New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08
HENRY STREET AGAIN
GAY WITH PAGEANT
Crowds en- Roofs and Fire
Escapes Applaud His
toriCaI Episodes.
MISS WALD GIVES DINNER
Guests Those Who Have Aided
Her in Settlement Work,
Whose Anniversary Was
Celebrated.

Old New Amsterdam, with the color and
quaint simplicity of another day, again re-
turned TO the East Side last night for a
few. brief, Joyous hours in the second
presentation of the street pageant pro-
duced by the Henry Street Settlement.
More than five hundred children and
adults in costume once more enacted the
history of the neighborhood from the alb
original Indians 10 the present refugees
from persecution in Russia o. a celebra-
ton OF the settlements twentieth ami
ycrsary.
Henry street was once more aglOw with
electric lights strung from the buildings
around the huge rectangle roped off for
the presentation of the pageant Win
dows, roofs and fire escapes, decorated
with flags and bunting, teemed with
dwellers of the East Side who had as
sembled 10 view the brilliant panorama
below A grandstand built on one side
Of the street was crowded with spec
tatorS and guests of honor.
Six episodes, each representing the
picturesque customs and social gather
inGs of the peoples who have lived at diff
ferent periods of our history in the neigh
borhood Of Henry street.-the Indians the
Dutch. the English. the Irish. the Scotch,
the Germans. the Italians and the Rus
sians-recreated the atmosphere Of yes
terday and to-day
AS on Friday night. the first episode
represented the Indian occupation Of the
island of Manhattan. The Manhattas. in
feathered regalia. entered the quadrangle.
beating tomtoms. and after dance about
the campfire sat in council and welcomed
the palefaCe strangers with gifts Of
wampum and skins. They received in re
turn bright colOred trinkets and strange
garments from over the seas The peace
pipe went around and the Ratchet was
buried. Then. with a grave farewell, ,4e
chief left the DutChmen in possession Of
the island of Manhattan.
Next came the merry gambols of a
Dutch strawberry picnic Vrouws and
burghers. with their numerous progeny.
white capped or pantalooned, clattered
along in wooden shoes or spread their
crazy quilts upon the ground for the
little ones 10 sit on while they PLAYED.
They were Joined by a bevy of comeiy
maidens tripping in 10 bleach their linen.
The third episode pictured Colonial days
Of 1860. Early on a May morning the
little children came trooping from the
woods TO hang their pOsies on the door
steps. so that those they love may be
surrounded by good fairies all through
the year. The mothers found the gifts
and as they sat in their doorways with
their spinning wheels and samplers sang
"a ballad Of long ago. Then a May party
entered, led by the king and queen, with
their court. After the cOurtiers and grand
ladies' danced the stately minuet they
gave way TO bands of sailors, milkmaids.
chimney sweeps and Moorish dancers.
who romped about the May pole and
played OLD, forgotten games.
The fourth episode revealed a glimpse Of
the Quaker children who little more
than a century ago. We're taken by their
parents to the first public school in New
York, which was opened on Henry street.
Then came the later days OF the 80 S
AMI the cosmopolitan peoples who make
mp the present population Of the great
East Side They sang their national
songs and danced the dances of their
native lands. Kathleen Mavourneen,"
Irene Liebe." the Barcarolle. the Taran-
telle. the Russian Kasatchak, all added 70
the poetry Of modern New York.
Before the pageant began a dinner was
given at the Settlement House by Misc
Lillian d. Wald, the head-worker Of the
settlement. to all those who in the twenty
years of her work had aided her fnan-
cially and otherwise TO carry on the
manifold activities of the Settlement.
Among those invited 10 the dinner were
Mr.. and Mrs Jacob II. Schif, Mr. and
Mrs. Felix Warburg. Mr. and Mrs. T.
Macy Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Arnstein. Bor-
ough President McAneny and Mr.. and
Mrs Adolph Ochs.