Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-11
COLUMBUS ARCH. NEW YORK CITY.


ors is expected today and tomorrow morn
ing to witness the grand parades, and hotel
keepers and boarding house keepers are
having to refuse the greater number of the
applications made them for rooms
The Parade of the Schools.
According to programme the parade of
the schools came off yesterday, and was
grand success. According to liberal esti-
mates there were p, 600 in line and the
boys marched like veterans The girls of
the schools were not in it"-that is, the
march-but arrayed in red, white and blue
and arranged in such manner as to show
the national shield and flag they were To-
Gated on stands on the line OF march, where
they sang patriotic sons that We're fire.
quently drowned by TIE robust cheers with
which they We're greeted by the boys as
they trudged past
Composition of the Procession.
At the head of the procession We're Hon.
John l.. Hunt, president of the board of
education, and John Jasper, city superin-
tendent of public schools. The children of
the grammar schools followed, divided
into regiments and companies, with the
principals at their heads In this division
here We're twenty regiments, POP COM
panies and 10,500 pupils in line, with over
1,o00 pupils from the Long Island city
schools. The Roman Catholic schools and
colleges of New York were represented by
$500 pupils. Columbia college had 1000
students in line; the University of the City
Of New York, 1900; College of the City of
New York $50; New York College of Den
tistry, $50; Eclectic Medical college, $50;
College of Pharmacy, 25O Besides these.
minor schools were represented, and two
dozen bands and drum corps furnished
music for the parade.
. Yes, There Was Quite a Few"
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New York city claims considerable over l.
800. 900 people and there are several hundred
thousand or more scattered around in
Brooklyn, Jersey City, the suburban
villages atfd the country round about; and
then there is the state of New York "above
The Harlem" has a few inha6itants-wellt to
look at the miles of streets packed with
| people, the roofs black and the windows, be
comics, stoops and other points of vantage
crowded, had the effect of impressing one
with the idea that they Were ali there.
Reviewed Ey Eminent Citizens.
| In Madison square there We're stands CA
| pable of seating 10000 persons, and in the
center of the largest there was the review
stand. Among those seated there were
Vice President Levi Z. Morton, Secretary
| Of the Treasury Foster, Governor Flower
and his staff, Governor Tillman, of South
| Carolina: United States Marshal Jacobus
and many local officials Here Vice Presi-
| dent Levi p. Morton and Governor Flower
| arose and stood with uncovered heads until
| the %, 600 boys and youths in the procession
| had passed the stand The BOYS preserved
| excellent order, and passed the stands with
the steady tread of veterans. Their bearing
| won them continuous and welI-merited APP
| plause.
Significant Incident.
| The line OF march was quite long and the
| boys Were well satisfied 10 disband when
| they reached Fourth street. Early yester-
| day morning q score of school boys gave
| evidence of their patriotism in the rather
| demunstrative way of tearing down Brit
| ish flag and tr&mpling it under foot. 1t was
| displayed with no other flag before cigar
| store in Harlem by an enthusiastic English
| man. The boys demanded that he either
raise an American flag or take down the
| British colors. This he refused to do. The
| boys charged upon the flag and down it
came, and in few minutes it was torn into
n hundred bits