New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-02
THE PAGEANT OF PEACE.
INDUSTRY EXHIBITS IT'S POWER.
MILITARY PoMP GIVES WAY TO CIVIL
ePLENDOR.
REVIEnINe THE REPUBLICS STRENGTH

RETIEHING THE REP UBLTCS STRENGTH.
PRESIDENT HARRISON PLEASED WITH THE RIcH
DISPLAY.
THE PROGRESS OF CENTURY IN THE INDUS.
TRIAL ARTS MADE POSSIBLE UNDER A FREE
GOVERNMENTAL FrTr1NG CLOSE TO THE
CENTENNIAL LCELEBRATIoN-FoREIGN.
BORN CZT1ZENB SHOW THEIR LOY.
Atty 10 THE COUNTRY OF THEIR
ADOPTION - THE WONDERS
ACHIEVED In MUSIC SINCE
wAsHINsToNs DAY.
II was but natural perhaps, that in ths land Of
big things and startling surprises tho last day OF
the biggest celebration ever undertaken should
turn out so much bigger than was expected that
it had to rely on mssses rather than details for
its supreme impression. country that builds
Guthrie cities in two or three days. and populates
q new territory several times deep in as many
hours IL not to be balxed by artistic consiaera-
tions in arranging . great National celebration Of
the centenary Of Of the branches Of its Gov
ernment Nero numbers are permitted to mako
their elemental impression. and the sincerity and
patriotism of the masses deduced from the fact
that they undergo the discomfort and fatigue Of
long march. rather than from the figure they cut
In the parade. It Is this consideration that made
the concluding feature Of the three days celebra-
lon so significant and interesting.
1t was the peoples day. They who had enjoyed
the spectacles of the naval parade and the march
Ing troops on the previous days, or at least Q
splendid quota of them, were themselves to make
up the spectacle that to ee the great feature
of the last day Of the celebration. And they con-
stituted show which could not fail to fill with
amazemcnt the mind Of the onlooker The
things which made this great, free country what
IL Is were splendidly exempliHed: the thrift and
bravery and enterprise which have built up our
great industries; the bravery, endurance and pat
riotism which the American youth inherit; the
natural aptitude which enables them 70 push
onward In the footsteps of their fathers and fore
fathers ~ wns a common remark that the march
ing OF the schoolboys Of tho finest features
OF the parade), and that amiable attitude toward
the arts that embelhsh civilization which was
brought here and promoted by American citizens
Of foreign birth All these things were brought
to mind by the great civic parade, which made up
in variety wha: II lacked In cohercncy and Or
ganization. But this Is no place to DO captious
It was the peoples demonstration and the peo-
ple's holiday, and though quicker movement
and less heicrugcEity In arrangement might
have enhanced the pleasure Of the spec
tatOrs il could not have added significance
greater than that inherent in IT, to the ceremonial
Circumstances not at all TO be regretted, con-
spred TO lend peculiar impressiveness to tho fact
that the greater part Of all that was strikinsly
attractive In the great civic parade was an e1-
pression Of the political devotion Of American
citizGs who became such by adoption. IL has
been noticeable for q week past that the decors-
lions modest though they were, were most gen.
cral in the quarters where the masses Of natural
lied citizens dwon Wsll-st, with its colossal
monuments 70 the American genius for money
making-a genius which had its dcvotees . hun
drcd years ago in the same degree that IL has them
to-day-has been inspiring sight hnoe the oele-
bration began. No street In the city equals II.
and it might bear comparison through Its whole
length with the same number Of buildings selected
from Broadway and Fifth-ave., Fourteenth and
Twenty third-sts. but Walst, with all rs bright
adornments, brings no better testimony TO the
affection OF American citizens for the Institutions
Of free republican government than the portraits
and flags and cheap festoons which were to be
found by the Thousands in the streets where tho
toiling masses live who came to this country as
to haven OF rest from political serfdom and
social oppression.
There WAS no need Of proof Of the sincerity OF
their patriotism the magnitude Of the role
resources Of this great land. But IL there had
been. II would have been found in abundance In
the parade Of yesterday. Some Of the societies
which exist for mutual protection or for charitable
reasons confined themselves to turning out in the
parade in order 20 show their appreciation OF the
blessings which have been their heritage no less
than that OF the descendants OF those over whom
Washington had ruled but others undertook TO
illustrate those features Of our industrial eod
social life which have been chiefly cultivated by
them.
In this respect the German division was tho
most significant division Of the days show. The
introduction, not into America, but into tho
civilized world, Of the art Of printing, the culti-
vation OF the art Of music, and the spread OF
its humanizing influences through the medium
OF societies Of singers Horticulture with Its gentle
mnstrations, the growth Of the vine and the
manufacture OF wine, with It's corollarics OF
grniality and good-fdendshp nnseparable from
wine-drinking in the German mind. the pretty
and poetical myths Of childhood. no whose name
we have translated into St Nicholas and oil his
merry train OF fays, fairies, gnomes and spirits
that populate tho meads and woods and brooks
Of the Germans Fathcrlsnd and transported
hither. have helped to quicken the fancy and
warm tho emotions Of American ohildren-all
these things, and many more, some OF them not
so unqualifedly gracious In their influences, were
called to the attention Of tho myriad OF careless
sightseers BY the tableaus that beautifed the
German division in the parade. The Liederkranz
and Aron societies. both purely social organiza-
tons, with nothing TO hope for from the display
in the way of advertisement spont over $4,000
each. In decorating allegorical wagons, besides
sending quotas Of hne-looktng. welldressed men
into the line Yet they arc only mentioned here
as representatives OF organizations Of their KIND,
whose efforts were equally disfnterested and
patriotic.
Music appropriately played an important part