Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-08
brief WlRINGS::-
A COLUMBUS CRUSH.
Of the Day Attending the
Great Celebration I'm New
York City.

New YORK, Oct. 8.-The great Column
bian celebration is now in progress. At
ali the Hebrew Synagogues this morning
the praise services began and they will not
end until the sun sets on the Christian
Sabbath day. The temples on the Fifth
avenue will join with the dingy Synago-
CUES in the tops of the black tenements
in Essex street; the rich Hebrew and the
paupcr will meet with the same spirit and
intent The rabbis will deliver addresses
suitable to the occasion. Tonight the
loan exhibition of Columbian pictures
will open in the Academy of Design.
Perry Belmont is the chairman of the
committee in charge. He makes it known
that there are 600 pictures on the walls.
These have been loaned by private collec-
tors, the Society of Arts, the Society of
Water Colors, the American Academy of
Design, by the Century company, the APP
pletons, and many art societies of the city.
There are all the work of American artists.
They all illustrate the life or labors of
Columbus incidents, in his voyages or in
his more difficult experiences ashore. To
the artist the collection will be of unex-
ceptional interest. The committee, how
ever, considered the public in the first
place.
The exhibition will have a strong pop
ular interest. In fact, if expectations are
realized, the pictures will form biogra-
ply of Columbus equal in clearness to
the well known work of the ingenious
Washington Irving. The opening exer-
cises will be simple. Mr.. Belmont will
m la littla ol1racs ip bo,
present the exhibition to the city. Mayor
Grant, on behalf of the city, will make
speech of acceptance and formally de-
clare the exhibition open. An orchestra
will strike up music and then everyone
following the admirable advice Hamlet
gave his mother-will look first on this
picture and then on that 1t should be
said that the cards of invitation which
Commissioner Charles G. F. Wahle, jr., has
sent out admit the bearer to this, as TO
all the other ceremonies of the celebra-
ton. The general admission fee will
be 25 cents. The exhibition will be open |
for one week. The last day, October 16,
will be free day. The services in the |
churches tomorrow will be especially
impressive. DR.. Talmage will speak at
'hS iupSAh hoSiO oh uliC 5uDJ0Cb uS
and America" and arrangements have
already been made to provide for an
overtlowing meeting in the smaller halls |
Of the great building. There will be as
great rush to Beechers old church.
where Dr. Lyman Abbott will conduct the
Columbian services. At the great cathe-
lral on Fifth avenue, Archbishop Corri-
gan willhave personal charge of the serv-
ces. The crowd there will probably be
IS large as on Easter day when 10000 are
accommodated. DR.. Paxton will tell |
his rich congregation on Forty-second
street all about the Genoan sailor and |
DR.. John Hall will speak on ''the work of
Columbus" both afternoon and evening.
No church in New York or Brooklyn is
its fitting Columbian services.
The great crush at the hotels continues.
The arrivals at the depot both in Jersey
City and at the Grand Central number
thousands hourly and every effort is be-
ng made to give them the best of accom-
nodations.
At Carnegie Music hall tonight there
will be final dress rehearsal of the Pratt
'antata At the Fifty-ninth street
plaza where the monument of Columbus
S to be unveiled next week, the work of
loisting the great marble presentment
nto place, issto-day in progress. The
contractors announce that it will GER
ainly be ready for the unveiling on Oct.
2. The seats now arranged about the
monument reach far into Eighth avenue
md will probably accommodate 10000
people.