The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-13
THE CAPITOL FLOAT.

THE CAPITOL FLOAT.
of which will be those prepared by the
Edison Electric Light Company and
one entitled Fame"
Among the floats in the great parade
will be Group of Heralds," Car OF
Fame" prehistoric America, % ''Toltec
Pyramid and Sun Worshipers. 'Cor-
tege of Ferdinand and Isabella" Mod.
ell of Columbus Caravel," Gar OF
Columbus" spirit Of Liberty" "Model
of Capitol" "Ship Of State Columbus, -
"Press of America Gar of Science, -
'Music,' - Poetry and Literature" "Su.
premacy of American Woman "The
Oceans and Lakes"
There will be fireworks all along the
line of the parade, and at Madison
square the president and the honored
guests will probably be placed for re-
view.
But the night parade will have addi-
tional features. Six thousand bicyclers.
with machines brilliantly Illuminated,
will be in line. They will be followed
by delegations from the riding schools
and from the civic societies, all in cos
tune illustrating some epoch in the
period that has elapsed since the dis
covery of America.
On October II the athletic tournament
will give visitors an opportunity to
visit the great outlying parks, and in
the evening Of October 10 the banquet
to the prominent guests will take place
at the Metropolitan opera house.
Among the guests will be President
Harrison and cabinet, the governors of
all the states. the vice president, ex-
presidents and ex-vice presidents, and
mayors, foreign ministers, etc.
Each guest will be presented with Q
medal struck in honor of the occasion.
The designs for the floats, for tho
decorations and the arches have been in
the hands of committee which num-
bers among its members Augustus st.
Gaudens, Richard NJ. Hunt. Stanford
White, William NJ. Chase, Albert Bier
stadt, Kenyon Cox, Francis D. Millet,
Louis c. Tiffany, j. O. A. Ward, John
La Fargo and J. Louis Webb. visited
several of these gentlemen and was
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submitted for each arch, and that the
committee would certainly select tho
most artistic, but that as yet nothing
was ready for the public
The legislature of New York has ap-
propriated $4,000 for the celebration
here, and much more than this sum will
be raised by private subscription to de-
fray the expenses incurred. The work
of erecting grand stands all along the
line has already begun, and these will
be at City Hall park, on both sides of
South Fifth avenue, in Washington,
Union and Madison squares, at the res
ervoir on Forty-second street and at the
Plaza in Fifty-ninth street.
The old Essex troop will make its ap-
pearance in the military parade bright
in its new uniform of blue frock coat,
black braid and yellow collar, white
stockinet trousers and high-top boots.
As it is New York's oldest military or
Canization its appearance is always an
event of decided interest.
I am informed that the war depart
ment has detailed the engineer corps
from Willett's Point and West Point.
the cadets from West Point, all the
available troops from David's island,
from Fort Adams, r. L.: from Fort
Meyer, Va: from Fort Ontario. from
Pittsburgh. from Fort Porter and Fort
Niagara.
There is one thing which believe de-
serves special mention, and that Is the
alacrity with which the German, the
French, the Italian and the Spanish So
,ieties have responded to the appeal to
assist in the celebration. Their enthusi-
ISM has gone beyond mere offers. They
lave all gone to their own eycheduers,
md many thousands will be spent BY
hem in making their displays of special
interest The fund for the statue of
,olumbus, which is TO be unveiled on
october I2, was raised through the eff
orts of one Of New YorlS's Italian news
,apers. and the Circulo Colon-Cervantes
he largest of the societies OF Spanish
peaking residents in New York city,
mapped out plan OF celebration from
which the committee received many
suggestions.
DAVID WEcHsLER
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