Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-21


taken with the Pope's blessing and with the
patronage of the most Catholic" SOW.
ereigns OF Spain, mass was sung with sJImptu-
Gus ceremony. At Trinity, among tie
Protestant churches the communion Office
was sung.
The day was ushered IN by the tolling OF
bells at sunrise on all the churches in town.
The chimes on Trinity Church and Grace
Church were rCng early and late.
Commemorative services were held at the
Young Mems Christian Association rooms.
Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue.
AS rart of the inaugural ceremonies OF
the Columbian festivities, a grand sacre
orchestral and vocal concert took Mac. in
the evening at $40 a. the Lenox Lyceum,
Madison avenue and Fifty-ninth street.
There were elaborate special Columbian
services at night in scores of churches.
The scenic celebration began on the third
dav of the festivities with thu school and
college parade at ten O'Clock in the morn
ing. Over 5000 pupils took part and the
line Of march was throngei by vast crowds
OF delighted SPECTATORS. The school children
had been drilling in the armori@s and in the
uD-tOwn streets for week or two and their
alignment was almost perfect and their
marching was the admire tion OF everybody.
They marched from Fifth avenue and
Fiftv-seventh street down the avenue to
Seventeenth street, thence 20 Fourth ave-
nue.. to Fourteenth street, to Fifth avenue,
to Was 1!ngton Square, to Waverly Place.
TO Fourth street where they disban led
The pupils, each carrying an American flag
were arranged in twenty regiments, con-
tanning 2O2 companies of fifty each.
The public-school division. 10, 100 strong
was commanded by John D. Robinson. Prin-
cipal OF Grammar School No o. Follow
ing this was the division OF Roman G. ltholic
schools and colleges. containing 500 pupils
and led by General James r. OBeirne
Major Franklin Bartlett followed with the
a F1r1f cSrn xxyhSl Ia
scores of private schools brought no the rear.
The most striking fea ture along the line
OF march was the huge American flag on
the stand at the Reservoir, Fifth avenue and
Forty second street. composed of sixteen
hundred school girls costumed in red, white
and blue, and SO arranged that they formed
a perfect representation of the Stars and
Stripes. On the stand at the east side of
Union Square were sixteen hundred girls
from Catholic schools, similarly arranged.
Each group of girls sang patriotic airs AS
the parade passed.
On another stand at Union Square three
hundred children from the Children's Aid
Society waved small American flags as the
column moved by.
The $50 Indian boys from the Carlisle
penn Industrial Institute were taken to
Ellis Island, where breakfast was served.
They then were taken by ferryboat to the
foot of West Tenth street, whence they
marche to their position in the line. They
received great applause all along the line OF
march.
In the evening S. G. Pratts cantata, "The
Triumph of Columbus" was sung by large
chorus in the Carnegie Music Hall Begin
ming at $50 at night there was a brilliant
fireworks display, costing over $4,000, on
Brooklyn Bridge. Niagara Falls in fire was
represented. There were 500 feet of fire
falling distance of $50 feet from the road
way of the Bridge to the river.
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with huge prismatic lights. In all there
were fifteen displays and each was marked
by great flashes of colored light from the
towers produced by burning fifty pounds of
colored fire composition, There was steady
running fire of six pound rockets, of shells,
bouquets of magnesium, Roman candles,
whistling rockets, floating meteors, and
other devices known only to q manufacturer
of fireworks. The two hours display opened
and closed with the discharge of 10) giant
shells in groups of from twelve to twenty.
The river was thronged with all sorts OF
craft, crowded with delighted spectators.
There were no decorations on the Wash
ington Arch, but six powerful search lights,
furnished by the Edison Electric Company,
were arranged about its base, and their rays
were thrown upon the beautiful structure,
and this, night after night, produced
beautiful effect, which was novel as well.
On the fourth day Of the Columbian OBJ
servances New Workers and their vast num-
Der of guests saw the greatest naval parade
that ever occurred in America. Over two
hundred vessels were in line, Including
American, French, Spanish AMI Italian
men-of-war.
The parade formed in Gravesend Bay and
the Narrows at II 80 P. m. The course was
up the bay and North River to and around
a buoy above Grants Tomb and return
The director was Nicholson Kane of the
New York Yacht Club. He sailed at the
H. @eAl TI,oS%o
torpedo boat Gushing, and following
him on the Philadelphia came Com
modore Henry ErDen and staff
with the Committee of One Hundred.
Then followed the United States steamships
Miantonomoh, Atlanta, Dolphin and Yes
uvius. Next in line were the French flag
ship Aratheuse, and the French man-of-war
Hussard, the Spanish cruiser Infanta
Ysabel and the Italian cruiser Bausan, fol-
lowed by the naval militia of the State Of
New York.
The others in the parade were fifteen mu-
nicipal vessels, seventeen steam yachts and
102 merchant vessels, divided in eight di-
visions
One of the sights in this parade was a
series of gigantic floats, upon which were
shown scenes illustrative of the remarkable
advance in shipbuilding since Columbus dis
covered America. In addition to the feet
in the parade there were a number OF free
excursion steamboats, for the benefit of the
women and children of the tenements.
The war ships proceeded IN three columns
with the foreign vessels in the middle. They
rendezvoused in the lower bay, and as they
passed ND through the Narrows they were
saluted by the forts. The other vessels
fell in after the head of the column
had passed. Thence the column passed
up the North River to a point oppo-
site Grants Tomb, where the warships came
to anchor and the rest of the feet returned
down the river in double column on the o.