Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-29

this morning thousands more were duueu
to the great throng handsome silk
French flag will be placed over the face of
the statue. At given word from President
Cleveland IL will be drawn, unveiling the
head OF the goddess. The labor parade
which moved out at o'clock included be-
tween 25, 800 and 81, COO men. The naval pa.
rade starts at t245. The President VIII reacn
Bedloe's Island about o'clock and the ex-
ercises will commence as soon as ne mas
reached his seat.
THE PRESIDENT HEADS.
NEW YORK, October 2s.-It is estimated
the festivities. The procession was to have
started at 9 o'clock, but at that hour II had
only begun to form. Promptly at ~ O'Clock
the President, accompanied by Secretary
Bsyard, descended the steps OF secretary
carriage. At 1015 he commenced to march
down Fifth avenue. Both sides OF the ave-
nue. were crowded with people. who waved
their hats and .applauded loudly as the
Presidents carriage passed. On all sides
the streets from Central Park to the review
ing stand on Twenty fourth street, different
military companies and civic organfzatio
were formed. The President reached the
reviewing stand at Madison Square at lO:4J.
He was greeted with hearty cheers as he
drove down the avenue and drew up in
front of the stand. After the President had
taken his place on the reviewing stand the
members OF the French delegation were
presented to him.
THE CROWD IN MADISON SQUARE
When the President reached the reviewing
stand was vast. When Governor Hill
mounted the platform there were cheers
When Bartholdi, the sculptor, appeared the
cry OF "Bartholdi!" was caught up on both
the reviewing and grand stands. The
crowds on the avenue .curbings up and
down heard the name and passed. 1t to the
people in the park and side streets until the
air was shaken with the roar OF cheering
that must have gladdened the heart of the
Alsatian. who bowed and bowed his &C
acknowledgements. In the reviewing stand
President Cleveland was presented with
three handsome baskets of flowers, gifts of
young ladies in the city. Nearly every
band in passing the stand played the MAR
seillaise," the
FRENCH NATIONAL HYMN.
AS soon as the procession had passed, the
President and party were driven to North
river and were taken on board the Dispatch.
The marine part OF the parade began III the
Hudson river opposite west aS E9rty th
drawn up in two divisions, the first COM
posed OF large steamers and the second OF
tugs and smaller boats.
At one O'Clock the signal gun to start was
fred and the column began its forward
movement. The United States steamship
Dispatch lay off West Twenty-third street,
and asthe column of boats approached, Pres.
ident Cleveland arrived with his suite and
pTcphTeu ~ go tA ho thO Suho AiSN
THE PRESIDENTS SALUTE,
A halt was ordered until the Despatch got
under way, when with loud blast of
whistles the column of boats followed in
behind, bound south to Bedloe's Island.
The music that was played while the OIL
cials and guests were assembling on Bed
loe's Island this afternoon was followed by
a signal gun that announced the beginning
of the ceremonies PRAYER was offered by
Rev. DR.. Richard s. Storrs. Count Ferdinand
De Lesseps then delivered an address on
behalf of the Franco American Union.
Senator Evarts next made the presentation
address. The ceremony of unveiling the
Statue of Liberty then took place and was
followed by a salute from all guns in the
harbor. After music President Cleveland
FORMALLY ACCEPTED THE STATUE.
Au address was then made by the repre-
tentierie ct Delegue Extraordinaire, 4.
Lefaiyre. There was more music by Gil
mOres Twenty Second Regiment band.
Then Chauncey NJ. Depew delivered the
was played by the band ahd the assembly
joined in
SINGING THE DoXOLOGY.
The ceremonies were closed with a benedic-
tion pronounced by the Right Rev. Henry
C. Potter, d. D., Assistant Bishop of the
diocese Of New York. national salute
was then fired simultaneously by all the bat
teries in the harbor afloat aud ashore. The
programme provides for an evening. illu-
mination of the statue with fireworks on
Bedloe'S and Governors ISLANDS and the
battery. dinner in honor of the French
guests will be given at Delmonico's this
evening by the Chamber OF Commerce.
Three batteries took part in salute Of 100
nal at the moment of unveling the statue.
The steamers in the bay blew their whistles
and the men-ofwsr returned the salute
from their guns. At o'clock the vessels
which had taken part in the naval parade
sight-seers atthe Battery and wharves. At
4 20 the guns on Governors Island and the
other forts and those on the war ships were
unmasked and
BELCHED FORTH THEIR THUNDER
For half an hour. The New York society of
amateur photographers chartered steamers
at the scene of the parade and at Bedloe's
Island. The New York World, which bore
such prominent part in raising the pedes
tai fund. was represented in the naval pa.
The President left this city by special
train on the Pennsylvania road at 8 33 this
evening. He went straight from the festivi-
ties on Bedloe's Island on board the Des-
Bayard and Whitney, to the Adams Express
pier, and walked to the depot, where the
special train was in waiting.
At the conclusion OF Senator Evarts'
SDeecn the slRudl WAS given duo thG NCii
was removed from the face of the statue,
amidst the booming of cannon and shrek
ing of whistles of hundreds of steamers
and other craft gathered around the island.
This indescribable ovation continued for
fully half an hour. Senator Eyarts, when
the firing aud hooting had subsided, intro.
duced Grover Cleveland, the President OF
the United States, who in accepting the
"The people of the Unitld States accept
with gratitude from their brethren OF the
French Republic the grand and completed
work of art we here inaugurate. Thls TO-
ken of affection and consideration Of the
people of France demonstrates the
KINsHIP OF THE REPUBLICS,
And conveys to us the assurance that in our
efforts to commend to mankind the excel
lence of government resting upon the pop.
ular will, we still have beyond the Ameri-
can continent steadfast friend. We are
not here to-day to bow before representa-
tion of fierce and warlike God, filed with
wrath and vengeance, but We joyously con.
template our own deity keeping watch and
ward before the open gates OF America and
greater than all that have been celebrated
In ancient Troy Instead OF grasping in her
hand the thunderbolts of terror aud of death
she holds aloft light which illuminates
the way to mans enfranchisement. We will
not forget that liberty has here made her
hou.e. nor shall her chosen altar be neg
iected willing votaries will constantly
keep alive Its fires. and these shall CLEAN
on the shore OF the sister republic In the
EAST reflected thence and joined with the
enswering sr rays, stream of light shall
nierce the darkness of ignorance aud mans
oppression until liberty enlightens the
world.
When Count De Lesseps was introduced,
he was received with round of applause.
He smoke in French and with an energy
equal to any speaker OF the day, far exceed
ing in this respect Senator Evarts. who
smoke later. Senator Eyarts and Chauncey
N Depew wore skull caps while speaking,
but the octogenarian canal digger faced the
storm boldly without any covering to his
silvered head, although he stood i9rtner
of the other speakers. lie begsn with
Iocular aside. apparently In regard to the
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