The Standard Oil Co. Club, The Warner & Swasey Co. Club, The Cycling Gazette Club, The Recorder Club, The Cleveland Printing & Pub. Co. Club, The W. M. Bayne Printing Co. Club, The Winton Bicycle Club, The Yellow Fellows' Club, The H. A. Lozier Club, North Pole Cycling Club, Special Features and Novelties, SIXTH DIVISION. The Okeanos Club, The Haserot Co. Club, Logan Cycle Livery Club, Kelley Handlebar Club, Two Hundred Unattached Riders. SEVENTH DIVISION. Al. A. Dorn, Marshal. Berea Club, Chagrin Falls Club, Wellington Club, Norwalk Club, All other out-of-town Clubs, Specialties, etc. EIGHTH DIVISION. W. H. Kinnicutt, Marshal. Postal Club, The J. B. Savage Club, J. L. Hudson Club, Unattached Riders Assembled at Wade Park. Great enthusiasm greeted the riders along the line of march. In the reviewing stand sat a prominent group, consisting of Major McKinley, Colonel J. S. Poland, U. S. A.; ex-President J. R. Dunn, of the League of American Wheelmen; Colonel Myron T. Herrick, Adjutant General H. A. Axline, and a large company of citizens, who freely applauded the companies of bicyclists as they rode briskly by. parade was officially reviewed by a committee of judges, who made selections for the award of prizes. The On the evening of July 24th a gymnastic and athletic exhibition was given in the Central Armory by the United Gymnastic Societies of Cleveland, comprising German, Swiss and Bohemian organizations. The entertainment was under the auspices of the Centennial Commission. There were eight hundred participants. Music was furnished by Kirk's Military Band. Upwards of 10,000 people crowded into the Armory and almost as many were turned away by policemen who were forced to close the doors to avoid a crush. The exercises commenced at 8 o'clock. The first number brought out five hundred men, women, boys and girls. The men wore light sleeveless shirts with fancy monograms of cord work indicating the societies to which they belonged. The boys were similarly attired. The women wore blue flannel blouses, loose and comfortable, with white or red braid, bloomers cut full and extending a trifle below the knees, black stockings and gymnasium shoes with rubber soles. The girls were dressed in like manner. With almost faultless precision the following programme was carried out, every number eliciting hearty applause: II. 12. Horizontal Bars, PROGRAMME. By all participants-Boys, Girls, Ladies and Men. Boys from 6-11 years. First Divisions of Men's Classes. Girls' and Ladies' Classes. Boys, Juniors and Men. First Divisions of Men's Classes. Mass Exercises of all participants on all kinds of apparatus, closing with a Grand Tableau and Pyramids. The first performance of "La Sonambula" was given in the Central Armory, on the evening of July 25th, by the Centennial Grand Opera Company. A number of well-known Cleveland singers took part. The rendition was considered very creditable. CHAPTER X. WOMAN'S DAY. JULY 28, 1896. Woman's noble part in the upbuilding of the city was fittingly portrayed in the exercises of Woman's Day, on July 28th. To the women this was the greatest day of the Centennial; it was one of the days . which made the Centennial great. A programme representing months of preparation by the Woman's Department, and typical of the best womanhood of the Western Reserve, was enthusiastically carried out. Among the honored guests of the day were Hon. and Mrs. William McKinley, Governor and Mrs. Bushnell and Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield, the honorary president of the Woman's Department. The programme consisted of public exercises in the Central Armory in the morning and afternoon, and a reception and banquet in the Grays' Armory in the evening. Early morning trains brought delegations from nearly all the townships of the Reserve, and before the usual time for clearing away breakfast tables had arrived the streets were alive with women bedecked with badges and ribbons on their way to the Armory. The headquarters of the Centennial Comission, where special arrangements were made for the day's entertainment, proved a delightful resting place for many, prior to the opening of the session. At 8:15 o'clock a committee consisting of Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, Mrs. Sarah E. Bierce, Mrs. O. J. Hodge, and Mrs. S. P. Churchill, proceeded to the Public Square and decorated the monument of Moses Cleaveland. The ceremony was not elaborate, but deeply impressive and patriotic. A large wreath of flowers was reverently placed upon the monument, the members of the committee repeating the following lines in unison as they performed this simple act: MRS. W. A. INGHAM, President of Woman's Department. "We, representing the Woman's Department of the Cleveland Centennial, bring this floral tribute in honor of Moses Cleaveland, the founder of the city." There was a fair audience-fair in more senses than one-in the Armory when the hour for opening the exercises arrived. The interior of the building was handsomely set off with flags and bunting, while the tiers of seats were radiant with women in their summer gowns. Palms and house plants surrounded the platform and a large vase of cut flowers ornamented the speaker's table, which was draped with the national colors. Occupying chairs on the platform were the speakers and officers of the day, the members of the executive board, the township historians and vice presidents, the presidents of the various women's organizations of the city, and the members of the Cleveland Vocal Society. At 9 o'clock the programme was opened with singing. Mrs. W. A. Ingham, the presiding officer, then introduced Rev. Dr. S. P. Sprecher, of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church, who invoked Divine blessing. The opening address was delivered by Director-General Wilson M. Day, who said: I esteem it a high honor, indeed, to speak the opening words of this most important and interesting occasion. Through good and evil report, through all circumstances, the women have stood by this Centennial. Were the women of Cleveland to withdraw for even a brief period their influence and activity from our city life, our churches would be depleted, interest in the cultivation of art and literature would die out, hospitals would close their doors, the temperance and rescue work would cease, our day nurseries would send the helpless babes back to the crowded tenements, the aged and infirm would be cast into the street, the poverty stricken would be left to their fate, and the beautiful flower missions, and summer outing trips for shop girls, and fresh air camps, and sewing schools, and kindergartens, and retreats for the fallen, and every other form of sweet and gracious charity would either fail utterly or be so helplessly crippled and badly managed by busy men that they would ultimately awaken the pity, if they did not merit the withdrawal of the support of the entire community. Madam President, the Centennial Commission owes an inextinguishable debt of gratitude to the women of Cleveland for their patriotic and self-sacrificing efforts in behalf of this celebration. Prompt to answer to the call for assistance, ready in suggestion and execution, undismayed by obstacles after most disheartening, intelligent and comprehensive planning, loyal to every request of the commission, yet absolutely independent of any assistance, they have done so well that we could not wish it better. Officers and members of the Woman's Department, I offer you both thanks and congratulations thanks for your invaluable services, congratulations upon the splendid outcome of your wise and unwearied efforts. Mrs. Ingham delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the Woman's Department to the women of the Western Reserve, speaking as follows: On this notable day of a hundred years, when our city takes unto herself gratulation because of her women and what they have accomplished in seventy years of united work, preceded by three decades of exclusively domestic life, rearing sons to bless the Republic, and daughters - polished corner stones of stately homes - it gives me joy to welcome you to this auditorium. Although we are obliged to gather in the Central Armory of the Ohio National Guard, it does not imply the least trace of the Amazon in our midst, but, rather, because there is no available building for our assemblies. We will say in a burst of patriotism that we are here in memory of Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans. She, like other young girls of her time, was taught to sew and to spin; but, taking up the sword and white banner, led her country's troops to victory. So we, triumphing over obstacles, may some time have a woman's building all our own. Eighteen hundred and ninety-six greets you! Tabitha Cumi Stiles, accompanying her husband Job in the Connecticut expedition of 1796; she of the linsey-woolsey frock, the heavy shoes, the wide frilled cap, gives you hearty recognition; so do all the pioneer women who followed her-Grandma Scovill, mother of old Trinity; Irene and Hickox Scranton, whose daughter, Mary Bradford, a benefactor in art and higher education, is sitting now in the president's chair during this address; Mary H. Severance and her noble mother, Juliana Walworth Long-all these and hundreds besides who endured privation and sacrifice that we might have this goodly Forest City. Those unnamed ones of a century ago, who saw stars through their cabin roofs, who subsisted upon grains of corn and what the |