Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-12
PUBLIC SCHOOL DAY.
Thousands OF School Children In tn
Parade ut Now York.

PUBLIC SCHOOL DAY.
Thousands OF School Children In the
Parade at Now York.
NEW YORK, Oct. lO.-Public School
day, in the order of festivities of New
York's Columbian celebration, was the
second movement i'll the grand SYM
phony arranged for the occasion.
The prayers aud religious exercises on
Saturday and Sunday-participated in
by all crec:s and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Atty followed br an equally cosmopol-
itan dem y. :';.;;on of the educational
forces which have given the new world
its strongest upward impetus.
Results of more than $50 years of edu-
oational work were represented in the
parade, for the first school founded by
the old Dutch settlers in 1888, in that
part of "New Amsterdam" now known
as West Seventy-seventh street, is still
in existence, and is called the school Of
the Reformed church. Today New York
owns 100 school houses, representing an
estimated value in sites and buildings
of over $4,000, 900, and provides eduoa-
ton in it's grammar schools for more
than 260, 900 pupils, boys and girls.
How They Marched.
Twenty regiments of grammar school
boys, of New York and Brooklyn and
Long Island Jersey City, each regiment
at least 500 strong, marched with swing
ing step and perfect alignment in the
parade, every boy proudly carrying the
flag of his country, prepared to honor
and defend it. And this was only one
division of the parade. They had been
preparing fer weeks past, drilling in the
armories Of the Sixty fifth and Twelfth
regiments and In other buildings placed
at their disposal and in the open squares
so that their discipline should be com.
plete and their marching faultless.
Every boy entered into the patriotic
spirit of the occasion. There were
three other divisions of equal patriotic
purpose.
The Second Division. sss.
In the second division came the pu=
pills of the parochial schools. academies
and colleges OF the Catholic church in
New York and adjacent cities, over
5000 strong, each pupil also carrying
the national flag in connection with the
emblems and banners of the churches
and academies to which they belong.
After them followed the uniformed
schools, and last the students Of ma
turer years from the different colleges
of law and medicine, engineering and
the arts, about 1850 strong, 900 from
Columbia college; 1900 from the Uni
versity of New York; 1900 from the
undergraduates college; $50 from the
sollege of dentists, etc.
Third Division.
In the third division of the procession
was medley composed of numerous
institutes" 1t comprised Hebrew
orphan asylums, German, Italian and
French institutions of various charac-
ters, intermixed with trades schools,
business colleges, military institutions
and mechanics societies, with 1000
"young Dalton volunteers" whatever
they may be, and sixty "glittering
spears"
Altogether it is probable there were
fully twenty thousand scholars and
students in the procession. The din of
the different bands was at times confus-
ing and discordant in the extreme-un-
avoidably 80 from the large number of
bands and the small intervals of separa-
ton. Cappa's fine Seventh regiment
band led with fifty pieces, but there
were also military bands of the Eighth,
Ninth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Twenty
second, Thirty-second and Seventy first
New York regiments, all ranging from
thirty-five to fifty pieces, the band Of
the First New Jersey regiment, the
navy yard band, numerous private
bands and innumerable drum corps.
At the Reviewing Stands.
The presidential reviewing stand in
Madison square, opposite the Worth
statue, was pleasantly shaded by pink
striped awnings, supplementing the fall
foliage of the trees in the square. The
stands, stretching to right and left of
the presidential dais, and on the opposite
side OF the avenue the entire length of
the square was thronged with spectators
who were admitted by ticket only, and
who gathered early and waited patiently
for the passing show, Brilliant gonfa,
Ions and bannerets were hung across the
streets from Twenty-third to Twenty,
sixth street, the Hoffman House, the
Madison Square bank building and
other imposing edifices facing the re-
viewing party were fairly covered with
artistic decorations, making the scene a
very brilliant one. At 1925 the first
division came to the waiting crowd. The
carriage Of Governor Roswell P Flower,
New York's chief executive, drawn by q
pair of spanking bays, drove up rapidly
to the reviewing stand and the
by Adjutant General Porter in full
dress uniform and followed by Generals
Earle, Barnum, jerks, Halsy and other
members of the governors staff. The
spectators cheered the governor, and
renewed the cheering when Immediately
afterwards the guest Of the day, Vice
President Morton, representing Presi-
dent Harrison, drove up in an open
barouche and was received at the
entrance to the stand by Governor
Flower, who conducted him to the seat
set apart for the president. Mr.. Morton
was accompanied by Mr.. Hugh r.
Garden, president of the Southern
society, and Mr.. Howard Carroll. He
entered into pleasant chat with Cow
ernor Flower and those around him and
with number of prominent politicians
who came up and shook hands with the
governor and the vice president.