, 1889-05-02
CITIZENS DAY.
Commerce, Industry, Arts and
Sciences Celebrating.
10000 Men and Magnificent
TableauX Pass in Review.
The Grandest Display Ever
Witnessed in This Country.
Citizens, Day.


ton broke clear and cool. The chief and
almost only notable feature of the day
was the great civic and industrial parade,
which started shortly after 10 from Fifth
avenue and Fifty seventh street and
marched in reverse order over the route
of yesterday parade, down Fifth avenue
to Seventeenth streets to and around I'm
ion square,, by Fourteenth street to Fifth
avenue to Washington square. by Wayer-
ly place to Broadway, and down that
t~horoughfare to Pine street.
The parade was led by Mayor Grant
apd representative delegates from the
civil, industrial and commercial ~organiza-
lions. When the viewing stand was
reached the mayor presented an address
to the president. The mayor and repre-
sentatives then took their places on each
side OF the president, and after him re-
ceived the honors of the parade. Next
came Gen. Buttertield, chief marshal. and
staff.
The first tableau, Declaration OF In
dependence" was intended to represent
the reading of the declaration by John
Nixon in the state house yard, Philadel-
phia, July 5, l776. This float was sur
mounte by an escort of 100 members of
the society of veterans of the regular army
and navy.
The next float represented Washington
aud his generals, mounted, Washington
as ccmmander-in chief, occupied the
center of the line, Major Generals Ward,
Putnam, Phillip Schuyler and Charles
Lee on either side, closely following nine
brigadier generals, the number appointed
by the centennial congress at Philadelphia
in l779; also Marquis De Lafayette,
Baron Steuben, Inspector General Count
Rochambeau and others. Following this
came the float representing Washington
crossing the Delaware" with a guard of
several hundred cadets in uniform. Then
came $500 school children escorting
. tableaux of Washington at Valley
Forge and the meeting of Gen. Wash
ington with Baron Steubcn and his. sick
and wounded soldiers. The exempt fire.
mems association Of the city came next
numbering 200, after them Tammany
Hall braves, a genuine Indian squaw and
two copper colored braves with color
more than skin deep, accompanied them.
The other displays in the line included
a mammoth globe representing the New
York World; the Manhattan Ship Joiners
Association with a mammoth model of
a ship; the Hoboken fire department with
their Anticipated hook and ladder. Sew
eral temperance societies and Knights of
PythIas preceded the float. Resignation
I of commission and the Yankee cadet
corps escorted The First Inauguration"
Between the Washington Continentals
and 1000 Sons of Veterans was the
elaborate tableau State of Virginia rep
resenting a ship of the sixteenth century
with the adventures in Elizabothan cos
tunes crowding the poop deck deserving
land. Then followed a series of tab
ieaux representing the various states as
follows: New York, a boat load of Dutch
sailors and yoyagers; Massachusetts, an
choring of the Mayfower; Delaware,
Christianising of savages Maryland,
Lord Baltimore and George Calvert;
Pennsylvania, PENIS treaty, Georgia, the
last pre-. revolutionary colonial settlement.
After these came the Caledonian
club of New York and seventy
ninth Highland . regiment of vet.
Grams; the Swiss centennial com
mittee with a Swiss tableau, were
escorted by the Centennial sbarpshooters;
then came the iremen's division, chief
: among these were 500 members of New
York volunteer tiremen; there were 1000
men in this division. Next were 400
Brooklyn police. Then came Manhattan
SUPP JOlltIS, huu HUNS w hlDltluR LIGlT
handicraft; operative plasterers' society at
work; the cloak and suit industry plying
scissors acd needles; marble cutters, scat.
tering chips; 600 Brooklyn plumbers, 800
, Brooklyn carpenters, 5000 members of
the union of carpenters and %joiners
OF America. C came the Italian divi-
sion; the Italian military association turned
nj thirteen companies; civic societies as
many more: one of their floats was a large
boat on which were represented Columbus
and Washington, the discoverer and the
father. The second float represented
Italy and America sitting among flowers.
The Scandinavian American societies
also made a good showing.
The Germans had a notable division.
First came the German-A American sharp
shooters to the number of over 1000;
then the singing societies; the feature of
this part OF the parade, however, was the
great number of tableaux and floats, near
ly all important historical events and
progress of the last century in arts and
, sciences being represented. Almost every
trade known to man has representatives
among the German population and at
least q few artisans from each we're in line.
There were also floats showing G~ermany's
~favorite sports, allegories of "Bacbus,' y
hlUR StTulNdl, DTtOu, SOiuulDld
and Germany, in all sixty floats.
? The third brigade of the German division
was made up of various organizations
from this and nelghboring cities, com
prising singing societies, shooting clubs
and military associations.
Next came the "Hibernians' number
ing 1000 some uniformed, some not an
elaborate float 1.-THE World Moves On"
o. added another feature to the column.
After a number of trades organizations
passed, the United Polish societies came
along; one Of their floats showing how
paper boxes are made. Then came the
colored centennial committee, with George
I Washington's coach drawn by four horses.
After the colored delegation came tie
regular Irish section of the parade. This
included nearly all the Irish American SO
cieties Of New York; Papal veterans,
5000 members of the Society of the Holy