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FRIDAY, OCTOBER TWENTY-FIRST 



DEDICATION DAY 



The National salute at sunrise will inaugurate the cere- 

 monies of Dedication Day. The President of the United-States, 

 his Cabinet, members of the Supreme Court, members of 

 the Senate and House of Representatives , distinguished 

 foreign guests and governors of the different States and terri- 

 tories with their ofieial staffs, will be escorted by a guard 

 of honor composed of troops of the United-States Army, 

 detachments of the United-States naval forces, and regiments 

 from the various state National Guards, to the Manufactures 

 and Liberal Arts building, in which the dedicatory exercises 

 will be held. 



At one o'clock in the afternoon in this building, the fol- 

 lowing dedicatory programme will be carried out under 

 the direction of the Director-General : 



1st. Columbian March. Written for the occasion by Prof. 

 John K. Paine. 



2d. Prayer by Bishop Charles H. Fowler, D.D. L.L.D., of 

 California. 



3d. Dedicatory Ode. Words by Miss Harriet Moroe, of 

 Chicago ; music by G-.W. Chadwick, of Boston. 



■4th. Presentation of the master artists of the Exposition 

 and their completed work, by the Chief of Construction. 



oth. Report of the Director-General to the World's Colum- 

 bian Commission. 



6lh. Presentation of the buildings for dedication, by the 

 President of the World's Columbian Exposition to the Pre- 

 sident of the World's Columbian Commission. 



7th. Chorus. « The Heavens are Telling. » — Haydn. 



8lh. Presentation of the buildings for dedication, by the 

 President of the World's Columbian Commission to the Pre- 

 sident of the United-States. 



9th. Chorus. « In praise of God. » — Beethoven. 



10th. Dedication of the buildings by the President of the 

 United States. 



1lth. Hallelujah chorus, from « The Messiah. » — Handel. 



12th. Dedicatory oration, Hon. Wm C.-P. Breckinridge, 

 Kentucky. 



13th. « The Star Spangle Banner» and « Hail Columbia », 

 with full chorus and orchestral accompaniment. 



14th. Columbian oration, Chauncey M. Depew, New-York. 



15th. National Salute. 



At the close of this programme, a special electric and 

 pyrotechnic display will be given, with a repetition of « The 

 Procession of the Centuries ». 



