The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-10-15
FOUR CENTURIES AGO.
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
BY COLUMBUS.
The Celebration of the Great Event
Begun in New York-A Parade
Consisting of Over Thirty
Thousand Young
Americans.
Celebrating in SPAIN.

IIOAootiA IOoIl8
Americans.
Celebrating in Spain.
New York, Oct. 11.-Yesterday was the
opening day of the secular part of the
celebration of the four hundredth ami
vcrsary of the discovery Of America, and
New York is in gala dress. Its streets,
it's public buildings, its stores and ware
houses and its homes arc gay with flags
and bunting. Even the trucks and wag-
ons that passed through the streets, the
cars that rolled up and down its avenues,
the trains that pulled along the elevated
roads, the very horses were decked with
flags in honor of Christopher Columbus.
In the synagogue on Saturday, in the
churches, Hebrew and Christian, was
celebrated in service of song the landing
of Columbus four hundred years ago.
The delay in starting which is the al-
most invariable feature of all civic
parades, was not absent, and it was
nearly IL o'clock before the order to
march was given. The route of parade
arranged was down Fifth avenue to
Seventeenth street, to Fourth avenue,
%disbanded. The marching was in the
following order: Platoon of mounted
police; band; Grand Marshal Col. David
s.. Brown and twenty-five aides. The
grs nd marshal's standard was n yellow
satin banner, and he and his aides and
the division marshals wore sashes and
batons: They We're all mounted: John
Winfield Scott was marshal, Browns
chief of staff and %adjutant general. Maj:
George NJ. Barry was assistant adjutant
general. Lawrence Myers chief aide.
In the public school division there were
twenty regiments. POP companies and
10000 pupils in line. Beside there were
over a thousand students from Long
Island city public schools. James r.
O'Beirne was mashal for the Catholic
school and college division. The Catholic
schools and colleges of New York were
well represented, and altogether there
were 10000 persons in line. Many bands
were distributed among the different regi-
ments of the school and college divisions.
While the line of march of the parade
was banked on either side by crowded
trail Park place to the disbanding point
at the University place, the greatest
number c~ongregated in Madison Square,
Union Square and Washington Square.
The west side of Fifth avenue at Madi-
son Square was occupied by an immense
stand with 5000 seats. OF these 200
seats were reserved for the newspaper
ICpOllCIS anu euCu SGub WIS 1uIulSuCu
with a writing desk: Opposite was a
stand that seated 5000 persons. Among
those seated there were Vice President
Levi p. Morton, Secretary of the Treas
ury Foster, Gov. r. P. Flower md his
staff, Gov. Tillman of South Carolina,
United States Marshal Jacobus and
many local officials. This stand was
Long before the procession reached
Madison Square the head of the advance
ing column, preceded by IL platoon of
mounted police, could be seen advanc-
ing down the avenue. AS it reached the
square itself, Vice President Morton,
Gov. Flower and the other officials pres
ent arose and stood uncovered until
cession had passed the stand. The boys
preserved excellent order and passed the
stands with the steady tread of veterans.
Their bearing won them continuous and
well merited applause. On one stand
were 1000 school girls, dressed in red,
white and blue, who sang patriotic songs
as the procession passed by. At Wash
spectators, had been erected. There the
mayor and school commissioners left the
ranks and took seats reserved for them
on the stand, from which they reviewed
the procession as it passed by on it's way
to Fourth street and University place,
where it %disbanded. President and Mrs.
Cleveland with a party of friends wit
messed the parade.
The great parade of school boys dem
onstrated the patriotism of the rising
generation. Twenty-Five Harlem school
boys. however, gave evidence in a more
effective way by tearing down and
tbba4ep Mag d Sn1fr f10a at an The Ef6 esnf Of flag g
Harlem store. At 8 o'clock this morn
ing the boys, ranging in age from twelve
to seventeen years, We're coming down
Columbus avenue on their way to join
the big parade; Near the corner of
Ninety-third street they saw a large
store kept by an Englishman. No other
flag was displayed, and the boys think
ing it un-Amerlcan to display u foreign
flag without a United States flag with
it, gathered i'll front of the store and de-
manded of the storckceper to either
raise a United States flag beside the En-
This the keeper of the store refused to
do. After considerable angry discussion
ard several threats on the part of the
boys, n of the little fellows climbed
upon the shoulders of one of his larger
companions and took down the English
their hands on the Objectionable fiae
they tore it into hundreds of pieces and
scattered the fragments about the street,
trampling them under foot amid the
cheers of the older OnloCkers. The Eng
lishmGn was indignant, and it looked for
a time as though he would attack the
boys. The sympathy of the crowd, how
ever, was evidently with the boys, and
he considered discretion the better part
of valor, and after threatening to have
the boys arrested for malicious destruc-
ton of property he returned to his store.
Celebratinr I'm Snafn.
Cardiz, Oct. 11.-Enormous crowds watched
the departure of the gunboat vallderno, con-
veying Queen Regent Christina and the roy.
al party for Huelva, where they will AXE
part in the Columbus celebration. The gun.
boat was escorted by q feet of foreign war
ships. The balconies of the buildings along
the quays were handsomely decorated with
flags and bunting, and filed with ladies and
children. The scene was q most pretty and
minated one. The harbor was filled with
all kinds of craft gaily decorated. When
the warship arrived OF Huelva she was met
by q transport on which were Senior Cano-
vas Del Castello, the municipal authorities,
the diplomats who are visiting Huelva and
q number of other dignitaries. Twenty
three Spanish and foreign men-Of-war were
ranged In line, and as the gunboat with the
nearest warship fired a royal salute. This
was repeated by the next ship in the line
and SO on until every one of the twenty
three vessels had saluted little King Alton
60, who was with his mother on the Condo
Valderno.
william Louis Kelly VIII Speak.
Chicago, Oct. 1.-THE arrangements
fer the Columbian banquet at the Audi