Sad End Of The Fair

Chicago, Oct. 31. - All the jubilee ceremonies projeeted ior the closing day of the Fair have been abandoned. The exsrcises which were to have been held in Festival hall at 1 o'cl' ck to rejoice over the success of the Exposition were turned into a brief, itnpressive service in re.ognition of the dead ma3-or's connection with the directory. Prayers wereoffered and fitting resolutions adopted, lut there were no speeches. This change of program was afreed upon at an informal conference of officials NuDday morning in the director-general's office. Those present were: Col. Davis, Director Edwin Walker, President Palmer and P. A. B. Widener of the national commission, Assistant Dir.ctor of Works (raham and F. D. Millet, director of ceremonies. It was taken for giantid bv the conferecs that the festivities planned for to-day would not be held, and ineonly subject under discussiou was as to the propriety of a momoral meeting. Several suggestions were made, but it was finally decided that some official expression of the prevailing sentiment of sorrov would be proper, and Dire.:tor-Gener.il Davis according-ly Issued the following announcement to the public: "Office of hik Dibectob-Generai., WOKT.I) 8 Cnr.U.MIÜAX ExrOSlTlOtf, Al)MIMSTHATIOX l!l[[.I)IXO, JACK8OR Park - In view of the assassination of the chief magistrate of the city of Chicago the ceremonies which were announced to take place to-day in conncition witli the closing1 of the World's Columbian Exposition will be wholly dispensed with, except that all heretofore iivited g-uests and the public generaüy are requested to assemble in festival hall at t o'clock r. m.J as orifrinally intended. The llon. Thomas W. Palmer, president of the World' Columbian commission, will preside, l'rayer will be offered by Rev. John Henry Barrow. Appropriate resolutions, formulated by the following joint co.nmittee, which has been appointed for the purpose, will besubmit ed by President II. N. Hig'inbotham. NatiODal cammission. Board of Direetors. Thos. W. Palmer. H. N. Hi(?inbotham. O. B. Penn. Lymnn J. (Jage. P. A. B. Widener. Edwin Walker. R. L. Baundera. Ferd. W. Peck. Ueo. V. Masey. Robert A. Waller. A H. Mitohetl. tieorge R. Davis. "All tlie festivities arranged for the closinor ceremonies i wiil be omitted with the exception of an anprop iate salute and the lovvering of the United States flag at suuset. 'It is further ordered that the fiaffs upou all buildings within the grounds remain at liH.lfm;ist uut 1 the closing of the Ezposition. UkoKOK R. Davis, Director-General." At tiif reqneal of Mrs. Potter Palmer, president of the board of l:dy manairers. the reception in her honor announced by the nutional commissioneis of the World's Fair to be given in the New Ynrn building this evening was postooned indeflnitely on account of the tragic death of Mayor Harrion. Invitations have been issueil to several hundred guests, and these are now canceled. Out of respect for the memory of the mayor of Chicago and the mourning of the city the farewell reception of the French commissioners is postponed till Fridav, Nov. :;, ats:30 p. m. Mayor llarrison's last public expressiou was full of hope and viffor. in music hall at .Tackson park bpfore a great conionrsn of chief executives and municipal oflieers, a little before noon Snturday, he said that it was a pleasure to him to welcome the officials to witness the dying scène of the Exposition. "It is a little chilly in weather," he said, "but the Bun is coming' out and you have a warm beat frorn the heart of our people. Thus it is that this scène, while the e beauties are passing away, this Wo'lil's Fair is sliowin? itself in it most majestic proportions as tlie moment approarb.es for it to ;ass away forevir." .Ile told Ihuv ';iir sprung up in two years li ooi a mórass. the home of the inusk rat, the realization of the .iivine madness of ailists and arehitects, and sumined up his thotiirht in this sentenee: "fienius is but auilacity, and the audaritv of the wild and woolly west' and of Chicago has chosen a stiir and has looUcd npward toward it and knows nothing that it will not at empt, and tlms far has found ïiothing- that it oannnt accomplish " After praising Chicago for the danntless courage which made lier ind achieved tlie lair, he said: "'I myself have taken a new lease of life, and I lx-lieve I wilt see the lay when Chteairo will be the biirfjest city in America ani the thlrd oitv 'n th face of the globe. ' Hy order of the direct r-peneral all the llags on the Kxposition tfroimds were at halfmast. The bands, whieh, in the ;it)M'n e ol instructions, had beffnn playiny the repu lar program, were onlered to Stop and a tone of cjniet was observable everywhere .lust the Name. Some years afjo a Hochesterclergrmanin baptizing u baby paused in the middle of t'iie service to iiujuire the name of the infant, to which the mother, with a profound courtesy, replied: "Shady. sir, if you picase." "Shady?" replied the minister. "Then it's a boy, and you mean Shadrach, eh?" "No, piense, your reverence, It'a a girl." "And pray. " asked the inqulaitíve pastor, "how happened ycm to cali the child by such.il namef" "Well, sir," responded the woman, "if you must kuow, our name is Bower, and my husbaud HÜd as how he should like her to be called Shady, beoause Shady Bower sounds so pretty."- Quips. A Contrast. Governor Russell's little son Eustis surprised his mother one morninsashott time ago by exclaiming, "Mamma, I Avant a dark breakfast." Jlrs. Kusscll w.".s nt a loss to know what he meantand demanded an explanation. "Well," replied the young hopeful, "last night you told Mary to give me a light supper, and I didn't like it. Now, mamma, please do let me have a dark