St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-10
GOTHAM IN BUNTING.
The Metropolis Is Gay With
Gorgeous Decorations in
Honor Of Columbus.
Thousands of People Take a
Turn About Town to See
the Sights.
Kniekerboekepville Full Of
Portraits Of Columbus
and Washington.
twenty Thousand School
Children to Be in the
Parade Today.

EEa YORK, Oct. Especial services
Rere held in most of the churches to-
say. The choirs in some of the churches
we're assisted by orchestras. and elab-
orate programmes were given. The pull
pits and affairs were adorned with tiow-
ers. All of the discourses were pre-
pared with special consideration for the
children, so that the youngest attend
ant could appreciate the Importance of
the services. This evening the Italian
colony, under the auspices of the minis
ter, Baron Faya, began its Columbian
celebration at the LenoX lyceum with
concert and discourse by DR.. Luigi Re-
versi on Columbus. In the afternoon
many people visited the Italian trans
port Garigliano, which brought over the
Columbus monument. All day long
there was dense crowd on Fifth ave-
nue., Broadway and other important
streets viewing the decorations. For
the first time in some weeks the sounds
of the hammer and saw were not
heard.
The Decorations
of the public and private buildings are
all completed. Flags and banners are
streaming from every pole along the
line of march of the four big process
sions. A very popular feature Of the
celebration is to 60 on the top of sume
high building and enjoy birds eye
view. which shows long line of colors
stretching from the Battery to Central
park and from river to river, with flags
waving from the house tops on all sides.
The trellis arch at Twenty-second
street, Manhattan Club building and the
residence of eX-Secretarv Whitney were
visited by thousands today. Along Fifth
avenue, from Madison square to Thirty
fourth street, there were a series of
standards, 100 in number, from
which depended pointed gonfalons
and Venetian flags bearing the arms of
Ferdinand, Isabella, Columbus and 9TH
erS. The standards are surmounted by
gilt eagles and decorated at their bases
by civic shields. Broadway is now a
Kaleidoscope of changing colors. All
the large wholesale houses in the dry
goods district are
ArtIsticaIIy DTaped
with gay bunting. The center piece in
most cases is a painting of Columbus
on one side and of Washington on the
other. The draping on a majority of
the hotels is now completed. From the
Morton house to the plaza decoration is
general. The city hall is probably the
most prOfusely and artistically draped
editice in the city. The New York Life
Insurance company is striving for
the first prize offered for the best
decorated building. Between 900 ard
cover the front of the building in globes
of red, white and blue. An electric star
ten feet high will surmount these dec
OrationS, and beneath it "1492-1S92'' will
appear in electric-lighted numbers. Be-
sides the illuminations. the front and
sides of the building will be covered
with 500 American flags of various
sizes. and big portrait of Columbus.
framed in the national colorS and sur
mounted by the American eagle, will
hang Oh the front door. In addition to
the big stands at the city hall and in
Union square, Madison square and
Washington park, many smaller ones
have been put up. Seats on all of the
stands will be free tor the school and
college parade tomorrow, with the eX-
ception of few hundred seats already
sold. Nothing else will be reserved.
The stands in Madison square, City Hall
park and Union square are free only
TO women and children, and the
IlloG WiO SOihC Will Oc tilc uISb SGIN6u.
There will be an awful rush for these
seats, but Supt. Byrnes has arranged
excellent police protection. All along
the line and near all the big stands tenn
porary wooden patrol boxes have been
placed. As the celebration draws near,
thieves. pickpOckets\ and crooks of
every description are beginning to come
out from their hiding places. They are
waiting for the big crowds next week.
Supt. Byrnes will do as he did during
the Washington celebration, when his
drag net pulled in a big load of profess
sional thieves. Orders were issued to-
day to arrest all suspicious characters,
and lock them up until the celebration
is over. The superintendent has in
structed Inspector Mclaughlin to make
the raid. Tomorrow the secular part of
the celebration will be opened with a
school and college parade with over
10000 in line. The parade has occupied
the attention of its promoters for weeks.