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NEW YORK CITY. 



the school girls on the stand at 44th Street and 

 Fifth Avenue, who wore colored caps and capes, 

 and were arranged in groups so as to represent 

 the American flag. Seven such groups were 

 formed, and at intervals during the passing of 

 the boys sang patriotic choruses. 



In the evening a musical allegory entitled 

 "The Triumph of Columbus," by Silas G. Pratt, 

 was given in Carnegie Music Hall. The can- 

 tata was divided into six parts : " Columbus's 

 Dream," " The Council of Salamanca," " Colum- 

 bus and his Boy Diego in Want," " Queen Isa- 

 bella at her Court," " The Voyage," and " Grand 

 Triumphal March and Reception," and was 

 performed by a chorus of 500 voices, aided by 

 the Symphony Chorus. Also, in the evening, 

 there was an elaborate display of fireworks from 

 Brooklyn Bridge, given at the expense of the 

 trustees of the bridge. 



The naval parade took place on Oct. 11. 

 At 12.30 P. M. the U. S. cruiser and foreign war 

 vessels passed through the Narrows amid boom- 

 ing guns from the forts and answering salutes 

 from the war vessels. They entered in the fol- 

 lowing order; First, the U. S. flagship "Phila- 

 delphia " with the U. S. monitor " Miantono- 

 moh," while in the center was the French flag- 

 ship " L'Arethuse " ; then followed the U. S. 

 steamer ' Atlanta," the U. S. steamer " Dol- 

 phin," with the French gunboat " Hussard " in 

 the center ; the U. S. Coast-Survey steamer 

 " Blake," the U. S. steamer " Vesuvius," with 

 the Italian cruiser " Bausan " in the center ; the 

 U. S. ship " St. Mary's," the U. S. revenue 

 steamer " Grant," with the Spanish cruiser " In- 

 fanta Ysabel " in the center ; the lighthouse 

 steamer " America," U. S. revenue steamer 

 " Dexter," and the U. S. steamer " Gushing." 

 The latter had on board S. Nicholson Kane, the 

 director of the parade. The procession then 

 passed up the Hudson river in the following 

 order: Patrolling flotilla, manned by naval mili- 

 tia of the State of New York; director of the 

 naval parade (on board U. S. torpedo boat " Gush- 

 ing "), with vidette boats ; the Committee on 

 Naval Parade and official guests ; the ships of 

 war and other Government vessels, led by the 

 U. S. flagship " Philadelphia " ; the Committee 

 of One Hundred ; the escorting fleet ; starboard 

 column, municipal and special boats ; port col- 

 umn, steam yachts ; eight divisions of steamers, 

 all of which had assembled in the upper bay and 

 joined in the procession after the war vessels 

 had passed up between the two columns. The 

 naval vessels continued up the Hudson river 

 until off Riverside Park, where they anchored 

 to allow the escorting fleet to pass up to Fort 

 Washington, where they turned down stream 

 and then disbanded as they passed the rear of 

 the war ships. Appropriate salutes of 21 guns 

 were fired on passing Forts Wadsworth and La- 

 fayette, Battery Park, and on anchoring at Riv- 

 erside. In the evening a parade of some 30,000 

 men belonging to more than 200 Roman Catholic 

 societies in New York and Brooklyn, included in 

 four divisions, under the direction of John A. Sul- 

 livan as grand marshal, marched from 59th Street 

 and Eighth Avenue to Fifth Avenue, and thence 

 by similar route as the school children to Wash- 

 ington Square. Simultaneously the literary and 

 musical entertainment of the Catholic clubs and 



the U". S. Catholic Historical Society occurred at 

 Carnegie Music Hall. The programme included 

 two orations, one by Frederick R. Coudert, of 

 New York city, and the other by Charles Lee 

 Carroll, of Maryland. A poem written for the 

 event was read by George Parsons Lathrop, and 

 an ode by Miss Eliza Allen Starr, of Chicago, 

 sung by the Palestrina Society and the chancel 

 chorus of the Jesuit Church of New York and 

 Jersey City. Beginning at 8.30 p. M., and con- 

 tinuing for half an hour, was a second display 

 of fireworks from the Brooklyn Bridge, given by 

 the municipal authorities. The great feature of 

 the display was an attempted facsimile of Ni- 

 agara Falls that occupied the whole length of 

 the bridge, from tower to tower, and represented 

 over 500,000 square feet of waterfall in fire. 



By act of Legislature Oct. 12 was made a 

 legal holiday, and the great military parade was 

 assigned to this date. More than 50,000 persons 

 marched in the procession, which was made up 

 as follows : First Di vision.. U. S. Army, including 

 the battalion of cadets from the U. S. Military 

 Academy ; Second Division, U. S. Naval Brigade ; 

 Third Division, State militia, including contin- 

 gents from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Con- 

 necticut, led by their respective governors ; 

 Fourth Division, the Grand Army of the Re- 

 public ; Fifth Division, the U. S. Letter-Carriers' 

 Association : Sixth Division, New York Fire De- 

 partment; Seventh Division, Exempt Volunteer 

 and Veteran Firemen ; Eighth Division, Italian 

 military organizations and French military or- 

 ganizations ; Ninth Division, German American 

 societies ; and Tenth Division, independent or- 

 ganizations. On this occasion the starting point 

 was the Battery ; thence to Broadway, to 4th 

 Street, west around Washington Square, to Fifth 

 Avenue, to 14th Street, to Fourth Avenue, to 

 17th Street, to Fifth Avenue, to 59th Street, 

 where they disbanded. The grand marshal was 

 Gen. Martin T. McMahon. On the grand review- 

 ing stand, besides Vice-President Morton and 

 Gov. Flower, Gen. Schofield, Gen. Howard, ex- 

 President Hayes, and ex-President Cleveland 

 were present, with numerous other distinguished 

 guests. In the afternoon a marble statue of Co- 

 lumbus, 13 feet high, costing upward of $25,000, 

 and the gift of Italian American citizens, was 

 unveiled at the circle, 59th Street and Eighth 

 Avenue. In the presence of a large gathering, 

 including the Italian military organizations, the 

 monument was unveiled by Miss Annie Barsotti. 

 As the drapery descended,' Archbishop Corrigan, 

 in his purple robes, rose and blessed and conse- 

 crated the work of art. Carlo Barsotti, as Presi- 

 dent of the Columbus Monument Executive Com- 

 mittee, presented the monument to the city, and 

 it was then formally so accepted by Gen. James 

 Grant Wilson, in the absence of Gov. Flower and 

 Mayor Grant. Baron Fava, the Italian minister, 

 and Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister, spoke, 

 and Jeremiah M. Rusk, representing the Presi- 

 dent, accepted the statue in behalf of the United 

 States. G-en. Luigo P. di Cesnola delivered an 

 oration, while at appropriate times during the 

 ceremony the Italian bands played Italian and 

 American hymns, and the artillery fired a national 

 salute. The final event of the day was the night 

 parade, with John J. Garnett, as grand marshal. 

 The route followed was identical with that of the 



