Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-13
GOTHAM'S NATIONAL FEAST Never Ending Series of Celebrations Showing How Cosmopolitan
 the City Is.


 so many national festivals and with such energy and hurrah as does New York. These affairs, great and small come pretty thick from the Fourth oi July until nearly the end of September and there are others in winter and spring, says the Sun.
 Ten days after the wildness of the Fourth of July the French national fete is celebrated. It is hardly so gay as il once was, probably because the custom of summering out of town has grown upon the French colony as upon other parts of the population. But it is gay enough.
 Faithful Swiss, of whom there are many in the city speaking French, Ger man or Italian, and sometimes all three celebrate in proper fashion on August | the birth of the league between the three little German mountain cantons which more than 500 years ago became the germ of the present Swiss confedera- tion!
 There already is announced for August IS an Austro-Hungarian festival in honor of Emperor Francis Joseph, who on that day will be "A Popular as the emperor is in Austria, his birthday does not greatly stir Hungarian patriotism, however. The Hungarians prefer to celebrate on March Is the beginning ot tae revolution of 1848, at first so prom ising for Hungarian independence. On that day even the humblest Hungarian restaurants are crowded with ghirsty patriots and, If on no other day, provide for the entertainment of their guests an orchestra to play national airs.
 WiIhelmina of Holland who will be 24 years old on August 31, has a few faithful Dutchmen in town to celebrate her birthday and drink schnapps in honor of her and the fatherland. The annual dinner of the Holland society is the most notable Dutch celebration of this city, and the Dutch Of long Amer ican descent somewhat overshadow the newcomers; but there are few thou sand Dutchmen In town not yet thor oughly weaned from the mother coun- try, and to these the sovereign's birth day is an occasion of reviving patriot ism.
 The noisest and most widely-celebrat ed national festival after our own comes in the very end of summer, on Septem- Der 20, when the Italians celebrate the entrance Of Victor Emmanuel's troops into Rome in 1870. Year by year the day is more elaborately celebrated, in spite of the fact that 1t is festival un- blessed of the church, and this year Is likely to see the greatest demonstration in honor of united Italy that has yet been given.
 German residents from some of the smaller states of the empire find excuse for local festivals of one kind or an- other in midsummer, but the only an- niversaries that bring together Germans of all the states are midwinter affairs, the celebration that oommemorates the announcement at Versailles on January IS, 1871, of the fact that William the First of Prussia was to be the head of new German empire, and the celebration nine days later of the present emperor's birthday.
 Resident Britons, after having for nearly two generations celebrated the sovereign's birthday in May, now hold an autumn celebration in honor of Ed ward VII. This occasion is celebrated by the Canadians of New York, though their own most interesting anniversary, that of the creation of the Dominion federation. falls properly on July1.
 Spring festivals are those of the Span- lards in honor of the young Alfonso, on May IT, and the next day, which the few loyal Russians here keep in honor of the czar.