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morning, mid in addition to the bunting, Chinese 

 lanterns and illuminations of gas and electrici- 

 ty made the lino of march brilliant almost be- 

 yond description. The procession included ;i 

 lantern parade of nearly 5,000 bicyclists, among 

 whom were several hundred women, and 15 

 11 -a is, as follows : Car of Fame, car of stone age, 

 car -if sun worshipers, statue of Columbus, car 

 of the Capitol, cur of Liberty, car of the press, 

 car of music, car of science, car of poetry and 

 romance, car of the American women, car of the 

 oceans, Columbus's ship of state, and car of Elec- 

 tra ; while between the floats were various groups 

 dressed to represent historical characters, as In- 

 dians, Spanish knights, Continentals, etc. The 

 week's celebrations were brought to a close on 

 the evening of Oct. 18, by a banquet at Lenox 

 Lyceum, tendered to the many distinguished vis- 

 itors by the Committee of One Hundred, at which 

 nearly 700 persons participated. The banquet 

 was opened with a grace said by Bishop Potter, 

 and later was called to order by Mayor Grant, 

 who announced the toasts as follow: "The Pres- 

 ident of the United States," responded to by Vice- 

 President Morton; "The United States," re- 

 sponded to by Baron Fava and John W. Foster ; 

 "The State of New York," by Gov. Flower; 

 " The City of New York," by John H. V. Arnold ; 

 "American Patriotism," by Horace Porter; 

 ' America and its Discoverer," by Charles G. F. 

 Wahle ; " The New York Legislature,'' by Wil- 

 liam Sulzer ; and " The Congress of the United 

 States," by Amos J. Cummings. 



Political. The election of 1892 was held on 

 Nov. 8, when the following were voted for : 



Tammany. Mayor, Thomas F. Gilrov ; Regis- 

 ter, Ferdinand Levy ; County Clerk, "Henry D. 

 Purroy ; Judge of toe Court of Common Pleas, 

 Leonard A. Giegerich ; City Judge, Rufus B. 

 Cowing ; Additional Surrogate, Frank T. Fitz- 

 gerald ; President of the Board of Aldermen, 

 George B. McClellan ; Justice of the First Dis- 

 trict Court, Wauhope Lynn. Also 30 Aldermen 

 and 30 Assemblymen, and members of Congress 

 as follow; Seventh District. Franklin Bartlett: 

 Eighth District, Edward J. Dunphy ; Ninth 

 District, Timothy J. Campbell ; Tenth District, 

 Daniel G. Sickles ; Eleventh District, Amos J. 

 Cummings: Twelfth District, William B. Cock- 

 ran; Thirteenth District, John D. Warner; 

 Fourteenth District, John R. Fellows > Fifteenth 

 District, Ashbel P. Fitch ; and Sixteenth District, 

 William Ryan. 



County Democracy. This organization placed 

 in nomination Justice of the First District Court 

 AVilliam J. A. Caffrey, 19 Aldermen, and 15 

 Assemblymen ; also for Congress in the Twelfth 

 District Arthur Dennie, and in the Fourteenth 

 District Francis Hunt. 



The New York Democracy nominated its can- 

 didates in 15 aldermanic districts and in 8 As- 

 sembly districts. 



Republican. Mayor, Edward Einstein ; Reg- 

 ister, Hugh Coleman : County Clerk, Henry C. 

 Botty; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 

 Leonard A. Giegerich; City Judge, Rufus B. 

 Cowing; Additional Surrogate, John S. Smith ; 

 President of the Board of Aldermen, C. Volney 

 King; Justice of the First District Court. Wil- 

 liam J. A. Caffrey ; also 80 aldermen and 80 As- 

 semblymen, and members of Congress as fol- 



low: Seventh District, Samuel A. Brown; 

 Eighth District, Austin K. Ford; Ninth Dis- 

 trict, John 1'. I'hclaii; Tenth District, Charles 

 K. Coon; Kleventh I >ist rid , Abraham H. 

 sohn; Twelfth District, Duniel HuUerfield ; Thir- 

 teenth District, William C. Koln-rts; Fourteenth 

 District, H. Charles I'lman: Fifteenth District, 

 Henry Hobinson; and Sixteenth District, George 

 A. Brandivth. 



Socialist. Mayor, Alexander Jones; Regis- 

 ter, August Waldinger; County C'erk, Theodore 

 Birk; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 

 Henry Glyn : City Judge, Henry Foth; Addi- 

 tional Surrogate, Charles Franz; President of 

 the Board of Aldermen, Charles F. Wilson; 

 .Justice of the First District Court, Lazarus 

 Abelson ; also 25 aldermen and 25 Assemblymen, 

 and members of Congress as follow: Eighth 

 District, Joseph K. Newmayer; Ninth District, 

 Aaron Henry; Tenth District, Philip Schaett- 

 gen ; Eleventh District, George Silburg ; Twelfth 

 District, William Klingerberg ; Thirteenth Dis- 

 trict, John J. Flick; Fourteenth District, John 

 N. Bauman ; Fifteenth District, Enoch K. Thom- 

 as ; and Sixteenth District, Howard Balkaus. 



Prohibition. Mayor, Joseph J. Bogardus; 

 Register, Karl Grimskold ; County Clerk, Louis 

 E. Van Norman ; Judge of the Court of Com- 

 mon Pleas, Charles E. Manierre; City Judge, 

 Harvey P. Hinman: Additional Surrogate, 

 James H. Laird ; President of the Board of Al- 

 dermen, James H. Hardy ; also 30 aldermen and 

 30 Assemblymen, and members of Congress as 

 follow : Seventh District, Stephen D. Riddle ; 

 Eighth District, William A. Crane ; Ninth Dis- 

 trict, Timothy N. Holden ; Tenth District, 

 George G. Gethin ; Eleventh-District, Brown C. 

 C. Hammond; Twelfth District, Richard W. 

 Turner; Thirteenth District, James M. Orr; 

 Fourteenth District, Benjamin T. Rogers, Jr. ; 

 Fifteenth District, George B. Hillard; and Six- 

 teenth District, Francis Crawford. 



People's Party. Mayor, Henry A. Hicks ; 

 Register, Joseph H. Steinmetz; County Clerk, 

 Edwin G. Bean ; Judge of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, Clarence T. Davis; City Judge, Thomas 

 J. Sandford : Additional Surrogate, Stephen W. 

 Linington ; President of the Board of Alder- 

 men, Wilbur Aldrich; also 9 aldermen and 12 

 Assemblymen, and members of Congress as fol- 

 low : Eighth District. H. Alden Spencer: Tenth 

 District, George W. Reid; Eleventh District, 

 James Bahan ; Twelfth District, John J. Daly: 

 Thirteenth District, David Rousseau ; Four- 

 teenth District. George A. Hunter; and Fif- 

 teenth District, William W. Gleason. 



Of the foregoing, the Tammany candidates were 

 elected by handsome majorities, except in the 

 Eighteenth Assembly District, where the regu- 

 lar Democratic candidate was chosen, as was 

 also the case in the Seventh and Sixteenth Con- 

 gressional Districts. In the voting for ineml>ers 

 of the electoral college the Democratic ticket 

 received in the County of New York an nveraire 

 of 175,206 votes; the Republican, 98.969; the 

 Labor, 5.945; the Prohibition, 2,489; and the 

 People's, 2,866. 



Events. On Feb. 7 the Hotel Royal, at Sixth 

 Avenue and 40th Street, was burned, with loss 

 of life. On July the New York Society of the 

 Sons of the Revolution celebrated the reading 



