The record-union., 1892-10-10
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oS.

>Ew YORK, Oct. Especial Colurn-
biau celebration services were held in
most of the churches to-day. The choirs
in some churches were assisted by
orchestras, and elaborate musical pro-
CRANES given. All the discourses were
prepared with special consideration for
the children, so the youngest attendant
could appreciate the importance OF the
service.
This evening the Italian colony, under
the auspices of Minister Baron Fava, be-
gan the Columbian celebration at Lenox
14yceum with concert and discourse by
DIR. Luigi Reversi on Columbus.
All day long there was q dense crowd
on Fifth avenue, Broadway and other
important streets viewing the decora-
tions. Flags and banners were stream
ing from every pole along the march Of
the four big professions. Broadway is
now Kaleidoscope of changing colors.
Large Office buildings and hotels have
been striving to outdo each other i'll deco
rating. The New York Life Insurance
Company is striving for first prize. Be-
tween nine hundred and thousand in
candescent electric lights will cover the
front of the building in globes of red,
white and blue. An electric star ten feet
hiSh Will IHOSe uSCOEdJlOflS,
and beneath it 'l492-lS92" will appear in
electric light numbers. Besides the
illuminations, the front and sides of the
building will be covered with 500 Amer
lean flags of various sizes, and a big por-
trait OF Columbus, framed in national
colors and surmouuted by an American
eagle, will hang on the front door.
In addition to the big stands at the City
Hall and i'll 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 tomorrow, with the
exception of few hundred seats already
sold. Nothing else will be reserved,
The stands in Madison Square, City Hall
Park and Union Square will be free to
women and children.
Superintendent Byrnes has arranged
to care for crooks during the celebration
Orders were issued to-day for the arrest
of all suspicious character and to lock
them up until the celebration is over
tomorrow. The secular order OF the Gel
ebration will be opened with the school
and college parade with over 10000 in
line. The parade has occupied the atten-
ton of its promoters for weeks.
In all the churches some token was
paid, even if but a few sentences before
the sermon, regarding the great histor-
icaI event. In all cases the loved colors
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work for the decoration. The Star
Spangled Banner" was the chief orna-
ment. Wherever cross of the Roman
Catholic Church arose there was scene
of festival and rejoicing. 1t was their
cross he planted on the island where he
first landed, and the great church united
in paying tribute 10 him. Everywhere,
from the stately marble cathedral on
Fifth avenue to the hum blest of mission
chapels, wherever the cross of Rome was
raised there was sung TIE Deum Laud-
ANUS" and there was an upreared ex-
ample of the great navigator who wrought
so much and gave all glory to God. The
grandest efforts of music and illumina-
tion and chanting of prayers and hymn
ing of praise were evoked in honor of the
great diScoverer.
Somewhat of a new sound spent to-day
through the vaulted arches of the great
white cathedral. The sound of national
airs, played by master touch on the great
organ and an orchestra, and sung by five
thousand voices with all the iervor of
spirits high wrought by the splendor of
solemn high mass and an eloquent and
fervid sermon. The cathedral was beauti-
fully decorated with national colors. and
an American shield in the sanctuary.
Archbishop Corrigan presided at the
solemn high mass.
At old Trinity Rev. DR.. Steele preached
the sermon, in the course of which he said:
among the thoughts suggested by this
day, the first is one of humiliation. Asa
people, we are disposed to boast, and
have inordinate confidence in our
own powers. But if we come to view
things with an unprecedented eve, and
pass judgment free from self interest,
we must say that as a rule our
own things are not the best, the best pro-
ductions Of our skilled labor are not al
ways equal to those of the older coun-
tries. The only things we have any rea-
son to boast of are those things produced
of which we have nothing to do with,
namely, our natural resources and the
gifts of God. l feel / am not going out
OF my way in sounding the note OF warn
ing to the press. | would warn the press
of its decadence in its hold upon the peo-
pie and the weakening of its power to
mold and guide public opinion. / do not
say this power has been lost, but most
surely there is great danger of it. How
can it be otherwise. when the press pan
ders to vicious tastes and is recognized
as partisan in national matters?"
AT st. Andrews Episcopal Church this
evening Rev. DIR. Nandewater argued
that it is nonsense to dwell on the fact
that Columbus was u Roman Catholic.
Columbus lived at a time, said he, when
he was obliged to be member of the
Roman Catholic church, and that was all
there was to it.
At the brick Presbyterian church Rev.
Henry Nandyke denounced Columbus as
immoral, dishonest, and, in effect, an inn
poster. sit was God" said Mr.. Vandyke.
who discovered Columbus, and used
him as an agent in the discovery of
America. 1t WAS the King OF Kings who,
back of that avarice and cruelty which
Columbus displayed, caused the voyage
to be made. 1t was certain Columbus OBJ
tanned money under false pretenses on at
least one occasion, and that he was other
wise immoral and guilty of great cruelty,
and responsible for the West Indian slave
trade that marks dark spot i'll the his
tory of the Old World,
At Fifty-ninth street and Eighth ave-
nue. to-d1y Italian workmen spent sew
eral hours raising a shaft of the Column
bus monument. The shaft is twenty
seven feet in hight and four feet from the
ground and will be surmounted by
heroic statue of Columbus.
THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT PARTICIPATE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-OwinS to the
condition of Mrs. Harrison's health. the
President has concluded that it will be
out of his power to participate in the
social events TO which he has been as
signed in the Columbia celebration i'm
New York the present week. He has
therefore requested Nice-President Nor
ton to take his place. 1t is possible that
the President will make hurried trim to
New York TO review the military process
sion on Wednesday, but even this is not
definitely settled.