October 6, 1898

100 orphan children, 6 to 12 years old, from the Christian Home in Council Bluffs attended the Expo courtesy of the Omaha Bridge & Terminal Co. The Company gave them free passage and paid the special admission price of $1.00 for groups of ten. Several Midway operators cut their prices in half for them, when they heard who they were. A very moving scene occurred when the proprietor of Streets of Cairo asked them to sing. Amid all the noise of the speilers and the crowd, they began, causing everyone else to suddenly stop to listen. [WH]