Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-20
ALBANY'S BE-CENTENNEAL. A Gala Day In the Old New York
 

ALBANY, N. Y, July 19-To-day opened
 cool and cloudy. The programme of the
 second day of the bi-centennial celebration
 drawn sword and preceded by a crier and
 herald headed a procession in which were the
 city officials, the Burgess corps, the Jack
 son corps, the 5i-centennial committee and
 Caugnauga Indians in war paint and feathers
 and proceeded to the ancient city gates. The streets through which the column passed
 were lined with spectators. Secretary Man
 ming waved to the processionists from his
 window and wBs greeted with a salute. When
 the line reached the south gate, high arch of evergreens, the Mayor, after the crier had silenced the multitude, made the following
 proclamation:
 To all ye of good face 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,
 after twice one hundred years and within our
 walls to-day we celebrate this natal event.
 Join with us in commemoration of the day
 when our fathers received their charter two
 hundred years ago. Enter, then, beneath
 this triumphal arch and unite with us ill
 pecan 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 ringing of bells announced that Albany had thrown open her gates with a hearty vel come to all to participate in her festivities. After these ceremonies the great tent in Capitol Park was filled with people who witnessed very interesting exer- cises by several thousand school children ot the city, consisting of music, tableaux and recitatons Historic tableaux were present. ed representing the arrival of HendIick Hud- son in 16O9, the reception of the Doughan charter at Albany on July 26, 16o6, and the reception of Lieutenant General John Bur goyne and Baroness Reisdel by Mrs. Philip Schuyler after the sufrender at Saratoga at the Schuyler mansion in Albany in October, 1777. The music rendered by a chorus of one thousand voices was very fine. The two gold watches offered by the committee for
 the best essays on 'Aloany,s history and growth in two centuries,' one to be I written by boy and the other by girl, l were awarded to George L. Hudson and Elizabeth Davidson. The morning ended 1 with canoe races on the river.
 The fireworks at Washington Park Thurs day night will include among the se& pieces 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.
 The school children this afternoon pro- ceeded to the places where the forty five l member tablets had been erected b desig- l nate historical spots and unveiled them. The ] first of the grand parades occurred this after noon. It was participated in by organiza- tions representing all trades and all branches of business with floats and costumes. The procession was four miles long.
 This evening there were literary and musl- cal exercises of historic character by school children, fireworks, open concerts, etc.