New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-05
THE BATTLE or GERMANTOWN.
GREAT CELEBRATION YESTERDAY, IN SPITE OF
RAIN AND sToRM-AN OLD BILL TRANSFERRED
To GERMANTOWN.

A GREAT CELEBRATION YESTERDAY, IN SPITE OF
RAIN AND sToRi-AN OLD BILL TRANSFERRED
To GERMANTOWN
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. ITO day being the cen
ennaI OF the Battle OF Germantown tle event was duy
celebrated by the citizens Of that suburb The cereon-
les opened with salute OF 100 guns. AT ii O'Clock A.
m a grand pageant and procession formed and began
moving over a which comprised all the principal
streets of the town The pageant consisted Of militia
regiments OF thus State and NewJersey. with sixteen
posts Of the Grand Army Of the Republic, and large
number of civil societies The rain was great trla 10
everybody, troops and societies turned out in
spite of it, and went periodically through the exercises oil
the day The Third Division Of the procession was the
one which attracted the most notice. 1t was headed by
several carriages handsomely decorated with bunting
and flowers containing employees Of the hosiery mills clad
IN white dresses and blue nubias and lending their
smiling faces the other features OF the PROCESSION
After this came the Butchers Association comprising
almost the entire membership OF that trade in German
town. horse back and in wagons. clad IN whe irocKs
and blue sashes, and upon wagons were dis
PLAYED a large number Of choice beevcs. Next
came the Workingmen's Club, ID. Poo!ey Co.,
limited and schomacker's Piano Manufacturing
Company. The old Volunteer Fire Department
came here under the marshalshp of Edward K While
man, and, in this Connection one OF the most curious
interesting features of the parade was an engine ITO
years old drawn side by side with trst-caes steam IRE
engine of the present day The in this division
WAS the German societies, under the marshalship OF
Frederick May; c. c. Baker Pioneer Corps, of Brides
burg; wagon drawn by four horses, containing print
ng-press; the Orphans Home, Of Germantown. com
nanded by the superintendent, Charles f. kuhuIe
employees Of the Mdvac Steel Works, of Ecetown;
snufIers and Indians, marshaed by George W. Wolfe
the Agricultural Department, OF Germantown; the line
concluding with great coneourse OF citizens on foot IN
carriages aud mounted. Upon reaching the Town Hall,
The line was reviewed by Governor Hartranft aud then
dismissed.
In tic afternoon massmceting was hold In the Town
Hail. The exercises opened at p. No. with an IN
oductOry address by Mr. Washington PstOrusand after
PRAYER by the Rev c. W. shaeier d. D.. address was
delivered by Dr. Alfred c. Lambdin, managing edito' OF
IRE PhaGepha lines, which was followed Dy an ms
toric,l Grafton by the Hon. NJ. Russell Thuyer
feature OF the ceremonies the formal transfer OF
the OLD clock and bell, which were in me secpe OF lnde
pcndouce Hall before January l. 1876 10 tue CITIZENS Oh
Germantown, TO be placed in their Town Hal Ine pres
scutaii0n made 10y Thomas y. Gdnmey, VINO tOlu
the story OF tle bell as follows:
These sacred relics formerly hung in the steepe over
Independence Hail. IN this cty-t plulAng rye WIN
cloIIcs Of the past, cEdedred to the Am rcan ciiz H.
When the council, OF this city accepted as cehieuiil
gf from Henry scybrri, esq" the new Goes ana nru
now IN thJt stecpe lev gentlemen OF Germantown III
CESSATION tneu held, concluded tnt No more 'pfo-
pirate pace than Germantown could he fodnt of TIE ola
clock ana bel, when removed from ITS tnch poS ~ -
petition was accordingly prepared ana lafEei! sBueu
Oy our c.uzcns. asking eOanchs That tue Oh Goes
a stcepie to be erected inc Town Han In
Germantown. BY the liberal acton Oi int boh5
An ordinance passed hooking To tnai cad, the sgh
are tue Mayor obtained the 3lst ty Of My,
OF fni- aud IL became law lnn3ditles alto4
the OF this ordinance INC tlnE 81 cAch5 Wa
Itld In uulI. pIu Submitted, prepared OY l.
kIucy Wliiim,on, architect rs adopted D. Niili II
Dixcy. esq, Cn.cf commissioner Of city property pui-
,ilaut 10 tic provisions ordinance ana tue Bd-
ng and Fntuce Committees were thrn appointed 10
carry prrct TO OinpleOn, TIE result OF "hich We
ave here to-day.
Tuese tme-nonored relics are entirely Philadelphia
manufactures. The nc was cast IN TINS ca, ny Jonu
Williams, IN the year ISIS, and the clock was made by
Isaiah Luke - member Ot tine society OF Freud, dlc
celebrated ciUcd-iniAer ~ his day. BON were made
or thr CITY Of PuIaIcpma AN .rr the autborty ana
dirrcto Of councils. Tao bal hung IN tn sterpe
tue Stale lUus during the close Of thc ear IoS' the
put up tne tune, and ret IN motion on thc
Isl OF january, 1893. The he'll stuck tie hour ON tat
d.iy for ils From nat dtte Intl dbOu June,
1876, the, tdeu down. DStA maze boon rata
iuI times csYcrS.
fitting response was made by Mr. Norton Johnson
Tor the cizens OF Germantown and the benedictOn fO,
owed 10y the Rev Jacob Hclfens;ein d. D. after winch
tie clock was in motion by c. Weihur Ruue In tAe
evening display OF fireworks took place at the corner oi
Cotton aud Wayuests,