The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-10-11
NEW YORK'S COLUMBIAN.
AssE GREATEST CEaEfskArIGN
OFEHEN CENTURY.
The Long and Interesting Parade
fneniy-tive thousand scholars or
More in the Procession.

fneniy-hve thousand Scholars or
More in the PrOcession.
by Telegraph to tine State Chronicle.
NEW YORK, Oct. l0.-This was public
school day in TIE order Of New York's
Columbian celebration. Results of more
than $50 years of educational work were
represented in the parade, Twenty re
glments of Grammar school boys, Of New
York and Brooklyn and Long Island and
Jersey City, each regiment at least 500
strong, marched with swinging step and
perfecJ alinement in the parade to day,
every boy proudly carrying a flag of his
country. This was only one division.
There were three other divisions Of
equal patriotic pupils In the second
division came the pu pills of the Parochial
schools, academies and colleges Of the
catholic church in New York
anu adjacent cities, over 5000 strong,
each pupil also carrying the national flag
in connection with the emblems and ban
ners Of the churches and academies to
which they belong After them fol
! lowed the uniformed schools, last the
the students Of maturer ages, from the
different colleges of law, medicine etc. In
| engineering and the arts abou 4500strong
| In the third division Of the procession
was medley CON posed Of numerous in
stltutions 1t mprised Hebrew orphan
asylums; German, Italian and French in
stltutions of various characters. inter
mixed with graded schools, business col
leups mil ipGt q "A
societies Altogether it is probable that
th,re were fully 2j, 600 scholars and stu
dents in the procession. The din of the
difTere mt bands was at times confusing and
discordantin 10 the extreme unavoidaoly so
from The small intervals of separation.
The girl scholars, who were denied
participation ia the parade were assigned
particularly appropriate and ornamen-
tai part In the proceedings. Artisticaliy
grouped on stand in the reservoir square
at the junction of Fifth avenue and
Forty second street, were nearly LOO
pretty faced school girls, each wearing
a liberty cap, and costumed in red,
white and blue, and on the approach of
the procession, the 1,700 sweet girl
voices sang The Star Spangled Banner
aud other patriotic songs as the process
Sion passed. On the east side of Union
Square, light effective tableaux was
presented by 1900 school girls Of the
C,thoiic parochial schools, and neigh
boring stand 800 tiny little WAITS
belonging to the children's aid society,
waved their miniature American flags as
the procession passed by, But the fea
ture Of the parade whch perhaps at
tracted more attentton than any Other
along the line, was the IN Arch Of three
hundred Indian boys from the Carlislep>
Indian industrial school, accompa panied by
| their own band of music and partl,
| dressed IN Indian costume and partly il
uniform OF their school Immense crowds
| filled the different stands that had beer
erected, and waited patientiy for the ap
proach of the parade. AT 1925 the frs
| division came to the waiting crowd Th,
| carriage Of Governor Roswell p Flower
| draw n b pair Of spanking bays, droH,
| up api1 u the reviewing stand. an
| the Gov rnor allghted, accompanied b,
Ad ju ant General Porter in full dress uni
form and followed br other members o
the Governors staff The spectator
chceted the Governor and renewed thei
cheering when, Immediately afterwards
The gIest OF She day, vice President MOI
ton. representing President Harrison
drove up and was received at the er
trance of the stand by Gov. Flower, VII
conducted him to the seat set apart f.
the b bse at President.