New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-05

italy Besides being the 131st anniversary Of
the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
yesterday also the centenary of the birth
OF The Italian patriot and statesman.
American and Italian flags were everywhere
yesterday morning in Washington Square Park
which had been designated as the meeting place
Tor the many Italian societies and delegations
which were TO Join in the ceremonies incident
10 the dedication Of the Pantheon 1t took sew
! elal hours for Grand Marshal de Caro- and
his aids 20 get the paraders ready for the
start. When the band struck up at length
the tT:e Of The Star Spangled Banner" fully
i zen thousand men and women We're in line
Everywhere along the route of march to South
! Ferry, where the boats for Staten Island were
boarded, the streets lined with holiday
crowds who set up great cheer as the small
band Of veterans who fought with Garbald
and who headed the line came into view. Be
sides practically all of the Italian societies in
greater New York, there were delegations from
Philadelphia, Newark, Paterson and Elizabeth
and from Birmingham. Ala. At the ferry
! the parade was Joined by thousands of Italians
from Brooklyn and Queens.
Arrived on Staten Island. the march
sumed with over twenty-five thousand in line
There was probably twice that number awaiting
/ them at the scene of the exercises in Rosebank
/ The ceremonies began with musical selections
by the Verdi Choral Society, Italian singing
association. The chief address al the dedica-
! ton made by Justice Townsend Scudder
| Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons
. u n
dent Of the committee which arranged for the
! marking of Garibaldrs old home made tho
| speech of acceptance. and other addresses were
| made by Borough President Cromwell of Rich
! mond, Count Massiglia, Italian Consul General
/ at New York: DR.. Ernest Richard, of Columbia
! University and by representatives of Greek
! associations who joined in the tribute to Carl
/ badis memory. dinner, music and fireworks
! occupied the time and attention of Gartbaldfs
countrymen until the early hours of this MORN
ing.
The half thousand or more people who gath
/ cred in Indian Field, at 1880 street and Van
Cortlandt Park. yesterday morning at o'clock
/ were well repaid for their early rising. Here
/ there was a flag raising TO commemorate the
death at the hands of the British troops on
August 81. IT'S, of CHIEF Ninham and seven
teen OF his redskins. who were allies of the
! American patriots. The flagpoe presented
! by Commissioner Berry on behalf of the Park
/ Department and the flag unfurled from it was
the gift of the Patriotic Society of Van Cort-
landt Park. Several thousand school children
sang patriotic songs and a salute fired as
the flag raised by the ID Battery of the
National Guard. President Haffen of The Bronx
made the closing address.
! The volunteer hremen of Queens celebrated
their suppression by the paid department with
/ a parade at Jamaica. Chief Joseph Kaiser led
eight companies. numbering about four nun
bred men, 20 the Town Hall, where speeches
iaudatory of the 'vamps' made. The fire.
men also had Independence Day parades at
; Springfield, Valley Stream. Lynbrook, and at
! many other towns and villages in Queens and
: Nassau counties.
/ The inmates. attendants and employees in the
! various hospitals prisons homes and other
! charitable and penal institutions not for
! gotten In the celebration of the glorious Fourth.
/ Fourteen hundred children OF the New York
! Chdrens Hospital and School played and
! danced, sang and Toasted to their hearts con-
! tent on the green lawns of Randalls Island,
and there was ball game, with music and re-
! freshnents on Blackwels Island. Harry Ken
| dali Thaw was one Of the five hundred and
! thirty prisoners in the Tombs who got a penti-
full helping of ice cream and cake in token of
! the day. There were fireworks set exer-
cises and the cigars which Thaw sent on the
Fourth last year TO his fellow prisoners were
lacking this year. Mrs. Harry Kendall Thaw
paid visit 10 the prison. but owing to the Holt
| day had to be content with penning note 10
her husband.
At Wards Island the patients of the Manhat-
tan State Hospital for the Insane listened 10 4
band concert in the open air. For those who
| wanted to dance platform erected on the
green, and many of the patients awaited them
| selves of the opportunity. The greater part of
| the more than four thousand patients at the
| hospital were also permitted 10 take part IN the
| spread served on the lawns. Even those whose
condition prevented their being allowed lib
I erty not overlooked.
Louis Zeltner. the only man any side of
| Manhattan who has made more than 100000 a
| year in the newspaper business, found time in
the midst of his thousand and one duties Ia
chaperon a party Of deaf mutes to Staten Island
where they had earnest if not boisterous
! game OF baseball Mr.. Zeltner. who is eX-
pert signs, read TO his proteges the Declara-
ton OF Independence in the sign language
before the trip to Staten Island after they had
partaken of a liberal spread supplied by their
patron in Merchandising in East Broadway
Although all New York seemed 10 be hurry
I ing TO steamboat piers, ferries and TO trolleys
and steam in its haste to get away from
the turmoil of the town-of perhaps 10 carry
some OF II with them-there was no lack Of
| merrymakers in the parks. All filled with
! record crowds. There was also much setting off
OF fireworks and other thing that make noise
but in general the crowds were in genial tenn
per and the park cops" had little TO do
The Museum OF Art open. and there a
constant stream Of visitors there all day.
Record crowds in point OF numbers filled Bat
ter; Park all day and evening on their way 70
and from the ferries and excursion steamers
Thousands OF the passersby dropped for shade
and shelter into the Aquarium and looked over
tho fish. for which only the ordinary diet had
been provided.
At Grants Tomb delegation Of twenty-five
members OF the Grant Club an organization OF
members OF the Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton laid a wreath the sarCophagus and a
speech laudatory Of the general was made by
the clubs president Henry Goldstone.
The ferryboats and the excursion steamers
were crowded to the rails and in many cases the
police had to be called in TO keep order and Il
form lines of those who wanted 10 buy tickets
All along the waterfront there great dis
play OF flags and bunting. The American en-
5em was predominant. but the flags of almost
all the nations also to be seen The three
transatlantic liners which left port yesterday
La Touraine of the French Line, the Cunarder
Carpathia and the White Star liner Arabic, were
all gayly decorated and all steamed down the
harbor with their bands playing American airs