. "My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition. ^ to his ef-forts that it wasfinally passed. The T. Dickin-son, Secretaryof the WorldsColumbianCom mission,was born in1858, at Hous-ton, Texas, andhas for someyears been aconspicuouslawyer, editor, and politician in that State, The head of the Department of Publicity andPromotion of the Exhibition is Major ]\Ioses , one of the best known newspaper menin the United States. He was born i
. "My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition. ^ to his ef-forts that it wasfinally passed. The T. Dickin-son, Secretaryof the WorldsColumbianCom mission,was born in1858, at Hous-ton, Texas, andhas for someyears been aconspicuouslawyer, editor, and politician in that State, The head of the Department of Publicity andPromotion of the Exhibition is Major ]\Ioses , one of the best known newspaper menin the United States. He was born in Alissouriin 1847, ^^^ ^^^ educated in Virginia, and hashad a brilliant career as a journalist on the staffs. PRESIDENT W. T. BAKER, OF THE WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. THE COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION. 239 of the Richmond Dispatch^ Richmond Inquirer^New York Tribune, Philadelphia Times, Phila-delphia Press, and Philadelphia News. The Exhibition is to be formally dedicatedwith appropriate ceremonies on October 12th,1892, being the 400th anniversary of the land-ing of Columbus. It will not be opened to thepublic, however, for the general purposes of theExhibition until May ist, 1893, and it will con-tinue open from that day until October 30th, its progress there will be held on itsgrounds and in its buildings innumerable conven-tions and festivals of national and internationalinterest, and it will doubtless be a more truly uni-versal exhibition than any that has yet beenheld in the world. The spirit animating theprojectors of the enterprise cannot perhaps bebetter expressed than they were by PresidentPalmer in his eloquent address before the Col-umbian Commission in Chicago, on June 26th,1
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