St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-20
ALBANY,S BI-CENTENNIAL.
The Mayor Welcomes the Visitors t,
the City..Nosable Ceremonies.

ALBANY, n. Y, June 19.-This is the
second day of the bi-centennial celebration,
and it opened cool and cloudy. The city
was thronged with visitors and the streets
presented most brilliant appearance, the
leading buildings being covered with many
colored flags and bright bunting. At 8
a. M. Mayor Thatcher, with drawn sword
and preceded by crier and herald, headed
the procession, in which were the city
officials, the Burgess corps, the jackson
corps, the bi-centennial committee and
Caughnawago Indians in their paint and
feathers, and proceeded to the ancient city
gates. The streets through which the novel
column pnssed were lined with spectators.
Secretary Manning waved to the party from
his window and was greeted with salute
When the line reached the south gate, a
high arch of evergreens on the corner of
Broadway and Hudson avenue, the mayor,
after the crier had Silenced the multitude,
made the following proclamation:
10 all We OF good fame and honest name,
traveller, student and FRIEND who shall enter
our gates this day and in the days that for
three times shall follow after this peace
greetings, cheer and welcome. Hitherto
have we come after twice one hundred years.
and within our walls to-day we celebrate the
national event. Join with US in commemora-
ton of the day when our fathers received
their charter 200 years ago. Enter then be-
| meath this triumphal arch and unite with US
IN pecan and ovation. Freedom, liberty and
immunity we give thee for this time.
This proclamation was posted on both
the south and north gates. The Indians
sang in their native tongue and the boom
of cannon and ringing bells announced that
Albany had thrown open her gates with a
hearty welcome to all that participate in
the festivities. At the conclusion of the
| ceremony the pupils Of the grammar schools
| and the high school, numbering several
| thousands, together with the teachers and
board OF public instruction, assembled in a
tent in Capitol park and carried out their
| program. Historical tableauX were pre-
sented representing the arrival of Henry
Hudson in 1909, the reception of the
Dougan charter at Albany on July
26, 1886, and the reception of Lieut.. Gen.
John Burgoyne and Baroness Reisdell by
Mrs. Phillip Schuyler after the surrender of
| Saratoga at the Schuyler mansion in Al
bany in October. 1777. The music rem
dered by a chorus of 1, 200 voices, was very
| fine. Two gold watches offered by the
committee for the best essay on ''Albany's
history and growth in two centuries" one
to be written by boy and the other by a
| girl. were awarded to George l.. Hudson
and Elizabeth Davidson. The morning
ended with canoe races on the river. The
fireworks at Washington park Thursday
night will be the finest ever seen in the
United States with the single exception of
those at the Inauguration of President
Cleveland. The aerial features of the in
auguration fireworks will be duplicated,
but the set pieaes will be entirely different
and will include mammoth representations
in colored fires of the delivering of the
Dougan charter to Mayor Schuyler, the
city,s coat OF arms, the landing of Henry
Hudson and the falls of Niagara.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-The president,
accompanied by Secretaries Bayard and
| Whitney. and Private Secretary Lamont,
will leave Washington "Wednesday after
noon for Albany, where they will spend
Thursday as the guests of Gov. Hill. and
will leave there in time to arrive in Wash
ington Friday moring.