The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14
SOME EVACUATION NOTES,
'feat Preparations Making in New York for
me Cell bration OF the Centennial OF the
Withdrawal OF the Redcoats.
now History Is Made. Showing That Historian
iieadly Draws More on His Imagina-
ti0n Than on Facts. ~
'otham Gossip-Monsignor Capel Declares
That tile Taxation OF Catholics to Support
Public Schools Is Played Ont.

S2.-Our streets are full of the noise of prop
Ara'lon, ~ they were a hundred years ago this
day, In overv hou.e is the hum of expectancy,
1hen patriots were creeping quietly back
through the British lines and recommending the
,ouses they had Quilted seven years before,
when Washington reircated northwara through
hc1owan's rass--now one of the prettiest
hooks OF Central park-and crossed the Iiar-
lem. Young fellows who had been in the
army hurried back to tho familiar neighbor-
mood, and shyly inquired about the Sailies and
Iholllcs and AIMS and Elias, lovely and loving
OF yore, and here and there caught dssconso-
late looking Chaps With red jackets coming out
OF the front gate, and a surprised face at the
Nlhoow, ~et with ambiguous tears. Jolly, sad
Old times those We're. y hundred years ago
New York Was the third city in the country,
Inu about a. big as Kalamazoo is now. All
atoye City Hall park was a COW pasture, and
where tho Fifth Avenue hotel is wa. rather u
dangerous part Of the rural districts. The
COW pasture is now n vast l.uman habitahon,
tue whole country was then worth. At
the celebration of tho centennial an
Hversary next Monday there vii! be
present here more than half as many people
as existed in the whole country when the Rev
dictionary war hroke out, A hundred years
ago today couricrs on horseback were carry
!hG TO all parts of the narrow strip along the
coast, then known as the Colonies. the Aad news
tlat NV York, which was even then felt to be
the vital center of the country, was to be
turned over by the vanquiShed British 30 the
triumphant robels. The patriot tatterdemal-
IONS, III all stages of picturesque rags, were
securing up their musiets and brushing their
futtcring garments in the highlands. up the
RIVER. III Anticipation of the great event. To-
day tens of thousands of old soldiers are bur
nisl,ing up their disnsod uniforms, aud 800 fire.
men, under Chief Decker, will appear in the red
shirts and slieet-iron hats of a former era. For
several hours on Monday the trim PROFESSIONS
Will march and coUntermarch- the parade of
200 in the streets, aud the marine parade,
more novel and quite as imposiny-the multi
tude OF vessels in tho river. l don't sec what is
to prevent the great bridge from breaking down
with the great multitude that VIII crowd upon it.
1t is odd how little is known OF the real his-
tory OF that time. 1tis known that Washing
ton came into the city and resumed possession
on Nov. 20, 1888, but scarcely any of the de-
tails Of he event are recordcd anywhere. 1t
is known that he 'ook formal leave of his Off
Gers on Dec i, the next week, at Fraunces'
tavern, a large brick building, still standing ut
Az u u pitdl uui IcaIi slES6tSJ put
who participa ed, what ceremonies there were,
and how long they lasted, is mostly q matter
of conjecture. That there were imposing GER
emonies is not to be doubted: for Washington,
spite Of the simplicity OF his character, was n
tact,cian aud q Journalist in all social matters.
"A president should drive never less than four
horscs,' he said; and when he WAS prc.ideat
here he maintained the exterior majesty uf tla
office. When lie dashed down Broadway II his
silver mounted coach, behind SIX white horses,
with two coachmen III front ard two footmen
balancing themselves behind, aad four liveried
persons galloiiug on horseback in front and
rear, and when this gorgeous equipage used to
whi-k around mt Wall street to Federal hall,
tho cap toi. small boys got out of the way.
Franklin and Dr. Rush we're much scandalizcd
by Ills ''Eomposi y" as they vigorously called
tt; but his ceremoliousn ess filled with glee the
souls Of John Adams and Hamilton and Jay,
whurather ihoushttha u senate elected for life,
and more class DISTINCTION, would be u eoot
thing.
soME HISTORICAL ERRORS.
~iIarpcr's Magazine for October and Novem-
Der contains articles on this verv centennial
occasion, and they are as fntl Of errors as if
they had been recording the feats of Jack the
Giant Killer. The first of these was written
" u l. AAS"'"S' AN S'S 'bpo III q Z Elt-
,uresqua nlanner-'oo picturesque, altogether
how Washington took leave of his troops at
Ncwburgh on Nov. 3, 1888. representing that
tho army Was there. He SAYS:
In their ragged rerimentals
Stood tho old contineutals, W.
20 hear the farewell address of their great
leaders.
The fact is that ihero worc no troops remain
ing at Newburgh at the time. They had been
lisbaudcd and sent hon. the previous April.
So the pathetic illu stra ion of the old soldiers
tearing themselves away from each other is a
good deal cx post facto. SO id the picture of
''Washinsion refusing the CROWN and
tie guilty consp'rator, who offered that
baubic, crouching before the indig-
nant and virtuous man. Tho notion that
such an event ever happened
vo. long ago exploded. lie probably would
10 him, but there is no mention in his writings
or those of any contemporary of anybody ever
having an interview with him and Offering a
crown or any other piece of royal furniture.
But this writer not only gives a graphic and
beautiful illustration of an event that never
happened, but libcls the whole patriot army by
making GU. that the crown was proffered by
soldiers WAC were disgruntled because they
had poor ra,ions and no back pay! The dis
tinguished writer dashes along like ''our own
reporter On the spot" when he says of the I'M
asinary courcils at Newburgh:
The generals. one after another, rodo up and
d.smountsl at the door. Wayne and Putnam an
Sullivan entered one after another: Steuben rode
40 from over the river. and Knox aud Greene from
New Windsor.
Iii fortunate that the author is particular
to state that they rode up zone after another
,,1 ,I.n that tb,.y aptera1 stopp after a not1er :
1t could not we'll have been otherwise. Fo,
not more than one or two of them could pos.
sibly have been present on the occasion. Gen.
WAYNE. 'Mad Anthony and Gen. Greene were
both in South Carolina. Gen. Sullivan had re.
signed on account of ill-health four years pre-.
viously and WAS then attorney general of New
Hampshire. Gen. Putnam was Frustrated witt
paralvsis at Hartford, Knox WAS at Lake
George, Sicuben may possibly have been q
Newburgh or tEereabout, but 10 suppose hin
capable OF taking part in a council of NAL.
contents who thought seriously of revolt
irr because they had sour bread, il
a gratnltous SANDER. Why doesn't the writer
make Benedict Arnold and Gen. Warren enter
zone after another:n The article is rich il
illustration. It las a fine picture of "Trinit,
church as it stood in 1855" But Triuit,
church, unfortunately, didn't stand in 1888
It was burned to the ground in 1776, and was
not rebuilt till nearly 1900. WHAT wonder
that we make mistakes about Pocahontas,
and William Tell, and Shakespeare, aud Homer,
and Hercules, and Venus, not to mention Noah
and Adam and Eve, when q well-known histor,
ian cannot tell any nearer than this what hap
pened in public to the most conspicuous mar
OF his time barely 100 years ago.
AT %FRAUNcEs' TAVERN
The old building known as Fraunces' tavern
nat after tbs revolution will be q center of III.
terest on next Monday. 1t WAS three storie
and is now four stories high. built solidiy o