New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-05
PATERSON'S HUNDREDYEARS
LOTS OF NOISE, THE FIRING OF GUNS, A LARGE
'"RADE. SEECuES AND MUSIC
MARK THE DAY.

Paterson awoke carly yesterday morning TO begin
the scclas part OF her centennial celebration Ham
non. Boudnot and their associates in the Society
for Establishing Useful Manufactures, having had
the good taste 10 select the fourth day OF July 1902,
for the meeting at the Passac Falls at which II was
formally decided to buy the .ract and start an
industrial community. the National holiday came CON
jointly With the centennial anniversary. and Patr-
son made the most Of IT, If any citizens Of that town
did not wake up at midnight, 1t WAS because they
had not deemed IL worth while TO 60 TO sleep. The
beginning OF the joyful noise was fixed for l2 o1
q. M, and the signal was 10 bc given with the
nrc-aarrn bells. But some mill engineer. whose
patriotism couldn't stay corked another moment
started his whistle ut about IL :oo Sunday night and
nobody heard the nreahrm signal for the premature
blast set all the rest Of the steam whistles In town
going and all the big bells ringing. Instantly there was
a din that lasted hour. the steady, untunctui
chorus Of screcch, howl or below according 10 the
csibre OF the WHISTLE with the clangor OF the bells
for rhythm being introduced with explosions of giant
crackers and cannons all over the city. IL had Deeh
requested by a special subcommittee that the Gu
zens make all the noise possible and 1t Is generally
conceded that II there any car-rendng con
trivance In the community which was hVt oNuen'
INTO play IL was missed.
With the first sta caks OF dawn the streets re-
sounded with the tramp of marching men, as drum
CORPS escorted c. G. Shelby, OF Farrngut POST u a. No.
10 the rugged he ghts Of Carrot Mountain overlooking
the city from the south. The members OF inc flrsI
Brigade .ignal corps had been nstir still earlier anu
were giving an exhibition IN the drkncSs win to'oee'
and when It wa light With flags, from HIS LOOKING
down on the town. At sunrise the first report Oh
1ooc,n solute. fired BIZ gun detaclimcnts Of the
r,ritio with howze,7 came from the mountains, ana
Mr. Shelby holsted the flag to high stall on "arrl
Rock the drummeTs and 6fcrs playing "Ihe o'a'
6r,ncled Banner ne old Glory scared up INTO inc
oir and nuttercd before the eyes Of thousands OF
people looking up from the streets far bcloW'
AT 8 O'Clock the great civic ana ndu'UE'l parma
moved and for three hours trnvescd miles OF streets
crowded with people in holiday gsrb ana gay WV"
Aars and strcamers OF every bright hue Inc
,,,rodo WINS in fourteen divisions. The first part
~ II was made lid mainly Of secret soceties III
rorapa or uniforms, and organizations OF lore s.l
on cntzons Next came several divisions Oh
v,ork,ncnen and working women l"i "a
torcs chosen "coor guard headed tHS
industrial section wth a beautiful SILK hag'
woven In n Paterson mill. Ihere were '"'''S
Other rich and costly six flags ana nall"erS d"
has,nd now and woven In the city for the OCCASION
ina mo-, we-c docked with silk badges made on INC
looms which cnve them their daily labor ana ine
factory girls in decorated wagons. and wearing "l''c
dresses with red white md blue snSh"s' mhue Wy q
rscture OF beauty Other operatives carrie" N"N,
and yards OF rir bons on poles Inc ayers mar
.xifh
This ,ort Of the procession was a pageant oi SIN
~ ue most delicate Iucs. There were miles OIL
tho cosu,cst md Gncst-wpvcn silk ribbons that 'he
.iri, CITY az America knows how to make carr'N
oloft I'm that parade used to adoTl Nci"'l'a ""'
pcrsons and displayed ms lavshy as II II lau Dec"
tho chcopc, and most tawdry bunting. There were
looms nj operation weaving silk as the parade moved
along, and one Of 1esc looms was run by Ph'ap'e
steam engine.
ila cpcfIOu-luudrctS
hundreds az trucks and wagons exhibiting various
trades and Zines Of business Ingenuity had been
taxed 70 provide novel exhibits and The result Was
most satisfactory. Many sorts OF machines were III
cncration Furniture and cgars were made III Tn"
wagons before the eyes Of tho spectator, ana many
other Kinds of daily toll were done on Wheels Just
rs they are done in or shop. There was kttle
Of mere vulgar advertising ana most Of the displays
were a bona nde showing ly the lnrgc't dealers In
,ha city of their handsomcst aud thdr test
nrresses The magnificent weather put everybody W
good hurnOr. and under sunshine 20 bright ana
through nh mir cool and clear. as Is not gwen 70
men on the Fourth Of July often In a lifetime a
column Of 5000 mon and women, 200 vehicles ana
= thousand horses which TOOK over two hours ~
ms q given point moved through streets radiant in
evcry color Of the rainbow. ard lined With tens OF
thousands Of cheering people, who saw IN that pageant
uncouth though is arrangement and ragged lis mar'h
ing the wing cxcmpYhcauoa OF a pr i"roiiS thrifty
and INTEL gent working commun,tys genius ana IN
dustry.
Al noon a National salute OF forty -four guns was
fred and at sun.ct hundred guns. In the afternoon
about thirty thouslud people went 70 the two parks
and TO COTS iii TO the OUTDOOR sports and 10
hear the band, play patriotic airs with dynamite bon6
sccompanincnts. Ia tho evening about six thons ma
people were in and about IN" big electric llehtcd teh
IN Carroll st. open three quarters OF the way AROUND
10 hear the Jubilee exercises, which ncndel an GRAFTON
hy George ~ Robson, az original poem Dy tnc hcV.
r. shaw and an historical address Us Prhe tOd"lh,
Who l. a native OF Paterson and member Oh ono Oh
lie oldest families Of the city; singing by tnted ger
man societies, music by the Paterson philharmonic
society and comet solos by Jules Levy