The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-07-20
The Next Centennial.

II is impossible to take up news
paper now without encouhtering an
article on the contrasts between the in
augural ceremony of u hundred years
ago and the celebration of to-day.
which show the astonishing progress
in every line which has been made in
the century. So far no one seems TO
have said anything about the next cell
ebration. in 1889, which, though we
may not be here to see, will undoubt-
eddy be held right here in New-York;
and it does not seem unreasonable to
suppose that the progress during the
coming century will be as great as
during the last.
1t is possible that the gentlem n
who has the honor TO be president on
April 20, 1889. may be escorted up the
bay by the same naval vessels which
attend President Harrison, as we move
slowly in the matter of navy, but
everywhere else there will be no ad
vancement over to-day. We suppose
that by that time walking will be a
thing of the past, every one moving
from place to place on some sort of
electric bicycle, travelling at almost
any rate, SO that a parade of million
or two men can be more easily handled
than one OF few thousand now, not
withstanding that the route will be a
dozen times longer. The military par
ade, which, among many others, will
include such organizations as the
Oklahoma Veterans and the Alaska
Guards, will form in the neighborhood
of the Postoffice and City Hall. which
will have absorbed Central Park, and
wheel its way at the rate of twenty or
thirty miles an hour off up the Boule-
ward or st. Nicholas Avenue, along
Washington Heights and across tho
Washington Bridge Gf opened by that
time), and up through the retail bust
ness districts, passing reviewing
stands ut High Bridge. Jerome Park
and Yonkers, and on through the resi-
dence portion of the city about Dobbs
Ferry and Tarrytown, and finally dis
band in the suburbs above Sing Sing,
in the neighborhood of Six-hundred-
and-twenty-fift
The industrial parade will, very
likely, take a more easterly course,
forming In the western corner of Con-
necticut, and moving down through
White Plains, Mt. Vernon and Nor
ris inia, and disbanding IN Harlem,
not. of course, coming down below
Central Park among the bounded ware
houses and factories, the region being
deserted from the fact that it will be u
holiday. The Industrial parade, more
than anything else, will show the pro-
gress which has been made; and
by that time it may even be possible
to obtain, for exhibition on float,
models of at least minor parts of the
Keely motor. The Centennial ball in
the opera house at Fordham will be in
keeping with the rest of the cclebr-:-
ton.
New York has started the plan OF
celebrating tho anniversary OF Wash
ington's Inauguration, and she is 60
ing to keep it up We take this Occl-
sion TO give notice that there will be
a celebration here at the end of each
hundred years, indefinitely. And from
this assurance we derive the consOla-
ton that, if the weather is bad this
time, it may be better next. 1t will be
a long time yet before Macaulay's o..
anybody else's New-Zealander will at
tach himself to a wire OF the Brook
lyn bridge to sketch the ruins OF st.
Patrick New York Tribune.