The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-10-14
The Baltim ore OriOle.


The Oriole celebration began in Baltimore
on Monday by formal turning on of the
Gunpowder water supply. The Battle Mon
ument, Monument Square, was turned into a
gigantic fountain from which 1900 jets of
water leaped into the air simultaneously. A
picturesque cataract was also constructed,
out of the top of which broad sheet of water
rushed, forming three foaming cascades. At
night the fountain and cataract were illumi-
mated with colored lights.
There was also a grand military and civic
display of the Fifth Regiment, military from
Washington, the Grand Army of the Repub.
lie, the police and fire departments, &c.
On Tuesday afternoon grand concert was
given by Gilmor's baud, of New York, at the
at the Washington Monument,
The attractive feature of the celebration,
however, was the grand pageant, on Tues
day night, which was witnessed by thousands
of persons from all parts of Maryland and
other States, as well by almost the entire
population of our great metropolis. No bet
ter description could be given than the fol-
lowing, abridged from the Baltimore Sun
Everything that has helped to make up the
world of to-day was seen in miniature. Egypt, the
cradle of civilization, where Ibis first sat en-
| throned, crowned with the lotus, and which af-
| forwards served as refuge for her whom nearly
all the world revere the type of purity and
true motherhood; Rome, at first troubled as the
Tiber, but afterwards glowing like star purple
| robed, eagle-eyed and seven-hll crowned India,
land of myth and mystery, with an anomaly OF
benefcent gods, cruel deties, white robed priests
| and q creed which, next to the teachings of the
founder of Christianity, is the highest, gentlest
and hottest in the history of thought; Arabia, from
which sprang that dark-browed and lion-hearted
| son of the desert whose SenSuouS nature was
| gorified and redeemed by thoughts of love and
tenderness Greece, whose large-eyed and imagi-
native children saw a nymph in every grove and
a naiad in every fountain; Italy, whose daring
son sailed into unk known seas and found new
world England whose sturdy barons wrested the
glory from King John. and under the branching
oaks of Runnymede, with steel-gloved hands wrote
| in mperishable letters the first declaration of
| freedom France amid the bloom of whose snow
white lilies Peter the Hermit planted the fiery
| cross that blaZed from Amiens to the Mount OF
Olives and made men tread the scatfold with
kingly step and vault like conquerors into chart
OTIS of fire: America, the elimination of all the
dreams of freedom that ever stirred the hearts of
dusky Ethiops weled up in the breasts of blonde
in the gallcys that plowed the Northern seas all
these came forth in the presence of the Progress
| of To-day, living, breathing, round-limbed, re-
ceiving voice and utterance from the artist and
| "Mnglng with their gorgeous dyes
| The milky baldric of the Skies.
| Passing from the Orient to Southern Europe,
was next seen the origin of the Latin races, who
prior to their decadence gave to history, poetry,
| art and song glory which Egyptian lore could
never have furnished. But Rome. conqueror of
| the world, rising from mud-built walls to the
Coliseum and the dome of St Peters, tainted first
with the malaria that rose from the bed of the
sluggish Tiber, and afterwards fragrant with the
| incense that hoated through the columned asles
of her great cathedral, and glorious with the mu-
| sic that sweled from its pealing organs. surren-
| ttxrnn hri ~
and the dusky sorceress of the Nile made Anto-
| ny captive
| Mighty Caesar, whose conquests, glories tri-
| umphs spoils'' shrank to II little measure, was
The Orient, with its sensuous glory and dreamy
splendor, formed chapter in the pageant, Lord
| Buddha, "All honored, wisest, best, most pitful,
tri-headed, teacher of dim but gentle faith, was
seen enthroned; Around him stood his priests.
| rich procession of kings and queens, warriors and
churchmen, legislators and crusaders, ending
with George Washington, the man of destiny and
of Yorktown, who
Lived to clutch the golden keys
To mould mighty States DEGREES,
And shape the whisper of the throne.
But amid all the glare of Times ENG has,
shone in radiant splendor, the floats designed by
the local and trades committee, History, Music,
| Art and Science; the growth of America and the
generous rivalry of Europe and Asia were all rep
Viewed from the platform around The SIN
| Building, the scene was one which has never
| been equaled on this continent. A solid mass of
people stretched from Jones's falls to Eutaw
street. The shot-tower stood out in bold relief,
capped by blazing circlet of gasje over which
shone the moon like lamp on the floor of heaven,
that was "thick inlad with patines of bright gold
From every street came the -blare of trumpctS
and the roll of drums. Coored lights made such
steady blaze that night was changed into day,
and the whole sky, from the horizon to the pole
star seemed to glow with fervd heat; where amid
all this glory the stately procession moved on,
clear-cut. distinct and artistic rich with colors
that rivaled those from the brush of Claude
Lorraine and dark with shadows That are associ-
ated with Rembrandt.
The Oriole ended with brilliant ball at
the Academy of Music
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