The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-05
CLOSING PARADE
 IN NEH YORK HupsoN-FuLToN CELEBRATION ENDS IN GRAND SEASON OF
 MERRYMAklNe.
Legendary Floats Said to be the Most Beautiful Ever Presented in the SHissory of the of ihe Worlds
 Display.

New York, Oct IA night carnival parade of many novel features was the concluding event of Chidren's Day The pageant was of generally allegorical and legendary nature. It's bearing upon the events of the week was the representation it gave of arts, and ideals that contributed 10 Ameri- cas- present civilization and culture.
 In the planning and construction of these fifty floats the German, Austrian and Swiss societies of the city CO., operated with the carnival committee, and the Teutonie mythology which the early colon.sts brought to this part of the country was strongly in evidence. But the classic legends of Greece and Eome were not lacking. and large number of the floats rep resented abstract subjects such as poetry, music, art, war. humor, good luck, freedom and peace. Timely in terest went with shivery scene en- titled the Frost King" Uncle Sam Receiving the Crowned Heads con cluded the procession and provoked more applause than all the gorgeous ness and tinsel of the more artistic conceptions that preceded.
 Music. literature and art led the procession. This foremost float. fam tastie in design and meant to pro. phecy the unconventional character of those to follow, takes the shape of dragon spouting flame and sur rounded by fire. Mars, the God of War, followed. Next came huge ar lists palette, poised ready for its master. The human figures on it were an isleallzation of the blobs of color squeezed from the artist tubes as
 appear on his palette when he 'is ready to blend them in his work They needed only 10 be stirred to life by his brush to do his bidding
 Other floats were: Song. Arion. Browning of Beethoven, Aeolian Harp, Lohongrin, Lorelei. Death of Fafnir. Queen of Sheba, Gotterdammerung, Melsterslnger Die Walkuere. Tanu- hauser. Seigfried, Titania, Origin of Poetry. Andreas Mofer, Marathon, William Tell, Nimrod, Andromeda, Fritz Reuter-, Mansa, Harvesting, Diana, Europa, Heidelberg, Gnomes, Bavaria, Sirens, Modusa Elves of Spring. The Jungle, Egyptian Art, Music and Literature, Father Rhine. Germania, Mermaids. Fairies, Cinder- ella. Orpheus Before Pluto. God of the Alps. Avalanche of Freedom. Fres- chusz.
 The conhilers of the official pro gram say in speaking of this branch of the celebration: This parade is something more than a joIlifcatlcn and nierry-making It is designed to recall the poetry of myth. legend, al- lcEorg and, in a few cases, of historic facts which, while foreign in local origin. has inspired so much of the beautiful imagery of the poetry and song and drama of all civilized na- tlons. American civilization, young as it Is. has advanced to stage where 1t appreciates its intellectual heritage more highly prized than in New York City or State"
 The total cost of constructing and presenting the two float parades of the celebration is estimated when their repetition in different boroughs of New York and in towns along the Hudson River has been accounted for, at nearly s25o.0Q0. The task of build ing the floats was a serious problem and finally forced the establishment of a school of construction. witl skilled New York sculptors and car penters as pupils. The carpenter first built a rough skelton of the figure intended, padded into a semhlance of It's final shape With lath and wire mesh. On this the sculptor modelled in clay his figure. rom the sculptor's model was taken plaster cast upon which in turn was modelled the paier mache cast which, when painted and vanished were ready to be set on the floats.