New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-29
CITY'S COMMERCE In
BIG BIRTHDAY FETE
History of Towns Trade
for 800 Years Told in Miles
of Automobiles.

From Harlem to saith ST. last night
5000 automobiles, the pageant of the
city. paradCd before the Mayor and
more than 100000 New Yorkrs in hon
or of New Nork'5 commercial tercen-
tenary. The line Of march lay from
Madison av and f25th st. through
l25th St., Morningsidc av., 10th ST.
and Broadway 10 Columbus Circle,
west in 18th ST. to Fifth av. and thence
south to 34th st., passing the reviewing
stand, at Fifth az. and 42d ST.
Crowds six and eight deep blackened
the sidewalks along the line of the
parade. and long strings Of electric
lights glittered overhead. A sharp wind
blew up fitfully from the southeast,
and for an hour and three-quartcrs the
sightsecrs shvered away the time.
There were many predictions that the
parade wouldn't start at all. One man.
who had come from Long Island City
TO see il. was 50 pesslmlstc he gave
odds on il.
And then. at S:l5-an hour and
threa-quarters after the announced
time Of starting the avenue cleared
and an automobile swept down toward
The stand at l2d 81. Close after it
came a swarm Of motorcycles. then the
Mayors car and the Harlem a d Con-
course Motorcycle clubs, Whith were
the only ones that had been able to
keep up with IT,
There was another ten-mlnute wait, q
tribute 20 the time his honor had
made on the down stretch, and houi-
Ia of light cars sailed easily past the
stand; one OF them knocked into tine
rear Of q tricycle., which had dropped
behind the machines in front Of It.
There was not momeutary holdup,
however, and almost before things
started again the Oldsmobilc engine,
built soon after the first locomotive,
pulled by.
After it came a log cabin. so built
around the car bearing it that it looked
Ike house moving; Chinese pa
code and bridal car, which was
heartily cheered. Then came the neu-
tralty car, bearing flags of all ma
tions, with an American eagle as crest
and draped in the three cOlors. After
it an autumn car, hidden in brown
leaves, and another labelled "Notes for
Women"
Other automobiles in great numbers,
more or less bedecked, swept by in
droves OF tens and tweutys, hanked by
hard riding officers on motorcycles, and
after them the Flag, made OF flowers
and held on a float by Uncle Sam.
Profting by a break in the line, me
Mayor and his party slipped out, going
first downtown and then 70 the Auto
mobile Club, where reception was
given then With the Mayor were
Alton b. Parker, Edward llagaman
Hall and Colgate lIoyt, cN-prcsldent of
the American Automobile Association.
With the Governor, who followed the
Mayor down the avenue, but pressed
On TO Cooper Union without stopping,
we're General Howard Carroll, presi-
dent Of the tercenteuary committee;
Henry 3. Anderson, president OF the
American Automobile Association, and
William X. Vanderbilt. He. too, went
to the Automobile Club later.
The Mayor had been gone but ten
minutes when the Fire Department
auto division, the leading truck driven
by George H. Roberts, first American
winner Of the Vanderbilt Cup, Went
by at full speed. After them. and
much applauded. came the Colonial
float, followed by the John Dough .
vast doll. seemingly carved out OF !
loaf Of bread and being fed with bread,
the gift OF large baking company.
Then more cars and still more, as
though il would never end, and the
wind had half emptied the stands be-
fore il was over.