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the characters on the Dutch floats, and descendants of the old Colonial 

 families, members of the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Bevolu- 

 tion, etc., to perform the same service on the Colonial floats. The float 

 showing the capture of Major Andre will be manned by descendants of 

 John Paulding, one of Andre's captors. 



The parade will begin at 110th Street and Central Park West and 

 will proceed down Central Park West to 59th Street, through that 

 street to Fifth Avenue, and down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square. 



This parade will be repeated in Brooklyn on Friday, October 1, 

 proceeding from the Memorial Arch at the entrance to Prospect Park 

 by way of the Eastern Parkway to Buffalo Avenue. Eichmond Borough 

 will also have its historical parade, on a smaller scale, it is true. This 

 will take place on Monday, September 27, and will traverse the Amboy 

 Eoad, between New Dorp and Oakwood. The ceremonies on the site 

 of the first church on Staten Island, founded by the Waldensians, will 

 commemorate the first permanent settlement on the island. 



The military parade will take place on Thursday, passing over the 

 route followed by the historical pageant. It will be composed of the 

 Federal Troops of the Department of the East, the National Guard of 

 the State of New York within the limits of New York city, the United 

 States Navy and Marine Corps, the Naval Eeserve, the veteran organ- 

 izations, and marines and sailors from foreign warships. It is esti- 

 mated that 25,000 men will be in line. 



The carnival parade on Saturday evening, October 2, will traverse 

 the route followed by the historical parade and the military parade. 

 This will unquestionably be one of the most interesting and probably 

 the most brilliant feature of the celebration. It will be under the care 

 of the German societies of New York, and the Germans have always 

 displayed a remarkable aptitude for organizing and designing pageants 

 of this kind. The fifty cars composing the parade will be artistically 

 illuminated, and many thousands of torch-bearers will precede and 

 follow the emblematic groups. These will represent music, art and 

 literature, and the wide field of German legend, song and history will 

 furnish most of the themes. The streets along the route of the parade 

 will be made as light as day by festoons of electric lamps. This pageant 

 will be repeated in Brooklyn on the evening of Saturday, October 9, 

 and will pass along the Eastern Parkway. 



The general illumination of the city every night during the festival 

 period will offer the most brilliant spectacle ever seen in this country. 

 All the municipal buildings, as well as thousands of private buildings, 

 will be lighted up by tens of thousands of electric lights. The four 

 bridges spanning the East Eiver will be radiant with rows of lights, 

 14,000 being placed on the Queensboro Bridge, 13,000 on the Brooklyn 

 Bridge, 11,000 on the Williamsburg Bridge and the same number on 



