Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-28
NEW YORK'S FEA SITS.
A Never Ending Series of Celebrations
Showing How Cosmopolitan We Are.

Showing How Cosmopolitan We Are.
No other city in the world celebrates
as 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 Septem>
Der, and there are others in winter
and spring.
Ten days after the wildness of the
| Fourth of July the French national
eate is celebrated 1t is hardly SO gay
as it 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 1 the birth of the league be-
tween the three little German noun
tain cantOns which more than 600
years ago became the germ Of the
present Swiss Confederation.
There already is announced for Au-
gust 18 an Austro-H Hungarian festival
in honor of the Emperor Francis JOS
eph, who on that day will be IA. Pop
! ular as the emperor is in Austria, his
birthday does not greatly stir Hun
garian patriotism, however. The
Hungarians prefer to celebrate on
March Is the beginning of the revolu-
ton of 1S48, at first SO promising for
| Hungarian independence. On that day
even the humblest Hungarian restau-
rants are crowded with thirsty patriots
and, IL on no other day, provide for the
entertainment of their guests an or
chestra to play national airs.
Wilhelmina Of Holland. who will be
"a years old on August 81, has q 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
American descent somewhat oyershad-
owed the newcomers, but there are a
few thousand Dutchmen in town not
| yet thoroughly weened from the moth
Ell country, and to these the sovereign's
| birthday is an occasion Of reviying pa
| triotism.
The noisiest and most widely cele-
brated national festival after our own
comes in the very end of summer, on
September 20, when the Italians cele-
brate the entrance of Victor Emman-
uel's troops into Rome in 1870. Year
by year the day is more deliberately
| celebrated, in spite of the fact that ii
is a festival unblessed of the church,
and this year is likely to see the great
est demonstration in honor of united
Italy that has yet been given.
/ German residents from some of the
smaller states of the empire find. ex-
cuse for local festivals of one Kind or
aonther in midsummer, but the only
/ anniversaries that bring together Ger
mans of all the states are mid-winter
| affairs, the celebration that comment
crates the announcement at Versailles
I on January 1S 1871, of the fact that
William the First of Prussia was to
be the head Of the new German en-
pire and the celebration nine days lat
er of the present emperor's birthday
/ Resident Britons, after having fol
nearly two generations celebrated the
sovereigns birthday in May, now hold
an autumn celebration in nonor OF
Edward VII. This occasion is cele
/ brated by the Canadians of New York
i though their most interesting anniver
sary, that of the creation of the Do
minion federation, falls properly or
July /.
Spring festivals are those of the
Spaniards in honor of young Alfonso
on May /, and the next day, which the
few loyal Russians keep in honor OF
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