Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-10-13
OCT. IL WILL BE A DAY CT WON
DERs IN NEW YORK CITY.

II @ cago center OF
the 21st In New
York city, however, the 18th will be the
great day in order that President Har
rison may attend ON both, as well as fol
many other reasons. And New Yorl
will make the day and night brilliant
indeed, besides enlivening several pre-
ceding days.
There will be some 40, 900 soldiers il
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 a
combination and symboticaI array OF
| floats, tableaux vivants and banners
which will reproduce old Spain in all the
glory of Ferdinand and Isabellas 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
liberator, 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, s, 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
a memorial nature, the ministers max
ing the great 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. -, 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
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 New York boy and a
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, 600 can be |
On the 18th the visitor wilt
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.
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