17/19 The crowd at the depot was a howling, yelling mob, and as we entered our carriages and the procession moved up Wabash Avenue and across Harmon Court to Michigan Avenue, amid the bursting of rockets, the glare of calcium lights and Roman candles, we felt that we were indeed at home again. It seemed as if every amateur base-ball club in the city had turned out on this occasion and as they passed us in review the gay uniforms and colored lights made the scene a very pretty one. At the Palmer House the crowd was fully as large as that which had greeted us at the depot, the reception committee embracing Judge H.M.Shepard, Judge H.N. Hibbard, Potter Palmer, John R.Walsh, Frederic Ullman, L.G.Fisher, D.K. Hill, C.L.Willoughby, C.E.Rollins, F.M.Lester, J.B.Kitchen, J.B. |