Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-05
HERALOS OPEN SHOW
Philadelphia Begins Its Great
Anniversary Celebration.
MILITARY DAY PROGRAM
10000 in Parade Through Streets of
the City.
CEREMONY OF THE NEW SEAL
CEREMONY OF THE NEW SEAL
Brief and Appropriate Addresses by
the Mayor and Others-Tablet
to French Unveiled.

PHILADELPHIA. October with the
booming of the guns of the American
warships lying in the Delaware river OF
this city at sunrise today. the second day
in the elaborate program for the celebra-
ton of the 22jth anniversary of the
founding of Philadelphia was ushered in.
This is military day. and the principal
feature is the great parade of United
States regulars. sailors and marines and
the entire division of the Pennsylvania
National Guard. Twenty thousand men
will pass in review this afternoon.
One of the pretty ceremonies of the day
was the proclama ton sounded by heralds
at the four entrances to city hall at $50
o'clock this morning. The heralds, eight
in number and attired in medieval cos
tunes, rode on prancing horses from the
courtyard in the center of city hall to the
entrances facing the four winds. And
then, In the presence of an enormous
crowd that entirely filled the plaza sur
rounding the greatest municipal building
III the world. they proclaimed to all the
people the actual beginning of the day S
ceremonies.
The sound of the trumpets in the clear.
cool air of the morning sent thrill
asm into the vast assemblage. As the
last note died away the heralds proudly
returned to the courtyard and the people
| dispersed to participate in the various ex-
| ercises on the program for the forenoon
| hours.
j.. A half hour later in the beautiful re-
ception hall of tne office of the mayor
| of Phila delphia there was struck the first
| to-, - h. ,s~, Eso,-
years the municipal seal has been a We
| hicle of error. 1t has impaired the in
| formation for all that time that the
founding of the city dated from 11Ol. The
blame has always been blamed on the die
sinker who made the lettering around
the edge OF the seal. who discovered toe
late that the legend Seal Of the City OF
Philadelphia" as he had spaced IT. LEFT
too great blank surface. Thereupon
tradition goes, be took it upon himself
20 add the date: lso1. The new sea! ',I con.
| aims the date 1888, and the motto, Phil
| adelphia Maneto" (Let Brotherly Love
| Continue).
Brief and appropriate addresses were
| made by Mayor Reyburn and others VINO
| took part in the ceremony. A pubic re-
ception followed. Then tor the moment
| the scene shifted to Independence Hall.
| where, under the auspices OF the Pennsyi-
/ yana Society OF Daughters OF the ReVo-
luton. two bronze tablets commemora-
| tive of the historic uses of that building
| were unveiled.
Tablet to Rochambeau.
| Later in the city hall courtyard a cere-
mony of international interest took place.
1t was the unveiling by the Pennsylvania
Society of the Order of the Founders and
Patriots OF America of a tablet to mark
the camp of Comte de ROchambeau, COM
mander-in-chief of the French army Ia
America, with 5000 patriots. in Septem-
Der, 17s1 while on their way to the fina!
battle of the revolution at Yorktown,
where they assisted Washington in cap
turing CORVALLIS. The tablet was un-
yelled by an attache of the French en-
bassy at Washington.
| The great military procession Is Sched-
uled to start at l pm, and as Maj. Gen.
Fred D. Grant, commander Of the Depart
marshal it is reasonable to expect that
the parade will move on time. The hrsf
division, commanded by Col W. III. &.
| Bowen, 18th Infantry, L. s. a, will he
made up OF four infantry companies OF
the 18th Regiment from Fort Jay, forty
five companies of the Coast Artillery from
various forts along the Atlantic coast,
four troops of cavalry from Fort Myer,
and 21OO sailors and marines from the
third squadron, North Atlantic fleet. and
the Philadelphia navy yard. The Penn
sylvania National Guard will compose the
second division, and the third and last
division will be made up of Spanish w ar
Veterans Sons of Veterans, and other
semi-mlitary organizations.