The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-11
Pyrotechnic Display at Night on the Great
Bridge That Ended with an Accident in
Which One or More Lives We're Lost
Grafton by Chauncey NJ. Depew on Co
lumbus, Liberty and Historic Heroes.
Spains Celebration at Huelva Attended by the
Queen Regent and the Young King-Re-
mains of the Discoyerer offered for Sale.
GOTHAM IN HER GLORY.
The Great City Begins the Columbian Cele-
bration IN Magnificent style.


strangers came in, and were banqueted
with great sights and went to bed content
1t was the third day of the Columbus cele-
bration-the first of the secular observ.
ences except the opening of the art loan
exhibltion-an it showed what q great
city can do In great emergency. New
York me. the call upon its resources with
dignity and decency. The city met Its guests
in h hospitable spirit 1t gave them a grand
free exhibition of marching by Is 600 school
and college boys and a free pyrotcchnicai
display from the noblest bridge which
Swings between earth and sky, with a num-
ber of lesser Examinations not to be de-
spised, and it capped the whole with one OF
those perfect days which the inhabitants
of other cities sometimes dream of. but
which only New Workers experience in all
their golden splendor. Verify, it is good
thing that Columbus found San Salvador
aud that Now York decided to pay its best
tribute to the deed.
There comes my boyr" Who did not
hear to-day the fond. maternal cry which
rang so many times to-day along that
league of peopled streets, where twenty
five thousand pairs of little feet were
marching in honor of Columbus. What
parent did not JOIN in this glad cry: my
noy." The boys are coming, be assured. ss
as they never came before. Your cry ID
sign and import of the day. Look up the
broad avenue; see the great, dark mass
waving in the march. like grain before the
ante-harvest breezes. Line on line and
serried mass on mass. Shoulder to shoul-
der. like veterans of the drill-room; heads
erect, eyes front and proud as any soldiers
that ever bore home triumphant colors,
while the brisk melody of marching feet
rings out from the pavements with o
martial sound, enchanting the ears and
beggaring the best music Of the bands.
Make way for the boy. tbere!-It 10 his
day, and'he Is hero of it, Not quite such
an assemblage evers before gathered in
Fifth avenue 10 see living panorama 90
past. 1t was all mothers. and girls, and
boys. Mere men were In the. minority.
The mothers were oil out. sick or WELL and
so were the big brothers ana sisters. There
was enough idle mankind to leaven the
lump And what lump 1T was. Ii was q
ribbon of packed humanity stretching from
street to curb, to the caves of every build.
Ing along the line OF march. The police
men wOrs their clubs In their belts, and
behaved like men who knew that the sharp
eye of discipline was upon them. The
boys acted admirably.
WHERE PATIENCE WAS NEEDED.
There was room for display of patie nee
at the railroad stations and the ferries,
where the vast crowds came and went as
fast as they could be taken care of. Thore
was more need of 1t along the line of march,
where obstinate womanhood exhibited it.
self in so many exasperating forms. But
more than all else was the need found after
dark in handling the enormous and almost
reckless crowds which gathered along the
waters edge to see the fireworks and
which choked the arteries of travel far be.
yond the danger line until late in the
night. There was a large audience in the
Carnegie Music Hall to listen TO Mr.. Pratt's
big musical allegory and Mr.. Depew's ora
tion. Thus was the beginning and ending
of the third day of the festival. and New
York IL just warming to Its work.
The police arrangements for the school
parade to-day were most admirable. Along
the entire routo of the paraoe patroImen
were stationed about twenty live fees
apart, while at street crossings and par
ticular points where the crowds were large
blue coats were posted. Each of the four
inspectors was In command of a Sec
tion of the route. Superintend-
ent Byrnes was the directing
mind of ALL The police had little
difficulty, however. 1t was $50 O'clock be-
fore any of the parading companies of the
public-school division began TO arrive at
their designated forming places In the
cross streets and contiguous TO Fifth ave-
hue. Its right was formed at Fifth avenue
and tlfty-seventh street; and here the
grand marshal. Col. David s. Brown, and
aids. assembled at 10 o'clock. The
different regiments of the division
marched from the school districts along
Lexington and Sixth avenues principally,
and rested on tho streets fixed on as moss
convenient for them to fall into the line
of parade. All the streets from Fifty-sev-
enth to Forty-second were thus occup pied
by the paraders. The Catholic school aud
college division, the college division and
the schools and institution d divisions. formed
In the cross streets south of those desg.
mated for the public school pupils.
The delay IN starting. which is the almost
invariable feature OF all civic parades. was
not absent. and it was nearly IL o'clock be.
fore the order TO march was given. The
route OF parade arranged was: Down Fifth
avenue TO Seventeenth street, to Fourth
avenue. to Fourteenth street, to Fifth ave.
nue. to Washington square, TO University
place, to Fourth street.
While the line of march of the parade was
banked on either side by crowded masses
from the starting point ut Central Park
plaza to the disbaDding point ut Uni.
verSlty place the greatest NUMBERS con-
gregated in Madison square. in Union
square and Washington square. The west
side of Fifth avenue at Madison square was
occupied by an immense stand with :. .20
seats. OF these two hundred seats were
reserved for reporters, and each seat was
furnished with a writing-desk. Opposite
was stand that seated six thousand per-
sons. Among those seated there were Vice.
president Levi Morton. Secretary of the
Treasury Foster. Governor Flower and his
staff. Governor Tillman of South Carolina.
United Marshal Jacobus and many local
officials. This stand was. placed in charge
of ex-Mayor William II. Wickham. Long
before the procession reached Madison
square the head of the advancing column.
preceded by platoon of mounted
police, could be seen advancing down the
avenue. AS it reached the square itself
Vice. president Morton, Governor Flower
and the other officials present arose aud
stood uncovered until the thirty thousand
boys and youths In procession had passed
the stand. The boys preserved excelient
order and passed the stands with the steady
tread of veterans. Their bearing won them
continuous and well merited applause.
On one stand were two thou
sand school girls dressed in red. in
white and in blue. who sang patriotic
songs as the processicn passed by. AZ
Washington square two stands. seating
500 spectators. had been erected. There
the Mayor and school commissioners
left the ranks and took seats on the
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