Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-12
MARYLAND.

BaItimorc's Jubilee-The City in Holiday Attire-An Imposing Illustrative Pa
 rade.
 BALTIMORE Oct. 11.-Baltimore began to- day the celebration of the settlement and founding of the city one hundred and fifty years ago. At sunrise one hundred guns were fired from the United States ships Van dalia and Kearsarge, lying in the harbor off Fort McHenry. The city in every direction was dressed in holiday attire, and the princi- pal streets embracing the line of march were brilliant with flags and streamers and beauti- full banners. Before 8 o'clock the streets were filed with people, and by 9 every space on Baltimore street and the route of proces- sion was occupied. The parade wassbetween ten and twelve miles long. The grand stands in various sections of the city, some asking as high as $1.5O for a single seat and an uncomfortable one at that, were all crowded to the utmost capacity, and the roofs of houses in all parts of the city were swarming with people, and no position where any view of the parade could be seen was left unoccupied. The advanced DOT tion of the display was marked by quaint ly costumed heralds; Indian warriors on horseback, in feathers and war paint succeeded in line, and as they passed the boys on the sidewalk greeted them with yells and war whoops. The tab leau cars were very striking. An Indians wigwam surrounded by savages was, one of these. Another represented pale face pris- oners of the colony, with a log house, school house, etc. Then came others with men dressed in Continental costume, depicting later period in the history of the city. Camp life in 1776 during the Revolutionary war was represented by worn and wounded American soldiers surrounding a snow-cov- cred hut. The Postoffiee department was led by an old man dressed as letter mail carrier in 1730, and stage coach of the peri cd followed, after which came handsome mail wagon of the present period. The moving panorama presented a sight truly sublime On reaching the City Hall large portion of the parade moved to Schuetzen Park where Dr. Locker said an impressive prayer and was followed by an oration by Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, secretary of the municipal committee on celebration. Colo nel Fred Raine, German correspondent, followed with speech in German in which he dwelt chiefly on German achievements in the city. majority of the strangers in the city will remain for the weeks festivities, and the streets tonight are literally jammed with moving mass of humanity.
 The city tonight presents exciting en- thusiastic and brilliant scene. The new City Hall is illuminated with rows of gas jets up to the top of the high dome. Battle Monument is surrounded with gas lights with beautiful effect. Washington Monu- ment is also illuminated Electric lights at the Neaos, Sun and American offices light up the neighborhood as bright as day. Numer- ous stores are literally flooded with burning gas jets, showing of the decorations in the strongest manner. The arches at various points are all brilliantly illuminated and the streets thronged with people viewing the grand sight. The city never was so arranged as on this occasion, and allwho have witnessed the grand spectacle say it surpasses anything of the kind they have ever seen.