A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . cticut, the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. SamuelP. Sjireeher, and the audience was dismissed. The rest of the programfor the i]iiy, as above recorded, was then successfully carried out. Ata few minutes after eight in the evening, President Cleveland pressedan electric button in his smnmer liome at Buzzards Bay, Massachu-setts, and the centennial arch burst into a flame of light, amid thecheers of the watching thousands. Then came the beautiful his-torical pageant that had been arranged with
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . cticut, the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. SamuelP. Sjireeher, and the audience was dismissed. The rest of the programfor the i]iiy, as above recorded, was then successfully carried out. Ata few minutes after eight in the evening, President Cleveland pressedan electric button in his smnmer liome at Buzzards Bay, Massachu-setts, and the centennial arch burst into a flame of light, amid thecheers of the watching thousands. Then came the beautiful his-torical pageant that had been arranged with great care, ami thenthe reception and ball, at the end of which or sooner, weary Cleve- 1896] THE FIRST CENTENNIAL 295 landers gladly went to bed in preparation for anotlier day, perhapsnot quite so strenuous. The full stoiy of the eentennial celebration, compiled by EdwardA. Roberts, secretary and historian of the centennial commission, andpublished under an appropriation by the city coiuicil, makes a lx)ok of270 octavo pages; of course, I can give only a scant epitome of thatstory. hS^^^. Centennlul. Arch The twenty-third of July was New England Day. In the fore-noon, the Ohio editors were given steandjoat and street railway rides,but the chief event of the day was the New England dinner undertents on the campus of Adelbert College with speeches (of course)and a menu that, from the bean porridge to the Vermont turkey,was supposed to represent New England fare in the early days. Inthe evening, the Euclid Avenue Opera House was filled for the firstpresentation of the centennial opera, From Moses to McKisson, bythe Gatling Gun Battery. 296 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XIX The twentj-seventh of July was Wheelmens Day, the occasion ofa great bicycle parade, the line of which was formed in nine the following day, the Plain Dealer reported: Not since the centennial ceremonies began has there been such aturn-out of people as filled the eight miles of parade route in
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