136 New Yoek at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



with one purpose, standing shoulder to shoulder and locking their shields 

 together like the men in the Roman phalanx of old. 



We of New York are proud to find ourselves to-day within the eon- 

 fines of this city of the northwest, a city in which busy thoughts and vivid 

 images crowd the mind, in which " no man shapes himself betimes to idle- 

 ness ; " a city which is not a sepulchre of buried ages, but the birthplace 

 of modern idea.s ; a city which is not lightened by the smiles of dying 

 emperors, but by the gleam of the future glorious. Our two cities were 

 contestants for the exposition. Chicago fairly won the prize. To-day 

 the people of New York come to greet you, not only through their repre- 

 sentatives, but they come themselves with hearts untouched by jealousy, 

 with souls unmoved by rivalry, they cry out to yoli with the acclaim : 

 " God bless Chicago ; God speed the fair." 



Manhattan Day Pobm: By Joseph I. Clabke. 

 Recited by Agnes Booth. 



I. 



Queen of the West, whose arms outspread 



Give welcome to the world. 

 Where lifts in sunshine thine imperial head, 

 Joy in thy glance and vigor in thy tread, 



For thee our flag's unfurled, 

 Chicago ! 



Hail ! 'mid thy lofty piles that rise — 



Dreams of divinest art. 

 Dreams ages dared not realize 

 Until the flash of thy brave eyes 



Bade them to life to start. 



In majesty whose sight enthralls. 



In beauty born of light, 

 Swift rose thy spacious palace halls, 

 Pillars and domes and sculptured walls, 



A miracle in white. 



Lo, as thy giant labors ceased. 



The nations entered in 

 With world-culled wonders to thy feast. 

 Now come we from the sunrise East, 



To hail thee next of kin, 

 Chicago ! 



