The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-14

SOuib
appreciate the i'm.
COLUMBUS. portancc of the ser.
vices.
Last evening the Italian colony, un-
der the auspices of the minister, Baron
Fava, begun It's Columbian celebration
Mt the Lcnox lyceum with u concert
and a discourse by DIR. Luigi Kevcrsi on
Columbus.
In the afternoon many people visited
the Italian transport, Garigliano, which
brought over the Columbus monument.
All day long there was a dense crowd
on Fifth avenue, Broadway and other
important streets, viewing the decora.
tions.
For the first time in some weeks the
sounds of the hammer and saw were
not heard. The decorations of the public
and private buildings are all completed.
Flags and banners are streaming from
every pole along the line of march of
the four big professions. A very pop
ular feature of the celebration is to
go to the top of some high building and
enjoy n birds eye view, which shows n
long line of colors stretching from the
BATTERY to Central Park, and from river
to river. with flags waving from the
housetops on all sides. The trellis
arches at Twenty-second street, the
Manhattan Club building and the resi-
dence of ex-Secretary Whitney were
visited by thousands.
Along Fifth avenue from Madison
square to Thirty-fourth street there are
u series of standards, 100 in number,
from which depend pointed gonfallons
and flags bearing the arms Of Ferdi-
nand, Isabella, Columbus and others.
The standards are surmounted by gilt
eagles and decorated at their bases
with civic shields. Broadway is
now a kaleidoscope of changing
colors. All the large whole
sale houses in the dry goods dis
trict are art!stically draped with gay
bunting. The center piece in most
cases is n painting OF Columbus on one
side and of Washington on the other.
The draping on most of the hotels is
now completed. From the Morton
house to the Plaza decoration is gem
eral. The city hall is probably the
most profuscly and arlistically draped
edifice In the city.
The New York Life Insurance Co. is
striving for the first prize offered for
the best decorated building. Between
300 and 1000 incandcscent electric
lights will cover the front of the build
ing in globes of red. white and blue.
An electric star ten feet high will SUR
mount these decorations and beneath
it "l402-ls02' will appear in electric
light numbers. Besides the illumina-
tions, the front and sides of the build
ing will bexcovered with 500 American
flags of various sizes and n big portrait
OF Columbus, framed in the national
colors and ~surmounted by the Ameri-
can eagle, will hang on the front door.
In addition to the bigs lands at the
city hall and in Union square, Madison
square and Washington park, many
smaller ones have been put up. Seats
on all the stands will be free for the
school and college parade to-day.
with the exception of a few hundred
seats already sold. Nothing else will
be reserved. The stands in Madison
squar. City Hall park, and Union square
are free only to women and children,
and the first who come will be the first
served.
There will be an awful rush for these
seats, but superintendent Byrnes has
arranged excellent police protection.
All along the line and near all the big
stands temporary wooden patrol boxes
have been placed. AS the celebration
draws near thieves, pickpockets and
croolSs Of every description are begin
ming to come ont from their hiding
places. They are waiting for the big
crowds next week.
Superintendent Byrncs will do as he
did during the Washington celebration,
when his drag net pulled in IL big load
of professional thieves. Orders were
issued to arrest all suspicious charac-
tiers and lock them up until the cclebra-
ton is over. The superintendent has
instructed Inspector Mclaughlin to
make the raid.
To-day the secular part of the cele-
bration will be opened with a school
and college parade. with over 20, 900 in
line. The parade has occupied the at
tention of its promoters for weeks.
You might have known it early in the |
day. You certainly had no doubt of it |
II you mingled in the surging currents
which raj all day and far into the
night between the banks of red, white |
and blue, with here and there a streak |
of Spanish yellow, which marked out
the line of coming parades.