“ The line of march from the Northwestern station to the Blackstone Hotel was jammed with members of the Czechoslovak societies, and when the mile-long procession arrived on the lake front at the hotel, there were 200,000 people packed around the professor’s auto, filling up the wide Michigan avenue and overflowing into the side streets and into Grant Park. ”

“ Masaryk arrived Sunday, May 5th, at 2:00 P. M. It is no exaggeration to say that all the Czechs and Slovaks of Chicago, including the children and the babies, turned out to welcome him. The Tribune states that 40,000 people were in the line of march: there were all the Sokol organizations, Bohemian and Slovak, freethinker and Catholic, including further other uniformed bodies and all the fraternal societies. ”