Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-10
AFTER 400 YEARS.
The National COlOrs and Thousands
OF School Children-HOnOr-
ing Columbus. -

New YORK, Oct. 10.-The Columbus fes
tivities are now fairly under way
Throughout the morning the military
from neighboring cities and states who
are to take part in the great parade
Wednesday reported for duty at commit
tee headquarters. Gov. Pattison ant
staff are expected this morning. The
Connecticut brigade is massing in splen
did order and even the Massachusetts mer
are beginning to exhibit themselves tG
the thousands upon thousands of sight
seers who crowd the metropolis. To-day
is marked by the presence of all the noted
Washington officials including almost
every cabinet member. These will be on
the reviewing stand when the opening
parade of the festivities take place. The
schools and colleges are already forming
in line and are making a magnificent
showing. From the public schools OF
New York there are 10000 male pupils
over the age of II years; nearly every
public school in the city is represented
There are 5000 from the parochial school
of New York and 1000 from those OF
Brooklyn. The private schools and
academies have turned out thousands OF
lads. 1t is college day as we'll as school
day. Columbia college is in line with
1000 students; there are 700 from the
college of the city of New York and 300
from the university of the city of New
York. In addition to the private schools
scores of Sunday schools are represented
AS there are 5000 school girls out, it is
evident-or should be-even to the mathe-
matician that 10000 is modest estimate.
The grand marshal is Col. Davis S. Brown;
his adjutant and chief staff are John Win
field Scott; marshal of the public school
division, j ohm d. Robinson, principal of
grammar school, No. "a; marshal of col
lege division, Major Franklin Bartlett,
22d regiment, and marshal of the paro-
chial schools, Gen. James r. O'Beirne.
Twenty-six bands representing 1000
musicians lead the divisions. They are
gathering at Madison square; the men
and boys, that is, for the pinafores will be
everywhere. They are falling into line.
Every lad carries an American flag, and,
with the futtering of "Old Glory" 10000
fold and the clamor of the bands, you can
very well imagine it is a stirring spectacle.
When they get to Fiftieth street, they will
right about face, like the Duke of York 8
men, and march each again down Fifth
avenue. At Reservoir square they will be
greeted by 1000 girls from the public
schools. third of these young maids
will be in white, third in blue and a
third in red-"Old Glory" writ large in
feminine frocks. As the parade passes
the girls will sing "The Star Spangled
teenth street, by Seventeenth street to
Union square. And here will be 1,60O
small girls in red, white and blue, from
the parochial schools. They, too, will
sing columbia and america" and other
songs of Uncle Sans approving. The
procession will go around the square by
Fourteenth street into Fifth avenue, by
Fifth avenue to Washington square, where
it will disperse. The procession started
at noon; it will probably be o'clock
when the bugles sound "break ranks"
Tonight at Carnegie music hall the
cantata by Silas G. Pratt will be rendered
to be followed with an address by
Chauncey M. Depew. The cantata is
''The Triumph of Columbus" and is in
six parts: First: Columbia's Dream;
second The Council at Salamanca;
third: Columbus and his son Diego in
want; fourth: Isabella and her court;
fifth: The Voyage; sixth: Triumphant
Return. The singers who will interpret
Mr.. Pratt's allegorical cantata are: Miss
Jennie Dutton, Miss Kathrin Hike and
Mrs. Carrie M. Cowtan, sopranos; Nine.
Rosa Linde, contralto; William H. Rieger,
tenor; Homer Moore, Carl Duff and
Frederick Gillette, baritones. The Choral
Union, 500 voices and boys choir of
thirty voices, from st. Johns church,
will assist. There will be an orchestra of
eighty pieces. The pianists will be Miss
Hattie Leonard and Mrs. J.. B. Bryan.
Victor Harris will preside at the organ.
From to 10 o'clock tonight the great
fireworks display takes place on Brook
lyn bridge. This is to be supplemented
by still grander display tomorrow
night. Brock has to-night's pyrotechnic
exhibition in hand. He will outline the
great structure in a way to astonish
strangers and natives. The piece de
resistance will be niagara" to be pro-
duced on the roadway of the bridge, some
500 feet wide, with great ocean of stream
ers falling into the river. The display
will last twenty minutes and 5000 pounds
of fireworks will be consumed. On the
towers of the bridge will be fifteen pris-
matte displays, with a great flash of fifty
pounds of colored fire at each change.
There will be rockets and whistling rock
cts and effulgent bouquets and meteors,
the whole show to end with grand bang
ing of 100 giant shells from mortars.
The crowd of visitors here is fully half
a million and Broadway is well nigh i'm
passable.