New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-20
y0RF;S CENTENNIAL DAY.

Preparations for the celebration OF the one
hundredth anniversary of Washingtons In
auguration have proceeded far enough to
justify the prediction that this last oil the series
of great centennial commemorations Will be in
dignity. magnifcence and interest entirely
worthy of the event it recalls. The committee
who have it in charge are working with spirit
and intelligence. They have laid out brill
liant programme. They have raised the funds
necessary to carry it out, or so far raised them
at least, as to make ii clear that they will be
enabled to 60 on with their plans without
embarrassment. In Mr.. Depew they have Sc
cured an orator fully able TO rise to the occa-
SION, than which none could be more inspiring.
The successive stages of the tedious and pro-
longed struggle which ended in the adoption
Of our Constitution and the choice OF the
noble hero who led our fathers safely through
revolution into freedom as the first President
Of the Nation were marked by events OF rare
interest to the people Of to-day. AS, one by
one, the centennial anniversaries OF these
events have come, from the Battle OF Bunkers
Hill to the Signing of the Constitution, they
have drawn from the people an earnest mani
festation Of patriotic feeling. In none OF Them
except Evacuation Day, has New-York City
had a large share. During the longer part OF
the Revolution New-York was occupied by the
enemy and cut off from association with the
rest Of the country. This rendered most OF
her people none the less enthusiastic in the
cause Of civil liberty, but ii deprived many OF
the pleasure Of contributing to It's establish
ment by deeds Of heroic self-sacrifce. II was
not here that battles could be won or political
acts accomplished. But at last when these
had achieved their full triumph, it was here
that the start was given to the great engine OF
Federal Government.
The proposed celebration has been wisely
planned so az TO reproduce in grander proper
tons the occurrences and spectacles Of Wash
ington's Inauguration Day. President Har-
rison will come from the capital thither along
the route his illustrious predecessor took. He
will be met at Elizabethport by company OF
distinguished mon and brought to Newly FORK
by water, landing at the foot of Wall-st. On
the Centennial Day he will attend divine SER
vice in the same church where Washington sat
and worshipped century before, and he will
preside over the ceremonies Of the day at the
same spot, on the site Of old Federal Hall,
where Washington took tho oath Of office.
A ball and banquet will be given, and
great military and industrial parade will take
place Immediately after tho grafton.
These events will enable New York TO show
its ardent interest in that part OF its past which
is linked with the Republics origin. As spec
tacles they will DO splendid, as reminders of
the solemn, critical ard experimental period
Of our history they cannot fail to be useful.
Those public-spinted citizens who are laboring
so zealously to make them all they should be
in these respects deserve every encouragement.
Their task is hard and not wholly grateful.
It is of the kind which, being everybodys
business, is too often nobody's business, and
they should be the recipients Of the publics
appreciative thanks and assistance