The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-05-11
BROADBRIM'S N. Y. LETTER

"Bless the Lord that mine eyes hath seen
It; now let Thy servant depart in peace
For never again on this side OF the ''gOlden
gates shall seen such another glorious
and glitteriug pagant. have see much Of
this world and its glory. 1t is now nearl
forty years since l stood on Hyde Park
corner when Prince Albert, then in his
prime, passed by attended by a brilliant
cavalcade TO open the Crystal Palace, the
ghost of which now stands at Sydenhan-
the wonder and delight of the modern
cocknev, who reads its legends in the ighl
of ancient history and takes his sweetheart
out once a week TO see the wonderful fire
works.. II was great day. All England
was out, and MANY lands beside. Muley
Hassan from the Saharean Desert gazed in
wonder at an American threshing machine
and mower, and Chinese, Persans and
Tartars regaled themselves ON ham sand
wiches prepared in Chicago. albeit the
Prophet had announced to the faithful that
q devil incarnate lay hidden beneath the
ribs of the succulent pOrker. IL was u
great day, very great day and the London
Times on the following morning boldly de-
clared THAT as in all the ages the world
had never before Witnessed such a gather
ing, SO, centuries would probably pass before
the world would witness such another.
Then came the Exposition At Paris. and
Louis Napoleon. then in the zenith of his
fame and glOr', surrounded bV one OF th-
most brilliant stats that ever encircled an
emperor, pl acclaimed the First Paris Expo
sition open. Then came Vienna. and soon
following our own national celebration. la
1875. Marvellous was That wonderful pa
Reant, stood near General Grant, ON the
grand stand when he came, attended bN
George Washington Chids. and followed
him down 10 machinery hall and stond he
aide the great Corliss engine when, with his
hand on the lever he set that vast world
of machinery In motion, whose runbitng
thunder reverberaled around the globe.
Wonderful we're the sights OF that great day,
never 10 be forgotten. Then came the
Paris Exposition Of 1873, where he veal h
of the world poured It's genius, It's gold. and
glitteTing jewels into the Industrial Palace,
on the Champs de Mars. The dazzling
spieEdor OF the scene in the TrOcadOra,
when President Nc ahOn announced the
Exposition open and, attended b The Prince
OF Wales. swept dawn across the Seine, NJ
pen can linn and no mortal tongue describe
sit here tonight with all these over
powering memoIies fresh upon me, el
alongside OF the pagant OF the past lhre'
days they we're but as the sounding bras
and The linkliug cymbal."
The celebration of Nashington's lnau
Ruration started In the brain of singh
individual IN q country town in New Jersey
nearly ive years ago. IL was talked III
and taken In hand by few old fossils wh'
never did anything but talk, and tue prnjec
died, still-born. After living in the grave
two years II was resurrected and the ne'
committee gave II q start, but II was no
till last fA that the commute was perfect
organized, then the thing look shape, an
froln hat hour the celebration has grow
Jonah aourd. II reIemblrd might
river after = terrific storm. when the tioo
rises higher and higher and higher, Till a
last Il overhows It's banks and, barstin g a
bounds, sweeps everything before II. w
know here In New York that we had bi
thing on our hands, but not one In thoui
and Imagined the extent OF the reality.
New York is large city, we are used
taking care of vast crowds of people. flfI
thousand day Is our floating Population
BROOKLYN Is a city eight or nine miles Ion
by FIVE broad, solidly built with houses. y
with the densest packing, the broadest pul
lie liberalitv and the most bOundless prival
hospitality, we could hardly shelter III
struggling host that swept down upon 1
and fought for shel eg and food with an III
portuuily that would not be denied. FC
several dave before the 30lh The city bega
70 all up, aud BY Sunday there was hard
= hstsl sr bs4s1ing heRsp that bad ahslt'