Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-08-27
0oTHAM'S NATIONAL FEAST
Never Ending Series Of Celebrations
Showing How Cosmopolitan
the City Is.

No other city in the world celebrates
80 many national festivals and with
such energy and hurrah as does New
York. These affairs, great and small
come pretty thick from the Fourth Of
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. 1t is hardly so gay as 1t
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 l,
the birth Of the league between the three
little German mountain cantons which
more than coo years ago became the
germ of the present Swiss confedera-
ton.
There already is announced for August
IS an Austro-H 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 OF
the revolution Of 1913, at first so prom
Using for Hungarian independence. On
that day even the humblest Hungarian
restaurants are crowded with thirsty
patriots and, if on no other day, provide
for the entertainment OF their guests an
orchestra to play national airs.
Wilhelmina OF Holland, who will be
81 years old on August 81. 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
lean descent somewhat o~vershadow the
newcomers; but there are a few thou
sand Dutchmen in town not yet thor
try, and TO these the sovereign's birth
day is an occasion Of reyiving patriot
ism.
The noisest and most widely-celebrat-
cd national festival after our wi comes
In the very end OF summer, on Septem-
Der 90, when the Italians celebrate the
entrance of Victor Emmanuel's troops
into Rome in 1870. Year by year the
day is more deliberately celebrated, in
spite Of the fact that it is a festival I'M
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 som 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 commentaries the
announcement at Versailles on January
rs, 1871, OF the fact that William the
First of Prussia was to be the head of a
ley 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 W most interesting anniversary,
that of the creation Of the Dominion
federation, falls properly on July l.
Spring festivals are those of the Span.
iards in honor of the young Alfonso, on
May II, and the next day, which the few
loyal Russians here keep in honor Of the
Czar