Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-21
In THE MOTHER CITY.
New York Imposingly Celebrat-
ing Columbus Day.
Metropolitan City Graphically
Described.

Special to the Leaf Chronicle.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-To- day the
American Republic puts on its holi-
day garb and proclaims to the world
in jubilee of oratory, song and
pyrotechnics, that it is just four hun
died years to a day since the Santa
Maria and her two companion ships
plowed their prows into the shallow
waters off the American coast.
The celebration has its climax in
Chicago, where the Worlds Fair
buildings are being dedicated, but
every city, every town, every ham
let in the United States is joining In
the jubilee. The school celebration
throughout the country is uniform,
and from the rising of the sun on the
Eastern coast to the moment it drops
in heavenly gradeur behind the gol-
den gates of the Pacific, no moment
will be without its echo of the patri-
otic voices of Americas children, no
moment without a salute to the
American flag.
AT 8 O'Clock to-day the schools as
semble. AT $50 a detail of veterans
reach the school building in Maine as
in California, in Dakota as in Louisi-
ana. A color guard of pupils will
meet the old soldiers at the enhance
and escort them into the building.
At a given signal the pupils
will gather in the large hall Or
in the yard, where the exercises
are to take place, and the master of
ceremonies will begin the reading
of the Presidents proclamation de-
claring the day national holiday,
AS the reader finishes he announces:
"In accordance with this recommen'
dation by the President of the United
States, and as sign of our devotion
to our country, let the flag Of the ma
tion be unfurled above the school,"
AS the flag reaches the top of the
staff the veterans will leave the as
semblage in "Three Cheers for 'Old
Glory" Then at the signal from
the principal the pupils face the flag,
and give it the military salute, say
ing, 81 pledge allegiance to my flag
and the Republic ior which it stands;
one nation indivisible, with liberty
and justice for ALL" Then in unison
will sing, "Anerica." A prayer and
an acknowledgment of God follows,
and the song of Columbus day will
have its first rendition in public.
Then follows the Columbian address
and after this the ode by Edna Dean
Proctor.
But to-day's celebrations can only
be briefly referred to and a complete
record of them would aNc up vol
ume, not to say newspaper. AL
bany's civic and military organiza-
tions are on parade.
indianapolis has tremendous pa
rade under the marshalship of Gen
eral Carnahan, the great Knight of
Pythias, and Gen. Fred Knefler, and
in the evening it will enjoy a
festival at Tomlinson's Hall. Pitts
burg has General j. +. Denniston
and Adjutant General McCand-
less in charge of its parade. Chat
| tanooga will celebrate with great
parade of all the school children.
They will march four abreast down
Market street, and will salute while
passing along this thoroughfare a
large United States flag, that will be
hung across. The exercises proper
will take place at the court house,
and in the main will be those of the
official program.
In Texas the day is proclaimed one
of thanksgiving by the Governor and
the celebrations are largely confined
to the schools of the State.
Baltimore has tremendous torch
light parade of Catholic Societies of
Maryland, in which there are to be
thirty three bands and twenty-one
floats. Thirty-five thousand will
be in the parade. The Ital-
ian societies of Washington will also
be in the line. Thirty.fve thousand
are to be in line in the civic and mil
itary parade in Boston.
Wilmington, Del, will have two
parades, one ia which only whites