Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — GREAT CHICAGO PAGEANT. [ARTICLE]

GREAT CHICAGO PAGEANT.

Industrial Parade Was City’s Highest Thing of the Kind. Curiosity seeking and excitement loving Chicago was congregated within the elevated loop Tuerday night to see one of the biggest night parades which ever marched the city streets. From 7:30 p. m. thousands packed the sidewalks and streets of the downtown districts to see the centennial pageant. Three hours later the transportation lines were literally overwhelmed by humanity and many sightseers did not reach home until the early hours of the morning. .

As a pageant embracing historical features connected with the city’s growth and as an exhibition of civic pride the parade was a success. In point of numbers and military discipline it exceeded many similar parades seen in Chicago before. In bebig a parade with many novel features ft was in a class by itself and as for arousing enthusiasm in the onlookers it filled the bill. From the time the head of the procession began to move from Harrison street and Michigan avenue until It reached the point of disbanding. Market street and Jackson boulevard, an hour and a half later, the loop district was a blase of red fire. Nothing like the exhibition of floats which brought up the rear of the procession has ever been seen in Chicago. It was a pleasing and fitting climax to the procession in celebration of the city’s birthday, and well the city’s industrial interests were represented. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and his cousin, George Roosevelt, have returned from a month’s hunting trip in the Black Hilk. They failed to get any big game. Destitute N a tin a miners are reported,’ to be eating horse flesh to escape starvation.