Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-11
THE GREAT FLEET
 PARADING TO-DAY
One of the Grandcst Naval Dis plays Ever Witnessed in
 New York Harbor.
THE CITY CROWDED AS IT NEVEF
 HAS BEEN BEFORE.

Tonight Will Tako Place the Parade of che Catholic SocIeties--The School and College Denomination Yesterday--Over tudes View the Brilliant PyrOtechnic Display on the Brooklyn BrIdge-The Military and Civic Procession.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-New York City seemed to be crowded yesterday, but the crush was scarcely anything to what it is today. Since early morning torrents of people have been pouring into the metrop- oils from all directions. It is one of the largest crowds the city has ever handled, and tomorrow will undoubtedly see it's size greatly increased.
 Yesterday, under a perfect sky, and viewed by almost half million people, %, 1000 pupils from the public and private schools of this and other cities, marched | through the flag -decked city, from Fifty | ninth street and Fifth avenue to Wash ington Square.
 They were reviewed by the Presi- | dent of the United States, Levi P. Morton, Governor Roswell P. Flower, Mayor Grant and other notable men. NAVAL PARADE TO-DAY. To-day the great naval parade is taking | place, and it has attracted hundreds of thousands of persons to every available place on and overlooking the bay where it can be seen. D. Nicholson Kane of the | Navy is in special charge of this part of the celebration.
 The men-of-war which are participating are the Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dolphin, Vesuvius St. Mary's, the French dagshi p L'Arethuse, Italian cruiser Bausan, Span saI, T,Nf T-n 1No1l4 | Cushing.
 The others in the parade are the naval militia of the State of New York, fifteen municipal vessels, seventeen steam l yachts and 102 merchant vessels, divided ill eight divisions.
 One of the si shts in this parade is a series of gigantic floats upon which are | shown scenes illustrative of tho remark able advance in shipbuilding since | Columbus discovered America In addi- tion to the fleet in the parade there are 8 number of free excursion boats for the | benefit of the women and children of the | tenements.
 The Philadelphia is the flagship in the | parade, heading the column, as the fleet advances up the bay, on the starboard | side. There are three columns in the line as they come up the bay and the North l RiN CT, and the distance between the col umns is 300 yards. In the centre column are the foreign ships of war, as it were, l under escort.
 The speed of the vessels is about seven | knots an hour. As they entered the Mar rows a salute of 21 guns was fired from | the ships and the forts on the Staten l Island shore in honor of the occasion The order of parade is as follows: Patrolling flotilla, manned by naval militia, State of New York. | United States steamship Mianton omoh,
 Capt. Montgomery Sicard. | United States steamship Atlanta, Capt.
 F. s. Higginson.
 United States steamship Dolphin, Com.
 w. $. Brownson.
 United States steamship Vesuvius, Lieut.. Seaton Schroeder.
 New York school ship St. Mary's, Com
 mauder John McGowan.
 French flagship Arethuse. >: ;sS
 Italian cruiser Bausan.
 Spanish cruiser Infanta Ysabel. United States steamship Cushing, Lieut..
 Cameron Winslow.
 Naval Militia, State of New York, Com
 mander J. w. Miller | Municipal vessels, City of New York. { Steam yachts. | Eight divisions of merchant vessels.
 There will be another parade tonight and a fireworks display on the Brooklyn bridge. The parade will consist of 25, 00( Roman Catholics in line under the com mand of Father Keefe and Vict~l Bowling The line of march will bt from Fifty ninth street and Eightt avenue to Fifth avenue and thence tc | Washington square.
 Archbishop Corrigan, in company witt other distinguished prelates. will review the parade as it passes the Roman Catho lie Orphan Asylum. Some of the organ. izatious in line will be the So ciety of the Holy Name, 5000 strong; Catholic Benevolent Legion, G,000; Young Mems Catholic Society, $500; Catholic Knights of America 2,500; Catholic Mutual Benefit Society l, 300, and St. Vincent de Paul, 5000 f There will be four divisions in this parade, and it is expected that 9, 00( men will march.
 THE PARADE OF THE SCHOOLS.
 The great event of yesterday was tn, school and college parade.
 Twenty regiments of grammar-schoo boys of New York and Brooklyn anC Long Island and Jersey City, each regi ment at least 800 strong, marched witI swinging step and perfect alignment ir the parade, every boy proudly carrying 6 , flag of his country, prepared to honor and defend it; and this was only one division of the parade.
 
 = spirit of the occasion. There were three other divisions of equal patriotic purpose
 In the second division came the pupils r, of the parochial schools academies and col u legeS of the Catholic church in New Yorl and adjacent cities, over 5000 strong 7 each pupil also carrying the national flas in connection with the emblems and ban ncrs of the churches and academy tt which they belong.
 After them followed the uniformed schools and last, the students of ma turer years, from the different colleges O law and medicine, in engineering and thu arts, about 4 4,5O0 strong; 1000 from Co lumbia College, 200 from the Univer Q sity of New York, 1,2O0 from the Unde of Dentists, etc.
 In the third division of the procession was a medley composed of numerous in stitutes It comprised Hebrew orphan asylums, German, Italian and French in