Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-11
Opens in New York With a Parade
of $4,000 School Children.
AN IMPOSING PAGEANT INDEED,
Vice President Morton and Ex-President
Cleveland Spectators.
MANY STREETS CROWDED FOR HOURS

ming the CIVIC ana military displays. EroI
public school and from private school, fror
parochial schools, from institutions an
from asylums, the children were marshaled
thousands str ong, and their older brother
from the colleges marched with them. TIL
day dawned with unclouded sky, wit
smiling sun, with clear, crisp, invigoratin
air.
With the first peep of day the work o
completing preparations for the parad'
began. On every side throughout the city
alike in the sections filled with brow
stone or marble mansions aud in thos
where thronged tenements are crowded to
cether, was there lavish display of flag
and streamers, but especial attention wa
given by city officials and private citizen
to the decoration OF the streets and house
along the route selected for the parades
Fifth avenue, from the plaza at the entranc,
at Central Park to the centennial arch a
Washington Square, was blaze of color
Church and club, hotel and hospital, bust
ness house and private mansion WED will
each other in display of flags, in festoons o
bunting and in wealth of bright-hueC
;hIelds and streamerS
The Decorations of the City.
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army of carpenters appeared along Fifth
avenue and busily went to work as though
preparing the houses there for siege. On
every block fences were appraised before the
stoops and areas to keep back the invasion
OF the expected crowds. Along the avenue,
within the street line, were other carpenters
at work erecting stands on which were placed
chairs or plain board seats, from which
spectators could view the parade. At many
OF these places placards announced that
seats would be let At the churches seats
were provided for the same purpose.
Before 10 o'clock there began to arrive
trucks at the corners of the streets crossing
the avenue, and these were fitted up with
board seats or chairs and draped with bunt-
ing ready to receive spectators who were
willing to pay for the occupancy of the
coigns of vantage they afforded. And to
the public stands along the route there
early fiocked eager hundreds determined to
take time by the forelock and secure seats
Others still took up places on the few
stoops from which the public were not
barred out.
Meanwhile the avenue became more and
more densely crowded. From every side
street, east and west, there poured in a con-
stantly swelling mass of men, women and
children. For a time they strolled up and
down the avenue, admiring the decorations,
but as the hour for the starting of the pro-
cession drew nearer and the avenue be-
came more thickly thronged, they began to
take up places on stands or stoops or side
walks, from which to look upon the parade.
Little for the Police to Do.
The police arrangements were most admir-
able. Along the entire route of the parade
patrolmen were stationed about % feet
apart, while at street crossings and at par
tlcular points where the crowds were larger
bluecoats were posted. The police had
little difficulty, however
1t was 9:30 o'clock before one of the pa
rading companies of the public school di-
vision began to arrive at their designated
forming places, and in the cross streets
contiguous to Fifth avenue. The right of
line was formed at Fifth avenue and Fifty
seventh street, and here the Grand Marshal,
Colonel David S Brown, and his aides as
sembled at 10 o'clock. The different regi-
ments of the division marched from their
school districts, along Lexington and Sixth
avenues Principally, and rested on the
streets hxed upon as the most convenient
for them to fall into the line OF the parade.
All the streets from Fifty seventh down to
Forty-second were thus occupied by the
paraders-
At IL o'clock Colonel David s. Brown
grand marshal of the school and college pa,
rade, gave the order to march, and nearly 3d.
600 pairs of legs were soon executing the
command The immense parade started at
Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue and
marched to Seventeenth street, then across
to Fourth avenue, and through Fourteenth
street to Fifth avenue. As the long line of
march turned into busy Fourteenth street
lond cheers went up from the Union Square
free stand and from the dense crowd on the
ground and in the buildings. Alongside
the marchers, and at some distance apart.
were the doctors who had volunteered their
services. After passing under the WASH
ington arch to University Place, the pro-
cession went on to Fourth street, where it
disbanded.
John Winfield Scott was Grand Marshal
Browns chief of staff and Adjutant Gen
ernaL Major George NJ Barry was Assis-
tant Adjutant General, and George Law
renee Myers Chief Aide
Where the Greatest Crowds Gathered.
While the line of march of the parade
was banked on either side by crowded
masses from the starting point at Central
Park plaza to the disbanding point at the
University place, the greatest numbers con-
gregated on Madison square and Washing
ton square. The west side of Fifth avenue
at Madison square, was occupied by an i'm
mense stand with g. 200 seats. OF these, 200
seats reserved for reporters, were furnished
with writing desk. Opposite was a stand
that seated 1000 persons. Among those
seated there we're Vice President Levi P.
Morton, Secretary of the Treasury Foster,
Governor r. 2. Flower aud his staff, Gov
ernor Tillman. of South Carolina United
States Marshal Fairchild, and other officials
This stand was placed in charge of e1- Mayor
William H. Wickham
Long before the procession reached Mad
ison square the head of the advancing col
umn, preceded by platoon of mounted
police, could be seen advancing. AS il
reached the square itself, Vice President
Morton, Governor Flower and the other
officials arose and stood uncovered until the
80, 600 boys and youths in the procession
had passed the stand.
The boys preserved excellent order, and
passed the stands with the steady tread of
veterans. Their bearing. won them con-
tinuous and well-merited applause. On
one stand were 1000 schoolgirls dressed in
red, white and blue, who sang patriotic
songs
Others Who Reviewed the Parade,
AT Washington square two stands, seat
ing 5000 spectators, had been erected,
There the Mayor and School Commissioners
left the ranks and took seats reserved for
them on the stand, from which they re-
viewed the procession as it passed by its
way on the Fourth street and University
Place, where it disbanded
Ex-President and Mrs Cleveland, with a
party of friends, witnessed the parade.
The great parade of schoolboys demon
strated the patriotism of the rising geners-
tion. Twenty-Five Harlem schoolboys, how
ever, gave evidence in a more effective way |
by tearing down and trampling under foot |
an English flag displayed in front of |
A Harlem store The hovs ranoi,c /, 80