History of the World's Fair: Being a Complete Description of the World's Columbian Exposition From Its Inception (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Nearly a quarter of a million people present - President Cleveland presses the magic electric button at noon, May I, 1893, and the monster Allis Engine in Machinery Hall is set in motion amidst the booming of can non, the blowing of trumpets, the ringing of bells, the unfurling of flags and the vociferations Of the mul titude - The white palaces abloom and ablaze with color - Twenty thousand flags are unfurled - Half a hundred foreign emblems cheered by the people who live under them - The Orchestra play the national hymn and thousands of patriotic men and women join in the Chorus - The spectacle as seen from the Ad ministration building-president Cleveland's address 1.

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