Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1906 — LAYS CORNER STONE. [ARTICLE]

LAYS CORNER STONE.

Vice President Pnlrhunk* Presides nt Ceremony in Cliicniro. Fifty 'thousand people stood In Dark and Randolph s*reels, Chicago, Friday as Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the United States, laid the corner stone of the new go, 000,000 Cook county court house. Stooping his towering figure, the Vice President laid a little dab of mortar on the foundation of the stone anil then stepped back while the three-tun block of granite was slowly lowered into position. This last oiierution consiyned some time, for the block nt the end of the big derrick had become tangled in flags generously used in the scheme of decoration. A magnificent audience cheered the Vice President approvingly. Short addresses were delivered by Mayor Dunne, Gov. Deneen nnd Mr. Itrundage between spirited selections by the "various' band* rhnt hud' orenptnd places in the procession and the singing of “Illinois” by a quartet. Then the chief speaker of the day was introduced. After a glittering eulogy of Cook county, which Mr. Fairbanks said was greater than many States and not a few foreign countries, such as Portugal, Switzerland and Greece, he predicted Chicago was destined to become the seat of commercial power not only in tha intermediate \Vest but of the continent.