The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-02
Continuation Of the Centennial
Celebration in New York.
MARCH OF THE CIVIL SOCIETIES.
President Harrison Reviews the Arts and
Trades PrOcessiOns-The Floats and Ban
ners-The Ladies Dined.

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shortly after 10 o'clock at Fifth avenue an
F'ifty-seventh street, and will march in re
verse order over the route of yesterdays
| parade, down Fifth avenue to Seventeenth
street, to and around Union square, by
Fourteenth street to Fifth avenue, tC
Washington square by Waverly place, tC
Broadway and down that thoroughfare tC
Pine street.
President Harrison is in the reviewing
stand at Madison square. The parade will
be led by Mayor Grant and representative
delegates from the civil industrial and
commercial organizations. When the re
viewing stand was reached, the mayor pre-
scented an address to the President. This
| body then took places on either side of the
President, and after him received the
! hOnOrs of the parade. Next came General
Buttertield, chief marshal, and staff The
first tableau the
| DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
was intended to represent the reading of
| the Declaration by John Nixon in state
house yard, Philadelphia, July 5, 177S. This
float was surrounded by an escort of 100
members of the Society of Veterans of the
| Regular Army and Navy.
| The next float represented ''Washington
and his generals mounted" Washington,
as commander-in-chief,o occupied the center
of the line, Maio Generals Ward, Putnam,
Philip Schuyler and Charles L ee were on
either side. Closely following are nine
brigadier generals, the number appointed
phia in 1715. Also the Marquis de Lafay-
cite, Baron Steuben, spector-General
Count Rochambeau and others.
Following this came a float representing
washington Crossing the Delaware
with a guard of several hundred cadets in
uniform Then came $500 school children
escOrting the tableau of ''Washington at
Valley Forge which represents the
winter quarters at Valley Forge and the
meeting of General Washington with
Baron Steuben; sick and wounded sol
diers
The Exempt Firemen's association of the
city to the number of 200 came next. After
them came the Tammany hall braves, a
genuine Indian squaW and two copper
colored braves. with color more than skin
deep, accompanying them.
Other displays in the line included
mammoth globe representing the New York
World the Manhattan Ship Joiners' asso-
citation with a mammoth model of the ship
HOboken, and the fire department with
their Anticipated hook and ladder.
Several temperance societies and the
Knights of Pythias preceded the float,
resignation of a commission and the
YOnkers Cadet Corps escorted
1.-THE FIRST INAUGURATION"
Between the Washington continentals
and 1000 Sons of Veterans was the
elaborate tableau the Estate of Virginia.
representing a ship of the sixteenth
century with adventures in Elizabethan
costumes crOwding the poop deck, des-
crying land
Then followed a series tableaux repre-
Senting the various states as follows New
York-Boat load of Dutch Sailors and
Voyagers; Observation-Disclosures of
the MaytlOwer; Christening Of
Savages: Maryland - Lord Baltimore
and George Calvert; PENNSYLVANIA
PENIS Treaty; GeOrgia-The Last Pre-
Revolutionary Colonial Settlement.
After these came the CaledOnian club of
New York and the Twenty ninth Highland
regiment of veterans. The Swiss centen-
NAL committee, with Swiss tableaux. was
escorted by the Centennial sharpshooters.
Then came the tiremen's division. Chief
among these 600 members of New York
volunteer firemen were 4G0 men in this di-
vision: next were 1000 of the Brooklyn pO-
lice. Then came the Manhattan ship join
erS and floats exhibiting their handicraft;
operative plasterers' society at work; cloak
and suit industry plying scissors and
needle; marble cutters scattering chips;
go Brooklyn plumbers; 800 Brooklyn car
penterS 5000 members of the Union of Car
penters and Joiners of America. Next
came the Italian division. The Italian mill
tary association turned out thirteen COM
panies; the civic societies as many more.
One of their floats was a large boat on
which were represented
COLUMBUS AND WASHINGTON
discoverer and father. The second float
represented Italy and America sitting
among the flowers. The Scandinavian
American societies also made a good show
ing
The Germans had a notable division.
First came the Germau-American sharp
shooters to the number of over three hun
bred; then the singing societies. The fea-
ture of this part Of the parade, however,
was the great number of tableaux and
floats, nearly all the important historical
events and the progress of the last century
in the arts and sciences, being represented.
Almost every trade known to man had rep
resentatives among the German population,
and at least few artisans from each were
in line. There were also floats showing
Germauy's favorite sports and allegories of
"Bacchus," liking. Carnival, ~. "Arian,"
''Columbia'' and" Germania." In all, sixty
melpOmene nOatS.
The third brigade of the German division
was made up of various organizations from
this and neighboring cities, comprising the
singing societies, shooting clubs and mill
tary associations. Next came the Hiber-
mans, who numbered 10000, some uni
formed, some not. An elaborate float, 'sThe
World Moves On" added another feature
to the column. After number of trades
organizations passed, the United Polish so
cieties came along, one of their floats show
ing how paper boxes are made. Then the
cOlored centennial committee, with George
Washington's coach drawn by four horses.
After the colored delegation came the regu-
lar Irish section of the parade. This in
cluded nearly all the Irish-American soci-
cites OF New York; the Papal Veterans;
s, 900 in number of the Society of the Holy
Name; 5000 more of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians; 1000 of Provincial Council of
Temperance societies. and dozen Catholic
benevolent societies. Struggling at the
end of the line were a lot of impromptu
of patent nostrums.
The President left the reviewing stand
at 10 and drove to Vice-President Nor
toms. 1t is estimated that up to that time
90, 900 men had passed before him.
President Harrison and party will leave
for Washington at 5 this afternoon.
The Ladiis Remained.
New YORK Nav The ladies of Presi-