The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-01
THE NATIONS WORKERS.
All Industry Portrayed in
the Great Parade in
Honor of Washing
tons Name.
EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN IN LINE.
The President Looks On at a Civic
Display Of Surprising Interest
and Enormous Magnitude.

and Enormous Magnitude.
NEW YORK, May l, 1889. The great
event of today, and the last in the series
of Centennial celebrations to commemor
ate the Inauguration of Washington, was
the civic parade, designed to illustrate
the industrial progress of the country
during its century of national life.
The splendid naval and military demon
strations of the past two days, SURPRISING
any of their kind ever witnessed in the
new world, seemed not to have satiated
the appetite of the people for sightseeing
From very early hour this morning
crowds began to gather at all the places
along the line of march from which 6
view of the parade could be had, and by
eight o'clock the sidewalks all along the
route were well fringed with the waiting
throng.
The parade was under the management
of General Daniel Butterfield as chief
marshal, and the snoothness with which
the programme was carried out showed
the excellent result of his careful atten-
tion to details during the elaborate prepa-
rations which he has been making for
weeks past Early this morning the
streets leading east and west to Fifth
avenue from Fiftieth to Fifty-ninth streets
were alive with delegations from the
various organizations which were to
comprise the procession, and the work
of disposing them in proper position
rapidly proceeded, so chat when the
order to start was given each
detachment fell into line without delay
or confusion. All the streets in the vicin-
ity were kept clear of traffic, a large force
4. 1o%o 1<,I
pose of preventing any interference with
The formation of the parade.
THE PRESIDENT TAKES HIS PLACE.
The President was escorted from the
residence of Vice President Morton to the
reviewing stand at Madison Square, which
he reached few minutes after ten
O'Clock
The Iarade started at twenty minutes
past nine in the morning from Fifth ave-
nue. and Fifty-seventh street, the column
passing down the avenue. AS its head
reached Twenty-seventh street Mayor
Grant, with the representative
delegates from the civic, indus
trial and commercial societies and
organizations of New York, who had
been stationed in that vicinity awaiting
its approach, moved and took the lead I'M
til the Presidents reviewing stand was
reached. The Mayor bore an address,
which, on reaching the stand, be form
ally presented to the President amid
great applause from the multitude and
the booming of a hundred gun salute
from the ships in the North River. The
President gracefully signified his ac-
acknowledgement of the address and ex-
tended formal greeting to the city's repre-
sentatives, who then took the places re-
served for them on the grand stand
around the President.
The column then proceeded down the
ouo ract the GRAND cfon6 with has,dG
playing and flags waving in honor of the
President, who courteously responded to
the salutes of the various organizations.
A continuous cheer from the ranks with
as constant a response from the admiring
throngS added excitement to the scene as
the gay procession swept past.
First came detail of mounted police,
which swept the street clean from
crrk to curb of all stragglers.
A battalion of police on foot followed,
escorting the Chief Marshal General But
terield. A standard bearer waved aloft
the chief marshals banner, q flag of yell
low silk, adorned with the arms of the
State and city. The Generals mounted
staff, distinguishable by their yellow
sashes. came close behind. 1t was COM
posed of long list of gentlemen, includ-
ing the following Lawrence Turnure,
fred Wagstaff, H. Knickerbocker, Frank
lin BARTLETT, Joseph G. Jackson and
The following gentlemen were detailed
by the Governor on General Butterield's
staff to represent their several States:
New Hampshire, Solon A, Carter; Indi-
ana, John A. Bridgeland; Kansas, Homer
w. Pond; Maryland, Frank Brown; Him
ois, Charles p. Bryan; Pennsylvania,
Thomas J. Powers; Wisconsin, Ogden N.
Fetchers; Maine, George l.. Beal; Michi-
gan, D. B. Anger. South Carolina, Major
j. G. Anderson; Florida, John d; Tread
Connecticut, William c. Mawry; ARK,
ansas, Colonel B. 7. De Val; Virginia,
Major w. Miles Cary; Delaware, Austin
Harrington; Rhode Island, tColonel Mel
vile Hull; Vermont, Colonel Levi K.
Fuller.
THE HISTORIC TABLEAUx.
Next were the chiefs of organizations of
and Volunteers They acted as an escort
to Alexander B, Butts, Commander-in-
Chief of the Society of Veterans of the Reg
ular Army and Navy of the United States.
Then, separated by drum corps, came 100
veteran regular soldiers and sailors and
the Twenty-fifth Regiment New York
Volunteer Veteran Association, surround
ing as an escort the first tableau in the
parade, which represented the reading of
the Declaration of Independence in State
House Yard, Philadelphia, by John Nixon,
july :, ITO.
The next division, led by Marshal A. P.
Ketchum, contained 400 students of Co
lnInbia College and 300 of the College of
the City of New York, escorting tableau
of Washington and his generals, mounted.
The life-1ike representation of the
features and costumes of Washing
ton. Putnam, Schuyler, Lee, Lafayette,
Steuben, Rochambeau and the other Rev
oIutionary leaders evoked the enthusiastic
plaudits Of the spectators. Several thou
sand school children of New York and
Brooklyn followed, escorting the tableaux
of Washington Crossing the Delaware,
and Washington at Valley Forge.
The next division was headed by the
Lafayette Guard 100 strong, the Liberty
Guards, and the Second Battalion Irish
Volunteers. guarding atableaux of Wash
Sngton's farewell to his officers in 1881.
This picture represented the historic scene
in Frances Tavern, one of the few
buildings of the Revolutionary era still. lex
fstinG intact in this city.
Following came the Knights OF Temper
ance, 500 strong, under Grand Commander
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