Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-01


tators. Several thousand school children of
New York and Brooklyn followed escorting
tableauX of Washington crossing the Della
ware" and Washington at Valley Forge" The
next division was headed by tine Lafayette
guard. 100 strong: the Liberty guards and the
second battalion. Irish volunteers guarding a
tableaux of ''Washingtou's farewell to his off,
GERS. l7Sl." This picture represented the his
torc scene in Fraunce's tavern. one of the few
buildings of the revolutionary era still existing
intact i'll this city,
Following came the Knights of Temperance,
500 strong. under Grand Commander Robert
Graham, and 200 Knights of Pythias. under
Coils. Thomas and McGiil, escorting a tableaux
of Washington resignlng his commission at
Annapolis December. 17S3"
The Lafayette Conclave. Kings Bridge. and
Spuyten Deuvil cadets and Yonker's Contnen-
tai guards came next, escorting a tabfeauX of
.'the Inauguration of Washington" the event
which is the occasion of the present celebra-
tion.
THE STATES TABLEACX.
The next tableaux, representing the state OF
Virginia. was escorted by the Phelps guard,
the Washington Continental guard. the Excel
sior Light Infantry of Washington. and the
Washington Continentals. The tableaux con-
sisted of miniature ship of the seventeenth
century model, with Capt. John Smith and n
body of adyenturers on the deck deserving
land.
The Sons of Veterans. 1000 in number,
followed guarding tableaux representing New
York. Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland and
Pennsylvania. The New York tableaux pic
tured the discovery of the Hudson by Hendrix
Hudson, 16l4, and consisted of boat load of
Dutch sailors and voyagers. Massachusetts
was designated By the anchoring of the May
flower at Plymouth, 1870. The efforts of Lord
De La War to christianize and edu-
torial subject of the Delaware tableaux.
A. ID. 1927. Marylands Catholic settlement
by Calvert 1888, and the religious freedom
guaranteed to PrOtestants was the subject of
the Maryland tableau, and Penn's treaty with
the Indians that of the Pennsylvania tableau.
Separated by these by band and a delegation
of 600 members of the United Order of For
esters, was a tableau OF Georgia, 1892 the last
colony settled before the Revolution. Ogel-
thorpe, and his little band of Scotch, Irish. and
English non-contormists, were well depicted.
Next IN order were the Caledonian club of New
York in their striking Highland costumes with
pipers. They were accompanied by the 18th
New York Highland regiment veterans. The
RhelnSh ScheutZen Bund and the Centennial
sharp-shooters followed with two Swiss ta-
bleaux-Helyetia. with twenty-five living fe-
male figures representing the Cantons of the
Swiss republic, and an alpine crag with cha
mos and the historic group of Tell defylng
Gessier. The division was concluded by the
First Hungarian Scheutzen Bund.
The next division consisted of visiting and
local exempt and volunteer firemens associa-
tons They represented large number of
cities and towns throughout the eastern states,
and presented fine appearance. The widely
known Veteran Volunteer firemen, Harry
Howard and Michael Crane. led them and were
themselves among the most notable figures in
the procession. A feature of this part of the
parade was
THE OLD MECHANICS BELL
of the eleventh ward, New York. It weighs
1.500 pounds, aud has rung the hours of labor
in the ship-building district for sixty years.
and now it hangs high on skeleton tower at
the foot OF east l4th street 1t was mounted on
platform drawn by eight horses. and runC at
intervals by Peter p. Haulenbeck, the Oldest
living ship-joiner on Manhatten Island
The Alexandria Fire company. of Alexandria,
Va, had in line the hand engine which was the
property Of the fire company of which George
Washington was n member.
The next division consisted of the Tammany
association, 5000 strong. led by Gen. CochrGne
with his staff and escort This band of we'll
known and popular political lights received a
fatterlng ovation all along the route.
woRKMEN PLYING THEIR TRADES.
The division which followed was led bv Mar
shal c. S. Burns and 400 Brooklyn police. and
was made up of workmen plying their various
trades. First came 300 hp-joiners, with
vessels on trucks and men working at their
construction. Then came floats bearing plas-
tcrcrS. cloak and suit workmen. painters. mar
bic cutters. plumbers and gas filters. and car
penters and joiners, all engaged in practical
illustration of their handicrafts and escorted
by large delegations OF their fellow workmen
No feature OF the parade excited more general
| interest than this. About 800 men were in
the division. In the next division the military
and CIVIC organizations of the various national
ltles were participants. The Italian delegations
escorted two floats, representing Columbus and
Washington, disccvcrer and father. aud Italv
an. 10 lar md
Scotch societies followed making good show
ing. Then came a monster delegation of Il cr-
man citizens. containing nearly 25000 men.
Marsha! Emil T. Schaetter, with his staff and
escort, led the van. and was followed by large
number of delegations of German-American
sharp-shooters, rife clubs. singing societies
veterans or German regiments of the late civil
war. tnrn-yereins. social reform clubs and vari-
GUS German wOrkinSmcn's unions. The vari-
Gus singing societies rendered popular musical
selections as they marched. They put forth
their best efforts while passing the President
tie pieces chosen being the leading national
anthems of Germany and America.
THE PRESIDENT SEEMED GREATLY PLEASED
by this part of the celebration. The chief ele-
ment of interest in this division. and one of the
most striking features of the whole parade was
the series of allegorcal tableaux, devised
mainly by Joseph keppler, OF Puck. and which
possessed great artistic merit aside from their
arranged to have them displayed in a hall for
the benefit OF those who were unable to see
them to-day or who desire more prolonged in
spection of them than was possible during the
parade. The industries with which the Ger
man-American citizens are chiefly identified
were represented by living figures. German
poetry, music and art We're represented partly
by living figures and partly by tableaux and
allegorcal designs. Many of the latter are by
keppler. the Others being by Operti, Degrim
! and various other artists. In their general
plan of construction these tableaux were
modelled upon those of the New Orleans Mardi
Gras carniyals. and many spectators who had
witnessed the famous southern exhibition pro-
nounced to-day float equal in magnifcence to
anything they had ever seen.
THE KAPPLER FLOATS
In the first float by LAUDER, German immi-
grafton to this country one hundred years ago.
was constructed in an amusing fashion with
similar immigration to-day. The next showed
Steuben, and Others The next, and one of the
most admired ffnd applauded, represented The
emigration caused by the revolution in Europe
| lS40. 1t contained living models of the famous
men who were driven from Germany on ac-
| count of their liberal ideas and sympathies
| with the masses in the general uprising that
signaliZed that era. AS the crowd recognized
| the familiar faces and forms of these heroes,
| some of whose originals are now among our
! foremost citizens, loud shouts of appreciation
| burst forth. On pedestal in the center of the
| group was figure of liberty, and around it