Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-03

Twenty-Five thousand Roman Catholics | will also parade, in charge of Father l . Keefe and Victor Bowling. Archbishop | Corrigan, in company with other distin- l guished prelates, ,-zvill review the parade as it passes the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum at Fifty-drst street and Fifth avenue. Some of the bodies in line will be the Society of the Holy Name, 5000 strong, Catholic Benevolent Legion, 5000; Young Mems Catholic Society, 3, 900; Catholic Knights of America, 2,500; Catholic Mutual Benefit Society, 1, 300; St. Vincent de Paul, 5000.
 Wednesday will be the biggest day of the whole celebration. The day will be ushered in at sunrise by salvos of artillery from several points and ringing of bells in the churches of the city. The chimes at old Trinity will give special pro gramme of patriotic airs. At the same time the Stars and Stripes will be hoisted with appropriate ceremonies at the Bat tery and from the old fort in Central Park, near 10th street. Thousands of American flags will be unfurled at the same time all over the city by private persons.
 At 10 o'clock the monster military parade, the largest ever given in this city will begin the line of march. Practically all the military of every kind in the neighborhood will partici pate, also all the uniformed civic societies and other organizations. More than 100, 900 men will be in line. The headquarters will be at the New York Hotel.
 The line of march is to be long one. The various organizations will assemble | at the Battery and march thence to Broad way, to Fourth street, to West street, to and around Washington square, to Fifth avenue, to Fourteenth street, to Fourth avenue, to Seventeenth street, to Fifth l avenue, to Fifty ninth street, where the parade will disband. In it's formation and progress the par ade will follow the plan adopted for the Washington Centennial parade in this city in 1889. The 1st and 2d Brigades, N. G. s. N. Y., as well as United States regulars and militia from neighboring States. will be in line in addition to many | civil organizations from all parts of the l country.
 Immediately at the conclusion of the | parade will come the dedication ceremo- | nies incident to the unveiling of the Columbus monument at Eighth avenue and Fifty-ninth street.
 The ceremonies will commence at 3:30 in the afternoon. No definite programme has been decided upon as yet.
 The monument has arrived and is now | being put in place. The corner stone of | the pedestal has been laid and work is pro- gressing rapidly.
 At night comes the grand pageant over the same line of march as the military | parade
 The pageant is modelled after the Mardi Gras exhibitions in New, Orleans. but will be finer than any ever seen there or anywhere. The preparations are in charge | of Capt. Thompson, who has had charge of the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Every | one in line will be in costume. A platoon of gayly dressed heralds will be followed by twenty allegorical floats, which have been making for seven weeks, and are to cost $25, 900.
 They will be the feature of the pageant.
 Following is the order and name of each float: l. Fame; 3. Prehistoric Rock 5 Homage to Columbus; 5. The Santa
 Maria; 6. Car of Liberty; 2. The Capitol H at Washington; 8. The Press: g. Poetry and Romance; 10. Music; Il. Science;
 12. Wealth and Commerce; 13 Supre-
 macy of the American Woman; IA. The
 United Oceans; 15. Columbus's Car of
 State; 16. Car of Electra.
 The other four floats have not been de-
 cided upon as yet.
 | Following will come the various orders
 of Red Men in this city and vicinity, in \ costume. All the riding academies will
 participate on horseback. Their mem bers | will be in costume typical of various | centuries. Ono CdVdICdU0 WILL r0pFeS0HG
 the times of Ferdinand and Isabella.
 Six military bands, in charge of Cappa,
 will have the principal position in the ! line of march. Sandwiched in between
 them will be score of civic bands.
 All the floats will be illuminated with I electric torches. They will be drawn by
 horses-from ten to twenty attached to
 each float. At the same time the grand
 illumination of the Brooklyn Bridge will
 be progressing The plan as now pro
 posed is to have two tons of colored fire
 changing from red, green and amber, to
 blue. Flashes of crimson fire will alter
 nate between each, making in all series
 of fifteen illuminatives.
 Thursday evening comes the banquet at the Lenox Lyceum, at which 250 will
 sit down; 200 will be the city's guests;
 the remainder will pay $20 each for the
 privilege.
 The task of decorating the city fittingly
 is already assuming gigantic proportions.
 Property owners along the line of
 march have been requested to decorate their buildings.
 Forty thousand fairy lamps have been
 purchased for Illuminating purposes.
 Extraordinary arrangements have been making for the past month to accommo- } date the huge crowds which will flock to this city for the week of the celebration. Nearly every hotel keeper in the city has promised the committee not to raise his rates for the celebration.
 For the visiting militia other arrange ments have been made.
 Quarters will be provided for 5000 in the various regimental armories. l ORDERED TO NEW YORK.