New-York tribune., 1909-09-28
FIFTH AVE. NOW READY
DRESSED IN GALA ATTIRE.
Brilliant Decorations AIOng TO-day's
Lane of March.

! Fifth avenue. from 18th street to Washington
! Square. is ready for the Hudson Fulton pageant
/ OF this afternoon. Central Park West. from 10th
street to Columbus Circle. and 18th street Fifth
/ avenue are also filed with stands on each side
of the street, and the buildings in the brightest
| Of colors. despite the rain The entire route OF
/ the parade, which begins at / o'clock at 10th
street and ends at Washington Square. is brilliant
enough this morning 10 welcome any pageant. no
matter how splendid It may be.
Even on r. rainy day Fifth avenues gorgeous
dress clothes cannot be spoiled. although II must
| be admitted that heavy dOwnpour viii make
the stands unbearable. except In cases where they
I are covered, besides filling the streets with small
lakes and rendering things otherwise uncomfortable
/ for the floats In the pageant and the crowds Of
/ spectators.
Finishing touches were given yesterday after
noon. Perhaps the touches were more than finish
| ing Many new stands were begun. Others not
| yet finished did receive their garnIshings OF
flags, bunting. shields and electric lights until
! There are no stands in Central Park West above
l04th street Where the decorations begin gangs
were busy yesterday afternoon filling in holes in
| the asphalt and rolling them with steam roller
work which sadly needed In many places es-
pecially In Fifth avenue. The first big stand on
the West Side is just above Tooth street next 20
the New York Red Cross Hospital. At 9sth street
a curiosity in the line OF accommodation for to-
| days crowds is seat fifteen feet long perched
top of a bilI-posting board. or course nearly
all the length of Central Park with the exception
OF few blocks. is occupied by shallow
stands covered with Hudson Fulton and national
bunting, and further adorned with huge blue
shields suspended from poles and showing on
blue field a painted Clermont or Half Moon one
OF the largest stands uptown Is at 97th street. II
extends west for more than quarter OF block
and is almost high a theatre when one
reaches the top seat The apartment houses here
are not elaborately decorated. Except for a few
| small flags over the main entrances and here and
there another at some window. attempt seems
to have been made at systematic decorating
II is evident that the owners OF apartment and
private houses realize what immense multitude
will try to see the professions, for careful pre-
cautions have been taken TO prevent those who
have stand seats from perching on window stills
I'm doorways in areaways or on front doorsteps
One apartment house at slst street has it's en-
trance inclosed behind wooden lattice gates so
that only those who have a special right TO do SO
can find shelter there and a place from which 10
look over the heads OF the sidewalk crowds The
same thing has been done at the Livingston apart
houses are still empty. and although they are
decorated. spectators will have no chance 10 take
advantage OF them.
The most comfortable and cOmmOdious stand I'm
Central Park West is next TO the New York His
tOrical Society building, slst street There are
no stands the grounds of the American Museum,
of Natural History. but across the street ON a
vacant lot next 10 its building. the Historical So
cety has put up stand with a roof decorated n
handsomely and furnished il inside with illunina-
tion by incandescent lamps and arc lights An
other covered stand extends the length of the Hotel
Majestic The stands on the Central Park side are
faced In front with white fences resembling seepc-
| chnse hurdles.
The churches along the line OF march are proba-