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NEBRASKA'S BUILDING TO BE OPENED
Ceremony Takes Place Tomorrow, When Distinguished Speakers Will Be Heard.
At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the governor of Nebraska and suite will arrive at Woodlawn station, whence he will be escorted by Col. William F. Cody, cowboys, Indians, etc., to the state building. This escort is intended to represent Nebraska in the early days. On arriving at the building the governor will be received by the Hon. Joseph Garneau, Jr., commissioner general of the Nebraska Columbian exhibit, and the following program carried out:
Address by the commissioner general, tendering the building to the state. Response by Gov. Crounse. Music. Addresses by W. J. Bryan, M. C., ex-Gov. R. W. Furness, and others. Music.
After the exercises the visitors will march to the agricultural building, where the Nebraska section will be opened to the public. The line of march will be south from the state building past administration building, where it will pass in review before her royal highness the Infanta Eulalia and suite.
Mrs. Caroline H. Brooks, the butter artist of the world, will give a public exhibition during the day at the state building, where she will model in butter a great seal of the state of Nebraska which will afterward be placed in the dairy exhibit in the dairy building. J. Sterling Morton, the secretary of agriculture, is expected to be present and take part in the Nebraska day exercises. Large delegations of Nebraskans from Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Hastings, and other cities in the state are expected. No special invitations have been issued, but a general invitation is extended to all visitors on the exposition grounds to witness the ceremonies.
Chicago Times June 7/93
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Chicago Times June 8th/93
NEBRASKA'S DAY OF JOY
HER SONS AND DAUGHTERS DEDICATE THE STATE BUILDING.
Gov. Crounse Marches to the Building, Escorted by a Detachment of the Seventh Cavalry-Buffalo Bill and His Cowboys and Cossacks Interesting Features-No Such Enthusiastic Crowds at Any Previous State Dedication-Speeches by Ex-Gov. Furnas, Mrs. Cleary, and Others.
The Nebraskans said that they were dedicating their state-building yesterday morning, but the vast majority of the crowd wavered between the belief that they were dedicating Buffalo Bill and the idea that the Spanish princess was going to honor the Nebraska building with her presence. Anyway, it was a howling success and the petty so-called dedicating of other state buildings sank by comparison into absolute insignificance. The exercises commenced at 11 o'clock with the appearance of a detachment of the Seventh United States cavalry escorting Gov. Crounse. The governor entered the building and the cavalry drew up in line before it. Then a cowboy band appeared and sat down in the front yard. The crowd began to thicken under the influence of these
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attractions and indulged in various surmises as to what was going on. The portico of the Nebraska building and the greensward in front were soon black with people. There were 1,500 Nebraskans alone, and the crowd steadily increased, absorbing each detachment of sightseers that came down the avenue. But when Buffalo Bill, at the head of a glittering array of Indians, Cossacks, uhlans, and cowboys, appeared it seemed as if the last possible particle of gorgeousness had been added to the Nebraskans' celebration. But it hadn't, for when the motley army had been dispersed in long files stretching away down the avenue for hundreds of feet and the crowd had looked their fill at the rich costumes and sunburnt faces and was just drawing a long, happy breath at the splendor of it all the grade du corps band, glittering in white and gold and blowing for all its capacious lungs were worth, appeared. Then Secretary Carton, who had been so busy about the preliminary arrangements that he hadn't time to think before, told Commissioner Garneau that he thought at last they were all there, and Commissioner Garneau told Gov. Crounse, and the governor looked out at the acres of people and said he guessed they were and they might as well begin.
And then Nebraska, after a complacent look on the tens of thousands assembled to do her honor and see Buffalo Bill's Indians, really began to dedicate. The exercises were very short, each speaker being limited to four minutes. Commissioner Garneau presented the building to the exposition and Gov. Crounse followed with a clever impromptu speech of welcome to the assembled guests. The cowboy band rendered some stirring numbers and ex-Gov. Furnas and Congressman Bryan made congratulatory speeches. Then Mrs. H. S. Fisk read a poem written for the occasion by Kate M. Cleary of Hubbel, Neb., and the dedicatory part of the progranı was over.
Through all the speeches and music Gen. Cody sat in front of the building on the great sorrel horse which Gen. Miles presented to him and looked a very gallant figure. Over in the Wild West inclosure he is Buffalo Bill, the prince of scouts and rough riders, but when it comes to the dedication of the building of his state he is W. F. Cody, ex-senator of Platte, Neb., colonel by courtesy, and brigadier general on the governor's staff. And all the assembled throng who saw him yesterday in his big sombrero and silver fringed buckskin shirt didn't doubt for a minute that he was all these things and more.
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Chicago Disptach June 8th/93.
NEBRASKA'S SHOW.
State Building Dedicated With Buffalo Bill's Assistance.
Colonel William F. Cody and the cavalry company of Indians took a prominent part in the dedication of the Nebraska state building this morning. The governor of Nebraska and a distinguished party of citizens of that state were met at Woodlawn station by Colonel Cody and his Indians, and escorted to the state building. This was done as a representation of Nebraska in the early days. Commissioner General Joseph Garneau, Jr., received the party and delivered an address tendering the building to the state. He was followed by Governor Crounse, who accepted the gift for the state of Nebraska. Other addresses were delivered and after the exercises the visitors went through the agricultural building, where the industrial section was opened to the public.
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SHOUT FOR NEBRASKA
HER STATE BUILDING OPENED BY THE GOVERNOR
Buffalo Bill and His Cohorts Swell the Attendance from the Western State and Make a Brave Show on the World's Fair Grounds-Inspected by the Infanta Eulalia
EVENING JOURNAL OFFICE, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
It was difficult to discover which was the more important personage on the World's Fair grounds-the Infanta Eulalia, or the Hon. William F. Cody. Both arrived with music and mounted escort, and were received with the homage which the American citizen accords to whomsoever he has a mind to welcome. Later they met, bowed, and smiled in cordial recognition of each other's importance.
Properly speaking "Buffalo Bill" was only part of a show, riding in plenitude of gold lace as one of the staff of Governor Crounse of Nebraska, but with the genius which he generally displays in such matters he usurped a large share of the latter's glory.
It was Nebraska's day at the Fair-- a day for the formal opening of the building and inspection by thousands of Nebraskans of the State's exhibits. That it chanced also to be the day on which the blue-blooded Princess of Castile made her first appearance at Jackson Park was an accident for which the visiting Westerners
Chicago Journal June 8th 93.
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