The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18
PEACE WATCHWORD
OF GREAT PAGEANT
New York's Trade Terccntenarv
to Be Made q Festival
Of Optimism.
WILL LAST FOR A WEEK


Threo hundred years ago this month
| fve Dutch ships returned TO their hofo.
ports of Amsterdam and Hoorn and TO-
ported to the States General Of the United
Netherlands that over on the Island ~
Manhatin they had built a trading station
and begun trading with the natives H.
furs That was twelve years before the
first permanent settlement of New Am
sterdam. but 1t marked the beginning "
Incorporated trade between the old coun
try and the new.
1t IL to celebrate that beginning Of
trade in New York that the city IL now
In the midst of preparations for a fostlya,
that In some respects may Guido the lIud.
son-Fulton Celebration. 1t is known as
tho Commercial Tercentenary Of New
York. and though 1t begins in less than
ten days and lasts for a week the ma.
jority of the local inhabitants know moth
ing Of the party In store for them.
This is briefly what Is going to happen
Religious denominations will unite Sunday
afternoon, October 20, for a service IN the
Hippodrome. John ID. Crimmins and the
Rev. Dr. Christian f. Reisner have ar.
ranged 10 have Bishop Greer Cardinal
EArleN, BlSlOp Il. u WILSON ana kNbh
Mendes. ms we'll as representatives from
the municipal. state and Federal govern.
ments present at a mass service at which
1900 singers will take part
The next evening, Monday, there viii
be musical festival at the city College
and on Tuesday night another at thc
Washington Irving High School
The automobile pageant Is on the schod.
ule for Wednesday night. Five thousand
motors will line up and pass through the
city, according 20 Edward lagaman Hal.
the secretary OF the commission in charge
Gov. Glynn and his stan will lead. A
floral division. In which automobiles
mostly privately owned have entered on
the proviso OF being decked with living
flowers, Is to be a part of the spectacle.
Elaborate Automobile Decorations.
There Is also division OF machines ir
which automobile dealers have entered
one manufacturer Is preparing an e,abo-
rate windmill effect and another a tromon-
dous butterfly a group OF machine,
rugged up with grotesque features and
comic characteristics is also n part OF tho
parade Later comes section OF auto
mobile trucks showing commercial indus.
tries. The line of march is down Broad
way from 125th street to Fifty-ninth
street, across to Fifth avenue south to
Thirty-third street and then west and
Thursday evening has been chosen as
theatre night, and Broadway managers
have the chance OF devising special at
fractions for the towns visitors during
the show week
Some idea OF the interest which this
carnival week has aroused upstate is
evident when II Is seen that Mayors from
every large town and city, especial,
through tho Mohawk Valley and on
through Rochester to Buffalo, will COM
down themselves or will send their righ
hand mon. They are all members OF the
commission ex officlo. Friday evening
these hundred and one Mayors are CUES
OF tho city at n reception at the Metro.
politan Museum of Art Samuel W. FAR
child. ex-president of the Union League
Club. Is in charge OF that.
The event OF the week though. lis save
I'LL Saturday night, the evening OF III
Slst. This il Hallowe' en-. and II plans GO
right II will put the town in "a gay hume
for the approaching election night. It .s
to be a commemorative pageant, but mo-.
than that the commission is trying 60
infuse into the people the idea of celebra.
tion, the idea that we have lot to be
Joyous over that in spite OF war AM
hard times talk we have maintained our
peace and have our commerce. The
want TO make tho night OF tho 3lst on
of optimism and by an inspiring specta'.'
tighten tho hearts of those who think they
are weighted down by physical and men.
tai depression.
The ideas which will constantly recur
in the festival parade will be historica
commercial, patriotic and OF peace. Ever
float and every horse will be deckcd wit
the commissions flag bearing the wori
Commerce and Peace"
Dgnitarles that usually have watch a.
ward over public doings will lead and I'
view the procession. The chief factor .r
this will be an army corps Of horse draw
floats. The magnitude of this division is
hard to estimate. OF the 100 floats some
few will require forty horses, a Brooklyl
brewery company having one of thos'
largest floats will surround it by forty
| mounted musicians.
The New York Central will Join n"
pageant with the De Witt clinton trair
the first to run on the Centrals lines. n
possible this train, which with the en-
CINE tender and three coaches Is eighty
cSght feet long, will travel the route undo
| Its own steam. II not, il will be mounted
| on n float Following this exhibit tn
| railroad will have drawn a papier mach"
model of the latest type of engine, n,ne'y
| feet long.
Contrasting Hudson River Bonts.
a model OF the Clcrmont, the hrs'
steamboat on the Hudson. will appear on
| the float OF the Hudson River bay Line
| ahead OF the model OF the new Hendrct
Hudson. Forty herdsmcn will drive %
| herd OF cattle down Fifth avenue ~ '
part OF the exhibit of the American Rel
| Company. An ice cream company wit,
make and serve ice cream on the rouit.
and the same with "A baking concern.
| milk company will enter FIVE floats
Baltimore will send thirty floats 10 t,l
New Workers OF her industries; SyracIs'
will send six and Rochester, Utica and
| Buffalo each one. Several New Nora
newspapers will enter floats Among
them the Stddts-ZcituHO, which, accord
ing to Louis A. Ames, the head Of tn
| pageant division, will EXHIBIT a Tfuhe
monoplane No one at the commissions
office could tell whether this would iy a
peace and commerce" flag.
Floats are only a part OF tho Halo"
cen pageant. There will be clrr.az
containing commercial boards. ctann-
\ OF commerce, merchants assoc alous 1921.
committees from tho exchanges Il'
otto and peace societies are TO have rep d.
| sentation.
Some of the New Workers who u'F'
said they would participate I'm this r'.
and commerce celebration and would ~ 20
In the pageant, according 10 Mr.. 1T.
are Jacob II, Schiff, John u. Rockrf'..
Jr.. Judge Alton Il. Parker Chimney II
| Depew. George w. Perkins. Samu,, "
| Fairchild, II. V, Boynton Herman Ni'
der. Admiral Robert Peary and Gen MI