The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-24

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great day in order that President Har-
rison may attend on both, as well as for
many other reasons. And New York
will make the day and night brilliant
indeed, besides enlivening several pre-
cedjng days.
There will be some &C, 900 soldiers in
the military display, anywhere from co.
900 to 100000 children in the school pa
rades, four or five miles of people in the
day parade of the 18th, and at night
combination and symbolical array Of
floats, tableaux vivants and banners
which will reproduce old Spain in all the
glory of Ferdinand and Isabella's time,
and represent the progress of America
from Toltec priest to Talmage and from
the cave dweller to the typewriter girl
who summers by the sea and wears sus-
penders.
The celebration really began with the
reception by the italian residents of the
transport Garigliano, which brought the
statue of Columbus. Her officers have
been entertained in fine style by their
countrymen of New York, and honors
were heaped upon Lieutenant Manlio
Garibaldi, youngest son of the great
iberator, till he was quite overcome.
On Sept. IA the cornerstone of the
pedestal was laid at the intersection of
Eighth avenue and Fifty-ninth street,
and eighty-fve Italian societies in their
various regalia escorted the statue from
Washington square to its permanent
site. President Barsotti, of the Italian
societies, made the presentation speech
and Mayor Grant the speech Of accept
ance
A sort Of five days festival will begin
on Oct. 8, with special school and syna-
gogue services, Jewish citizens having
made special arrangements to celebrate
the event.. On Sunday, the 9th, serv-
ices in all the city churches will be of
q memoria' ture, the ministers MAX
ing the gre event the chief topic, and
in the afternoon all the Sunday schools
will hold special services. On Monday
all the day schools, colleges, academies,
industrial schools and orphans homes
will have their parade, and President
Harrison, at the Worth monument, will
review the line. On Tuesday the great
naval parade will take place, and the
next day, Oct. 12, will be the greatest
day of all.
Among the adornments for the occa-
sion the Columbus arch will be chief,
and though the permanent work cannot
be finished in time the temporary struc-
ture to stand at the Fifty-ninth street
entrance to Central park will for the
occasion produce the effect of genuine
materials. The arch that is to remain
as long as the stone endures is not only
marvel of beauty in itself, but is
doubly wonderful as the design of a
man but just twenty-one years of age.
He conceived the design after studying
the arch of Constantine, and out of
thirty designs presented the committee
selected his at once, and he was awarded
the gold medal.
Mr.. Henry B. Herts, who received this
high honor, is a New York boy and q
student in the department of architec-
ture of Columbia college. Last sum-
mer he travelled abroad and painted
some sketches which attracted attention.
While in Rome he was particularly
struck by the bold simplicity of the
arch of Constantine, and the adapt
ability of its general style to variations
in finish, and especially its appropriate
ness for certain points in New York
city where arches are some day to be
placed. His first adaptation of it ex-
cites the admiration of all artists, and
the permanent structure will be erected
as soon as the needed $3.50, 900 can be
secured. On the 18th the visitor will
see perfect model of it.
1t will be 100 feet high and 100 feet
wide. The white marble opening to the
arch will be so feet high and 40 feet
wide. On either side of the supports
will be four polished red marble mono
lithic columns. The panels between the
columns will be richly decorated sur
faces in bas-relief and mosaic descrip-
tive of the life Of Columbus.
NY.
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