New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-01
IHE CELEBRATION HERE.
FORTY THOUSAND MEN EXPECTED To
BE IN THE PARADE.
s. j. PARKS TO BE GRAND MARsHaI-MEFr-
ING AT EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE
GAMES AND SPORTS


Many are the sporting and social incidents
planned for to-day, the biggest holiday of the
year TO no small number of New-Yorkers and
the day that for many others marks the end OF
most convenient three day vacation at the end
Oh the summer Labor Day, which will be ceIe-
orated to-day with more than ordinary atten-
ton, is OF comparatively recent origin.
According to Terence V Powderly the well
known labor leader IL really dates from, 1882
On September of that year the General Assem-
plF or the Knights of Labor. then Iii session in
th1S city, at the request of the New-York Gem
trail Labor Union. reviewed grand parade Of Ia
Dor organizations from grand stand in Union
Square Whether that was the first time the
term had been used" says Mr.. Powderly. as not
known, but the event afterward referred to
as the Labor Day parade. In 1888 the organiza-
lions of New-York paraded on the first Monday
of September. When, in 1884. the Central La
Dor Union Of New-York had the question of pa
radIng Up for discussion. George K Lloyd a
knight of Labor. offered a resolution declaring
the first Monday in September to be Labor Day
The resolution adopted, and steps were at
once taken to have the legislature enact a law
making the first Monday in September a legal
holiday. to be known Labor Day The agita-
ton. begun in New-York. extended to other
States, with most gratifying results New-York
the first State in the Union to introduce the
measure before the legislature, and Oregon the
first State to pass the bill into law
In the parade. which will be one of the chief
incidents to-day. there will probably be forty
thousand labor union men, 1t will be under the
auspices Of the Board of Building Trades, and
thirty unions will be in line. The start will be
made at 10 a. m, at Fiftyseventh-st- and Fifth
ave. The procession will go down Fifth-ave- to
Twentyffth-st.. and thence down Broadway to
the City Hall. Samuel J. Parks, of the House
smiths and Bridgemen's Union. will be the
grand marshal A reviewing stand, seating
three hundred people. has been erected near
the Worth monument in Madison Square
An important part of the Labor Day observ-
ance on the East Side. this city. to-day Will be
a meeting at D. at the Educational Alli-
ance at East Broadway and Jefferson-st. Mar
Gus NJ. Marks will preside. and Henry White
and the Rev. H Masliansky will be the speak
ers Other incidents elsewhere in the city VIII
be Big Bilr' Devery's barbecue to the people
of THE Mint" to be given along the North
River front between Twenty-eighth and Tween
ty-ninth sts.; an evening mass meeting at the
Metropolitan Temple. at Seventh-ave. and Four
feminist at which the eight hour day and in
dividuaI saving and collective buying will be
among the subjects discussed by Alexander Law,
Cantafu W Z. P French, U. 5. A, retired, and
other speakers. the annual outing ana games OF
tba p diver Association. at Wetzels Pavilion.
College Point. Long Island, and the annual ath-
Ietic carnival among the patients and employees
or the Asylum for the Insane on WARDS Island
In the realm of athletics there will be nuner-
ous attractions At Sheepshead Bay at 80
o. M the Coney Island Jockey Clubs race meet
ING will take place. There will be golf contests
~ vsrio,Is sorts the Westminster. Montclafr.
Oakland Richmond County. Ardsey. Innis Ar
den F,neleyvoOd. Harbor HILL Flushing. Lake
Mahopac. Rockaway. Colonia Country Club and
Deal Beach and other links. The Seawanhaka
Corinthian Yacht Club Will hold club races,
Sscbano's Head Yacht Club it's annual regatta
and the Norwalk Yacht Club its annual regatta
also The fall regatta will occur at Larchmont,
go ar indian Harbor there will be handicap
Taces for saiIabouts and oyster boats. The st.
louis nine will play ball here with the New
VI +aar, The Greater New-Yor Irish Ath-
iatic CIub will hold its games at Celtic Park.
and the Caledonian games will take place at
Maspeth There will De cricket games at Pros,
Wsnbattan. Brooklyn and Kings County and
Kings County and Manhattan There will be
btn-roIs races at Vailsburg and on the Coney
Island cycle path On the Harlem River the
Middle States Regatta will be held