M. Camille Krantz, the French Commissioner-General arrived early in the

morning and went to the Palmer House, where he was shortly followed by Fred-
erick Douglass, United States Judge W. A. Woods of Indianapolis, Senator Cullom,
and Green B. Raum. Then there were great parties of leading society people and
business men from Detroit, Duluth, the Twin Cities, St. Louis, New Orleans, Balti-
more, New York, Boston, and great cities from all over the country. Mrs. Adlai E.
Stevenson and daughter arrived at the Palmer House in the afternoon, and Con-
gressmen and Senators pulled into town all day.

Texas sent thirteen handsome young women to represent the original States.
They were accompanied by four married couples in the capacity of chaperons, and
were given excellent quarters at the Palmer. They were selected by ballot by
citizens of Texas at the instance of the Fort Worth Gazette, which offered to send
the thirteen most popular daughters of the State to the dedicatory exercises. It
was a newspaper balloting enterprise, and naturally enough the majority of the
thirteen fairest daughters of Texas were selected from the belles of Fort Worth.

Vice-President Morton, who attended in place of President Harrison (the
latter having been summoned to the bed-side of his invalid wife), was the observed
of all observers, and was the recipient of marked courtesies from many sources.

Bishop Fowler, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one of the most
delightful men in the country, was met at the depot by a host of friends.

Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, Archbishop Satolli, of Rome, the Papal
Envoy to the Columbian Exposition; Mgr. O'Connell, the President of the Ameri-
can College at Rome; Bishop John J. Kean, . Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Kain,
and a number of other high churchmen were met at South Chicago by representa-
tives of the World's Fair and Columbus Club.

Not every one had an invitation to attend the grand Dedication Ball at the
Auditorium that night, but no one needed an invitation to witness the splendors of
State street. The concourse of people that turned out on the great thoroughfare
•was unprecedented.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S FAIR.

To say that State street was thronged does not convey an idea of the situa-
tion. On State and Madison streets, on all four corners, there was such a mass of
people standing that a person could scarcely get through. From South Water to
Polk street it was one dense throng of people. Laboring men with their wives and
little children availed themselves of the evening time to see the decorations. Young
women who could not find escorts did not stay at home on that account. They
came in trios and quartets, and every young man who had any public spirit took
his best girl for a walk down State street.

All classes of Chicagoans were represented. One could hear expressions of
admiration for the decorations in all the languages of Europe and the Orient, from
Norwegian to Chinese. The cosmopolitiari aspect of the city was as prominent as
the Stars and Stripes in the decorations.

There were soldier boys in the streets representing dozens of regiments and
various military organizations. Their uniforms galore lent a picturesqueness to the
crowds. " Regulars," Cleveland Grays, Continental National Guardsmen, from
Hartford, Conn.; cadets in gray; New York cavalrymen; marines and guardsmen
from nearly every state were as thick as hucksters at a county fair.

The street had all the brilliancy of a scene from the Arabian Nights. Elec-
tric lights of every color lent a rainbow line to the fronts of the business buildings.
The decorations in the glare of the lights were almost bewildering in their gayety.
Little children in large numbers clapped their hands and cried out in delight, "O!
my!" No one minded the density of the crowd or failed to enjoy the sights, for
there was so.mething to see on every hand. Every shop window had its attrac-
tions and every shopkeeper vied with his neighbor in a lavish display of incandes-
cent electric lights.

LEVI P. MORTON,

EX-VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S FAIR.