Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-10-15
CELEBRATION.
New York's Six Days Columbian jubilee
Will BE Ono Long Remembered.


Will BE Ono Long Remembered.
New YORK, Oct. 10. Every national
ity under the sun, excepting, perhaps,
the Hottentots and Chinese, will take
part in the celebration commemorative
of the discovery Of America by Colum-
bus, to be held in this city during six
days, beginning Saturday. And, to
Judge by the programme prepared, it
will surpass in grandeur and size any
thing any of the numerous nationalities
taking part ever before beheld. Tho
programme has been completed. The
order of each days exercises has been
arranged.
1t will be a celebration that will long
be memorable. Nothing like it has
ever before been seen and this genera
tion will not see it again. 1t is almost
one continuous line of decoration. not
only on Broadway but on the less
prominent thoroughfares And from
the general effect there appears to be
enough flags bunting and drapery of
various kinds to encircle the globe with
monstrous band Of red, white, blue,
green and yellow.
The services Saturday and Sunday
were religious Saturday the Hebrews;
Sunday the Christians offered thanks
to the Almighty, each after his manner
OF belief, for having guided Columbus
to America and for having established
here government OF religious freedom.
There will be parade of students and
schoolboys Monday morning at 10
o'clock. 1t will be a parade that could
be hardly reproduced, in any 9TH
er country in the world. 1t will be 4o,-
600 strong. There will be 10000
sturdy students from New York public
schools; 10000 free school children; 5000
youths from the parochial schools, and
5000 college students, 1000 of whom
will appear in caps and gowns. 1t will
be magnificent display Of the rising
generation, a sample of what may be
expected twenty years hence. Included
in this parade will be 800 Indian boys
from the government school at Car
Isle.
"The triumph of Columbus" will be
sung by chorus of 500 voices at the
Carnegie music hall in the evening and
after that Is over the great bridge across
East river will be illuminated.
Colored fires will be burned on top oi
the lofty piers and the huge girders and
monster cables will be lit with glitter
of electric lights The naval parade viii
be the feature of Tuesdays programme
In that will appear war ships from all the
great powers of the earth. The pick o.
Englands navy. men of war from
France, Italy and SPAIN swift cruisers
from the navies ofGermany, Russia anC
Austria and the Philadelphia, Atlanta
Nesuvius and Mianonomoh of the white
squadron floating the glorious stars ant
stripes. The sister republics of soutl
America will also be represented
PlucNy little Chilli will send famou
Capt Pratt as representative of he
naval power.
Following the vessels of war vii
come the fleet ocean grayhounds, ther
will come one hundred and twent,
merchantmen and steam yachts. II
the entire parade it is estimated ther
will be from two hundred to three hun
!. dred vessels
In the evening the Roman Catholi
societies will parade and be reviewed
by Archbishop Corrigan; the German
/, | g., of
time gve concert at the Sev
enth regiment armory. But TIL
greatest attraction OF the night will b
at the Brooklyn bridge. From the loft.
arches of that modern wonder will b
given a display of fireworks that vii
startle even the old Fourth of July vet
Grams. From the top of the great spa
: to the water will be Niagara Falls
of fire five hundred feet long and on
. hundred and eighty feet high. The
! there will be marvels of Roman candle,
! sky rockets and colored fire. The dis
$ play will cost s6, 600.
On Wednesday the parade will talk
place 1t will surpass anything in th
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duced in New York or in America sine
+ the close of the war. The Unite
States army will lead the way, the
will come the militia of New York an
y the. visiting states and following thes
will come the various societies and ol
j ganizations, social and religious.
has been estimated that one hundre
thousand men would appear in tn
parade. This committee in charg
has arranged for the distribution {
80. 900 American flags at regular il
tervals so that the stars and stripe
; will wave continuously from one end {
n the procession to the other. At diffe
;. ent points along the route reviewin
!, stands have been erected. These wi
accommodate $4,000 spectators.
. At the conclusion of the parade I'll
4 monument of Columbus at Fifty-nint
n street and Eighth avenue will be ded
!, Gated. In the evening there will be
!, pageant that will, it is said, surpass tt
;, Yelled Prophet procession of St Loui
a or Mardi Gras of New Orleans.