The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-10-14
The STROLLER.
[Continned from lst pagel

huCu Will Spdl king CudlnS Oh IRE
or bathed in the rays of powerful
searchlights. The huge bridges
over the East River were trans.
formed into fairy bridges of fire.
Piers were abla2c with light, ocean
liners in their decks were trimmed
from waterline to peak with incau-
descent chains.
The hotilla again moved up the
river and around the fleet with
bands playing under a sky painted
III glorious colorS by the fireworks.
The international feet was no long.
er a line Of grim gray monsters,
but had been changed into 50 many
mystic ships of fire The British
"InfleXible' displayed the royal
crown in electric lights suspended
between her masts, and proudly di-
rected a searchlight upon the union
jack flying from the peak of her
foremast.
Many years will pass before
similar fleet again assemblies. 1t
was magniicently stupendous in
the daytime, gorgeonsly beautiful
at night.
The "Cygnus' landed its twelve
hundred passengers at midnight
and the Stroller and the Fellow
Alumnus sauntered homeward car
rying much game in their film
cases as result of the days kodak
hunt.
The Stroller met many a friend
III town as ,he was stroling about
through the crowd. On Fifth Av-
enue he passed George l.. Low in
his Locomobile. In Hotel Astor he
met Mr.. J. NJ. Staver, and five
minutes later his one time ROOM
mate turned up. On Riverside
Drive he was gripped by the arm
by Barton Bisel, and on Madison
Avenue he accidentally collided
with a college friend from Texas.
At Bowling Green he met two :.lore
friends, and so all through the
week he was constantly reminded
OF tie truth of the trite observation
that the world is small.
On Monday the Stre ler boarded
a small boat, and was taken ND the
river through pouring rain to the /
battleshlp" Wisconsin" upon which |
he spent half day and dined with I
Midshipman J. Boyd Rutter.
Tuesday afternoon the Stroller
and the Fellow Alumnus occupied
a Fifth Avenue balcony to view the
historical pageant. The public
who were unfortunate enough not
to witness these great parades have
been more than satiated with pic
lures and accounts OF them. The
Stroller, therefore, tucks the scenes
into the recesses of lis memory and
reiralns from repeating a much
written story. He admired fftv
gorgeous floats depicting the his,o-
ry OF New York, and listened to as
many bands on Tuesday, thinking.
as he gazed at the thousands march
ing past for two hours, Of an Unc.e
Toms Cabin par~de in Blooms
burg.
Military always presents a strik-
ing appearance, but no martial
force ever surpassed the twenty five
thousand troops that marched past
the Stroller in the military pa-ade
on Thursday afternoon, a parade
which New York strove TO make
the finest ever witnessed, eclipsinp
the great Dewey parade of ten years
ago, which till now has held the
record.
For three solil hours American
and foreign fighters marched past.
regiment of British red coats, sail
ors following the tricolor OF France,
German middies from the warships
Of the Kaiser, Italians, and Argen-
tine seamen; all these gave the pa.
geant a cosmopolitan tone never
before seen to such an extent in An
city. The American fleet
was represented by three hundred
men from each ship; thousands of
he regular army were in line, and
The National Guard of New York
turned out ii force.
All OF this the Stroller saw from
roomy balcony, whence he and
The Fellow Alumnus watched the
struggling thousands crushed TO-
sether on the pavements Glow
hem, from which the ambu'ances
continually carried the il jured
The Stroller sighed a sigh of salts.
action that it was not his lot to be
ahmed i'll that human mae strcm
md thought, with Cowper,
lis pleasant, through the loop.
holes of retreat,
10 peep at such a world, to see the
stir
)f the great Babel, ard not feel