The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-10
Italian Residents Of New York Hare
Begun the Celebration.
FLAGS AND BUNTING COVER THE CITY.
There viii Be Three Monster Parades and All Will
Be Given Chance TO Get a Coed
View of Them.
Special to THE MORNING CALI

New YORK, Oct. Especial Columbian
celebration services were held in most Of
the churches to-day. The choirs in some
of The churches were assisted by erehestras,
and elaborate musical programmes were
given. All the discourses were prepared
with special consideration for tie children.
so that the youngest attendant could ap-
pTeeiate the Importance of the services.
In all the churches there was some token
paid. even If it was only a few sentences
before the sermon regarding the great his
tOTcal event.
In all eases the loved colors Of the ma
tiona flag furnished the groundwork for
the decorations. The staT-Spangled banner
was the chief ornament.
Wherever the cross Of the Roman Cath
Ole Church arose there was scene of fes-
tiyal and rejoicing 1t was their cross he
planted on the island where be first landed,
and the great church united in paying
tribute to him. Everywhere. from the
sta tely marble Cathedral on Fifth avenue
to the bumpest of mission chapels,
wherever the cross of Rome was raised,
there was sung "Te Deum Laudamus,"
and there was upreared the example of the
great navigator who wrought so much aud
gave all the glory 10 God. The grandest
efforts of music and illumination and the
chanting Of prayers and hymns of praise
were evoked in honor of the great dis
eOverer.
Somewhat Of q new sound was spent to-
day through the vaulted arches OF the great
white marble cathedral-the sound of the
national airs, played by master touch on
the great organ, accompanied by an or
ciestra aud sung by 5000 voices with all the
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Of solemn high mass and al eloquent and
feTVid sermon. The cathedral WAS beauti-
fully decorated with the national eOlors and
there was the American shield in the
sanctuary. Archbishop Corrigan presided
at TO solemn high mass.
At old Trinity Rev. DR.. Steele preached
sermon, In the eoHrse oi which he said
Among the thousands OF thoughts sug-
gested by this day the first is one of
humiliation. As a people we are DISPOSED
10 bTsg ard boast and we have an inOrdi-
nate confidence IN our own powers. But if
We come to view things with an unpTeju-
diced eye and TO pass judgment free from
seif-InteTest, We must say that as rule our
own things are not the beat The pToduc-
tjons of our skilled labor are not always
equal 10 those OF the labor of
the older countries. The only things
We nave any reason to boast of are those
things the production of which we have
nothing to 90 with. namely, our natural re-
sources ana The gifts OF Cod 1 feel am
not going out Of my way in sounding a note
Of warning 20 the press. [ would warn the
press Of its decadeHce in its hold upon the
people, and the weakening Of its power to
hold and guide pubic opinion. | do not
say that this power has been lost, but most
assUrediy there is great danger of IT, How
can II be otherwise. when the press DandeTs
70 vicious tastes, and is recognized as par
usan IN matte, - tiers ?"
At ST. Al episcopal Church this
e,rlz i.--. S-A rlcie water argued that
- was nonsense to dwell on the fact that
Columbus was Roman Catholic. "COlum-
bus lived at tme" said he, when he was
Obliged To be member Of the Roman
Catholic church. and that was all there was
10 it."
at the Brick Presbyterian Church Rev.
Henry Vandyke denounced Columbus as
immoral, dishonest and. in effect, an
imposter. TT was God" said Mr.
Yandyke. who discovered Columbus
and used him as an agent in the
discovery of America. 1t was the King OF
kings, who back Of that ayarice and cruelty
Colum bus displayed, caused the voyage TO
be made. It was certain that Columbus
had obtained money under false pTetenseS
on at least one occasion, but that he was
otherwise immoral and guilty of great
cruelty and was responsible for the West
Indian slave trade that marks the dark spot
ip the history Of the Old World"
At Fifty-ninih street and Eighth avenue
today the Italian workmen spent several
hours in raising the shaft of the Columbus
monument. The shaft is twenty-seven feet
IN height AID four feet from the ground
ana Will be surmounted by heroic statue
of Columbus.