The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-09
THE COLUMBUS FETEs.

dobfeWs tho First to Celebrate In New
York-Christian Services Today.
NEW YORK, Oct. S.-The French war
ships Arethusa and Hulsa-d and the
Spanish gunboat Infanta Isabel arrived
today to participate in the Columbian
celebration.
The great celebration is now in progress.
At all the Hebrew synagogues this morn
ing the praise services began and they will
not end until the sun sets on Sunday.
The temples on Fifth avenue will join
with the dingy synagogues in the tops of
the black tenements in Essex street; the
rich Hebrew and the pauper will meet
with the same spirit and intent. The
rabbis will deliver addresses suitable to
the occasion. Tonight the loan exhibition
Of Columbian pictures was opened in the
Academy Of Design. Perry Belmont is
the chairman of the committee in charge.
He makes it known that there are 900 pict-
ures on the walls. These have been
loaned by private collectors. the Society of
Arts, the Society of Water Colors, the
American Academy of Design, by the Gen.
fury company. the Appletons. and many
art societies Of the city. They are all
the work Of American artists. They
all illustrate the life or labors of
Columbus; incidents in his voyages
or in his moro difficult exper-
fences ashore. To the artist the collec-
ton will be of exceptional interest. The
committee, however, considered the public
in the first place. The exhibition will
have a strong popular interest. In fact, if
expectations are realized. the pictures will
form biography of Columbus equal in
clearness to the well known work of the
ingenious Washington Irving. The OPEN
ing exercises were simple. Mr.. Belmont
made little address in which he pre-
scented the exhibition to the city. Mayor
Grant, on behalf of the city, made speech
of acceptance and formally declared the
exhibition open.
The services in tho churches tomorrow
will be especially impressive. DIR. Tai.
mage viii speak at the tabernacle on the
subject, columbus and America" and
arrangements have already been made to
provide for an overflow meeting in the
smaller halls of the great building. There
will be as great rush to Beecher's old
church, where DR.. Lyman Abbott will
conduct the Columbian services. At the
great cathedral, on Fifth avenue, Arch
bishop Corrigan will have personal charge
of the services. The crowd there will
probably be as large as on Easter dav.
when 10 600 are accommodated. DIR. Par.
ton will tell his rich congregation on
Forty-second street all about the Genoau
sailor and DR.. John Hall will speak on
''The Work of Columbus" both afternoon
and evening. No church in New York
or Brooklyn is without its fitting Colum-
bian service.
The great crush at the hotels continues.
The arrivals at the depots both in JERSEY
City and at the Grand Central number
thousands hourly and every effort is being
made to give them all the best of accom-
modations.
At Carnegie music hall tonight there was
hnai dress rehearsal Of the Pratt cantata
AT the Fnty-ninth street plaza, where the
monument OF Columbus Is to be unveiled
next week, the work of hosting the great
marble presentment into place is TODAY in
progress. The contractors announce tina:
1t will certainly be ready for the unwilling
on October l. The seats now arranged
about the monument reach far into Eighth
avenue and will probably accommodate
1900 people.
On Monday there will be a parade Of
4oo school children, public. parochial
and private, and Indian boys from govern
ment schools. In the evening there will
be an illumination of Brooklyn bridge.
On Tuesday there will be a naval parade
with warships from all the great naval
powers. followed by the swift trans-Atlan-
tic liners, merchantmen and steam
launches. In the evening there will be q
stupendous display OF fireworks from
Brooklyn bridge. On Wednesday amir
vessary day viii be inaugurated with