Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — GAIA DAY. [ARTICLE]

GAIA DAY.

New York City Does Herself Proud. Twenlf-Flve Thoassnd Children Parade in tbe Columbia Celebration. __ New York opened wide tier great doors, came in and were banquetted with great sights and went to bod content. It was tbe third day of toe Columbus celebration —the first of the secular observance except the art loan exhibition- and It showed what a great city can doing great emergency. It met the call upon Its resources with dignity and decenefTTyecitymerits" guests in a hospitable* spirit. It gave them a grand, free exhibition of marching and a free pyrotechnical display from the noblest bridge that swings between the earth and sky, with a number of lesser illumine 1 ions not to be despiaod, and it capped the Whole with opo of thoso perfect days which the inhabitants of other cities sometimes dream of. but which only New Yorkers experience in all their golden splendor. Make way for the boy there; it is his day and he is hero of it. Not quite Such an assemblage ever before gathered in Fifth ave to see a living panorama go past. It was all mothers and girls and tyiys. Mere men were in the minority. The -mothers were all out, sick or well, and so with the big brothers and sisters. There was enougli idle mankind to leaven the lump. And whatg lump it was. It was a ribbon of packed humanity stretching from street curb to tbe eaves of every building along the line of march. Tho policemen woro their clubs in their bolt* and behaved like men who knew that the sharp eye of discipline was upon them. The boys acted admirably. There was a large audience In the Carnegie music hall to listen to Mr. Pratt's big musical allegory and Mr. Depew’s oration. Thus was tho beniuning and ending of the third day of the festival and New York la just warming to its work. Tbe boys preserved txzellent order and passed the stands with the steady bead of veterans. Their leiring won them coir tlnuous and we I u.e ited applause. On the stand were 3,000 school girls dressed hi red. In white and 1 Is* who sang patriotic songs as the ir. erssion passed by, At Washington square two stands seating 5,300 spectators hadb:en ercctod. There thu mayor and school commissioners left the ranks and took seats reserved for tbe stand from wh ch they reviewed the pro< e ;sion as it passed by on it* way to Fourih street,and University place where it dUbrndcd.