History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . uced reforms. Criminal law was nowmuch more efficiently executed against Mor-mons. In 1891 the Mormon officials pledgedtheir churchs obedience to the laws againstplural marriages and unlawful was quick and generous in herresponse to the famine cry that in 1891 rosefrom 30,000,000 people in Russia. Over adomain of nearly a half million square milesin that land there was no cow or goat formilk, nor a horse left strong enough to drawa hearse. Old grain stores were exhausted,crops a failur
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . uced reforms. Criminal law was nowmuch more efficiently executed against Mor-mons. In 1891 the Mormon officials pledgedtheir churchs obedience to the laws againstplural marriages and unlawful was quick and generous in herresponse to the famine cry that in 1891 rosefrom 30,000,000 people in Russia. Over adomain of nearly a half million square milesin that land there was no cow or goat formilk, nor a horse left strong enough to drawa hearse. Old grain stores were exhausted,crops a failure, and land a waste. Typhus,scurvy, and smallpox were awfully preva-lent. To relieve this misery, our people,besides individual gifts, despatched fourship-loads of supplies gathered from twenty-five States. In values given New York led,Minnesota was a close second, and Nebraskathird. America became a household wordamong the Russians even to the remotestinterior. CHAPTER V. THE worlds COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION The thought of celebrating by a worldsfair the third centennial of Columbuss im-. Columbian Celebration, New York, April 28, 1893. Parade passing FifthAvenue Hotel. mortal deed anticipated the anniversary byseveral years. Congress organized the ex- 92 EXPANSION [1892 position so early as 1890, fixing Chicago asits seat. That city was commodious, cen-tral, typically American. A National Com-mission was appointed ; also an ExecutiveCommittee, a Board of Reference and Con-trol, a Chicago Local Board, and a Boardof Lady Managers. The task of preparation was Park had to be changed from adreary lakeside swamp into a lovely city,with roads, lawns, groves and flowers, canals,lagoons and bridges, a dozen palaces, andten score other edifices. An army of work-men, also fire, police, ambulance, hospital,and miscellaneous service was organized. Wednesday, October 2 i (Old Style, Octo-ber 12), 1892, was observed as ColumbusDay, marking the four hundredth anniver-sary of Col
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