The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-10-02
a COLUMBUS CENTENARY.
CELEBRATING AMERICAS DIsCov.
ERY ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
The Anniversary Festival at New
York i'm illuminated Monu-
mcnt of the Columbian Order.

York I'm f7O2-IlIuminated Monu-
ment of the Columbian Order.
The name of Columbus, which had
been struggling in poetical obscurity for
several years before the Inauguration OF
Washington as President in 1883, just
then broke out all over the country, and
nowhere more conspicuously than in
New York, where it found its first place
in legislation in 1889. The name and
fame of Christopher Columbus resounded
throughout the land, and as the third
century after his great achievement drew
near to its close keen sense of the
worlds injustice to the memory of one of
the greatest of the sons of man pervaded
the whole community. A writer in a
New York journal on the 18th of August,
1892, quotes Philadelphia paper as say
ing: "The 18th of October next will
complete three centuries since the immor-
tai Columbus put foot on the New World, F"
and emphasizing the "propriety of cele-
brating the Columbian Century anniver-
sary." The same paper two weeks later,
August 30, 1892, reports:
On the Sd of August inst, being pre-
Cisely 300 years since the departure of
Columbus from Palos, in Spain, a gentle
man from Maryland had the corner stone
laid of an obelisk in one of the gardens
of a villa near the town of Baltimore in
commemoration of that great undertake
ing. Suitable inscriptions, on
metal tablets, are to be affixed to the
pedestal of the obelisk on the 18th of
next October" etc.
New York availed herself of the oppor-
tunity, and stepped to the front with the
first celebration of the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus at the
third and beginning of the fourth cen
tury after that event-on the 18th day
of October, 1892. 1t cannot fail to be
interesting to the reader to peruse the
details of that celebration as preserved
in a contemporary account of the pro-
ceedings on that occasions of the Tam
many Society or Columbian Order:
The 18th inst. October, 1892 being
the commencement of the fourth Co
iumbian Century, was observed as a
Century Festival by the Tammany So
ciety, and celebrated in that style of
sentiment which distinguishes this social
and patriotic institution.
In the evening a monument was
erected to the memory of Columbus,
ornamented by transparency, with a
variety of suitable devices. This beauti-
full exhibition was exposed for the
qualification of public curiosity some
time previous to the meeting of the So
ciety.
An elegant Grafton was delivered by
Mr.. J. B. johnson, in which several of
the principal events of the life of this re-
markable man were pathetically de-
scribed, and the interesting consequences
to which his great achievements had
already and must still conduct the
affairs of mankind, were pointed out in a
manner extremely satisfactory.
During the evenings entertainment, a
variety of national amusement was en-
joyed. The following toasts were drunk ::
1. The memory of Christopher Colum-
bus, the discoverer of this New World.
2. May the new world never exper-
ience the vices and miseries of the old
and be happy asylum for the oppressed
of all nations and of all religions, -.'
3. May peace and liberty ever pervade
the United Columbian States.
f. May this be the last Century
FestivakEof the Columbian Order that
-anhs a Slave ON this globe.
5. Thomas Paine.
6. The Rights of Man.
z. May the Fourth Century be as re-
markable for the improvement and
knowledge of the rights of man as the
first was for discovery and the improve
ment of nautic science.
8. La Fayette and the French nation.
3, May the liberty of the French rise
superior to all the efforts of Austrian des-
potism.
10. A Burgoyning to the Duke of
Brunswick.
II. May the deliverers of America
never experience that irgratitnde from
their Country which Columbus ex-
perienced from his King.
70. May the genius of liberty, as she
has conducted the sons of Columbia, with
glory to the commencement of the fourth
centuary, guard their fame to the end of
time
13. The day.
II. Washington, the deliverer Of the
new world.
Several moral and patriotic songs, in
culating the Love of Country and OF
Freedom, were gratifying in the highest
degree.
The monument is upward of fourteen
feet in height, being we'll illuminated,
and resembling black marble. 1t blends
in an agreeable manner grave and
solemn with brilliant appearance.
At the base a globe appears emerging
out of the clouds and chaos, presenting q
rude sketch of the once uncultivated coast
Of America. On its pyramidal post
History is seen drawing up the curtain OF
oblivion, which discovers the four fol
lowing representations:
First, and on the right side of the
obelisk, are presented a commercial port
and an expanding ocean. Here Colum.
bus, while musing over the insignia OF
geometry and navigation, the favoritC
studies Of his youth, is instructed by sci
ence to cross the great Atlantic. She ap
pears in luminous clouds hovenng over ii
skirts; with one hand she presents Colum
bus with compass, and with the othe
she points to the setting sun. Under he