The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01
SEVEN MILE CHEER
FOR BIG PAGEANT
Thousands Jam Fifth Avenue
and Enjoy Tercentcnary
Parade.
STORY OF CITY'S COMMERCE

There swung down Fifth avenue last
night such "A parade and historical pa
geant az this city has never seen before
fast the grand stand at the Library IL
went the bands playing the people an
pldudlhg ana cheering. And after Il had
passed there was not a soul but knew
that the commerce, Ike the glory OF New
YORK, is three centuries Old and ever on
the Increase.
Those who had travelled the full route
lof the parade. all the way from Harlan
to the foot of Murray Hill, and had seen
the masses of humanity damned and
crammed on the sidewalks rom start
to finish. said that never since the Hud.
son-Fulton celebration has such a con-
course of people turned out for any fete
day on Manhattan.
certain II is that the beople we're
packed closely together along "A line Of
march which extended for seven miles
ana certain II is too that their enthusiasm
was all but unbOunded and that their
cne'rs ana shouts Of patriotic approval
mingled TOR three hours-the time IL took
the parade to pass the grand stand-vith
the strains of military bands and the
steady tramp OF marching feet and the
lncesshnt chug- chug OF passing motors
II was parade which, to New Workers
must have meant all the things that make
the clty dear. In the floats there was
to be seen everything OF historical sig
hificance from the time Manhattan's com
merce began In 1914 right down to the
present day. And in the ma~ching bodies
or men. the Old Guard, the Sons of the
Revolution. the Spanish and civil var
veterans, ana many others. there was th.
ieHlhuer OF inc part played by this city
III the great historical crises of the nation
There was municipal division In the
paraue III which various city departments
participated.
As * customary with paIIdes the one
last night was an hour behind schedule
hut for all that the crowd waited pa
tentlN. After a few carriages CARRYING
: me of the teTcenteuary commissioners
! came one in which rode Mayor Mitchell
GOV Glynn was T. have been In the same
cIrrlage, but his illness prevented him.
In other carriages We're Senator O'Gor-
| man, Rear Admiral Robert Perry. John
II. Rockefeller Jr., Jacob H. Srhin Nor
4 gan j. OBrien. Gen. Howard Carroll
| president Of the tercentenaIy commits.
| sion, George W. Perkins and others.
II is very likely that nowhere In the
whole length and breadth OF Manhattan
is there an ndividuil who would not have
experienced "A thrill of patriotic enthusi-
aSm as he or she stood among the crowds
on the curb or sat in one of the numerous
| grand stands and beheld the story Of
| New York passing step by step and year
| by year with much the same impression
| AZ might be obtained from the turning OF
| leaves in history.
And in the hordes of people who had
been brought to the line of march from
every quarter Of the city there were the
richest and poorest, the happiest and very
likely the most miserable. old and young
had gathered out Of pride for the city that
Is theirs and the great and little things
which its men and women have accom-
plshed during n period OF three centuries
probably the most remarkable three CEN
turtles ever turned into gain and accom-
plishment and kindly acts by any mu-
nlclpalty in the whole history OF the
world.