CHAPTER I.

ARRIVAL OF DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE.

Vice-President Morton Acts for President Harrison— General Schofield and His Staff, the Cabinet
Ministers, Justices of the Supreme Court, and Many Foreign Ambassadors come to Chicago —
The City Filled with Soldiers, Senators and Congressmen — Nearly All the Governors of the States
and Territories Arrive Accompanied by Their Military Staffs— Texas Sends Thirteen Handsome
Young Women as Representatives of the Original Thirteen States— Bishop Fowler and Cardinal
Gibbons Received by Other Church Dignitaries — Grand Dedication Ball at the Auditorium —
Brilliant Appearance of State Street — Hotels and Boulevards Jammed with Strangers — Gorgeous
Uniforms Everywhere.

EDNESDAY, Thursday and Friday, October 19, 20
and 21, 1892, constituted a gala period for the inhabit-
ants of Chicago and the strangers within her gates.
The latter had come to participate in the Dedicatory
Exercises, which was to take place on the 2ist, and
not a small number had commenced to arrive even
some days before the igth. By the latter day great
crowds of men in military uniform filled all the lead-
ing hotels, the admired of all admirers to an extent that
even caused jealousy in the souls of groups of Gov-
ernors who stood about and chatted among themselves
on subjects political and otherwise. There was a
military feeling in the air, particularly along Michigan
Boulevard, which, in the vicinity of the hotels, was be-
sprinkled with Majors and Colonels, foot privates,
troopers, color-bearers, and Uncle Sam's marines and sailors.

The boulevard was crowded with passing throngs all day. Fully half of the
pedestrians were lugging gripsacks, seeking in vain for rooms in the hotels. It was
the same way in every locality that boasted a hotel. Hundreds of trains were run
into the city, groaning under the weight of thousands of men and women who were
bound to be in at the dedication, to see the great parades, and to take part in the
approaching festivities.

The rush at the principal hotels was something awful. Men stood four to
five deep at the counters waiting an opportunity to inscribe their names on the

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registers. The distinguished parties that arrived were numerous. They were
attractive, too, for they contained men whose names are known throughout all the
broad land. The arrival of Gov. Boies was a great feature of the day, and Iowa
was credited with putting on more airs than any other State until Gov. Bulkeley
came in with his magnificent retinue from Connecticut. Among other prominent
people who came in were Senators F. B. Stockbridge, John Sherman, and Calvin
S. Brice. Then there were the diplomats and Cabinet officers and members of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and the Governor of nearly every State and
Territory in the Union.

Late in the afternoon Maj--Gen. Schofield, Commander of the United States
army, accompanied by Gen. John R. Brooke, Gen. Frank Wheaton, and Capt. A.
G. C. Quay, came in and registered at the Leland, after a delay of seven hours on
the train. Gov. Pattison came in with a big following early in the morning and went
to the Victoria. Representatives of the Interior Parliament of Ontario were Nich-
olis Avery, John Dryden, G. H. Bigelow, and H. R. O'Connor.