The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-14
PATRIOTISM
Instilled Into the Hearts of
Youthful New Workers
By the Second Day of the CO.
lumbian Celebration.

IN the bepuDilc SchOOl Day Parade.
Their Sisters Form "A Charming Feature
of the Days Festivities-RevIewed by
Vice President Morton.
New YORK, Oct 11.-Monday was re-
public school day in the order of festiv-
| tiles of New York's Columbian celebra-
ton. 1t was the second movement in
| the grand symphony arranged for the
occasion, alloting a day each for relig-
ious observances, educational display.
naval procession, military parade, and
general rejoicing and banquet.
The prayers and religious exercises of
Saturday and Sunday participated in by
all creeds and denominations were fitly
followed by an equally cosmopolitan
demonstration of educational forces
which have given the new world its
strongest upward impetus.
Results of more than $50 years of edu-
cational work were represented IN pa
rade, for the first school founded by the
old Dutch settlers in 1888, in that part
OF New Amsterdam" now known as
! West Seventy street, is still in
existence ami is called the School of the
Reformed Church.
Twenty regiments of grammar school
boys, of New York and Brooklyn and
Long Island and Jersey City, each regi-
ment at least 500 strong, marched with
swinging step and perfect alignment in
parade today, everybody proudly carry
ing a flag of his country. They had
been preparing for tho occasion for
weeks past, drilling i'll the armories.
There We're three other divisions of
equal patriotic purpose. In the second
division came the pupils of parOchial
| schools, academies and colleges of Cath
olic churches in New York and adjacent
| cities. $4,000 strong. After them fol-
| lowed the uniformed schools, and last
| the students of maturer yctra, :rom tie
| different colleges of law and medicine,
III engineering and the arts, about 1900
| strong.
In the third division was a medley
composed of numerous institutes. 1t
comprised Hebrew orphan asylums,
| German, Italian and French institu-
! tiOns of various characters, interlnixed
with trades schools, business colleges,
military institutes and mechanics So
| cieties.
Altogether it is probable that there
were fully 250,0 scholars and students
| in procession. Lest any of weaker ones
! should fall by the wayside in the long
| line Of march marked out, surgeons and
! ambulances were in attendance, at con-
venient locations.
The girl scholars, who were denied par
| ticipation in the parade, were assigned a
peculiarly appropriate and ornamental
! part III the proceedings. Artistically
| grouped on a stand in the reservoir
square. at the junction of Fifth avenue
| and forty-secOnd street, were thousands
of pretty-faced school girls, each wear
! ing a liberty cap, and cOstumed in red,
! white and blue respectively. the tabluex
bad so been arranged beforehand that
| on approach Of the procession almost III
Simultaneously each one of the smiling,
biight-faced children so disposed them
selves and their costumes as to represent
the effect of American shields with
three American flags, artistically
! punched on each side.
The fiutterinG, quivering motions of
admirably arranged bands of colors. as
1,700 sweet girl voices sang ''The Star
| Spangled Banner" and other patriotic
songs while the boy fellow-students
tralnped past with quickened step al
ringing cheers, must have left a lasting
| impression Of Columbus school day Gel
ebration on the minds of thousands of
the rising generation.
But the feature of the parade which
| perhaps attracted more attention than
any Lt!.or along the line was the march
of 300 little Indian boys from the Car
Isle pa Indian industrial school, ac-
! colnpanied by their own band of music
and partly dressed in Indian costume
and partly III uniform of their school.
| They admirably illustrated the fact that
education and milder and more human
izing methods than those originally pur-
sued, are surely and even rapidly eleyat-
ing in the scale of civilization the race
whom Columbus found i'll sole possession
of the country he claimed by right of
Christian discovery.
There was one other reflection which
impressed itself upon all those among the
spectators of the parade who had wit
messed the recent memorable encamp-
ment of the Grand Army i'll Washington,
which were, that while in that wonder
fully vigorous and well-preserycd body
of men the United States had a veteran
reserve force of which the greatest Eu
ropean military power might be proud
in these scholars and students, there was
yOung growth of military patriotism
which promised well for the future peace
and security of country.
a platoon of 'fnest," of course, headed
the procession. which was timed to start
at 10 a. IN. and was fairly punctual
Following in carriages came the com
mittee of arrangements, the school com.
missiOners, the president of the board Oh
education, Mr.. Bunt, the city super.
intendent Of public schools; Mr.. John
Jasper, Mayor Grant and other dis
tinguished guest1. Tho mayor, the
grand marshal, Captain David $. Brown
} and Captain Charles Guggenheimel
: dropped out of procession at Washing
ton square and reviewed it from that
point. The Seventh regiment band
headed the first public school division
of twenty regiments of grammar school
boys, under command of Mr.. JOIN
Robinson, principal of Grammer Schoo
"a. as marshal He marched, sur
rounded by n guard of honor of twenty
= four senior boys forming a hollow
! square with open front.
Decorations.
AS the decorations of the city ap
proach completion they grow rapidly II
: effect. Expense has nowhere beer
spared, but Uetter even than lavish ex
, | penditure is the general manifestation
of good taste that prevails. In this tn
admirable recommendation of the corn
, mittee on taste as to harmony of co.oI
and unity of design have borne gCo'
frgIit. There is an almost entire al
senCe of cheap advertising devices. ia
q triotism, not business, is put forward q
the inspiring motive. All the decoTa
, rations of clubs and churches, Of pala
tial business buildings. puDlc edluce
d and private dwellings, are IL unison an
! ! display completeness on the genera
] effect which opens up vista OF IN
5 mense possibilities for New York cat
a in the decorative way in the future.
The magnificent proportions of tn
stately new buildings erected In lat
years along the line of all principi
s streets, the variety of the materials en-
ployed give diversity of softened tint
and tones as a background for the brl
liant views displayed such as can
edualled nowhere else on this continer
and in very few cities in Europe. Ad
to these advantages the iDestimable gift
: of a clear atmosphere, charged with th
4 ozone of the Atlantic, and free from I'll
t pollution of coal, SCOT or dust, and IL
3 combination is ono that can not be sul
3 passed. The hundreds OF thousands {
strangers thronging the city realize fc
the first time how exceedingly bcautlT;
/ a city newest New York" Is.
At 1925 the first division came to tn
waiting gIound. The carriage of Gov
ernor Roswell p. Flower, New York
chief executive, drawn by pair c
: spanking bays, drove up rapidly 10 tn
] presidential reviewing stand on Madiso
2 square and the governor aligned, az
: comuanied by Adlutant General Porte