CHAPTER VIII.

THE GLOWING TRIBUTE OF CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.

An oration so brilliant as to hold every listener spell-bound — Columbus, the discoverer, Washington, the
founder, Lincoln, the savior — God always has in training some commanding genius for the control of great
crises in the affairs of nations and people — Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and
picturesque picture than that of Christopher ColumbuP- The magician of the compass belonged to that
high order of "cranks " who confidently walk where " angels fear to tread " — Continents are his monu-
ments— Prayer by Cardinal Gibbons and benediction by Rev. H. C. McCosh, of Philadelphia — Grand dis-
play of fireworks closed the dedication festivities 125