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THE ALBANY CELEBRATION.
COMMEMORATIVE TABLETS PLACED.

| THE SITE OF OLD FORT oRAy8E-uIIIArn
FILLMOREs GOOD FORTUNE
iFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRBuyr
ALBANY, July 14.-The signs In the streets
nat Albany the OF tho biggest event in its his,
tory OF nearly 270 years give the sojourner IN tow,
some conception OF the invisible activities which ara
now In full operation throughout the city pushing final
preparations for the celebration which begins ne II
Sunday To-day the memorial tablets In bronze 10 CON-
memorate historical sites and events are being p.ce,
in position. The nl.paved. muddy and noisy Albany
Steamboat Square has been a by word OF
time when Fnton's Cermont first landed
near 1t In 1907. but henceforth even tina.
hurried traveller Will tarry for a nom Mt on i,s rough
cobblestones Near Its centre been placed small
granite block. bearing on Its soping face o bronze
tablet with the inscription:
Upon this spot washed by the tide stood tho north
the powerful roquois the deputies this an other
colonies IN conference TO establish treatea tue
courts held
Tho history OF Albany permanent settlement be-
gins with the landing Of thirty families OF W4IIoon
refugees at this point; but local pride 10 won't
the cy's origin back to the establishment OF
Dutch trading postcaed Fort Nassau, which company
Of venturesone sailors aud traders built the Island
opposite the lower part OF the city in 1914. only five
years after Henry Hudsons Half Moon hrst troubled
the OF the upper Hudson opposite Albany About
forty memorial tablets OF the character described were
placed IN position yesterday and to-day, will be tho
course OF the two days. Thus marked tho
site Of the house where Anneks Jams. OF memory
dear to the legal profession lived died &c. TOO
marked the house OF the PATRONS Van Rens
seaer and the Schuyler Mansion. where Alexander
ilton and President Fillmore married. Like many
another II the story OF the day 10 veracous latter
buided better than he knew when he married the widow
Mcintosh In lS47, when Fillmore a candidate for
Controller the Wing ticket number Of wealthy citi
zens opposed to him at The Argus ONCE consult
with Edwin Croswell as to the OF defeating him.
NOneOf those present Croswe versed IN politics
but they finally induced to contribute Jointly
$40. 900 to effect Flmore's defeat Tn willing
politicians" with this until election day. the
concluded to deposit the corruption fund with
Mcintosh, the we'll known crockery dealer whose oce
faced The Argats building. Mcintosh approached
and agreed to hold the subject 10 order aud with
out asking any questions as to Its destination The
into the bank with his business deposits and
forthwith Mr.. McIntosh died, leaving no paper
to show whence came deposit OF $4,000
his bank book The very ingenious story Of
very respectable Democrats who had made Mcintosh
their temporary depository would not hold water with
his executors and some years later the same entemen
had the exquisite pleasure of dancing at the Schuyler
House when Willard Fillmore married the widow OF their
particular political enemy and with her. among other
OF her late husband. the $4,000 contributed TO
keep Fillmore out OF politics.
The erection OF the tablets however, is but one
evidence " the enthusiasm that is waking tho
city The preachers IN all the churches are hard at work
memorial for OF religious exercises
with which invocation the weeks festivities are
to formally opened. The scheme OF celebration calls
for morning service In representative Cath0ic
church. afternoon service Dutch Reformed church
and evening service In al Episcopal church Albany
Is one the cities the Un0n II not the only
except New-lork. whose history bears record OF
colony Oundmed Its present site, the Dutch Re-
formed faith made the established church OF tho
ceedngly uncomfortable for all who preferred to
ship according to other FORMS and II was not until lol
that the Lutherans even tolerated. Five years
after Episcopal minister obtained foothoId hero
after undergoing several Trials of heresy Ihe caholcs
did not organize here until late In the eig nteenta
century. The Mayor and Common Council with AL tho
state they muster at 10 o'clock will proceed to ST.
Mary's Church where military mass with brass band
aud orchestral sccompahments I'll be celebrated with
all the endor OF soldiers uniforms, lowered standards
drums. Tho same procession Will wind Its way to the
Dutch church in the afternoon listen a memorial
service and in the evening will proceed 10 St
Peters Episcopal Church for Denedioton ON the day
and the munich pal government
Outside OF this official programme for b-centennial
Sunday oil the churches on larger or smaller scale
have arranged for historical services. The trst
Lutheran congregation particular has issued widely
through the denomination Invitations to us
ceremonies. 1t the first church OF the sect in
the States and although Albany at first gave IL
rough reception the city mas been one OF the centres
years Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons are SEE
Amateur Osrsmen and after devout have hat their
sunday on the two later days the sporting anu
comprises eight oar four pair double aud siugle
scu In the first class eight oars the Crescents
OF Boston, Coum bias OF Washington AMI Farmounts OF
Philadelphia have entered. The Argonauts OF Toronto
Nautilus OF Hamilton Hillsdaes, Farmounts and
Others are the list OF competitors for the ouroar
championship and tho senior and junior single list com
prises abont forty entries including the names OF
score OF oarsmen known throughout the country.
Ex-Speaker Erwin who 10 here making preparations
for members of the Legislature Thursday
July connection with the blcenennal ceiebration
present LEGISLATURE viii be here and many members
OF former Legislatures. He thinks the reunion viii be
one OF the marked features OF the celebration. Tho
time abefore the day fixed for the gathering
that invitations cannot be prepared aud sens
out but all members ex-iuembers OF the state SEN
ate and Assembly invited to attend without further
ceremony, and they will be heartily sw~--ned 10 the
week's festiYiiieS