Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-11-03
Peace Jubilee Ends with a
Grand Civic Parade.
THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY
Independence Hall Re-dedicated
After Being Repaired.
GORGEOUS STREET DISPLAY.
Progress of the Nation in Science. Com
merce, Art and War is Illustrated by IA
Series of FIoats-Twenty Thousand Men
In the Procession.

merce, Art and War is Illustrated by "A
Series of FIosts-Twenty Thousand Men
| In the Procession.
Philadelphia, Oct. 29.-The great
! peace jubilee was brought to a glor-
| ious conclusion Friday. Beginning
with last Sundays church services
and including the naval and military
| demonstrations of Tuesday and
Thursday and yesterdays monster
| civic celebration, the demonstration
has been an unparalleled success
| throughout. The magnificent illumi-
nation of the city continued last night
and the streets we're jammed with
people.
The exercises of the day opened
with the re-dedication of old Inde-
pendence hall, the historic building
from which the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was read to the people of
the new republic on July 4, f776. The
buildings which had from time to
time since that date been added for
use as Offices of the municipal au-
thorities have all been recently re-
moved and the famous hall is now in
its original form as 122 wears ago.
when occupied by the United States
congress and the national government
officials.
The rehabilitation exercises were
presided over by Gov. Hastings and
were opened by prayer by Rev.
BrownSon. The anthem MY Country,
'Iis of Thee was sung by 5000 pupils
of the public schools, accompanied
with music by the First regiment
band. The memorial poem com
posed by Mrs. Florence Coates,
dedicated to the peace jubilee, was
read by Daniel w. Hutchins, principal
Of one of the public schools. The
anthem "Coumbia" was sung by the
scholars and then followed the ora
ton by Mayor Warwick.
Upon the conclusion of the cere-
monies the audience hurried to posi-
tons from which to see the monster
civic procession. \ stand covering
the sidewalk the entire length of the
front of the historic hall lad been
erected for occupancy during the pa
rade by the 5000 school children who
had participated in the dedication ex-
erciSes.
The mammoth trades display start
ed at II o'clock. headed by Mai. Gen.
Snowden and staff.
More than 10000 men were in the
line, the beauty of which was en-
HANGED by many interesting floats.
Especially handsome were those Illus
rative of art. The float of the
School of Design for Women dealt
with the renaissance, the subject be-
ing peace Receiving the Homage of
Industries" The other art schools
were represented by floats typifving
classic art and the mechanical trades
Among the subjects were painting,
sculpture, architecture and poetry,
and many of the students, costumed
according to the respective periods,
were in line. There were also a
weaver at his loom; a dyer at his
vat; Printer at his press; a potter
molding his clay, with many other
symbolic figures.
The commercial museums had floats
descriptive of Hawaii the Philippines,
Porto Rico and Cuba. Four natives
in costume were on the Hawaiian
float, which also carried bags of
sugar, coffee and other products. The
same idea was pursued on the other
floats representing our newly acquir-
floats was that representing the inter
ior of the old Ross house, with Betsy
Ross exhibiting to Washington and
Hancock the first American flag ever
made 1t was called "The Birth of
the American Flag"
One of the most Ella bOrate displays
was that styled Our Reunited Coun-
try" It showed "A group of Ameri-
can soldiers, among whom stood with
clasped hands a Confederate and an
Union soldier. after Many Years"
was the title of a float representing
John Bull and Uncle Sam claSping
hands across the bows of their respec-
tive cruisers. "A Trifle EmbarraSsed''
showed Uncle Sam and Miss Column
bia standing at the threshold of the
Omitted States Founding Asylum"
at their feet a group of dusky chill
dren representing Hawaii. the Philip
pines. Cuba and Porto Rico clamoring
for recognition.
Other floats showed Hobson's raft,
Dewey at Manila the Red Cross min
istering to wounded soldiers. the
heroes of the war, and Liberty-the
latter represented by Columbia and
the 13 original states.
The evolution of the army and navy
was illustrated by bodies of march
ing men dressed in the costumes of
the different periods of American his
tory from 1916 to 1861.
Three hundred employees of the GUS
tom house and 100 of the post office
marched near the head of the line
and after them came the secret and
beneficial orders.