1904-07-05

July 5, 1904

Special Day	American Boy Day
Previous Day	1904-07-04
Next Day	1904-07-06
Attendance
Paid Attendance	50,206
Free Attendance	34,156
Total Attendance	84,362
Weather
High Temperature	81ºF
Low Temperature	67ºF
Rainfall	0.05"

Below is a list of events that happened on July 5, 1904.

Special Events

9:00 a.m. Public School Championship, Stadium. 10:00 a.m. Concert. Kern's Orchestra, Missouri State Building Drill, Yale Battalion, Administration Quadrangle ll:00 a.m. Concert, First U. S. Cavalry Band, Podium. Government Building 11:30 a.m. Organ Recital, N.J. Corey, Festival Hall. Beilns. 12:00 noon. Luncheon to Massachusetts Democratic delegates, Massachusetts Building Concert, Ellery's Band, Plaza St. Louis 1:00 p.m. All-around Championship Meet, Stadium 2:00 p.m. Concert, Weil's Band, Plaza of Orleans Concert, Scouts Band, Philippines 2:30 p.m. American Boy Day Exercises, Festival Hall Concert, Illinois Section, Palace Agriculture Concert, Boston Band, Machinery Gardens 3:00 p. m. Concert, Kern's Orchestra, Missouri Building Aeolian Pips Organ Recital, New York Building 4:00 p. m. Parade, American Boy Day American Boy Day Exercises, Pennsylvania Building Organ Recital, Clarence Eddy, Festival Hall Drill, Edisto Rifles, Plaza St. Louis Concert, First U. S. Cavalry Band, Government Building 4:45 p. m. American Boy Day Exercises, Pennsylvania Building 5:00 p. m. Dress Parade, First Ind. Infantry, Administration Quad Maneuvers, Northwestern Military Academy, Lagoons Concert, Well's Band, Plaza Orleans Drill, Second Georgia Infantry, Plaza St. Louis 5:30 p. m. Drill, Columbus Rifles, Plaza St. Louis American Boy Day Exercises, Michigan Building 6:00 p. m. Drill, Neely Zouaves, Plaza St. Louis Concert, Exposition Orchestra, Tyrolean Alps 7:30 p. m. Concert, Boston Band, Machinery Gardens Concert, Ellen's Band, Plaza St. Louis 8:15 p. m. Concert, Exposition Orchestra, Tyrolean Alps

Regular Events

8:00 a. m. Grounds Open. Troop Drill, U. S. Marines, Plaza St. Louis. 9:00 a. m. Guard Mount, Scouts and Constabulary, Philippines Buildings Open Mint in Operation, Government Building 9:30 a.m. Concert, Government Indian Band, Indian School Building Camp Drill, Scouts, Philippines Submarine Mine Demonstration, War Dept, Gov. Building Cascades In Operation, Begins 10:00 a.m. Demonstrations Teaching Foreign Languages by Phonograph, Guild Hall, Model Street Dress Parade, Constabulary, Philippines Feeding Seals, Government Fisheries Pavilion Hourly Biograph Exhibition, Naval Exhibit, Government Building Das Deusche Haus, Open Manufacture Small-Arms Cartridges, War Department, Government Building Heliograph Demonstrations, Signal Corps, Government Building Anthropometric Demonstrations, Basement Anthropology Building 10:30 a. m. Biograph Exhibitions, Interior Department, Government Building 11:00 a. m. Classes Blind and Deaf, East Nave, Education Building Wireless Telegraphy Demonstrations, Government Building Rifle Shooting, West of Forestry Building Cascades in Operation 11:30 a. m. Radium Exhibition, Interior Dept, Government Building 12:00 m. Milking and Feeding cows, Dairy Test, Dairy Barns 1:30 p. m. Concert, Gov. Indian Band, Indian School Building Classes, Blind and Deaf, Education Building 2:00 p. m. Chinese National Pavilion Opens Concert, Illinois Section, Agriculture Building Das Deutsche Haus Open Concert, Military Band, Philippines Cascades in Operation 2:30 p. m. Drill, U. S. Life-Savers, Lake North of Agriculture Bldg 3:00 p. m. Fancy Rile shooting, west of Forestry Building Heliograph Demonstration, Government Building Radium Exhibit, Interior Department, Government Building Feeding Birds, Government Bird Cage 3:30 p. m. Dress Parade, U. S. Marines, Plaza St. Louis 4:00 p. m. Dress Parade, U. S. Marines. Plaza St. Louis Wireless Telegraph Demonstration, Government Building Feeding Seals, Government Fisheries Pavilion 5:00 p. m. Cascades in Operation 5:30 p. m. Evening Retreat, Constabulary, Philippines 6:00 p. m. Dress Parade, Scouts, Philippines 7:00 p. m. Milking and Feeding Cows, Dairy Test, Dairy Barns 7:00 p. m. Concert, Constabulary Band, Philippines 7:30 p. m. Illumination of Grounds and Buildings 8:30 p. m. Cascades in Operation

Events

• American Boy Day (free magazine, featured speakers in Festival Hall).
• Democratic Convention delegates attend Fair.

• Fire destroys American Restaurant in Jerusalem.
  • A fire broke out shortly before 2am in the American Restaurant in the Jerusalem concession. Two guards, Abd-el-Nour and Ellas Trad, noticed flames coming from the first floor windows and fired their revolvers into the air until empty, then triggered a fire alarm. The shooting roused the sleeping residents from their beds, and alerted the Jefferson Guard. One guard attempted to extinguish the flames with the emergency hose, but was unable to make any headway. As the flames continued to spread, upper story residents packed their items in trunks and threw them out the window, followed by themselves. One resident of the concession, Wadic Shachity, was rushing from his room to assist with the fire, and was hit in the head by a falling trunk as he passed the Central Hotel. He was sent, unconscious, to the Emergency Hospital with serious injuries. Upon arriving at the scene, the fire wagon was found too large to fit through the gates of the enclosure, and were forced to unload 700 feet of hose and drag it to the fire. The delay resulted in the building being completely engulfed, and a total loss, estimated at $18,000 ($542,867 in 2021). The cause of the fire is unknown, but the night watchmen described the fire as having started in the kitchen.