The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-11
THEPETEW COLUMBUS.
Great Parade of the School
Children Of New York.
BOYS DESTROY ABHiTisH FLAG.
Splendid Fireworks IN the Evening
and an Address By Depew.
soYs DESTROY ABHITlsH FLAG.
All the Members ef the Cabinet. and
Possibly the Presldsat, to visit the
Metropolis-CsisbFatien st Huslva.
whence The worla-ss<ker Sailed.

about 5000 young people took part It
started at Fifty-seventh street, marched
down to Fifth avenue, te Seventeenth
street, back to Fifth avenue. thence along
Fifth avenue and under the arch at Univer-
sity place, where the parade d sbanded The
procession was made up Of twenty regi-
ments Of grammar school children, num-
bering 10. 500. and 1909 children from the
Long Island city schools. The Roman
Catholic schools were represented by Z, 500
scholars. Then came students of Columbia
college. to the number of ], 1,00D; University
OF New York, LOO: College Of New York,
500. These were followed by the stu
dents of the medical and pharmaceutical
colleges, art and other schooIs, uniformed
military schools, private and sother church
and miscellaneous schools The march
ing column was reviewed ky Vice Presi-
dent Morton, Gov. Flower ard the mayor
of the city. The boys preserved excellent
order and passed the stan5ls with the
1900 schoolgirls dressed IN rcd, white and
blue sang patriotic songs as their mates
passed. Ex-President Cle7eland was
among the witnesses of the parade.
The days celebration opened at sunrise
with salute from the cannon OF old Fort
Columbus. on Governors islaod. The city
is in gala attire. Everywhere public
buildings, business houses. private resi-
dences, elevated trains, surface cars. wag-
ons, trucks, cabs and even horses were
decked with bunting and flags,
streamefs, gonfalons, rosettss, shields,
festoons and garlands lin honor
of the day. The weather was perfect. with
bright sunshine and crisp, Invigorating
air. On improvised stands, front steps,
windows, trucks, wagons at sntersecting
streets; in fact. every coign of vantage was
seized on by as many as could gain foot
ing to view the procession.
Twenty-Five Harlem schoolboys, coming
down to Columbus avenue to join this
mornings parade. SAWS large english flag
floating in front of : cigar store, kept
by an Englishman. No sother fag
was displayed. and the boys de.
manded of the storckeeper that he
either raise the United States flag
beside the English or lower tie English
flag. This he refused to do. After much
angry discussion the boys pulled down the
flag and tore it to PIECES. The Engiishman
was very indignant, E6ut contvnted him.
self with threatening to have tie boys ar.
rested for malicious destruction of prop
erty.
Brooklyn bridge was the place of attrac-
ton this evening. A gorgeous display of
fireworks was promised. and at an early
hour great crowd began to gather at
points of vantage on the river fronts of both
cities, while hundreds OF crafts loaded with
passengers were anchored at favorable
70 in ~ nj n
buildings near river were utilized. The
display fully met the expectations of the
people. Among the set pieces was statue
of Columbus and representation of the
ship in which the discoverer set sail from
Genoa. Two tons of powder were used in
colored fire for series of fifteen illumina-
tions, which were accompanied with
salvos and flights of screaming rockets.
bombs, Roman candles and gas balloons.
One of the most striking displays was q
representation of Niagara Falls lin silver
fire. 1t was 625 feet wide, and represented
a dazzling cascade Of shining silver 200
feet high.
An accident occurred on the pier at the
foot OF Beekman street that was probably
attended with loss of life. The pier was
packed with people. On the southern side
the ship Reaper was tied up and the cap
tain sold seats on the vessel. She gas being
unloaded, and standing high. out of
the water necessitated' running: a gang
way thirty feet long from the shsp to the
dock at an angle of Is degrees. This
gangway was crowded, when suddenly
came q crash, and the plank broke in the
middle. Some of the people wers thrown
in a heap on the pier, many sustaining
painful cuts and bruises. At least one
man fell in the river and was drowned.
Silas s. Pratt's musical cantata .'Colum-
bus" was rendered in Carnegie hals tonight
under the auspices OF the committee of 100.
The chief feature of the evening was q
speech of Chauncey n. Depew, iB which
he spoke of the advances in tie world
since the discovery of America and the
results of Columbus voyage. The pro-
cession of children today, he said, was tho
flower of the civilized religious lrDerty of
the American people. In the age of Co
lumous bigotry ruled the state and. bieotry
in the church was one of the: things
stition was almost universal. 1t was an
age when all races and all nations were
arrayed against one another, bu. TODAY
the children of parents Of every creed and
descendants of every race marched under
one flag and to one music-the nsnsic of
the nationality of the dag of the United
States. All was in harmony with the
flag and music, growing up to be Arsierican
citizens, no matter what their creed or
religion.
ifthere is anything detest mors than
another" he said. "it is that spiriS of in
credulous historical inquiry which doubts
everything: which destroys all likeliness
Of heroes. which has been the INSPIRATION
Of heroism through all these Centuries
We are told that William Tell never ex.
listed, that Washington had no hatchet.
and that Pocahontas never saved she life
of settler. II is this spirit that would
destroy our Columbus Columb bus was a
poet, but he believed God had meant him
to convert pagan people, and be found
them. He vas admiral OF the ocesn. be.
cause he was made Christopher Columbus
to carry Christ across the sea"
AT the conclusion OF Mr.. Depew's re-
marks he departed. and the programme
was carried ont. The cantata was divided
into six parts, the prologue, the eouacil At
Salamanca. Columbus and his boy DIEGO
Queen Isabella at her court, the voyage
and the grand triumph and march and re-
ception.
WAsHISeTos CIrY, Oct. l0.-A soecial
meeting Of the cabinet was held this after.