The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-10
THE COLUMBUS FETE.
Today Occurs the Great Edu-
cational Parade at New York.
NAVAL PROCESSION TOMORROW.
wednesday . Legal Holiday-efand
March Of rreops-GorEesus Display
q Night--Beautiful Deeoratieas.

NEW YoaK. Oct kISpecial Eln the
olden days, when tho mariners struck
flint for light and when the far-faf.sed At
lantis was but myth Of the great endless
exranse Of water which stretched cut into
measureless space, before BRUNO had
sacrificed life on the altar Of advanced
opinion, and before Galileo's sacrregious
declaration that the earth moves around
the sun had disturbed the innocence of
credulity. . philosopher dreamed aldream.
Dreams were omens In those times,
omens portending good or i'll, and the
highest and widest fancy Of Nill-less
brain had in it the thought Of God, the
prediction Of omniscence.
This philosopher saw great city in his
dreams ''The laundering heavens had
loaned it their lightning, the gods had
given their powers to man. A new Pro
metheus had arisen, and he had sfsatched
from the heavens the powers of sound and
of light, the powers of winged motson."
In this. the 4O0th anniversary rear of
the discovery Of atlantis" thoaght it
appropriate to recall the prophecy.
When, on October IL, the city ef New
York will be ablazs with myriad globes of
electric light from the Battery to Central
Park; when the touch of the hard that
marks the completion of the Columbus
statue will tell whole globe Of ts.e great
unwilling: when the winged messengers of
traffic of land and sea will herald the
lightning arrivals of thousands upcsn thou
sands who but few hours before had
oceans and continents to cross, tlse wild
prosaic fact. and the tortures through
NH oht 1cyv 4En at
have been in uain.
nature OF five days festival. beginning
October and ending October ID, AID each
of these days will be marked by events of
deep interest. growing to climaxof fes-
tivity on October IL.
Monday, October 10, $1,000 children and
students will be in line IN the greas educa-
tional parade. The public schools, the
normal, the colleges, the military academ-
les, the industrial and orphan hoEaes will
all send delegations.
On Tuesday, October IL, the great naval
parade will take place. In all likelihood
the vessels will move up North river as far
as Yonkers. All the men-ofwar in the
North Atlantic squadron will taks part.
Foreign vessels, the harbor tugs. the
steamers, the yachts, all with bannsrs fly
ing and with flags at every point of want
age. will follow in the wake Of the great
ships.
Tuesday evening 5000 singers belonging
to the German-American societies Of New
York will give Columbian concerE at the
Seventh Regiment armory.
Wednesday. October IL, will be- . legal
holiday. When the SUN rises on that day
it will be saluted by salvos Of srtillery
from the fort on Governors island and
from the old Central Park fort, at One
Hundred and Tenth street, near seventh
avenue. The flags will be unfurisd from
the battery and the city hall. Every
church bell in the city will respond to the
sound Of the cannNn, and the great day
will be ushered in with all tho pesnp due
SO notable an anniversary. This is the
day Of the great military parade, the day
of the unwilling of the Columbus statue
and of the great street illumination. In