People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — CHICAGO CELEBRATES. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO CELEBRATES.

The Twenty-Third Anniversary of the Big Fire Observed. Chicago. Oct. 10. —Chicago celebrated the memory of the famous fete day at the world’s fair and also the anniversaryoof the burning of the city twenty-three years ago. Two parades, a grand military ball a.id a couple of club banquets were the features of the twin jubilation. Toward noon the Columbian bell began to make a triumphal tour of the city. The First regiment, resplendent in brand new uniforms of cadet gray and shining brass, marched through the principal streets in the afternoon on the way to its new armory. In the evening the Marquette club held a banquet at which half a dozen republican congressmen and business men of national reputation spoke. The Union League club also gave a banquet, at which the subject of “Arbitration"’ was fitly discussed by’ Carroll D. Wright and others. The First regiment christened its new $250,000 armory’ with a military ball.