New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-10
TIE BRIGHT NIGHT PAGEANT.
ELECTRICITY WILL MAKE DAY OUT OF
DARKNESS.
WAITS REPRESENTING VARIOUS HISTORICAL.
AND ALLEGORICAL sUBJECTs-LANTLHN'
pr,p1xc prCyCIFRS BY THE THOCsAND.

I rro,rs REPRESENTING vARIOUs HISTORICAL.
AID ALLEGoRICAL sUBJECTs-LANTERN-
pr,R1yG BIcYCLERs BY THE THoU5AND.
The triumph of electricity over the powers oil
| r;ch, will bc the most brilliant feature of the
civic parade, which will take place on "edheS-
dor evenino after the marching columns of
l. oldiers have disbandcd. The floats will shed
lcht with the cnulgcnce Of surs. All the re-
sources Of electricity as far th" existing state
If science has disclosed them. will be brought
| n hear in making glorious day ~ the procession
n,s.os through the streets The line of march
| will be that Of the school and millt ~ faradcs-
| fran thc Battery MP Broadway 70 Fourth-St., u
WASHINGTON Square to Finh-avc.. 10 Fourteenth
| ST. 10 Fourh-avc., 10 Seventeehth-S'' 10 fIth-
| ave. to Fifty-nnth-st
OF course there will bc music. Cappas band
will be in fancy uniforms, mounted police viii
| clear the way and then will come the bicycle
| clubs carrying lanterns There will be 5000 men
! on wheels. who will form column for mil"
and a half, twelve abreast Isaac Potter will I've
| the grand marshal. and his aides will he repre-
sentatives Of various clubs
| Twelve herads on gayly caparisoncl whi'c
horses will prccclc Colonel John j. Garnett, thr
| grand marshal and his staff, who Will he III the
uniform of the Austrian Guards metal helmets and
white UlDpS, WHO IuUHN, flllIhrSfo' b"'' 'P'"
lets white trousers, top boots, spurs and gaunt-
| lets Then will come the floats beautiful IN de-
sign and rcsplendcnt in the glare of thousands Of
electric lights. Each car will have storage bat
terry. which will feed the lamps. Thus the oppor-
tunity for dazzling display is almost unlimited.
| The float Car OF Fame. typifyng the continents,
will follow the brilliantly attircd marshal and his
staff Next will come aboriginal cave dwcllers and
| tribes of Indians on foot. On the Prehistoric
Float will be rock jewellers and Mexican Indians,
together with gigantic animals Of species which
| is fortunately now extinct. Another iloat that
Of the Totec sun w0rshippers, will show high
priest OF the Incas sacrificing n victim to an image
| OF the sun. Many warriors will be grouped about.
Ferdinand and Isabella and richly dressed lords
| and ladies Of their court will he on succeeding
float. and then will come the Santa Maria, followed
| bv a gallant company Of historic personages, in
| Guiding PiZarro C0rtcz and Amcrgo Yespucci. The
Goddess Of Liberty will typify the settling of the
new land, and then groups of Pilgrim and Colonial
times will be seen General Washington and his
staff and other noted men of Revolutionary days
will he represented. The press will have float In
its honor, and will poetry and romance, music
and science THE Supremacy of American
Women" means lovely girl on globe, and Column
bias car of state Roman galley, with Columbia
at the helm, and all the Presidents as guests Of
! honor.
| Electra will have the most ct,cring float of the
parade. This will be preceded by banner of Flee
| ira borne on horseback, and twenty winged ANA
IONS mounted The car itself will have 5000 lights
about the Genius of Edison controlling an immense
monster of electricity There will also he in
genious mechanical devices
| The floats will he made Of brilliant material.
Each will be from fifteen to twenty-five feet wide
and proportionatcly broad. From six to sixteen
horses will be required to draw each one. The
programme Of the parade Is as follows:
Colonel John j. Garnctt, grand marshal aides, Colonel
T. \. Young, Job VI. Reamcr, {. !. Garrison, Will
! lam II. Burke. Royal A. Ferris. Charles w. Will
Jams. J. Randolph 1htun T.. T. Mead. Nicholas
! ROmanOH COttman. JcmlSOn Bale, Colonel T.. NJ.
| Blum Frank H. Croker, Norman Randolph,
| +. a. Hammond, Gustav Bauman. & W.
| Jones, william :. Kelley, sIgnr1d
| Cohen, Adam Brown
Committee OF Evening Parade Thomas j. Brown.
chairman Thomas f. Cnmmlns, vIce-chsrInan
Charles A. Moore. /. O.. Bourne. John &. Calhoun
Juan NJ. Ccballo,, a. J.: Dtenhoeer, samuel Gompers
John l.. Hamilton. Richard Katzenmnycr, Thomas
Loughran. Abraham Mead Max Nathan. A. NJ. Palmer.
Jacob Rupert, Edmund c. stanton. James slinder,
Webster: ex.Offclo HUGH J. Grant. General