History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . ou,Mr. President, said the Director-General,concluding his address, if in your opinionthe Exposition here presented is commen-surate in dignity with what the world shouldexpect of our great country, to direct thatit shall be opened to the public. When youtouch this magic key the ponderous machin-ery will start in its revolutions and the activ-ity of the Exposition will begin. After abrief response Mr. Cleveland laid his fingeron the key. A tumult of applause mingledwith the jubilant melody of Handels Hal-l
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . ou,Mr. President, said the Director-General,concluding his address, if in your opinionthe Exposition here presented is commen-surate in dignity with what the world shouldexpect of our great country, to direct thatit shall be opened to the public. When youtouch this magic key the ponderous machin-ery will start in its revolutions and the activ-ity of the Exposition will begin. After abrief response Mr. Cleveland laid his fingeron the key. A tumult of applause mingledwith the jubilant melody of Handels Hal-lelujah Chorus. Myriad wheels revolved,waters gushed and sparkled, bells pealedand artillery thundered, while flags and gon-falons fluttered forth. The Exposition formed a huge quadri-lateral upon the westerly shore of LakeMichigan, from whose waters one passedby the North Inlet into the North Pond, orby the South Inlet into the South united with the central Grand Basinin the peerless Court of Honor. Thegrounds and buildings were of surpassing VOL. V.—7 98 EXPANSION [1893. Horticultural Building, with Illinois Building inthe background. magnitude and splendor. Interesting butsimple features were the village of States,the Nations tabernacles, lying almost underthe guns of the fac-simile battleship Illi-nois, and thepigmy cara-vels, Nina,Pinta, andSanta Maria,named andmodelled afterthose that boreColumbus tothe New World. These, like their originals,had fared from Spain across the Atlantic,and then had come by the St. Lawrence andthe Lakes, without portage, to their moor-ings at Chicago. Near the centre of the ground stood theGovernment Building, with a ready-madelook out of keeping with the other archi-tecture. Critics dedared it the only dis-cordant note in the symphony. Lookingfrom the Illinois Building across the NorthPond, one saw the Art Palace, of pure Ionic i8g3] WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION 99 style, perfectly proportioned, restful to view,contesting with the
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