Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-03
NEW YORK'S GREAT 1lMEl
Arrangements Completed for the Columbus Anniver-
 sary Festivities.
THE eRANoEsT CELEBRATION THIS
 COUNTRY WILL EVER SEE.

It Commences Next Saturday With Serv-'
 ices in the synsgogu~s Sunday she
 Christian Churches VIII EulOgize the
 DIscoversr--schoOI BOys' Parade Mon-
 day--Ths Naval Parade Wednesday,
 Oct. 12, the Great DaT--TwO Monster
 ProcessI0ns--OtherE Exercises--Hundreds
 of Thousands of visitors Expected.
 NEW YORK, Oct. S.-7Preparations {. for New York's celebration of the Tooth anni- versary of the discovery of America by Columbus are about completed. The cere- monies will begin on Oct. 5, when the first of the religious service will be held. Oct. 12 is the date selected as the annt- versary proper. The National Guard of neighboring States will participate in the military exercises.
 Every indication points to the grand est celebration ever seen in the United States and the number of visitors during the week will run up in the hundred thousands.
 The celebration will cost more than $10O, GOO. With that amount there will be given a military parade, 8 night pa geant, 8 naval parade, a school parade, a fireworks display, and a banquet. Pro- vision will also be made for the general decoration and illumination of the city and the erection of fifteen grand stands. The programme for the celebration is, in brief, as follows:
 Saturday, Oct. 8, services in syna- Gogues.
 Sunday, Oct. 9, services in churches. Monday, Oct. 10, school and college | parade, opening of loan art exhibition at | the Academy of Design.
 Tuesday, Oct. II, naval parade. Wednesday, Oct. Is, military parade, | dedication of the Columbus monument, night pageant, and fireworks display on the Brooklyn Bridge.
 Thursday, Oct. 13, banquet. These are the official arrangements. Besides, there will be celebrations by or | ganizations and societies and other enter ! Catholics will be a feature of Tuesdays ! celebration.
 On Saturday morning the celebration | will begin. Religious services will then be held in the Jewish synagogue in com l memoration of the day.
 l Nearly all the Christian churches will hold special services with elaborate musi- cal programmes on Sunday, Oct. g.
 On Monday, Oct. 10 begins the secular | part or GQO ColSOTAILOu, huu l until midnight of the following Thursday New York will do nothing but celebrate. | On Monday will take place the big | parade of the schools and colleges of New York and neighborhood. Sixty-two out of the sixty-fve public schools in this city will take part, besides scores of high schools, colleges and private institutions.
 More than 20, 600 will be in line. Ten thousand boys, from 12 to IS years of age, will represent the public schools. Four thousand more will come over from Brooklyn, and the Roman Catholics will send 5000 from the thirty eight parochial | schools in this city, and from the various colleges and orphan asylums. Several military schools, industrial schools and trade sc.ools will also participate, together with a number of uniformed or HaniEations of boys.
 The public school boys under 12 will not be allowed to join the parade, nor will others over 12, whom their teachers do not think physically able to stand the
 strain of the parade
 One hundred and forty gross of Ameri can flags will be distributed among those who will parade. The parade begins at
 10 o'clock.
 The public school boys will be led by a
 grand marshal, and will be divided into
 twenty battalions of 500 each, led by a
 school principal as commander.
 Each battalion will be further divided | into ten companies, each led by a boy
 chosen by his fellows.
 Those in charge of the parade hay,
 already begun drilling the boys in simple
 military evolutions.
 Il For the night 8 score of events are pre- l paring The most important of all will
 be the opening of the big loan art exhibi
 tion at the National Academy of Design
 A number Of minor celebrations and
 entertainments given by societies anC
 clubs will close the days festivities. At 12:3O p. m. on Tuesday, Oct. Il,
 occurs the big naval parade, for which
 the Atlantic coast, from Boston to Cap' | Hatteras, has been ransacked for vessel to take part. The vessels will assemble
 in the lower Bay, and form in two line
 as an escort to the Government ships il the centre, and 100 boats of the mer chant marine will be in line, and abou fifty Government ships, which will con sist of warships, cruisers, revenu cutters and lighthouse tenders. Boat belonging to the Fire, Police and Docl departments, and foreign men-of-war vii , ! also take part. A boat carrying the Maya ! Reserve and 8 fleet of steam yachts vii | accompany the fleet.
 The start will be made on the first o . ! the ebb tide The feet will move up tn lower Bay at the rate of six miles al hour to the upper Bay. AS it round Bedloe's Island the guns on Governor ] Island will fire a salute. , The line of parade will then be up tn ! | North River to the foot of 125th street , where the parade will disband.
 The fleet will parade 8 distance c
 twelve miles. Boats will be on hand
 convey sightseers out to the parade, an n | owners ot hi xh buildings, commanding
 view of the river are already putting
 premium on their roofs. If possible, several boats will be de voted to the use of the poor children ( this city, giving them a view of th F parade free of charge.
 It is certain that the cruiser Phil'
 delphia, the monitor Miantonomah. th
 dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, the torped :. boat Cushing, and the navy tug Narkee' :. | will be in line. The Atlanta also may
 ready in time.
 In the afternoon the athletes will hay , . chance at the athletic festival at u Manhattan Field At the 7th Regimen Al II