Huntsville gazette., 1892-10-15
EDUCATIONAL DAY.


Gov. Flower.
New YORK, Oct. 1o.-Yesterday's ed
ucational display parade, as part of the
Columbian celebration, showed results
of more than $50 years of educational
work, for the first school founded by
the old Dutch settlers in 1888 in that
part of New Amsterdam now known
as west Seventy-seventh street, is still
in existence, and is called the school OF
the Reformed church. To-day New
York owns 100 public school houses.
representing an estimated value in
sites and buildings of over s15, 900, 600,
and provides education in its grammar
schools for more than 260, GOO pupils,
boys and girls.
Twenty regiments of grammar school
boys of New York and Brooklyn and
Long Island and Jersey City, each regi-
mept at least 500 strong, marched with
swinging step and perfect alignment
in the parade, every boy proudly carry
ing flag of his country, prepared to
honor or defend it. And this was only
one division of the parade. They had
been preparing for the occasion for
weeks past, drilling in the armories of
the sixty-ninth and twelfth regiments,
and in other buildings placed at their
disposal and IN the open squares.
In the second division came the pu-
pills of the parochial schools, academies
and colleges of the Catholic church in
New York and adjacent cities, over
5000 strong, each pupil also carrying
| the national flag in connection with
| the emblems and banners of the
| churches and academies to which they
| belong. After them followed the uni
| formed schools, and last the students OF
maturer years, from the different col
and the arts, about $50 strong, about
| 1000 from Columbia, 1000 from the
university of New York, 1900 from the
Undergraduates college, $50 from the
College of Dentists, etc.
| In the third division of the process
sion was medley composed of numer-
Gus institutes" 1t comprised Hebrew
orphan asylums, German, Italian and
French institutions of various charac-
ters. intermixed with trades schools
busfne SIS colleges, military institutes
and mechanics societies, with 1,00C
young Dalton volunteers" whatever
they may be, and sixty ''glittering
spears"
Altogether it is proba BILE that there
were fully 25, 900 scholars and students
| in the procession.
| On the presidential reviewing stand
| in Madison square were stationed Vice
President Morton, representing the
president; Gov. Flower, of New York,
and a number of prominent politicians.
At Ills o'clock the first distant
strains of the numerous bands fell upon
the ear, and ten minutes later the ad-
vance squad of splendidly-mounted
police and the marshal and his aides,
wearing gorgeous sashes of the ma
tional colors rode past. The vice-presi.
dent and governor rose to receive
them and bowed as each OF
the well-mounted aides raised
his hat. Next came Mayor Grant and
Commissioner Guggenheimer, sturdily
marching on foot at the head of the
first division and Justify cheered as
they came along. Then came the boys
with their own bands in uniform,
marching twenty abreast, with a
rythmic swing and military bearing
which carried all before it, and COM
pany after company was greeted with
shouts of applause as each seemed t
march even better than the company
preceding. Each company carried its
company flag to the right and every
boy had pinned on his left breast a
tiny United States flag. Their cap
tains carried canes and gave their or
ders in shrill boyish treble pleasant
to hear.
A noticeable feature of the parade
was 800 Indian boys from the Carlisle
(Pa.) Indian industrial school, accom-
panied by their own band of music anc
partly dressed in Indian costume, and
partly in the uniform of their school.
The girl scholars, who were denied
participation in the parade, were as
signed peculiarly appropriate and or
namental part in the proceedings. Ar
tistically grouped on stand in the res
ervoir square at the junction of Fifth
avenue and Forty-second street, were
nearly 1,70O pretty-faced schoolgirls
each wearing liberty cap, and cos
TUNED in red, white and blue respect
ively. The tableaux had been SO ar
ranged beforehand that on the ap
proach of the procession. almost in.
simultaneously each one of the smiling
bright-faced children SO disposed them
sleeves and their costumes as to present
the effect of the American shield, with
three .American flags, artistically
punched on each side of it.
The fluttering, quivering motions Of
the admira ably-arranged bands of col
ors as 1,7OO sweet girl voices sang ''The
Star Spangled Banner and other pa
triotic songs, while their gallant boy
fellow-students tramped past with
quickened step and ringing cheers,
must have left a lasting impression OF
the Colum bian school day celebration
on the minds of the thousands of the
rising generation.
On the east side like effective tab
leau was presented by 1000 girls OF the
Catholic parochial schools, and on a