors complete.

The ideal beauty of the day, combined with the attraction afforded by the presence of so distinguished a party, combined to induce an exceptionally generous attendance for the last day of the week, and all through the morning the turnstiles clicked continuously. While thousands of visitors were scattered over the grounds to improve the opportunity to see the show under such delightful conditions, the Auditorium was the center of attractions. In addition to the regular visitors, hundred of Omaha people came out solely to hear the distinguished orator of the day, and the presence of Mr. Depew was largely responsible for the immense audience that filled the building to the limit of its capacity. After the exercises had been thoroughly enjoyed the crowd mingled with the other thousands that were seeking enjoyment in every part of the grounds, and the Empire state visitors improved their first really adequate opportunity to acquire a full appreciation of the wonderful enterprise. Many of them were attracted by the various attractions of the afternoon, but the majority preferred to spend their time in inspecting the big buildings and their varied contents. They regarded the exhibits with unstinted admiration and did not hesitate to declare that in many respects the Transmississippi show was a distinct improvement on the World's fair.

Today the celebration of Jubilee week, the crowning feature of the exposition, will be opened with a grand sacred concert in the Auditorium. This will be one of the most enjoyable musical events of the summer and with the 25-cent admission the Sunday attendance record should be broken with a few thousand to spare. The usual Plaza concert will occupy this evening, and there will probably be a religious dance at the Indian encampment.

PEOPLE FLOCK TO HEAR DEPEW.

Auditorium Filled by an Attentive and Enthusiastic Audience.

The presence of the large delegation of distinguished citizens of the Empire state was celebrated by formal exercises in the Auditorium yesterday forenoon. The great building was jammed with people and resonant with enthusiasm. Long before 1 o'clock nearly every seat was occupied, and by the time the exercises began scarcely an inch of standing room remained unappropriated.

At exactly 11 o'clock a burst of long-sustained applause indicated the arrival of the distinguished guests. Mr. Depew was escorted to the stage by President Wattles and followed by the New York delegation, which filled the remainder of the stage and several rows of seats in the pit, which had been reserved for them. A medley of popular selections by Innes' band was enthusiastically received and then Jacob Amos, jr., of Syracuse, secretary of the New York commission, introduced Hon. Warner Miller as the presiding officer of the day.

Warner Miller's Address.

In accepting the chair Mr. Miller said that while the New York delegation was not large, it brought the sympathy and best wishes of the Empire state. The people of New York, he declared, have an abiding interest in the west, which is the home of so many of their children. The great drama of the last few months has made us a more homogeneous people than we have ever been before.

Mr. Miller then introduced President Wattles of the exposition, who cordially welcomed the New Yorkers to the great Transmississippi enterprise. He congratulated them on the fact that New York is the only eastern state that has a building on the grounds, and assured them that the cordial good will thus manifested was fully appreciated. He added that one great object of the exposition was to bring the people of the east and those of the west closer together. During the heat of recent political campaigns it had been repeatedly declared that the interests of the west were at enmity with those of the east, and more especially with those of New York. But when the Rough Riders of the west went to victory under the leadership of the gallant son of the Empire state it showed that the same blood flowed in every American citizen, whether he come from the prairies of the west or the millionaire homes of New York.

President Wattles briefly sketched the development of the west during the last fifty years, which this exposition is designed to illustrate, and added that the events of the last few months have indicated the necessity for a broader commercial existence, and the west looked to the east for leadership in these undertakings.

Dr. Depew Presented.

In presenting the orator of the day, Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Chairman Miller said that he had had no opportunity to look over the grounds to see what sort of an exhibit New York had made, but he now had the pleasure of presenting the best exhibit it was capable of making, and one that he was confident would take the gold medal, the exhibit of a man.

When Mr. Depew rose to deliver his address he received the most dramatic and inspiring greeting that has yet been tendered to any exposition orator. An ovation of hand-clapping began spontaneously in every part of the house, then the band joined in with the melody of "Auld Lang Syne." This lent new inspiration to the applause and the entire audience rose to its feet and cheered tumultuously for several minutes. After gracefully expressing his appreciation of this royal reception Mr. Depew proceeded to deliver one of his characteristically eloquent orations, which was punctuated by frequent and generous applause. He said:

Ladies and Gentlemen: Some years ago, Chicago, the metropolis if the west, itself the most marvelous of the creations of the latter half of this wonderful century, reared upon the borders of Lake Michigan an industrial city. The spirits, whose deeds in classic and eastern tale charmed our childhood, became commonplace mortals. American genius and modern science surpassed in suggestion and execution the works of demigods and genii. The stately palaces, broad avenues, lakes and canals of this home of industry and the arts drew in all the world within its walls. In its conception and administration the World's fair at Chicago was a worthy celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, and a fitting tribute to the great explorer.

Our industrial progress has been during the four years since the Chicago exhibition greater than during any decade in our history. Our resources have been developed, our markets enlarged, and new avenues of employment opened. We have, in greater measure than ever before, realized our dream of producing in our country everything required for our necessities or luxuries. From practical independence of other countries for the products of their fields or factories, we have suddenly become their competitors with our surplus, both within and without their borders.

The great benefits which the World's fair at Chicago conferred upon the United States in acquisition from foreign countries and information to foreign governments, this Transmississippi Exposition at Omaha is to vastly enhance in bringing nearer together in better understanding of each other the different sections of our own country. I heard Li Hung Chang say when here that there were many provinces of China and millions of Chinamen who had not heard of the war with Japan. The light of the nineteenth century had not penetrated China's ironclad isolation. A conflict could be carried on and ended in which her territory was invaded, her fleet destroyed, her cities captured, tens of thousands of her people killed, and lands and islands she had held for centuries wrested from her, while a large part of the people of China were peacefully pursuing their vocations, ignorant of these disasters to their country. This exhibition has increased in industrial interest during every hour of our war with Spain, and yet every pulsation of its activities and every throb of the hearts of its visitors have been moved with patriotic prayers for the success of our arms and intelligent understanding of the justice of our cause. We have carried on a war with a foreign country, raised and equipped an army of 250,000 men and a formidable navy, have won great victories by sea and land, and yet though our interests and industries are so intimately connected that a blow in any section of the country is felt everywhere, this exhibition has as serenely continued its course as it has enthusiastically celebrated the deeds of Dewey, Sampson, Schley and Hobson, and Miles, Shafter and Merritt. There could be no happier illustration of the boundless resources of the United States and its powers for peace or war. It demonstrates the versatility of the Yankee character and its adaptability to circumstances. One thing at a time has had its day, and no longer forms a headline for the copy book of the American boy. Spain is thoroughly thrashed with one hand, while the other attends with energy and efficiency to the business of the nation.

Mistakes of New York.

New York has been too content with being the Empire state, and with having its chief city the metropolis of the continent, the west too eager for empire independent of the east, the south living too much upon its traditions and in its past, and the Pacific slope resting too serenely upon its boundless possibilities and great expectations. The war with Spain has superbly restored the sentiment of nationality and eliminated sectional jealousies. But this exposition is a healthy educator for commercial union. The mission of peace is to develop the practical side of patriotism. It is to teach and demonstrate what will promote the development of the whole country and the prosperity and happiness of the whole people.

The concentrated capital of the east is the fruit of 300 years of settlement and trade. It is needed in the west for railroads, irrigation, mines, water power, furnaces and mills. It furnishes the transportation facilities which transform the prairie from the grazing plains of the buffalo and the hunting haunts of the wolf to the farm, the homestead, and productive power in herds of cattle and vast fields of wheat and corn. Its hopeful enterprise often finds for it an untimely grave in booming towns, unnecessary railroads and worthless mines. But capital is both selfish and intelligent. It never deserts a territory because the investment has failed through bad judgment. It seeks other sources for profitable employment, and finds its remuneration in other and needed work for the development of the country. Its freemasonry of fear is confined by no boundaries of land or sea. In times and in places of panic and distrust it disappears and increases the distress. With the return of confidence it moves the machinery of society and makes possible varied industries and prosperity. The state which so legislates as to take away all earning power from the money it has invited or borrowed soon learns that it has gained a temporary advantage and lost its credit, which is the most fruitful source of profit and prosperity. Differences between the east and the west have been due to distance, misunderstanding and demagogues. For a time the sections were daily becoming more widely separated. The west was encouraged to believe that it was plundered by usurers and extortionists in the east, and the east learned to distrust the integrity and intentions of the west. Far-sighted citizens of the prairie and mountain states knew that the resources of this wide territory had scarcely been touched. Drouth can be defeated by the ditch. Millions of acres from which the homesteader has fled in despair and millions more known as the Great American desert are to become, through storage reservoirs and irrigation, fruitful farms, thriving settlements and happy homes.

Education the Remedy.

Education is the remedy for our troubles. The school is the preparatory department of the college, and the college fits boys for the greater university of the world. The school and the college teach, they cannot educate. The collegian can become as narrow as his village playmate who graduated at the common school if both remain for their life-work in the isolated environment of these local conditions, prejudices and misconceptions. Both of them come to this exposition. The encircling horizon which made coincident their physical and intellectual vision expands with their minds and embraces states and cities, arts and industries. They see the vastness and interdependence of our internal commerce. They learn that the more intelligently selfish any business may be, the more patriotically it encourages every other industry and contributes to the general weal. The solution of the century-vexing problem of capital and labor grows simpler. They see that even a railroad president may be a public-spirited citizen without betraying the interests or lessening the business of his company; that the money power is the concentration of the capital of the many at convenient centers of financial operations and contact with the world, where it lies idle and useless in times of distrust, but is easily drawn to the beneficent purposes and productive energies of the community which can give it profitable employment. Those from large cities learn that New York and Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago are marts of trade, not places of power. The country needs and recruits them. They reflect and do not originate the conditions and opinions of the republic. The untraveled city man is the most provincial of mortals. His local pride paralyzes his powers of observation, and the rest of the universe exists only for his benefit and by his permission. The west is an unknown land of grazing plains, mining camps and big game. But he finds here the broadest culture of the schools and colleges, a vigorous and healthy public sentiment, the courage to try and the ability to utilize every invention which will increase the productive power and decrease the cost of operating the farm, the forest, the manufactory and the mine. Thus the broader education brings into contact and activity all the elements of our strength and growth. Self-centered satisfaction is an insurmountable barrier to mental, moral or material growth.

Big Enough for Our Destiny.

Foreign cities say Americans boast of the bigness of their country. There is no use denying the fact; we are big. We are not too large for a destiny never so manifest as today. Cuba is under our protection and certain to come under our flag by the vote of her people; Porto Rico is ours; our foothold in the Philippines will never be surrendered, and the markets of the far east are inviting us to compete with the nations of Europe for their trade. Big as we are, the future is bigger with duties, responsibilities and opportunities for our citizens. The sentimentalist declares that such a review as has occupied our hour today is the grossest materialism. After years of experiment and observation I have found that sentiment has less alloy, is purer and attains loftier ideals under a well thatched roof than on the sod, under storms as well as sunshine, and with drenching clouds as well as stars above. "What makes a hero in battle?" I inquired of a veteran, the victor on many a bloody field. His answer was: "Plenty of good beef or mutton and hot coffee."

When Nebraska shall have reached the age of New York there will be a population of over 200,000,000 in the United States, Our domain will be sufficient for their support and our institutions elastic enough for their orderly government and their liberty. Intelligence will be keen and high and the state will be very close to the daily life and industrial activities of the people. Co-operation will be working to an extent now thought chimerical. There will always be differences of conditions, as God has endowed his children with degrees of gifts, but the much abused doctrine that the world owes every many a living will be in general vogue and practical. The lazy, the shiftless and the improvident will grumble and suffer then as now, but there will be a place for all according to the talents bestowed upon them, and wisely perfected plans for the care and comfort of the aged and the helpless.

The war with Spain has unified our country. The sons of the south and the north fighting side by side and under the old flag has effaced the last vestige of the passions of the civil war. The young men of the farthest west and its primitive conditions lying with their comrades from the circles of the clubs and fashion in the east in the trenches of El Caney and charging up the hill and over the defenses of San Juan have made the men of the west and the east one by the baptism of blood. Whether from the plains of Arizona or the palaces of New York, and whether dressed in broadcloth or in buckskin, the Rough Rider is the same American.

Venerable New York sends hail and cordial congratulations to young Nebraska. Our settlement is 240 and our sovereignty ninety years older than yours. Three centuries of development under original conditions and free institutions greet this half century of the west from the painted savage to the industrious citizen with a past and present full of cheer and hope. First among the states of the republic in population, prosperity, educational institutions, churches, productive power and wealth, and commanding the resources of the continent through her metropolis, the second city of the world, and opportunity. It is her pride and pleasure to attract and welcome the citizens of all the sister states. The people of the south, the west and the Pacific have found hospitable homes in the Empire state in numbers greater than the population of many cities in those sections. These fraternal ties intertwining with the bonds of patriotism and common interest bind our states together in one indissoluble union, and makes us all one people, of one country and under one flag.

The inspiring peroration which closed Mr. Depew's address was followed by another popular demonstration, and then the crowd pressed forward to the stage, where a short informal reception occurred.

Upon the conclusion of the exercises at the Auditorium the members of the New York party and the exposition officials proceeded to one of the viaduct cafes, where dinner was served, the members of the New York exposition commission being the hosts. The dinner was an informal affair and was without oratory. One remarkable feature was the fact that at the table there was more capital represented in a business way than at any gathering every before seen in the city. It is estimated that the men who were around the board represented not less than $200,000,000, nearly all of which is employed in trade or in the operation of railroads and railroad equipment.

After their lunch the distinguished New Yorkers separated into groups and visited the buildings that interested them most. At 3 o'clock they all met at the New York State building and under the guidance of Major Clarkson proceeded to the Indian congress, where they watched the sham battle from seats that had been reserved for them. To most of the party this was something new, as many of them had never before seen Indians, except the wooden articles in front of cigar stores. The charging of the forces and the retreat, together with the treatment of the captives, interested them very much and many of them expressed the opinion that if the exposition was without other features, seeing the battle would be well worth the time and expense of a journey from New York.

TELEPHONE DOWN FROM CLOUDS.

War Balloon Makes Its First Successful Ascension.

Yeesterday​ afternoon the atmospheric conditions were perfect for ballooning, and as a result the war balloon made the only successful ascension since its arrival several weeks ago. The day before the big bag got away and shot up into the air, but the upper currents of air were strong and it drifted with the wind. Yesterday afternoon, however, there was scarcely a breeze when the balloon was cut loose, and the same conditions prevailed up in the strata where it soared.

Just after 2 o'clock Sergeant Briede took Sergeants Barton and Lockart into the confidence and informed them that he proposed to give the people an exhibition of fine ballooning. The three men jumped into the basket, Briede standing on the edges and hanging to the guy ropes over his head, with his companions beneath him, signalled the men having charge of the lifting apparatus to cut loose. The bags of ballast were cast off and the balloon commenced to rise. It went up in an almost perpendicular direction until it reached a height of 800 feet, when it stopped. Barton and Lockart threw out some ballast and higher and higher the bag shot until it reached an elevation of 1,000 feet and not 100 feet either side of the starting point.

From their high perch the men in the basket placed themselves in telephonic connection with the operator on the ground, informing him that they had a beautiful view of the surrounding country, and that up where they were doing business the weather was even more perfect than down on the earth.

From its elevation the balloon was drawn down by the windlass to which the cable is attached, and anchored with the bags of ballast until 5 o'clock, when another ascension was made, which was equally as successful as the one of the early afternoon.

The balloon used yesterday was not one that was in service during the recent war with Spain. It was made for the purpose and sent south, but before it reached Cuban soil the war was over and the bag was sent back to the balloon station at Washington and from there sent direct to Omaha. It carries 25,000 cubic feet of gas and is made of the strongest canvas, varnished both inside and out.

Speaking of the trips made yesterday Sergeant Briede said: "It was one of the most delightful ones in my nine years' experience in ballooning. All of the conditions were perfect. Up in the air the wind, what little there was, was as fresh and balmy as spring. The atmosphere was as clear as a bell and cities and towns thirty and forty miles away could be seen. Off to the southeast we could see the town of Glenwood, over in Iowa. The winding course of the Missouri river could be followed [?] To the south we could see Plattsbouth​ and way off to the west the town of Ashland was visible. The fringe of timber along the Platte could be distinguished, while Fremont was plainly in view. Off toward the north we could see Blair, nestling in the hills along the bluffs of the Missouri river. The country to the west and north resembled a great chess board, dotted with the farms upon which the houses and other buildings might be taken for chess men.

"People who have never been up in balloons have no idea of the beauties that are spread out below them. There is something about the business that is fascinating. People who climb to the top of a high mountain and look over the landscape think that is a beautiful sight, but it is nothing to what may be seen from a balloon that is 1,000 or more feet in the air."

Sergeant Briede, while not one of the oldest navigators of the air, is one of the successful ones. He was not at Santiago, but he was in active service at Washington during the recent war and there had charge of all of the balloons that were sent south. He is a young man, 23 years of age, and has been ballooning since he was a boy of 15. Prior to enlisting he was a balloonist who gave exhibitions of balloon work in mid air. He used the hot air balloons frequently and made parachute leaps from the dizzy heights. He has met with numerous accidents and carries a crippled ankle and any number of scars as mementos of his trips through the air.

TWIN CITY DAY IS NOT A SUCCESS.

Thousands of Visitors Promised Fail to Show Up.

While yesterday was designated as Twin City day it lacked most of the essential features required of a day in order to make it a success. It has been stated, and the information had been given out, that thousands of the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul would be here for the purpose of seeing the exposition and joining the thousands from other cities and towns in the United States. But instead of the great crowds coming down from the two big towns of Minnesota, only a couple of hundred of visitors arrived. Those who did come, however, had a good time and felt amply repaid for the trip. They visited the Minnesota building, where they checked their parcels, after which they started out to do the exposition. They did not get half way around when the gates closed for the night, finding it a much bigger show than they had anticipated.

The Minnesotians will remain over today and Monday, and some of them will be back again, coming to participate in the exercises of Jubilee week. The advices from Minnesota are to the effect that during Jubilee week several excursion trains will run from St. Paul and Minneapolis, and that thousands of the residents of the state will be here upon that occasion.

Last night the visitors from St. Paul and Minneapolis had something of a reunion at the Minnesota building. They spent the early part of the evening along the Midway and at the fireworks. Soon after 10 o'clock the entire party, together with a number of invited guests gathered at the Minnesota building, where an informal reception was held, Secretary Danforth and Commissioner Field doing the honors for the occasion. There was music during the evening. Upstairs light refreshments and cigars were served to all who called. By those who were in attendance it was voted one of the most delightful "at homes" held on the grounds since the opening of the exposition.

NEW YORKERS VISIT THE INDIANS.

Sham Battle Proves an Interesting Attraction for Them.

All the New Yorkers viewed the sham battle fought by the Indians yesterday and after it was over they pronounced it one of the sights of a life time. Few of the distinguished visitors from the Empire state had ever seen western Indians and their methods employed in peace and war proved most interesting.

The battle was fought along the same old lines, Goes-to-War looking after the interests of the Sioux, while Big Brave was the guiding star of the Blackfeet. There was the same brilliant charge made by the Sioux, routing their enemies, and in turn there was the return charge of the Blackfeet, who had been reinfroced​ by a lot of Indians who had been loafing down among the trees on the west side of the camp. The same old program was carried out and in the final charge the Sioux were outnumbered and routed, leaving their pretended dead upon the field.

After the battle Chauncey M. Depew and the members of his party, under the guidance of Captain Mercer and the exposition officials, visited the camp and looked in upon the Indians, shaking hands with some of the big men of the tribes and admiring the little fellows.

"Step right this way if you want to ride on the smallest railroad on earth," sang out the Midway barker in front of the Union Pacific's miniature railway.

Two distinguished looking gentlemen approached and surveyed the curious little railroad with evident interest. "We might take a ride on it, Mr. Depew," remarked President Callaway of the New York Central, for the two strangers were the two great railroaders of the Empire state.

"We'll just do that very thing," replied Chauncey. "I've ridden on the greatest railroad on earth a good many times, so I guess I'll have to ride on the smallest to make my record good."

So the protectors of the Vanderbilt railways in New York state bought two tickets at 10 cents each. As they were not known they received no free transportation and they wouldn't think of asking for half rates. Both the visitors found the seats of the little cars none too large. At first they were dubious about the capacity of the cars, but they were assured that the train had often carried bigger men, from the consideration of avoirdupois.

The whistle gave a shriek as long as the train and much bigger, and the chief executive officers of the four-tracked railway across the Empire state were soon being whirled past Julesburg, Cheyenne, Rawlins, Ogden and into Salt Lake City at a rate of speed that made their heads swim. As they were jarred up and down in their seats President Callaway leaned over to his predecessor in the next car to remark: "I've ridden on smoother roads in my lifetime."

"Yes, the track isn't like ours and I guess they forgot springs in building the coaches, but then think how cheap the trip is—all the way to Salt Lake and back for 10 cents."

When the trip was completed they got out of the little train adorned with Union Pacific shields and were cordially greeted by the manager of the miniature railway, who during their ride had been informed of the identity of his two heavyweight passengers. He said he would send them passes good for rides on the "Miniature Limited," on which free transportation is not ordinarily accepted, and Dr. Depew smilingly remarked that he should be glad to reciprocate the favor.

The fireworks display was also exceptionally brilliant. It included twenty-two distinct features, a large portion of which consisted of elaborate set pieces. Of these the most notable were the spiral Phoenix, a portrait of Chauncey M. Depew and the "Sunrise on the Alps."

Attendance for the Week.

Ak-Sar-Ben week did not break the record of exposition attendance, but it easily reached second place. The total for the seven days was 148,025, which was only exceeded by the big week which ended September 22, when the grand total was over 189,000. The record for the week is:

DO EXPOSITIONS PAY?

In the early stages of the Transmississippi Exposition many men in this community and not a few influential newspapers throughout the country expressed doubt that exposition could be fairly adjudged beneficial to cities projecting them. These cities at home and abroad were not slow to assert a belief that the financial success of the Omaha Exposition was highly problematical. Their opinions were based upon the experience of Chicago, Atlanta and Nashville. Nobody could gainsay the extraordinary success of the Columbian fair in an artistic sense but the financial distress which followed in its wake was cited as an example of the ill-effects of expositions upon cities standing as sponsors for such undertakings. Atlanta was cited as a partial failure, while the success of the Nashville fair was open to some question.

The projectors of the Transmississippi Exposition discounted all these predictions of disaster and forged ahead. They knew that the stressful conditions following the Columbian fair were in no sense attributable to that exposition, but rather to foolhardy speculators who operated in real estate and in the building of topheavy structures in the city to an extent out of all proportion to possible demands and in spite of the dictates of sound business principles. They argued further that business conditions in Chicago would have been much more direful but for the benefits directly traceable to the World's Fair. The opinion prevailed here that success or failure at Atlanta or Nashville could have no bearing on the destiny of the Transmississippi Exposition.

Time has justified the sanguine expectations of the men who bore the burdens of financiering and promoting the exposition and its phenomenal success in the face of an international war and other serious obstacles has not only caused a radical revision of opinion among local croakers, but it has compelled recognition at the hands of the press all over the United States, which now frankly concedes the Transmississippi Exposition to be, just what its projectors contended, an enterprise second only to the World's Fair. The effect upon the country at large is simply amazing. The promoters of the Panamerican exposition at Buffalo, it is said, will revise that project in view of the success scored by the Omaha affair, while St. Louis is now earnestly discussing a celebration of the centenary of the Louisiana purchase for the year 1903.

There is no longer room for question as to the benefits Omaha and the Transmississippi country are enjoying by reason of the exposition. The city has been by it lifted to a higher plane in the estimation of the world, for a city which can prove itself equal to a task of such magnitude is entitled to and will receive encomiums of merit that must continue to be of inestimable value to it for years to come.

NEW YORKERS AT EXPOSITION

Prominent Commercial Men from Metropolis Represent the Empire State.

New York's delegation to the exposition as the official representatives of the Empire state in the special exercises at the exposition arrived in Omaha yesterday morning over the Northwestern. The train ran as a special to Chicago and from there to Omaha it was scheduled as the second section of the Overland Limited. The members of the delegation are not so prominent in the political world, but are leading business men of the metropolis and are substantial representatives of the big state. Among the delegates are the following:

Representing the New York Produce exchange: Frank Brainard, F. H. Andrews, John Valient, Frank Commisky, J. W. Ahles, John Gledhill, E. A. Allen, W. E. Truesdale, E. H. Dougherty, Daniel T. Wade, S. T. Graff.

Representing New York Chamber of Commerce: Warner Miller, Charles A. Schieren, Francis B. Thurber, Richard Young, Henry A. Spaulding, D. S. Ramser.

From Buffalo: Captain J. M. Brinker, F. C. M. Lantz, R. C. Hill, A. C. Essenwein, Major G. Creighton Webb, F. D. Higbee, E. W. Curtis, jr., and D. Van Aken.

In addition to these there are Chauncey M. Depew, S. R. Callaway, Dr. Seward Webb, Marvin Hughitt, W. H. Newman and W. E. Eby, who came in on their special train Friday afternoon.

Yesterday morning the delegation was met at the Paxton hotel by General Manager Clarkson and at 10:30 the members entered carriages provided by the exposition and were driven straight to the grounds, where the exercises took place.

The delegates from Buffalo embrace the officers of the Panamerican Exposition company, who are planning an exposition to be held in their city in 1901. They are: J. M. Brinker, president; F. C. Lantz, treasurer; R. C. Hill, secretary; A. C. Essenwein and E. W. Curtis, jr., architects, and F. D. Higbee, superintendent of concessions. They will study the exposition in all its phases and consult with the officers as to details of building and management to prepare themselves for the work before them.

Boston Bankers at Exposition.

A party of Boston bankers have stopped in Omaha for a day to visit the exposition while on a western tour. They will leave Sunday evening, continuing their trip. The following are in the party: Thomas S. Carpenter, Charles E. Redfern, Denman Blanchard, James R. Simpson, Eugene French, Phineas W. Sprague, George O. Knowles, Frederick H. Mills, David Thayer, Albert D. Thayer, E. Henry Barnes, H. Fisher Eldridge, Willard B. Ferguson, Frederick A. Gilbert, Arthur L. Robinson, James S. Sanborn and James F. Shaw. While in the city the visitors stopped at the Millard.

MOTHERS' CONGRESS MEETS

Women Gather Together to Discuss the Welfare of Children.

COLORED TEACHER GIVEN AN OVATION

First Session is Given Over Largely to Welcoming Visiting Delegates and an Informal Reception.

The opening session of the Mothers' congress at the Omaha Woman's club rooms yesterday afternoon was devoted to welcoming the guests. After the formal meeting an informal reception was tendered the visiting club women and the officers of the National Mothers' congress. Conspicuous among the many world-famed women were the president, Mrs. Theodore W. Birney, of Washington; recording secretary, Mrs. Sallie S. Cotton, of Falkland, N. C.; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Vesta H. Cassidy, of National Park seminary, Glen Forest, Md.; treasurer, Mrs. Hardin W. Masters, of Lewiston, Ill.; Mrs. Mary H. Weeks of Kansas City; Miss Amelie Hofer and Miss France Newton of Chicago, Dr. Mary Wood Allen of Ann Arbor, Mrs. Hollenberger of Virginia and Miss Moten of Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Ford called the congress to order and after a few words of hearty pleasure at seeing so many people present, introduced Mrs. Harriette Heller, who formally welcomed the mothers.

After a most cordial greeting and a mention of the youth of the congress, Mrs. Heller said: "Though we are a Mothers' congress we are in our infancy. But youth bears no discredit. The mightiest oak was once a feeble shoot. And that great and good man whom we are soon to welcome here in Omaha was once a little child, young and helpless. As he has grown great, so we must and shall grow.

Mother Needs to Study.

"People think nothing of live stock shows, doctors' conventions and the like, but they are inclined to scoff at a Mothers' congress. Yet there are different ways of caring for children. And the mother who occasionally leaves her child, yet not without pangs, to discuss the best methods of child culture, returns more able and competent. As music stimulates man and makes him stronger, so a rest stimulates the mother in her care for her child. Recently I visited the electrical plant that supplies the myriads of electric lights that make our exposition so beautiful by night. I found a lot of machinery and belts, with lubricating devices and copper heads which caused a multitude of sparks. These were the instruments which cast the light. And it occurred to me that our congress was like that power house, the machinery, belts and lubricating device by which light is cast in every home."

Mrs. Birney, the national president, responded to the welcome. "It gives me great pleasure to hear these words of welcome and to attend the exposition. When Mrs. Hellen extended the invitation to us we wondered if we could accept, for October is a busy month for mothers. But we wanted to get in closer touch with the women of the west and we came.

"Nothing appeals to us more than the helplessness of children and to aid that helplessness our Mothers' congress was formed. It is but two years old and it depends on women whether it grows as it deserves or falls by the wayside.

"In my moments of distress, which come to us all, I seem to see visions of thousands of little hands stretched out appealingly to me. Some are from palatial homes, where nothing is lacking, others from the less fortunate. No work or sacrifice can be too great to bring happiness to these children."

Mrs. Cotton, Miss Cassidy, Mrs. Muller, Miss Hofer and Miss Newton were then presented in turn to the audience and expressed their pleasure and delight in being here.

Colored Teacher Talks.

Mrs. Heller next introduced Miss Moten of Washington, the colored kindergarten teacher who has done so much for her fellowmen. Miss Moten said: "I thank you many times for my cordial reception. I bear to you messages of love and sympathy from all our mothers; for the colored mothers are fully alive to all questions and especially to that of their children. In our young of today their interest chiefly centers. Though the position of our present and future generations is vastly above that of former times it is not what we hope to see it.

"Since certain conditions exist we must not close our eyes to them. The solution depends upon the mothers of the land. They shape the destinies of nations; for the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

"We wish to make the most of our opportunities. We can show you a generation of young men and women of which you can be proud. But we need your aid and support. Do for us what all other nations have done for their oppressed; for we can never aspire unless you inspire.

"There is a large class of colored men and women who have never known the horrors of antebellum days. Break down the barrier and we will help you. We feel that the child is the bridge on which we shall meet. But you must not make us feel inferior."

In a burst of applause Miss Moten sat down.

A telegram of greeting and best wishes from the Salt Lake City and a letter from the South Dakota branches were then read. Mrs. Heller announced that a mass meeting would be held at the First Congregational church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The following program will occupy the congress today and Monday:

Sunday afternoon: Mass meeting; devotional exercises; brief addresses by Mrs. Theodore Birney of Washington, Miss Amalie Hofer, Miss Frances Newton and Mrs. Elia W. Peattie of Chicago, and Mrs. W. P. Harford and Mrs. H. H. Heller of Omaha.

Monday morning: Open conference; informal discussion of matters connected with home and school; organization of mothers' clubs; questions and answers.

Monday afternoon: Paper, "Result of the Training School in Washington for Colored Kindergartens," Dr. Lucy Moten; address, "Mother and Teacher," Mrs. Vesta H. Cassidy, Washington, D. C., corresponding secretary National Congress of Mothers; discussion.

Monday evening: Address, "A National Training School for Women," Mrs. Sallie S. Cotton, Falkland, N. C., recording secretary National Congress of Mothers; address, "Methods of Organization," Mrs. Mary H. Weeks, Kansas City, auditor National Congress of Mothers; discussion, led by Mrs. A. C. Ricketts of Lincoln, Mrs. McMullen of Evanston, Ill., Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Washington, D. C., Mrs. Sudborough, Mrs. Ford of Omaha and others.

TO TALK OF HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS.

National Association of Women Will Meet Here This Week.

On Thursday and Friday, in this series of women's meetings, will be held the sixth annual meeting of the National Household Economic association. Like a majority of the rest of the gatherings of the week, this body claims as its confines the bounds of the country, and delegates will be prominent women from all sections. They will arrive during the early days of the week and during their stay in the city will be entertained by the women of the Omaha Woman's club at their homes. The entertainment and the meeting will be under the direction of the directors of the Household department of the local club, Mrs. C. H. Townsend and Mrs. M. M. Pugh.

The meetings of the association will take place at the First Congregational church. The attendance will be by no means limited to the membership of the association, or of the Omaha Woman's club, but every person who is interested in the home is cordially invited to be present. A program full of interest has been prepared for the meeting and will be of a highly educational value. It is as follows:

Thursday morning: Prayer, Rev. Mary Gerard Andrews; music; address of welcome, Mrs. Mary Moody Pugh, Omaha; response, Mrs. Emma F. Van Vechten, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; reports of state vice presidents.

Thursday afternoon: Music; "The Problems which the Present Century Presents to the Housekeeper," Mrs. M. V. Shailer, New York; "Household Economics in the Schools," Miss Ellen F. Marshall and Miss Isabella D. Bullard, Chicago; "Household Economics in the Rural Districts," Prof. Marie B. Senn, Fargo, N. D.; "How May Women be the Most Useful and Successful?" Mrs. W. K. James, St. Joseph, Mo.

Thursday evening: "How to Finish the Home," Mrs. Kate H. Watson, Chicago; president's address, Mary E. Green, M. D., Charlotte, Mich.; reception.

Friday morning: Demonstration lecture; "What May be Done with Fifty Cents a Day in Preparing Food for a Family of Four," Mrs. Harriet S. MacMurphy, Omaha; "How May Every Woman Become a Sanitarian?"

Friday afternoon: Music; "The relation of Women to the Labor Problem," Mrs. Maude H. Lacy, St. Louis, Mo.; "Economy of Time, Money and Labor," Mrs. James D. Whitmire, Denver, Colo.; "The Necessity of Instructing Children Concerning Their Prospective Conjugal and Parental Duties," Susa Young Gates, Provo City, Utah; discussion, led by Mrs. Emma F. Van Vetchen, Cedar Rapids, Ia.

NEBRASKA CLUB WOMEN TO MEET.

Officers of the General Federation Will Be Present.

Tuesday, October 11, immediately following the Mothers' congress, which concludes its three days' session tomorrow, the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs meets in annual session at the First Congregational church. The officers of the federation are as follows: President, Mrs. B. M. Stoutenborough, Plattsmouth; vice president, Mrs. E. M. Cobb, York; secretary, Mrs. Draper Smith, Omaha; treasurer, Mrs. M. V. Nichols, Beatrice; auditor, Mrs. E. S. Larsh, Nebraska City; state chairman of the general federation, Mrs. Ricketts, Lincoln; librarian, Mrs. G. M. Lambertson, Lincoln.

The opening meeting, which convenes Tuesday at 9 a. m., will be devoted largely to business, reports from the various clubs, committees, etc. Mrs. A. N. Ferguson, first vice president of the Omaha Woman's club, will give the address of welcome and Mrs. Brindley, president of the Columbus club, will respond. The musical numbers will be contributed by Mesdames J. H. McIntosh and J. H. Metcalf.

The afternoon session will commence promptly at 2:30. Mrs. Snyder of Plattsmouth, Mrs. Harrison of York, Mrs. Apperson of Tecumseh, Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Wilson, both of Lincoln, are the speakers. Following the address the annual election of officers will take place.

The opening address Tuesday evening will be given by Mrs. Rebecca D. Lowe, after which the officers of the general federation will be introduced. Mrs. Lowe of Georgia is president, Mrs. Platt of Colorado is vice president, Mrs. Fox of Michigan is re-[?]sylvania is corresponding secretary, Mrs. Moore of Missouri is treasurer and Mrs. Barnes of Kentucky is auditor. The musical portion of the program will be rendered by Mr. Dan H. Wheeler, jr., and Miss Louise Kellogg. The annual address, by Mrs. Stoutenborough, state federation president, will close the meeting.

Wednesday will usher in the larger club gathering, the Transmississippi Congress of Women's clubs, which continue for two days. The program committee comprises the presidents of the Transmississippi Federated clubs, namely; Mrs. Scammon of Missouri, Mrs. Thatcher of Colorado, Mrs. Van Vechten of Iowa, Mrs. Tuller of North Dakota, Mrs. Peters of Kansas, Miss Evans of Minnesota and Mrs. Stoutenborough of Nebraska. Mrs. Philip N. Moore will preside at the opening session, which convenes at 9:30. Two addresses, "Traveling Libraries," by Mrs. Bachwalter of Ohio, and "Rest Rooms in Market Towns," by Mrs. Giddings of Minnesota (both to be followed by discussion), together with two musical numbers, constitute the program.

President McKinley will address the afternoon meeting, which will be held in the Auditorium at the exposition grounds, commencing at 3:30. The program, which will be presided over by Mrs. Lowe, is as follows: Organ solo, Mr. Thomas J. Kelly; vocal solo, Mrs. Cotton; address, "The Unlimited Club," Mrs. Platt of Denver; piano solo, Mr. Joseph Gahm; greetings from President McKinley.

Thursday's meetings, both morning and afternoon, will be held at the Congregational church, the former beginning at 9 o'clock and the latter at 2:30. The morning program opens with music by Mrs. H. P. Whitmore. Addresses will be delivered by Miss Cole of Denver, on "The Bible as Literature;" by Miss Lathrop of Hull House on "Philanthropy and Charities," and by Miss Rockwell of Kansas on "Evolution in the American Home." Miss Oakley of Lincoln will sing.

The afternoon program includes addresses on "Club Life in California" and "Pioneer Club Life in Oklahoma," by Mesdames Moore and Douglas respectively; a vocal solo by Miss Terry and a piano duet by Miss Connor and Mrs. McIntosh.

There will be no formal program Thursday evening. Instead, in the club parlors, a reception will be given visiting club women by the Omaha Women's club.

As if all this, in addition to "Club Day" in June, were not sufficient compensation for Omaha not entertaining the "biennial," the board of directors of the general federation meets in our city at this time. The personnel of the board is as follows: Mrs. Bachwalter, Ohio; Mrs. Morris, Wisconsin; Mrs. Eastman, California; Mrs. Ford, Nebraska; Mrs. Kinney, Utah; Mrs. Helmuth, New York, Mrs. Pyle, Connecticut; Mrs. Windsor, Iowa, and Mrs. Lockwood, Washington, D. C. Then, too, the annual meeting of the National Household Economic association, October 13 and 14, will bring many representative women. The president of the association, Dr. Mary E. Green of Michigan, is chairman of the program committee. The list of speakers includes women not only from the western states but many from the Atlantic coast as well, who will give interesting addresses on helpful and practical subjects.

MAYORS SLOW GETTING HERE

Only a Few of the Executive Heads of Transmississippi Towns on Hand at the Hour.

Mayor's day today does not give promise of being an elaborate affair. There may be an army of municipal executives in the city, but they had not reported to General Manager Clarkson at 10:30 this morning, the time set for the party to go to the grounds. Only four were on hand at that hour, and but two of these were accompanied by their wives. These were John MacVicar and wife of Des Moines, O. M. Pettit of Kenosha, Wis., Victor Jennings of Council Bluffs, and John Gratt and wife of North Platte, Neb. To meet this party there was a reception committee of exposition stockholders headed by President Wattles, and a committee of ten women as follows: Mrs. G. M. Hitchcock, Mrs. George A. Joslyn, Mrs. Charles Offutt, Mrs. W. S. Poppleton, Mrs. George F. Bidwell, Mrs. W. J. Connell, Mrs. C. N. Dietz, Mrs. Charles E. Squires, Mrs. Thomas Kilpatrick and Mrs. W. C. Carter. The members of the committee wore the new badges, which consist of a bar on which are the words, "Peace Jubilee," to which is attached a small silk flag, with a pendant representing the seal of Nebraska. These badges were also given to each of the guests.

The visitors were taken in carriages at 10:30, at the Paxton hotel, and escorted to the exposition grounds, where they will spend the day and participate in special exercises provided for them, marking the first day of Peace Jubilee week.

BUFFALO MEN GETTING IDEAS

Officers of the Panamerican Exposition Are Studying the Transmississippi.

VALUABLE LESSONS RECEIVED HERE

Omaha's Experience Will Be of Great Service in Building the Exposition on Cayuga Island for 1901.

President J. M. Brinker, Treasurer F. C. M. Lautz and the other officials of the Panamerican exposition to be held on the Niagara frontier in 1901, spent yesterday in securing information regarding the operation of the Transmississippi Exposition likely to prove beneficial in the conduct of their enterprise. They express themselves as being highly gratified at the many courtesies extended to them in Omaha. Captain Brinker said: "I am very pleased with my visit and am very agreeably disappointed at the size, importance and completeness of the exhibition here. As editorially suggested in The Bee, we have received great encouragement and have become inspired with new zeal for the Panamerican exposition by what we have seen and learned. Omaha has certainly done wonders."

Mr. Lautz, treasurer of the Panamerican exposition, who is one of the largest manufacturers in western New York and an important representative of the thriving city of Buffalo, said he was highly pleased with his experiences in Omaha. "We have learned some most valuable lessons and trust we shall profit by them in 1901."

Secretary R. C. Hill, who is a newspaper man of long experience and who has for many years made a careful study of expositions, was a visitor to The Bee office last evening. He said: "I will not attempt to express all the complimentary ideas I have in mind in regard to the Omaha exposition. When the history of all the great expositions of this country is written the chapter devoted to Omaha in 1898 must be an interesting and important one."

Object of the Congress.

Speaking of the Panamerican exposition project he explained, "It has been alluded to as the Panamerican congress, but that is an erroneous title. The leading idea of the exposition will be to illustrate the marvelous progress of the present century in the western hemisphere. This idea was emphatically stated in the enabling act passed by both houses in congress and approved by President McKinley, and the act stated that the purpose of the Panamerican exposition, to be held on Cayuga island, between the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, in the state of New York, in the year 1901, needs the encouragement and approval of congress and of the people of the United States. The exposition is intended to fittingly illustrate the marvelous development of the Western hemisphere during the Nineteenth century by the demonstration of the reciprocal relations existing between the American republics and colonies.

"This idea of an exposition reviewing the achievements of the New World during the Nineteenth century is certainly in harmony with that patriotic spirit long vigorously existent on this hemisphere, but made infinitely more expansive and emphatic by the remarkable events of the last few months in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. The New World has fairly outrivaled the Old World during the Nineteenth century in many important fields of human competition. A purely New World's exposition will be an essential departures for the international character of previous great expositions.

Value of the Location.

"I believe that geographically, historically, commercially and scientifically it would be difficult to find a more desirable location than that which has been selected for the Panamerican exposition. This location is not at the city of Buffalo, as has been stated, but within a short distance of the great cataract of the Niaraga​ river. The opportunities for a great electrical display are remarkable. The power generated by the current of the Niagara river is now being delivered along the frontier to Buffalo, twenty miles away, and the supply of electrical power for the exposition purposes will be practically unlimited. The Niagara Frontier teems with historic interest. It was the 'Dark and Bloody Ground' of the revolutionary war, and along its river bank were fought many of the famous battles of the war of 1812. It was also there that more than three centuries ago the intrepid missionaries from France planted the divinely illuminated cross which shed upon the untutored red men of the picturesque region the first gleam of Christian faith. It was at Cayuga island, which is close to the American mainland that Sieur de La Salle built and launched in 1697 the 'Griffon,' the first vessel which sailed the inland seas and pioneered the watery pathway to the Mississippi and the great northwest.

"The Niagara frontier is the center of the largest mass of population on the western hemisphere. Within a day's ride, encircling a radius of less than 500 miles are 50,000,000 people, a fact of great significance in weighing the importance of the Panamerican enterprise. With the experiences of Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville and Omaha it would seem that such an exposition as that proposed for 1901 can be made highly successful."

The Panamerican Exposition party will visit the exposition again today and it is probable that the​ will leave for the east by special car over the Chicago & Northwestern railway this evening.

JUBILEE CROWDS START EARLY

Railroads Surprised at the Rush for Omaha Monday Morning.

EVERY LINE HAS ALL IT CAN HAUL

Nebraska and Missouri People Furnish the Bulk of the First Day's Business, but Kansas and Iowa Are Represented.

The first week day of the Peace Jubilee of the Transmississippi Exposition saw an immense crowd of vistors​ enter the city through its two passenger stations and one shed. The influx was more numerous than was anticipated, previous railroad advces​ being to the effect that the movement toward the first big Jubilee celebration would not set in before Tuesday.

All of the morning trains from Chicago were heavily filled. There was not one of the four Chicago-Omaha lines that had the least kick coming on the amount of travel it hauled in, but the big crowds were observed to come in from the west. If the attendance at the grand occasion may be prejudged by the advance guard the transmissouri states are the ones that are going to be the most numerously represented. The Union Pacific's morning train from the west arrived in two long sections, and the noon train from Beatrice and Stromsburg brought in a good crowd. The Burlington brought in its McCook express at 9:35 in two well filled sections, and the Hastings train, twenty minutes before noon delivered 600 more Nebraskans to Omaha to be well taken care of until the last sky rocket should be sent up to tell the inhabitants of Mars and other planets about the glorious successes of the army and navy of the United States. In addition to the special trains the afternoon express of the Burlington from the west is running in three sections, and so far the road has brought in during the last twenty-four hours ninety-five car loads of Missourians. A special train from the St. Francis branch, Kansas, will arrive here at 5 p. m. today with over 1,000 excursionists.

Demand for Equipment.

As the reduced rates to Omaha on account of the Peace Jubilee were not available until one minute after midnight on Monday morning the passenger men were surprised to see such a large crowd come in on the morning trains. Many of the arrivals must have left home before the reduced rates went into effect or else the ticket agents in their home towns pushed the clock hands ahead a few hours.

There is not a railroad superintendent in Omaha that is feeling easy today. All of them are worried about the supply of passenger equipment for the crowds this week. One of them remarked to a Bee reporter: "The crowd has started with a rush and I don't know what it will do to us before the week is over." Superintendent of Transportation Buckingham of the Union Pacific has distributed a goodly supply of passenger coaches at Grand Island, Columbus, Kearney and other central points and the "Overland Route" is probably better fixed for handling the crowds than any other Omaha road, and it is not feeling that it will have an easy time of it. Superintendent Bignell of the B. & M. has everything in the way of passenger equipment that is on wheels ready for use, but he is fearful that he is going to run short. Thirty odd tourist cars of the Burlington have been pressed into service and as the seats are wide they are being made to accommodate three persons each. The Burlington has also hauled out a lot of new coal cars, cleaned them up and in case of emergency will run temporary seats in them and use them for short hauls into Omaha to help handle the crowds.

An indication of the popularity of the peace jubilee throughout Nebraska is gleaned through the fact that at all of the railroad headquarters in the city telegrams were received throughout the morning from station agents in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota, asking for additional special tickets to Omaha "on account of the way our citizens are lining up to attend the Peace Jubilee at your exposition." The requests for more tickets were sent by telegraph and called for bunches of thirty, fifty, 100 and even 200, for be sent immediately.

The Missouri Pacific brought in just 2,434 people during the morning. Most of the crowd came from Missouri to attend the state celebration at the exposition grounds. The train reports showed the following number of passengers on the five trains: Six hundred and twenty-five from Kansas City, 352 from Kansas City, 410 from Kansas City, 547 from St. Louis and 500 from Auburn.

GERONIMO ON INDIAN WARS

Famous Apache Chief Speaks from His Own Costly Experience.

CALLS PILLAGER INDIANS RED FOOLS

Trouble at Leech Lake Gives the Old Man a Chance to Talk About the Folly of Fighting Against the White Man.

While in a talkative mood yesterday Geronimo, the old Apache chief, who is one of the attractions of the Indian congress, unbosomed himself and talked quite freely of the Indian uprising in and around the vicinity of Leech Lake, Minn. The old man has spent more years in war than in following the pursuits of peace and as all of his warfare has been waged against the whites by all of the older Indians he is looked upon as a great man and what he says consequently carries a good deal of weight.

Speaking of the Minnesota troubles Geronimo through an interpreter said: "I have heard something of the fight up in the north and some of my friends have told me some things, so that I have quite an idea of the situation. I don't know where Leech Lake is, but I suppose it is way out in the woods or someways out from the big towns. I have not traveled up that way, so I don't know much about the country, only from what I have been told. I want to say that the Indians are a lot of red fools for going into this fight against the white men. They will get the worst of it in the end and then they will be sorry.

"Years ago," continued the old chief, "I thought that I could whip the whole United States, but since I have been around the country I have changed my mind. There is no country that can whip the United States and what is the use of a few hundred Indians starting in to undertake the job. Since coming to Omaha I have learned that the white men are more numerous than the leaves on the trees or the blades of grass on the prairies. Coming up from my home in the south I saw more white men than there are Indians in existence and I am told that there are only a few down there as compared   with the number up in Minnesota, where a few fools are making war. Right here at the exposition there are enough people coming every day to put an end to every Indian in the world if they saw fit to do so. Then, besides this, the white men have all of the guns, powder and bullets. They have all of the big guns and they are the ones that count. Down at the government building the other day I saw a gun that shoots more bullets in a minute than all of the Minnesota Indians could shoot in a year. The United States has hundreds and thousands of these guns and I am told that the country has big houses filled with powder and bullets and can make as many more every day in the year, so, as I said before, what is the use of a few hundred Indians going out on the war path trying to clean out the government?

"When I was a young man and a fool, I lived down along the south border of the United States where there were only a few white people. Some of my old friends told me that those people were the only whites in the country and I believed what they said. I want to war and suffered. My men were killed and I was made a prisoner. Of course that made me mad, but it was the best thing that ever happened to me, for it taught me a lesson and convinced me that I was not the only person in the world. Now I am satisfied to settle down and be a good citizen. My days of fighting are over, except to fight for the stars and stripes, which I would be glad to do it I had a chance. Of course if I should be called to go out to fight Indians, I would do so, but I am through shooting at white men. When the president comes here this week, I want to meet him and tell him I am a friend of the white man. Some of the white men have wronged me, but they were bad men and I don't blame all because a few are bad.

"I am an old man now and I want to see my people learn the ways of the whites. I want to see them raise corn and cattle and live in houses and I believe that the president and the big men at Washington will help my people if they will try to help themselves."

WEATHER MAKERS ARE COMING

Convention of the Men Under Prof. Moore Will Meet in Omaha This Week for Consultation.

If Omaha does not enjoy good weather this week it will be due directly to the presence in the city of a host of Uncle Sam's weather men. Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, has called a meeting of all of his assistants to be held here and the chief himself will be present to open the meeting. The sessions will be held in the Commercial club rooms and those present will represent every state and territory in the union. The object of the meeting will be to devise ways and means for improving the work of the bureau and to exchange experiences in dealing with weather problems. Covering so wide a range of territory the weather officials meet new propositions in the different sections and their experience with these is the basis upon which the bureau establishes new lines of work. These meetings are called at intervals by the chief of the bureau. The present one will be the fifth, the last one being held at Indianapolis in 1895. Prof. Moore will arrive in Omaha with the presidential party tomorrow night and will open the meeting Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, adjournment being billed for Thursday afternoon. The sessions will be open to the public.

A committee meeting was held this morning to complete the details for the general meeting and make such arrangements as were necessary to insure a profitable session. The committee was composed of the following members: Prof. Cleveland Abbey, member of the scientific staff of the chief and who has been connectend​ with the bureau since it was established; F. H. Brandenburg of Denver, Major H. C. Bate of Nashville, Dr. I. M. Cline of Denver, J. Warren Smith of Columbus, O., James Berry of Washington, D. C., and T. F. Townsend of Philadelphia.

James Berry, who will be secretary of the meeting, says that when he left Washington responses has been received from the following weather officials, who signified their intention of being present and who were making arrangements for the trip, and it is believed that every one mentioned will be here, unless sickness or accident interposes:

F. P. Chaffee, Montgomery, Ala.; E. B. Richards, Little Rock, Ark.; Wayland Bailey, Fort Smith, Ark.; F. H. Brandenburg, Denver; J. P. Slaughter, Pueblo, Colo.; Prof. Willis L. Moore, Prof. C. Abbey, Prof. H. A. Hazen, James Berry, E. B. Calvert, Washington, D. C.; A. J. Mitchell, Jacksonville, Fla.; A. B. Crane, Pensacola, Fla.; J. B. Marbury, Atlanta, Ga.; H. A. Cox and C. E. Linney, Chicago; John Craig, Springfield, Ill.; P. H. Smyth, Cairo, Ill.; C. F. R. Wappenhans, Indianapolis, Ind.; J. R. Sage and G. M. Chappel, Des Moines; E. H. Bowie, Dubuque, Ia.; U. G. Purssell, Sioux City, Ia.; J. M. Sherier, Davenport, Ia.; T. B. Jennings, Topeka, Kan.; G. T. Todd, Dodge City, Kan.; G. E. Hunt, Louisville, Ky.; A. G. McAdie, New Orleans; Charles Davis, Shreveport, La.; F. J. Walz, Baltimore; C. F. Schneider, Lansing, Mich.; N. B. Conger, Detroit; T. S. Outram, Minneapolis; H. W. Richardson, Duluth; P. F. Lyons, St. Paul; W. T. Blythe, Vicksburg, Miss.; A. E. Hackett, Columbia, Mo.; R. J. Hyatt, St. Louis; R. L. Anderson, Hannibal, Mo.; E. J. Glass, Helena, Mont.; L. A. Welch, Omaha; G. A. Loveland and J. H. Spencer, Lincoln; J. C. Piercy, North Platte, Neb.; G. B. Ackerman, Winnemuca, Nev.; E. W. McGann, New Brunswick, N. J.; R. M. Hardinge, Santa Fe, N. M.; R. G. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y.; David Cuthbertson, Buffalo, N. Y.; A. F. Sims, Albany, N. Y.; John W. Smith, Boston; B. H. Bronson, Bismarch, N. D.; J. Warren Smith, Columbus, O.; G. Hass-Hagen, Toledo, O.; E. C. Thompson, Sandusky, O.; E. A. Beals, Cleveland, O.; J. I. Widmeyer, Oklahoma; B. S. Pague, Portland, Ore.; T. F. Townsend, Philadelphia; J. W. Bauer, Columbia, S. C.; S. W. Glenn, Huron, S. D.; G. B. Wurtz, Pierre, S. D.; H. C. Bate, Nashville; L. M. Pindell, Chattanooga; S. C. Emery, Memphis; W. M. Fulton, Knoxville, Tenn.; T. M. Cline, Galveston; H. H. Curley, San Antonio; J. H. Smith, Salt Lake City; G. N. Wilson, Lynchburg, Va.; G. N. Salisbury, Seattle, Wash.; H. E. Wilkinson, Spokane, Wash.; W. M. Wilson, Milwaukee; W. S. Palmer, Cheyenne, Wyo.

PRESIDENT AND THE PARADE

Mr. McKinley Will Review the Pageant from City Hall Stand.

ALL ARRANGEMENTS NOW COMPLETE

More Seats Being Erected in Order that Ample Accommodations Will Be Provided for Distinguished Party and the City's Guests.

President McKinley and his official party will review the parade in his honor from the big stand in front of the city hall. The stand is being rearranged. An addition is being attached to the east end. This will extend to the entrance of The Bee building and a number of seats will thus be added to the capacity. Accommodations for very nearly 900 people will thus be secured. The members of the local city family will occupy the big majority of the seats, as the stand was erected at their expense, although the exposition management will be given a proper share of the stand. City Clerk Higby will have charge of the distribution of the seats to those who are entitled to them.

The president and his party will occupy the front rows of the platform along its entire length. The party will include the reception committee and officials of the exposition. The number of seats reserved for them will be 200. Immediately in the rear of this party will be seated the members of the various city boards and heads of departments, and behind will be ranged the other employes of the city hall and their friends.

One inexorable rule will be put into effect regarding admission to the stand. Those who are entitled to seats must be in their places before the arrival of the presidential train, which is scheduled to reach Omaha at 8:20 o'clock in the evening. As soon as the train gets into the city the city hall doors and all entrances to the stand will be closed and no one not in place can secure admission to the stand until the presidential party is seated. This rule will be strictly enforced.

GREETING TO WILLIAM M'KINLEY.

The people of Omaha, Nebraska and the entire transmississippi country extend cordial greeting to their chief executive, William McKinley, who has come to celebrate with them the restoration of peace after successful war. No man occupying the responsible position of president of the United States has conducted the affairs of the nation with greater prudence in most trying circumstances and none have established themselves in the confidence of the people more firmly.

It is eminently fitting that the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States should by his presence lend inspiration to the popular demonstration at the first national peace jubilee following the close of the war with Spain. Nowhere in America could it be more appropriate for President McKinley to signalize the victories of peace than in the heart of the continent at the great exposition conceived and inaugurated to illustrate to the world the arts of peace through the development of the marvelous resources of the most prolific section of the United States.

It is scarcely necessary for the people of the transmississippi states and especially the citizens of Omaha to assure President McKinley how gratefully they appreciate the honor conferred by his participation in their peace jubilee festivities, and how deeply indebted to him and the members of his cabinet for the invaluable assistance rendered by them to the great enterprise whose culmination will mark an epoch in the history of the country. Their hope and prayer is that President McKinley's attendance will give new inspiration for patriotic devotion to America's free institutions and renewed confidence in the vitality of the republic.

MUST MEET THE EMERGENCY.

During the next three days the hospitality of the citizens of Omaha will be taxed to the utmost. The outpouring of vast multitudes to welcome President McKinley and the military and naval heroes of the war will not only exhaust the capacity of all the hotels and public resorts, but also fill every residence and dwelling that offers accommodations for pay. It therefore behooves our citizens to throw open their homes and to improvise for the time being quarters for the thousands of people who otherwise would be shelterless.

The Bee furthermore urges upon the owners of public halls and the municipal authorities to throw open to public use every available place that can be made to serve for sheltering strangers who may be unable to find lodgings. The Coliseum alone would accommodate from 2,000 to 3,000 people who might be glad to avail themselves of such an opportunity rather than be compelled to walk the streets in search of other quarters.

This is an emergency that must by met by public-spirited action. It is the paramount duty of the community to make every stranger within its gates comfortable as far as lies within its power. With prompt and concerted action, all demands can be supplied.

Incidentally it may be proper to point out the most effective course to be pursued by those who are in a position to accommodate some of the visitors. Notice should be given the police, who will be instructed by the chief to direct strangers to lodgings.

COMING TO PEACE JUBILEE

People by the Thousands Flock Into the Exposition City.

EVERY RAILROAD RUNS SPECIAL TRAINS

Union Depot is Packed with Visitors Who Arrive Faster Than They Can Be Distributed by the Street Cars.

The vanguard of the army of Peace Jubilee week visitors put in appearance this morning. It came from all localities of the Transmississippi region, but mainly from Iowa and Nebraska, and the indications are that before the arrival of the last train tomorrow night all existing records for travel over the railroads will be smashed to smithereens.

Without a single exception a greater number of people were brought into the city by each of the railroads than were ever carried before during a morning and the same assertion holds good with regard to afternoon, for special trains are scheduled to arrive over all the roads in numbers that are unprecedented. All of the regular trains are carrying extra cars, increasing their size to fourteen or fifteen coaches, being drawn by a pair of locomotives instead of one. The specials vary in length from nine to thirteen cars.

At the Webster street station, in addition to the usual number of regular morning trains, there were four specials—two from Missouri, one from Minnesota, and one from Iowa. The station was crowded all morning, but the visitors experienced little or no difficulty in securing transportation to the parts of the city they wished to reach.

At the big station by the viaduct it was different. Trains followed one another into the depots at such short intervails​, unloading one lot of passengers on to the platforms before the preceeding​ crowds had gotten away, that it became impossible for those in charge to handle the throngs and every avenue of exit became congested, remaining that way most of the morning. To add to the confusion, the street car service was wholly inadequate to accommodate the visitors, and all morning the viaduct was packed with people who were unable to find places on the street cars and get away. Several hundred preferred to walk and carry luggage than to remain home for hours waiting a chance to ride on cars, and as a consequence streets leading to hotel and boarding house districts were crowded by travelers for many hours.

The regular trains into the Union and Burlington stations arrived in sections numbering from two to four, instead of one as is usually the case. In addition to these, there were two specials from Marion, over the Milwaukee; two from Cedar Rapids, over the Northwestern; two from Des Moines, over the Northwestern and Rock Island; three from Missouri, and several more from the west. Two big excursion trains from Holdrege and Beatrice are scheduled to arrive this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Missourians Still Coming.

The Missourians did not cease coming to the exposition on the conclusions of their state celebration here. Over 5,000 more visitors wearing the up-to-date motto "Show Me" arrived here this morning, and as many more are said to be on the way to Omaha to greet President McKinley.

During the morning the Missouri Pacific delivered 2,685 Missourians to the exposition authorities. They came on six trains, whereas the company's time card provides for only half that number of trains. Train No. 1 came in three sections, the first arriving with 650 passengers at 9.25 a. m., over three hours late on account of the heavy travel. Train No. 9 drew in with two sections bearing 300 and 350 persons respectively. The Auburn local train had all of its seats taken and its aisles and platforms crowded when it reached Avoca, so the engineer was instructed to pull it through to Omaha without a stop. This he did, though he had many mean things said about him by the crowds left standing at country stations.

The Rock Island, like all other roads, had a busy morning. Its specialty was in handling Kansans. Its trains from the east and from Colorado and Nebraska points were well filled, but the denizens of the Sunflower state had a great big majority. This was because the Rock Island broke away from the other roads and carried round trip rates of $2, $2.50 and $3 into territory from which the regular one-way fare to Omaha ranges from $6 to $7. A special train from Phillipsburg, Kan., will arrive at 4 p. m., and will be followed by four heavy sections of the regular afternoon train from the west, arriving between 4 and 5 o'clock. The trains are running ten minutes apart on the block system.

Modoc Club Coming.

About 2,600 Kansans are aboard of these trains under the guidance of Hon. Thomas Anderson of Topeka, ex-postmaster of that city and a Grand Army leader. He has with him the famous Modoc club of the Kansas capital, composed of twenty-five well-trained singers. His chief clerk, George W. Bainter, is with him.

All of the large supply of passenger coaches sent west last week by the Union Pacific are returning to Omaha with their seats crowded and their aisles jammed. They will be sent out to points in Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado again tonight, no matter whether anyone rides in them or not, so that they will be ready to bring more visitors to the Peace Jubilee on Wednesday and Thursday.

Here's how some of the cars came in on the "Overland Route" today: Train No. 4 in two sections, the first of sixteen cars and the second of twelve cars; train No. 8 with eleven cars; train No. 42 with thirteen cars. That complets​ the morning grist of arrivals on President Burt's road, while the afternoon express is already reported to be in three sections, with thirty-five cars, and as traffic this way increases more cars are put in service and additional selections made up.

ALL OMAHA IS READY

And Visiting Thousands Wait the Coming of President McKinley Tonight.

Exposition Officials Lay Aside All Other Business to Prepare for the Event.

Plans Made to Take Care of the Big Crowds Along Line of March and at Congested Points.

Trip to the City Hall, Domicile at the Omaha Club and the Program Wednesday.

Will Arrive "About 8 O'Clock"---Sees the Exposition Next Day and Attends the Special Attractions.

Preparations for the reception of the president of the United States and the other distinguished guests who will constitute his party temporarily sidetracked other business in exposition official circles yesterday. President Wattles was well-nigh buried in the abstraction of a thousand and one details.

It has been accepted as a predestined fact that tonight will see the biggest crowd that ever assembled on the streets of Omaha, and much thought has been given to its proper handling as well as to the details more closely applying to the reception of the presidential party. Plans have been formulated to relieve about 100 of the exposition guards for duty down town, to assist the police in keeping the streets clear and preventing any annoying interruption of the parade.

Much speculation has been indulged in as to how the crowd will be managed, as the line of march is so short that the people will be massed more densely than at any of the previous parades, and there will be twice as many of them. The presidential party and escort will pass up Tenth street from the depot to Farnam, thence to the city hall reviewing stand, but the parade proper, consisting of the combined lines of last Tuesday and Thursday nights, will only pass up Farnam from Tenth to Eighteenth streets.

The most definite information that can be secured at railroad headquarters as to the time of arrival of the presidential train is that it will be "about 8 o'clock." It is expected that the party will reach the reviewing stand shortly before 9 o'clock.

Immediately following the parade the president will be escorted to the Omaha club, where he will remain until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when he will be escorted to the exposition grounds. The addresses of the day will be delivered at the band stand on the grand plaza, providing the weather is suitable, otherwise they will occur at the Auditorium. Following the exercises the party will lunch at the Markel cafe at 1 o'clock, and then proceed through the buildings on the north side of the grand court to the Government building.

Returning through the buildings on the south side of the court, the ladies of the party will be met at the rooms of the entertainment bureau in the Mines and Mining building after lunch down town at the club, and all will take carriages and visit the Indian encampment to witness the sham battle, returning through the Midway.

The party will be banqueted at the Markel cafe at 6 o'clock, and, after listening to the Innes band concert, will drive to the north tract to see the fireworks. Immediately following the fireworks the party will leave the grounds and be driven to their quarters at the club, where they will remain until the following morning, when the special train leaves for Washington via St. Louis and Chicago.

While the exposition officials will nominally have charge of the club house during the president's stay, the building will be in direct charge of Major W. C. Ward, president of the government board, who will see that the proper regulations are observed there to maintain such privacy as President McKinley may desire.

Arrangements announced at the city hall reviewing stand for the parade tonight are that 200 most desirably located seats in the front tier will be set aside for the presidential party. In the rear will be located the city officials and employes. All persons holding tickets for these seats must be in their seats before 8:20, or they will then be shut out entirely till after the presidential party is all seated, and may happen to get left altogether in the jam.

M'KINLEY LEAVES CANTON.

Boards Special Train for Omaha and Will Arrive on Time.

Canton, O., Oct. 10.—President McKinley boarded the Omaha special at 9:30 tonight and will reach Chicago at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, leaving an hour later on the Northwestern road. Mrs. McKinley remained in Canton, but will join the president at Chicago in time for the peace jubilee.

The members of the party on the Pennsylvania special are the president, Secretary Bliss, Secretary Wilson, Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn, Secretary John Addison Porter and Assistant Secretary John B. Cortelyou. Postmaster General Smith and Secretary Gage are expected to join the party at Omaha. Governor Shaw of Iowa and his staff will take the train at Clinton, Ia., in order to be present at the exposition on Wednesday, President's day.

His Reception at St. Louis.

St. Louis,Mo., Oct. 10.—Arrangements for the reception of President McKinley in St. Louis have nearly been completed. It has been decided to abandon the proposed visit to Jefferson barracks and provide a drive about the city instead. The Twelfth regiment, Capron's battery, and battery A, will escort the president from union station to the Southern hotel, where a general reception will be held from 11 o'clock till noon. Then a reception will be held at the merchants' exchange until 12:30 o'clock. After luncheon the afternoon will be spent in driving about the city and at night a reception will be held at the exposition, where Governor Stephens and others will speak.

TO RECEIVE THE PARTY.

Committees to Greet the President at the Station.

The train of President McKinley will arrive at the union depot about 8 o'clock tonight.

Pulling in before it will be the train bearing General Miles and the whole party, comprising:

Army and Navy and Government Officials—Major General Miles, Colonel Francis Micheler, Colonel William M. Black, Colonel Samuel Reber, Captain H. H. Whitney, secretary; Mrs. Miles, Major General W. R. Shafter, two aides and valet, Major General Joseph Wheeler, the Misses Wheeler, Brigadier General A. W. Greely, chief signal officer; Mrs. Greely, Brigadier General C. F. Humphrey, Mrs. Humphrey, Miss Humphrey, Mrs. Mary Howard, Commodore J. W. Philip, U. S. N.; Captain Arthur Paget, naval attache, British embassy; Dr. R. W. Baker, U. S. A.; Mrs. Baker, Mrs. J. V. Creighton, Hon. J. M. Thurston, United States senator; Hon. J. D. Yeomans, interstate commerce commission; Prof. W. L. Moore, chief weather bureau; Mrs. Moore, Dr. W. T. Harris, commissioner of education; Mrs. Harris, General James A. Sexton, commander-in-chief Grand Army of the Republic; G. R. Butlin, secretary; A. J. Leonard, secretary; George Scott, messenger.

Diplomatic Corps—Mr. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister; Mrs. Wu Ting Fang, maid; Master Wu Cho Chu, Mr. Chow Tsz Chi, Mr. Hwang Chung Hull, Mr. Li Kwang Hang, secretaries; the minister's steward; Mr. Chin Pom Ye, Corean minister plenipotentiary; Mrs. Chin Pom Ye, Master We Chong Ye, Mr. Tam E. Ye, secretary; Mr. Henry Guillaume, Gonzolo de Quesada, charge d'affaires Cuban junta; Mrs. Quesada, Brazilian and Argentina ministers.

Representatives of the Press—George Grantham Bain, Harper's Weekly; Frederick Benzinger, Chicago Times-Herald; W. E. Curtis, Chicago Record; Louis Garthe, Baltimore American; C. A. Hamilton, Sioux City Journal; James Henry, Philadelphia Press; Raymond Patterson, Chicago Tribune; Frank Richardson, Baltimore Sun; George W. Rouser, New York Herald; John S. Shriver, New York Mail and Express; E. C. Snyder, Omaha Bee; Howard N. Thompson, Associated Press; Charles S. Albert, New York World.

For this party carriages will be in waiting at the depot, and the carriages will wait until the arrival of the presidential train, a few minutes later.

The committee that will receive the president at the station comprises:

For the Exposition—President Wattles and Mrs. Wattles, Vice President and Mrs. Saunders, Treasurer Herman Kountze, Secretary and Mrs. Wakefield, General Counsel Montgomery and Mrs. Montgomery and General Manager Clarkson and Mrs. Clarkson.

For the Executive Committee—Z. T. and Mrs. Lindsey, E. Rosewater and Mrs. Rosewater, F. P. Kirkendall and Mrs. Kirkendall, E. E. Bruce and Mrs. Bruce, A. L. Reed and Mrs. Reed, W. N. Babcock and Mrs. Babcock.

For the Government at the Exposition—Major H. C. Ward and Mrs. Ward, J. R. Dunn and Mrs. Dunn.

For the Invitation Committee—Senator Thurston, Senator Allen and Mrs. Allen, Congressman Mercer and Mrs. Mercer, John L. Webster and Mrs. Webster, General Cowin and Mrs. Cowin, General Mandeson and Mrs. Manderson, John C. Wharton and Mrs. Wharton.

For the Bureau of Ententainment​—Mesdames Clement Chase, H. T. Clarke, W. A. Redick, G. M. Hitchcock, J. E. Summers, jr., Joslyn and Lyman.

In the president's party, besides the president of the United States of America, will be Secretaries Gage, Smith, Wilson, Bliss and their wives, Secretaries Gage and Smith coming back to the city to join the president.

At Tenth and Farnam streets the carriage procession will be met by the board of governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, and the guests will be escorted up Farnam street in the lead of the main floats of the parade of Tuesday and Thursday nights. From the platform in front of the city hall the president will review the parade.

The president and party will afterward be escorted to the Omaha club rooms, and General Miles and party to the Paxton hotel and to the Millard hotel.

PREPARATIONS AT THE CLUB.

Elegant Apartments Provided for President and Cabinet Officers.

All day yesterday the Omaha club was the scene of unusual animation and activity. Preparing for the reception of the presidential party this evening occupied the efforts of everybody from the officers of the club down to the porters. But they have done their work thoroughly and artistically, and this morning the beautiful house is in readiness for the entrance and occupancy of the distinguished guests.

As a matter of greater convenience the ladies' department on the ground floor has been elaborately fitted up for the president and Mrs. McKinley, if she comes. This suite includes the cafe, reception and toilet room, and they have been attractively appointed with brass beds, mahogany dressers, chiffoniers and dressing tables. Heavy cheval glasses adorn the walls. The big doors are hung with rich tapestry, while magnificent lace curtains drape the east windows. Choice plants, vines and flowers are banked everyhere​, and the apartments are really exquisite in their artistic finish.

FOR THE CABINET MEMBERS.

On the second floor four private dining rooms have been metamorphosed into sumptuous sleeping apartments, with their handsome new furniture and other appointments. Huge palms and spreading ferns are to be seen in profusion here also. These rooms are for the cabinet officers. Ten additional rooms on the third floor have also been elegantly fitted up for the accommodation of other notable visitors.

The club house presents a most attractive appearance throughout interiorally with its labyrinths of tropical verdure, and on the outside huge silk flags alone serve as adornment. A canopied walk reaches from the broad main entrance on Douglas street to the curbing.

CAN CALL UP WHITE HOUSE.

The Nebraska Telephone company has installed a handsome telephone cabinet and special set of instruments in the anteroom to the room in the Omaha club to be occupied by President McKinley. An attendant will be placed in charge of these instruments, and the president will be afforded every facility for talking over the lines of the Nebraska company and the lines of the American Telegraph and Telephone company, thus covering every point in the country. By this means the president will be enabled to hold conferences with his office in the White house or with any other point.

The Northwestern city ticket office will today display in its window bulletins announcing the progress of the train bearing the president and his party and of the train bearing General Miles and his party. The latter train will arrive first, so that the occupants may be in their carriages when the presidential party arrives. This is to avoid delay.

Assistant General Superintendent W. A. Gardner will be on the president's train, and General Passenger Agent W. B. Kniskern on General Miles' train.

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM.

There is a general anxiety on the part of the public to know something about the line of march of tonight when the president arrives. It will be very simple, beginning at Tenth and Farnam, and up Farnam to Eighteenth street.

The board of governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and the South Omaha Riding club will meet the presidential party at the Union Pacific depot this evening and escort them up Tenth to Farnam, thence up Farnam to the reviewing platform in front of the city hall.

While the distinguished guests are being seated there the escort will return to Tenth and Farnam and lead the parade up the main thoroughfare to Eighteenth street.

After the parade the president and party will be escorted to the Omaha club by the board of governors.

Wednesday morning the party will be conducted to the exposition grounds, where it will be met at the grand stand on the plaza by the exposition board of directors.

General Green Will Be Here.

Among the distinguished men to be in the city this evening, accompanying the presidential part, is General F. V. Green. General Green, it will be remembered, passed through the city a few weeks ago, en route to Washington from the Philippines, having been summoned there to carry the reports and important documents from Manila to the war department. At Manila he was in command of one wing in the battle, full particulars of which were printed in the World-Herald at the time he passed through the city. The Nebraska troops were in General Green's command. This being true, he is especially interested in Omaha and Nebraska. Of the many notables to form the presidential party none will receive a warmer welcome than will General Green. He is president of the Barber Asphalt company and will retire from the army soon to resume his duties at the head of that company. While in the city he will be at the Millard.

EXPOSITION PROGRAM.

Tuesday, October 11.

9 a. m.—Live stock display in live stock pavilion.

10 a. m.—Omaha Concert band at Auditorium.

11 a. m.—Governors' day exercises at Auditorium:

11:30 a. m.—Model of battleship Illinois dry docked at Government building.

12 m.—Fire horses hitched by electricity.

2 p. m.—New Mexico day exercises at Mines and Mining building.

2 p. m.—Omaha Concert band in promenade concert on Main Court.

3 p. m.—Innes band at Auditorium:

3 p. m.—United States life saving service exhibition at west end of lagoon.

4 p. m.—Organ recital at Auditorium by T. J. Kelley:

4 p. m.—Sham battle on Indian congress grounds.

5 p. m.—Santiago war balloon ascension (if not too windy.)

5 p. m.—Omaha Concert band at Government building:

7 p. m.—Innes' band in third grand jubilee concert on Ggand​ Plaza:

9 p. m.—Special jubilee fireworks on the north tract.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12.

President's Day—11 a. m.—Exercises from band stand on grand plaza. Addresses by His Excellency William McKinley, president of the U. S. Chorus and band music. Lunch to distinguished guests. Lunch to Mrs. McKinley at Omaha club. Reception at Government building. Military and spectacular parade. Sham battle by Indian tribes and spectacular fireworks in afternoon and evening.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13.

Army and Navy Day—Exercises in Auditorium at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Addresses by Major General Nelson A. Miles, John D. Long, secretary of the navy; General Russell A. Alger, secretary of war; General Joseph Wheeler and other distinguished officers of the army and navy, officers of the Grand Army of the Republic and officers of the Confederate Veterans' association. Lunch to prominent guests. Military parades. Ascension of war balloons. Sham battle of Indian tribes and spectacular fireworks in afternoon and evening.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14.

Civil Government Day—11 a. m.—Exercises in Auditorium. Addresses by members of the president's cabinet, representatives of the supreme court, senators and congressmen and other civil officers. Lunch to distinguished guests. War balloon ascension. Illustration of life saving service and spectacular fireworks in afternoon and evening.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15.

Children's Jubilee Day—11 a. m.—Grand patriotic chorus on grand plaza. Music by Innes band. Concert in Auditorium. Spectacular concert on plaza and spectacular fireworks in afternoon and evening.

RECORD BREAKING AT ALL POINTS.

Peace Week Opens With Great Influx of Visitors to Exposition.

Mayors' Day Exercisee​--Missouri Day at the Apartments in Agricultural Building--Features of Monday.

The most prominent visitors on the grounds Monday were several thousand badged excursionists from Missouri, the members of the Indiana Press association and the mayors of a number of Omaha's sister cities.

"There are 5,000 Missouri people on the grounds this minute," said President Sterrett of the Missouri commission, before 10 o'clock, "and I think that my guess that there would be 10,000 here today is not too sanguine."

Secretary M. V. Carroll of the commission came in yesterday from Jefferson City and he said there were 1,000 on his train. Commissioner Hedgpeth of Atchison county arrived yesterday and says that 1,000 were on his train. George E. Reynolds, one of the St. Louis commissioners, also got in early and reported that a big crowd was coming a few hours later from the Missouri metropolis. Perhaps 2,000 excursionists from Missouri reached the city yesterday.

MAYORS.

The mayors were here because it was also mayors' day.

Mayors' day exercises were at the Auditorium at 11 o'clock. For an hour before they began a large audience had enjoyed the regular morning concert by the Innes band, which, when the visiting mayors had been escorted to the platform by the exposition management and members of the directory, playing a patriotic meddly​, all standing.

President Wattles said that these exercises were to formally open the series of events celebrating Peace Jubilee week.

Prayer was offered by Rev. T. J. Mackay, rector of All Saints.

The first address was by Mayor Moores of Omaha, who proposed the fitness of a representation of the municipalities at this important time, because the good government of cities was essential to the welfare and the prosperity of the country. He discussed the desirability of purity and integrity in the conduct of city affairs. He bade a formal welcome to the visiting mayors and assured them that if they desired to study the methods of administration every facility would be offered.

He was followed by Mayor George T. Baker of Davenport, who begun by extolling the exposition as an educator not only of the American but of foreign peoples. He was gratified that the great and grand enterprise had been so signal a success in every way. He returned thanks for the opportunity then given to him and the chief executives of other cities to visit the exposition.

John MacVicar, the mayor of Des Moines, made appreciative reference to the recent achievements of the army and navy which had given a new luster to American citizenship and given a new exemplification of valor. His theme, he said, would be "The Man Who Wanted to Come Home." While he had the greatest admiration for the heroes who had by acts won distinction, but he had an admiration no less for the boys who having enlisted had no opportunity to do further service. He held that red tape should not prevent the coming home of those not longer needed. All honor to the man, who, with the danger and the need gone, wanted to come home and return to the ranks of peaceful industry. His desire to do this indicated no disposition to shirk responsibility or to desert the old flag in danger. Let the man who wants to come home have his own way. Throw open the city home and the farm house to him and have his assistance in establishing self-government for the new American possessions.

The conclusion of the address was marked by cheers.

It was the last address, and another patriotic medley by the Innes band brought out the last applause of the hour.

President Wattles, to conclude the exercises, invited the visitors to the inspection of all the attractions of the exposition and announced that at 1 o'clock the mayors and their ladies would be lunched by the management and by the bureau of entertainment at the Market cafe.

MISSOURI EXERCISES.

Missouri state exercises were held at the apartments of the Missouri exhibit in the Agricultural building yesterday afternoon.

The rooms and the aisles adjacent were crowded. President Sterrett of the state commission first introduced Lieutenant Governor Bolte. He thanked the officers of the exposition and the people of the city of Omaha and the state of Nebraska for the kindness shown them on all occasions. He commended the commisisoners​ for the excellent and altogether satisfactory manner in which they had performed their duty, and then gave a description of the resources of the state.

The governor could not be present on account of sickness.

The second and the concluding address was by State Senator E. W. Major of Pike county. It was the first time, he said, that the west had had an opportunity to witness in collected form western enterprise. He declared his admiration of western push and enterprise as shown in what Omaha, Nebraska and the general west had done. He had no words too extravagant to express his appreciation of what Missouri and its people had done at the big show.

He then dwelt on the resources, the condition and the prospects of the state of Missouri. He called attention to the fact that the state had a larger available school fund than any other state in the union. He did not let the occasion pass to compliment the women of the state, and he quoted the couplet:

He made much pleasant boast of the promptitude with which Missouri responded to the recent call to arms, and he concluded with a general praise of the people of the state.

Dignitaries From Utah.

Judge Shurtliff, president of the Utah commission, came to town yesterday to remain ten days or longer at the exposition. He says that not many from his state are coming for peace jubilee week, but that there will be a big crowd for Utah day, October 20. Governor Heber M. Wells and staff, and most of the state officials will be present. The presidency of the Mormon church, Lorenzo Snow, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith; Franklin D. Richards, the president of the twelve apostles, and several of the apostles will also be here.

Two Regiments to Escort.

General Sumner, commander of the department of the Missouri and Colorado, arrived from Denver yesterday, accompanied by his aid, Captain Palmer.

He spent the morning conferred with the exposition authorities regarding the arrangements for the Twenty-second infantry from Fort Crook and the Second Nebraska volunteers, both of which will be on duty at the exposition all Wednesday as an escort and guard for the president. Both regiments will reach the exposition grounds Wednesday morning about 8 o'clock and will remain until the president leaves.

General Sumner offered to detail a detachment of soldiers to act as a guard about the Omaha club during the president's stay here, but the civil authorities had already made provision for guarding the chief executive's safety, and the soldiers were not required.

Cleveland Will Not Be Here.

Through a mistake it was announced in the official program of the exposition published in the World-Herald that ex-President Cleveland would be here Thursday. He will not be here.

MOVES TOWARD A HIGH MARK

Monday Swells the Exposition Admissions Nearly Thirty Thousand.

Live Stock Show Proving to Be a Great Attraction to Thousands of the Visitors.

Amphitheater Crowded With People to See the Animals Receive Their Awards--Three Hundred Prizes Already Given.

The attendance yesterday at the exposition hit close to the 30,000 mark. For Monday it was a "top notcher," and was merely a small indicator of the way peace jubilee week will swell the total admissions well beyond 2,000,000.

Today is to be divided up among the governors, New Mexico, dairymen, stockmen and the good citizens from Peoria, Ill.

Special attention is being given by the exposition public to the movements of the live stock show, over 500 visitors standing around for hours yesterday envying the 3,000 people who filled the amphitheater because of their opportunities to view the judging then going on as the prize horses, cattle, sheep and swine of all America were trotted about the ring for inspection. About 300 awards in the various classes have been made, with hard work by judges to come daily till October 20.

Yesterday they were judging the Hereford classes in cattle, Suffolk Punch class in horses, Southdown sheep and Poland-China swine. Visitors and experts of the stock shows without exception gave lavish praise of the fine quality of the stock and its excellent condition.

The judging begins each morning at 9 o'clock, lasts till noon, and again beginning at 1:30 p. m., continues till 5 p. m., during which the general public is invited to be present, liberty being given to pass through the fifty-one big barns at any time of the day.

Catalogues descriptive of the entire show, the most complete of their kind ever published, are out, being issued by the exposition.

MUSICAL ATTRACTIONS.

Special Program for This Afternoon and Tonight.

Innes and his band took part in the formal exercises which were held in the Auditorium at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. For this reason the afternoon concert had to be abandoned, much to the regret of those who have grown accustomed to going up to the exposition in the afternoon for the purpose of hearing the famous organization. The evening concert was given as announced, and was the scene of the usual enthusiasm, which seems to be a daily accompaniment to the performances of the popular organization.

A splendid program is announced for this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Auditorium, while tonight's jubilee concert, to be given on the grand plaza at 7 o'clock, promises to be of unusual interest. The piece de resistance will be the first production in spectacular form of Verdi's famous "Anvil Chorus." This will introduce a corps of costumed blacksmiths, Innes' battery of rapid fire electric artillery and the exposition chorus of 200 voices.

The clever bandmaster has arranged a magnificent feast for tomorrow night, which is to be attended by President McKinley, who is a great admirer of the band. Much interest is being aroused in the military spectacle, "War and Peace," which is to be given at the jubilee concert on Thursday night. General Manager Clarkson has assumed the responsibility of securing the necessary military accompaniment to the piece. This will take the shape of some 350 marching troops, which will form a prominent feature in the battle scene contained in the piece as well as in the military review which brings it to a conclusion. Superintendent Kelly has arranged for the attendance of the required auxiliary bands, drum and fife corps and other necessary musical additions.

The children's carnival, which is to be given on Saturday at 4 o'clock on the grand plaza, will introduce a chorus of 1,000 children, to each of whom the management has decided to present a handsome and unique souvenir of the occasion. Applications are coming in daily by the hundred to the bureau of music for places in the big chorus, and as the admission to the grounds for that day has been placed at 15 cents for each child, and moreover the managers of the concessions have agreed to admit children to any single show on the grounds for 5 cents, it is expected that every available place will be pre-empted long before the coming of the great day.

GERMAN DAY AT OMAHA.

Parade and Speeches Arranged By the Committee.

There was another meeting of the arrangements committee for the German day celebration at Turner hall yesterday. Delegates from twenty-five societies and lodges were present. The preparations for the festival are nearly concluded.

It will consist of a parade, with floats and bands, throughout the streets of the city, the societies all taking party in the procession. The parade will go to the exposition, and in the Auditorium there the[?]. The program for the latter will consist of a vocal and instrumental concert and speeches in German and English. As German speaker, William Rapp, editor-in-chief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung at Chicago, has been secured.

Theodore Sinhold has been elected treasurer of the committee, while Dr. Max Adler, who is already corresponding secretary, has also been made financial secretary. W. F. Stoecker was elected marshal of the parade. The Plattdeutscher verein at Lincoln, Turner verein at Plattsmouth, Germania society at Loup City and other outside societies will come to Omaha on German day in a body and participate in the parade. The Bennington landwehr verein will come to Omaha with a fine float, drawn by six horses. The parade will start from Turner hall, which has been made headquarters, at 11 o'clock[?]

Great enthusiasm prevails in this matter and German citizens say there is no doubt whatever that German day will prove a great event and will bring many thousand people to Omaha October 18.

North Dakota Day.

For North Dakota day, October 17, preparations for state day exercises are proceeding famously. It is assured that a large delegation of North Dakota, citizens will be present, headed by the First regiment band of Lisbon. Colonel Lounsberry, president of the North Dakota citizens will be present, headed by the First regiment band of Lisbon. Colonel Lounsberry, president of the North Dakota commission, will arrive October 12 to make necessary arrangements, and he, with Colonel J. B. Power of Power, will participate.

Miss Ford, superintendent of the North Dakota exhibit, has received from Richland and Traill counties an unusually fine collection of vegetables, including mammoth onions, squashes, beets, etc. Miss Ford has been advised of six shipments coming from the various fairs and harvest festivals throughout the state.

For Canadian Day.

Matthew A. Hall, British vice consul, returned last evening from Canada, where he had been to enlist interest in Canadian day, October 15, at the exposition. A special car, with Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior, and L. I. Parte, minister of public work, and a number of members of their staffs, will come to the city. A large number of Canadians have preceded them to this city, coming thus early owing to low fares to Chicago growing out of the rate war with the Canadian Pacific road. Addresses and music will be the program of Canadian day. They will begin at the Auditorium at 2:30 p. m. Saturday.

Idaho Branching Out.

Idaho has taken all the space she could get in the Agricultural building, 100 feet, the fakirs have taken everything else, and yesterday installed a magnificent cereal, vegetable and fruit exhibit. Properly speaking, it is a Bingham county exhibit, arranged by Mr. O. F. Smith of Blackfoot, and is intended to exploit the resources of the Upper Snake river valley, a fertile oasis twenty-five by 125 miles, including the counties of Bingham and Fremont. The products are all from irrigation, and are rare qualities of wheat, oats, corn, three and one-half pound potatoes, cabbages, celery, beets, turnips, prunes, plums, apples and pears.

New Mexico Today.

New Mexico day was to have been celebrated yesterday, but owing to a misunderstanding the program was not arranged. Ex-Governor L. Bradford Prince and a party of distinguished New Mexicans arrived in time to participate, but finding things as they were, arranged with the exposition management for exercises this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the New Mexico exhibit at the Mines and Mining building.

Exposition Notes.

In the Apiary building has been received a novelty from Silver Creek, Neb., a swarm of bees which had alighted on a slender limb thirty feet above the ground and at once proceeded to make honey on the limb. Enough honey of a fine quality had been made to fill a hive, and the limb was bending under the weight. It was carefully cut off and with the bees and honey now forms an exhibit in a glass case.

Sumner I. Kimball, general superintendent of the United States life saving service, who has been at the exposition since Thursday last, left for home yesterday. He was well pleased with the exposition and the work being done by the life saving crew on the lagoon, and in return received many complimentary words regarding Captain Knowles and his men.

Mrs. Governor Lord of Oregon is in the city, the guest of Mrs. O. N. Olberg of the Minnesota exhibit, 2438 Manderson street. She has been invited to be present on the occasion of the reception to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson tomorrow by the National Flax, Fiber and Ramie association and Prof. Charles Richards Dodge, expert on flax raising for the fiber. Prof. Hayes of the Minnesota agricultural college experimental station has also arrived to participate in the reception and subsequent meeting.

Commissioner Bernard of Pipestone and Commissioner and Mrs. Nind of Minneapolis and H. F. Brown of Minneapolis were guests at the Minnesota building yesterday.

The Southern Indiana Press association was given a reception last evening at the Press building at the exposition. An address of welcome was made by Mr. E. Rosewater.

Abraham Elsham, a Turkish camel driver at the Streets of All Nations, was arrested a night or two ago for being drunk and at the police station had a prodigious wad of money. The Streets of All nations had lost $400 through theft a short time before, and eyes were being kept open for the thief. Putting two and two together, the arrest of Elsham for grand larceny followed.

In order to avoid the jam at the exposition grounds Wednesday it has been provided that those who wish can secure admission tickets to the exposition from an official seller agent at the corner of Fourteenth and Farnam streets. This will be the only place down town to secure the tickets.

GREETING TO NATION'S CHIEF

Omaha and the Great West Receive and Pay Tribute to President McKinley.

Highest Officer in the United States and Distinguished Party Given a Western Welcome.

Cheers From Hundreds of Thousands Ascend as the Pageant Passes By---Ak-Sar-Ben IV. Pays Homage.

As the guest of the mighty west, the chief executive of the nation tarries within the city of Omaha. Direct from the seat of government to honor the great Trans-Mississippi exposition with his presence and to participate in the demonstrations of the national peace jubilee, the president of the United States, his cabinet and members of the foreign diplomatic corps, the most prominent officers of the army and navy, and representatives of the metropolitan press of the country last night arrived on special trains at the heart of the continent.

Grand in itself as was the occasion, magnificent to the degree of sublimity was the gorgeous spectacles witnessing the welcome of these distinguished guests to the empire west of the Mississippi. In a blaze of light and color rivaling the brilliancy of noonday, and greeted by loyal cheers from 250,000 throats, the notable party, accompanied by the reception committee and escorted by the carmine-coated board of governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben on horseback, moved through seas upon seas of people to the reviewing stand, where passed before them a pageant of gleaming splendor the like of which was never seen before.

From the realms of mythology, astrology and ancient fable were brought the wonders of far-off time, while with them were combined the modern marvels of electrical scenic effect on a scale never before attempted in this direction. Both the great parades of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were rolled into one and added to, and for the space of an hour the continuous effort of a year of preparation and the outlay of tens of thousands of dollars was presented in one of the most unique and awe-inspiring spectacles ever witnessed.

It was not a manifestation of personal friendship to a partisan, but the expression of the most devoted loyalty and broadest patriotism. Republican and democrat, populist and prohibitionist, goldbug and silverite, stood side by side and cheered the passing of the head of the nation, and their homage was neither increased by partisan zeal nor tempered by partisan prejudice. It was the spantaneous​ tribute of each individual sovereign to the official head of the grand republic that each was helping to build to a greater future, and hoped to see every maintained. It was a genuine western welcome, generous, cordial and sincere, that could not be less grateful to those who received than it was a pleasure to those who gave it.

CROWDS AT THE STATION.

Cheers for the President Upon His Arrival.

For hours a great crowd of people eager for the first glimpse of the chief executive of the nation jammed the platform at the station. It was the beginning of the entertainment of the president and the triumph of the exposition.

It was expected that the president and his party would arrive about 8 o'clock, but the train did not get in until 9. It was expected that the train bearing General Miles, General Shafter and others, the army and the navy heroes of the United States, would arrive a few minutes later. The president's train got in at 9, but the other train was nearly two hours behind time.

The president's train had scarcely whistled this side the Union Pacific bridge when a great scout went up from the thousands on the platform of the station, and, as the train pulled in, the police and the extra police had all they could do to keep the crowds back from the track.

GREETED WITH CHEERS.

The occupants of the carriages in waiting—the members of the reception committee—made their way to the track. Those of the first carriages there received the guests whom they were to escort. The chief was President McKinley. He came off the platform of the rear car with his hat in his hand, for the crowd was cheering and in every way extending its greeting to the chief magistrate of the nation, and the chief magistrate seemed solicitous to acknowledge the honor offered. President McKinley was arm in arm with President Wattles of the exposition. They made their way, with much courteous hat lifting by President McKinley, to the first carriage, and speedily drove away. The other carriages followed in quick order.

The train bearing the diplomatic representatives, the army and navy officers and the representatives of the great metropolitan newspapers arrived about an hour and a half behind the president's train. This train was one of the most noted trains which ever traveled across this country, having on board more distinguished people than had ever been hauled before by any railroad at the same time. Much finesse was required to handle the many dignitaries on this train, the niceties of official etiquette requiring very fine discrimination in order to avoid violating the ethics which obtain in official circles. These matters were looked after during the journey by Colonel E. C. Snyder, secretary of Senator Thurston, and the efficient manner in which the entire affair was managed resulted in many compliments for the affable and diplomatic gentleman.

It was the original intention to have this train arrive ahead of the president's train, but a wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio road in Ohio compelled the train to make a detour of about 300 miles, and threw it behind time for the entire distance.

The committees appointed to escort the distinguished guests to the hotels to which they had been assigned were at the depot, and the visitors were driven directly up town.

The committee receiving the guests on both trains at the union depot comprised:

For the Exposition—President Wattles and Mrs. Wattles, Vice President and Mrs. Saunders, Treasurer Herman Kountze, Secretary and Mrs. Wakefield, General Counsel Montgomery and Mrs. Montgomery and General Manager Clarkson and Mrs. Clarkson.

For the Executive Committee—Z. T. and Mrs. Lindsey, E. Rosewater and Mrs. Rosewater, F. P. Kirkendall and Mrs. Kirkendall, E. E. Bruce and Mrs. Bruce, A. L. Reed and Mrs. Reed, W. N. Babcock and Mrs. Babcock.

For the Government at the Exposition—Major H. C. Ward and Mrs. Ward, J. R. Dunn and Mrs. Dunn.

For the Invitation Committee—Senator Thurston, Senator Allen and Mrs. Allen, Congressman Mercer and Mrs. Mercer, John L. Webster and Mrs. Webster, General Cowin and Mrs. Cowin, General Manderson and Mrs. Manderson, John C. Wharton and Mrs. Wharton.

For the Bureau of Entertainment—Mesdames Clement Chase, H. T. Clarke, W. A. Redick, G. M. Hitchcock, J. E. Summers, jr., Joslyn and Lyman.

CARRIAGES IN LINE.

The committee met the trains, with carriages, as outlined below, but owing to the lateness of the hour of the arrival of General Miles' train some of the carriages contained only members of the committee, they returning later to escort the Miles party.

Carriage No. 1—Gurdon W. Wattles, president of the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition, and William McKinley, president of the United States of America.

No. 2—Vice President Alvin Saunders of the exposition and Mrs. Saunders and Dr. Garcia Meron.

No. 3—Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Lindsey and Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang and Mrs. Wu Ting Fang.

No. 4—Mr. and Mrs. E. Rosewater and Corean Minister Chin Pom Ye and Mrs. Chin Pom Ye.

No. 5—Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Kirkendall and Brazilian Minister Brasil and Gonzalo de Quesada, charge d'affaires of the Cuban junta.

No. 6—Treasurer Herman Kountze of the exposition and Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage.

No. 8—E. E. Bruce and Secretary of the Interior Bliss.

No. 9—Mrs. E. E. Bruce and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Miss Wilson.

No. 10—A. L. Reed and Governor Alva Adams of Colorado and Governor Holcomb of Nebraska.

No. 11—Mrs. A. L. Reed and Senator and Mrs. Allen.

No. 12—Senator Thurston and Mr. and Mrs. Dr. R. W. Baker and Mrs. J. V. Creighton.

No. 14—Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Babcock and Major General and Mrs. Miles.

No. 15—Congressman D. H. Mercer and Brigadier General Sumner.

No. 16—Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Montgomery and General A. W. Greely and Mrs. Greely.

No. 17—Secretary John A. Wakefield of the exposition and Mrs. Wakefield and General and Mrs. Charles F. Humphrey.

No. 18—Mr. and Mrs. John L. Webster and Major and Mrs. O. S. Heistand and Miss Martin.

No. 19—Major H. C. Ward, president of the government board of control; Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn and J. Addison Porter, private secretary to President McKinley.

No. 20—J. R. Dunn and Captain Arthur Paget.

No. 21—Mrs. J. R. Dunn, Colonel Francis Micheler and Colonel W. M. Black.

No. 22—Mrs. Major H. C. Ward, Colonel James Allen and Captain H. H. Whitney.

No. 23—President Bingham of the city council and Secretaries A. Delviso of the Argentine minister, Tam E Ye of the Corean minister and Leme of the Brazilian minister.

No. 24—Mrs. Congressman Mercer and Messrs. Chow Tsz Chi, Whang Chang Huli and Kwang Hany, secretaries to the Chinese minister.

No. 25—J. C. Wharton, Prof. W. L. Moore, chief of the United States weather service; Mrs. Moore.

No. 26—Mrs. John C. Wharton and United States Commissioner of Education W. T. Harris and Mrs. Harris.

No. 27—Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cowin and Captain McWilliams and Mrs. McWilliams.

No. 29—Mrs. W. A. Redick, Miss Greely daughter of General Greely, and General Miles' secretary.

No. 30—Mrs. G. M. Hitchcock, Mrs. Cortelyou.

No. 31—Mrs. J. E. Summers, jr., and Mrs. George A. Joslyn, Miss Humphrey and Mrs. Howland.

No. 32—Mrs. C. W. Lyman and George F. Bidwell and General and Mrs. John C. Black.

Nos. 33, 34, 35 and 36—G. M. Hitchcock and fifteen of the newspaper men accompanying the two trains.

WHERE THEY ARE QUARTERED.

The guests after the parade and the review were over were taken to their quarters, as follows:

Omaha Club—President McKinley, Mr. and Mrs. Secretary Gage, Secretary Bliss, Captain and Mrs. McWilliams, Postmaster General and Mrs. Smith, Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn and Secretary to the President Porter, Secretary Wilson and daughter.

Paxton Hotel—Dr. Garcia Meron, Wu Ting Fang and Mrs. Wu Ting Fang, Mr. and Mrs. Chin Pom Ye, Minister Brasil, Mr. Gonzalo de Quesada, Senator and Mrs. Allen, Secretaries Chow Tsz Chi, Whang Chang Huli and Kwang Hany, Captain Paget, Secretaries Delviso, Tam E Ye and Lima.

Millard Hotel—General and Mrs. Humphrey, General and Mrs. Greely, General and Mrs. Miles, Brigadier General Sumner, Mahor and Mrs. Heistand, Prof. and Mrs. Moore, Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Harris, Colonel James Allen, Captain H. H. Whitney, Colonel Francis Micheler, Colonel W. M. Black, Miss Greely and N. E. Dawson, General Miles' secretary, Miss Humphrey, Mrs. Howland, General and Mrs. John C. Black, L. E. Reed, Chicago Tribune; George W. Rouser, New York Herald; Howard N. Thompson, Associated Press; W. M. Osborne, Army and Navy Register; J. H. Maddy, press agent Baltimore & Ohio, Frank Richardson, Baltimore Sun; E. C. Snyder, Washington correspondent; James S. Henry, Philadelphia Press; John S. Shriver, New York Mail and Express; Raymond Patterson, Chicago Tribune; C. A. Hamilton, Sioux City Journal; W. E. Curtis, Chicago Record; Fred Benzinger, Chicago Times-Herald; Charles S. Albert, New York World.

AN INSPIRING PICTURE.

The scene that greeted the eye as the presidential party moved from the depot to the reviewing stand at Eighteenth and Farnam was an inspiring one. Notwithstanding the fact that those who assembled along Tenth street were off the line of the parade, that thoroughfare was lined on both sides with humanity, whose sole desire seemed to be to see the president and the other distinguished guests who make up his official family and fully represent the official circles at Washington. As the party passed they cheered repeatedly, there being audible evidence whenever was seen one of the faces that frequent newspaper illustration has made familiar to the great reading public.

It was when the line turned into Farnam street, however, that the extent of the crowd became apparent. At the lower end of the street the vast concourse was held back reasonably well, but as each block was traversed the opening become narrower, until from Fifteenth to Eighteenth streets the police were only able to keep open a narrow passage barely wide enough for the carriages to squeeze through. It was a congested gorge of humanity, solidly packed from the lot one to the street car rails, and any attempt to force the people back seemed like an impression on so much India rubber that immediately sprung back to its former position. The broad 100 foot thoroughfare might as well have been but half that width, so far as the parade space was concerned, for it afforded but inadequate facilities for either the moving line or the stationary spectators.

ALIVE WITH PEOPLE.

The great buildings along either side of the street seemed to be alive with people, who occupied every foot of available space from street level to roof line. Windows were crowded, improvised platforms were packed, and from every spot where a citizen of the republic struggled to maintain a point of vantage came a hearty, loyal cheer as the president of the United States passed by.

PLEASES THE PRESIDENT.

While it was perhaps but a repetition of the expressions of welcome that the people of the country have been accustomed to accord to the occupant of this high office since the nation was in its infancy, there was a heartiness and whole-souledness about it that seemed to please President McKinley, and he smiled pleasantly to right and left and repeatedly bowed and lifted his glossy tile over the entire route.

While there were several interruptions along the line, due to the size of the crowd, there was no serious disarrangement of the program until the last carriage containing the presidential and receiving party had reached the reviewing stand. At that juncture the crowd rushed forward and completely filled the street, and in spite of all that the police and a large detail of exposition guards could do Farnam street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth street became a tumultuous sea of human faces, with wildly surging waves that threatened disaster.

Over that short stretch of pavement 20,000 people madly struggled, first for position and then seemingly for existence, while the 1,500 people on the reviewing stand and the unnumbered thousands seated in compact tiers on the steep terraces of the court house grounds across the street looked on with mingled interest and apprehension. Women fainted and strong men, pitiably helpless in that resistless crush, labored with desperation to keep the inanimate forms from being trampled under the feet of thousands. Policemen seized babies from their mothers' arms and held them above their heads to prevent the crushing out of their young lives.

GOES TO MAYOR'S OFFICE.

For fifteen minutes no apparent headway could be made by the fifty policemen and guards who tried to fight back the oncoming thousands, and President McKinley was escorted by President Wattles from the stand to the mayor's office. The withdrawal of the president was not without effect, for the crowd looked blankly at the vacant space for a minute and then seemed to become tractable. More vigorous action was also indulged in by the police, and a living stream was slowly turned up Farnam street and the condition was relieved. Some objected to going, but the majority of those who had suffered in the squeeze were only too anxious to get out when the chance was offered, and in a few minutes an opening was secured. The approach of the mounted police at the head of the parade served to widen it, and from that time a passageway was maintained until the last float had gone by.

The president reappeared as the head of the line approached the stand and reviewed the moving spectacle standing by the side of President Wattles. He was cheered not only by the crowd but by the occupants of the floats, and he acknowledged the numerous salutations, a good-natured half smile pervading his features as the demonstrative occupants of ethereal space hurled muscular osculations in his direction.

Shortly before the last of the parade appeared the president and the immediate members of his party retired from the stand and were driven to his quarters at the Omaha club, as he as much fatigued by the continued efforts of the day. He had delivered sixteen short speeches, and desired to obtain as much rest as possible in view of the arduous program that had been arranged for today.

LENGTH OF THE PARADE.

The parade was an hour and a half passing the stand, and its features were regarded with much interest by the members of the presidential party and other distinguished guests. The electrical floats were very much of a novelty and were the subject of much comment. The grand effect of the general illumination received many words of approval, and there were many expressions of self-congratulation that the guests present had arrived on the first train and had an opportunity to witness the great demonstration.

The floats appeared as on Tuesday and Thursday evenings of last week, the regular Ak-Sar-Ben parade of twenty floats leading, and followed by those of the electrical parade. Inasmuch as the same attendants had done service in both parades it was necessary to halt the line midway in order that some of the unavoidable deficiencies in that particular might be remedied by a partial rearrangement. The delay, however, was not a long one.

The general effect of the street illumination was seen at its best from the reviewing stand, and the spectacle that filled the field of vision from the top of the hill looking down Farnam street as the electrical parade was approaching was one of which the visitors expressed the keenest appreciation.

After reaching his quarters at the club at 11 o'clock last night President McKinley said good night to the members of the local reception committee who had accompanied him, and after giving brief attention to one or two matters of official moment retired.

Mr. J. Addison Porter, secretary to the president, had telegraphed ahead for the engagement of a competent stenographer, and he was busily engaged in dictation during the late hours of the evening.

Sergeant Halter and a detail of twelve policemen are on duty at the club and officers were stationed at all the entrances to secure the president and the members of his party from interruption or annoyance.

President McKinley received a salvo of applause when he passed the World-Herald office and acknowledged it with a bow.

HANDLING THE CROWDS.

Police Kept Busy With Great Mass of People.

As there was never a larger multitude in the thoroughfares of the city, so there was never a more difficult task presented to the police for solution. Almost the entire force was stationed along the route which the president took from the depot to the reviewing stand in front of the city hall. The vastness of the affair only appealed to the civic authorities, and when the myriads began to collect there were nearly threescore and ten exposition guards placed at points on both Farnam street and Tenth street, where they could readily aid the police officers in their work of handling the turbulent throngs.

Captains Haze and Mostyn were in charge of the police, while Major Llewellyn looked after the less experienced guards. Steadily all through the early portion of the evening the crowds grew denser and denser, eddying to and fro like wind-swept autumn leaves. At first it seemed as though there would be excellent standing room for everybody, but as the time grew closer for the commencement of the parade it became more and more apparent that it would require the utmost energy and tact to clear the way for the presidential carriage. And such proved to be the case.

The twelve mounted police under the leadership of Sergeant Iler found the crowds so thickly massed, especially at the street corners, that the progress of the procession was necessarily slow, but there was an evident advantage in this, for it gave the people a much better chance than they had anticipated of seeing the president and the celebrities who followed him in impressive sequence. Back, back the crowds were pressed by the chafing steeds, only to sway forward again when the opportunity afforded. But the guards and patrolmen did heroic work in restraining the boisterous individuals who frequently became obstreperous.

It was at Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets that the greatest difficulty was experienced. There were several sharp clashes between police guards and citizens. At Fourteenth street one policeman was struck so violently in the face that he was stunned for several seconds, but his assailant fared rather badly when two of the guards succeeded in laying their hands on him. At Nineteenth and Farnam streets a volunteer soldier, who found himself hustled about with what he considered undue celerity, attacked the policeman at his elbow, and was immediately surrounded and placed under arrest. There were several other arrests for various misdemeanors, but all in all a big crowd was rarely handled with more marked skill.

The president himself was well-guarded, even better than he himself imagined. At the city hall he was met by Detectives Dunn and Donahue, who quietly, and without attracting any attention, dropped into his wake, and remained constantly near him until he was escorted in safety to his quarters in the Omaha club.

EXPOSITION PROGRAM.

Wednesday, October 12.

9 a. m.—Special live stock display at live stock pavilion.

100 a. m.—The Innes band on the plaza:

11 a. m.—President McKinley and his party enter the grounds.

Exercises on the grand plaza:

2 p. m.—Innes' band at Auditorium.

3 p. m.—Omaha Concert band at Government building.

3 p. m.—United States life saving service exhibition at west end of lagoon.

3:30 p. m.—President McKinley received the public at the Government building.

3:30 p. m.—Woman's club at Auditorium.

4 p. m.—Omaha Concert band at Indian grounds:

4:30 p. m.—Great Indian sham battle at Indian grounds.

5 p. m.—Santiago war balloon ascension on north tract (if not too windy.)

7 p. m.—Innes' band on the plaza:

9 p. m.—Grand special fireworks in honor of President McKinley and his party.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13.

Army and Navy Day—Exercises in Auditorium at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Addresses by Major General Nelson A. Miles, John D. Long, secretary of the navy; General Russell A. Alger, secretary of war; General Joseph Wheeler and other distinguished officers of the army and navy, officers of the Grand Army of the Republic and officers of the Confederate Veterans' association. Lunch to prominent guests. Military parades. Ascension of war balloons. Sham battle of Indian tribes and spectacular fireworks in afternoon and evening.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14.

Civil Government Day—11 a. m.—Exercises in Auditorium. Addresses by members of the president's cabinet, representatives of the supreme court, senators and congressmen and other civil officers. Lunch to distinguished guests. War balloon ascension. Illustration of life saving service and spectacular fireworks in afternoon and evening.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15.

Children's Jubilee Day—11 a. m.—Grand patriotic chorus on grand plaza. Music by Innes band. Concert in Auditorium. Spectacular concert on plaza and spectacular fireworks in afternoon and evening.

JUBILEE WEEK.

This is the greatest week in Omaha's history, and this is the greatest day in Omaha's greatest week. The city is filled to overflowing with visitors who have come to greet the president of the United States and celebrate with him and with us the advent of peace. Omaha is proud of the honor conferred upon her. She is proud to be the center of interest in this great republic for a time.

The doors of the city are open to the visitors. They are thrice welcome. The week belongs to Omaha's visitors. Everything that can be done to contribute to their comfort will be done. The magnificent parade provided by the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, the wonderful illumination of the city, the lavish decorations—and even the bright sunshine and healthful atmosphere—have been provided for them, the former by men and the latter by providence. The managers of the great demonstration have a right to be proud of the success that has attended their efforts. The success is magnificent, the occasion is great.

A WORD OF CAUTION.

The greatest crowds in the history of Omaha are here today. The streets are crowded, the cars are crowded, the stores are crowded and the exposition is crowded. A few words of advice may not be amiss, and if they are heeded there will be a lessening of discomfort and an increase in comfort.

Keep to the right and don't shove.

Do not be afraid to ask for directions. Every Omahan will gladly be of service to the visitors.

All street cars that go to the exposition grounds are properly labeled on the front. Take them as they go north.

Check your grips down town and do not take them upon the street cars nor into the exposition grounds.

Try to have the exact change for the street car conductors and for all purchases inside the exposition grounds.

Let everybody be good natured and enthusiastic. This is the Peace Jubilee. Do not mar it by becoming annoyed at minor discomforts. Enjoy yourselves and get your money's worth.

P. S.—When in doubt consult a policeman.

Notes of the Exposition.

J. Sterling Morton has been elected president of the National Flax, Ramie and Hemp association, recently organized at the exposition by flax fiber experts of the country. The entertainment committee is arranging for a demonstration in honor of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson during his stay in Omaha this week.

The Los Angeles exhibit of Southern California products is extending the olive branch of peace to all of the friends of Los Angeles, a dainty sprig of olive tied with ribbon and card.

No war balloon ascensions occurred yesterday, but everything was gotten ready for keeping the balloon in motion all the time today. Signalling by flags and heliographs is being shown each afternoon at 2 o'clock by the signal corps.

TIDE OF PEACE WEEK RUNS TO WHITE CITY

Crowds Going Out Early in the Day—Day to Governors, New Mexico and Peoria.

Sentiments of Nebraska and Colorado--Governor Otero Sends a Message for His Territory.

Yesterday was the division of the week devoted to the participation of of states through their chief executives. It was Governors' day. The Omaha Concert band entertained the audience until the arrival of their excellencies about 11 o'clock.

The exercises opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. S. Wright Butler, pastor of the St. Mary's Avenue Congregational church.

The first address was by Governor Holcomb of Nebraska, who expressed much regret that circumstances were such as to prevent the attendance of all the other governors, save Governor Adams of Colorado. He compared the progress of the American people in the last hundred years with that of other peoples, and found the great and gratifying differences to be due to the genius of American institutions and the blessings of civil and religious liberty. The exposition illustrated the mightiness of the American people in peace and the achievement and promise of the west. He commended the enthusiasm with which the chief executives of all the western states have supported the exposition project and he took the present opportunity on behalf of the state and the exposition management to return thanks for this support.

PLEASANT WORDS FOR M'KINLEY.

Governor Holcomb said he felt like a John the Baptist, making the way straight for a greater to come after. The expression of his pleasure in the anticipated visit of President McKinley drew out hearty applause. The significance of the results of the year, the victories of war and the victories of peace were dwelt on and both conception of the dignity of American citizenship, the value of American opportunity and the seriousness of American duty.

The governor's praise of the self-sacrificing spirit and of the efficiency of the volunteer soldiers as compared with the drafted troops of the standing armies of the old world were much appreciated.

COLORADO'S GOVERNOR.

After a selection by the band the concluding address was delivered by Governor Alva Adams of Colorado. The governor caused a pleasant laugh when he remarked that if the audience had any regrets it was probably not that more governors were not there, but that two more were not delinquent. He was sure that nothing which he and Governor Holcomb could say could compensate the people for the time taken from sightseeing to hear them.

Governor Adams was roundly applaunded​ when he declared that the exposition was better than any that had ever been held. If it were not better, progress was a myth and it would, too, be a failure if it did not create new ambition, new zeal and stronger purpose. He loved the exposition because it was the child of the west, and he declared that in giving his fealty to the west he was not disloyal to the east, for he was loyal to the whole, and the western people were ready to defend every foot of the country, whether between the two oceans or now in the islands of the sea.

But the western people, he said, had a peculiar interest in the land of their homes. The governor was not sure but that the ideal American was to be developed on the prairies or mountain valleys of the west. The charm of romance, adventure and opportunity had attracted the bolder spirits from the east and Europe. They might lack in some of the graces of society, but in the elements of manhood they were not delinquent. The man of the west was broader and stronger than the man of the east. He might not have due appreciation of a dress suit, but in illustrating the best ideals of American manhood and citizenship he was without a peer. He did not go into the cemeteries and boast of his ancestry, but like Scott, and Hastings, and Cicero, he was anxious to found a family of his own.

Before the war with Spain the American had not appreciated his own country at its true worth. No longer would it be necessary to read chivalry or ancient story for examples of heroism. "Your own soldier boys," said the governor, "will hereafter be your types of self-sacrifice and valor. The assault at Manila was worth more to American patriotism and American spirit than all the products of field or mine." (Cheers.)

Governor Adams argued from the [?]   necessities of trade and new markets, that the flags that had been planted on the islands of the sea should stand there forever. He closed with tender words for those to whom the war had brought personal loss and invocation of a benediction on this proud honor of the nation's history.

NEW MEXICO DAY.

Territory Celebrates at its Mining Exhibit.

New Mexico Territory day exercises were held at the exhibit in the Mines and Mining building at 11 yesterday morning. There were a number of distinguished citizens of the territory and several hundred excursionists present. The railroads had made a rate of 1 cent per mile from all points in New Mexico to Omaha.

J. J. Leeson, the commissioner and general manager of the exhibit, presided. He had intended to have on hand a larger supply of fruit to give away to the public, but was disappointed in being advised at a late hour that the fruit was delayed in shipment and would not be here until next week.

The apartments were crowded. It was lamented that Governor Otero, on account of sickness, could not be present. He, however, sent an address which was read, and short talks were made by ex-Governor L. Bradford Prince, Colonel J. G. Albright of Albuquerque and Colonel Gise of Los Vegas. Colonel Albright is the pioneer editor of that southwestern country, having founded and for twenty years been the editor of the Albuquerque Democrat.

The governor's address and the speeches of the others were laudatory of the exposition and its managers, expressed gratification at the splendid showing made under very discouraging circumstances by New Mexico and full of praise for Commissioner Leeson, to whom all the credit for the exhibit was unanimously attributed. Of course there was considerable, but not extravagant exploitation of the advantages of New Mexico has a place to live and grow rich.

Twas Peoria Day.

Peoria, Ill., was one of the claimants of yesterday at the exposition. There were no exercises. A large representation, including many men of prominence, was present from the famous Illinois city, and excursionists were on the grounds from all parts of the state. A great many from Southern Illinois came with the excursionists from St. Louis. The visitors made their presence most felt at the Illinois building, which was a rallying point for them and where they registered.

For Nebraska—Showers this afternoon and tonight; cooler tonight; Thursday fair, with cooler in east portion.

For Iowa—Showers tonight, with cooler in west portion; warmer in east portion; Thursday fair and cooler.

For Kansas—Showers in north portion and fair weather tonight; Thursday rain in northwest portion; cooler.

JAM AT THE JUBILEE

Patriotic People Do Honor to the Great Nation's Executive.

MIGHTY MASS THRONGS THE GROUNDS

Greatest Gathering Ever Assembled in the West Sees the President.

EXPOSITION GATES NOT WIDE ENOUGH

Press for Admission Exeeds​ the Capacity of Turnstiles for Hours.

EXERCISES PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT

President McKinley Speaks from the Band Stand on the Plaza to More than Seventy-Five Thousand Cheering Citizens.

If the Peace Jubilee had no other title to a place in history, the mighty celebration of today would make it memorable. The presence of President McKinley and the distinguished party that accompanied him was signalized by the most stupendous demonstration that ever occurred on western soil, and years must pass before the people who participated in its inspiring incidents can witness such a scene again. It was a fitting culmination of the mightiest enterprise the west has ever carried to success and it was witnessed by a crowd that packed the great White City with surging and struggling people until it seemed that a thousand more could not find foothold within its gates.

In the morning it seemed that the skies that had smiled so merrily had changed their temper. The clouds hung low and ominous of storm. A drizzling rain was driven in chilling mist by a strong south wind and thousands of people resigned themselves to the discomforts that seemed inevitable. But soon after 9 o'clock the prospect changed so suddenly that it seemed as though Nature had granted a special dispensation in favor of the great event. The clouds broke into a thousand fragments and these were swept swiftly out of sight. The menacing dome of slaty black was transformed into an arch of brightest blue set with slight whirling specks of gray which hurried before the wind as though anxious to get away and leave no obstacle between the azure above and the white beauty of the resplendent towers beneath. It became an ideal day for the comfort of the immense crowd that was rapidly expanding inside the exposition enlosure​ and the people hastened to dispose of their mackintoshes and umbrellas and get ready to enjoy the day to its full limit.

Couldn't Bluff the Crowd.

While nature was coquetting with the show the people were thronging to the grounds regardless of her smiles or frowns. They began to come almost as soon as it was light and before 7 o'clock there were hundreds massed in front of each of the entrances. In deference to the anticipated crush the gates were opened soon after 7 o'clock and by that time the capacity of the street car lines was reached. Soon after it was exceeded and from 8 o'clock to noon the transportation facilities were totally inadequate. The street railway company turned its barns inside out and ran its trains with exceptional regularity in view of the tremendous crowds that assailed them. But it was simply overwhelmed and a car was no sooner started to the grounds than it was loaded to the roof. No effort whatever was made to carry the people from points north of Dodge street and the trains whirled by them scarcely a block apart, but piled so thickly with people that it was impossible to secure a foothold. Crowds congregated at every block and finally most of them gave it up and started for the grounds on foot. Both sides of all the streets leading towards the exposition grounds were crowded with pedestrians and scores of carryalls and express wagons did a lucrative business picking up the stragglers.

Jam is Astounding.

When all these people merged into compact crushes at the entrances the jam was astounding. Before 9 o'clock there were fully 1,000 people marshaled at the Twenty-fourth street gate waiting for their chance at the ticket windows. On Sherman avenue the crush was less noticeable, as it was distributed between the bluff and main court entrances. It was manifestly impossible to handle such a crowd without some delay, but the inconvenience was the least that could possibly be expected. The Admissions department performed its difficult task with admirable efficiency and the people were hustled through the gates had been opened two hours there were fully 40,000 people inside the grounds, and the rush seemed to become more insistent every minute.

Before the forenoon was half over it was almost impossible to force a way through any of the large buildings. The aisles were packed solidly and every entrance was besieged by a clamoring and struggling multitude. Even in the main avenues the pedestrian had to be contented to elbow his way along with patience, and as the hour for the exercises of the day approached, the rush toward the Plaza was something terrific.

At the same time there was no cessation of the crowd at the gates. Every half minute a motor train dumped from 150 to 200 people, and nearly as many seemed to be coming on foot. What the crowd will be when the last visitor has been registered tonight is difficult to tell. Estimates vary from 90,000 to 125,000, and if it does not reach the latter figure it will be because the people cannot get to the grounds.

RECEPTION TO THE PRESIDENT.

Seventy-Five Thousand People Massed in Front of the Stand.

The scene on the Plaza as the hour for the arrival of the president's party approached almost exceeds description. From the band stand the perspective of tightly packed humanity stretched as far as the grounds were visible. It extended from the base of the pavilion over the viaduct and to the entrance to the main court. On sides the human sea was unbroken from the Horticultural building to the East Midway, and even the young trees and the roofs of the buildings were populated by ambitious spectators. Over all was a profusion of bunting that fluttered wildly in the strong breeze and blended in patriotic harmony with the cheers of the crowd and the inspiring strains of martial music. Two long festoons of streamers were strung over the Plaza from each end of the pavilion to the casinos and the arch over the grand stand was draped with two immense silk flags and huge masses of bunting. The same colors were flung from the flagstaffs of all the surrounding buildings and hundreds of smaller flags that were waved by enthusiastic spectators completed the patriotic effect and inspired the crowd to continual outbursts of cheers and handclapping.

While the crowd was waiting Innes' band played a short program and the people cheered wildly whenever a patriotic chord was touched. All this time additional thousands were pouring over the viaducts and through the gates. At length it seemed that the great expanse of bluff was so tightly packed that no more could enter. The crowd became so solidly wedged on the viaduct and in the open space that even the tremendous press behind could not budge it another inch and hundreds of people were unable to even get within sight of the president. It was estimated that when the exercises begun there were 75,000 people on the Plaza and there was not the slightest disposition to break away until after they were over.

Arrival of the President.

The presidential party entered the wagon gate from Sherman avenue at precisely 11 o'clock and the carriages were driven to the band stand through the narrow path which hand​ been kept open by the entire force of the Second Nebraska volunteers. As the carriage which contained President McKinley and President Wattles of the exposition approached the volunteers were drawn up in company front immediately in front of the pavilion and the detachment of the Twenty-second United States infantry stood in solid formation at their left. The passage of the presidential carriage through the crowd was accompanied by the most extravagant demonstrations. The crowd was wedged so closely that it was almost impossible to move, but the people managed to get their hands above their heads long enough to wave a greeting with hats and handkerchiefs and flags, while their voices united in a succession of tremendous cheers that made the Plaza ring. President McKinley bowed right and left to the people as he passed and as he mounted to the platform the demonstration was renewed. It was continued almost   without interruption while the other distinguished visitors were conducted to seats behind him and even the members of the diplomatic corps in their national costumes were greeted with enthusiastic cheers.

The enthusiasm continued while the band played a patriotic selection and was only silenced when President Wattles introduced Rev. John McQuoid of the First Methodist church to offer the invocation. This was an earnest and eloquent appeal for the Omnipotent's blessing on the celebration of the day and after its conclusion President Wattles spoke briefly in introducing President McKinley. He said in substance: "Our hearts are filled with gratitude and thanksgiving on account of the return of peace to the nation. We meet to celebrate the victory of our arms and to rejoice that the sunshine of peace again bathes our land. I voice the sentiment of all in our heartfelt gratitude to our beloved president, our honored guest today. If I could bring together all the love and adoration that we feel for him and present it like a fragrant flower I might express in some degree the sentiment that we feel. We honored every achievement of American arms. All honor to the soldiers and their commanders who have so gallantly planted the American flag where it will assure the blessings of liberty and of God. All hail to the chief who sent to a suffering people the humanity of a mighty nation. All hail our guest, our rule, our president."

Wild Burst Greets the President.

As President McKinley rose the multitude broke into another tumult of cheers that continued for several minutes. During the eloquent address that followed this was repeated at frequent intervals and when the president asked if the American people would endeavor to detract from the glory so gallantly won by their soldiers the response was a temptuous​ chorus of "Noes" that seemed to reflect the unanimous sentiment of the tremendous throng. President McKinley spoke as follows:

Gentlemen of the Transmississippi Exposition and Fellow Citizens: It is with genuine pleasure that I meet once more the people of Omaha, whose wealth of welcome is not altogether unfamiliar to me and whose warm hearts have before touched and moved me. For this renewed manifestation of your regard and for the cordial reception of today my heart responds with profound gratitude and a deep appreciation which I cannot conceal, and which the language of compliment is inadequate to convey. My greeting is not alone to your city and the state of Nebraska, but to the people of all the states of the transmississippi group participating here, and I cannot withhold congratulations on the evidences of their prosperity furnished by this great exposition. If testimony were needed to establish the fact that their pluck has not deserted them, and that prosperity is again with them it is found here. This picture dispels all doubt.

In an age of expositions they have added yet another magnificent example. The historical celebrations at Philadelphia and Chicago, and the splendid exhibits at New Orleans, Atlanta and Nashville, are now a part of the past, and yet in influence they still live, and their beneficent results are closely interwoven with our national development. Similar rewards will honor the authors and patrons of the Transmississippi and International Exposition. Their contribution will mark another epoch in the nation's material advancement.

One of the great laws of life is progress, and nowhere have the principles of this law been so strikingly illustrated as in the United States. A century and a decade of our national life have turned doubt into conviction; changed experiment into demonstration; revolutionized old methods and won new triumphs which have challenged the attention of the world. This is true not only of the accumulation of material wealth and advance in education, science, invention and manufactures, but above all in the opportunities to the people for their own elevation, which have been secured by wise free government.

Present Full of Responsibility.

Hitherto, in peace and in war, with additions to our territory and slight changes in our laws, we have steadily enforced the spirit of the constitution secured to us by the noble self-sacrifice and far-seeing sagacity of our ancestors. We have avoided the temptations of conquest in the spirit of gain. With an increasing love for our institutions and an abiding faith in their stability, we have made the triumphs of our system of government in the progress and the prosperity of our people an inspiration to the whole human race. Confronted at this moment by new and grave problems, we must recognize that their solution will affect not ourselves along but others of the family of nations.

In this age of frequent interchange and mutual dependency, we cannot shirk our international responsibilities if we would; they must be met with courage and wisdom and we must follow duty even if desire opposes. No deliberation can be too mature, or self-control too constant, in this solemn hour of our history. We must avoid the temptation of undue agression​, and aim to secure only such results as will promote our own and the general good.

It has been said by some one that the normal condition of nations is war. That is not true of the United States. We never enter upon war until every effort for peace without it has been exhausted. Ours has never been a military government. Peace, with whose blessings we have been so singularly favored, is the national desire, and the goal of every American aspiration.

On the 25th of April, for the first time for more than a generation, the United States sounded the call to arms. The banners of war were unfurled; the best and bravest from every section responded; a mighty army was enrolled; the north and the south vied with each other in patriotic devotion; science was invoked to furnish its most effective weapons; factories were rushed to supply equipment; the youth and the veteran joined in freely offering their services to their country; volunteers and regulars and all the people rallied to the support of the republic. There was no break in the line, no halt in the march, no fear in the heart. No resistance to the patriotic impulse at home, no successful resistant to the patriotic spirit of the troops fighting in distant waters or on a foreign shore!

Patriotism Flames Out.

What a wonderful experience it has been from the standpoint of patriotism and achievement! The storm broke so suddenly that it was here almost before we realized it. Our navy was too small, though forceful with its modern equipment and most fortunate in its trained officers and sailors. Our army had years ago been reduced to a peace footing. We had only 19,000 available troops when the war was declared, but the account which officers and men gave of themselves on the battlefields has never been surpassed. The manhood was there and everywhere. American patriotism was there and its resources were limitless. The courageous and invincible spirit of the people proved glorious, and those who a little more than a third of a century ago were divided and at war with each other were again united under the holy standard of liberty. Patriotism banished party feeling; $50,000,000 for the national defense was appropriated without debate or division, as a matter of course, and as only a mere indication of our mighty reserve power.

But if this is true of the beginning of the war, what shall we say of it now, with hostilities suspended, and peace near at hand, as we fervently hope? Matchless in its results! Unequaled in its completeness and the quick succession with which victory followed victory! Attained earlier than it was believed to be possible; so comprehensive in its sweep that every thoughtful man feels the weight of responsibility which has been so suddenly thrust upon us. And above all and beyond all, the valor of the American army and the bravery of the American navy and the majesty of the American names stand forth in unsullied glory, while the humanity of our purposes and the magnanimity of our conduct have given to war, always horrible, touches of noble generosity, Christian sympathy and charity, and examples of human grandeur which can never be lost to mankind. Passion and bitterness formed no part of our impelling motive, and it is gratifying to feel that humanity triumphed at every step of the war's progress.

The heroes of Manila and Santiago and Porto Rico have made immortal history. They are worthy successors and descendants of Washington and Greene; of Paul Jones, Decatur and Hull, and of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Logan; of Farragut, Porter and Cushing, and of Lee, Jackson and Longstreet.

Heroes of the Line.

New names stand out on the honor roll of the nation's great men and with them unnamed stand the heroes of the trenches and the forecastle, invincible in battle and uncomplaining in death. The intelligent, loyal, indomitable soldier and sailor and marine, regular and volunteer, are entitled to equal praise as having done their whole duty, whether at home or under the baptism of foreign fire.

Who will dim the splendor of their achievements! Who will withhold from them their well-earned distinction! Who will intrude detraction at this time to belittle the manly spirit of the American youth and impair the usefulness of the American army! Who will embarrass the government by sowing seeds of dissatisfaction among the brave men who stand ready to serve and die, if need be, for their country! Who will darken the counsels of the republic in this hour requiring the united wisdom of all!

Shall we deny to ourselves what the rest of the world so freely and so justly accords to us? The men who endured in the short but decisive struggle its hardships, its privations, whether in field or camp, on ship or in the siege, and planned and achieved its victories, will never tolerate impeachment, either direct or indirect, of those who won a peace whose great gain to civilization is yet unknown and unwritten.

The faith of a Christian nation recognizes the hand of Almighty God in the ordeal through which we have passed. Divine favor seemed manifest everywhere. In fighting for humanity's sake we have been signally blessed. We did not seek war. To avoid it if this could be done in justice and honor to the rights of our neighbors and ourselves was our constant prayer. The war was no more invited by us than were the questions which are laid at our door by its results. Now, as then, we will do our duty. The problems will not be solved in a day. Patience will be required; patience combined with sincerity of purpose and unshaken resolution to do right, seeking only the highest good of the nation and recognizing no other obligation, pursuing no other path but that of duty.

Right action follows right purpose. We may not at all times be able to divine the future, the way may not always seem clear; but if our aims are high and unselfish, somehow and in some way the right end will be reached. The genius of the nation, its freedom, its wisdom, its humanity, its courage, its justice, favored by Divine Providence, will make it equal to every task and the master of every emergency.

The inspiring conclusion of the president's address was followed by renewed acclamation and when Postmaster General Smith was introduced, he received an ovation that was almost equally flattering. He spoke briefly along lines similar to those followed by the president.

GOOD-NATURED JAM AT THE PLAZA.

Throng Gathered to Hear the President Hardly Able to See Him.

Thousands of the press who packed the Grand Plaza before the band stand when President McKinley arose to speak had been in their places for hours. Motor trains early in the morning unloaded thousands who had come long before the turnstiles were set agoing for the express purpose of getting a position on the plaza and retaining it until the exercises were over. It was a case of the early bird catches the worm and plenty of people seemed to be convinced of the soundness of this axiom.

Thus at 9 o'clock and shortly thereafter the forerunners of the immense crowd that was to come were rapidly filling the place. Gradually the crowd became a throng, the throng became a solidly packed mass. At 10 o'clock the people had filled the entire place up to the crest of the viaduct. The reserved seats had long been disposed of and the only place that one could secure to get a view of the platform was on the far outskirts of the crowd. Every point of any elevation about any of the buildings was seized with avidity. From some of the buildings and from the outskirts of the crowd it was impossible to hear anything from the platform and it was barely possible to see more than the outline of persons on the platform. Yet everybody seemed to be satisfied to look at the place where the president was even if they were not always able to distinguish him.

The crowd amused itself with the usual banter and comment that pervade such an assembly. That is, they talked while they were not engaged in trying to prevent themselves from being squeezed to death, and in stopping those who were pushing and hustling to secure their positions. A diversion occurred on the arrival of the soldiers. The Cuban veterans were given a hearty reception, being cheered loudly as they made their way through the crowd. The crowd then sank back again into comparative quietude until it was aroused to cheers by the arrival of the presidential party. The sudden push forward resulting from the wild enthusiasm and the wish to see almost obliterated the passageway along which the cavalcade was passing.

All the distinguished visitors were greeted with cheers, but the ovation of the event was vouchsafed to the president. Another outburst occurred when he arose to speak. Very few of the crowd heard President Wattles, but everybody waited until he apparently turned to introduce some one. When in response to the pantomime President McKinley arose and stepped forward, a thunder of cheers and a sea of waving hats and handkerchiefs greeted him. Those on the outskirts were as eagerly centering their gaze on the stand if they were able to secure but glimpses of the nation's ruler.

"Here, you can see him through here."

"I see the back of his head. See there!"

"That time I saw his face, fair and square. Now let's go."

"Oh, how I wish I could hear him speak only a minute."

Hundreds of such comments and remarks flew right and left through the crowd. And even though 'nary a word penetrated to a twentieth of the audience, the press remained until the last speaker had finished, until the last carriage had rolled away.

HAND SHAKING A GREAT SUCCESS.

North and South Exchange a Hearty and Brotherly Greeting.

The North and South Handshaking jubilee was one of the features of yesterday at the exposition. The exposition management turned its work in connection with the handshaking over to Superintendent Kelly of the musical department and he at once went into conference with General Passenger Agent Lupton of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railway and Prof. Atwater of the Texas exhibit. The plan was outlined and was carried out in accordance with this outline. At 2 o'clock hundreds of the visitors from the south congregated at the west end of the lagoon and many hundreds of the northern people met at the east end of the little body of water. Each section was accompanied by a band. A few moments later Superintendent Kelly appeared upon the   viaduct spanning the lagoon and commenced to wigwag with a handkerchief, tied to the end of a long pole. This signal was for the bands to begin to play. Both struck up familiar airs and continued for ten minutes, when Superintendent Kelly again wigwagged, this time for the two processions to move.

The band heading the delegations from the south played "Dixie," while the musicians who preceded the northern forces rendered "Marching Through Georgia." The two great bodies, each containing several hundred men and women, marching along the north side of the lagoon until they reached the Plaza in front of the Administration arch, where the bands joined and played "The Star Spangled Banner." The selection having been completed, Prof. Atwater of Texas stepped into the open space and said that in behalf of the people of the south he wanted to congratulate the exposition management upon its success in building up and carrying on a great show, the like of which had never before been seen upon this or any other continent. He said that the people of the south and especially those of Texas have done all that lay in their power to make it a great achievement. The railroads of the south, he said, and that of Aransas Pass in particular have aided the south in making it possible for the country to be here with its exhibits and its people, doing this by contributing money and making the lowest possible passenger rates.

This ended the speechmaking and the handshaking commenced. At first it was in a weak way, but it seemed to be contagious and in less than five minutes hundred of men, women and children were all shaking hands and all shaking at the same time. Old battle-scarred veterans who fought against each other thirty-five years ago grasped hands and appeared to be as glad to see each other as though they were brothers separated for a long period of years. The whole thing was pronounced a success and will be long remembered as an epoch in the history of the exposition.

In the march to the meeting place the northern forces were preceded by Colonel Stanton of Illinois, Major Courtney of Oregon, Colonel Richardson of Nebraska and a score of others equally prominent. The southern forces were led by Colonel Johnson, vice president of the Texas commission; General Lupton, Commissioner Cole, Colonel Gilliam of Tennessee, Captain Moore of Georgia, Leopole Cahn, Captain Travis, Miss Ethel Jones of Texas and dozens of other prominent southerners.

TEST OF THE STEEL TRACK ROAD.

Successful Exhibition of the Advantage of the New Plan.

A test of the steel road, which is on exhibition north of the Dairy building, was made yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Three heavy wagons loaded with nearly 100 men were drawn over its smooth surface by a single horse. This represented the hauling power of the animal on this style of roadway to be nearly ten times its weight.

The steel road has been placed on exhibition under the direction of Martin Dodge of the United States bureau of road inquiry. It consists of two steel rails eight inches in width and one-half an inch thick, laid on a foundation of cement. Between these is a hard surface of crushed gravel. The rails are laid in lengths of thirty feet. It is estimated that this road can be put down in almost every kind of soil at an average expense of from $3,000 to $3,500 a mile.

On a common road a good load for a horse is his weight. On the paved streets in the city a horse can haul from two to four times his weight. The steel road has the advantage of being harder and more unyielding than one made from any other material. There is practically but one point of contact and friction is reduced to the minimum. It is believed by those interested in the construction of the new road that if it comes into general use the demand for inanimate motive power will be increased, as engines of small horse power would be cheaper than horses.

The new road will be put down with a single track and no turnouts. The hard bed between the rails and at the sides is thought to be adequate to allow the lighter team to give way to the heavier.

Praise from President Peterson.

Charles Peterson, president of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Immigration company and also exposition commissioner from Texas, was unexpectedly called to his home at Rock Island, Tex., last night, thus preventing him from being here during the festivities and participating in the exercises of Peace Jubilee week. Before leaving for the south, Mr. Peterson said: "I feel confident that the Transmississippi and International Exposition will go down into history as the most successful enterprise of its kind ever held in any country on the face of the earth. In my judgment this is largely due to the advertising the exposition received. The Department of Publicity took the right course in pushing the advertising. Mr. Rosewater knew how to reach the people at the right time and just how to reach them in order to start them toward Omaha. Everybody must concede that the large attendance at the exposition has been due in a great measure to Mr. Rosewater and the efforts that he has put forth through his department and his paper, The Bee.

"I feel that Texas as​ done its share toward helping build the exposition. Our people have put in their money and have done so willingly. We feel that the investment has been a good one and that our state will be repaid fully tenfold. Thousands of people in the north, east and west had little idea of the resources and diversified wealth of Texas until they came here and looked over our exhibit. Since then they have changed their minds and many of them are willing to admit the Lone Star state stands well up toward the head of the procession in about every respect."

Sham Battle Yesterday.

The Indian battle yesterday afternoon drew its share of the crowd and proved to be an interesting feature. The grand stand and all of the vacant ground adjoining the battlefield was crowded with people, most of whom were strangers and those who have never seen the Indian as he appears upon his native heath. The fight was along the well worn lines and consisted of the Sioux and their allies battling with the Blackfeet and their allies. As has been the result frequently, the Sioux were licked out of their boots, that having been the program for the occasion.

For the entertainment of the president and the other distinguished members of the party, the Indians will engage in battle this afternoon. They will be supplied with double the usual amount of ammunition and will burn all of it before they quit fighting.

Horticulturists Decorate.

The exhibitors in the Horticultural building are filled with expectancy. They are looking forward to Wednesday, as upon that day they expect the President McKinley will pass through the building and inspect the fruit which is in their care. Anticipating this visit, all of the people connected with the exhibits are doing their utmost to place their fruit in the best possible condition in order that it may make an impression.

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TODAY AT THE EXPOSITION.

President's Day.

8 a. m. to 10 p. m.—Indian Congress.

9 a. m.—Live Stock Exhibit at Stock Pavilion.

10:30 a. m.—Innes Band on Plaza.

Part 1.

Part 2.

11 a. m.—President McKinley Enters the Grounds and Will Speak at Music Pavilion.

2 p. m.—Innes Band at Auditorium.

3 p. m.—Omaha Concert Band at Government Building.

3 p. m.—U. S. Life Saving Exhibition on Lagoon.

3:30 p. m.—Women's Club at Auditorium.

3:30 p. m.—President Receives the Public at Government Building.

4 p. m.—Omaha Concert Band at Indian Grounds.

4:30 p. m.—Great Indian Sham Battle.

5 p. m.—Santiago War Balloon Ascension.

7 p. m.—Innes Band on Plaza.

Part 1.

Part 2.

9 p. m.—Grand Special Fireworks in Honor of the President and His Party.

MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC TRAIN.

Delayed in Reaching Omaha, but Warmly Received When It Arrives.

It was due to no lack of appreciation of the merits of the commanding general of the army of the United States and the gallant officers with him that the crowd which greeted his train at the Union depot last night was small and that there was an apparent lack of enthusiasm. When the presidential train arrived it was rumored among the thousands who were at the depot that the parade would start immediately after the distinguished guests were driven to Farnam street, without waiting for the military train, and the crowd quickly dispersed to witness the pageant. Further, the people had been waiting at the depot for nearly two hours when the presidential train pulled in and the prospect of a further wait of an hour and a half was not welcomed by them.

It was 10:35 when the train bearing General Miles and staff and other military officers, members of the diplomatic corps, newspaper correspondents and government officials pulling up at the Union depot. General Sumner, temporarily in command of the Department of the Missouri, was present to greet his superior officer and the members of the reception committee were also there to see that the distinguished guests were properly cared for.

Personnel of the Party.

The following made up the party on the train: Major General Nelson A. Miles and wife, Colonel Francis Michler, Colonel William M. Black, Colonel James Allen, Captain W. H. Whitney, staff officers; Mr. Dawson, secretary to General Miles; Brigadier General A. W. Greeley, chief signal officer, wife and daughter, chief signal officer, wife and daughter; Brigadier General C. F. Humphrey, wife and daughter and Miss Page Carr; Major H. O. S. Heistand and wife and Miss Martin; Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather bureau, and wife; Dr. W. T. Harris of the Bureau of Education and wife; Dr. R. W. Baker, U. S. A., and wife; Mrs. J. V. Creighton, president of the White Cross society; Senator John M. Thurston and stenographer; G. R. Butlin, A. J. Leonard, stenographer at the White House and George Scott, messenger for the party.

In the diplomatic corps were the following: Wu Ting-Fang, Chinese minister plenipotentiary, and wife and maid and their son, Wu Cho Chu; Chow Tsz-Chi, Hwang Chung-Huli, Li Kwang-Hang, secretaries; Chin Pom Ye, Korean minister plenipotentiary, and wife and their son, We Chong Ye; Tam E. Ye, secretary; Henry Guillaume; Gonsalo de Quesada, charge d'affaires, Cuban junta, and his wife and daughter; Mr. Meron, minister for the Argentine Republic, and his secretary, Mr. Del Viso; Mr. Brasil, the Brazilian minister, and his secretary, Mr. Lima.

The following were the members of the Washington press gang: Charles S. Albert, New York World; George Grantham Bain, Harper's Weekly; Fred Benzinger, Chicago Times-Herald; W. E. Curtis, Chicago Record; C. A. Hamilton, Sioux City Journal; James S. Henry, Philadelphia Press; Raymond Patterson and L. E. Reed, Chicago Tribune; Frank Richardson, Baltimore Sun; George W. Rouzer, New York Herald; John S. Shriver, New York Mail and Express; Howard N. Thompson, Associated Press; William Osborn, Army and Navy Register; J. H. Maddy, press agent of the Baltimore & Ohio, and E. C. Snyder, Omaha Bee.

The diplomatic corps were the first to alight from the train. The Korean minister and suite led, followed at once by the Chinese minister and family. These, of course, attracted the most attention for the moment owing to the peculiar style of their dress. The Argentine minister and Brazilian minister came next, followed by Mr. Quesada, representing the Cuban junta.

General Miles and his immediate party left their car promptly and were hurried to their carriages. The general and staff wore their fatigue uniforms, but the other military men were clad in civilian costumes.

The newspaper men dodged reception committees and friends and without ceremony or loss of time made for the telegraph offices to file their stories of the trip for their papers. They will be quartered at the Millard during their stay in the city. While they were engaged in the performance of their professional duties the other members of the party were taken in carriages, in charge of members of the reception committee, and while the parade of the evening had passed up Farnam street, they were driven over the route to see the illuminations and caught a glimpse of a portion of the parade as it passed along one of the other streets. They saw the vast crowd which had lined the streets during the early part of the evening, although it was at this time in a disorganized and tangled condition, and drove by the reviewing stand where a few people yet remained to greet them.

Delayed in Ohio.

The first delay of the train bearing this party, save that caused by the stops for speechmaking, was just east of Cambridge, O. There a wreck on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio made it necessary to make a detour of about 300 miles. Even this did not ruffle the general, for he was enabled to speak and arouse the patriotism of thousands of Americans whom he could not have addressed otherwise. This made the train an hour and half late in Chicago.

From Chicago to Omaha there is not a town of importance that has not had the pleasure of seeing and listening to the eloquence of General Miles.

At Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown the enthusiasm was so great that it reached Wu Ting-Fong, the Chinese minister, and he made two rousing speeches. The unusual sight of a United States general and a Chinese minister, the one in his uniform, the other in his native dress, side by side, speaking on the same themes, roused the people to thunders of applause.

Little Wu Cho Chi, the Chinese minister's son, hobnobbed with little We Ching Ge, the Korean minister's son, and all along the route the distinguished foreigners showed the liveliest interest and wonder.

The party will remain here till midnight on Friday.

The train of three sleepers, a buffet, a dining and a private car for General Miles, was in charge of General Passenger Agent W. B. Kniskern and his assistants, John L. Furgerson and R. H. Aishton of the Northwestern road, while G. H. Maddy accompanied the party as the representative of the Baltimore & Ohio.

RECEPTION AT THE CITY HALL.

Welcome Accorded the President, Who Reviews the Parade.

Unparalleled in the annals of Omaha was the reception accorded to President McKinley last night by the vast concourse of people assembled on and about the reviewing stand in front of the city hall. The ovation to the great war president, which was continuous from the union depot to the Omaha club, reached its climax in the block on Farnam street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. Here the three great buildings of Omaha, the city hall, the county court house and The Bee building, were taxed to their utmost capacity by enthusiastic spectators, while the broad streets surrounding them were packed to suffocation and the spacious lawn surrounding the court house for an entire block was lost to view in a solid covering of humanity.

It was just forty minutes after 9 o'clock when a burglar stationed far aloft in the tower of the city hall sounded the signal that excited the 500 spectators on the grand stand and the 100 times 500 men, women and children who surged as a mightly​ sea for a block about the reviewing stand and transformed the laughing chattering multitude into one that appeared beside itself with enthusiasm, every component member of the great throng wildly cheering as though his throat must break and waving a hat or a flag or a handkerchief in patriotic greeting to the president of the United States.

Welcome is Spontaneous.

The bright red coats of the Board of Governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben were already seen nearing the crest of Farnam street hill and the outlines of the carriage containing the most honored guest of the Exposition city could be barely descried. And the great crowd doubled its cheers and waved its salutations more frantically. In less than five minutes from the sounding of the bugle signal the long expected guest was in front of the great reviewing stand and his carriage was flanked on both sides by crowds that seemed to have no dimensions that could be computed. From both sides came the renewed cheers and the martial air of the Seventh Ward band was drowned; the brilliant attire of the governors of the loyal Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and the handsome trappings of the South Omaha Equestrian club momentarily lost their attractiveness, paled by the tens of thousands fluttering flags and waving hats. To force a way for the carriage of the president and the long line of equipages that followed through the dense throng that occupied every foot of space in the street seemed an impossibility, but the four score of mounted governors, equestrians and policemen gradually cleared a way and the carriages penetrated the multitude without serious interruption.

Wherever they were recognized the members of the cabinet and other government officials were also accorded a hearty reception, and Governor Holcomb and "Our Dave Mercer" were especially well remembered. Major Robert S. Wilcox, King Ak-Sar-Ben IV, received an ovation from the twin grandstands of the city and the county that was second in intensity only to that accorded to the president and all of the Board of Governors were given "the glad hand" [?]

Reviews the Parade.

President McKinley entered the city hall from Eighteenth street and was escorted to the offices of Mayor Moores by the mayor and President Wattles of the exposition directory. He remained there a few minutes, chatted pleasantly with a few friends and then was taken to the reviewing stand in front of the building to witness the joint parade of the two grand parades of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben. As he entered the grandstand the great crowd arose and cheered, while the president, walking slowly down the center aisle to his seat at the front, smiled and bowed, with his hat in his hand, turning from one side to the other, acknowledging the remarkable demonstration in his honor. Reaching his chair at the front of the stand, he stood several minutes with uncovered head bowing to the immense crowd that stood in front of him and seemed to have no limit to its voice capacity. The president was kept busy acknowledging the demonstration until the head of the procession was seen in front of The Bee building. A few enthusiastic spectators who had seats near the chair of honor seized the interval to press forward and shake hands with the president. He was followed by 100 members of the party from Washington and their Omaha hosts and hostesses.

As the head of the mighty pageant of legendry and light reached the reviewing stand President McKinley arose and, lifting his hat, bowed graciously and gracefully to the mounted Board of Governors. He extended the same compliment to the Equestrian club, while all the riders placed their hats on their left shoulder while passing the reviewing stand. For each float the president arose, removed his hat and bowed, while there was not a single horseman or knight who saluted the president who failed to receive a kindly recognition. The knights who assumed the apparel of princesses on the beautiful floats illustrative of "The Feast of Alhambra" kissed their hands to his excellency and the well appointed attendants of the "Two Discreet Statues" brought out two beautiful American flags and waved them as they passed the stand.

Proceeds to the Club.

The president stood and plainly well pleased saw sixteen of the gorgeous floats pass by. Then there was an unfortunate break in the procession. The president sat down for a few minutes and then, as there appeared to be no sign of the march being resumed, withdrew with President Wattles, at 10:30 o'clock. The spectators of the grandstand arose and cheered again and again as he passed out, though they regretted that he could not remain to see the unique electrical display, which constituted the second portion of the pageant. The president was driven directly to the Omaha club, where a supper was served to the presidential party in the elaborately appointed private dining room.

Most of the other guests from Washington remained on the stand throughout the passing of the long parade and showed their appreciation of it by frequent applause. The last two of the electrical floats, one representing the army and the other the navy, were particularly well received. During the last part of the electrical parade, Managers Lindsey and Rosewater of the exposition executive committee entered the stand with General Miles and several prominent representatives of the diplomatic corps. As these distinguished visitors were recognized another shout of welcome went up from the great crowd. Following the last float of the pageant the street crowd took up the line of march past the reviewing stand and, although the "conquering hero" was not there, the throngs by the thousands pressed near and cheered loudly in his honor.

How the Party is Cared For.

Following is a list of the visitors of the city and the persons to whose especial care they have been consigned during their stay:

Carriage No. 1—President McKinley, escorted by Mr. G. W. Wattles; Omaha club.

Carriage No. 6—Secretary Lyman J. Gage and Mrs. Gage, escorted by Mr. Herman Kountze and Mrs. G. W. Wattles; Omaha club.

Carriage No. 2—Dr. Garcia Meron, escorted by Mr. Alvin Saunders and Mrs. Alvin Saunders; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 17—General Charles F. Humphrey and Mrs. Humphrey, escorted by Mr. John A. Wakefield and Mrs. John A. Wakefield.

Carriage No. 16.—General A. W. Greeley and Mrs. Greeley, escorted by Mr. C. S. Montgomery; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 3—Mr. Wu Ting Fang and Mrs. Wu Ting Fang, escorted by Mr. Z. T. Lindsey and Mrs. Z. T. Lindsey; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 4—Mr. Chin Pom Ye and Mrs. Chin Pom Ye, escorted by Mr. E. Rosewater and Mrs. E. Rosewater; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 5—Mr. Brasil, minister of Brazil, and Mr. Gonzalo de Quesada, escorted by Mr. F. P. Kirkendall and Mrs. F. P. Kirkendall; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 8—Secretary C. Bliss, escorted by Mr. E. E. Bruce; Omaha club.

Carriage No. 9—Secretary Wilson and Miss Wilson, escorted by Mrs. E. E. Bruce; Omaha club.

Carriage No. 10—Governor Alva Adams and Governor Silas A. Holcomb, escorted by Mr. A. L. Reed; private car in the exposition grounds.

Carriage No. 11—Senator W. V. Allen and Mrs. Allen, escorted by Mrs. A. L. Reed; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 14—General Miles and Mrs. Miles, escorted by Mr. W. N. Babcock and Mrs. W. N. Babcock; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 12—Dr. R. W. Baker, Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Creighton, escorted by Senator Thurston; Mr. Thurston's home.

Carriage No. 15—Brigadier General Sumner, escorted by Hon. D. H. Mercer; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 24—Mr. Chow Tsz Chi, Mr. Whang Chan Huli and Mr. Kwang Hany, secretary of the Chinese minister, escorted by Mrs. D. H. Mercer; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 18—Major H. O. Heistand and Mrs. Heistand, escorted by Hon. John L. Webster and Mrs. John L. Webster; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 27—Captain McWilliams and Mrs. McWilliams, escorted by Hon. John C. Cowin and Mrs. John C. Cowin; Omaha club.

Carriage No. 7—Secretary Charles E. Smith and Mrs. Smith, escorted by ex-Senator C. F. Manderson and Mrs. C. F. Manderson; Omaha club.

Carriage No. 25—Prof. W. L. Moore, Mrs. Moore and Hon. J. D. Yeomans, escorted by Hon. J. C. Wharton; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 26—Dr. W. T. Harris and Mrs. Harris, escorted by Mrs. J. C. Wharton; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 19—Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn and Secretary to the President Porter, escorted by Major H. C. Ward; Omaha club.

Carriage No. 22—Colonel Samuel Reber and Captain H. H. Whitney, escorted by Mrs. H. C. Ward; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 20—Captain Arthur Paget, escorted by Mr. J. R. Dunn; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 21—Colonel Francis Michler and Colonel W. M. Black, escorted by Mrs. J. R. Dunn; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 23—Secretary A. Delviso of Argentine, Secretary Tam E. Ye of Korea and Secretary Lima of Brazil, escorted by Mr. W. W. Bingham; Paxton hotel.

Carriage No. 28—The Misses Wheeler, escorted by Mrs. H. T. Clarke; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 29—The Misses Wheeler and General Miles' secretary, escorted by Mrs. W. A. Redick; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 30—Miss Wheeler and Mr. Cortelyou, escorted by Mrs. G. M. Hitchcock; Millard hotel and Omaha club.

Carriage No. 31—Miss Humphrey and Mrs. Howland, escorted by Mrs. J. E. Summers, jr., and Mrs. George A. Joslyn; Millard hotel.

Carriage No. 32—General John C. Black and Mrs. Black, escorted by Mr. George F. Bidwell and Mrs. C. W. Lyman; Millard hotel.

Carriages No. 33, 34, 35 and 36—Fifteen newspaper men, escorted by Mr. G. M. Hitchcock; Millard hotel.

PASSAGE OF THE GREAT PARADE.

How the Pageant Formed and Deployed in Review.

Under the shadow of the searchlight that threw its rays from the top of the B. & M. headquarters the forty floats that were to compose the parade waited to fall in behind the presidential party. The structures that delineated in their passage the story of Alhambra were lined on Farnam street east of Tenth and as fitted the personal following of King Ak-Sar-Ben were scheduled to follow directly after the carriages of the distinguished visitors. On Tenth street north of Farnam the electrical pageant of the celestial bodies was in waiting to pursue its glowing course in the rear of the royal procession. All of the knights and their servitors had kept faith with the royal edict and were on hand at the den in ample time to complete preparations. The combined parades took several hundred men to equip the floats and with the attendants a small army of the knig's​ subjects were required in the service. The party of sixty composing the South Omaha Equestrian club assembled on Harney street below Tenth and later rode to meet the visitors to act as guard of honor. Two attended each carriage on either side under command of Colonel A. L. Lott and made an attractive showing in their tall riding boots, white trousers, black coats and light fedora hats. Tenth street had been additionally lighted as far as the viaduct with overhead lines of incandescents and when the searchlight detected the first carriage descending the viaduct the torches were lighted and final preparations made to fall in.

When the carriage containing the chief executive was borne along within finger touch of the multitude, the pride and enthusiasm of the people burst forth in a shout of welcome that attended the carriage along the course. Sergeant Iler in front of his mounted platoon endeavored to make his direction heard, that the parades would follow close behind the presidential party. Just behind this escort rode Major Wilcox, king of Quivera, with the Board of Governors of the kingdom trusting to no lesser hands the attendance of William McKinley. The latter was drawn by snow white horses, while a bevy of knights in scarlet coats and caps rode close beside to keep back the eager populace pressing in upon the carriage for a glimpse of the kindly faced gentleman, who acknowledged their homage with bared head. In front of the whole party marched the Seventh Ward band, which heralded the coming of the nation's chief. Nearly two score carriages followed the presidential equipage and all received a demonstration of western cordiality.

The people who were massed from the building walls to the wheels of the carriages were then pressed back to make way for the pageants which followed with small delay. As minutely described on the occasion of their former appearance, they reflected the splendor of Ak-Sar-Ben;s realm, setting forth first the magic creations attending the Legends of Alhambra and following it the visitation of the heavenly bodies. Beside the admirable arrangement and construction of the floats, a display was made of increased illuminations along the streets. The public buildings on the route were lighted and adorned. Along Farnam street were hung large American flags and many congregations on private stands were individually provided with similar means of salute. The features of McKinley were presented on thousands of engravings and bunting decorated the entire route.

Before the first pageant had passed the reviewing stand the only unfavorable incident of the evening occurred. An electric light wire at Eighteenth and Douglas streets became unfastened and the procession was delayed for almost twenty minutes until repairs were made.

After the last float had passed, thousands of people made their way up Farnam street to win a sight of the city's guest. The thoroughfare for over a block east of Eighteenth was filled with a solid mass of humanity. The president and his party had left the reviewing stand, but men, women and children scanned the official stand eagerly, with cries of "Where is he?" High school boys in flying wedges and tandem files crushed their way through with the slogan, "McKinley, or bust." The crowds were finally cleared away safely, however, and the dense throng dispersed.

AFTER THE PARADE HAD GONE BY.

People Crowd the Streets in Indescribable but Good Natured Confusion.

Immediately after the last float of the parade had passed any given point along the line turmoil, confusion and pandemonium followed in its wake. The press which had been wedged in tight against the walls of stone and brick expanded and swept out into the street in an indiscriminate mass; the majority followed the final car in the parade and when Seventeenth and Farnam streets was reached there was a solid mass of people filling the last two blocks and a fringe extending a half a dozen blocks in every direction.

The street car company had made excellent arrangements to take care of the passenger traffic, but even these were utterly inadequate. A score and more of motor trains were waiting to transport the people to their homes or their lodging places from every central point. Despite these arrangements, however, hundreds of people were compelled to remain and wait for hours before they were able to secure street car facilities that would land them at the nearest junction to their homes or the places at which they passed the night.

The greatest jam occurred at Sixteenth and Farnam streets, where the east and westbound street cars interfered with the cross-town line. For a full half hour the parade had passed this intersection was packed with people who were seeking to obtain transportation and they preempted every inch of space in these cars. The remainder of the crowd was forced to wait for following cars to be able to get to their night's resting places.

The police arrangements were excellent and it was only because of this that accidents did not occur. A score of these guardians of the peace were stationed at the intersection of Farnam and Sixteenth streets to take care of the people and the vehicles that thronged the corner. It was long after midnight before the crowds had left the streets along which the parade had passed.

ARRANGEMENTS AT CLUB HOUSE.

Handsome Building Especially Furnished for Distinguished Visitors.

The Omaha club, which has been turned over to President McKinley and his official family during their stay in Omaha, has undergone a wonderful transformation in anticipation of its guests. Above the main entrance on Douglas street are beautifully draped festoons of flags, while a carriage canopy leads from the curb to the door. Inside the club house the apartments have been rearranged with special reference to the accommodation of the presidential party. All through the halls and the reception rooms the florist's art has made a bower of palms, plants and cut flowers. The walls have been hung with new pictures and the drapers and furniture men [?]

The quarters assigned to President McKinley are on the first floor opening off the drawing room, where formerly the women's ordinary was located. Two heavy brass bedsteads have been set up, one in the larger room and one in the smaller, while the toilet room has been turned into a bath. Had Mrs. McKinley come the two beds would have been in the larger room, but upon notice of her withdrawal from the party the smaller room was fitted up as a bedroom for the use of Mr. J. Addison Porter, the president's secretary. One surprise which the president met here was a picture of Mother McKinley, which has been hung in his chamber and which is a proper photographic copy of an old painting made by Peixotto. A portrait of President McKinley himself, which hangs in the reception room, has been prettily draped with the American flag. The large dining rooms on the second floor will be used for the president's party. Last night the table was laid for an evening supper for the guests and shone brightly with brilliant glassware and handsome silver.

Besides the rooms on the third floor, usually occupied for sleeping apartments, three additional chambers have been fitted up on the second floor in rooms formerly used as dining rooms and library. All these have been assigned to different members of the party. The entire service of the club, with all the waiters and attendants, is at the disposal of the guests, the members of the club having relinquished their rights entirely while the house is occupied by the president. The work of arranging the club for the reception of the president has been under the personal supervision of the directors, who are being warmly congratulated on the result of their labors.

TAKING CARE OF THE CROWDS.

How the Police Wrestled with the Jam that Choked the Streets.

Chief White and his 100 men, representing the entire strength of the police department, reinforced by fifty-two of the exposition guards, handling the crowd with credit. Not an accident occurred and but two pockets were picked. On Farnam street from Tenth to Seventeenth streets where the crowds filled the street from one side to the other the greatest difficulty was experienced by the police and guards in maintaining order. An officer was stationed every six feet on each side of this street from Sixteenth street to Seventeenth street.

During the early hours of the evening this force of men was able to maintain a clear street from curb to curb, but as soon as the head of the procession swung into Farnam street from Tenth the crowds that lined the sidewalks crowded out into the street despite the frantic efforts of the police to force them back. The surging crowd was reinforced from all the side streets the length of the route and by the time the president's carriage had started well on its way northward just a narrow lane, through which his carriage barely passed, was all the space the bluecoats could keep open. At Fourteenth and Farnam this lane began closing up and by the time the foremost carriage reached Sixteenth street the pavement was simply one mass of closely-wedged heads. From there to the reviewing stand the police had to fight their way through the crowds.

The carriages of the presidential party were besieged by anxious ones desirous of shaking hands with some one of the notables. The handshaking mania did not appear to the strike the crowd until Sixteenth street was reached.

At the Tenth street depot the dense crowds were more tractable than those on Farnam street and the ten officers under Sergeant Whalen were able to maintain a clear pathway for the presidential party from their trains to the waiting carriages. On the approach to the viaduct, over which the procession passed, a force of fifty officers, the combined forces of Sergeants Iler and Whalen, held in check the people and prevented them crossing the structure with the procession. This precaution was taken to insure the safety of the people.

After the parade, considerable difficulty was experienced at the Douglas street bridges in holding the crowds of Council Bluffs residents, who were anxious to return to their homes. The street cars were blockaded and the wagon roadway was congested by all manner of vehicles, which were wedged into one compact mass. But two officers were on duty at this point and they might just as well have been paper men, for all the good they did. A hurry call to the station for more aid was responded to by fifteen men, who succeeded in breaking the barriers and allowing the crowd to trickle out across the bridge.

Notes of the Parade.

Not an accident was reported during the night.

All of the theaters postponed their entertainments until 10:30.

In honor of the president coming Tenth street from Farnam to the depot was festooned and arched with strings of electric lights.

There was hardly a window in the buildings facing on Farnam street and those on the side streets near it but that was crowded with sightseers.

Mrs. A. V. Dunn of St. Paul, Neb., and Joseph Coppinger of Auburn, Neb., were the only victims of pickpockets reported up to midnight. The former lost a watch and the latter $58.

Harry Hunter, alias W. A. Hudson, and A. Tweed of Chicago and "Seno" Joseph Tiechman and a man only known as "Greeney" of Minneapolis were pickpockets who fell into the clutches of the police before they could do any work. Hunter and Tweed belong to the notorious McFarland gang of crooks and were arrested by Pinkerton detective Conway. Chief White himself arrested the other two.

On the top of the headquarters building of the Burlington Railroad company a big powerful electric searchlight was placed. Its broad beam of light made the pathway of the procession as light as day from the depot to the reviewing stand. On the front of the building was a large electric lighted crescent with a portrait of President McKinley in the center and with the word "Welcome" in red lights above it. This decoration was saluted by the president as he passed it.

DEATH RECORD.

Funeral of C. F. Beindorff.

A large number of sorrowing friends, old schoolmates and city and country officials attended the funeral yesterday afternoon of the late Charles F. Beindorff, who died Sunday evening after an illness of only a day. The services were conducted at 2 o'clock at the residence, No. 1025 South Thirtieth avenue, by Rev. S. Wright Butler, pastor of the St. Mary's avenue Congregational church. The interment was in Prospect Hill cemetery.

Mr. Beindorff died at the age of 35 in the noon of life. He had really been ailing for a year but was not taken down sick until Saturday afternoon in the German village at the exposition, of which he was the concessionaire. He leaves a widow and three small children, one of the children being only a baby. His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beindorff; his bother​, Otto; his sister, Mrs. Oliver P. Burnett, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Baker, were all among the mourners. The pall-bearers were Alfred Millard, H. D. Reed, George Scribner, Frank Colpetzer, F. B. Johnson and H. E. Palmer.

The deceased was born in this city and when the Sons of Omaha organized he became one of the charter members. He was the vice-president of this organization in 1891. As the architect of the city hall and the Omaha club his name had become a household word among builders. He was the superintendent of construction of the postoffice for the first year or two. He was also the architect of the Horticulture building at the exposition. A number of the courthouses of the state and several schoolhouses have been built after his plans. In In politics he was a republican and took a very active part in the campaign of 1896, acting as chairman of the city central republican committee. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technicology​ in Boston.

HON. L. S. GATES DROPS DEAD

Dairy Commissioner of Iowa Stricken with Apoplexy While Speaking at the Convention.

While addressing the convention of dairymen yesterday afternoon Hon. L. S. Gates, dairy commissioner of Iowa, was stricken with apoplexy. He died fifteen minutes later at the emergency hospital.

Mr. Gates was the fourth speaker and was telling of the work of the dairymen in Iowa when he suddenly stopped and with the words "I'll have to quit," sank into his chair. Those who were sitting near him, thinking that he had fainted, supported his head while his face was bathed with water. The efforts to revive him continued for five minutes without success. Then he was lifted by four of his fellow delegates and carried out of the building where he could get more air, and the ambulance was called. While awaiting its arrival restoratives were used without avail.

On arriving at the hospital the case was pronounced apoplexy. In five minutes the fluttering pulse of the stricken man ceased to beat. Life with strength of mind and body that were so fully his had been snatched away without warning.

Mr. Gates was among the first dairymen to start a creamery in the state of Iowa and in recognition of his experience was appointed state dairy commissioner last January. His home for many years had been at Manchester, where he owned a large farm and furnished the market with a great deal of butter. He was at one time a member of the state legislature. He was 65 years of age and left a widow and one son.

MONEY COULD NOT GET BEDS

Thousands of People Compelled to Bunk in Public Places or Walk the Streets.

It is estimated that nearly 10,000 people walked the streets all of last night because of their inability to secure sleeping accommodations. Every lodging house, hotel and temporary sleeping structure in the city was crowded to its utmost capacity. The hotel lobbies were crowded with people, who gladly paid 25 cents for the privilege of sleping​ in chairs or on desks and tables. The dining rooms of the hotels were turned into sleeping rooms by laying mattresses on the floors. At the court house every available bit of floor space was occupied by tired sightseers and hundreds were turned away. This same condition of affairs existed at the old Coliseum building on North Twentieth street, which had been fitted up by the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben as temporary sleeping quarters. Even the rooms at police headquarters were crowded with people unable to obtain other shelter. The various railway depots housed hundreds of people.

Thousands finding themselves outcasts moved over to Council Bluffs and to South Omaha, but only about 40 per cent of these could be accommodated. Those who found themselves unwilling outcasts, walked the streets or rolled up in the front doors of buildings out of the reach of the raw wind. The big reviewing stand in front of the city hall afforded shelter for hundreds.

The entire police department and the exposition guards detailed to police duty were on duty all night and their orders this morning were to remain on duty all of today and tonight.

Between the hours of 6 o'clock and 11 this morning the downtown streets were almost as densely crowded as they were last night at the time of the parade. Every incoming trains swelled the crowds by thousands. The street cars from Council Bluffs and South Omaha kept pouring into the city a stream of humanity from early morning until almost noon. Every available car the street car company could spare from its allied lines was used in the transportation of the crowds to the exposition grounds. The tracks to the grounds were studded with crowded cars from the center of the city to the exposition gates.

One of the officials of the road said that during the early morning hours nearly 150,000 people were unloaded at the grounds by the street car company. Long before the ticket windows at the gates were opened thousands had congregated about them. To ease the jam at the windows the exposition officials stationed ticket sellers at all the down town street crossings and hundreds of people availed themselves of the chance to buy tickets. Men with megaphones were stationed with every ticket seller, whose duty it was to announce the sale of tickets. Squads of policemen, whose faces showed signs of the arduous work they had performed the night before, were detailed at every prominent crossing to handle the clamoring, surging, anxious crowds.

The vigilance of this handful of peace guardians prevented accidents and turbulence. The creditable handling of the vast concourse of people by the department called forth the thanks of the governors of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben to Chief White. In a short letter to him this morning they thanked him and his men for their efforts and complimented him highly. Tonight the entire force of police and guards, with the exception of a detail to watch the downtown streets, will be divided between the railway stations. Chief White anticipates that the hardest work is in store for his men, as fully 90 per cent of the visitors, he thinks, will leave the city tonight for their homes. He is highly pleased with the work of his men. The record, he thinks, of not a single accident and but two cases of pocket picking is a wonderful one and equal to the record of the police department.

PRESIDENT'S MORNING HOURS

Breakfast at the Club and Correspondence Fills His Limited Time.

PATRIOTIC PEOPLE OUT TO WATCH FOR HIM

Many Citizens Crowd Around the Club House to See the Honored Guest of the City Leave for the Grounds.

President McKinley arose this morning at 8:15 o'clock, but an hour before this time the streets surrounding the elegant club house of the Omaha club at Twentieth and Dodge streets were thronged with thousands of citizens and visitors moved with one desire—to catch a glimpse of the president and add their greetings to those so numerously conferring the evening before.

In the handsomely appointed private dining room set apart for the president breakfast was served to the guest of honor, his nephew, Captain James McKinley, and his secretary, J. A. Porter. Immediately after breakfast the president returned to his suite of beautiful rooms on the first floor, and put in about an hour's work with necessary correspondence, dictating quite a batch of