The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-10-13
Long to Be Rem embered.
PUBLIC SCHOOL DAY.


Parade at New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. lO.-Public School
day, in the order Of festivities of New
York's Columbian celebration, was the
second movement in the grand SYM
phony arranged for the occasion.
The prayers and religious exercises on
Saturday and Sunday-participated in
by all creeds and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
fifty followed by an equally cosmopol-
itan demonstration of the educational
forces which have given the new world
it's strongest upward impetus.
Results of more than $50 years of edu-
cational work were represented in the
parade, for the first school founded by
the old Dutch settlers in 1888, in that
part of "New Amsterdam" now known
as West Seventy-seventh street, is still
in existence, and is called the school Of
the Reformed church. Today New York
owns 100 school houses, representing an
estimated value in sites and buildings
of over $l6, 200, 900, and provides educa-
ton in its grammar schools for more
than 26O, 600 pupils, boys and girls.
How They Marched.
Twenty regiments of grammar school
boys, of New York and Brooklyn and
Long Island Jersey City, each regiment
at least 500 strong, marched with swing
ing step and perfect alignment in the
parade, every boy proudly carrying the
flag of his country, prepared to honor
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division of the parade. They had been
preparing for weeks past. drilling in the
armories of the Sixty-fifth and Twelfth
regiments and in other buildings placed
at their disposal and in the open squares
SO that their discipline should be COM
plete and their marching faultless.
Every boy entered into the patriotic
spirit of the occasion. There were
three other divisions of equal patriotic
purpose.
The Second Division.
In the second division came the pu-
pills of the parochial schools. academies
and colleges of the Catholic church in
New York and adjacent cities, over
5000 strong, each pupil also carrying
the national flag in connection with the
emblems and banners of the churches
and academies to which they belong.
After them followed the uniformed
schools, and last the students of ma
turer years from the different colleges
of law and medicine, engineering and
the arts, about 4,5OO strong, 900 from
Columbia college; 1900 from the Uni
versity of New York; 1900 from the
undergraduates college; $50 from the
college of dentists, etc.
Third Division.
In the third division of the procession
was medley composed of numerous
institutes" It comprised Hebrew
orphan asylums, German, Italian and
French institutions of various charac-
tiers, intermixed with trades schools,
business colleges, military institutions
and mechanics societies, with 1000
"young Dalton volunteers" whatever
they may be, and sixty "glittering
spears"
Heads up, eyes front, looking neither
to the right nor left, not even when they
passed the vice president, the soldier
ing to the Children's Aid society waved
their miniature American flags as the
procession passed on.
The last organized body passed the
grand stand at 1:30 o'clock. A little
over two hours in passing. Gov. Flower
held an impromptu lsvee and introduced
many friends to mysterious stranger in
SLOUGH hat who had stood iby his side
until recognized and who turned out to
be Gov. Tillman of South Carolina.
Wonderful Illu limitations.
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-The illumina-
tons and fireworks on the Brooklyn
bridge during the evening were grand
and realistic and almost beggars de-
scription. The crowds that witnessed
the spectacle were beyond precedent.