Download or read book The Story of the Exposition written by Frank Morton Todd and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II LIFE IN THE GROUNDS AFTER the Exposition season began there was a long series of ceremonies and functions, marking the dedications and formal openings of foreign pavilions and State buildings, and the reception of men of eminence whose visits were made the occasions of great gatherings of people to hear discussions of important national and international questions. These occasions were invested with ceremonial observances of impressive character, arranged as we have elsewhere stated, by the Department of Special Days and Events. The 828 special days that were celebrated at the Exposition, and the 966 special event attractions, appealed to a tremendously wide range of interest?there were more days, in fact, than there were in the season; a minor form of miracle achieved by making several days fall on the same date, as, for example, Massachusetts Day, Oklahoma Day, Kansas Day, Hartford, Conn., Day, Atlanta Day, Shriners' Day, Christian Endeavor Day, Optometry Day, and Asiatic Institute Day, all of which fell on June I9- Artd on this day there was a United States Championship Outdoor Swim, an organ recital in Festival Hall, there were concerts by Sousa's Band and the Boston Band, and there was a flight by Art Smith. We have sampled the day, at random. There was an average of six celebrations and special attractions daily, and the Department of Special Days and Events was busy with both hands. The scope of these affairs was broader than any exposition ever attempted before. Nations, States, cities, counties, societies, fraternities, industries, organized families, propagandas, fads, subjects of research, universities, phonograph jobbers, and Scottish clans had days appointed for their especial celebration, exploitation or divertisement. Plumbers, actors, ...