Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-30

ing stripes and fields of stars, and bley tho immense spreads of bunting out from the old buildings wall like sails fNom the mast and yardarms. Along the cor nice, where the upper onds of the stream CTS and flags arc tied, a row of seven small flags runs, each shirred against the sJone so as to show some of the bars and some of the stars. At tho centre of tho cornfce lis an eagle gilt, with the words E Pluribus Unum.
 On each side of the lane beyond the Custom house the fronts of the tall office buildings, the houses of tho banking and insurance and trust companies, are garbed with holiday splendor. All that there is to see is rich enough to compare with the decorations further up the street, but not so rich as to make @ contrast. Whether by accident or design it was done, never mind, but true it is that tho displays in Wall street on the different building all harmoniZe, and thus make that little street of great business build- ingS the handSomeSt part of the town in point of centennial color glory. There is the sub-treasury building, site of the first inauguration of a president thefe is the DreXel building, site of the house of Alex ander Hamilton, first financier of the re- public; there is Trinity that was a pile of ruins when Livingston gave Washington the oath, and each building appears be-
 
 the Union and the states. From the middle of the intersection of William and Wall streets one may look toward Broad way and take in all the beauties of the picture beyond. The perspective is per feet, the tone perfect. On the right, the granite sub-treasury, beautiful with gold and red and white and blue federal and state emblems mingled; on the left, the marble Drexel building, gittering with cosmopolitan banners; and far to the front of all, the brown wall and ornate sp1re of Trinity, graced only with the na- siopal colors festooned over the entrance and the big flag of onr country waving inS from the steeple.
 The sub-treasury and the assay office .'n it's eastern side are fronted with | zarricade of Islands. The skeleton un- serpinning is hidden by sheets of red and white bunting, the stripes running yer Mcally, and above them runs border of sluc, draping the rail of the platform. s'he stand comes out over the steps of | ssie fortress of finance, and the little box 0ncrc MT. Depew and MT. Harrison will speak is almost over the spot over which | sGe balcony of Federal hall projected. the | Balcony where the first president stood | one hundred years ago tomorrow. Be | hind the box and above the masses of | snairs rises the bronze statue of Wash lpgton. Behind the bronze figure are the eight huted columns of the nations | treasure house, each girdled half way up | wlth a cluster of small flags. Upon each l cluster is a shield. The greatest decora- s;on, historically considered however, is sno gilded eagle midway up in the center At the cornice. It is a splendid figure of She national bird with wings spread. Four draped flags are each side of it. Be- reath is golden shield, under which is che motto, E. Pluribus Unum.
 The greatest decoration, however, that ie not a following of the decorations of a century ago, is the two strings of signal | flags that hang from the tall pole on the 1 Bub-treasury roof. They look pretty, and they mean great deal to those who understand the code they signify: ''First 1n war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen."