The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-20
ALBASY'S BICENTENNIAL.
Second Day OF the Festivities-The
Mayors Proclamation.

ALBANY, N. Y, July 19.-This is
the second day of the bicentennial
celebration and it opened cool and
cloudy. The city is thronged with
visitors and the streets present most
brilliant appearance, the leading build
iugs being covered with many colored
flags and bright bunting. At 8 am,
Mayor Thatcher, with drawn sword
and preceded by crier snd herald,
headed the procession in which were
the city officials, the Burgess Corps,
the Jackson Corps, the Bicentennial
Committee and Caugnawaga Indians
in war paint and feathers, and pro-
ceeded to the ancient city gates. The
streets through which the novel col
umn passed were lined with specta-
tors. Secretary Manning waved to
the party from his, window and was
greeted with salute. When the line
reached the South gate, high arch of
evergreeps, on the corner OF Broad
way and Hudson avenue, the Mayor,
after the cIier had silenced the multi
tude, made the following proclama-
ton:
To all we of good fame and honest
name, traveller, student and friends,
who shall enter our gates this day,
and in the days that for three times
shall follow alter this, peace. greet
ings, cheer and welcome. Hitherto
have we come after twice one hundred
years, and within our walls today we
celebrate this natal event. Join with
us in commemoration of the day when
our fathers received their charter 200
years ego. Enter, then, beneath this
triumphal arch and unite with us in
paan and ovation. Freedom, liberty
and immunity we give thee for this
time.
This proclamation was fastened on
both the south and north gates. The
Indians sang in their native tongue,
and the boom of cannon and the ring
ing of bells announced that Albany
had thrown open her gates, with
hearty welcome to all to participate in
her iestivities.
At the conclusion Of this ceremony
the pupils Of the grammar schools and
the high school, numbering several
thousan d, together with the teachers
and the Board of Public instruction,
assembled in q tent in the Capitol
park, and carried out their programme.
Historic tableaux was presented repre-
senting the arrival OF Hendrick Hud-
son in 1905. The reception OF the Dou-
gan charter at Albany on July 18th,
1886, and the reception of Lieut.. Gen.
John Burgoyne and Baroness Reisdel
by Mrs. Philip Schuyler, after the sur
render at Saratoga, at the Schuyler
mansion, in Albany, in October l777.
The music, rendered by q chorus OF
1000 voices, was very fine. Two gold
watches offered by the committee for
the best essay on "Albany's history
aud 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 in
ansuration of President Cleveland.
The aerial features of the Inauguration
fireworks will be duplicated, but the
set fires 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
Hendrick Hudson and the Falls OF
Niagara.