St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-11
First Of the Series of Impos-
ing Pageants in Column
bus Honor.
Thirty Thousand School Boys
March Through Deco
rated Streets.
They Came From Colleges
and Private and Public
Schools.
The Boys Pass the Reviewing
Stands With the Tread Of
Veterans.

NEW YORK. Oct lO.-With the bright
flash. puff of thick, white smoke and
heavy boom of cannon, old Fort Colum-
bus, on Governors island, at 6 O'Clock
this morning, opened the secular part
of the celebration of the four hundredth
anniversary OF its namesake's greatest
deed. At sos this morning the cannon
Shot was merely the sunrise gun, but it
was singularly appropriate that it
should come on this day of all others
from the fort named after CHRISTOPHER
Columbus.
New York was in gala dress today.
lis streets. its public buildings, its
stores and warehouses, its homes were
gay with flags and bunting. Even the
trucks and wagons passing through its
streets, the cars that rolled up and
along the elevated roads, the very horses
were decked with flags in honor of
Christopher Columbus.
Today began the series of imposing
pageantS with which the city for the
coming three days will honor the menu
DRY of Columbus. To the children, to
The Youth of Gotham,
was given the honor of beginning the
civic and military displays. From pub
lie school and from private school, from
parocnial schools, from institutions and
from asylumS, the children were
marshalled thousands strong and their
Older brothers from the colleges
marched with them.
Today opened with unclouded sky,
with smiling sun. with clear, crisp, in
vigorating air. With the first peep of
day the work of completing prepare
tions for the parade began. The Co
lumbia arch at Fitty-ninth street and
Fifth avenue, with its statutes. its flags.
its shields and baunerets, was complete
in all its bravery. From Thirty third
street to the Worth monument. on
either side of Fifth avenue, stood poles
painted and surmounted with golden
balls, from which hung flags. stream erS
and gOntallons. At Twenty
street and Fifth avenue was another
archwav, a hundred feet in length. COW
cred with flags and wreathed with ever
green, SmilaX and palms.
Daylight had hardly dawned when an
army of carpenters appeared along the
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. At many houses
board coverings were fastened over the
brown stone ratings of the areas and
stoopS to save them from injury. Along
the avenue, within the street line, were
other carpenters at work erecting
stands Oh which were placed chairs or
plain board seats from which spectators
could view the parade.
Meanwhile the avenue became more
and more denSelv crowded. From every
side street, east and west, there poured
in constantly increasing stream of
men, women and children. For time
they strolled up and down the avenue,
admlring the decorations; but as the
hour fixed for starting the procession
drew nearer. and the thoroughfare be-
came more thickly thronged, they be
gan to take ND places of stand or stoop
or sidewalks from which to look OH upon
the parade.
1t was $3.50 o'clock before any of the
| paradlng companies of the public school
division began to arrive at their deslg-
mated forming places on the cross streets
and contiguous to Fifth avenue.
HE RtSnt Oh the Line
was formed at Fifth avenue and Fifty
| seventh street and here the grand mar
shall, Col. David S. Brown and his aides
assembled at 10 O'Clock. The different
regiments of the division marched
from the school districts along licking
| ton and Sixth avenues, principally, and
rested Oh the streets fixed upon as most
| convenient for these to fall into the
line of parade. Ali the streets from
| Fifty-seventh down to Forty-secOnd
were thus occupied by the paraderS
The Catholic school and college divis-
ion and the uniformed schools, and in.
stitution divisions formed on the
cross streets south of those designated
for the public school pupils.
The delay in starting, which is the al
most invariable feature of all civic pa
radeS, was not absent and it was nearly
II O'Clock before the order to march wa.
given. The route of parade arranged
was down Fifth avenue to Washington
Square. to University place, to Fourth
street. where the parade diSbanded
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 dsbandins
point. at University place, the great
est number congregated in Madison
square, Union Square and Washington
square. Among those seated on a
stand at Madison square were Vice
President Levi p. Morton. Secretary Of
the Treasury Foster. Gov. r. p. Flower
and his staff; Gov. Tillman, of South
Carolina; United States Marshal Jaco
bus and many local officials.
Long before the procession reached
Madison square the head of the advanc
ing columns, preceded by a platoon OF
mounted police, could be seen advanc
lLg down the avenue. AS it reached
the square itself, Vice President Nor
ton, GOV. Flower and the other officials
present arose and stood uncovered unit
the $4,000 boy sand youths in the pro-
cession had passed the stand. The boys
preserved excellent order, and passed
the stand with the steady tread of vet
Grams. Their hearing won them con-
tlnuous and well merited applause.
On one stand were 1000 school girls,
dressed i'll red, white and blue, who
sang patriotic songs as the procession
passed by. AT Washington square.
two stands, seating $500 spectators, had