The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-25
CARNIVAL WEEK
IN NEW YORK CITY
Commentaries Establishment of
Dutch Fur-Trading Post on
Manhattan Isle.
GREAT INTEREST AROUSED
Historical, Commercial, Patriotic
and Peaceful Ideas to Pre-
vail in Parades.
Especial to The Tlmes-pispatch.l


NEW YORK. October 24-Commem-
orative of the establishment of P
Dutch fur trading post on Manhattan
Island by five slips from Amsterdam
and Hoorn 300 years ago, New York
began to-day a great commercial ter
centenary With services in the syna-
gogues, Which will be followed to-
morrow by exercises in Christian
churches. and a great gathering in the
Hippodrome, where 200 singers will
be heard.
The next evening. Monday. there
Will be musical festival at the City
College. and on Tuesday night another
at the Washington Irving High School.
The automobile pageant is on the
sch eduIe FOR Wednesday night. Five
thousand motors Will line up and pass
through the city. Governor Glynn and
his STAFF will lead a foral division.
In which automobiles, mostly privately
owned. have entered on the proviso Of
being deckcd with flowers, is to be IL
part OF the spectacle.
There is also a division of machines
in which automobile dealers have en-
tered. One manufacturer has prepared
an elaborate windmill effect. and an
other a tremendous butterfly. a group
OF machines rugged up with Erctesque
features and comic characteristics. is
also Il part Of the parade. Later comes
a section of automobile trucks showing
commercial Industries. The lire OF
march is down broadway from One
Hundred and Twenty Street 10
Fifty-ninth Street, across to Fifth Az
enue, south to Thirty-third Street, and
then west and north up Broadway to
Columbus Circle.
Thursday evening has been chosen
as theatre night, and Broadway man
ayers have the chance of devising spe-
cial attractions for the towns visitors
during the show week
MAYORS FROM UPSTATE
T TO BE IN ATTENDANCE
Some idea of the interest which this
carnival week has aroused. State.
is evident when II is seen that Mayors
from every large town and city, espe-
cially through the Mohawk Valley and
on through Rochester To Buffalo, will
come down themselves or will send
their r.ght-ha men. They are nil
members OF the commissions OK officio.
I,rldny ssyeaing these hundred and ere
ception at tile Metropolitan Museum OF
Art. Samuel w. Fairchild. ex-pres.dent
of the Union League Club. is In charge
OF that.
The event of the week. though. is
saved till Saturday night, the evening
OF the 3lst. This is Hollowe'en. and,
IL plans go. right, IL will put the town
in gay humor for tho approaching
election night. 1t is to be comment
orativc pageant. but more than that
the commission is trying to infuse into
the people the idea of celebration, the
idea that we have n lot to be joyous
over, that in spite of war and hard
times talk we have maintained our
peace and have our commerce. They
want To make the night of the 31st one
of optimism, and By an inspiring spec
Tn. 1.. 4, l..
think they are weighted down by
physical and mental depression.
The ideas which will constantly re-
cur in the festival parade will be his
torical. commercial. patriotic and OF
Ieacc. Every float and every horse
Will be decked with tho commissions
nag bearing the words Commerce and
Peace"