New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-23
OBSERVE THE HOLIDAY.
P4RlDES md DINNERS.
Mann Stand IN Cold to Watch In,
ceiling Of Washington Tablet.

rGlipg Of Washington Tablet.
Flags and parades. speeches and dinners, one
o +,,-1 church services and a few indoor athletic
,,sats of various SORTS, were held yesterday to
bo.- that New York was observing Washing
TONS Birthday. Both here and in Brooklyn the
e-ovr,en paraded. The block in the latter borough
,aat probably had the largest number of flags
was jefferson avenue. between Sumner and
g-braop avenues. where twenty-three were
c,r,uted. = dozen other blocks pressed II close,
however. Wall street was alive with colo, an
unusual thing for holiday. for buejackets and
eoldior boys from Governors Island paradeG
there when the tablet showing Washington pray
ing al Valley Forge was unveiled.
The CITY History Club celebrated the day with
as annual entertainment ar the Educational Al
lance in the afternoon. The club was organized
- study The history Of the city and to tncUlcate
a sense Of civic virtue and responsibility in the
Young. Alexander Post 6. \. r.. gave a flag to
ogonrz Kindergarten. ct No. 81 East 10Th street
The flag was presented by Past Commander Al
bert i, Scott and was accepted by the Rev.
Charles T. Tinker Twelve members CT the post
were present
The Washington tablet was set in the granite
PEDESTAL stone At the east end OF the steps Of the
Sub-Treasury Building in Wall street. The tab
let has been criticised for the modern nature Of
nashiugrou's gloves. Ostensibly the gift OF
Lafayette Post. # really is the gift Of Corporal
John J. Clancy. q member Of the Washington
Continental Guards The tablet was moved down
from the Young Mems Christian Association
building in West 57th street and a copy Of It
was first planned for the Sub-Treasury Build
ing When it was shown that the government
could not well accept copy. the original was
moved down at the last moment. and the y. ".
C. a VIII set the copy. This induced the gov
eminent 10 give permission for the placing OF
TIE tablet. though it had once been refused.
Several hundred persons stood at noon in the
wind swept canyons Of Wall and Broad streets,
attracted by six hundred soldiers and six hun
drel sailors. who turned out for the occasion.
The mon got 70 Wall street an hour before the
tine set for the unwilling Of the tablet, and,
after stacking arms, shivered 81 tho keen north
west wind that swept down Wall street as
though Just off the ice fields OF Greenland. The
blue5ackets came from the Louisiana, in COM
iuaud Of Lieutenant Commander Chaplin. The
Virginia and the Louisiana furnished battalion
of marines under Captain Low. Lieutenant
Colonel H. Il. Ludlow was in command Of bat
talon Of coast artillery from Fort Wadsworth
sud Fort Hamilton.
lafayette Post unveiled the tablet. Bishop
Potter was 10 have delivered the invocation.
but as he is suffering from g cold. the task
ATCl0e2CCl
school boys sang America" after which the
Rev. George Z. Strobridge, chaplain of Lafay-
cite Post, made a few remarks. BY this time
everybody present was half frozen. and the
stamping Of feet and general restlessness Of the
crowd drowned out the speakers words the
wind sweeping most Of them away.
Then Z. ". Hale, a deputy assistant treas
urer. accepted the tablet for the government
IN about a dozen words. While there was
real "son" of the Revolution present, he did
not unveil the tablet. He DR.. Charles
Lewis Moorehouse, Of West Goth street, who
was wearing the sword his father wore at Val
ley Forge The unveiIiug was done by Walter
2. Tufts. a Continental Guard man. Lambert
SuyCam, Of. No. % Pine street, then presented
wreath Of thirteen roses entwined with lilies
of-the-valIey, which vas laid az the base Of
tie tablet.
The boys Of the, Catholic Protectory and their
hand and the children from five Of the public
schools below Canal street suffered intensely
from the cold. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum
was also represented, and the boys stood for
more than an hour il the cold wind, many or
them being without overcoats. With Lafayette
Post was Lafayette Camp, Sons OF Veterans
with 102 men, led by Commander Raphael To-
bias
The Daughters Of the American Revolution
held their usual celebration in the old Wash
ingtoU house AT J61st street and JuTnel Place
Corporation Counsel Ellison was among those
present.
Two hundred red shirtcd volunteer fremen IN
fun Tegalia went 10 Union Square in the morn
ing 70 decorate the statue Of Washington there
From The north end Of the park, where a re-
viewing stand had been erected, the men We're
reviewed by Deputy Commissioner Bonner Inc
procession formed at 18th street and Irving
Place the men being either members Of the TX
empt Firenen's Association or the volunteer
Firernen's Association. They brought the Old
time tubs with them, and after decorating the
monument passed UP Broadway to Columbus
Circle where the procession disbanded. both or
ganizationE dining later at their headquarters.
With its ancient fire fighting apparatus rum
bling behind the Kings County Volunteer tlft-
mems Association held its annual parade N
Rrooklvu Yesterday and reviewed az Bor-
ou2h Hall by a delegation Of aldermen Deputy
Police Commissioner O'keefe and senator
C.i3a-lee II Fuller More than thousand
men. representing nine veteran fremen's or
e. tons, were in the column