The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS
Is Successfully Ushered In-The Civilians
Parade in New York.


Is Successfully Ushered In-The Civilians
Parade in New York
NEW YORK. May 1.-The boom, boom, boom
of the national salutes fired from the great
guns of the war ships in North river was
echoed and re-echOed from shore TO shore at
o'clock this morning and amid the dressing
of ships, the flying OF pennants and the crash
OF broadsides, the third day of the great CEN
tennial celebration was inaugurated. And
what a day; the sun never shone with a fairer
light; the air never seemed lOvelier; the trees
caught the inspiration an forced out their
spring buds TO lend color e. the day while all
over the vast city nature SCENE to have cast
halo of grandeur good viii aud bright May
sunshine. Greatest of all, most interesting and
most impressive, the huge industrial parade to-
day, the last of the celebration, rolled through
the streets of the city and took of the~cap of
respect to the chief magistrate Of the nation.
The naval parade was great, the military pageant
greater, but in the mighty host of to-day the
city saw itself in mirror glorfied, and it was
proud of the result and it h1s. good reason
10 be.
The crowds along the line Of march to-
day were as large as yesterday but there
was a difference in their appearance. Yes
terday the soldiers were all marching and
the observers were citizens, to-day the visiting
military are scattered among the On-lookers
and the citizens are doing the walking. The
various churches all had stands for their pa
rishioners. The stand at the Roman catholic
orphan asylum was well crowded, the lower
portion being set apart for distinguished cler-
gymen. An arm chair sat in the center of the
space and was occupied by Archbishop Cor
rigan. The stand of the -four hundred" with
the one towering above it erected by the COM
mon council, were filed when the grand
marshal reached that point at 1920 o'clock.
just before the head of the parade reached this
point the sounds of fire bells were heard and
hook and ladder truck came laundering
along through Forty-second-st. The street at
this point WAS choked with people, many of
whom had been driven along down by the
mounted police. They and the regular patrol
men took in the situation at glance and in
most admirable manner cleared way for the
FIRE truck without occasiOning any great con-
fusion or using undue force.
The crowd at Union square to-day was if
anything greater than that of yesterday. In
spector Steers and his 500 hundred policemen
had all they could do 20 keep the immense
throng in order. The stands every window
facing the square, the roofs of surrounding
buildings and the sidewalks were crowded and
packed with a mass of humanity. The seats
the Fourth-ave. side of the square from Four
teenth to Seventeenth-sts. were free to women
and children, but long before it was time for
the parade TO start they were crowded. Many
of the people came as early as and o'clock
in order TO secure seats. At o'clock il was
impossible to get from part of the square
to another, and when one once got into the
crowd. there they had to stay.
President Harrison IN his barouche. drawn
by i've horses and headed by a squad of
mounted police accompanied by Vice-Presi-
dent Morton, Col. Cruger and Lieut.. Judson,
L. :. a, drove up to the Madison Square re-
viewing stand at 10: 10. Ex-Presidents Hayes
and Cleveland, Sec,s. Proctor, Tracy, Window
and Rusk, Gen. Sherman and Russell b. Harri-
son had previously arrived. Others on the
stand were Gen. J. NJ. Narnum, Gov. Burleigh
of Maine, and staff Of eight officers and six aids
Brig. Gen. II. NJ. Sprague, Brig, Gen. J. Har-
per Fred Douglass, who received cheer as he
entered the stand, and Senator Gibson of Mary
land. Mayor Grant, with the body of aids
who had been waiting at Twenty-ffth-st., then
stepped forward and presented the president
with the address inclOsed in a cylinder of re-
pOusse silver. The mayor then took his place
on the stand beside the president and the big
parade began to pass by.