Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-11
YOUNG AMERICAS DAY.
The Columbus Celebration in
New York.
The Parade Of School Children
and Students.
No Less Than Twenty-Five Thousand
Youngsters in Line.
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Grand Display of Fireworks at
Brooklyn Bridge-In-
cidents.

| By the Associated Press.
Naw YORK, Oct. 10.-The celebration
of the Columbus anniversary was taken
up this morning with parade of etu-
dents in schools and colleges, in which
about 25,000 young people took part. 1t
started at Fifty-seventh street, marched
down Fifth avenue to Seventeenth street,
back to Fifth avenue, thence along Fifth
avenue and under an arch at University
place, where the parade disbanded. The
procession was made up of 20 regiments
of grammar school children, num-
bering 10000, and 1000 children
from the Long Island city schools. The
Roman Catholic schools Of the city were
represented by $500 scholars. Then
came students of Columbia college to
the number of 1000; University of New
York, 1900; College of New York, 500.
These were followed by students of
medical and pharmaceutical colleges, art
and other schools, uniformed military
schools, private and other church and
miscellaneous schools.
GORGEOUS DECORATIONS.
The day opened at sunrise with sa-
lutte from the cannon of old Fort Column
bus, on Governors island. The city
was in gala attire. Everywhere public
buildings, business houses and private
houses, elevated trains and surface cars.
trucks, wagons, and even horses were
decorated with flags, bunting streamers,
gonfalons, rosettes, festoons and gar
lands in honor Of the day.
The weather WAS perfect, with bright
sunshine and crisp, invigorating air.
On improvieed stands, front steps, win
dows, trucks and wagons, at intersect-
ing streets, in fact at every coign of
vantage. were as many as could secure
footing, to view the procession.
The marching column was reviewed
by Vice President Morton, Governor
Flower and the mayor of the city. The
boys preserved excellent order, and
passed the stands with the steady tread
OF veterans. On one stand 1000 school
girls, dressed in red, white and blue,
Gang patriotic sonPs as their no tes
passed by. Ex-President Cleveland was
among the witnesses of the parade.
A BRITISH FLAG TORN DOWN.
twenty-five Harlem school boys COM
ing down Columbus avenue to join the
parade this morning, saw large Eng
ligh flag floating in front of cigar store
kept by an Epglishman. No other flag
was displayed, and the boys demanded
of the store-keeper that he either raise
the United States flag besides the Eng
lish, or lower the English flag. This he
refused to do. After much angry dis
cussion the boys pulled down the flag
80 ~, Th1 ;,L
was very indignant, but contentei him
self with threatening to have the boys
arrested for malicious destruction Of
property.
FIREWORKS AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
Brooklyn bridge was the place of at
traction this evening. A gorgeous dis
play of fireworks had been promised,
and at an early hour great crowds began
to gather at points of vantage on the
river front of both cities, while hundreds
of crafts loaded with passengers were
anchored at favorable points in the
river and harbor All the high build
ings near the river were utilized. The
display fully met the expectations of the
people. Among the set pieces was a
statue Of Columbus, and representation
of the ship in which the discoverer set
sail for Genoa. Two tons of powder
were used in colored fire for series of
10 illuminations, which was accompa-
MED with salvos of artillery and flights
of screaming rockets, bombs, Roman
candles and gas balloons. One of the
most striking displays was representa-
tion of Niagara falls in silver fire. 1t
was 625 feet wide, and represented a
dazzling cascade of shining silver, 200
feet high.
| A FATAL ACCIDENT.
An accident occurred on the pier at
the foot OF Beekman street, that was
probably attended with loss of life. The
pier was packed with people. On the
southern side the ship Reaper was tied
up, and the captain sold seats on the
vessel. She being unloaded and stand
high out of the water, necessitated the
running OF gang plank 80 feet long
from the ship to the dock, at an angle
OF 65 degrees. This gangway wat
crowded, when suddenly there was 9
crash and the plank broke in the mid
die. Some of the people were thrown
in heap on the pier, many sustaining
painful cuts and bruises. At least one
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CHAUNCEY DEPEw CRATES.
Silas G.. Pratt's musical cantata, Co
lumbus was rendered in Carnegie hal
tonight under the auspices of commit
tee OF one hundred. The chief featur,
of the evening was the speech OF Chaun
cey M. Depew, in which he spoke of th'
advance of the world since the diecovery
OF America, and the results OF Colum
bus voyage, etc. The procession o
children today, he said, was the Aowe.
OF the civil and religious liberty of th'
American people. In the age of Co
lumbus bigotry ruled the state
and bigotry in the churcl
was one of the things Columbu
had to fight, while superstition was al
most universal amongst them. 1t wal
an age when. all races and all nation
were arrayed against one another; bu
today the children of parents of ever,
creed, descendants of every race
marched under one flag and to one mu
sic-the music of the nationality of th'
flag of the United States-all in harmo
| ny to the flag and the music, growing ul