CHAPTER V.

THE PRESS AND THE COLUMBIAN GUARD.

Splendid service of the Columbian guard— Cursed, reviled and knocke i down and otherwise abused, they
faithfully perform their multiform duties of fireman and police — The. extinguish 284 fires and save Ma-
chinery Building from total destruction— The thanks of the Expositio i are due to Colonel Edmund Rice
and the Columbian guard — Also to John Bonfield and his secret service police — The Fair indebted to the
Chicago press more than to all other things combined . . . . , 79