. Review of reviews and world's work . gsmuch better than we, have celebrated the quadro-centennial in their various capitals with a grace, an aptsymbolism and an aesthetic sense that New York andChicago did not equal. Thus New Yorks much-ad-vertised attempt at an evening parade with symbolicfloats and glittering pagentry, which brought a mill-ion expectant people into compact masses along the lin(; of march, was a very meagie affair indeed when(•()mx)ared with litth; Havanas remarka])lesx)(!ctacularparade. Chicago att(nni)ted less than New York inthe form of street shows, the new White City i
. Review of reviews and world's work . gsmuch better than we, have celebrated the quadro-centennial in their various capitals with a grace, an aptsymbolism and an aesthetic sense that New York andChicago did not equal. Thus New Yorks much-ad-vertised attempt at an evening parade with symbolicfloats and glittering pagentry, which brought a mill-ion expectant people into compact masses along the lin(; of march, was a very meagie affair indeed when(•()mx)ared with litth; Havanas remarka])lesx)(!ctacularparade. Chicago att(nni)ted less than New York inthe form of street shows, the new White City inJac;kson Park being the real thing (jn exhibition. at a very late day dfjclined to speak,and Mr. Henry Watterson, one of the finest and mostl)rilliant figures in all the list of our i)oliticians,journalists and orators, gracefully accepted as thirdclioice the invitation of the perplexed Chicago com-mittee. Mr. Watterson and Mr. Depew made a no-ble pair of orators. Both are men who can risesplendidly to an GENERAL CRESPO, THE VENEZUELAN VICTOR. Crespo and Venezuela South America has been doing much morein October than to celebrate—very appro-priately and gaily—the four hundredthanniversary of the discovery of the Western Hemis-phere. In Venezuela a destructive civil war, thathas raged for many months, is at an end, and the rightand just cause has triumphed. The late Piesident,Palacio, assumed dictatorial powers and attempted toperpetuate his own authority by a law-defjang coursethat seems to have been far less excusable on its facethan the similar course Balmaceda had pursued in resulted a revolutionary movement of w^hichGeneral Crespo took the lead. The capital, Caracas,remained in Palacios hands, as did the chief port,La GuajTa. The revolutionists included the best menin Venezuela, but they w^ere sorely handicapped bylack of ai-ms and ammunition. They endeavored toobtain these, with some success, from private sources 392 THE RE^/E
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