LIBRARY OF TRIBUNE EXTRAS. VOL. I. MAY, 1889. NO. 5. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY CELEBRATED IN NEW-YORK APRIL 29, 30-MAY 1, 1889. President Harrison Entering the City Hall— View from The Tribune Building. FOURTH EDITION. $2 a Year. Single Copies, 25 Cents. THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION, NEW-YORK. b * THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN NEW YORK. Illustrations Reproduced from THE NEW YORK GRAPHIC. THE ARRIVAL OF PRESIDENT HARRISON. THE DESPATCH PASSING THE MEN-OF-WAR. MEMORIAL SERVICES IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. THE EXERCISES AT THE SUB-TREASURY BUILDING. THE PARADE PASSING THE ARCH AT WASHINGTON SQUARE THE GREAT MILITARY PARADE PASSING THE REVIEWING STAND AT MADISON SQUARE. '" HAIL COLUMBIA, THE PILGRIM FATHERS. THE BREWERS. COMMERCE. SOME OF THE FLOATS IN WEDNESDAY'S GREAT CIVIC PA^DE. W&ffi&&%A i tii i '''^-iro. MARYLAND. TRIUMPH OP 'WAGNER. A TEA CARAVAN. SOME OF THE FLOATS IN WEDNESDAY'S GREAT CIVIC g&RADE. WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE. LANDING OF HUDSON. WASHINGTON S FAREWELL. NEW AMSTERDAM. WASHINGTON S FAREWELL. SOME OF THE FLOATS IN WEDNESDAY'S GREAT CIVIC PARADE. LIBRARY OF TRIBUNE EXM. VOL. I. MAY, 1889. NO. 5. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY NEW-YOEK: 1789—1889. No nobler figure ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life. Washington ivas grave and court eous in address ; his manners toere simple and unpretending ; his silence and the serene calmness of his temper spolce of a perfect self- mastery ; but there was Utile in his outer bear ing to reveal the grandeur of soul which lifts his figure, with all the simple majesty of an ancient statue, out of the smaller passions, the meaner impulses of the world around him. It was only as the weary fight went on that the colonists learned, little by little, the greatness of their leader— his clear judgment, his heroic endurance, his silence under difficulties, his calmness in the hour of danger or defeat, the patience with which he waited, the quickness and hardness with which he struck, the lofty and serene sense of duty that never swerved from its task through resentment or jealousy, t/iat never through war or peace felt the touch of a meaner ambition, that knew no aim save that of guarding the freedom of his fellow- countrymen, and no personal longing save that of returning to his own fireside when their free dom was secured. It was almost unconsciously that men learned to cling to Washington with a trust and faith such as few other men have won, and to regard him with a reverence ivliich still hashes us in presence of his memory.— IJ. K. Green ; History of the English People. The series of American Centennial Celebra tions beginning with that of the Battle of Lex ington, in 1875, and including the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the surrender at Yorktown, the evacuation of New- York by the British forces, and the completion of the Constitution, was closed by the one hundredth anniversary of Washington's first Inauguration on April 30. The last and most impressive ceremonies of the historic series were witnessed in New- York City by more than a million visitors from every part of the United States. In response to pressing demands from hundreds of readers of The Tribune the complete nar rative of the three days' celebration is re printed herewith from the daily files in order to enable those who took part in this great demonstration of American patriotism to have in convenient form a permanent record and souvenir of the religious services, literary exer cises, the naval, military and trades parades, the official receptions, the ball, banquets, and all other features of these memorable festiv ities. To these descriptive articles are added a series of historical reminiscences and a full account of the preliminary work of organiza tion which opened the way for a celebration of magnificent proportions, worthy in all respects of the metropolis and the American Republic. " When I first read in detail the life of Washington, I was profoundly impressed with the moral elevation and greatness of his character, and 1 found mysef at a loss to name among the statesmen of any age or country many, or pos sibly any, who could be his rival. In saying this I mean no disparagement to the class of poli ticians, the men of my own craft and cloth, whom, in my own land, and my own experience, I have found no less worthy, than other men of love and of admiration. 1 could name among them those who seem to me to come near even to him. But I will shut out the last half century from the com parison. I will then say that if, among all the pedestals supplied by history for public charac ters of extraordinary nobility and purity, I saw one higher than all the rest, and if I were re quired at a moment's notice to name the fittest occupant for it, I think my choice at any time during the last forty-five years would have lighted, as it would now light, upon Washington." — [W. E. Gladstone. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. SCHEME OF ORGANIZATION. SCOEE OF THE CELEBRATION. THE CENTENNIAL COMMITTEES. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS FOR WHAT PROVED IN THE END A MEMORABLE DEMON STRATION OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM. The initiative for the Centennial Celebration was taken by the New-York Historical Society at its stated meeting' of March 4. 1884. when the fol lowing resolutions were adopted by the members present : Resolved, That the New-York Historical Society will i celebrate the Centennial anniversary of the In auguration of George Washington as President of the United States on the 30th day of April, 1789. Resolved, That it be referred to the Executive Committee to take such action as may be necessary and expedient, and in due time report a plan to carry out the purpose of the society in a manner suitable to the occasion— the commemoration of the most im portant event in the history of the city, the State and the Nation. For the part played by the " Sons of the Revolu tion," see page 121. March 4, 1886, at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of New-York Nathaniel Niles offered similar resolutions to those of the Historical So ciety, and a committee was appointed by the Chair to consider what action should be taJvn by the Chamber of Commerce to secure a proper cele bration of what was pronounced the most im portant incident in the history of the Nation. The committee was as follows : Richard A. Mc- Curdy, Nathaniel Niles. Daniel C. Robbins. Charles S. Smith and William H. Roberts. This committee made its report on April 1 the same year, recommending that steps should be taken to have April 30, 18S9, made a National holiday; that Congress be asked to appropriate money for the celebration, and that the co-opera tion of the Governor of New- York, the Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of this city and the Gov ernors of all the States be invited. This is a general outline of the plan which was actually adopted, and on May 6 the president of the Chamber of Commerce appointed the following well-known citizens as a special committee to prepare the details for the celebration: THE PRELIMINARY COMMITTEE. Levi P. Morton, Samuel D. Babcock, Nathaniel Nilea. PJ chard A. Mc Curdy, Daniel C. Robbins, Franklin Ed son, Chauncey M. Depew, Henry Hentz, A. Foster Higgins, Francis B. Thurber, Benjamin G-. Arnold, John H. Inmsn, William H. Robertson, Jackson S. Schultz, Enoch L. Faneher, Gustav Schwab, John Sloan, Legrand B. Cannon, Orlando B. Potter, Cornelius N. Bliss, William B. Dodge, William B. Dinsmore, Erastus Wiman, Charles Watrous, Vernon H. Brown. James M. Brown, president of the Chamber of Commerce, was unanimously chosen as chairman of the committee. One of the leading spirits of the movement was the late Algernon S. Sullivan, ind one who gave many valuable hints and much useful aid was Colonel Jesse E. Peyton, of Haddon- field. N. J., at whose suggestion the Committee of Citizens of New-York was organized. Colonel Peyton had taken an active part in previous centennial celebrations, notably that at tork town, and the benefits of his experience were given freely to those who were laboring with him. He drew ud the call to citizens, which was ap proved by such as had already taken an interest in the proposed eelebration. and the signatures which appeared on the original call were the following : Algernon S. Sullivan, James C. Spencer, B. H. Bristow, Elbridge T. Gerry, Wilson G. Hunt, Charles George Wilson, Joseph H. Choate, F. R. Coudert, John Jay Knox, Henry Hall, George W. McLean, C. N. Jordan, O. D. Baldwin, Richard W. Gilder, Henry E. RusselL Sargent & Co., A. 0. Cheney, Donald Mackay, Edward Schell, Brayton Ives, G. G. Williams, William P. Clyde, A. D. Shepard, John S. Kennedy, Richard King, William H. Tillinghast, Robert Olyphant, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas C. Acton, 0. W. Starkey, E. P. Olcott, Edwards Pierrepont, William AUen Butler, Charles M. Fry, John A. Stewart, J. D. Vermilye, F. D. Tappen, Horace Porter, Levi P. Morton, D. Huntington, Chauncey M. Depew, J. J. Astor, Edward S. Jaffray, William H. Appleton, John Claflin, Lawrence & Co., Alfred Ray, Walter H. Lewis, William C. Langley, A. D. Juilliard, W. L. Strong, Tefft, Weller & Co., Sweetser, Pembrook & Co.; John F. Plummer, H. R. Bishop, D. O. Mills, S. V./ White. Richard S. Storrs, Henry E. Pierrepont, Ripley Ropes, John W. Hunter, Gordon L. Ford, A. A. Low, COMMITTEE OF CITIZENS, NEW- YORK. H. W. Cannon, James D. Smith, George H. Potts, William Dowd, D. A. Heald, Henry A. Oakley, ' . B. S. Walcott, David Adee, John H. Washburn, Charles Lanier, J. A. Bostwick, Norvin Green, Richard A. McCurdy, Tiffany & Co., Cornelius N. Bliss, Gorham Manufacturing Co., by Edward Holbrook, The Singer Mfg. Co., F. G. Bourne, Sec, Meriden Britannia Co., John G. Bacon, M'g'r., Wm. Woodward, jr., C. J. Canda, A. E. Bateman, Joseph W. Harper, Daniel Manning, Samuel D. Babcock, William P. Dixon, W. E. Dodge, Edward Cooper, American Bank Note Co., by J. Macdonough, Pros., Samuel Carpenter, Elliott F. Shepard, Thomas L. James, John H. Flagg, L. J. N. Stark, William Jay, George F. Baker, Franklin Edson, Gustav Schwab, James F. Wenmah, D. F. Appleton, John Newton, ' C. H. De Lamater, G. H. Robinson, George S. Coe, Logan C. Murray, James Swann, A. R. Whitney, W. RockhiU Potts, H. W. Webb, J. H. Van Antwerp, John King, Roscoe Conkling, Henry Villard, W. H. Starbuck, Van Rensselaer Kennedy. BROOKLYN. A. E. Orr, Charles A. Townsend, Henry W. Maxwell, H. C. Duval, Richard Maior, Joseph F. Knapp. The meeting took place at the Eifth Avenue Hotel November 10, 1887, with Mayor Hewitt in the chair. The Mayor delivered an address approving of the proposed celebration, and point ing out many good reasons why the movement should be carried out on a grand scale. Gordon L. Eord and Clarence W. Bowen were elected secretaries. Algernon S. Sullivan offered resolu tions which were adopted after amendment' in which the Mayor was requested to appoint tf THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. committee of thirteen to confer with the com mittees of the Historical Society and the Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor himself to be chairman. A patriotic address in support of the resolutions and of the general plan of the celebration was then delivered by Hampton L. Carson, of Phila delphia, secretary of the Constitutional Centennial Commission, who was present by invitation, and Mayor Hewitt named the following as the Citizens' Committee : Daniel E. Tieman, Smith Ely, jr., Edward Cooper, William H. Wickham, Eranklin Edson, William R. Grace, Allan Campbell, Charles P. Daly, Stuyesant Pish, Elbridge T. G"rry, Will iam G. Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, jr., Philip Schuyler. The committee of the Historical Society were : John A. King, chairman; Jacob B. Moore, secre tary ; John Jay, John D. Jones, John S. Kennedy, Edward F. de Lancey, Robert E. Livingston, George H. Moore, Robert B. Roosevelt, Charles H. Russell, jr., Robert Schell, Cornelius Vander bilt, Andrew Warner, John A. Weeks. Subsequently the Hon. Hamilton Fish, ex- Secretary of State, was elected president of the General Committee, which was limited to 200, and Clarence W. Bowen was made permanent secretary. The committee of 200 as finally organized comprised the following names : COMMITTEE OF TWO HUNDRED. Adams, Charles H., Allen, Charles F., Anderson, B. Ellery, ' Arthur, Chester Alan Astor, William Waldorf, Auchmuty, Richard T., Babcock, Samuel D., Barnes, John S., Barlow, S. L. M., Beach, Captain Warren C, Benjamin, Frederick A., Beekman, J. W., Beekman, William B., Belknap, Robert Lenox, Bliss, George, Bliss, CorneUus N., Bird, John H., Bissel, William H., Borrowe, Samuel, Boyesen, H. H., Bowen, Clarence W., Brown, James M., Burnet, James J., Campbell, Allan, Cadwalader, John L., Cantor, Hon. Jacob A., Carter, James C, Carleton, Henry Guy, Cheney, Alfred C, Clinton, Alexander James, Clarkson, Colonel Floyd, Clarkson, Frederick, Clarkson, Banyer, Claflin, John, Coe, Charles A., Conway, Moncure D., Conkllng, Alfred R., Connor, Washington E. Constable, James M., Cooper, Edward, Cochrane, General John, Coudert, Frederick R., Crulkshank, Edwin A., Gruger, S. Van Rensselaer, Crosby, William Henry, Cutting, W. Bayard, Daly, Charles P., Dayton, Charles W. , Davies, Richard T., Depew. Chauncey M.. D« Peyster, Frederick J.. De Lancey. Edward F., De Witt, George G.. De Witt, Richard V-, Dl Cesnola, L. P.. Dix. Dr. Morgan. Dodge, W. E., Drake. A. W., Edson, Franklin. ' Ehlers. Edw. M. L.. Keese, William Linn. Kelly, Eugene. King, John A., King, Rufus, Knox, Alexander, Knox, John J., Lawrence, Frank R. Leary, Arthur, Ledyard, Henry Brockholsb LeRoy, Henry W., Livingston, Johnston, Livingston, James Duane, Low, Seth, Loew, Edward V. Marq.uand, Henry G„ McAllister, Ward, McCurdy, Richard A., Millet, Frank D., Mills, Darius O., Moore, Jacob B., Moore, Thomas S., Montgomery, James M.. Morris, Gouverneur, Morris, Louis G., Morgan, J. Pierpont Morton, Levi P., Myers, Theodore W., Newbold, Thomas H., Nicola, De Lancey, Olin, Stephen H., Ottendorfer, Oswald, Parsons, Charles, Perry, Oliver H., Pendleton, Geo. Hunt, Pine, John B., Pierrepont, John J., Plummer, John F., Potter, Orlando B., Rhinelaiider. Frederick W Roosevelt, Robert R., Roosevelt, Theodore Robb, J. Hampden, Robertson, Wm. H. Russell, Chas. H., jr. Rutter, Robert, Schell, Robert, Schell, Edward, Schermerhorn, F. A Schultz, Jackson S.. Schuyler, John, Schuyler, Philip, Seligman, Jesse, Seward, Clarence A., Shannon, Robert H., Sherman, Gardiner, Sims, Clifford S., Simmons, J. E., Sloane, John, Sloane, William D., Slote, Henry L., i i Emmet, Thomas Addis, Erben, Captain Henry, Evarts. Wm. M.. Farragut. Loyall. Fish, Stuyvesant, Fish, Hamilton, Fitzgerald. Louis, Flsk. Josiah M.. Ford, Gordon L.. Gallatin, Frederick, Gardiner, Asa Bird. Genet. George Clinton. Gedney. William H., Gerrv. Elbridge T.. Gilder. Richard W.. Goelet. Ogden, Goelet. Robert. Grant. Hueh J., Grace, Wm. R, Haven, George G., Hamilton, Schuyler. Hamilton, William G.. Hart. Chas. Henry, Hauselt, Chas., Hewitt, Abram S.. Hendricks, Edmund, Hlscock. Hon. Frank. Huntington. Daniel. Husted, Hon. James W., Hyde. Henry B.. Isham, Charles, Iselin, Adrian Ives, Brayton, Jackson, Joseph C, James, D. Willis, Jay, William, Jay, John, Jones, John D. W., Kane, S. Nicholson, Smith, James D., Smith, F. H., Smith, William 0., Stedman, Edmund O. Steir.way, William, ' Stoddard, Richard H. fcitokes, Wm. E. D Stuyvesant, Rutherford biewart, Lispenard, Stanton, Walter Stevens John Austin, i Standish, Myles Strong, William L. Stuyvesant, Robei t. Tallmadge, Frederick S. Tappan, Frederick D Tieman, Daniel p Tomllnson, John 0 Tucker John J., ' Vanderbilt, Cornelius. Vanderbilt, William k. Van Buren, Travis Coles, Van Oourtland. James S. Van Rensselaer, J. Tallmad Vanck, John Barnes Varnum, James M. Warner, Andrew, Webb, Alexander S. Webb, G. Creighton, Weeks, John A.. Wiman, Erastus, Winchester, Locke W Wilson, Richard T., ' Winthrop, Buchanan, Winthrop, Egerton L., Wilson, James Grant, Wilson, George, Wright, Stephen M., At the fifth meeting of the General Committee; held in the Governor's Room at the City Hall, Jan uary 11, 1888, John A. King, president of the His torical Society, announced that the Hon. Hamilton Fish had consented to act as president of the com mittee, and Mayor Hewitt appointed the following as the Centennial Executive Committee, with El bridge T. Gerry as chairman : Abram S. Hewitt, John T. Hoffman, John A. King, Cornelius N. Bliss, Seth Low, Frederick S. Tallmadge. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Orlando B. Potter, Asa Bird Gardiner, John Cochrane, James „M. Varnum, Rutherford Stuyvesant, William G. Hamilton, Charles W. Day ton, Stuyvesant Fish, George G. Haven, Louis Fitz gerald, James M. Montgomery, J. Tallmadge Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler, Brayton IvesJ J. Hampden Robb, Jacob B. Moore. Theodore Roosevelt, James C. Carter, and Clarence W. Bowen, secretary. On February 3 Mr. Gerry submitted an outline of the plan and scope of the celebration, which was extremely modest as compared with the final arrangements. He thought one day, April 30, would suffice for the demonstration, with the exception perhaps of a Naval review in the Bay on the afternoon of the preceding day. The trade and military parades were to be combined; the services at the Sub- Treasury, the memorial exhibition of relics and historic portraits, the banquet and other features, which surpassed the forecasts of the projectors, were first heard of at this time. From the spring of last year until the com pletion of the celebration, Mr. Gerry labored con- stantly to make the Centennial demonstration worthy of the occasion. It was largely through his efforts and example that subscriptions were raised, and he was instrumental in having the bills introduced in the Legislature authorizing State and City appropriations and making April 30 a legal holiday. Through his activity also the various committees were put in working form, and tha duties so divided that even in the rush of the closing weeks of preparation, the business of the committees went along with order and smooth. ness. The men who did the heavy work and deserve special mention are Clarence W. Bowen, general secretary, and the chairmen and mem bers of the following working committees: No. 1— Plan and Scope.— Hugh J. Grant, chair man; Abram S. Hewitt, James M. Varnum, Cor- THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. nelius N. Bliss, Frederick S. Tallmadge, Sam uel D. Babcock, Clarence W. Bowen, secretary. No. 2— States.— William G. Hamilton, chairman ; James 0. Carter, John Schuyler, J. Tallmadge Van Rensselaer. James W. Husted, Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob A. Cantor, E. Ellery Anderson, Floyd Clark son, Henry W. LeRoy, John B. Pine, Samuel Borrowe, James M. Montgomery, secretary. No. ¦ 3— General Government.— John A. King, chairman ; John Jay, Edward Cooper, William H. Wickham, William R. Grace, Frederick J. De Peyster, William H. Robertson, Cornelius Vander bilt, William M. E^arts, Frank Hiscock, Seth Low, secretary. No. 4— Army (Military and Industrial Parade).— S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, chairman; John Coch rane, Locke W. Winchester, J. Hampden Robb, Frederick Gallatin, Frederick D. Tappen, John C. Tomlinson, secretary. No. 5— Navy.— Asa Bird Gardiner, chairman; John S. Barnes, George G. Haven, Jackson S. Schultz, D. Willis James, Frederick R. Coudert, Captain Henry Erben, U. S. N., Ogden Goelet, John Jay Pierrepont, Loyall Farragut, Alfred C. Cheney, Buchanan Winthrop, S. Nickolson Kane, secretary. No. 6— Entertainment.— Stuyvesant Fish, chair man ; William Waldorf Astor, William K. Van derbilt, William Jay, Egerton L. Winthrop, Robert Goelet, Gouverne;r Morris, William B. Beekman, S. L. M. Barlow, Stephen H. Olin, William E. D. Stokes, Ward McAllister, secretary and manager. No. 7— Finance.— Brayton Ives, chairman; Darius 0. Mills, Richard T. Wilson, William L. Strong, Henry B. Hyde, James M Brown, Louis Fitzgerald, Allan Campbell, John Sloane, James D. Smith, Edward V. Loew, Eugene Kelly, Walter Stanton, John F. Plummer, J. Edward Simmons, John J. Knox, DeLancey Nicoll, secretary. No. 8— Railroads and Transportation.— Orlaindo B. Potter, chairman ; Chauncey M. Depew, Erastus Wiman, Charles W. Daytorr Josiah M. Fisk. Clif ford Stanley Sims, Thomas S. Moore, James Duane Livingston, secretary. No. 9— Art and Exhibition.— Henry G. Mar- quand, chairman; GordonJD. Ford, vice-chairman; Daniel Huntington, .F. Hopkinson Smith, William E. Dodge,, Charles Parsons, A. W. Drake, Oliver H. Perry, Frank D. Millet, H. H. Boyesen, Charles Henry Hart, Rutherford Stuyvesant, John L. Cad walader, Lispenard Stewart,, Charles H. Russell, jr., Richard W. Gilder, secretary. No. 10— Literary Exercises.— Elbridge T. Gerry, chairman; Clarence W. Bowen, secretary. Upon his accession to office Mayor Grant be came chairman of the General Committee, bat ex- Mayor Hewitt continued to work with the Com mittee on Plain and Scope. All the principal pro moters of the celebration not only gave their time to the work gratuitously, but made liberal subscriptions to the general fund and paid tho full price for their tickets to the ball and ban quet, their only return being the satisfaction which they now derive from the success of their labors, and the commemorative badges they re ceived as mementoes of the occasion. Mr. Gerry has, in addition, a small gavel which he used as chairman, costing about SI. This he will treas ure as a souvenir. That even the most far-sighted of the projectors of the celebration did not forecast the tremendous proportions which it would assume is shown by the fact that it was intended to have the review ing stand on the Sub-Treasury steps. When the voice of the States began to be heard, all limited plans had to be abandoned, and three days were scarcely long enough !forl a celebration that was originally intended for only one. The State appropriated $225,000 for the pur poses of the celebration, of which $150,000 was for the transportation and provisioning of the National Guard, $20,000 for the Grand Army of the Republic, and $55,000 for the use of the committee. MONDAY, APRIL 29. HONORS F OH TWO PRESIDENTS. GENERAL HARRISON WELCOMED BY A FINJii NAVAL DISPLAY IN THE HARBOR. XJ.XUBE ADDS MES, SMILING APPBOTALj THE GREAT CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FOUNDING OF THE GOVERNMENT BEGUN UNDER THE MOST AUSPICIOUS .CXROUM-i STANCES— A LARGE RECEPTION AT THE EQUITABLE BUILDING— AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE PAID BY THE SCHOOL: CHILDREN — THE, BRILLIANT I BALL AT THE OPERA HOUSE.1 8 a. m.— Artillery salutes at forts and Navy Yard, 9:30 a. m.— Steamers Sirius and Erastus Wiman leave New- York with Governors and Commis sioners of States to meet President Harrison at Elizabethport. ' 11 a. m.— President Harrison leaves Elizabethport for New- York. 11 : 15— Naval parade begins. 1 p. m.— President lands at Wall-st., and is re ceived by the Governor and the Mayor. 1: 30— First land parade from pier to Equitable. 2 to 3:30— Reception and luncheon at Equitable, 4 to 5 :30— Public reception at City Hall— Greeting and address of school girls. 9 p. m.— The Centennial ball. (Reprinted from The Tribune, April 30;) There were memories in many minds of the last great National celebration held in New-York, when the citizens of the American metropolis and the many thousand strangers within her gates arose from their beds yesterday morning. The day which was to witness the beginning of the most magnificent celebration ever undertaken in the new world had arrived, and had brought with it recollections, neither inspiring nor comforting, of the day five years and five months before, when the evacuation of New- York by the British troops had been commemorated. It was the weather that acted the part of an ungracious reminder. On the morning of November 26, 1883, the people of New- York had risen to witness a spectacle with some features like unto yesterday's. The public imagination had been stirred by vivid descriptions of the little army of occupation one hundred years before, marching proudly down the Bowery Road, through a nipping, eager air that put elastio energy into every movement, while the spirit of victory brightened every eye. The commemorative spectacle was expected to be equally inspiring to the inheritors of the boon won by those gallant troops, -with its picture of a vast city bedecked with glad bunting its receptions of National dignitaries, and its military THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. civic and marine parades. But sunrise ushered in a darksome day, with heavy clouds hanging over the city, a bleak, penetrating wind blowing fitfully, yet unable to lift the Hags which clung, heavy with water, about their staffs, and when 15,000 soldiers and the 25,000 civilians started on their march, the rain bsgan falling again in an insidious, disgusting drizzle, while dark clouds of mist, driving before the wind, scarcely higher than the housetops, obscured the marine picture and made the demonstration little more than a hollow mockery. Unhappy memories these with which to wake on the morning of the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the executive department of constitutional government in the New World. But the weather was to blame. Those who were awake at 5 o'clock heard the rattle of rain-drops upon the window panes ; and when the tardier multitude breakfasted three or four hours later the sky had a sullen look, masses of black clouds hung low in whichever direction inquiring looks were turned and momentarily threatened a down pour like that which took the crispness and brill iancy out of the Evacuation Day festivities. The wind fluttered the bunting gayly enough, but it was long before the eager thousands were gratified by the sight of all the gloom dissipated, and the benison of bright sunlight resting on houses, streets, rivers and bay. Meanwhile there was no sign that the ardor of the multitude had been chilled. Beginning with early morning the city sent its thousands in steady streams southward through streets and avenues that in stretches looked like aisles cut through a wilderness of tri-colored buildings. Scarcely a house so humble but it could show its little spot of gay and patriotic bunting. The storm of the preceding three days had marred the picture in places, and the lowering skies had discouraged some from renewing their be draggled decorations, but enough remained to give the city a more bravely patriotic appearance than ever it bore before. One purpose occupied the minds of the host that had culled out a holiday. It was to see as much as possible of the great naval review and the reception of the President of the United Stats, who came to re-enact some of the cere monies with which his august predecessor had been greeted a century before. To witness those imposing scenes it was necessary to be in the lower part of the city. Seven miles of the city's water-front showed a deep fringe of humanity whose dark line was not interrupted by steam ship piers or warehouses. These the crowd mounted, and their perpendicular sides alone were bare. The roofs of the high buildings in the lower part of the city, which commanded a view of the bay, were black with people, the Produce Exchange alone being unpopulated. The outer edge of this dark human fringe was adorned more gayly than any of the avenues. Here lay all the water-craft not concerned in the parade that could find anchorage or wharf-room, all loaded with sightseers, and all bedecked with fluttering flags and pennants. No prettier spectacle of the kind can be imagined than a vessel in gala dress. Sightseers at the Bat tery who could see the warships dressed with the rainbow arch of flags and signals can testify to this. They, too, and the thousands on the housetops in the lower part of the island saw a spectacle as beautiful as it was impressive in the Upper Bay. The perspective is, of course, deceiving in views of this kind, but from the shore it seemeil as if the capacity of the harbor that might offer shelter to all the navies of the world was being tested. Hundreds of brightly caparisoned craft filled the watery field between Governor's and Bedlow's Islands on the north and Staten Island on the south and the Long Island and New-Jersey shores to the east and west. Till noon the vast fleet, after once it had gathered itself together, lay motionless except when a saucy tug now and then dashed hither and thither, as if to rid itself of sur plus enthusiasm and energy. Along the western edge of the fleet lay a line of warships stretching down toward the Robbins Reef light. On them all eyes were bent, for by their conduct the distant spectators were to learn of the approach of the President of the United States, who was to ap proach the city by a water route, as General Wash ington had done a hundred years before. It was some minutes after noon, when far down toward Staten Island a cloud of white steam rose from the waiting craft. Steam whistles were screeching their salute to the Chief Executive of the Nation. Then came on the water the sound of cannon. The Despatch, bearing the President and his official family, had come into the Bay and the naval review had begun. The air was wonderfully clear, and the progress of the Despatch and the steamers accompanying her could be followed by the gradual approach of the cloud of powder smoke as ship after ship took up the Presidential salute. But to those on shore the gladsome noise was not great. The wind blew from the southwest and carried the sound across Long Island. All that reached the thousands on the roofs was an irregular series of booms like abysmal notes from a mon strous drum. So, too, the screeching and bellow ing and howling and moaning of the steam whis tles, which united in a gigantic dissonance to hor rify the ears of those on board the craft in the Bay, lost all terror to those on land, for many on the housetops could only see the wreathing steam,' but could not hear the hoarse and shrieking pro tests of the brazen larynxes from which it issued. While such observations are making, the Des patch proceeds up the line. Colors are lowered, cannons send forth their greeting, and suddenly the yards of the ships are seen to be manned. Steamers large and small fall in the wake of the Despatch, and soon the whole fleet is in motion. The warships weigh anchor and, accompanied by the revenue cutters and steam yachts, move up the North River in stately array. Now the pop ular interest centres at the foot of Wall-st., a spot that had been conspicuous all the morning by reason of the forest of masts with parti-colored leafage grouped there. Opposite this gay group the Despatch drops her anchor, and, like Washing ton a hundred years before, President Harrison is taken into a large boat and rowed ashore by a crew of ship-captains, members of the Marine So ciety. Now the formal portion of his reception begins. Already at Elizabeth and Elizabethport he had been made to feel the affectionate respect and admiration commanded by his office, but now he is formally welcomed by the Governor of the greatest State in the Union, the Mayor of that State's metropolis and officers of the committees having the celebration in charge. Accompanied by a military guard of honor, the committees and other civil and military dignitaries, he is escorted through Wall-st. to the Equitable Building, pass ing on his way the spot where stood the Federal Hall, on whose porch the first of his predecessors took the oath of office. Then Wall-st. was a sim ple road between modest houses, its chief dignity the building which housed Congress. Now it is bordered with buildings of marvellous size and grandeur, whose erection has effected almost as great a contrast between the Wall-st of 1889 and 1870 as that between 1870 and 1789. After a reception and luncheon in the rooms of the Lawyers' Club in the Equitable Building, the same escort attended the President as he went to the City Hall, where he held a public recep tion in the Governor's room. The City nan Park had become a focus of public attention as soon as the panorama in the Bay was dissipated. Police kept the plaza in front of the tastefully and richly adorned building free of people for several hours before the time set for the recep tion but when the President arrived the walks and* streets and half the park were covered. The weather had become fickle. Every few 6 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. minutes rain-clouds were driven across the face of the sun. A gust of wind would scatter big drops of water broadcast, and just as the thou sands of umbrellas would open a flood of sun light would fall upon the scene, and the skies would seem to smile at the consternation of the multitude. Two hundred grammar-school girls in white gowns, two from each school, carrying baskets of flowers, to which each grammar-school girl in the city had been permitted to contribute one blossom, stood in double row to give the President a floral greeting. Like the matrons and maids of Trenton a hundred years ago, they strewed flowers in the path of the chosen Execu tive of the Nation, who. arrived at the foot of the staircase leading to the Governor's Room, listened to an address by a young miss of the Normal School on behalf of the school children of New-York, and smiled and nodded his approval as she spoke of those things which exalt a Nation. Meanwhile the flowers which had fallen before the President's feet were eagerly sought for and carried off as souvenirs by the girls themselves, the policemen and the Grand Army officers who had acted as an escort. No drop of rain fell to mar this pretty cere mony, but no. sooner was it over than the crowd waiting to enter City Hall were forced under cover of their umbrellas. At night in the Metro politan Opera House, transformed into a miracle of beauty by the hand of the decorator and the gifts of Flora, graced by the presence of the chief politi cal dignitaries of the Nation and the loveliness and gallantry of the city's people, took place the great Centennial ball. Those who attended moved ahout through a pleasure-place worthy of Haroun-al- Raschid, and many saw the dawn of the real festal day, to which yesterday was only a prelude, foe which it was only a preparation. THE TRIP TO THE CITY. A WONDERFUL MARINE SPECTACLE IN THE BAY. THE DESPATCH S VOYAGE THROUGH THE WEL COMING FLEET— REVIEWING THE MEN- OF-WAR— THE GREAT PARADE- INCIDENTS OF THE DAY; In variety, in extent, in picturesqueness, and in a certain vastness and brilliancy of effect, yester day's great marine display will doubtless long rank as the most notable and successful pageant in the history of New-York Harbor. As an imitation, even on the larger scale set by a century of mar vellous progress, of the famous boat ride of the first President from Elizabethport to the East River front. §o tremendous a spectacle might be taken almost as an appeal to that sense of the incongruous and the extravagant which any com parison between the times of Washington and the present necessarily arouses. But the humor of the contrast apart, no more striking and satisfactory a welcome could have been devised for the Centen nial President, coming almost literally in the foot steps of Washington, to help celebrate the hun dredth anniversary of that ceremony with which genuine Constitutional Government in America was begun. No other entry, certainly, to the city, girt around with her rivers and her harbor, could have been so impressive. Quitting the waters of a sister State just as they merge into the beautiful land locked Upper Bay, where could be mustered with out discomfort all that was representative or tne Nation's Navy and of the carrying trade ot the metropois, where a hundred shapely yachts could lie at anchor and a hundred pleasure steamers flit about with their thousands upon thousands of enthusiastic spectators, the voyage of the city s euests the President, his Cabinet and other at tendant dignitaries was one uninterrupted tri umphal progress from the narrow Kills of btaten Island to the crowded piers and house-roofs of the lower part of the city. THE SCENE IN THE HARBOR. That scene in the harbor as the Despatch ploughed her way slowly through the lines of the assembled fleet, the batteries of the men-of- war thundering their salutes, the seamen at the yard-arms, the infinite display of color, the thou sands of flags and pennons flapping in the steady breeze, the tireless din of a hundred iron throats on tugs, yachts and steamers, the cheering from the floating city, each boatload doing its proudest as the President, standing bare-headed on the bridge of his vessel, bowed his returns one by one to the lucky members of the vast flotilla— such a scene and such a welcome must linger long in the memory of every one who witnessed them, from the greasy firemen in the tugs, who thrust their heads from the engine-room windows to catch a glimpse of the approaching President, to the Chief Magistrate himself, the central figure in all this wonderful demonstration. As a welcome it was widespread, tumultuous, almost overwhelming. Nothing could have been added in heartiness or volume. In spite, too, of the chronic difficulty of handling water parades and the headstrong endeavors of the hustling pilots of excursion steamers to Tun down every minute upon the President's boat, the pageant of yesterday lacked little of genuine and imposing dignity and order. As long as General Harrison's flag floated at the masthead of the Despatch the vast fleet maintained in a creditable degree its dis cipline and symmetry. And if on his departure in the barge that carried him to Wall-st. the attend ing flotilla fell for a moment into confusion, it soon straightened itself out for a run up the East and then up the North River that in itself was a spec tacle rarely to be matched in any American port. NOTABLE FEATURES OF THE DAY. But a brief outline sketch can do small justice to the many brilliant and notable features of a day on the water, every minute, of which was filled with interesting incidents. Preparations, which in many cases had been on foot for six months came to a point soon after daybreak yesterday. By 7 o'clock the harbor was already a scene of bustle and activity. The ships which had not yet fallen into their places in the line were shifting about to make their positions. All were dressed from stem to stern with flags, and on many the seamen were giving the last touches of decoration. The tugs, equally as gay, were puffing from one point to an other, getting their passengers for the trip down to the Kills The large excursion boats were fill ing up slowly at the North and East River piers, some lying for a half-hour along the New-York front, and then for another halt-hour shifting across to Brooklyn. By 9 o'clock almost every one had been crowded in, and whistles were blown for starting. The wind was coming stiffly across the Bay from the southwest and the sky was cold and tlireatening. The rains of last week washed the atmosphere free of every impurity, and the hills of Staten Island stood out in the distance in a hard, steely blue. The water in the harbor -was dull and muddy, the only bit of neutral color in the scene. This dead hue it did not lose even when the sun came out brightly, just before noon, dancing upon THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. the waves and against the painted sides of the men-of-war and adding fresh gayety and animation to the scene. The average excursion steamer did not get fairly out into the Bay until after 9 o'clock. But some of the few boats chosen to make the trip to Elizabeth- port were astir earlier. The Despatch, which had been lying at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, got under way a,t 6. Flying the* Union Jack at her stern, she made her way up the East River to Twenty-sixth- st., where she anchored to take aboard the officials who were to receive the President The captain's gig and a whaleboat were sent on shore to bring on board the guests. Lieutenant W. S. Cowles was in command of the Despatch, the others in authority being Lieutenant W. McLean, executive officer; Ensign, H. Eldridge; Passed Assistant Engineer, ¦G. W. Roach; Passed Assistant Surgeon, D. M. Guiteras. and Lieutenant W. S. Benson, of the Marine Corps, who was in charge of the guard. BOARDING THE HONORED MAN-OF7WAR.. The first man to arrive was the Secretary of the Interior. General Noble, who was taken to the Despatch in the cutter. Clarence W. Bowen and W. E. D. Stokes next appeared, and were rowed to the vessel in the whaleboat. Then «ame Loyall Farragut, Jackson S. Schultz. Fred eric R. Coudert, Ogden Goelet, Senator Frank Hiscock, with several ladies, and Attorney-General W. H. H. Miller. About half-past 7. Admiral Porter and his staff and General Sherman and General Schofield were driven to the pier from the Kfth Avenue Hotel. When this party stepped into the boat to be taken to the Despatch the Admiral's flag, dark-blue, with four white stars, was hoisted in the bow. Senator Evarts, with a party of ladies, and Senator Aldrich. of Rhode Island, came next, and were followed by the Secretary of the Navy, B. F. Tracy, and his son, Frank B. Tracy. On the whaleboat which took the General to the large vessel was displayed the flag of the Secre tary of the Navy, a field of dark blue, with a white anchor and a coil of rope in the centre, and a white star in each corner. The last to be taken on board were Mayor Grant, Governor Hill, Major Asa Bird Gardiner and several other Centennial officials. Ia the meantime profuse decorations had been run up. Besides the two American en signs on the masts, three hundred small flags of all the colors of the rainbow and of every design were strung from mast to mast and in lines from: the yards to the deck. About 8 o'clock Ensign Eldridge, who had charge of the embarkation, re turned to the Despatch with all the small boats, and soon afterward the vessel weighed anchor and steamed down the Bay for Elizabethport. The tug Nina was also lying at the pier at East Twenty-sixth-st. early in the morning, waiting to carry Admiral Jouett's staff to the flagship Chi cago. The hour for departure was fixed at 7 a. m., but the staff were not all present until 7 :30, when the tug rapidly slipped down stream. The staff consisted of Captain Charles A. Norton, Commo dore William R. Bridgman, Lieutenant-Commander A. S. Snow, Captain L. N. Stoddard, Gouverneur Kortright, New-York Yacht Club; C. M. Tweed, Admiral of the Corinthian Yacht Club ; Captain IW. J. Shackleford, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company ; William F. Stanford, of the Old Domin ion Steamship Company; William B. Bouton, of the Red D lane ; J. E. Alexander, P. E. Lef evre, of the Ocean Steamship Company; James E. Ward. of the Ward Steamship Company; Commodore Jefferson Hogan, of the Atlantic Yacht Club ; Vice- Commodore Robert Center, of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club; George W. Hall, of the American Yacht Club ; Commodore G. C. W. Lowrey, of the Larchmomt Yacht Club ; T. S. Cameron, of the Clyde Steamship Line; Captain J. M. Lachlan, of the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Com- | pany ; J. M. Miller, of the Providence and Stonjng- ton Line ; L. F. Lovell, of the Fall River Line, and W. W. Everett, of the People's Line. Captain Postlethwait, of West Point, was on board as a guest. STARTING FOR ELIZABETHPORT. The big ferryboat Erastus Wiman, with the Gov ernors and Commissioners of the States on board, took up her passengers at the West Twenty-third- st. ferry pier. • The Laura M. Starin, the press boat, lay at the Barge Office, and the Sirius and the other Iron Steamboat Company steamers got their passengers aboard at Pier No. 1 and at Twenty- third-st. The little fleet that was to go to meet the President steamed down the North River and past Governor's Island about ] 0 o'clock. The men-of-war had by this time got themselves in perfect trim, aud were strung along in a line from off Ellis Island to below Bedlow's Island. As the Starin ran by the squadron many of those on board got their first close glance at the new Navy. The Chicago was first in order — going down —a black, forbidding monster when seen broadside, but showing smooth and graceful lines on the view from stem to stern. The Admiral's flag was flying from her masthead, her long guns were peeping from the portholes, and her decks were crowded with officers and their friends. The gay flags came out in pleasant contrast to her pitch-black hull. Beyond the Chicago lay the famous Kearsarge, the hero of the fight off Cher bourg, as excellent a type of the old Navy as the Chicago is of the new. Next to the Kearsarge came the smaller Yantic, all her masts decked with flags and streamers. Then in succession the Essex, also in her gayest dress ; the Brooklyn, home from her cruise around Cape Horn, floating a streamer as long as her keel, which seemed to stretch straight out in the wind half-way across the chan nel ; the Atlanta, i ust in, too, from a South Ameri can cruise, her saffron hull and upper works show ing iu odd contrast to the sombre black of all the others before her ; the Jamestown, the Juniata and the Yorktown, the last a fresh new gunboat, the other two old cruisers of reputation, showy, but fragile-looking alongside of the heavy, low-built Atlanta ; and finally the Boston, trim and orderly from bow to rudder, the many-colored flags flown from her rigging set off by contrast with her hull of dead white. Below the men-of-war the revenue cutters and steam yachts were drawn up, all rakish, grace ful craft, some flying the striking Revenue flag, otheirs the burgees of the various local yacht clubs. To the other side of the Bay from Owl's Head down toward Fort Hamilton stretched the line of mer- chantmen, propellers and tugs, now partially formed. Parallel with this and in the rear of the fleet of yachts, was another fleet of merchantmen, ending apparently almost in the Narrows. The escorting squadron reached the Kill-von-Knll about 11 o'clock. Thei Erastus Wiman w.ts in the lead, the big steamer Monmouth and the Laura M. Starin following. The Sirius had gone on ahead and an chored off Elizabethport. Both banks of the nar row kill all the way down were black with crowds of spectators. Every pier and every hill side was held firmly down by patriotic enthusiasts, who pushed and jostled each other to get a view of the waterway, At many points on both shores batteries were planted ready to touch off at the approach of the President's boat, and the only buildings that were not decked with flags were the unsightly sheds along the piers of the oil refineries. THE1 LAST STAGE OF THE JOURNEY BEGUN. The Despatch was already floating the Presi dent's flag, a square of blue with an eagle in white in the centre, when the escorting steamers reached Elizabethport. The steam launch was just being 8 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. hoisted up and the seamen were tugging at the ship's anchor. At 11:30 the anchor came up dripping and was pulled on the deck. With a shrill whistle the Despatch started slowly for ward, and the last stage of the journey Washing ton made a little more than a hundred years ago was begun. The other steamers fell in line, and the kill all at once was choked with craft. The Despatch, her white smokestack the only thing oh out her that could be seen half the time, kept at the head of the column. Stragglers that had come down the kill but part of the way were constantly turning and falling in. The police-boat Patrol tried to preserve some order, but failed. Ex cursion steamers, tugs and sailing craft rushed in where even the police captains feared to tread. The whistle valves of the tugs were pulled loose, cannon on both sides began to open sham fire and the hubbub at the end of an international yacht race was now recalled with regret by the fre quenters of sailing matches. One battery on Statea Island was kept pounding away, double duty. The swabber overdid himself at last, how ever, and let his gun swab fall into the water. A half-mile up the kill the Myndert Starin joined the procession. She had a gun aboard, and kept the breech of it hot all the way up. The Myndert Starin also had a band, the only band, it may be remarked, that played during the morning. Bands seemed to be thought altogether too feeble a means of venting the popular enthusiasm. The excursion steamers kept crowding in. The John H. Starin appeared, the third Starin boat on tbe scene. Each carried a big muslin strip on which was printed : " Welcome, Benjamin Har rison." The Sam Sloan and the familiar Sylvan Dell soon hove in sight. Both were loaded down, and passengers stood on the rail to catch a glimpse of the President. General Harrison had taken a place from the start on the bridge of the Despatch, commanding, in theory, as the Chief of the Navy. Here he stood, his silk hat now in his hand, now on his head, bowing to the salutes and cheers on every side. Just a little below him in a group were Secretary Tracy, Attorney-General Miller, Walker Blaine and Secretary Proctor. The Vice-Presi dent stood in the bow of the boat and talked with Mr. Gerry and Mr. Coudert. General Schofield sat on a campstool near the middle of the vessel. Near him was Senator Evarts, his clean-cut face easily recognizable. He was chatting animatedly with Secretary Rusk. Every now and then the groups changed. Probably half the men aboard the Despatch were familiar figures about New- York. Many queer mistakes were made with the rest, the Chief Justice, for instance, who wears only a mustache, being mistaken for the Secretary of Agriculture, whose beard is patriarchal. THE HARBOR SWARMING WITH CRAFT. Off St. George the returning boats got their first glimpse again of the expectant fleet in the harbor. The whole surface of the Bay seemed to swarm with craft, all in the many hues of the rainbow On land it would have been a solid field of masts and guide-lines, banners, flags and streamers. The gentle swell in the harbor gave the one elemant of variety that was lacking— motion. But the eye could not rest long on the picture in the Bay. The Staten Islanders were out in force at St. George. They had brought a fire-engine down to the edge of the water to help along the hubbub, and kept a battery going until the Despatch got out of sight In the harbor proper the little fleet from Eliza bethport was swallowed up at once in lb- vast flotilla. The Despatch, almost lost to sight among the huge excursion steamers, had to slacken speed and make some effort to free herself of this now troublesome escort. Just past Robbins Reef a yawl, with two men aboard, got right in the way of the cutter. The Despatch slowed up at once but a colhsion could not be averted. i'ho j awl was struck gently on the side and knocked end. wise. A few ropes were carried away, but no great damage was done. The frightened crew got off again safely and made for shore. The Despatch's arrival in the Bay had been the signal for the beginning of the salutes, and every vessel that had a gun got ready for firing. The Myndert Starin's little cannon was still working vigorously, and her band inspired fresh energy on all sides by tackling " Johnny, Get Your Gun." The reviewing line was reached near the head of the steam yacht squadron, the Despatch breaking through between the Susquehanna and the Oneida. Both yachts fired salutes and gave a cheer, and President Harrison took off his hat and waved back his recognition. The excursion boats were crowding in upon tho Despatch more than ever, and energentio efforts had to be made by the officers on board the President's vessel to clear a path for the review. The force of big steamers had been joined by the Crystal Wave, the Blackbird, the J. G. Emmons, the ferryboat Maine, the little RosaJ the James T. Brett, the J. B. Schuyler and many others. All were running at loose ends and cross purposes. Finally a clear course was gained and the Despatch had a chance to run in close to the revenue cutters and the men-of-war. The Grant, the Dexter, the. Hamilton, the Chandler and the rest of the cutters fired salutes. Then the heavier guns of the Boston thundered out, their rever berating claps soon being echoed by the batteries- of the Atlanta. The Brooklyn's streamer floated proudly out over the Despatch a3 the cutter ran by, and her heavy guns puffed out curling rings of dense white smoke. All the yards had been manned,1 and this always taking manoeuvre drew out murmurs of applause, drowned only by the sound of the firing. ACKNOWLEDGING THE SALUTE FROM THE CHICAGO. The Chicago being the flagship, the Despatch ran in close to exchange greetings, and the smoke from the big cruiser's guns was almost blown into the faces of the closer followers of the Presi dent's boat. Admiral Jouett and his staff were gathered on the quarter-deck, and the marines were drawn up in ranks facing the Despatch. The President took off his hat as the officers on the Chicago saluted. Then, with a flash and pufB of smoke, the big guns began firing, and the roar of the last member of the fleet joined with the slackening thunder of the others to mark the climax of the naval review. The long line of men-of-war was almost hidden in the cloud of smoke, drifting off slowly, now obscuring, now revealing the graceful lines of the Goddess of Liberty on her pedestal on Bedlow's Island. The scene recalled in a way the pageant at the unveiling of the statue, nearly three years ago. Then, as now, the smoke of the guns rose to hide the Goddess. Then, however, it came from the frowning portholes of the old Navy, the Navy which Farragut knew and heroes of the Rebelhon made famous. Now it came, the denser volume of it, from the cruisers of the future, the warships which are to open a new page in the history of the American Navy. From the head of the line, turning off toward Governor's Island, and the St. Mary's, the Presi dent and the spectators on the steamers which accompanied him got their last glimpse of the great marine display. Clear down to the Narrows. from one side of the harbor to the other, there! was one vast field of shipping, flags, pennons and' streamers flying, the smoke of the guns drifting about among the bunting, the cheers of thousands of spectators still sounding in the ears of the most honored of the city's guests. It -was only a glimpse, and then the Despatch steamed swiftly away on the last quarter-mile of Washington's journey, casting anchor just a little after 1 o'clock THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 9 at the foot of Wall-st., to await an embarkation to the neighboring ferry-house. (FAILING TO ROUND THE STAKE-BOAT/ The delay in landing, the President at Wall-st. seemed to take the spirit out of the marine parade, and only a few of the vessels made the passage up the East River. This portion of the programme was, in fact, indifferently adhered to, and the waiting thousands on the Brooklyn and New-York shores above the Bridge were seriously disappoint ed, as were those who expected to see the parade on the North River. Many of the larger steamers made haste to land their passengers at the Battery. in the hope that they might witness the Wall-st. parade, and an aspec of general demoralization appeared to afflict the fleet as soon as the Despatch came to an anchor. The Sound and river steamers and tugs which made an attempt to carry. out the programme were all handsomely dressed with bunting and crowded with passengers. There were between forty and fifty which started up the North River, but many put into their berths before Twenty-third-st. was reached, and others turned back from that point instead of going around the stakeboat at Fifty- first-st., as the programme required. At her pier at West Twenty-sixth-st. the training-ship Minne sota lay, dressed with bunting, a solitary repre sentative of the Navy in that quarter. The plan- ing-mills, packing-houses, lumber piles and every other elevated place along the river were crowded as densely as places downtown, but the fleet lagged and dwindled, until at 3 o'clock the North River, with the exception of the warships and cutters at anchor in the stream, presented its nor mal appearance. FROM A MAN-OF-WAR. THE PICTURE IN THE HARBOR. A SCENE FOR THE PAINTER OF A GREAT HIS TORICAL CANVAS.' A long line of men-of-war. forming the finest Naval display ever seen in this country in times of peace, stretched from Bedlow's Island to Rob bins Reef in the Upper Bay. Vessels wreathed in smoke from their thundering cannons and with yards manned as the President went by, with marines in brilliant uniforms paraded on the quarter-decks, scarlet-coated buglers sounding a fanfare, officers gorgeous in gold lace and cocked hats, the strong, fresh wind waving their sable ostrich plumes, and driving away the smoke through which ever and anon came flashing a tongue of flame, while from mast and yard of these men-of-war and of hundreds of merchant ships fluttered bunting thu.t made the air misty with banners and pennants— such was the scene resting on the placid waters of the Bay, and walled by the green hills of Staten Island and by the great cities that press the water's edge. Above all toward the great Statue of Liberty, calm, cold, impassable, no flags fluttering, no bunting displayed, but looking with that tre mendous, tranquil human face on all the glittering display below, prototype of the spirit which in spired it and made it possible. All the moving vessels were steaming down both rivers, where the Naval fleet was already anchored. They were black with people, gay with bunting, and, when they had finally taken their places, the whole surface of the Bay blossomed hke a garden of flowers. Before the gun was fired far off down the Kills which announced that the President had boarded 1iie Despatch and was on his way up to the fleet, the blue-suited sailors, the gayly-eapan- soned marines, the stately and resplendent officers on tie Naval vessels, walked about the decks, watching with interest the constant stream of vessels that swept by them to take the places appointed them. Merchant vessels ste.miboats, tugs and every form of craft that a great city could furnish poured by, until finally, all being in position, the sound of a gun was heard in the direction of Elizabethport. Then up the long line steamed the Despatch, covered with bunting and wrapped in the clouds of smoke that blew toward her as the salute rolled along the line. The sun had now broken through the clouds, and shone down upon the pageant, adding splendor to its beauty. The waves sparkled, the bunting gleamed, the fresh, sweet winds blew over the Bay, the guns roared, the bands played and the people cheered. Through such a scone President Harrison was borne to the place where the waiting and en thusiastic thousands crowded the city's wharves, to be rowed ashore by those ancient and honorable members of the Marine Society who were to man his barge. The water was churned into foam by the swift craft that followed, and all the stately fleet moving northward. Up toward the Palisades of the North River swept the men-of-war, the merchant ships, with all their bunting waving and their decks crowded with people, passing up toward the great gray towers of the Bridge, which lifted themselves against the clouds. Everywhere on land and sea were pat riotic enthusiasm, clouds of flags and streamers, people packed thickly on piers and bulkheads and vessels' decks. The eye was weary of the gor- geousness of the scene, and the ear was deafened with the salvos and shouting. Looking at the city from the Bay, it seemed as if a cloud of starry flags had settled over it, and all along the Battery and along the lines of wharves there was one black, solid mass of humanity. The people swarmed up the rigging of vessels lying at the docks and made black pyramids. They climbed to every available place on the ships on the Bay, and so '"' in glory and in state" the President passed through the midst of his loyal citizens. Then the fleets disappeared from the Bay, the tumult and the noise ceased on the water, but still borne by the winds came the roar of the millions on shore and still floated above the jubilant city the cloud of starry flags. ? THE PARTY ON THE WIMAN. GOVERNORS GOING TO MEET THE PRESI DENT. THEY SAIL DOWN THE BAY TO ESCORT GENERAL HARRISON TO THE CITY.1 A citizen of this great Republic stood on the edge of the float at the West Twenty-third-st. ferry slip yesterday morning and waved his arms in frantic farewell. A buxom American wife and mother stood on the stern of the ferry boat Erastus Wiman, as it drew out of the slip, and she answered the demonstration with a de spairing look and a doubly despairing wail. They were not actors in an elopement tragedy, however; they were simply connections by mar riage of some third cousins of some member of some Governor's staff, and, therefore, they in common with about four thousand other equally important persons, had tickets entitling them to one passage down the Bay in the Erastus Wiman in company with the numerous Governors and representatives of States, to see President Har rison follow in the footsteps, or rather in the wake, of his illustrious predecessor one George Washington. The rush of ticket-holders for the Wiman when the gates opened at 9:30 yes terday morning tlneatened to swamp ber. Ihe 10 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. stream of humanity had to be cut off somewhere, and the boat pulled out so suddenly in the effort to effect this result that some family ties were ruthlessly broken in the manner described; the wife getting aboard, the husband getting left. The above incident was characteristic of the day and the demonstration, as viewed from the decks of this flagship of the Staten Island fleet. It was a grand rush. As the crowd rushed into tha spacious saloons, each man and woman seized a chair, and instantly each broad staircase was transformed into a Jacob's ladder, with angels in tailor-made dresses ascending and descending, every angel carrying a camp-stool with her. There were 2,000 people on the boat, and nearly as many more, who were left behind, held an overflow meeting on the fleet steamer Monmouth, which was provided for the various Governors and Gubernatorial cousins who had failed to get aboard the Wiman or the Sirius. THE START DOWN THE RIVER. The Staten Island flagship was a king among ferryboats as she sailed down past the city, where every peak and spire and gable had its waving flag. Her decks were laden with every species of civic dignity from an ex-President down. Her patent feathering paddle-wheel cut the water with the neatness and precision of a meat-axe. Streamers floated from every available point on rigging or railing. A white-helm eted band, from the small State of Rhode Island, made a large noise on the lower deck, and every body was happy in the enjoyment of Staten Island hospitality, except the man who couldn't get a seat and the wife whose better half was last seen on the ferryboat. On the hurricane deck and in the capacious pilot houses were ex-President Hayes, Chauncey M. Depew, Senator Sherman, Governor Foraker, Governor Luce, of Michigan, Governor Hovey, the soldierly Executive of Indiana, and Governor Dillingham, of Vermont. Mr. Wiman and Cap tain Emmons, president of the Rapid Transit Company, entertained these and many other well- known people with geographical information and dissertations on the great mistake Washington made in not bridging the Kills and coming up to New- York by rapid transit instead of paddling along in a little boat. Ex-Secretary Bayard sat on the saloon roof and studied the seaward pros pect with the steady gaze of a helmsman of the Ship of State. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, braced his sturdy form against the stiff westerly wind which blew with playful freedom through the' extensive mustachios of Lieutenant-Governor Jones. Senor Romero, the Minister from the sister Republic of Mexico, gazed on the pageant of the American Navy, collected under the pro tecting shadow of Liberty's goddess, and silently compared it with the Mexican armament. Dr. George B. Loring, ex-Commissioner of Agriculture and newly-appointed Minister to Portugal, kept his portly form and square New-England coun tenance turned to the sunshine as the steamer hauled around the Robbins Reef beacon and sped down the Kill toward Elizabethport. The Staten Island shores were lined with people as the pride of the Staten Island navy passed by with her load of Governors, and the Staten Island Fire Department turned out -with jangling gong and rattling truck to parade along the shore and show the world thai, the spirit of 1 789 was not frozen in Staten Island veins. The ancient mar iners arranged in front of the Sailors' Snug Harbor cheered, and all the little steamboats tooted in chorus as the Governors swept onward to meet the coming President. A HALT FOR LUNCHEON. A little belore 11 o'clock the ferryboat lay to within sight of Elizabeth port and the white funnel of the Despatch, wheu an ample luncheon provided by Mr. Wiman was served to the crowd If*™* ables on board. After driltms in the stream lor half an hour and dodging the more inquisitive audits respectful steamers which pushed in ^ahead nnd did their best to cut oft the view or tne dig nitaries on board, the sight of a dozen yachts and tugs foaming down the channel in advance of the mlch-Srated cralt that bore the Presidentol ™rt,v put new life into waiting souls. .Behind tte DefpatchTanie the City of Hudson with Gov ernor Green and five or six hundred New- Jersey officials on board. As the Despatch steamed by, Captain Frank H. Braisted. of the Wiman rang to Reverse the engine, and swung into hne behind the Presidential steamer. _ . Then began the usual race into which a marine pageant" usually degenerates. If the general opinion of the Wiman's passengers could be formu lated it would be that there is no more tree and untrammelled soul in this land of freedom than a tugboat captain in the midst of a "marine pageant," unless possibly it may be an iron-steam boat captain in a hke situation He laughs at admirals and rear-aomirals, regulations and procla mations. He puts on a full head of steam and goes for a position at a respectful distance of about three feet from the object of his curiosity, whether the same be an English cutter or an American Chief Magistrate. . . Still the general spectacle was m no way marred by this introversion of the procession. As the fleet swept out of the Kills into the Bay. the broadside of admiring exclamations from the three-decked ferryboat became audible even above the roaring whistles and spiteful cannonading. All points on the boat were equally advantageous points of view for in whatever direction the eye turned there wero miles of streaming bunting, yellow spars black funnels, tooting whistles, rolling ships and bobbing boats, all roofed by endless vistas of fleecy cloud arches and floored by the sun- flecked water of the harb.or. A LITTLE SKIFF NEARLY RUN OVER. When the Despatch pulled up to free herself from the reckless little skiff that got in her way and nearly had the honor of being sunk by a boat that bore the President, and the big steamers moved right and left in their efforts to keep from running one another down", the passengers on the Wiman were not so sorry that their boat was a little in the rear. After this little incident was over and the line of march taken up again, the flotilla swept onward past the rnen-of-war, the ghostly white Boston, the Atlanta, with her dirty yellow upper work and general air of an English tramp, past the big square-rigged Brooklyn, past the handsome cruiser Chicago, until finally the wheels of the Wiman stopped turning when she bumped up against the outermost of the flotilla of tugs that surrounded the President's steamer, off the foot of Wall-st. To the Governors and their friends it iooked as though the old ship masters would have to make several portages over intervening tugs, if they expected to take General Harrison ashore in their barge. THE PRESIDENT LANDED BY THE OLD SALT& At length, however, a way was opened up, and when Captain Braisted and a hundred other quick- eyed pilots caught sight of the gleaming high hats and patent leather shoes of the venerable old tars, with their boat-load of Presidential dignity, a hundred hands pulled as many whistles, and a roar broke forth that must have reached Washington in his tomb at Mount Vernon. The strangers among the passengers on the Wiman stared in wonder at the solid masses ol people on wharves and housetops, and at the great Bridge, which from a necklace of diamonds by night had become a belt of jet by day, so black was it with accumulated humanity. Captain Braisted ran his b.oat into her slip at South Ferry and allowed a large part of her cargo to land, then steamed to Twenty-third-st. and landed the rest THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 11! of a well-satisfied party, thorouglily pleased with Erastus Wiman, both man and boat, and content with all things excepting tugboats. Among those who were aboard or on the Mon mouth were Thomas A. Edison and family, John C. Claflin, Edward P. Ames, Minister Preston, dean of the diplomatic corps; Minister Carter, General Greely, Mr. Curry, ex-Minister to Spain ; F. B. Thurber, Assistant Secretary ot the Treasury Batcheller, Congressman C. S. Baker, Theodore Roosevelt, William Barnes and Will L. Lloyd, of Albany; Hamilton Fish, jr., Assemblyman F. S. Gibbs. Assemblyman Sperry, of Brooklyn ; Senator Francis Hendricks. Mahlon Chance. Charts Watrous, J. M. Davis. Arthur Leary, II. G. Mar- quand, Mrs. Austin Corbin and Mrs, A. J. King and daughters. THE VESSELS IN LINE. LONG LISTS OF ALL KINDS OF CRAFT. HOW THE NAVAL PARADE WAS FORMED— NAMES OF SHIPS AND STEAMERS. The list of vessels that joined in the Naval parade showed a number of war ships and other Government craft such as is seldom brought to- gether in one harbor. As the long line moved on its way the Naval vessels appeared in the fol lowing order: The Chicago, the flagship; Kear sarge, Yantic, Essex, Brooklyn, Atlanta, James town, Juniata, Yorktown, Boston. In the revenue division were the cruise steam. boats U. S. Grant, Samuel Dexter, Albert Gallatin and Alexander Hamilton; the harbor tugs Man hattan and G. Washington, and the W. E. Chandler. The yacht division was headed by the Electra and included numerous yachts belonging to clubs which appeared in the following order : New- York Yacht Ciub, Atlantic, Corinthian, Seawanhaka, American and Larchmont. Hardly less brilliant than the Naval fleet was the imposing array of the merchant marine, ar ranged in two columns opposite the frowning men-of-war. Bedecked with flags and bunting, and with streamers flyiDg, the long lines of huge boats made a memorable sight. Early in the morn ing the flagships Bergen and Vosburgh were busy arranging the positions of the boats according to orders. By 10 o'clock they were all in line, and, with the men-of-war, awaited the approach of the President. The boats were arranged in two divisions, in charge of the senior and junior rear- admirals, each divisions consisting of five squad rons, each of which was commanded by a com modore. The first division was formed in the Upper Bay, with its head opposite the Burtis drydock, Red Hook, Brooklyn. The other vessels went into line astern of the flagship in the order given below, stretching out toward Stapleton, Staten Island. The second division was formed somewhat west of the first division, with its head close to Buoy No. 20. The smaller boats were anchored toward the channel. There was no confusion whatever along the lines, as the system of signals was perfect and well understood, every man know ing his orders. The names of the boats, as they stood in line, were as follows : Vice-Admiral C. W. Wooisey, Commanding Fleet. Flagship— Steamer Bergen. Fleet-Captain— D. M. Munger. Meet-Lieutenant— Leon Abbett, jr. Fleet-Secretary— J. J. Devlan. Rear-Admiial F. W. Vosburgh. , I DIVISION NO. 1. Squadron No. 1.— Commodore Isaac L. Fisher. Flagship— Fanny Skeer. Commander, George W. King— Tug Robert Burnett. Lieutenant, W. Reeves— Tug J. B. Mitchell. Steamboat Mary Powell. Steamship Wyanoke, Old Dominion Line. Steamboat City of Springfield, C. C. Goodrich, Hartford. Steamboat City of Richmond, C. C. Goodrich, Hartford. Steamboat Cape Charles, S. Starbuek. Steamboat St. Johns, W. B. Brownson. Steamboat Pegasus, W. F. Parker. Steamboat Taurus, W. F. Parker. Steamboat Cepheus, W. F. Parker. Steamboat Cetus, W. F. Parker. Steamboat City of Kingston, W. S. Van Keuren. Steamboat S. Brennan, G. F. Britton. Steamboat Thomas Morgan, Russell Beecher. Steamboat Eliza Hancox, E. W. Price. Steamboat Perseus, Captain George L. Norton. Steamboat Catsklll, E. M. Craig. Steamboat Crystal Wave, Bridgeport S. B. Co. Steamboat Waterburv, Bridgeport S. B. Co. Steamboat City of Hudson, ErasNus Wiman. Squadron No. 2.— Commodore William H. Hooker. Steamboat Block Island, Vermast C. R. R. Flagship— Tug Ives. Commander, P. II. Marshall— Tug A. C. Rose. Steamboat City of Albany, Norwalk S. B. Co. Steamboat; Morrisania, G. A. Wright. Steamboat Thomas Hunt, J. H. Vrooman. Steamboat Pomona, George H. Devan. Steamboat Rosedale, Amory J. Smith, Bridgeport Steamboat Idlewild, S. Wooisey. Steamboat Chrystenah, James E. Morris. Steamboat Harlem, N. & E. River S. B. Co. Steamboat Shady Side, N. & E. River S. B. Co. Steamboat Naugatuck, C. H. Smith. Steamboat Ruggles, C. H. Smith. Steamboat D. S. Miller, Captain E. D. Carpenter. Steamboat John Lennox, A. Jaeckel. Steamboat Charles A. Silliman, A. McKenzie. Propeller Thomas McManus, E. J. Hamilton. Squadron No. 3.— Commodore W. C. Egerton. Flagship— Tug Howard Carroll. Commander, Charles F. Harris— Tug Howard Carroll- Lieutenant E. Rowan— Tug Kanuck. Steamboat John Sylvester, William Warton. Ferryboat Erastus Wiman, F. S. Gannon. Ferryboat Northfleld, F. S. Gannon. Ferryboat Southfleld, F. S. Gannon. Ferryboat Brooklyn, Union Ferry Co. Ferryboat West Brooklyn, Ambrose. Ferryboat South Brooklyn. Ambrose. Ferryboat F. P. James, F. Jansen. Tug with barge J. A. Griswold. Myers & Co. Tug with barge Susquehanna, Myers & Co. Tug with barge Myers, Myers & Co. Tug with barge Walter Sands, Myers & Co. Tug with barge Morton, Myers & Co. Tug with harge St. John's Guild, Myers & Co. Propeller Calvin Tompkins, Newark Cement Co. Steam-yacht Susquehanna. Steam-vacht Vngowa. Steam-yacht Volante. Steam-yacht Dashaway. Steam-yacht Myrtle. Steam-yacht Lagonda. Squadron No. 4.— Commodore Charles A. Pool. Flagship— Tug Ivanhoe. Commander, H. R. MUls-Tug 0. M. Depew. Lieutenant, Samuel Stokes— Tug C. M. Depew. Tug C. C. Clalk. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R- Tug Interstate. N. Y. 0. & H. R. R. R- Tug Red Ash, C. R. of N. J. Tug White Ash, 0. R. of N. J. Tug Bayonne, C. R. of N. J. Tug Essex, C. R. of N. J. Tug A. C. Cheney. A. C. Cheney. Tug Terror, A. C. Cheney. Tug Cornelia, A. C Cheney. , Tug Christina, A. C. Cheney. Tug Honeysuckle, A. C. Cheney. Tug Mohawk Valley. N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Tug Charles A. Pool. N. Y. O. & H. R. K. K. Tug Ariosa, Henry Dubois Sons. Tug F. V. Dalzell. Tuff C. P. Raymond. Tug Indian Tug F. Woodruff. Tug Storm King. Tug Herald. Squadron No. 5. -Commodore Charles N. Boyer. Lieutenant T. Frank Shortland-Tug James Watts. Freight-boat L. Boyer. Steam-liehter Amelia. Steam-lighter Climax. Steam-lighter General Franz Sigel. Steam-lighter Mills. Steam-lighter Border City. Steam-lighter Admiral. Steam-lighter Etta Moore. Steam-lighter Rosedale. 12 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. Tug Mercedes. Tug Atlanta. Tug Thomas Shortland. Tug Governor Morgan. Tug TI. C. Whipple. Tug Don Juan. Tug T. E. Van Houten. Tug John A. Carnie. Steam-barge Susan. Tug Spray. Tug J. J. Driscoll Steam-lighter Sturtevant. Propeller Joanna. Tug J. C. Adams, F. W. Vosburgh. Tug Erie, Captain Richard Jones. Tug E. Heipershauser. Rear-Admiral J. W. Miller. DIVISION NO. 2. Squadron No. 6— Commodore F. G. Osborn. Flagship— Tug Pennsylvania. Commander, D. C. Chase— Tug John E. Bernard. Lieutenant, w. W. Beebe— Tug C. A. Sumner. Steamboat Francis. Tug America, P. R. R. Tug Belvidere, P. R. R. Tug Delaware, P. R. R. Tug Harsimus, P. R. R. Tug Pittsburg, P. R. R. Tug Renova, P. R. R. , Tug Uncle Abe, P. R. R. Tug Mercer, P. R. R. Steam lighter Transit, P. R. R. Steam lighter Despatch, P. R. R. Steam lighter T. B. Watson, P. R.' R. Tug Raritan, P. R. R. i Tug Amboy, P. R. R. Tug Jessie, P. R. R. Tug Winnie, P. R. R. Tug Willie, P. R. R. Tug Clara, P. R. R. Tug Joseph Stlckney, Scully's Towing Co. Tug R. FT Cahill, Scully's Towing Co. Tug Senator T. 0. Chace, Scully's Towing Co. Tug E. A. Packer, Scully's Towing Co. Tug Mary Ann, Scully's Towing Co. Tug Mirage, Scully's Towing Co. Tug R. H. Rathburn, Isaac L. Fisher. ' Tug Robert Lockhart, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug George Hoyt, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug R. H. Packer, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug Mamie Lamberton, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug Mary H. Packer, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug J. O. Wilbur, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug Sally P. Linderman, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug Isaac L. Fisher, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug C. R. Stone, Isaac L. Fisher. Tug Young America, Isaac L. Fisher. Squadron No. 7— Commodore J. G. Emmons. Flagship— Steamboat William Fletcher. Commander, J. H. Van Wie— Tug Edwin Hawley. Lieutenant, J. P. Wooley— Tug J. G. Emmons. Steamboat J. G. Emmons. Steamboat Rosa. Steamboat J. E. Moore. Steamboat George Starr. Tug Lewis Pulver. Tug Glen Island. Tug Virginia Jackson. Tug Volunteer. Tug Glen Cove, N. F. Mason. Tug Emma J. Kennedy, W. Kennedy. Tug Charles H. Runyan, S. L'Hommedieu. Tug Cornelia, S. L'Hommedieu. • Tug Ceres, S. L'Hommedieu. Tug Guiding Star, S. L'Hommedieu. Tug Quickstep, S. L'Hommedieu. Tug A. K&uflman, Tice Towing Co. Tug Chas. E. Soper, Tice Towing Co. Tug N. L. Tice, Tice Towing Co. Tug Philip Hoffman, Tice Towing Co. Tug E. M. Millard, N. Y. Harbor Towboat Oo. Tug JaB. A. Garfield, McCaldron Bros. Tug S. T. Stranahan, McCaldron Bros. Squadron No. 8— Commodore L. Luckenbach. Flagship— Tug Ocean King. Commander, Edward Luckenbach— Tug Luckenbach. Lieutenant, S. S. Cantari. Tug L. C. Ward. Tug Scandinavian. Tug Batter. Tug Howard, J. H. Van Wie. Tug Baltic, J. H. Van Wie. Tug H. S. Nichols. Tug Geo. W. Wright. Tug W. E. Street, A. B. Valentine. Tug Edwin Terry, A. B. Valentine. Tug R. J. Townsend, A. B. Valentine. Tug J. C. Hartt, A. B. Valentine. Tug Reindeer, V. Vlerow. Tug Brandon, V. Vlerow. Tug Jason, V. Vlerow. Tug Reba, V. Vlerow. Tug A. P. Skldmore, McWilliams Bros. Tug Thos. Purcell, jr.. McWilliams Bros. Tug Municipal, J. S. Coleman. Tug F. Dassorl, J. S. Coleman. Squadron No. 9.— Commodore R. C. Velt. Flagship— Tug Astral. Coinmaiider, William Evans-Tug Imperator. Lieutenant, Charles H. Beardsley-Tug Daylight. Tug Nonpareil. Tug F. w. Devoe. Tug Pocahontas, E. Rowan. Tug Victoria, E. Rowan. Tug Komuck, E. Rowan. Tug Gemini, S. B. Greacen. Tug Emma Kate Ross, Ross Santera. Tug Mary J. Sanford, Ross Sanford. Tug Lillian M. Harty, Ross Sanford. Tu" Edward Armorie, A. R. Giay & Oo. Tug S. J. Lenox, T. W. Wooisey. Tue F. J. Brown, Brown & Fleming. Tug R. S. Garrett, Brown & Fleming. Tug Excelsior, Hbwland. Tug Alberta M., C. A. Maerea. Tug Ripple, Manhattan Towmg Company. Propeller Star, Robert Thorp. Propeller Leader, E. Babcock. Squadron No. 10— Commodore M. Moran. Flagship— Tug James A. Dumont. Commander, G. E. Denning— Tug J. E. Wallace. Lieutenant, G. F. Moran— Tug George L. Garllek. Tug R. J. Moran. Tug M. Moran. Tug Belle Hattle. Captain James McCurry. Tug C. F. Roe. L. LHommedieu. Tug George B. Roe, P. Hoteling.1 Tug Royal. Frederick Russell. Tug J. W. Clance. Frederick Russell Tug Mischief. Frederick Russell Tug Vigilant. Frederick RusseE Tug Alpha, Frederick Russell Tug Liberty. Hugh Bond. Tug Hugh Bond. Hugh Bond. Tug John Halliard. C, F. Harris. Tug Mary Clinton. 0, F. Harris. Tug R S. Carter, W. Hughes. Tug J. G. Stevens. W. Hughes. Tug F. H. Grove, F. N. Grove. Tug Croton. F. N. Grove. , steam-lighter Josephine B., with barge James M. Oil- ester. — . -. „ Floo tine Elevator Renovator. E. Annan ft Co. Sandy Hook Pilot Boats. ON THE POLICE BOAT PATROL. LENDING A HAND TO SOME UNLUCKY OFFICIAL GUESTS. The police boat Patrol was about the busiest vessel in the harbor, although there was fortu nately no accident or other mishap to create a call for her assistance or intervention. She went along through the Kill von Kull clear to Port Eichmond, where the Despatch had paused, await ing her approach, and then followed that vessel to Wall-st., afterward cruising about in the North River until the marine parade had disbanded. She was delayed in starting by her inability for some time to get to the pier at West Twenty- second-st., the big propeller Monmouth being at the pier to receive the overflow from the Erastus Wiman. Even after the Monmouth had received her complement, there remained hundreds of people on the dock, wildly waving their big blue tickets, who tried to force their way upon the Patrol. So great was the rush, indeed, that two-thirds of the steamboat's crew of sailor-policemen were required to open a passage for those guests who had been specially invited by the Police Commisioners. Before this precaution was taken, a real panic ap peared imminent. The Patrol's gangplank was not made for excursion purposes, and when a hundred people tried to rush upon it all at once, it cracked and split almost in two. Several per sons narrowly escaped being thrown into the water, and only the most energetic efforts of Cap tain Elbert O. Smith and Commissioner French prevented a panic. Besides the guests previously invited, the Com missioners took pity on several unfortunate guests of the Centennial Committee. Among these were Governor Bulkeley, of Connecticut, with Mrs. Bulkeloy and her sister, Miss Houghton, and also Adjutant-General Barbour, Burgeon-General Hungerford, and Paymaster-General Fenn, of his staff, W. H. Crocker and wife, of San Francisco, THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 13 and C. B. Alexander and Mrs. Alexander, formerly Miss Crocker. Commissioners French, McClave, Voorhis and McLean were all present, with their families, and among others on board were Colonel John R. Fellows, Jordan L. Mott, Appraiser Cooper, Assistant United States Treasurer Ellis H. Roberts, the Rev. Dr. John Hall, Henry R. Beekman, Major W. H. Kipp and family, Dr. Cyrus Edson, State Senators Vedder, Laughlin and Sweet, Assemblymen Husted, Martin, Smith and Demarest, Judges Van Hoesen and Allen, and Kear-Admiral Rhind, U. S. N., retired. Inspector Byrnes was in command. THE PRESIDENT AT ELIZABETH. WELCOMED BY AN ENTHUSIASTIC MULTI TUDE. GENERAL HARRISON AND A PARTY OF PROMI: NENT PEOPLE TAKE BREAKFAST AT THE HOME OF GOVERNOR GREEN— GOING ABOARD THE DESPATCH.1 The real beginning of the great celebration was at the time the President stepped from the special train at Elizabeth at 7 :25 yesterday morning, and that be ginning was as auspicious as the most patriotic man in the country could desire. The trip from Wash ington to Elizabeth was made on as magnificent a railroad train as has probably been run over any railroad in the world. It consisted, besides the engine and tender, of a library and smoking car, the sleeper Premier, of the New- York and Chicago limited express ; the sleeper Etruria, of the New-York and Cincinnati limited ex press ; the sleeper Pelion, the dining-car Continental, of the New- York and Chicago limited express ; the sleeper England, France and America, of the New- York and Chicago express ; the observation oar Alroy, and car No. 60, the private car of Vice-President Frank Thomson, of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The cars are all lighted by electricity, heated by steam. and are fitted up with every appliance luxury could desire. There is a well-stooked library in one car and a complete barber's outfit In another, and many bathrooms. All of the ten cars were connected by vestibules, so that the passengers could move about from one car to another without the slightest danger. The committee appointed to escort the President from Washington to this city, which was composed of John A King, John Jay, ex-Mayor Edward Cooper, Judge William H. Robertson, Seth Low, Frank S. Witherbee, O B. Potter James Duane Livingston and Clifford Stanley Sims, arrived In Washington on Sunday after noon and called on the President. AVOIDING TRAVELLING ON SUNDAY.' At 10 :40 in the evening the Presidential party went on board of the train, but the start was not made until 12 :10, so as not to travel on Sunday. Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller, Justices Blatchford and Field, and Justice Strong, retired, occupied the England. In the America were Secretary and Mrs. Windom, the two Misses Windom, Walker Blaine, the Misses Margaret and Harriet Blaine, Secretary and Mrs. Rusk, son and daughter, and Lieutenant and Mrs. Mason and Colonel Barr, of the War Department. The members of the Inaugural Reception Committee occupied the France. In the oomposlte car, the Alroy, were Private Secretary Halford, Colonel Wilson, Lieutenant Judson, Henry W. Raymond and Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Halford. President Frank Thomson's private car, No. 60, was occupied by President and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Kate Davis Brown, daughter of ex-Senator Davis, of West Virginia, and wife of Lieutenant Brown, who Is at Samoa, and Miss Ida Murphy, of St. Paul, Minn. Secretary Blaine was not "one of the party, as he is suffering from an attack of lumbago. Secretary Wana. maker Joined the party when the train arrived at Phila delphia. George W. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent, was In charge of the train ; Edward Bailey was the engineer, and John Larkins was the conductor. Governor Green, of New-Jersey, and the Eliza beth Reception Committee, went to Trenton on a special car on Sunday night, and the car was attached to the special Presldental train at that point. A JOYFTJL WELCOME AT ELIZABETH. The arrival of the special train at Elizabeth was accompanied by the ringing of every large bell in the town, and a salute of twenty-ope guns was fired by the gun squad of the 3d Regiment, New-Jersey National Guard. Thousands of people had gathered in the streets In the neighborhood of the station long before the time announced for the arrival of the train. President Harrison's car was the last one, and when the train came to a stop, he and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. McKee and Governor Green alighted and ejitered an open carriage and were driven direct to the Governor's house, accompanied by a guard of honor on horseback. As soon as President Harrison made his appearance the crowd began to cheer, and after he had entered the carriage he Incessantly raised his hat and bowed to the masses of people on the right and left. After the train had been placed on a side 'track, Justice and Mrs. Fuller and Justices Field and Blatch ford were driven to the Governor's home by another route than that taken by the President. Vice-Presi dent and Mrs. Morton arrived at Elizabeth the evening before, and were entertained at the home of ex-Con gressman John Kean. They arrived at Governor Green's house shortly after the President arrived there. Governor and Mrs. Beaver, of Pennsylvania; and Governor Fltz-Hugh Lee, of Virginia, arrived at Elizabeth on Sunday night, and were entertained at Governor Green's home. The Rev, Mr. Davis, of Elizabeth, with those already named, constituted the party, who sat down to breakfast shortly before 8 o'clock. Governor Green's house was magnificently decorated both inside and out, the breakfast table and dining-room being particularly handsome. Pan- sles wepe used largely In the table decorations. A RECEPTION AND REVIE.W.1 Shortly before 9 o'clock the President held a re ception, at which many of the prominent State officials of New-Jersey were Introduced to him. At 9 o'clock the President and party mounted the reviewing stand, which had been built on the lawn In the rear of the Governor's house, and reviewed the first two divisions of the military parade which was to escort him to Elizabethport. This is the part of the military parade that the President reviewed : Cavalry, Captain J. L. Hammlll. Band. First Division. Lieutenant-Colonel B. F. Lee commanding. Staff of 3d Regiment, N. G. N. J, Company C, Phil Kearny Guard, Captain and Brevet-Major. W. H. DeHart. Company H, Captain Gilbert S. Cook. Company E, Torbet Guard, Captain John C. Lucas. Company D, Captain Joseph Bay. Company F, Captain B. F. King. Veteran Zouaves, Brevet—Brigadier-General J. Madison Drake. Second Division. Band. Department Commander W. B. E. Miller commanding. Department Staff. Thirty-six G. A. R. Posts. Three Camps Sons of Veterans. At 9 :25 the President got in a carriage with Governor Green, and he was followed by seven other carriages. In the next vehicle after the President's were Vice-President Morton, Mayor Joseph H. Grler. of Ellzabetjh, General William J. Sewell, and Adjutant- General William H. Stryker. In the others were ex-Governors Price, Bedle and Abbett, of New-Jersey ; ex-Congressman Amos Clark, President Werts, of the New.Jersey State Senate ; Courtlandt Parker, Robert S. Hudspeth, Speaker of the New-Jersey Assembly; Benjamin F. Lee, Clerk of the Supreme Court; Senator Rufus Blodgett, Congressmen Bergen, Buchanan, Gelsonhelmer, Samuel Fowler, Herman Lehlbach and C. D. Beckwlth and five members of the Joint Legislat ive Committee. These carriages were flanked on the right and left hy twelve other carriages, containing the guard of honor, composed of- members of Hie 14 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. Society of the Cincinnati, of the Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, the Washlngtlm Association, the New- Jersey Historical Society, and the Sons of the Revolution. Then came forty more carriages, con taining Khe members of the Committee of Reception of the cIKy of Elizabeth, the Centennial Committee of the Board of Trade, the City Counoll, thp Board ot Education, the city officers, the Freeholders of Union County, committees from boards of trade of Trenton. Newark and Jersey City, and the Mayors of the neigh- boring cities. The organizations of the other five divisions were composed as follows : Third Division. Aid S. L. Moore, ]r., commanding. Cavalry, Captain J. L. Hammill. Band. Odd Fellows. Junior Order United American Mechanics. Piatt Deutsch Verein. Band. Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, Colonel Wilson com manding. Boys in Continental Uniform to represent the Original States. Lafayette Guards In Continental Uniform, Captain H. S. Hull. Knights of St. John. Captain Edward Olmsted. Fourth Division. Caualry, Captain George Bennett, commanding. Drum Corps. Ancient Order of Hibernians, John Haggerty comV manding. President were first taken on board of the Despatch, and the yards were manned by the sailors. The mem bers of the Cabinet were then taken on board, and the other members of the President's party went on board of the Sirius. The New-Jersey officials and guests were taken on board of the Meteor, and amid the boom ing of guns, the screeching of steam whistles, the wav ing of flags, and the cheering of the multitudes on the boats and on the shore the vessels steamed toward the Bay. THE LANDING AT WALL-ST. Fifth Division. Agricultural Society of Union County, Dennis C. Crane commanding. Sixth Division. Firemen, Chief Engineer William J. Mahoney. Assistant Chief Engineers Louis C. Nau, George Rabig and ten companies. Seventh Division. Colored Citizens, Major Josiah Richardson commanding. Cavalry, Count Leo Ch. De Balesky commanding. THE MARCH TO ELIZABETHPORT. These were drawn up on the sides of the streets on the line of march, and the first two divisions, with the President and escort In carriages, passed between the two lines, and all of the organizations then fell in line In the order named and marched to Elizabethport. All along the route of the parade the President was greeted with continued cheeiing. From the time that he got into his carriage at the Gover nor's house until he got out of it again at Eliza bethport, there were but few periods of a minute's duration wihen he was not raising his hat and bowing to the multitudes. He was particularly cordial In his salutations to the Grand Army men, especially when several companies passed at the review bearing stained and dilapidated battle flags. There were three triumphal arches to be passed through on the way to Elizabethport. The first one, at Broad and East Jersey sts. was made of evergreens, tastefully decorated with flags and bunting. The sec ond and most interesting arch was at Elizabeth and the Cross-Roads. On It were stationed forty-nine pretty girls, dressed in costumes representing forty- two States and seven Territories. As the President rode under it, he was showered with flowers thrown by the girls on the arch. The last arch was at First and Fulton sts., in Elizabethport. The decorations of the houses along the route of the parade were elaborate and handsome. Several old houses on the way have at different times been made famous by the visits of noted persons, among them being one where Washington and Lafayette had both stopped at different times, and the decorations on these houses were particularly hand some. Many stands were also erected along the route At about the time that the procession got well under way the sun came out, and lent an additional bright ness to the scene, made more welcome by contrast with the number of gloomy days which had preceded yesterday. GOING ON BOARD THE DESPATCH. After the President had departed from the Gov ernor's house the other members of his party returned to the special train, which was standing on a siding, and the train proceeded to Elizabethport, arriving there at about the same time that the President did The work of embarking from the loat of Alcyon boat-house was then begun. The President and Vlce- RECEIVED BY ENORMOUS CROWDS HOT AVITH ENTHUSIASM. HOW THE PBESIDENT WAS TAKEN ASHORE— DIFFICULTY IN CLEARING HIS PATH BOTH ON LAND AND WATER— BRIEF SPEECHES OF WELCOME— THE PROCESSION TO THE EQUITABLE BUILDING. Wall-st. prepared itself an at early hour for the greeting to the President and his party. It put the finishing touches to its decorations; it massed an enormous crowd from Trinity Church down to the East River ferry, and it gathered a goodly number of spectators who never knew anything about stocks, except stocks of lemonade and sand wiches for the thirsty and hungry, in the vast multitude of sightseers. It hadn't been able to close all its business, for the banks were com pelled to be open, and there were 11 ites and drafts to be met and provided for in the absence of the usual attendance of bankers and brokers. But the financial business community worked in unison to reduce every matter of tbis sort to a minimum, and the utmost liberality consistent with safety was exercised by the institutions which form the Clearing House. Ample warning, too, had been given for the arrangement of obligations falling due yesterday, and they were carried out with a minimum of friction. While the banks were kept open during the legal nours. their officers were more anxious about the attire of their buildings and, where they fronted the line of march, about providing accommodations for friends who wanted to see President; Harrison than about the details of the banking operations necessitated by their open doors and counters. I here was one blaze of red. white and blue, the colors united in an interminable variety of de- SJ%nf' brightening each side of Wall-st., from one end to the other, with flashes from the side streets, which proved that the patriotic spirit did not wait upon the accident of position. Along the river front the profusion of flags, banners and o-wl^f • madS S. br£ad bar of color t0 lace the i^i^*10? +1f th? pws dential party when they landed at the river pier. The shields which blazoned the platform of the Siib-Treasury were rivalled by decorations opposite exhibitine the eoata-of-arrns of the originaf States of the IJnion? while the numerous representations of Washing- +w *-i Jt116*^ t0 £he general display, even if If & « .4? re?ect historically accurate pictures of the first President of the Nation ™.?wL wl*™* *aile<* *° Present a front adorned: with the National emblems and colors, and the early stroller-by had to decide .only a Question of which facade bore the most gorgeous tints or the most graceful draperies. Mighty folds of gian? flags and great stretches of tri-colored hunting veiled the Custom House in a brilliancv that seemed to be wedded with a dignity anmLriate to the glromy grandeur of the buildin- Tr> pr rangement they were the simplest of tlie il~" ments with which Wall-st. was apparelled I w they won the full meed of admiration, ^en rt THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 15 the eye turned with gratification to the more varied decorations that beautified the stately build ings that reared their fronts near by. Even the splendid attractions of the marine parade had not drawn all the sightseers to boat, or Battery, or house-top. Before 10 o'clock in the morning Wall-st. and every street leading to it were filled with moving throngs, and as the hour of noon approached every roof-top and window down to the East River was loaded with piles of humanity. As noon approached the drift of the throng was toward the foot of Wall-st.. but their places were not left vacant an instant by the men, women and children who pressed upon them from the rear. Down on the covered East River pier, at the foot of Wall-st., committeemen and police officials in charge of the arrangements were early on hand. Members of the Centennial Committee, people who were to take part in the Presidential escort, police officers in spick-and-span new uniforms, and reporters soon made a considerable crowd. The river front on the Brooklyn side sent over flashes of color when the sun shot out its rays from the half-haze which at times dimmed the sky, but a strange appearance of loneliness was worn by the docks and piers, deserted by the craft that usually attend them. And while the people on tht pier were waiting for the signal of Presi dent Harrison's arrival, occasional notes from the bugle or trumpet were wafted in from the street, where dozens of blueeoats were keeping outside of the police lines thousands of spectators, and where the regular troops and the veterans of the militia and the Grand Army of the Republic were forming in files that lined both sides of Wall-st., reading to wheel into position for the escorting of the Centennial guests to the Equitable Building. Occasional cheers rent the air, as if the waiting multitude sought for some variety to its long test of patience. SIGNS OF THE PRESIDENT'S APPROACH. At about half-past 12 o'clock the river scene changed and life and color were spread over the water. The police patrol boat swooped down upon Pier 16 and Inspector Byrnes, District- Attorney Fellows and a number of others nimbly leaped upon " dry land." Then the rush of saucy look ing tugs and big steamboats, that were brilliant with bunting and women, passed before the spec tators on the pier in bewildering confusion. The guests at the early afternoon reception, wjho had met the President at Elizabethport, were hastily hurried off their vessels, which then pushed on to the northward. By the time the last boat nad been relieved of the special guests the spacious pier found that its roominess had been well taxed. Governors of States, commissions representing various legislative bodies and members of com mercial organizations were jumbled together for a time until order was restored by the directing aides. It seemed like a marvel for the steam barge from the Despatch, which carried the President and his immediate party, to pick its way through the maze of vessels that now thickened the sur face of the river like a jam of trucks in Broadway, but it dashed up to the handsomely decorated float on the north side of the long pier with an air of confidence, and landed the Governor of New-York and the Mayor of the* city, amid the shouts of thousands in the streets, many of whom could not see who they were cheering. Dusty cheers saluted the gallant old seadogs of the Marine Society when they embarked to bring thei President from the Despatch, and cheering was in order as each boat-load of guests was brought in by the steam barge. But the biggest din was heard when, about 1 o'clock, after all the guests had been landed, the President and the Vice-President were rowed into the slip and brought to the float, where already Governor Hill, Mayor Grant, members of the President's Cabinet and the Chief Justicrs were gathered. Whistles that had seemed to have ex hausted themselves outwhistled all previous efforts by a fresh exertion, and the thousands of people on shore cheered with a vigor which showed no flag ging of vociferous patriotism. THE POLICE BOAT CLEARS THE WAY. While the head of the marine procession was still oft Governor's Island the police boat Patrol made a spurt ahead to clear the way to the landing pier. Her services were needed badly, for hun dreds of small boats and tugs had put out from the wharves almost in the track of the oncoming fleet, so anxious were the people on board to secure places from which a view could be had of the land ing from the Despatch. The Patrol scattered the small boats, and then ran up to the pier-head to land Chief Inspector Byrnes and District^Attorney Fellows. She then started ahead to clear the en trance to the slip between Piers No. 16 and 17, but this she was unable to accomplish. Scores of tugs had come down the East River at the ap proach of the fleet, meeting scores of others that had spurted ahead of it. The two squadrons met at the entrance to the slip in a squirming, hissing, tooting muddle, forming a barrier that nothing afloat could have passed. It required a great deal of screeching from whistles and the expenditure of a vast amount of lung power before a slight opening between the slip and the river was obtained. The iron steamer Perseus, chartered by " The Marine Journal," threaded its way among the tor menting little boats clustered about the end of the pier, and came near enough to the wharf to enable Captain Norton, one of the President's barge crew, to leap ashore. It had been arranged that the barge and the crew should be carried on the Perseus to the anchorage of the Despatch. The barge was to be lowered from the Perseus, rowed by its venerable crew to the Despatch, where the President was to be taken on board and rowed ashore. At the last moment the Naval Committee changed this programme, the barge being taken on the Despatch and the crew told to meet at Pier 1 6. PREVENTING THE OVERCROWDING. Following the Perseus, which had the orna mental woodwork around the base of her bow flagstaff carried away by being caught under the edge of the port paddle-box of the Patrol came the Sirius. As she neared the pier the people on board rushed to the port side, giving her a dangerous list and putting part of the port-rail under water. It was with great difficulty that the people could be distributed so that the boat would ride squarely. She was finally made fast to the end of the pier, and her gany-plank sent out. A rush was made for the shore, but In spector Williams stood in the way and would allow none but invited gutsts to land. Several of the guests had their wives with them, but they were compelled to leave them on board, arranging to meet them after the ceremonies of landing and the reception were over. This, no doubt, caused much inconvenience and ill-feeling, but it prevented the pier from becoming dangerously over-crowded. It was half -past 12 when the Sirius had discharged her company, consisting of commissioners from the States, Governors and Federal officials. The Erastus Wiman and the City of Hudson came next to the pier in turn, discharged their complement of guests, and slowly ploughed a passageway through the flotilla of tugs into the stream. It was 12 :45 when the Despatch came to anchor off the Wall Street Ferry slip. At that time the river was filled with steam vessels from shore to shore. The tide was running out swiftly, and the vessels in the stream were constantly coming THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. together, grinding each other's sides, and making catastrophe imminent a hundred times, Immedi ately after, the Despatch was anchored, a passage to the slip was made between the struggling tug boats. The Despatch then put out a steam launsh, into which stepped Elbridge T. Gerry, represents ing the Executive Committee, Go/ernor Hill, Mayor Grant and James M. Varnum, of the Com mittee on Plan and Scope. The launch speeded to her landing float at Pier 1 6, where her passengers were received by Secretary Bowen, W. H. T. Hughes and William G. Hamilton. The launch, which was in command of Lieuten ant Eldridge, returned to the Despatch with the crew of the President's barge, and on its next trip brought ashore Chief Justice Fuller, Justices Blatchford and Field, ex-Justice Strong, and Sec retaries Noble and Rusk. A barge from Secretary Tracy's flagship then brought to the landing float Secretaries Tracy, Windom, Wanamaker and Plroctor, Attorney-General Miller and Walker Blaine. Mr. Blaine stated that his father was suffering from an attack of lumbago, and was un able to come with the Presidential party. THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME. While these officials were being landed, the President was introduced to the crew of venerable oarsmen who were to row him ashore. After the Secretary of the Navy had reached the shore the President's barge was lowered from the Brooklyn side of the Despatch, and her white-bearded, white-haired crew took their places in the boat. President Harrison and Vice-President Morton took their places in the stern sheets, accompanied by Asa Bird Gardiner, chairman of the Navy Com mittee, Captain Henry Erben, of the Navy, in citizen's attire, Frederick R. Coudert and Jack son S. Schultz. The barge was cast off, and the venerable but sturdy crew pulled her against the tide above and around tho bows of the ship. As the barge cleared for the shore, the Despatch began firing a Presidential salute. At the second gun the crew of the barge responded by " tossing oars" in true naval style. Letting fall again, they started for the shore with a long, steady and uniform stroke. As they sat in the boat, they showed that they were as skilful with the oars as were their ancestors who rowed President Wash ington ashore a century ago. The crew were stationed as follows : Captain Ambrose Snow, coxswain ; Starboard— Norton, 1, Spencer, 2, Fair- child, 3, Luce, 4, Marsh,' 5, Ellis, 6; Port— Urquhart, 1, Dearborn, 2, Parker, 3, Drew ; 4 , Whitman, 5, Trask, 6. The salute from the steam whistles of the fleet was kept up from the time the President left the Despatch until he had reached the landing float. Then the crowds on the piers, streets and houses set up a cheering that was carried and re-echoed from housetop to housetop,1 and from pier to pier all along the river front. The men who had already landed were waiting on the float to receive the President. Hamilton Fish, president of the Centennial General Committee, had joined the group. As the barge neared the float, oars were shipped, and Captain Norton, boat-hook in hand, stood up in the bow to make her fast. The landing was excellently made, the President being assisted ashore by Major Gardiner. Then the company on the float formed a circle around the Presidential party, and Major Gardiner formally introduced the President to Mr. Fish. THE ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Mr. Fish then, as president of the committee, gave the President a formal welcome, speaking as follows : Mr. President : In the name of the Centennial Com mittee, representing the enthusiasm, the gratitude and the pride of the Nation on tbis centennial anniversary, I tender to you the welcome of New-York, on the very spot where, 100 years ago, your great predecessor, our first President, planted his foot, when he came to assume the duties of the great office which has now devolved upon you, and to set in operation the maohln. ery of the glorious Constitulion under which the Gov. eminent has prospered and enlarged and extended across the continent, insuring peace, security and hap piness to more than 60,000,000 of people, and not a single slave. We welcome you to celebrate the cen tennial anniversary of the inauguration of that Con stitution to whose preservation and defence you have sworn. Mr. President, I have the honor to present the Hon. David B. Hill, Governor of the State of New. York; the Hon. Hugh J. Grant, Mayor of New- York; Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry, chairman of the Centennial Committee ; Mr. • William G. Hamilton, chairman on States, and Mr. Clarence F. Bowen, secretary. The President replied briefly to the address, ex pressing his appreciation of the cordiality of his reception. Governor Hill and Mayor Grant each simply bade the President welcome, and the Presi dent thanked them heartily. One of the employes of the Ward Line brought three bottles of cham pagne and a number of glasses upon the float, but before the bottles were uncorked it struck some one in the company that the eyes of fifty thousand people, probably, were fixed on the group, and the employe and his bottles were hurried back to the pier. The Presidential party then ascended to the pier and entered tbe carriages. It was just 1:13 when the President reached the pier. As he seated himself some one called for three cheers for Presi dent Harrison, and they were given with a ve hemence that did credit to the patriotism of the throng. FORMATION OF THE PROCESSION. A procession was then quickly formed for the escort of the President and the invited guests to the Equitable Building. At l ;40 it began to move in the following order : Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Floyd Clarkson. Marshal. Band 5th Regiment, United States Artillery. Three foot battories, 5th Regiment, United States Artillery. New. York Commandery of the Loval Legion of tho United States. Commanders of Posts of the Grand Army of the Re public In counties of New-York and Kings. Cappa's Band. Uniformed Battalion of Veterans, 7th Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. Uniformed Veteran Militia Associations of New- York and Brooklyn. . Band of the General Service, U. S. Army. Society of the Sons of the Revolution. First carriage— The Plan and Scope Committee (hav ing tho general supervision of the celebration), viz. ' Messrs. Jamos M. Varnum, Cornelius N Bliss. Fred. erlck S. Tallmadge and Samuel D. Babcook. Second— The Governor of the State of New- York, oa the back seat, with tho President of the United States on his right hand. On the front seat, the Mayor of the city of New- York and tho president of the Centennial Celebration. Third— The Vion-Presldent of the United States the Lieutenant-Governor of the State of ISew York" tho THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 17 chairman of the Executive Committee, and the Chief Justice of the United States. Fourth— The Secrelary of the Treasury and Walker Blaine on back seat, the Secretaries of War and Navy on front seat. Fifth— The Secretary of the Interior, tlie Postmaster- General, the Attorney-General and the Secretary of Agriculture. Sixth— The Associate Justices of the Supreme Court Of the United States. Seventh— The General of the Army, retired (General Shermanl, the Admiral of the Navy, the Major-General commanding the Army, and Senator Evarts. Eighth— Ex-President Hayes and Senators Hiscock and Evarts. In carriages and on foot the rest of the pro cession was as follows : The General Committee of the Centennial Celebra tion. The Governors of States, taking precedence in the order of admission of their States Into the Union. The official representation of the Senate of the United States. The official representation of the House of Repre sentatives of the United States. The Governors of Territories and President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Officers of the Army and Navy who by name have received the thanks of Congress. The official representation of the Society of the Cin cinnati. The Chief Judge and Judges of the Court of Appeals of the State of New- York. The Presiding Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New-York and Judges of other Courts of Record within the city of New- York. The Legislature of the State of New-York. The State officers of the State of New- York. Judges and Justices of other Courts In the city of New-York. The Board of Aldermen of the city of New- York. Heads of Departments in the city of New- York. Mayor of the city of Brooklyn. The Board of Aldermen of the city of Brooklyn. The Foreign Consuls at New- York and officers of the Army and Navy of the United States. Invited guests without special order of precedence. FOLLOWED BY A MIGHTY CHEER. It was one mighty cheer that rolled along with the President's carriage as it proceeded, with its escort of troops and civilia-is, all the way from the foot of Wall-st. up to Broadway and thence to the Equitable Building. Tne hand some files of regulars and 7th Regiment veterans, the Loyal Legion and Grand Army commanders, and the distinguished occupants of the few car riages that followed that of the President, were received with cordial greetings, but it was to the Executive chosen at the beginning of the Nation's second century of constitutional govern ment that the plaudits of the people were given in the greatest volume. The crowd almost became unmanageable, for the end of the procession, by the time it had reached tbe statue of Washington was one mingled and almost indistinguishable mass of civilian delegates, policemen and eager sightseers, who were impatient to follow the Presidential party to the Equitable Building. Strong cordons of police, drawn at a distance of a block on either side of the Equitable Build ing, checked the fierce onrush of the people, and safe within the lines the National guests were decorously taken within that mighty structure, which so prominently testifies to the wonderful changes in a hundred years around old Federal HalL and there the President received the hundreds who had been privileged to meet him hist. A CROWDED RECEPTION. PRESIDENT HARRISON AT THE EQUITABLE BUILDING. THE ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED BY THE, COM: MITTEE ON STATES— THE .CHOIR OF TRINITY CHURCH IsiNG A HYMN— HANDSHAK ING OMITTED — THE PRESIDENT SITS DOWN AT A BEAUTIFUL . TABLE AND CARRIES AWAY A SOUVENIR. Hours before the President could possibly have reached the Equitable Building, that large and massive structure was a centre of attraction to hundreds of people. The greater part of the build ing was open to the public, and many of the vis itors, in wandering about the seemingly endless corridors, would have lost their way completely had it not been for the numerous signs indicating in which direction the exits could be reached. There was a large force of policemen in the main corridor on the ground Boor, and many more were grouped around the entrance, through which the fresh breeze blew with considerable force. The services of the police were not needed until it was necessary to banish the crowds in order to make way for the President and the distinguished men who accompanied him. Meanwhile men in rusty garments mingled with the well-dressed lawyers and business men who were constantly passing to and fro. There were not a few women, also, in the moving throngs, and the new-comers to the city among them could easily be picked out by the open-eyed wonder with which they gazed on the extensive corridors, the graceful pillars, the rapidly moving elevators and the glittering elec tric lights. The hour fixed for the reception given by the Committee on States to the President, the mem bers of the Cabinet and other representative men was 2 o'clock. For once an affair of ¦this kind was begun on time. It was about twenty minutes of 2 when the great hall was cleared by the police, and at 1 :45 the batteries of the 5th Regiment. United States Army, marched in, under command of Colonel Church and Colonel Walton, and took up their positions. They were followed by the New-York Commandery of the Loyal Legion and the delegations from Grand Army posts. ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT. The Presidential party arrived a few moments later. They were relieved of their ha'ts and over coats as they entered the building, and as they passed between the files of soldiers the latter pre sented arms as a salute. The members of the Plan and Scope Committee, James M. Varnum, Cor nelius N, Bliss, Frederick S. Tallmadge and Samuel D. Babcock, entered first, followed by President Harrison and Governor Hill, Mayor Grant and Hamilton Fish, chairman of the General Commit tee on the Celebration ; Vice-President Morton and 18 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. Lieutenant-Governor Jones, Elbridge T. Gerry and Chief Justice Fuller, the members of the Cabinet, the Justices of the Supreme Court, Senators and Representatives, the Governors of States, Admiral Porter, General Sherman. ex-President Hayes, Gen eral Schofield, Walker Blaine and other invited guests. After advancing a considerable distance along the corridor the party came to a halt. Meanwhile the surpliced choir of Trinity Church had taken up their places on the first stairway, the marble steps of which had been draped with red stuff, and they greeted the President and those who accom panied him by singing the hymn beginning, " Be fore the Lord We Bow." This was followed by the Doxology, to the accompaniment of the military band. The voices rang out clear and resonant, and the effect was greatly admired. So immense is the Equitable Building, however, that in parts of the second story above not a sound of tlie singj ing was audible. President Harrison and the members of his party were then escorted to the rooms of the Lawyers' Club, on the fifth floor. There William G. Hamilton, chairman of the Committee on States, presented him to the President of the club, Will iam Allen Butler ; the secretary, Samuel Borrowe, and the members of the Board of Governors. This ceremony over, Mr. Butler conducted Gen eral Harrison to the reception-room ; Vice-Presi dent Morton being escorted by Samuel Borrowe, and Governor Hill by Hallett Alsop Borrowe, special aide to the Committee on States. A raised platform was provided, on which Presi dent Harrison took his place. On his right stood Hamilton Fish and Mr. Morton; on his left Gov ernor Hill and Mayor Grant. The members of the Cabinet, Senators Governors, etc., scattered in groups on each side of the dais. Secretaries Windom, Tracy, Proctor, Noble and Rusk, Post master-General Wanamaker and Attorney-General Miller chatted among themselves, and with ex- President Hayes, Senator Evarts, Senator Hiscock, Walker Blaine and others on one side, while on the others the Governors made themselves at home. THE GOVERNORS PRESENT. The Governors present were, in the order of the admission of their respective States into the Union, as follows: Delaware. Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut. Massachusetts, Maryland.South Carolina, New- Hampshire, Virginia,North Carolina, Rhode Island. Vermont,Kentucky, Ohio. Indiana. Alabama, Maine. Missouri,Michigan, Iowa, WiEConsin,Minnesota, Oregon. West Virginia, Nebraska,Colorado,Montana,Washington, Beniamin T. Biggs. .lames A. Beaver. Robert S. Green John B. Gordon, Morgan G. Bulkeley, Oliver Ames. Etihu E. Jackson, John P. Richardson, Charles H. Sawyer, Fitz Hugh Lee. Daniel Gould Fowle, Royal C. Taft. William P. Diliineham. Simon B. Buckner, Joseph B. Foraker. Alvin P. Hovey, Thomas Seay, Edwin C. Burleigh, I David R. Francis, Cvrus G. Luce. William Larrabee. William D. Hoard. William R. Merriam, Sylvester Pennoyer. E. W. Wilson, ' John M. Thayer, Job A. Cooper. S. T. Hauser, Miles C. Moore. The members of the Floor Committee were then introduced to the President, and he was informed that these gentlemen would present to him the guests who had been invited to meet him. Floor Committee was made up as follows : Lewis Llvineston Delafleld. E-v ' The _!vert Jansen Wendell, Boudinot Keith, Boudinot Atterbury, James W. Husted, ir., Duer Breck. Woodbury Kane. Stockton Beekman Colt, Frederick R. Satterlee, Samuel Dexter, Elisha Dyer. 3d. Peter Cooper Hewitt. Georse Adams, Henry A. Alexander. George B. Post, jr.. Newbold Morris. Devereux Toler, Meredith Howland. H. W. Banks, Jr.. Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Alexander Stewart Webb, jr, Beekman Kip Borrowe, Stephen Chase, Livingston Emery. W. Pierson Hamilton. John Watts DePevster Toler, Charles K. Beekman, Sidney D. Ripley. Archibald Grade. Charles A. Van Rensselaer, Robert Stockton. Henderson Wells, Waldron Kintzing Post, Clement Livingston Clarkson Ram?ay Turnbull, Grenville Winthrop, Llnzee Prescott. Frederick D. Thompson. John Eliot Bowen. Edmund Dwight. jr.. William Shippln. F. Delano Weeks, George Haven, jr., Philin Rhinelander. Samuel Campbell, jr.. Boudinot Colt, August Belmont, Jr., Robert R. Livingston. PRESENTED TO GENERAL HARRISON. After this the doors of the club were thrown open to the invited guests, who had assembled in the offices of the Equitable Life Assurance Society below. They were conducted in as rapidly as pos sible by members of the Floor Committee, and, after being presented to the President, passed on into the library. General Harrison merely bowed as each group of two or three was brought up to him. Following the custom in Washington's time. there was no handshaking. This not only facili tated the rapid passage of the guests, but saved the President from much fatigue. He stood in an easy and graceful position. His Prince Albert coat was closely buttoned ; a part of the time his right hand was thrust in between the buttons. He bowed gracefully and a pleasant smile illumined his face. He evidently felt entirely at his ease, and his ap pearance and manner called out many favorable comments. Though under the average height, this was not noticed, because he was raised several inches above the floor of the room, unless, indeed, one thought to compare him with Mr. Fish and Governor Hill on his right and left hand. Those who passed before the President included actors. Army officers, authors, architects, artists, auctioneers, adjusters, advertising agents, bank presidents, book publishers, brewers, butchers, bankers, representatives of the Chamber of Com merce and the Cotton and Coffee Exchanges, clergy men, civil engineers, chairmakers, chemists, china and earthenware dealers, clothiers, carriage manu facturers, members of the cigar and tobacco trade,1 foreign consuls, descendants of distinguished French officers of the Revolution, members of the drug and chemical trade, drygoods merchants, ex pressmen, dealers in flour, furniture and fish, freight agents, grocers, glass importers, members of the General Society of Mechanics and Traders, engineers, hatters and furriers, harnessniakers,' dealers in housefurnishing goods, members of the iron trade, insurance brokers, lawyers, lumber deal ers, life insurance men, liquor-dealers, lead pencil manufactuiers, mechanical engineers, marine in surance men, dealers in metal, Naval officers, mem bers of the Maritime Exchange and the Prod uce Exchange, physicians and surgeons, printers, piano manufacturers, printing press manufacturers, members of the paint trade, photographers, rep resentatives of the Society of the Cincinnati, rail road men, real estate men, members of the Stock Exchange, sugar refiners, steamship agents, sail- makers, silk manufacturers, ship chandlers, shoe manufacturers and dealers, officers of trust compa nies and telegraph companies, and members of the German Society, the Holland Society and the South ern Society. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 19 SOME OF THE GUESTS. Among the 2,000 who were presented to Gen eral Harrison in the succeeding half-hour were ob served the following: Edwards Pierrepont, ex- Judge Peabody, ex-Secretary Bayard, General George W. Cullom, John F. Plummer, General Joseph C. Jackson, Eugene Kelly, Brayton Ives, E. Ellery Anderson, the Rev. W. B. Derrick. ex- Commodore James D. Smith, General William G. Ward, D. F. Appleton, Professor D. G. Eaton of Yale College; Hamilton Fish, jr., Asa Bird Gar diner, Colonel Silas W. Burt. Cyrus W. Field, Theodore Roosevelt. William Allen Butler. ex- Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn; Charles Emory Smith, Nicholas Fish. Samuel Crocker Cobb, of Boston; William Wayne, of Pennsylvania; Clifford Stanley Sims, of New-Jersey ; Egbert L. Viele, the Rev. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Caro lina; Bishop William Stevens Perry, of Iowa; the Rev. Dr. Thomas Arruitage, W. B. Webb, president of the Commissioners of Columbia ; Colonel Finley Anderson. Colonel Oswald Tilgh man. the Rev. William Wallace Green, of Mary land ; William McPherson Horner. J. Edward Sim mons. General Abner Doubleday, Colonel W. C. Church. Dr. George W. Brush, the Rev. Dr. Henry B. Chapin, Henry G. Marquand, General Schuyler Hamilton. General FiU John Porter and Arthur D. Eaton. The President only departed once or twice from the rule that there should be no hand shaking. One occasion was when ex-Secretary Bayard approached ; he was greeted with a hearty grasp of the hand. IN THE BANQUET-HALL. At 2:'40 o'clock President Harrison was con ducted to the banquet-ball of the Equitable Build- ing, where an elaborate table was spread for sixty guests. The decorations were uncommonly fine. The room is finished in antique oak, with hangings that harmonize \\ ith the rich colors of the oak. The curtains were lowered and the room was lighted artificially. The table was oval in shape, and was almost a mass of roses. Ten thousand roses of all varieties were used in decorat ing it. "In the centre, in a bed of rich roses, stood a large century palm, from the numerous branches of which were suspended many rare and beautiful orchids. All of the orchids were imported for the occasion. Hanging also £cpm the branches of the palm were a number of electric lights ; many of these were also scattered among the roses around the table. The globes were covered with pink silk, which not only softened the light for the eyes of the guests, but harmonized admirably with the colors of the masses of roses. The ef fect, as a whole, was pronounced superb, and J. EJ Thorley, iwho superintended thev work of decorating the banquet-hall, was warmly praised for the success of his undertaking. It was noticeable heie and in the rooms of the Lawyers' Club that flags and bunting were not used for decorative purposes. Hamilton Fish presided at the table. On his right sat President Harrison and on his left Gov ernor Hill. At the opposite end of the table sat William G. Hamilton, with Elbridge T. Gerry on his right hand. The other guests included Secre tary Windom, Secretary Tracy, Secretary Proctor, Secretary Noble, Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Attorney-General JMiller, Secretary Rusk, Walker Blainet, ex-President Hayes, General W. T. Sher man, General Schofield, Admiral Porter, Senator Evarts, Senator Hiscock, Chauncey M. Depew, the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, F. S. Tallmadge, James M. Varnum, John Alsop King, Orlando B. Potter. John D. Crimmins, Samuel Borrowe, Captain Erben, J. T. Van Rensselaer, John Schuyler, General James W. Husted, Henry W. LeRoy, Jacob A. Cantor, Floyd Clarkson, E. Ellery, Anderson, Theodore Roosevelt, John B. Piney James M. Montgomery, Joseph C. Jackson, Henry G. Marquand, William Allen Butler, A. B. Gar- diner, Stuyvesant Fish, Brayton Ives, William H. Clarke, John M. Bowers, John T. Agnew, Clarence W. Bowen, S. D. Babcock, C. N. Bliss and Judge R. B. Martine. AN ELABORATE MENU. The menu was a very elaborate affair. It con. sisted of six heavy rectangular sheets of Bristol board, elaborately engraved, tied together with blue and yellow ribbons. On the first page ap peared a wreath of laurel leaves, having n portrait of Washington at the top and the shields of all the States and Territories placed upon it. Within the oval space inclosed by the wreath appeared this inscription : The Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of Ueorgo Washington as President of the United States, April 30th, 1789, request the nonor of your company at a Reception at the Lawyers' Club. Equitable Building, New-lork, at 2 p. m. Monday, April 29lh, 1889. To (name of guest). In the lower corners appeared the names of tho officers of the General Committee and of the Com mittee on States. On the second page of the menu was an en. graving representing Washington, being rowed ashore from New-Jersey to the landing at the foot of Wall-st., on April a 3, 1789, and the ode sung on his arrival; and also the members of the City Council of New-York, a hundred years ago. Tho Mayor was James Duane, the Recorder Richard Varick. There were Aldermen and AsMstants in those palmy days, and they represented the South Ward, Dock Ward, East Ward, West Ward, North Ward, Montgomerie Ward and Out Ward. There were two Van Zandts and a Van Geider among them, but there were no Divvers, Flynns or Sheas. Here is a sample of the ode of a "century ago: Hail, thou auspicious day 1 Far let America Thy praise resound : Joy to our native land ! Let ev'ry heart expand. For Washington's at hand, With glory crown'd 1 I Thrice.blest Columbians, haill Behold, before the gale. Your Chief advance ; Th matchless Hero's nigh I Applaud Him to the sky, Who gave you liberty, With gen'rous France. ********Thrice welcome to this shore. Our Leader now no more, But Ruler thou ; Oh, truly good and great 1 Long live to glad our Slate, Where countless Honors wait To deck thy brow. The next page shows St. Paul's Chapel in 1789' with portraits of Bishop Provost and Chancellor Livingston. Below are the names of the Presi dent, Vice-President, members of the Cabinet, Sena tors and Representatives in 1789. On the fourth page are seen two views of the Federal Hall in thail year of grace— as seen when looking up Wall-st.— together with the names of the present Governors of States and Territories, and the chairmen of the Commissioners to the present celebration. The States are arranged in the order in which they were admitted to the Union. The next page contains portraits of President Harrison, Governor Clinton, Governor Hill, Mayor Duane and Mayor Grant. Full lists of the committees on the Centennial celebration are given. On the last page is the menu proper, with engravings of Washington's 20 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. home m 1789 (No. 3 Cherry-st.) and the splendid Equitable Building of to-day. The menu was as follows : Potages. Creme d'Asperges. Consomme Royale. Amontillado. Timbales Courbet. Homard Bagratlon. Filet de Boeuf Balzac. Petits Pols Francals. Medoc. Galantine de Chapon. Pate de Gibier. Poulet Rota a la Gelee. tiecasslnes sur Canape. Pigeonpaux Rotis. Salade de Saison. Glaces Tortonl. Petit Fours. Chocolat. Champagne. Cafe Glace. The. Chocolat. Cafe. A SOUVENIR FOR THE PRESIDENT. Grace was said by the Rev. Dr. Dix. Hamil ton Fish formally presented the guests to President Harrison and Vice-President Morton. Then Will iam G. Hamilton, in behalf of the Committee on States, presented to General Harrison a copy of the menu as a souvenir, enclosed in a delicately wrought silver envelope, on which was engraved the President's name and official title. In doing so Mr. Hamilton said: Mr. President ; As chairman of the Committee on States, I have the honor to preseut to you, in the name of the General Committee of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States, a souvenir of this aus picious occasion. We have gathered with us the most honored representative citizens from the varied pur suits of life, which have made this Nation what it is at the present moment— religion, law, science, art and commerce— all striving to do honor to the nam) of Washington. So beloved Is he by all Americans that we call him " Father" ; so deified and sanctified in our hearts that but one other birthday is sacred to us. (Applause.) Mr. President: That your Administration may be so wisely ordered that you may be known as the one equally honored by all Americans is the wish of this united Nation. Gentlemen, you will please fill your glasses and drink to the memory of George Washington, the Father of his Country I The toast was drunk standing. President Har rison simply bowed, his thanks and then resumed his seat amid cheers. At his particular request there was no further speech-making. THE OTHER GUESTS ENTERTAINED. Meanwhile, those of the guests of the club who could not be accommodated in the banquet hall enjoyed refreshments in the rooms of the club, where the same menu was served. The Governors were escorted to the dining-room by members ' of the Floor Committee, and seated at fifteen tables with the committeemen. The arrangement was as follows, the order of prece dence of States being observed : • GOVERNORS. Governor Biggs. Governor Beaver, Governor Green, Governor Gordon, Governor Bulkeley. Governor Ames, Governor Jackson, Governor Richardson Governor Sawyer, Governor Lee, Governor Fowle, Governor Taft, Governor Dillingham, Governor Buckner, Governor Foraker, Governor Hovey, Governor Seay, Governor Burleigh, Governor Francis, ESCORT. Lewis L. Delafleld, Robert B. Stockton. Beekman K. Borrowe Woodbury Kane. Peter Coopor Hewitt. Evert J. Wendell. Grenville Winthrop. Duer Breck. W. K. Post. Boudinot Keith. John R. Bowen. Elisha Dyer, 3d. Stockton Colt. Stephen Chase. W. Pierson Hamilton. Linzee Prescott. Philip Rhinelander. Meredith Howland. Archibald Graclo. GovernorGovernorGovernor Governor Governor Governor GovernorGovernor GovernorGovernor Governor Luce, Larrabee, Hoard,Merriam, Pennoyei, Walker, Thayer, Cooper, Hauser, Moore, Webb, Clermont L. Clarkson. Samuel Dexter. Henderson Wells. Sidney D. Ripley. F. Delano Weekes. August Belmont, jr. Frederick D. Thompson, Boudinot Atterbury. Ramsay Turnbull. Robert R. Livingston. Charles K. Beekman. President Harrison left the banquet hall at 3 :35 with the chairmen of the committees, and in a few moments was escorted out of the building to his carriage. A large number of people wit nessed his departure and cheered him lustily. GREETED AT THE CITY HALL. SCHOOL GIRLS STREW THE PRESIDENT'S PATH WITH FLOWERS. an address of welcome— reception in the governor's room-jhearty. cheecrs from dense crowds. While the President and his party were withiu the Equitable Building, the escort outside had ample time for luncheon, which was amply im proved. The veterans of the 7th Regiment were halted in front of Cable's restaurant, where the men presented tickets with which they had been provided, entitling them to sandwiches, consomme and coffee. The regular troops and the other veteran organizations were well cared for, and the time passed rapidly. Meantime the crowds grew denser and denser in Broadway, along the route to the City Hall, and with the profuse decorations on all the buildings, the men in uni form belonging to the escort, as well as the soldiers of various visiting commands, mingling with the throngs on every side, the scene was animated and brilliant. There was more or less jostling, of course, but the crowds of men, women and. chil dren were in excellent humor, and there was no disorder. The police lined the route, but had com paratively little to do. At the front porch of the Equitable Building stood Inspector Williams and a few trusty men, who kept the course clear to the President's carriage. Meantime portentous clouds were shifting fn the skies, as if threatening a generous downpour; and for five minutes there was a light fall of rain, which caused the putting up of umbrellas by those who were so fortunate as to have them, while those who were not thus provided stood their ground bravely. There were many women and children in the great concourse of people, but all seemed bent upon seeing the President pass by, and gave evidence of no thought of retiring for a trifle. Presently the sun shone forth again, the ram ceased, umbrellas were closed, and as the time approached at wliich the march was to be resumed, the people pressed closer together, and cleared their throats for the shouting that was to follow. THE TRIP TO THE CITY HALL. It was 3:40 p. m. when word was passed to the front of the Equitable Building that the President was coming, and immediately afterward a mighty cheer, accompanied with clapping of hands and waving of handkerchiefs, greeted him and his party 'as they emerged from the building and entered their carriages. The various organiza tions composing the escort at once wheeled into column, and in the same order as before the march was resumed. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 211 The line of march from the Equitable Building to the City Hall might have well been called Patriotic Lane. For it was an inspiring sight as the President rode along through dense rows of people whose almost continuous cheers must have touhced more than one man besides those for whom they were intended. It was a dazzling picture, too, as the troops, in gay uniforms, with Hags flyingi preceded the Presidential party, marching to the .stirring strains of military bands, for block after block along the line of march the buildings were almost hidden with bunting. The sun cast a bright glow on the picture as the President, with head bared, began his triumphal ride. Long lines of policemen, keeping the sway ing, pressing crowds on the sidewalks, lent to the scene a touch of blue that melted as the surging crowds burst their bonds when the carriages of the President and his party drew near. CHEERS (FOR THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE,. On came the President, a picture of health, smiling, hat in hand, and bowing right and left to the cheering multitudes. Soldierly and erect, by his side sat Governor Hill, who yielded the palm of applause to the President by keeping his hat on his head. Mayor Grant looked easy and handsome. Cedar-st. and the other side streets were black with humanity, and a cloud of hats waved in the air. There were tier on tier of people in front of the Boreel Building, and the mass of humanity there sent up shouts that were returned by the multitude opposite, and were passed along the lines on both sides of Broadway. No one could tell where the cheering began anew any more than he could see where the crowd began. There were cries of " Harrison" " Har rison I" followed by a volume of cheers for "Blaine I Blaine I James G. Blaine I" The Gov ernor and the Mayor got their share of the ap plause, too. As the procession swept into the City Hall plaza the cheers were renewed by a host that filled every available inch of room in the southern half of the park. There, as the procession halted, the prettiest picture of the march was formed. Two long lines of white-robed school-girls stretched from the entrance of the hall down the broad steps to the first line of troops that extended from opposite the steps of the City Hall to Broadway, forming an " L." The Tribune Building, appro priately decorated, the adjoining great structures Ernd the massive Postoffice Building made a fine background. The gayly dressed crowd in the park, constantly shifting, made a pleasing pan orama for the people in adjoining high buildings. RECEPTION BY THE SCHOOL GIRLS. The reception which followed, by the school girls, was one of the most sttractive features of the day. It had been arranged by a commiLtee of principals of the Girls' Grammar Schools of the city, and was copied after the reception which the girls of Trenton extended to Washington 100 years ago. From the plaza, where the carriage of the President stopped, up the steps, and along the corridor ol the City Hall to the stairway leading to the Governor's room, were ranged a double row of girls tastefully dressed in white. Two girls were from each of the Girls' Grammar Schools, and thirteen others, representing the thirteen original States, were from the Normal College. Each girl carried a small basket of flowers, which had been contributed by the school from which she came. A loud cheer rose from the dense throng as the President stepped from his carriage. He paused an instaat, as he glanced along the aisle of bright young faces. Then Gilmore's band struck up an inspiring airj and the President, with Mayor Grant at his side, walked slowly up the steps of the building, while the girls strewed the flowers before him at every step. The rest of the party moved over this carpet of flowers. Within the building, as the party passed, one of the girls, with bright black eyes and flow ing golden hajr, had been chosen to make the address to the President on the part of the public schools. This was Miss Annie Alida Abrahams, ot the senior class of the Normal College. Her address occupied,, about five minutes, and was delivered in a low, clear tone. The address was as follows : Mr. President : Through us, their representatives, 180,000 pupils of the common schools of the city of New-York, 1,650 students of the Normal College and 1,000 students of the College of the City of New- York, extend to you their cordial welcome. It is, we think, appropriate- that the great common school system, which Is to a large extent the outgrowth of Washington's repeated recommendations to the newly born Republic, should be represented in the public celebration of his inauguration as first President of the United States. Washington was too far-seeing as a statesman not to perceive that true liberty must rest on the basis of popular education. He keenly felt that upon the Intelligence of the people depended the fate of the young nation, and repeatedly urged, not only educa tion In the elementary branches, but the establishment of higher institutions of learning, even going so far as to recommend the endowment of a National uni versity. His attitude toward the higher education Is clearly expressed In his letter to the president and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, In which he says : " I am fully apprized of the influence which sound learning has on religion and manners, on government, liberty and laws. I conceive hopes, however, that we are at the eve of a very enlightened era. The same unremitting exertions which, under all the blasting storms of war, caused the arts and sciences to flourish In America, will doubtless bring them nearer to maturity when they shall have been sufficiently invigorated by the milder rays of peace." This great Nation has followed Washington's advice. It has established common schools ; it has founded colleges and universities ; and to these, above all, it owes its progress in art and science, and its success in peace and war. Long ago Aristotle taught that no State Is secure whose children are not reared In perfect sympathy with her institutions. This is just what the vast popular American education has accomplished. Ap preciating the equity and justice of our Constitution, how can we fail to honor and obey its wise provisions 3 Thus thoroughly imbued with love of country, the American teacher, as well as the American mother, following In the footsteps of Mary and Martha Wash ington, creates and fosters In the hearts of all com mitted to her care that same noble palriotism that swells her own heart. Lowell says that the Puritans " were the first, law givers who saw clearly and enforced practically the simple, moral and political truth that knowledge was not an alms, to be dependent on the chance charity of private men, on the precarious pittance of a trust- fund ; but a sacred debt which the Commonwealth owed to every one of her children." Admirably, then, has this Commonwealth fulfilled her duty, for to-day the highest education is within the reach of the humblest of our little ones, for which the men of a former age had to struggle all their lives. This day, one hundred years ago, beheld the rising of the sun of our Republic, the very beginning of a nation, which, though poor, weak and divided, entered, with faith, hope and courage, upon the fulfilment of its high destiny, the demonstration of man's capacity for self-government. In this, our well-beloved city, to which, honored sir, we bid you thrice welcome. Washington, casting aside, as he ever did. his own desires and private Interests, though already bowed beneath fhe weifeht of advancing years and the tolls of a long and bloody war, undertook, at the call of the country he had freed, the arduous task ot guiding the new Ship of State through unknown seas, studded with rocks and shoals, into the haven of peace, hap piness and prosperity. He lived to see the stately ship safe at anchor, and then gladly, gratefully, hap pily, sank to rest No weak human eulogy can enhance his glory, for It outshines that of every other hero whose name Is re corded on the page of history ; neither is it necessary that we speak of him for mere remembrance' sake, for his name, indissolubly connected with that liberty which is the birthright of every American citizen, is 22 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. forever enshrined in every American heart. It pleased Divine Providence, a hundred years ago. to produce, on the shores of the New World, a body of men whom the Earl of Chatham pronocn'ced the greatest and noblest the earth had ever seen ; and of those Titans of the Revolution, It is no disparagement of any to say that Washington was the wisest and the most heroic— perhaps the wisest and most heroic character of all time. It Is, then, because we honor, because we rev erence, because we love him, that his name comes first to our lips to-day. It is a perpetual Inspiration, a never-ending source of pride and joy, and an eternal obligation of gratitude and thanksgiving. Could he look down upon us to-day, might we not humbly hope that he would be pleased at our progress and proud of our position among the powers of the earth ? Would he not rejoice over our smiling, happy, plenteous land and Its active, vigorous population. 60,000,000 of freemen, obedient to law and faithful to the sacred charge left by their glorious ancestors, the wise and temperate use of their liberties? Above all, would he not be filled with joyful wonder at the marvellous moral and intellectual growth of the people, and feel that these blessings were a sufficient recom pense for all his sufferings and an ample reward for all his tolls . ^ „_ . , , Upon you, honored sir,' has been conferred the high est office which this Nation of intelligent, self-govern ing freemen has in its gift ; and it is as President of the United States that you have come to help us worthily to commemorate this great Centennial. Upon such worthy shoulders has the mantle of America's first and noblest son fallen that we can repeat to you to-day the words our Trenton sisters addressed to him a century ago : Virgins fair and matrons grave. Those thy conquering arms did save. Build for thee triumphal bowers, Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your hero's way with flowers. THE PRESIDENT PLEASED WITH HIS WELCOME. President Harrison followed the speaker with apparent interest, nodding his head with approval several times, smiling pleasantly once or twice. At the close the address, engrossed on parchment, was handed to him in an album by Miss Fannie B. Cole, another of the Normal College girls, together with a handsome bouquet. The President did not make any reply, but bowed to the young ladies his appreciation of their words. As the party moved on upstairs, the girls followed them, and were in troduced to the President. The flowers strewn along the pavement did not remain there long. The Grand Army veterans and the policemen gath ered up some of them as souvenirs. Even In spector Steers received a cluster. While the police were thus engaged, the crowd seized the oppor tunity to rush in for the rest of the flowers. Among the school officials present were President J. Edward Simmons, of the Board of Education : Commissioners Holt and Seligman ; President Hunter, of the Normal College; City Superin tendent Jasper ; Assistant Superintendents Godwin, Fanning and Davis; Auditor Balch, Captain Mosher, Professor Gillette, and the following mem bers of the ladies' committee : Miss Salome Pur- roy, Miss Mary E. Tate, Miss Kate Broderick, Miss M. Louise Clawson, Mrs. Frances A. Pond, Mrs. Sarah E. Cowles, Mrs. Lizzie II. Walker, Mrs. Mary J. Conklin, Miss Matilda Mosher, Miss Carrie S. Montfort, Miss Mary McClay, Miss Amelia, Miss Frances I. Murray, Miss Annie L. Whyte, and. Miss Letitia Matthews. After the introduction the girls assembled in the Aldermanic Chamber, where they sang " Hail, Columbia," which was to have been sung as the President walked past them if the band had not been playing. The names of the girls are as follows : From the Normal College— Mary Higgins, Edith Z. Collyer, Annie Alida Abrahams, Gertrude A. Brewster, Mary Hotmer, Augusta Mott. Pauline M. Westcott, Fannie B. Cole, Mildred Gilmore Smith, Annie Berry, Martha Z. Fichtel, Anna E. Stager and Mabel Taylor. From the Public Schools— No. 1,. Vandewator-st., Minnie Lubbln, Lucy Kavannah ; No. 2. Henry-st., Ida L. Jackson, Grace C. Hurrell ; No. 8, Hudson-st., Hor- tense Blake, Carrie Seaman; No. 4, Rivlngton-st.. Es- telle Maloney, Mary McCue ; No. 7, Ohrystle-st., Sellna Israel, Carrie Uhl ; No. 9. West End-ave., EUa McDon ald, Lillle Crabtree; No. 10, Wooster-st., Ida Millot. Lizzie Helmstetter; No. 13. Houston-st., Mau. M. Pelxotto, Dr. Van Beverhout Thompson, Willis D. James F. W. Murray, H. H. Boyesen, J. Hopkinson Smith John P.' Pine, Rudolph Shack, J. R. Houghton, G. V. Loew, F R Houghton Howland Robbins, D. I. Barker^ H. Alexander Murray? Ambrose Henry, William H. Wlok- nim Robert Rutherford Wayne S. Parker, S van lWsselaer Cruger, John Austin Stevens, DeWitt Canton Jones, J. L. Riker, J. Hood Wright, Oliver Harriman, jr., and James Harriman. It became apparent before 11 o'clock that the ball was to develop into a veritable jam. While tho floor of the Opera House and the corridors were so thoroughly crowded that it was impos sible to move about, there was still a line of carriages extending to Twenty-second-sb. The entrances became blocked and great confusion prevailed outside. Then there was a grand rush and hundreds of people came in without having a chance to show their tickets. More people kept coming in, until there must have been 10,000 within the walls of the Opera House. It was said that only 6,000 tickets were to be sold. That number of people could have been com fortably accommodated, but 4,000 more made a most frightful crush. In the corridors ladies were blockaded for hours. Not only were prominent and fashionable people in the boxes, but there were cro-.vds of these who were unable to obtain such accommodations. They stood packed closely together, watching the President's party. These boxes were built at the extreme edge of the stage, and were in two tiers, five in the lower and four in the upper, the box for the President being tho largest. In the smaller boxes were the members of the Cabinet and their wives. Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland were in an upper box at the right of the President's box. Mrs. Cleveland was dressed in a white satin gown, cut low, and wore a necklace of solitaire diamonds. She carried an ostrich feather fan. A$ the left of the President, in box N, were Secretary and Mrs, Tracy, Admiral Porter and Mrs. Porter ; box P, Senator Hiscock and party ; box Q, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller, Justice and Mrs. Blatchford, Justice and Mrs. Field ; President's box, in the centre, President and Mrs. Harrison, Vice-Presi dent and Mrs. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison, Elijah Halford; box V, Secretary and Mrs. 'Noble, Senator Ingalls, Senator Cullom; Miss Cullom, Senator Manderson, Senator Col quitt, Senator Dawes, Senator Wade Hampton, Genera] McCook, Secretary of the Senate : Senator J. B. Eustis and Colonel William P. Canaday. In the other boxes were Governor Gordon and Mrs. Gordon. Hugh Gordon, Miss Caro Lewis Gor. don, Colonel Mercer. Colonel Jackson, ajid Miss Cornelia Jackson. Several members of the diplo matic corps were in other boxes. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 29 At midnight the President and his party were escorted to the supper-room. The following is the menu : , CHAUDS. Consomme en Tasse. Huitres Poulette. , Bouchees a la Relne. Timbales Venetiennes. Croquettes de Volatile. Terrapins Maryland. Filets de Boeuf aux Champignons. Chapons rati, aux Marrons. FROIDS. Saumons de Canada, au beurre de Montpeller. Bass reyes a la Borgia. Fruites samones a la Bayadere. Filets de Boeuf a la Russe. Aspies de foie gras en Belle yeux. Pates a la Washington. Jambons Historlques. Tartines de foie gras. Bulssons de Truffles du Perlgord. Langues de Boeuf a la Ecarlate. Nolx de veaux a la Ravigotte. Galantines de Champons aux Truffles. i Chaud-Frold d'Ortolans. Becassines et Pluviers a la Gelee. Agneaux du printemps rotl, entiers. Sandwiches de foie gras. ! Salade de Volatile. Salade de Honiara. SUCRES. Pieces montees en Patisserie. Gelee aux Fruits. Gelee Orientate. Charlottes Russes. Charlottes Dosla. i Gauffres Chantilly. Biscuits des Princes. DIplomatcs a la creme Chantilly. Brioches en Moules. Savarlns en Moules. Quartiers d'Oranges glacees au Caramel. Nougat Parislen. Neapoll tains. Chateaubrlands. Maringues Sulsses. ', Fantalsles. Sultanes. Cornes d'abondance. Petlts Gateaux. 1 ' Petlts Fours. Mottoes. Bonbons. Vanille. GLACES. Plstaches Ananas. Frambolses. SUPERB BALL COSTUMES. THE MORE CONSPICUOUS GOWNS. CAFE. Corbellles de Fruits. THE MENU AT THE BANQUET. The following is the bill of fare for the banquet : 30 Avrll, 1889. Hors d'oeuvres. POTAGE. Tortue verts. HORS D'OEUVRE CHAUD. Petites Thnbiles, a la MlnlsterieL POISSON. , Saumon du Kennebec, sauce Hollandalse. Salade de Concombres. Pommes Anglalses. RELEVES. Filet de Boeuf, sauce Madere. ENTREES. Riz de veau a la Perioueux. Champignons sautes. Haricots verte. Becassines en culsse. Flageolets. Aspics de foie gras. Sorbet a la Presidence. ROTI. Poulets du Printemps, au Cresson. Salad Russe. ENTREMETS GLACE. Petits moults panachos. DESSERT. Petite Fours. Mottoes. Gateaux. Fruits. Pieces montees. Cafe et Liqueur. HOW THE LADIES WHO DANCED THE QUADRILLE APPEARED-MRS. HARRISON'S DRESS. The costumes were of great elegance, and jewels in the greatest profusion wero worn. Mrs. William Astor was ablaze with gems. Mrs. Harrison wore a superb gown, which she selected during her winter visit to New- York for the Centennial ball. It was made of pure white faille of exquisite texture. The front of the skirt was covered with a deep flounce of white tulle from waist to hem. The tulle was bangled with small silver drops, which glistened like diamonds. On the right side was a broad panel of white silk brocaded in silver, and separating this panel from the tulle flounce was a band of white marabout feathers. The long princess train fell from the waist in straight folds. The waist was cut V-shape back and front, and the opening filled in with the silver-bangled tulle. The sleeve came to the elbow, and from there to the wrist was a dainty old-fashioned undersleeve of tulle. Mrs. Harrison wore a diamond necklace strung with small stones and a pendant of fine gems. Her gloves were white, as were the pretty Suede slippers, embroi dered in silver thread and beads to match the gown. THOSE WHO DANOED THE QUADRILLE.: The gowns designed for the ladies who danced in the quadrille of honor were strikingly hand some. Mrs. Levi P. Morton wore a mauve faille, with train in brocade and with white ground. The design was in delicate colors— clusters of straw berries, caught up with Marie Antoinette bows of mauve. The front of the skirt was in a tablier in mousseline de soie. The low corsage was of lilac faille, with a pointed front of the brocade. The sleeves were short and puffed at the shoulder. A heavy sash of lilac faille was fastened at the wai-.t, with long ends drooping down over the urained skirt. Mrs. Morton carried an old-fashioned French fan of rare design, and her ornaments were pearls and diamond stars. Mrs. William Astor was dressed in a superb white satin dress, embroidered in silver and colored flow ers. She wore her magnificent diamonds. Miss Louise Lee Schuyler wore an old gown. The brocade in it is an heirloom, over 100 years old, and the dress belonged to the daughter of General Schuyler, who, in 1783. was married to Stephen Van Rensselaer. The brocade had a light ground, and was hand-embroidered with delicately tinted flowers. It was partly covered with old lace and was relieved by dark-green velvet. Miss Schuyler's only ornaments were a pearl locket con taining a lock of Washington's hair and a small diamond pin holding the hair of Alexander Hamil ton, her great-grandfather. Mrs. Frederic J. de Peyster's gown was Direc- toire, of white satin. The front was in white and Gobelin blue brocade, embroidered in gold and sapphire beads. A heavy velvet sash of Gobelin blue fell over the train. The waist was of white satin and point lace, low, with short sleeves puffed high on the shoulders. She wore white ostrich tips in her hair, and diamonds and rubies as orna ments. Miss Carola Livingston wore a gown with a square train of silver brocade over delicate pink silk, the brocade being interwoven with silver threads. It is over 100 years old. The front of the skirt was of pink crepe de lisse, caught up or festooned with silver thistles; corsage decollete; rich Martha Washington bertha of the crepe de lisse, caught with silver thistles; pink ornaments, 30 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. pearls and diamonds. She had an aigrette of thistles and pearls in the hair. Mrs. Alexander S. Webb's gown was a superb yellow brocaded satin trimmed with altar lace. plain yellow satin panels at the side, a V-shaped waist and elbow sleeves; yellow feathers in her hair. Mrs. Webb had on a locket containing a miniature of General Samuel B. Webb, one of Gen eral Washington's aides. Her ornaments were diamonds. Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting wore a Josephine dress of white satin, trimmed with old-gold brocade. made with a sweeping court train. The front of the skirt was covered with costly point lace. The waist was of V-shape, of brocade and point lace ; a cluster of ostrich tips, with diamonds, was in her hair. Mrs. Robert F. Weir's dress was of robin's-egg blue satin and flowered brocade, made in fifteenth century style. The front was entirely of satin and also the train, with brocaded panels at the sides. The decollete bodice was of satin, trimmed with point de Venise. The lace was caught to gether in front by a locket holding the miniatures of President Madison and Mrs. Madison. Mrs. Weir wore in her hair a diamond buckle which belonged to General Washington Mrs. Weir is a great-great-grandniece of General Washington, and also a great-granddaughter of Mrs. Madison. Mrs. S. Van R Cruger appeared in a gown made principally of pale yellow plush, with a train. A heavy gold girdle encircled her waist. The front of the dress fell in straight folds of yellow crepe de chine, embroidered with gold. It was cut low-neck, with short sleeves. Her ornaments were of old gold. Mrs. A. Grade King wore a superb Worth gown of white velvet and satin. The sweeping court train was of velvet, the panels of heavy satin, the front of satin covered with point lace. Her orna ments were diamonds. Mrs. A. Newbold Morris's train and waist were of mignonette satin; the front of her skirt being of pink moire, covered with old cardinal lace, and the sides of the skirt of Nile-green satin with revers of brocade, hand-embroidered with pink roses. The waist was V-shaped, with cardinal lace over pink moire, with revers of the brocade; elbow sleeves, finished with the lace. A bunch of delicate pink and green feathers was clasped on the right shoulder, and there were bunches of feathers on the skirt. A cluster of ostrich tips was worn in her hair. Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer wore a toilet of pansy velvet, made with a court train and with a front of mauve satin, covered with black lace and silver; decollete waist of pansy velvet with lace and silver. Tho bodice was edged with point lace, and she wore diamonds in her hair. Mis. Edward Cooper wore, a mauve brocade dress, with flounces of point lace. The style was of the time of Louis XVI. For ornaments Mrs. Cooper wore pearls and diamonds. Mrs. Elbridge Gerry wore a gown with a train of white satin striped in gros grain and which had a delicate rose vine with flowers brocaded over it. The front opened over a simulated Em pire petticoat of white satin veiled in gauze, and had panels of point d'Alencon lace. The bodice was cut low and was edged with point lace. Mrs. Gerry wore superb diamonds for ornaments. Mrs. Herbert Washington wore a Paris gown of copper colored silk en train covered with filmy tulle of the same color embroidered in gold. She wore an old-fashioned set of jewels, gold filagree work around miniatures on ivory. Mrs. E. F. Jones's gown was of white and gold-brown in faille and silk. Her ornaments were diamonds and she carried a beautiful fan. OTHER GOWNS WORN AT THE BALL. Among the other striking costumes worn by the ladies present were : Mrs. McKee, white arrnure silk and embroidered crepe lisse; train and bodice of armure; petticoat draped In a flounce of the crepe lisse ; corsage cut so as to appear low ; white gloves. Mrs. Russell Harrison, full square train of white satin, striped with moire in three-inch panels, i ana brocaded on satin, draped in pear embroidered turie, bodice of blue satin embroidered in pearls, cut low back and front, and edged with pale blue marabout feathers ; sapphire and pearl ornaments. Miss Murphy, of St. Paul, Mrs. Harrison's guest at the White House, low-necked gown of white faille, with front of petticoat in draped silk, deep flounces of lace and ribbons ; bodice cut round at the neck, out lined with lace, with a spray of Eve white blossoms from the left shoulder to the waist line. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, English Empire gown of pale yellow tulle, with garniture of forget-me-nots ; flowers and diamonds In pointed and pulled bodice. Mrs Hamilton Fish, delicate gray tulle, made in English Empire style, with sash; ornaments, dia monds and flowers. Mrs William G. Hamilton, Empire robe, deml-traln, mauve and white brocade, with trimming of em. broidered crepe lisse and mauve ribbon; bodice pointed and puffed, square neck, filled in with lace ; ornaments, violets and diamonds. Mrs William Jay, blue and while striped sijn, with drapery of crepe lisse and forget-me-nots and diamond stars ; hair worn high, ornamented with forget-me- nots and diamond stars. ,,..,, Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, dancing dress of white tulle, garlanded with tiny pink moss rosebuds on the skirt and on the low bodice ; diamond necklace and pendant and diamond star In the hair. Mrs. J. Coleman Drayton, heavy white satin gown, embroidered In silver and pearls, low-cut corsage, so arranged that the handsome sapphires might be fastened to it, entire front of corsage of sapphires and pearls, and sapphires worn in the hair and at the throat. Mrs. Burke-Roche, gown of several skirts of white tulle made without a train; bodice, low English decollete, of white satin, completely covered with silver spangles ; top is edged with white violets, and the skirt is draped with them. Mrs. Orme Wilson, mauve tulle, embroidered in silver; jewels, diamonds. Mrs. Paran Stevens, embroidered brocade and lace gown ; ornaments, diamonds. Miss Helen Hamilton, short white tulle Empire gown with garniture of pink roses and flowing ribbons. Mrs. William D. Sloane, blue tulle, richly em broidered in silver ; diamonds. Mrs. Ogden Goelet, mauve tulle, embroidered in silver with jewels for ornaments. Miss Annie Webb, gown of white tulle, cut low, at dancing length, with cherry colored flowers and ribbons for garniture. Miss Carrie Webb, white tulle and lace, with low bodice, short sleeves and pearl ornaments. Mrs. Edward B. Hilton, white brocade, the front flounced in point lace, with garlands of orange blossoms on the left side ; bodice low with puffed sleeves, and a DIrectoire jaoket of real point lace ; ornaments, a diamond crescent, a necklace of emeralds and diamonds. Mrs. Richard M. Walters, dress of shell-pink brocade, made in Louis XV fashion ; petticoat of rare point taoe, brocade hand painted in flowers ; diamond ornaments. Mrs. Charles Godfrey, full train of heavy white brocade embroidered in silver flowers hy hand and edged with a marabout of white ostrich feathers, front of white satin and silver embroidery ; low corsago edged with a marabout feather fan ; diamond necklace and pendant and a diamond tiara. Mrs. F. D. Harmon, dress of rose-pink tulle, made dancing length and draped with pink hydrangeas", waist decollete, edged with old point laoe and adorned with a cluster of hydrangeas ; diamond and sapphke jewels. Mrs. George Clark, a cloth of gold dress, made dancing length and veiled in golden tulle; golden feather fan and diamond jewels. Mrs. Pulton Cutting, dress of shrimp-pink brocade and silk, with a full train; old point and duchesse lace; dlamoud jewels. Mrs. J. E. Smlth-Hadden, a handsome dress of black tulle, embroidered in gold, with diamond and emerald jewels. Mrs. Robert Tyson, a black tulle, made danclnd length, and cut low and embroidered In jet; diamond neoklace and stars. Miss Madeline Satterlee, danclnlg dress made of many shirts of plain white tulle, garlanded with white violets of the low corsage and skirt; bouauet also of white violets. Mrs. Samuel Colgate, white satin robe, en train trimmed with garniture of pearls. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 31 Miss Stella Barney, pink silk gown with overdress of Japanese crepe, and garniture of trailing arbutus. Mrs. M. S. Ayers, gold wrought white silk, with trimmings of white lace. Mrs. H. Victor Newcomb, black and white tulle ; diamonds. Miss Newcomb, pink tulle with garlands of violets and pearl ornaments. Miss Leary, rich costume of white silk, en train, trimmed with point lace; corsage cut square and rilled in with lace ; diamond ornaments. Miss Arthur, simple gown of white tulle and lace with pink rases. Miss Allen, garnet plush train with petticoat of pink faille Francaise. Mrs. Clarence Delafleld,Russian blue velvet, en train over a petticoat of blue satin, embroidered In silver sun-flowers ; corsage and hand bouquet of American beauty roses; diamonds. Mrs. CM. Callahan, court train of pearl-gray w~°^!Le«wlth BfHn front wrought In cut steel; la D ranee roses and diamonds. Miss KirMand, white embroirlered mile over corn- ^°„™«»: macs and hyacinths; pearl ornaments cn^ra™^a^n F',8167, ¥mPire gown 'of white China =?m,-Tbr0ldlred ,ln wLIte and K0ld roses- and hand some diamond necklace and pendant. Mrs. Elliott Cones, of Washington, gown of antlcrie brocade, lavender-colored silk, covered with roses and green leaves ; turquoise and pearls " wiT^r^iM'HL°U1lse,?ll0Ina.s' ex-P»>sident of Sorosis, wine-colored velvet in tram, point lace, and an old- fashioned locket containing the portrait of some Colonial ancestor. Mrs. Gordon, of Georgia, black velvet, princess front and court train, point lace and handsome diamonds Miss Gordon, white tulle over satin. Empire skirt and oorsage ; garniture of sweet peas and green grasses. Miss Isabel Smith, Nile-green tulle over satin, looped with bunches of clover leaves and blossoms; orna ments emeralds and diamonds. Mrs. J. M. Robertson, pale rose faille Francaise. com bined with olive velvet, low-cut corsage, trimmed with rose marabout feathers ; roses and handsome diamond ornaments. Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, white lace over black moire, low corsage, trimmed with scarlet pomegranate blooms : ornament's pearls and rubies. Mrs. William S. Livingston, turquoise-blue brocade, with old rose satin, trimmed with old point lace, made Dlrectoire train; jewels, diamonds and pearls. THE LOAN EXHIBITION. A CENTENNIAL MUSEUM. AMERICAN ANTIQUES— RELICS OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY DATS — PORTRAITS AND HEIRLOOMS— OLD NEWS PAPERS AND PRINTS. The Art and Exhibition Committee, with Henry G. Marquand at its head, made one of the salient features of the celebration out of an exhibition which at first promised very meagre results. Their object was to collect as many portraits and relics of Colonial and Revolutionary times as could be procured, to arrange them in a public museum, and to furnish in this way an authorita tive list of these historic mementoes. At first many who owned these relics were extremely re luctant to lend them for purposes of exhibition, and some of the most valuable examples arrived after the exhibition had been opened. In the end, however, the coBection proved to be one of remarkable interest and importance in each of its departments. In the gallery of portraits were hung the like nesses made from life of nearly all the chief actors in the drama of American independence. The series of Washington was almost complete, showing the appearance of the first President at various periods of his life, and under the varying aspects in which the artists of the time viewed him. While the series of portraits of public men were of commanding interest, perhaps one of the most pleasurable features of the gallery was the large Dumber of likenesses of bright and beautiful women who lent poetry and romance to the sternest realities of years of trial. Besides the strong-faced soldiers and statesmen were seen the delicate features of some of the belles of the Revolutionary epoch, women scarcely less distm- guished than their fathers, brothers and husbands. Among the relics were many objects which were used by Washington in peace and in war. His writing desk, pen and ink bottle, a suit of his clothes, shoe and knee buckles, sword, pistols, camp kit, the candlestick which he used at Mt. Vernon, and a flute. Indeed, the list comprised nearly all the known relics of Washington, which were lent by descendants of liis family and by the various museums and art collections to which they belong. In general, the collection of relics furnished a complete picture of colonial times, embracing as it did many specimens of the house hold furniture and implements, the dress and ornaments worn by men and women, the arms used in war, and something to represent nearly every phase of the life of the people. A department of great value and interest was that supplied by the Fellowcraft Club, being a collection of early colonial and American news. papers. In these are found recorded in quaint style the leading incidents of the National history. A few are dated back more than 100 years. In a copy of Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, printed at Philadelphia, July 14, 1798, was seen ', verDatim report of Washington's Farewell Ad dress. The copy exhibited was Washington's own, and on the margin was an addition written in his hand. Among the newspaper curiosities of extreme interest were : a copy of the first number of Carey's Pennsylvania Evening Herald," the first evening newspaper printed in the United btates, this number having appeared in Phila- delphia January 25, 1785; the "Federal Orrery," Philadelphia, edited by Thomas Paine (Vol. HIJ No 39), March 3, 1796; "The Independence Ohfromcle and Universal Advertiser," Boston, December 23, 1799, with the announcement of Washington's death; several numbers of the 1 Boston Gazette," afterward named the " Inde pendent Chronicle,'' containing accounts of Wash ington's funeral, a letter of Martha Washington to President Adams, an announcement of the death of Samuel Adams, and other first drafts of history ; the " Western Star," printed at Stoek- bridse. Mass.. October 22 1 793. with an announce ment of the death of John Hancock, January 14,' 1800, statements concerning Washington's illness, by James Craik, attending physician, and Ehsha C. Dick, consulting physician ; January 28 i the oration on the death of Washington delivered at the request of Congress by Major-General Henry Lee ; the " Gazette of the United States," April 24, 1790, with an announcement of the death of Benjamin Franklin,' and the resolution of the House of Representatives that the members should wear mourning for one month; June 12, with an account of the funeral of General Israel Putnam ; the same paper, April 15, 1789, with an account of the election of Washington and Adams, and the rules adopted by House for the transaction of business ; the the " Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser," September 19, 1787, with the first copy of the Constitution given to the American public. In the long list there was scarcely a newspaper that did not have some record of value. The exhibit of autographs, original letters and books containing the names of their celebrated owners was another intensely interesting section of the collection, while the beautiful miniatures a,nd rich services of silver plate that belonged to some of the best-known Revolutionary families astonished even those most familiar with the luxury of the present time. The exhibition was opened to the public in the Assembly Rooms of the Metropolitan Opera House April 18, and was closed on May 8. 32 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. TUESDAY, APRIL 30. WASHINGTON'S STEPS RETRA CED PRESIDENT HARRISON FOLLOWS THE FIRST PRESIDENT. BEGINNING THE DAY WITH PRAYER. THE RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT ST. PAUL'S FOL LOWED BV LITERARY EXERCISES ON THE SUB-TREASURY* STEPS— A GREAT MILITARY PARADE IN HONOR OF THE CENTENNIAL OF THE NATION'S FORMATION RE- VIEWED BV THE PRESIDENT— ELO QUENCE AT THE BANQUET IN THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE— FIREWORKS IN THE PARKS. Sunrise.— Artillery salutes. 9 a. m.— Special religious service at St. Paul's Chapel, attended by President Harrison and invited guests. Services in all the other churches. 9 :45.— Literary exercises on Sub-Treasury steps, Wall and Nassau sts., preceded by a concert by Gilmore's band lasting an hour. 10.— Military parade begins, head of column start ing from Wall-st. and Broadway. Noon.— President Harrison reaches reviewing stand at Madison Square. 6 :30 p. m.— Banquet at Metropolitan Opera House. 8.— Free open-air concert at Madison Square by German singing societies. During the evening.— Fireworks at the following places : Battery Park ; Union Square ; Canal Street Park; Washington Square; Tompkins Square; East River Park, Eigkty-third-st. and East River ; Mount Morris Park ; Plaza, Fifty- ninth-st. and Eighth-ave. ; One-hundred-and- forty-seventh-st. and One-hundred-and-forty- eighth-st. and St. Nicholas-ave. (Reprinted from The Tribune, May 1.) O City sitting by the Sea I How proud the day that dawned on thee. When the new era, long desired, began, And, In its need, the hour had found the man 1 Equally proud the day that rounded out the Qrst century begun by the day thus sung by the country's laureate? Who that saw yesterday's celebration will think it unworthy of the occasion ? Who that will read about it, not having seen it, will be able, even feebly, to imagine its glories ? The Tribune's descriptive writers will do much, but whether the record will recall the festival with becoming vividness and inspire a tithe of the enthusiasm which kept the great heart of New- York palpitating with patriotic feeling from sun- rise till long after sunset, and astonished the millions of lookers-on, remains to be seen. Word. pictures cannot do everything ; they can but weak. ly and incompletely image such elemental emo tions as were quickened by yesterday's occurrences to an intensity never felt before. Figures and retrospection may, perhaps, stir the fancy and help to vitalize the record. One hundred years after George Washington took the oath of office as President on the porch of old Federal Hall, Benjamin Harrison, a great- grandson of one of the illustrious men who had helped him to fashion this great free Government, stood on the same spot, on the same stone, and rested his hand on the Bible whose cover the first President's lips had touched with a rever- ential kiss, while the blessings of Heaven were invoked on the Nation by a divine whose patriot. ism, learning and piety have made him known throughout the land. While listening to the elo quence of one of America's foremost orators he Fat in the chair which Washington had used at Lis Inauguration, just as an hour before he had sat in the pew of St. Paul's Chapel where Washington sat and taken part in a service of prayer and thanksgiving, conducted by the sue cessor of that Bishop of New-York whose privi lege it was to ask Divine guidance for the man who had obtained liberty for his countrymen by the sword, and was now called upon to direct its destinies by the exercise of his wisdom, patriotism and forbearance. When Washington sat at the memorable services in St. Paul's, he was attended by the Vice-President, the Speaker of the two Houses of Congress, " and all who attended the Inauguration ceremony." His successor yester day was accompanied by two ex- Presidents of the United States, the Vice-President, the Governors of several States, the members of his Cabinet, several ex-Cabinet Ministers, many high officers of the Army and Navy, and a host of dignitaries of lower orders. As part of the inauguration ceremonies the first President witnessed a parade of the military; the marshal and his aides; a troop of horse and one of artillery; two companies of grenadiers; a com. pany of light infantry " and the battalion men" ; a company in the uniform of Scotch Highlanders who kept step to the music of the bagpipes; in all a gallant army of 500 men, whose " appearance was quite pretty," and who " made a good figure" as they lined the street after having escorted the President to church. Yesterday President Harrison also viewed a military parade arranged to do glory to his high office and commemorate the first centenary of its establishment. In it were the Governors of the thirteen original States and nine others as com manding officers of the National Guard of twenty- two commonwealths, the State troops numbering 50,000 at a low estimate. In other words, in this magnificent celebration of the fruits of peace a larger army, twioe over, was concerned than the Continental Congress called to place under the command of General Washington in 1775. The military procession which General and President Harrison reviewed was one hundred times as large as that which escorted General and President Washington to Federal Hall and afterward to St. Paul's Chapel. Do not such figures and reflections open a proud and interesting vista of Na- THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 33 tional growth and place high the stand ard of American patriotism ? But the entl is not yet. One hundred years ago all the citizens of New-York might easily have been accommodated on two or three of the stands erected by the Centen nial Committee for the accommodation of those who wished to see yesterday's parade. Nor need we stop at New-York City to find bases of com parison. When Washington took the oath of office 100 years ago yesterday he became the Executive head of a Nation of people scarcely more numerous than the host that was in distinct touch with yesterday's festivity. Had New-Hampshire, Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia a century ago marshalled their entire population on some vast plain the number would not have been much greater than the multitude that came directly under the influence of yesterday's celebration, that took part in the parade or wit nessed it, or at least came for a time within the currents that swirled and rushed and eddied along the great avenue through which the thousand*! of gallant and bravely dressed soldiers marched. Had such a line of inarch been laid out for the 500 who made an appearance that was " quite pretty" when Washington was inaugurated, it would have required more inspiriting music than that of the Scotchman's chanter pipes and drone to make the walk full four miles beyond the city limits some thing else than a weariness to the flesh. Ah I yes ; such a celebration has its uses besides the delight of the eye, which loves the glitter of gay uniforms and the rhythmical movement of an army in motion. It has mar vellous puissance as a promoter of patriotism and as an object lesson in history. The elements gave their benediction to the festival, and the skies smiled all day. Better weather could not be imagined ; not cold enough to bring discomfort to the sightseers who sat without motion for hours, nor warm enough to incommode the marchers. The rains of last week had washed the pavements free from dirt, and there was no possibility of dust. The city gave itself up to enjoyment of the pageant, and exemplified as never before the genial influence of a universal pride and happiness. Hundreds of thousands wore badges of the National tri color, and though the procession lasted for hours, the faces of the spectators seemed at the close as radiant as the pretty ornaments which they had pinned on their breasts or at their throats in the morning. Others may attempt to describe the crowds that lined the streets and avenues which wero the channel of the pageant. After all has been written the imagination would best be depended on to delineate the real picture. Populate Broadway and Fifth-ave. as densely as you please, leaving scarcely loom1 enough for the moving column, stop at no obstacles, mount plat forms of observation for every conceivable place that offered an advantage, fill the cross-streets with platforms erected on trucks and vehicles of all kinds; give to each of the myriad of windows its own group of eager sightseers, perch them on cornices, on roofs, on spires and domes, turn City Hall and Union and Madison Squares into great seas of humanity with influent and effluent currents that How like a river till movement is stayed because there is no further room for it, dot this dark mass with innumerable spots of red, white and blue, project it up and down the great thoroughfare for five miles, en dow it with the capacity of breaking out at in tervals with an irruption of fluttering white, which moves along synchronously with some courtly horseman or high dignitary whom the peo ple love to honor— exercise your fancy in paint ing such a picture, beautified, varied and height ened by a thousand and one details which baffle the recorder, raise it to the highest power of a final and supreme effort, and you will have a faint and incomplete idea of what yesterday's spectacle was hke. At night the Centennial Banquet took place in the metamorphosed Opera House. Many men ate and drank to the memory of the past, the glory of the present, and the promise of the future, while orators poured out their eloquence like sparkling wine, and beautiful women looked and listened and longed in the galleries. Meanwhile, in Madison Square, thousands of tuneful Germans, who brought to this country a fervent devotion for liberty and also an ardent love for the arts and customs that embellished their social life in their native land, raised their voices in joyous song. And the second day of the festival was ended. WORSHIPPING AT ST. PA UVS. MR. HARRISON AND MR. MORTON SIT IN WASHINGTON'S PEW. A SPECIAL SERVICE OF PRAYER AND THANKS GIVING PREPARED BY BISHOP POTTER— PROMINENT MEN LISTEN TO HIS ABLE ADDRESS ON WASHINGTON AND THE DUTY OF THE HOUR. Impressive and inspiring were the services of thanksgiving held in St. Paul's Chapel Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. President Harrison and Vice-President Morton sat in the Washington pew on the north side of the historic building, while Governor Hill and his staff occupied the pew which Governor Clinton formerly occupied. Ex- President Hayes and ex-President Cleveland sat in a front pew, while Governors, Senators, Cabi net officers, judges, generals, clergymen and scores of other men prominent in the affairs of the city, State and Nation, and women known in social and literary life, took part in the special service prepared by Bishop Potter, and listened to the scholarly address delivered by him. For more than a week the church building had been thrown open to the public, and thousands had passed through its broad aisles, lingering long beside the pew in which the first President worshipped when in this city. The pew itself has given way to one of more simple propor tion., but the old lines were followed in building the new pew. As President Harrison rested his head on the back of the pew in front of him, dur ing a part of the service, his parting words to his friends at Indianapolis were recalled by many present. " There is a great sense of loneliness," 34 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. he said, " in the discharge of high public duties. The moment of decision is one of isolation. But there is One Whose help comes even into the quiet chamber of judgment, and to Whose wise and unfailing guidance I will look for direction and guidance." The church was beautifully decorated with flags and flowers. Simplicity and richness characterized every feature from the smilax intertwined about the chandeliers, with the large rose suspended from the centre, to the valuable flags of the Society of the Cincinnati, under which the President and his party passed twice. Palms, azaleas, hydrangeas, tropical plants and flowering shrubs were placed about the pulpit and in the windows. The emblems over tbe pews in which President Harrison and Gov ernor Hill sat were appropriately decorated. Flags and shields were also freely used in adding to the beautiful appearance of the room. Leo Kofler, the choirmaster and organist of St. Paul's, had charge of the musical programme which was as follows: Processional, Hymn 409 Old Hundred Psalter: Psalm 85 G. A. Macfarren Psalm 122....- E. F. Rtmbault Te Deum Laudamus In E Sat for double chorus, R. P. Stewart Benediclte (portion of) Henry Rogers Recessional "God Bless Our Native Land" Those who formed the double quartet were : Miss Bella L. Watson, first soprano ; Miss Clara B. Leek, second soprano ; Miss Edith Tuttle, first alto ; Miss Florence N. Bachman, second alto ; George O'Reilly, first tenor ; Robert Sehreyvogel, second tenor ; John F. Lutgens, first bass ; Will iam H. Harrison Kase, second bass. In the chorus were: Sopranos— Louise Pickenbach, Sophie Goegglemann, M. Demorest, Clara Ethel Merring- ton, Helen A. Gown, Mary K. Hines, and Gertrude Kimball. Altos— Susan Pfeiffer, Anna Norwood Cowen, Mamie W. Plumb, Margaret A. McGown and May Smith. Tenors— Fred. H. Cullom, Ernest Stephenson, Edmund J. Koch, E. McGown and G. R. Herrick. Bassos— Thomas Smith, D. Ransom. George Rogers and W. S. Cerren. SOME OF THOSE PRESENT. The Vestry of Trinity Church met the President and Vice-President at the Vesey-st. gate of St. Paul's church-yard shortly before 3 o'clock, and escorted them to the west porch of the chapel, where they were met by the rector of Trinity Parish, the rector of St. Paul's and the Bishops and Archdeacons who were to take part in the service. These are the members of the Vestry : Wardens— Stephen P. Nash and Allan Campbell. Vestrymen— Henry Drisler, Charles H. Contoit, John H. Caswell, Richard T. Auchmuty, Thomas Egleston, Walter H. Lewis, Thomas L. Ogden, Bowie Dash; Stephen V. R. Cruger, William Jay, Nathaniel P. Bailey, Edmund D. Randolph, Her mann H. Cammann, George A. Robbins, Alexander Hamilton, George M. Coit, Elihu Chauncey, Rich ard Delafleld, William W. Astor, Frederick Clark- son. The President was escorted down the middle aisle to his pew by Mr. Nash, the senior warden, followed by Mr. Morton on the arm of Mr! Campbell, the junior warden. The vestrymen fol lowed and took their seats in the pews reserved for them adjoining the President's pew. The members of the Cabinet were also seated near the President. Ex-President Hayes and ex- President Cleveland sat side by side in a front pew, ex-Secretary Bayard sitting beside Mic. Hayes and Senator Evarts near Mr. Cleveland. Lieutenant-Governor Jones sat next to the Demo cratic ex-President. Others present included: General Sherman, Senator Sherman, Senator Ingalls Chauncey M. Depew, General Alexander S. Webb, presi dent of the College of the City of New-York, the Governor* of several States, Major-General O. O. Howard, William E. Dodge, Cyrus W. Field, Judge Blatchford, M. Romero, the Mexican Minister ; John B. Ireland, Eobert O. Winthrop, of Massachusetts ; J. M. Montgomery, General J. w. Husted, ex-Mayor WicKham ana his uncle, the Rev. J. B. Wlckham. of Manchester, Vt. who was born two years before Washington diod ; ex-Congressman S. V. White, President E. D. Randolph, of the Continental National Bank ; President W. L. Bull, of the New-York Stock Ex- ehnnge; Mayor Grant, Hamilton Fish, Jr., ElbrlOgo T. Gerry, Clarence W. Bowen, John A. King, John Austin Stevens, lohn Emmons, General Greeiy, of the Weather Bureau; James F. Sparkman, Father Lavelle, of the Cathedral; Father Osborne, of Boston; Hamilton Fish Piesident Potter, of Hobart College; Colonel Ehlers and John D. Jones. Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Morton; Mrs. Russell B Harrison, Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Windom, Mrs. Rusk, Miss Rusk, and Miss Murphy, of St. Paul, were under the escort of Colonel John M. Wilson, Super intendent of Public Buildings at Washington, and sat near the Committee on Literary Exercises. MEMBERS OF THE AISLE COMMITTEE. The Aisle Committee had been appointed by tho Centennial Committee, in accordance with a desire to give prominence to the members of historical families. The members were : David Augustus Clarkson, chairman, a descendant of Chancellor Livingston, warden in 1785, and of David Clark- son, warden In 1770. Howland Pell, secretary, a descend- ant of John Pell, Lord of the Manor of Pelham, 1669. Hallett Alsop Borrowe, representing the Hallett and Alsop families Temple Bowdoin, a descendant of General Alex- apder Hamilton. Amory Sibley Carhart, a great-great- grandson of Major Cornelius Carhart, and of Colonel Joseph Beavers, of the Revolutionary Army. Banyer Clarkson, .descendant of Cblof Justice Jay, warden in 1789, and of General Matthew Clarkson, vestryman In 1789. John Langaon Ervmg, greatgreat-grandson of John Langdon,. first president pro tern, of the Senate. Dr. John Clark- son Jay, jr., great-grandson of Chief Justice John Jay, Edward A Leroy- jr., a descendant of Jacob Leroy, ves- Ph^T, ? ^ L' tnivl"^ton. * great-great-grandson of L™ ™?!' eD6r 0t ^ Donation of Inaepend. clZ .„ T? f„Pcystor "vingston, a descendant of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston. William Lord McVlcfc To™ VlT?? "' DP- SamU61 Bard> P^ideut of the c„i. lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New-York, and vestry. oToen^ w1fh?,M,Mm Montgomery, 'a descendant of General William Malcolm, colonel commanding 2d New York Infantry, 1776 and 1778; brlgadier-general command- Ing militia, New-York and Richmond counties, at the In- uugurutlon ot Washington. Newbold Morris, great-great- grandson of Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of .nfl o™f ""I' „rrUdl0W °Sden' ™»res™«<>S the Ludlow .nd Ogden families. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander, great- grandson of Henry Cruger. Winthrop Rutherford, a de- scendant of Colonel John Rutherford, of the ReyoluUoIll and vestryman in 1787. William H. Russell, „ descendan ot the Alexander and Rutherford families Samuel Auchmuty Tucker, a descendant of the Rev ' n, sOY„„«i Auohnmty. rector from 1764 to 1777. Augustus Van THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 35 CortUndt, Jr., great-great-grandson of Augustus Van Oort- landt, vestryman in 1784. Charles Van Rensselaer, rep resenting the Van Rensselaer family. Robert T. Var num, representing General James M. Varnum. John Tlllotson Walnwright, great-great-grandson of Chancellor Livingston, and J. Louis Webb, grandson of General Bunuel B. Webb. DK. MORGAN DIX BEGINS THE SERVICE. As the strains of " Old Hundred" pealed forth from the organ, these clergymen, attired in their robes of office, took their places in the chancel: Bishop Potter, Bishop Littlejohn, of Long Island ; Bishop Perry, of Iowa; Bishop D. Quintard, of Tennessee ; Archdeacons Alexander Mackay-Smith, W. P. Thomas, F. B. Van Kleeck, H. Q. Ziegenfuss and Johnson ; the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Parish, and the Rev. Dr. Mulchahey, rec to* of St. Paul's. Dr. Dix began the service by reading several verses of Scripture. Following the Lord's Prayer came a prayer of thanksgiving. O God, whose name Is excellent in all the earth, and whose glory is above the heavens: We bless Thee for the great things Thou hast done and art doing for the chil dren of men. We consider the days of old, the yearB of ancient times, and unto Thee do we give thanks. Moreover, we yield Thee most high praise for the wonder ful grace and virtue declared in all those Thy children who have been the lights of the world In their several generations. For raising up Thy servant George Wash ington, and giving him to be a leader and commander to the people, for vouchsafing to him the victory over kings, and. for bestowing upon him many excellent gifts; for inclining the hearts of men in Congress as sembled to wise choices, and for granting them vision of the days to come ; for a settled constitution, and for equal laws; for freedom to do the thing that is right, and liberty to say the truth; for the spread of knowledge everywhere among us, and for the preservation of the faith; we bless and magnify Thy holy Name, humbly beseeching Thee to accept this our sacrifice of thanks and praise, through Jesus Christ, our only Saviour and Redeemer. PRAYING FOR THE NEW PRESIDENT. Bishop Littlejohn read a part of the XLIVth chapter of the Book of Ecciesiasticus ; the second lesson was read by Bishop Quintard from the VHIth chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. Dr. Mulchahey offered the closing prayers, that for the President of the United States and all in civil authority reading as follows : Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech Thee to bless Thy servant, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, his counsellors, and all others In authority. Endue them with Thy Holy Spirit ; enrich them with Thy Heavenly grace ; prosper them with all happiness; and bring them to Thine everlasting king dom; through Jesus Christ our Lord. For the country this prayer was offered : Almighty God who in the former time didst lead our fathers forth into a wealthy place : Give Thy grace, we humbly beseech Thee, to us their children, that we may •lways approve ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable Industry, sound learning and pure manners. Defend our liberties, preserve our unity. Save us from violence, dis cord and contusion, from pride and arrogance, and from •yery evil way. Fashion into one happy people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those whom we Intrust in Thy name with the authority of governance, to the end that there be peace at home and that we keep a place among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness; and in the day of trouble suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; (11 which we ask for Jesus Christ's sake. BISHOP POTTER'S ADDRESS: After the choir had sung the hymn " Rise, Crowned With Light, Imperial Salem, Rase," Bishop Potter ascended the pulpit and delivered an address, in which he referred to the tender associations connected with the hour, and called upon those who honored Washington to emulate him in his principles. His characterization of " Jeffersonian simplicity" as " Jacksonian vul garity" caused a slight ripple in the large audi ence. The address was as follows : One hundred years ago there knelt within these walls a man to whom, above all others In its history, this Nation Is lndeblted. An Englishman by race and lineage, he inoarnated In his own person and character every best trait and attribute that have made th« Anglo-Saxon name a glory to its children and a terror to its enemies throughout the world. But he was not so much an Englishman that, when the time tame for him to be so, he was not even more ah American ; and in all that he was and did, a patriot so exalted, and a leader great and wise, that what men called him when he came here to be inaugurated as the first President of the United States the civilized world has not since then ceased to call him— the Father of his Country. We are here this morning, men and brethren, to thank God for so great a gift to this people, to com memorate the Incidents of which this day is the one hundredth anniversary, and to recognize the responsibilities which a century so eventful has laid upon us. And we are here of all other places, first of all, with pre-eminent appropriateness. I know not how It may be with those to whom all sacred things and places are matters of equal indifference, but surely to those of us to whom it Is otherwise it cannot be without profound and pathetic import that when the first President of the Republic had taken upon him, by virtue of his solemn oath, pronounced in the sight of all the people, the heavy burden of Its Chief Magis tracy, he turned straightway to these walls, and kneeling In yonder pew, asked God for strength to keep his promise to the Nation and his oath to Him. This holy house was no unwonted home to him, nor to a large proportion of those eminent men who, with him, were associated In framing the Constitution of these United States. Children of the same spiritual Mother and nurtured In the same Scriptural faith and order, they were wont to carry with them into their publio deliberations something of the same reverent and conservative spirit which they had learned within these walls, and of which the youthful and ill-regulated fervors of the now-born Republic often betrayed Its need. And he, their leader and chief, while singu larly without cant, or formalism, or pretence in his religious habits, was penetrated, as we know well, by a profound sense of the dependence of the Republic upon a Guidance other than that of man, and of his own need of a strength and courage and wisdom greater than he had in himself. And so, with inexpressible tenderness and rever ence, we find ourselves thinking of him here, kneel ing to ask for such gifts, and then rising to go forth to his great tasks with mien so august and majestlo that Fisher Ames, who sat beside him in this chapel, wrote : " I was present In the pew with the President, and must assure you that, after making all deductions for the delusions of our fancy in regard to characters, I still think of him with more veneration than I feel for any other person." So we think of him, I say; and indeed it is impossible to think otherwise. The modern student of history has endeavored to tell us how It was that the service in this chapel whioh we are striving to reproduce this morning originally came about. The record Is not without obscurity, but of one thing we may be sure— that, to him who,' of that goodly company who a hundred years ago gathered within these walls, was chief, It was no empty form, no decorous affectation. Events had been too momentous, the hand of a Heavenly ProviJ dence had been too plain for him and the men who were grouped about nim then to misread the one or to mistake1 the other. The easy levity with which their children's children debate the facts of God, and Duty and Eternal Destiny was as impossible to them as Faith and Reverence seem to be, or to be In danger of becoming, to some of us. And so 36 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. we may be very sure that, when they gathered hero, the air was hushed, and hearts as well as heads were bent In honest supplication. For, after all, their great experiment was then In truth but just beginning. The memorable days and deeds which had preceded It— the struggle for Inde pendence, the delicate and. In many respects, more dim- cult struggle for Union, the harmonizing of the various and often apparently conflicting Interests of rival and remote States and sections, the formulating and adopt ing of the National Constitution— all these were after all but Introductory and preparatory to the great experi ment Itself. It has been suggested that we may wisely see In the event which we celebrate to-day an Illus tration of those great principles upon which all Gov ernments rest, of the continuity of the Chief Magis tracy, of the corporate life of the Nation as embodied In Its Executive, of the transmission, by due succes sion, of authority, and the like; of all of which, doubt less, in the history of the last 100 years we have an Interesting and on the whole Inspiring example. NOT A MECHANISM, BUT A MAN. But it is a somewhat significant fact that It is not along lines such as these that the enthusiasm which has flamed out during these recent days and weeks, as this anniversary has approached, has seemed to move. The one thing that has, I imagine, amazed a good many cynical and pesslmlstlo people among us is the ,way In which the ardor of a great people's love and homage and gratitude has kindled, not before the im age of a mechanism, but of a man. It has been felt with an unerring Intuition which has, once and again and again In human history, been the attribute of the people as distinguished from the dootrlnalres, the theorists, the system-makers, that that which makes It worth while to commemorate the Inauguration of George Washington is not merely that, It is the con summation of the Nation's struggle toward organlo life, not merely that by the Initiation of its Chief Ex ecutive it set In operation that Constitution which Mr. Gladstone has declared " the most perfect instrument which the wit of man has devised" ; but that It cele brates the beginning of an Administration which, by its lofty and stainless integrity, by its absolute su periority to selfish or secondary motives, by Its recti tude of dally conduct In the face of whatsoever threats, blandishments or combinations, rather than by the ostentatious pharlseeism of Its professions, has taught this Nation and the world forever what the Christian ruler of a Christian people ought to be. I yield to no man in my veneration for the men who framed the compact under which these States are bound together, nor for that great Instrument it self. No one can easily exaggerate their services or the value of that which they wrought out. But, after all, we may not forget to-day. that the thing which they made was a dead and not a living thing. It had no power to interpret itself, to apply itself, to execute Itself. Splendid as it was In Its com plex and forecasting mechanism, Instinct as It was, In one sense, with a noble wisdom, a large-vlsioned statesmanship, a matchless adaptability to untried emergencies, it was, nevertheless, no different in another aspect from one of those splendid specimens of naval architecture which throng our wharves yonder this morning, and which, with every best contrivance of human art and skill, with capacities of progress which newly amaze us every day, are but impotent, dead matter, save as the brain and hand of man shall summon and command them. " The ship of state," we say. Yes ; but it Is the cool and com petent mastery at the helm of that, as of every other ship, which shall, under God, determine the glory or the Ignominy of the voyage. MAINTAINED BY AN UNSELFISH PURPOSE. Never was there a truth which more surely needed to be spoken I A generation which vaunts Its descent from the founders of the Republic seems largely to be in danger of forgetting their pre-eminent distinction. They were few In numbers, they were poor In worldly possessions— the sum of the fortune of the richest of them would afford a fine theme for the scorn of the plutocrat of to-day ; but they had an Invincible confidence in the truth of those principles In whioh the foundations of the Kepublio had been laid, and they had an unselfish purpose to maintain them. The conception of the National Government as a huge machine, existing mainly for the purpose of reward ing partisan service— this was a conception so alien to the character and conduct of Washington and his associates that it seems grotesque even to speaa. of It. It would be interesting to imagine the first President of the United States confronted with some one who had ventured to approach him upon tns basis of what is now commonly caUed practical P°ButS'the conception is impossible. The loathing, the outraged majesty with which he would havj bidden such a creature to begone Is foreshadowed by the gentle dignity with which, just before his Inauguration, replying to one who had the strongest claims upon his friendship, and who had applied to bim during the progress of the " Presldental campaign," as we should say, for the promise of an appointment to office, he wrote : " In touching upon the more delicate part of your letter, the communication of which fills iie with real concern, I will deal with you with all that frankness which Is due to friendship, and which, [ trust will be a characteristic feature of my con duct through life. . . • Should it be my fat* to administer the Government I will go to the Chair under no pre-engagement of any kind or nature what ever. And when in it, I will, to the best of my Judgment, discharge the duties of the office with that Impartiality and zeal for the public good which ought never to suffer connections of blood or friendship to have the least sway on decisions of a publio nature." THE HIGH LEVEL WHERE WASHINGTON MOVED. On this high level moved the first President of the Republic. To It must we who are the heirs of her sacred interests be not unwilling to ascend, If we are to guard our glorious herl tage 1 And this all the more because the perils which confront us to day are so much graver and more portentous than those which then impended. There Is (If we are not afraid of the wholesome medicine that there Is In consenting to see it), there is an element of infinite sadness In the effort whioh we' are making to-day. Ransacking the annals of our fathers, as we have been doing for the last few months, a busy and well- meaning assiduity would fain reproduce the scene, the1 scenery, the situation, of a hundred years ago! Vain and impotent endeavor I It is as though out of the lineaments of living men we would fain reproduce another Washington. We may disinter the vanished draperies, we may revive the stately minuet, we may rehabilitate the old scenes, but the march of a century cannot be halted or reversed, and the enormous change In the situa tion can neither be disguised nor Ignored. Then we were, though no t all of us sprung from one nationality, practically one people. Now, that steadily deteriorat ing process, against whose dangers a great thinker of our own century warned his countrymen just fifty years ago, goes on, on every hand, apace. "The constant importation," wrote the author of "The Weal of Nations," " as now, in this coimtry, of the lowest orders of people from abroad to dilute the quality of our natural manhood, is a sad and beg garly prostitution of the noblest gift ever conferred on a people. Who shall respect a people who do not respect their own blood 1 And how shall a Na tional spirit, or any determinate and proportionate character, arise out of so many low-bred associations and coarse-grained temperaments, imported from every clime? It was, indeed, In keeping, that Pan, who was the son of everybody, was the ugliest of the gods." A DIFFERENCE IN RULING IDEAS. And again: Another enormous difference between this day and that of which It is the annlvorsary, Is to be seen in the enormous difference In the nature and influence of the forces that determine our Na tional and political destiny. Then, ideas ruled the hour. To-day, there are Indeed ideas that rule our hour, but they must he merchantable Ideas. The growth of wealth, the prevalence of luxury, the massing of large material forces, whioh, by theli very existence are a standing menace to the free dom and Integrity of the individual, the infinite swag ger of our American speech and manners, mistaking bigness for greatness, and saaly confounding gain and godliness— all this Is a oontrast to the austere simplicity, the unpurchasable Integrity of the first days and the first men of our Republic, which makes It Impossible to reproduce to-day either the temper or the conduct of our fathers. As we turn the pages backward, and come upon the story of that 30th ol THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 37 April in the year of our Lord 1789, there is a certain stateliness in the air, a certain coremonlousness in the manners, which we have banished long ago. We have exchanged the Washlngtonian dignity for the Jeffersonlan simplicity, which was, In truth, only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity. And what have we gotten in exchange for it ? In the elder States and dynasties they had the trappings of royalty and the pomp and splendor of the King's person to fill men's hearts with loyalty. Well, we have dispensed with the old titular dignities. Let us take care that we do not part with that tremendous force for which they stood I If there be not titular royalty, all the more need is there for personal royalty. If there be no nobility of desoent, all the more Indispensable is It that there should be nobility of ascent— a character In them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of Its influence, they In voluntarily pay homage to that which Is the one pre eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue I And It was that, men and brethren, which, as we turn to-day and look at him who as on this morning Just an hundred years ago, became the servant of the Republio In becoming the Chief Ruler of its people, we must needs own, conferred upon him his divine right to rule. All the more, therefore, because the circum stances of his era were so little like our own, we need to recall his image and, If we may, not only to com memorate, but to reproduce his virtues. The traits which In him shone pre-eminent as our own Trvlng has described them, " Firmness, sagacity, an Immovable justice, a courage that never faltered, and most of all a truth that disdained all artifice," these are charac teristics In her leaders of which the Nation was never In more dire need than now. THE. HERO, THE RULER, THE PATRIOT. And so we come and kneel at this ancient and hallowed shrine where once he knelt, and ask that God would graciously vouchsafe them. Here in this holy house we find the witness of that one In visible force whioh, because It alone can rule the conscience, Is destined one day to rule the world. Out from airs dense and foul with the coarse passions and the coarser rivalries of self-seeking men, we turn aside as from the crowd and glare of some vulgar highway, swarming with pushing and Ill-bred throngs, and tawdry and clamorous with bedizened booths and noisy speech, into some cool and shaded wood, where, straight to heaven, some majestio oak lifts Its tall form, its roots imbedded deep among the unchanging rocks, its upper branches sweeping the upper airs and holding high commune with the stars; and as we think of him for whom we are here to thank God, we say, " Such an one, In native majesty he was a ruler, wise and strong and fearless In the sight of God and men, because by the ennobling grace of God he had learned first of all to conquer every mean and selfish aud self-seeking aim, and so to rule himself 1" For What are numbers knit By force or custom! Man who man would b» Must rule the empire of himself— in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne Of vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone, 6uoh was the hero, the leader, the ruler, the patriot, whom we gratefully remember on this happy day. We may not reproduce his age, his young environment, nor him. But none the less we may rejoice that onoe he lived and led this people, " led them and ruled them prudently" like him, that Kingly Ruler and Shepherd of whom the Psalmist sang, "with all his power." God give us grace to prize his grand example, and, as we may In our more modest measure, to reproduce his virtues. After the address Bishop Potter read from a prayer-book once used by President Washington the prayer for rulers, and then pronounced the benediction. The President and Vice-President were escorted by the vestry of Trinity Church up the north aisle to the pulpit, down to the porch, where they were received by the Committee on Literary Exercises and conducted to the car riages waiting to take them to the Sub-Treasury. OTHER RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Special services were held in many of the city ehurehes in the morning. In the Brick Presbyterian Church in Flfth-ave., the Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, the Baptist Church of the Epiphany, th* Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and most of the Catholic churches these services were largely at tended. The Collegiate Reformed churches united in a fine Centennial anniversary service at the church at Fifth-ave. and Twenty-nlnth-st., In which all their churches In the city participated. A special pro gramme was prepared, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Vermiiye, the Rnv. Dr. Talbot W. Cham bers, Dr. Edward B. Coe, the Rev. Kenneth F. Junor, the Rev. Benjaman E. Dlckhaut and the Rev. William Vaughan. • THE LITERARY EXERCISES. A GREAT DEMONSTRATION AT THE SUB- TREASURY. THE HISTORIC SPOT WHERE WASHINGTON WAS INAUGURATED RECONSECRATED-DR. STORRS OFFERS PRAYER— A POEM BY MR. WHITTIER-MR. DEPEW THE ORATOR OF THE OCCASION- EFFECTIVE REMARKS BY PRESIDENT HARRI SON. The only purely literary exercises of the Cen« tennial Celebration were compressed into the short space of fifty minutes. Though brief and simple, they were dignified, impressive, and in the truest sense worthy of the great occasion. The paucity of oratory in connection with this notable anniversary has been deplored by some; in particular by Professor Felix Adler, who. if he could have had his own way, would have opened hundreds of throats and let a flood-tide of elo quence pour forth. And it must be said that the carrying out of that suggestion, to a certain extent at least, would not have been a bad idea, if the oratory and its accompaniments could all have been on the same high plane as that of the ex ercises which took place yesterday morning in front of the Sub-Treasury in Wall-st. A platform extending across the front of the building out to the sidewalk had been erected there. It was on a level with John Quincy Adams Ward's heroic statue of George Washington. The space immediately in front of the statue, where lies the stone on which the first President stood when taking the oath of office one hundred years ago yesterday, was left uncovered. The platform contained seats for a thousand persons or more. At the middle of its front hue a small balcony, jutting out a few feet over the street, had been built. The floor of this was raised a foot or so above the floor of the platform. Between the Sub-Treasury and the Assay Office was a platform for P. S. Gilmore's popular band, which played many soul-stirring selections before the arrival of the President and the opening of the literary exercises. The concert began at 9:10 o'clock, and, though the distinguished guests did not arrive until nearly an hour and a half later, the time seemed short to those in waiting. THE GATHERING OF THE CROWD. The crowd began to assemble at an early hour in this part of Wall-st. The roadway was kepi clear by a large body of police, but by half-pas* 9 the sidewalks opposite the Sub-Treasury were 38 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. packed with men and women. The head of Broad-st. was also a solid mass of humanity. Gradually the sidewalks in the direction of Trinity Church and the Custom House filled up, and by 1 0 o'clock a solid human wall extended from Broadway to William-st. Every window, roof and other point of vantage in the neighborhood was early occupied, and later on a few daring men perched themselves on telegraph poles in Broad-st., in order to see and hear all that it was possible for their eyes and ears to take in. A solitary express- wagon stood in Broad-st., a few feet below Wall; it was so surrounded and covered with eager men, women and children that not a square inch of it was visible frc-m the Sub-Treasury platform. From scores of windows amateur and professional photographers pointed their cameras at the chief centre of interest, and the pictures of the scene from all points of view and at every stage of the proceedings will doubtless be numbered by thou sands. SOME INTERESTING SIGHTS. Just below the dense black human mass in Broad-st. a curious sight was to be witnessed. It was a cart of a perambulating vender of milk, and the cart contained an object that suggested a cow. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that the thing was a caricature of the milk- producing member of the animal creation. Pre sumably the vender was doing a thriving business ; but at an unlucky moment he was espied by some mem|bers of the committee with small appreciation of this more or less picturesque scene in the background. Then the order went forth that he must be suppressed, and the police ruth lessly ordered him to move on to other streets,1 if not to pastures new. So intense was the desire to witness this part of the celebration that danger was little thought of. The most daring exhibition of what verged on recklessness was to be seen in front of the Assay Office, where the coping underneath tho second-story windows was occupied by a number of men and two or three women. The ledge on which they stood seemed not more than a foot in width. One woman in the party stood part of the time, but so great was her nerve and coolness that she did not hesitate to sit down in the narrow space at her disposal when she wearied of standing. She wore a dark-blue gown and a jacket of light mixed cloth, unbuttoned save at the throat. Her composure under rather trying circumstances attracted much attention, though the performance was, to say the least, rather risky. ON THE PLATFORM, Entrance to the Sub-Treasury platform was gained by a stairway on the Nassau-st. side. The early comers found the place less exposed to the cool wind than they had expected, though those who had left their overcoats behind them had reason to regret their rashness. Indeed heavy coats and gloves were not uncomfortable. The sun shone only at intervals, but when it did break through the clouds the warmth of its genial rays was gladly welcomed. Among the early arrivals at the platform were Henry C. Bowen, Edwards Pierrepont, General John Cochrane, John D. Crimmins, Robert R Porter, Superintendent of the Census; Mahlon Chance, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Schurz, ex-Police Superintendent Walling, and Alfred R. Conkling. Hannibal Hamlin, the only hving ex-Vice- President of the United States, came unattended,! but he was instantly recognized and welcomed with a cheer. He wisely wore an overcoat. His silk hat was pulled well down toward his ears. His strong and rugged, but kindly, face would attract attention in any public gathering, even if he had not enjoyed the unique honor of serving as Vice-President during the first term of the illustrious Lincoln. He wears his seventy. nine years remarkably well. Anthony Higgins, the first Republican Senator that Delaware has ever sent to Washington, was eagerly pointed out by those who recognized him. Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, was another noteworthy figure. Among the others who took seats on the platform or stood on the portico of the building were United States Judge Benedict, James C. Carter; Robert R. Livingston, George Wilson, Secretary of the Chamber of Com merce; Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois; Lewis Barker, of Maine, ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives; John F. Plummer,' O. B. Potter, Joseph J. O'Donohue, Bishop Edward G. Andrews, of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Professor J. L. N. Hunt, Whitelaw Reid, Minister to France; President Eliot, of Harvard Uni versity ; Tax Commissioner Edward L. Parris, Edward N. Tailer, General Isaac S. Catlin, Will iam P. Estes, Sigismund Lasar and John F, Henry. The statue of Washington was guarded during the exercises by H. S. Marlor, a Grand Army man. WASHINGTON'S CHAIR AND BIBLE. In the balcony set apart for those who took an active part in the exercises was an oak stand, on which stood a goblet and a carafe of water. Some time before the arrival of the Presidential party a richly carved ebony table, on whioh rested a blue plush cushion, was carried out and placed in the opposite corner of the balcony. This table is the property of Robert R. Livingston, the great- grandson of Chancellor Livingston, to whom it once belonged. Near the table stood an anoient looking mahogany chair— the very one in whieh Washington sat a century ago. It is upholstered in leather, and is now owned by Professor Southwiok, of the Museum of Natural History. Later the Bible on which Washington took the oath of of fice was placid, opened, on .he hlue cushion. ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT. About twenty minutes past 10 the word was passed around that the National officials were on their way from St. Paul's Church. Many eyes looked wistfully in the direction of Trinity Church, but the Presidential party avoided the crowds by coming by the way of Pine-st., and reaching the platform by passing through the Sub-Treasury from the rear entrance. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 39 As President Harrison, Vice-President Morton, the members of the Cabinet and others came in sight, they were heartily cheered, while Gilmore's men played " Hail to the Chief " in light royal fashion. The President was escorted to Washing ton's chair. On his right side Vice-President Morton took his seat; next him were Archbishop Corrigan, in his pontifical robes, the Rev. Dr. Richard Salter Storrs and Chauncey M. Depew. To the President's left were Hamilton Fish, Mayor Grant, Senator Evarts and that bronzed old war rior whose presence anywhere arouses enthusiasm— William Tecumseh Sherman. In the rear were ex.President Hayes and ex-President Cleveland side by side, and close Dy were Lieutenant-Gov ernor Jones, Chief Justice Fuller, Justice Field, James Russell Lowell, Bishop Potter and Clarence W. Bowen. The next row of chairs were occupied by Secretary Windom, Secretary Tracy, Secretary Proctor, Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Secretary Noble, Attorney-General Miller and Secretary Rusk. Toward the eastern end of the platform, beyoad the press seats, could now he seen Senator John Sherman and Frederick Douglass. THE EXERCISES OPENED. Without a moment's unnecessary delay Hamilton Fish stepped to the front of the balcony and in a sentence or two called the assembly to order. It was now 10 :25. At this time there were prob ably 10,000 persons massed along Wall-st., in Broad-st. and around the Sub-Treasury. El- hridge T. Gerry, chairman of the Committee on Literary Exercises, then made a brief introductory .address. He said: Fellow Citizens : One hundred years ago, on this spot, George Washington, as first President of the United States, took his oath of office upon the Holy Bible. That sacred volume Is here to-day, silently ¦attesting the basis upon which our Nation was con structed and the dependence of our people upon Al mighty God. In the words, then, of one of the founders -of the Government, " with ?arts overflowing with grat itude to our Sovereign Benefactor for granting to us existence, for continuing it to the present period, and for accumulating on us blessings spiritual and tem poral through life, may we with fervor beseech Him so to continue them as best to promote His glory and our •welfare." The Rev. Richard S. Storrs will utter the Invocation. DR. STORRS OFFERS PRAYER. Dr. Storrs had put on a silk skull cap, and throwing off his cape overcoat, revealed to view his black ministerial robes. He stepped to the balcony rail, holding in both hands a black-covered book that contained the sheets on which his prayer Lad been written. The audience had been re quested by Mr. Gerry to uncover, and the thou- sands of bare-headed men in the street below, with theii faces upturned, presented an impressive sight. Dr. Storrs's voice was full and firm and his manner deeply reverential. After be iiad attcred two or three sentences, the sun burst through the clouds and flooded the assembled multitude with golden radiance. It was a happy omen of the success of the pivotal day of the celebration. Dr. Storrs was heard with close attention, though his voice was probably Inaudible to a majority of the audience. When he reached the Lord's Prayer, many voices joined with the clergyman's in repeating it. Dr. Storrs's prayer was as fol lows: Almighty God, most merciful Father, who art Infinite In wisdom, sovereign In power, and whose are the eternal years; in penitence and with reverence we offer before Thee our humble supplication, remembering In our low es tate that the Heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee, and that Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of Thy glory. With contrite confession we acknowledge our sins, of heart and of life, with which Thou art most Justly dis pleased, and entreat Thy forgiveness through Him whom Thou hast exalted with Thy right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour. Accept, we beseech Thee, the requests and thanksgivings which we offer In His name ; give us an heart to love and to fear Thee ; and both now and ever, In what soever frailty of body or of mind, may we find in Thee resource and succor. We give praise and homage to Thy great name for the favor Thou didst show to our fathers aforetime, when they dwelt as strangers in a wide land, when this city was a little one and few men in it ; that they looked unto Thee and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed; that though they went through fire and through water, Thou broughtest them out into a wealthy place ; and that, by Thy help, from dependence and fear they were quickly exalted to dominion and honor. Especially we thank Thee for those who by wisdom, by constancy and by valor were Thy ministers to the people, conducting them out of peill into peace, leading them in the paths which Thou hast ordained to large prosperity and a secure freedom. Through Thy prepara tion came the captains and counsellors, whose dust we guard with affectionate honor, while the nation which they serve has become their memorial. Most ot all, on this day, we give thanks and praise for him whom Thou in Thy providence didst' set forth to be the leader of our leaders in council and in arms, and the example foT aU who follow in his high office. For his patience and courage which never failed, and his foreseeing wisdom which was not dimmed, for the stead fastness of spirit, sustained upon Thee, which sank be neath no weight of burdens, the magnanimous serenity which disaster could not shake nor any successes unduly exalt, we render to Thee homage and laud; for his majestic fidelity to an unsurpassed trust, his reverent faith in Thy Word and in Thee. We bless Thee that through the gifts and grace with which Thou didst endue him, his name remains for us, as for our fathers, a banner of light, to the lustre of which the nations turn. Make us worthy partakers of the fruit of his labors, munificent in blessing, whose fame is henceforth in all the earth. Behold, we beseech Thee, with Thy merciful favor the nation which Thou didst thus plant and protect, setting it in the place which Thou hast prepared, and multiply it with large increase. Thou hast given It riches of silver and gold, and made it possessor of a land of abundance, whose stones are iron, and out of whose rock now rivers of oil. In its plentiful fields the year is crowned with the joy of harvest, within its borders are all pleasant fruits, and its harbors exult in the tribute of the seas. Thou hast given It wise and equal laws, for the homeborn and the stranger, ordinances of justice, a gov ernment which has been to it, in successive generations, for a name and a praise. May it equally Inherit the blessings of Thy grace and partake of Thy righteousness. In obedience! to Thy will, and in reverence for Thy truth, may its liberties abide on the surest foundations. In faith unfeigned, and with joyful homage, may It offer to Thee Its sacrifice of praise, and in all coming time find happiness and hope in Thy benediction. Regard with Thy favor, and crown with Thy blessing, Thy servant, the President of the United States, with all who have part In the enactment of law or its just exe cution. Speak unto them from from the cloudy pillar of the great example which this day recalls. May they so us« authority as those who themselves must give account. Give them wisdom to carry into prosperous effect designs 40 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. conceived in equity and love, that by virtue and knowledge they may obtain a good renown, and that under their governance the people may dwell throughout our coasts In friendship and hope ; and when thou hast guided them by Thy counsel on earth receive them, we pray Thee, to Thy heavenly glory. O Thou, who hast made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, appointing their times and the bounds of their habitation, and who art ever the author of peace and lover of concord, remember In Thy mercy all kindreds of mankind, with them that have office and rule among them. Thou art lifting the gates and opening the doors between the peoples, that the King of Glory may come in. Before the brightness of Thy benign light cause confusion and darkness to flee away. For oppression give freedom; for anxiety and fear, give glad expectation; and in place of enmity, jealousy and strife, establish the nations in the quietness of confi dence and the fellowship of love, till the peace of the world shall flow like a river, and its righteousness as the waves of the sea. "Our Father, who art in Heaven; Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come ; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not Into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For Thine is tho kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen." During the prayer President Harrison stood with uncovered head. His overcoat was unbuttoned; there was a large Jacqueminot rose in the button. hole. His right hand, the fingers of which clasped his gold-framed eye-gla,sses, rested on the open pages of the Bible. MR. WHITTIER'S POEM READ. Mr. Gerry next announced that a poem written for the occasion by John Greenleaf Whittier would be read by Clarence W. Bowen, secretary of the Committee on Literary Exercises. The poem was entitled " The Vow of Washington," and was dated at Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass. Mr. Bowen has a strong, clear voice, and the fine poem, heard for the first time, was excellently rendered. In spite of the Quaker poet's advancing years, his latest production gives no evidence of decaying powers. The poem is as follows : The sword was sheathed: in April's sun Lay green the fields by Freedom won ; And severed sections, weary of debates, Joined hands at last and were United States. O City sitting by the Sea I How proud the day that dawned on thee. When the new era, long desired, began, And, in Its need, the hour had found the man I One thought the cannon salvos spoke ; The resonant bell-tower's vibrant stroke, The volceful streets, the plaudit-echoing halls, And prayer and hymn borne heavenward from St. Paul's; How felt the land in every part The strong throb of a nation's heart, As its great leader gave, with reverent awe. His pledge to Union, Liberty and Law 1 That pledge the heavens above him heard. That vow the sleep of centuries stirred ; In world-wide wonder listening peoples bent Their gaze on Freedom's great experiment. Could it succeed. Of honor sold And hopes deceived all history told. Above the wrecks that strewed the mournful past, Was the long dream of ages true at last? Thank God I the people's choice was just, The one man equal to his trust, Wise beyond lore, and without weakness good. Calm in the strength of flawless rectitude 1 His rule of justice, order, peace, Made possible the world's release ; Taught prince and serf that power is but a trust. And rule, alone, which serves the ruled, is just; That Freedom generous Is, but strong In hate of fraud and selfish wrong, Pretence that turns her holy truths to lies, And lawless license masking In her guise. Land of his love I with one glad voice Let thy great sisterhood rejoice ; A century's suns o'er thee have risen and set, And, God be praised, we are one nation yet. And still, we trust, the years to he ShaU prove his hope was destiny, Leaving our flag with all its added stars Unrent by faction and unstained by wars I Lo I where with patient toil he nursed And trained the new-set plant at first. The widening branches of a stately tree Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea. And in Its broad and sheltering shade, Sitting with none to make afraid, Were we now silent, through each mighty limb The winds of heaven would sing the praise of him. Our first and best !— his ashes lie Beneath his own Virginian sky. Forgive, forget, O true and just and brave, The storm that swept above thy sacred gravel For, ever la the awful strife And dark hours of the Nation's life, Through the fierce tumult pierced his warning word. Their father's voice his erring children heard I The change for which he prayed and sought In that sharp agony was wrought ; No partial interest draws its alien une 'Twfxt North and South, the cypress and the pine I One people now, all doubt beyond, His name shall be our Union-bond, We lift our hands to Heaven, and here and now, Take on our lips the old Centennial vow. For rule and trust must needs be ours ; Chooser and chosen both are powers Equal in service as in rights; the claim 01 Duty rests on each and all the same. Then let the sovereign millions, where Our banner floats in sun and air, From the warm palm-lands to Alaska's cold, Repeat with us the pledge a century oldl MR. DEPEW'S ORATION. When Mr. Bowen sat down, Mr. Depew was introduced as the orator of the occasion. As he stepped forward it was seen that his black Prince Albert coat was closely buttoned ; his head was protected from the wind by a skull-cap ; he wore eyeglasses, and the sheets of his oration were firmly grasped in his left hand. His oration, if delivered in full, would have occupied more than an hour ; but as the presence of the President was required at the reviewing- stand as early as possible, the literary exercises had to be shortened, and Mr. Depew was com pelled to omit a large part of his oration. It is printed here in full, however. Mr. Depew was in good voice and spoke with great earnestness. He gestured freely with his right hand, and all of his eloquent periods were roundly applauded. It so happened that the roll of the drums of the bands in Broadway, where the parade was getting under way, frequently came in at the points where applause was in order, and at one time the bells in Old Trinity's steeple rang out an accompaniment to the music of the orator's voice. Mr. Depew's oration in full was as follows: we celebrate to-day the Centenary of our nation ality. One hundred years ago the United States be gan their existence. The powers of government were assumed by the people of the Republic, and they be came the sole source of authority. The solemn cere monial of the first Inauguration, the reverent oath of Washington, the acclaim of tho multitude greeting their President, marked the most unique event of mod- fern times in the development of free institutions. The occasion was not an accident, but a result. It was the oulmlnatlon of the working out by mighty forces through many centuries of the problem of self-govern ment. It was not the triumph of a system, the appli cation of a theory, or the reduction to praotlce of the abstractions of philosophy. The time, the country, the heredity and environment of the people, the folly of Its enemies, and the noble oourage of its friends, gave to liberty after ages of defeat, of trial, of experi ment, of partial success and substantial gains this Im mortal victory. Henceforth It had a refuge and re cruiting station. The oppressed found free homes In THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 41 this favored land, and Invisible armies marched from It by mall and telegraph, by speech and song, by pre cept and example, to regenerate the world. Puritans in New-England, Dutchmen lu New-York, Catholics In Maryland, Huguenots in South Carolina had felt the fires of persecution and were wedded to religious liberty. They had been purified in the furnace, and in high debate and on bloody battle fields had learned to sacrifice all material interests and to peril their lives for human rights. The prin ciples of constitutional government had been impressed upon them by hundreds of years of struggle, and for each principle they could point to the grave of an ancestor whose death attested the ferocity of the fight and the value of the concession wrung from arbitrary power. They knew the limitations of authority, they could pledge their lives and fortunes to resist encroach ments upon their rights, but it required the lesson of Indian massacres, the Invasion of the armies of France from Canada, the tyranny of the British Crown, the seven years' war of Revolution, and the five years of chaos of the Confederation to evolve th'e idea, upon which rest the power and permanency of the Republic, that liberty and union are one and inseparable. The traditions and experience of the Colonists had made them alert to discover and quick to resist anv peril to their liberties. Above all things they feared and distrusted power. The town meeting and the Colonial Legislature gave them confidence In them selves, and courage to check the Royal Governors. Their Interests, hopes and affections were In their several commonwealths, and each blow by the Brit ish Ministry at their freedom, each attack upon their rights as Englishmen, weakened their love for the mother-land and intensified their hostility to the Crown. But the same causes which broke down their allegiance to the Central Government Increased their confidence In their respective colonies, and their faith in liberty was largely dependent upon the maintenance of the sovereignty of their several States. The farmers' shot at Lexington echoed round the world, the spirit which It awakened from its slumbers could do and dare and die, but It had not yet dis covered the secret of the permanence and progress of free Institutions. Patrick Henry thundered in the Virginia Convention, James Otis spoke with trumpet tongue and fervid eloquence for united action in Massachusetts, Hamilton, Jay and Clinton pledged New- York to respond with men and money for the common cause, but their vision only saw a league of Independent colonies. The vail was not yet drawn from before the vista, of population and power, of empire and liberty which would open with National Union. VICTORIES WON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. The Continental Congress partially grasped, but completely expressed, the central Idea of the American Republic. More fully than any other body which ever assembled did it represent the victories won from arbitrary power for human rights. In the New World It was the conservator of liberties secured through centuries of struggle in the old. Among the delegates were the descendants of the man who had stood in that brilliant array upon the field of Runnymede, which wrested from King John Magna Charta, that great charter of liberty, to which Hallam in the nineteenth century bears witness " that all which had been since obtained is little more than as confirmation or com- mentary." There were the grandchildren of the states men who had summoned Charles before Parliament and compelled his assent to the Fi-tltlon of Rights, which transferred power from the Crown to the Com mons, and gave representative govei'nment to the English-speaking race. And there were those who had sprung from the Iron soldiers who had fought and charged with Cromwell at Naseby and Dunbar and Marston Moor. Among its members were Huguenots, whose fathers had followed the white plume of Henry of Navarre and in an age of bigotry, intolerance and the deification of absolutism had seoured the great edict of religious liberty from French despotism ; and who had become a people without a country, rather than surrender their convictions and forswear their consciences. In this Congress were those whose ancestors were the countrymen of William of Orange, the Beggars of the Sea, who had survived the cruel ties of Alva, and broken the proud yoke of Philip of Spain, and who had two centuries before made a Declaration of Independence and formed a federal anion which were models of freedom and strength. These men were not revolutionists, they were the heirs and the guardians of the priceless treasures of mankind. The British King and his Ministers were the revolutionists. They were reactionaries, seeking arbitrarily to turn back the hands upon the dial oi time. A year of doubt and debate, the baptism of blood upon battle-fields, where soldiers from every colony fought, under a common standard, and consolidated the Continental Army, gradually lifted the soul and under standing of this Immortal Congress to the sublime declaration : " We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our Intentions, do, In the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent States." To this declaration John Hancock, proscribed and threatened with death, affixed a signature which stood for a century like the pointers to the North Star In the firmament of freedom, and Charles Carroll, taunted that among many Carrolls, he, the rich est man In America, might escape, added description and Identification with " of Car- rollton." Benjamin Harrison, a delegate from Virginia, the ancestor of the distinguished statesman and soldier who to-day so worthily fills the chair of Washington, voiced the unalterable determination and defiance of the Congress. He seized John Hancock, upon whose head a price was set. in his arms, and placing him In the Presidential chair, said, " We will show Mother Britain how little we care for her by making onr President a Massachusetts man, whom she has excluded from pardon by public proclamation" ; and when they were signing the declaration, and the slender Elbridge Gerry uttered the grim pleasantry, " We must hang together or surely we will hanp- separately," the portly Harrison responded with a more daring humor, "It will be all over with me In a moment, but you will be kicking In the air half an hour after I am gone." Thus flashed athwart the great Charter, which was to be for Its signers a death- warrant or a diploma of Immortality, as with firm hand, high purpose and undaunted resolution, they subscribed their names, this mockery of fear and the penalties of treason. THE CENTRAL IDEA OF THE DECLARATION. The grand central Idea of the Declaration of In dependence was the sovereignty of the people. It relied for original power, not upon States or Colo nies, or their citizens as such, but recognized as the authority for nationality the revolutionary rights of the people of the United States. It stated with marvellous clearness the encroachments upon liber ties wliich threatened their suppression and justi fied revolt, but it was Inspired by the very genius of freedom, and the prophetic possibilities of united commonwealths covering the Continent In one harmonious Republic, when It made the people of the thirteen Colonies all Americans and de volved upon them to administer by themselves, and for themselves, the prerogatives and powers wrested from Crown and Parliament. It condensed Magna Charter, the Petition of Rights, the great body of English liberties embodied in the common law and accumulated In the decisions of the Courts, the Statutes of the realm, and an undisputed though unwritten Constitution ; but this original principle and dynamic force of the people's power sprang from these old seeds planted In the virgin soil of the New World. More clearly than any statesman of the period, did Thomas Jefferson grasp and divine the possibilities of Popular Government. He caught and crystallized the spirit of free Institutions. His philosophical mind was singularly free from the power of precedents or the chains of prejudice. He had an unquestioning and abiding faith in the people, which was accepted by but few of his compatriots. Upon his famous axiom, of the equality of all men before the law, he constructed Ms system. It was the trip-hammer essential for the emergency to break the Units binding the Colonies to Imperial authority, and to pulverize the privileges of caste. It Inspired him to write the Declaration of Independence, and persuaded him to doubt the wisdom of the powers concentrated In the Constitution. In his passionate love of liberty he became Intensely Jealous of authority. He destroyed the substance of royal prerogative, but never emerged from Its shadow. He would have the States as the guardians of populai rights, and the harriers against centralization, and he saw In the growing power of the Nation ever-lnoreaslng encroachments upon the rights of the people. For the success of the pure democracy which must precede Presidents and Cabinets and Congresses, It was, per haps, providential that Its apostle never believed a 42 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. great people could grant and still retain, could give and at will reclaim, could delegate and yet firmly hold the authority which ultimately created the power of their Republic and enlarged the scope of their own liberty. Where this master-mind halted, all stood still The necessity for a permanent Union was apparent, but each State must have hold upon the bowstring which encircled its throat. It was admitted that union gave the machinery required successfully to fight the common enemy, but yet there was fear that It might become a Frankenstein and destroy its creators. Thus patriotism and fear, difficulties of communication between distant communities, and the intense growth of provincial pride and Interests, led this Congress to frame the Articles of Confederation, happily termed the League of Friendship. The result was not a government, but a ghost. By this scheme the American people were ignored and the Declaration of Independence reversed. Tho States, by their legislatures, elected delegates to Congress, and the delegate represented the sovereignty of his commonwealth. All the States had an equal voice without regard to their size or population. It re quired the vote of nine States to pass any bill, and five could block the wheels of Government. Con gress had none of the powers essential to sovereignty. It could neither levy taxes nor impose duties nor collect excise. For the support of the army and navy, for the purposes of war, for the preservation of its own functions, it could only call upon the States, but it possessed no power to enforce Its demands. It had no President or executive authority, no Supreme Court with general jurisdiction, and no National power. Each of the thirteen States had sea ports and levied discriminating duties against the others, and could also tax and thus prohibit inter state commerce across its territory. Had the Con federation been a Union instead of a League, it could have raised and equipped three times the number of men contributed by reluctant States, and con quered Independence without foreign assistance. This paralyzed Government, without strength, because it could, not enforce Its decrees ; without credit, because It could pledge nothing for the payment of Its debts ; without respect, because without Inherent authority ; would, by Its feeble life and early death, havo added another to the historio tragedJes which have In many lands marked the suppression of freedom, had it not been sayed by the intelligent, inherited and invincible understanding of liberty by the people, and the genius and patriotism of their leaders. WEAKNESS DEVELOPED BY PEACE. But, while the perils of war had given temporary strength to the Confederation, peaoe developed Its fatal weakness. It derived do authority from the people, and could not appeal to them. Anarchy threatened its existence at home, and contempt met Its representatives abroad. " Can you fulfil or enforce the obligations of the treaty on your part if we sign one with you?" was the sneer of the Courts of the Old World to our Ambassadors. Some States gave a half hearted support to its demands; others defied them. The loss of public credit was speedily followed bv Universal bankruptcy. The wildest fantasies as- sumed the force of serious measures for the relief of the general distress. States passed exclusive and hostile laws against eaoh other, and riot and disorder threatened the disintegration pf society. " Our stock Is stolen, our houses are plundered, our farms aro raided." cried a delegate in the Massachusetts Conven tion ; " despotism is better than anarchv I" To raise four millions of dollars a year was beyond the resources of the Government, and $300,000 was the limit of the loan it could secure from the money-lenders of Europe Even Washington exolalmed in despair : " I see one head gradually changing Into thirteen ; I see one armv gradually branching into thirteen; which. Instead of looking up to Congress as the supreme controlling power, are considering themselves as depending on their respective States." And later, when in dependence had been won, the Impotency of the Government wrung from him the exclamation: "After gloriously and successfully contending against tha usurpation of Great Britain, we may fall a prey to our own folly and disputes." But even through this Cimmerian darkness shot a flame which illuminated the coming century and kept bright the beacon fires of liberty. The archi tects of constitutional freedom formed their insti tutions with wisdom which forecasted the future. Thev may not have understood at first the whole truth but for that which they knew, they had the martyrs' spirit and the crusaders' enthusiasm. Though the Confedera tion was a Government of checks without balances, and of purpose without power, the statesmen who guided it demonstrated olteu tho resistless force of great souls animated by the purest patriotism, and united in judgment and effort to promote the common good, by lolly appeals and high reasoning, to elevate the masses above local greed and apparent self-interest to their own broad plane. The most significant triumph of these moral and intellectual forces was that which secm-ed the assent of the States to the limitation of their boundaries, to the grant of the wilderness beyond them to the general Government* and to the insertion In the ordinance erecting the Northwest Territories of the immortal proviso prohibiting "slavery or involuntary servitude" within all that broad domain. The States carved out of this splendid concession were notl sov ereignties which had successfully rebelled, but they were tbe children of the Union, born of the covenant and thrilled with its life and liberty. They became the bulwarks of Nationality and the buttresses of freedom. Their preponderating strength first checked and then broke tlie slave power, their fervid loyalty halted and held at bay the spirit of State rights and secession for generations ; and when the crisis came, it was with their overwhelming assistance that the Nation killed alnd buried its enemy. The corner-stone of the edifice whose centenary we are celebrating was the ordinance of 1787. It was constructed by the feeblest of Congresses, but few enactments of ancient or modern times have had more far-reaching or beneficent Influence. It is one of the subllmest paradoxes of history, that this weak Confederation of States should have welded the chain, against which, after seventy- four years of frotful efforts for release, Its own spirit frantically dashed and died. A WARNING FROM WASHINGTON. The government of the Republic by a Congress ol States, a diplomatic convention of the ambassadors of petty commonwealths, after seven years' trial, was falling asunder. Threatened with civil war among its members, Insurrection and lawlessness rife within the States, foreign commoroe ruined and in ternal trade paralyzed. Its currency worthless, Its merchants bankrupt, its farms mortgaged, its markets closed, Its labor unemployed, it was like a helpless wreck upon the ocean, tossed about by the tides and readv to be engulfed In the storm. Washington gave the warning and called for action. It was a voice ac customed to command, but now entreating. The veterans of the war and the statesmen of the Revolu tion stepped to the front. The patriotism whioh had been misled, but had never faltered, rose above the Interests of States and the Jealousies of jarring con federates to find the basis for Union. "It Is clear to me as A, B, C," said Washington, " that an ex tension of Federal powers would make us one of the most happy, wealthy, respectable and powerful nations that ever inhabited the terrestrial globe. Without them we shall soon be everything which is the direct reverse. I predict the' worse consequences from a half-starved, limping Government, always moving upon crutches, and tottering at every step." The response of the country was the Convention of 1787, at Philadelphia. The Declaration of Independence was but the vestibule of the temple which this Illus trious assembly erected. With no successful prece dents to guide, it auspiciously worked out the problem of constitutional government, and of Imperial powei and home rule, supplementing eaoh other In promot ing the grandeur of the Nation and preserving the liberty of the individual. The deliberations of great councils have vltallv affected, at different periods, the history of the world and the fate of empires; but this Congress builded, upon popular sovereignty, Institutions broad enough to embrace the continent, and elastic enough to tt all conditions of race and traditions. The experience of a hundred years has demonstrated for us the per fection of the work, for defence against foreign foes and for self-preservation against domestio insurrection, for limitless expansion in population and material de velopment, and for steady growth In intellectual freedom and force. Its continuing Influence upon the welfare and destiny of the human race can only .t,^meafure?v hl th2, caPa°lty of man to cultivate ! „ e^oy ,tho boundless opportunities of liberty ana* law. The eloquent characterization of Mr Gladstone condenses Its merits: "The American Constitution Is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 43 The statesmen who composed this great Senate were equal to their trust. Their conclusions were the re sult of calm debate and wise concession. Their char acter and abilities were so pure and great as to com mand the confidence of the country for the reversal of the policy of the independence of the State of the Eower of the general Government, whioh had hitherto •en the Invariable practice and almost universal opinion, and for the adoption of the idea of the Nation and its supremacy. PROMINENT FIGURES IN THE CONVENTION. Towering in majesty and Influence above them all stood Washington, their President. Beside him was the venerable Franklin, who, though eighty-one years of age, brought to the deliberations of the Convention the unimpaired vigor and resources of the wisest brain, the most hopeful philosophy, and the largest experience of the times. Oliver Ellsworth, afterward Chief Justice of the United States, and the profoundest juror in the country ; Robert Morris, the wonderful financier of the Revolution, and Gouverneur Morris, the most versatile genius of his period; Roger Sher man, one of the most eminent of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and John Rutledge, Rufus King, Elbridge Gerry, Edmund Randolph and the PInckneys, were leaders of unequalled patriotism, courage, ability and learning; while Alexander Hamil ton and James Madison, as original thinkers and con structive statesmen, rank among the immortal few whose opinions have for ages guided Ministers of State, and determined the destinies of nations. This great Convention keenly felt, and with devout and serene intelligencemet, Its tremendous responsi bilities. It had the moFal support of the few whose aspirations for liberty had been Inspired or renewed by lbj> triumph of the American Revolution, and the active hostility of every Government in the world. There were no examples to follow, and the experi ence of Its members led part of them to lean toward absolute centralization as the only refuge from the anarchy of the Confederation, while the rest clung to the sovereignty of the States, for fear that the con centration of power would end In the absorption of liberty. The large States did not want to surrender the advantage of their position, and the smaller States saw the danger to their existence. Roman conquest and assimilation had strewn the shores of time with the wrecks of empires, and plunged civilization into the perils and horrors of the dark ages. The Government of Cromwell was the isolated power of the mightiest man of his age, without popular authority to fill his place or the hereditary principle to protect his suc cessor. The past furnished no light for our State builders, the present was full of doubt and despair. The future, the experiment of self-government, the perpetuity and development of freedom, almost the destiny of mankind, was In their hands. At this crisis the courage and confidence needed to originate a system weakened. The temporizing spirit of compromise seized the Convention with the alluring proposition of not proceeding faster than the people could be educated to follow. The cry: "Let us not waste our labor upon conclusions which will not be adopted, but amend and adjourn," was assum ing startling unanimity. But the supreme force and majestic sense of Washington brought the assemblage to the lofty plane of Its duty and opportunity. He said : " It Is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended In the grave of absolut ism. " Forty centuries look down upon you," was Napoleon's address to his army in the shadow of the Pyramids, but his soldiers saw only the dream of Eastern Empire vanish In blood. Statesmen and parliamentary leaders have sunk Into oblivion or led their party to defeat, by surrendering their convictions to the passing passions of the hour, but Washington In this Immortal speech struck the keynote of repre sentative obligation, and propounded the fundamental prinolple of the purity and perpetuity of constitutional government. THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE RECOGNIZED. Freed from the limitations of its environment, and the question of the adoption of Its work, the Convention erected Its government upon the eter nal foundations of the power of the people. It dismissed the delusive theory of a compact between Independent States, and derived National power from the people of the United States. It broke up the machinery of the Confederation and put In practical operation the glittering generalities of the Declaration of Independence. From chaos came order, from Insecurity came safety, from disintegra tion and civil war came law and liberty, with the principle proclaimed in the preamble of the great charter, "We, the People of the United States, In order to form a more perfect union, establish jus tice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitu tion for the United States." With a wisdom in spired of God, to work out upon this continent the liberty of man, they solved the problem of the ages by blending and yet preserving local self-government with National authority, and the rights of the States with the majesty and power of the Republic. The government of the States, under the Articles of Confederation, became bankrupt because It could not raise four millions of dollars ; the Government of the Union, under the Constitution of the United States, raised six thousand millions of dollars, Its credit growing firmer as Its power and resources were demonstrated. The Congress of the Confederation fled from a regiment which It could not pay ; the Congress of the Union reviewed the comrades of a million of its victorious soldiers, saluting, as they marched, the flag of the Nation, whose supremacy they had sustained. The promises of the Confederacy were the scoff of its States ; the pledge of the Republic was the honor of its people. The Constitution, which was to be strengthened by the strain of a century, to be a mighty conqueror without a subject province, to triumphantly survive the greatest of civil wars without the confiscation of an estate or the execution of a political offender, to create and grant home rule and State sovereignty to twenty-nine additional commonwealths, and yet enlarge its scope and broaden Its power, and to make the name of an American citizen a title of honor through out the world, came complete from this great conven tion to the people for adoption. As Hancook rose from his seat In the old Congress, eleven years before, to sign the Declaration of Independence, Franklin saw emblazoned on the back of the President's chair the sun partly above the horizon, but it seemed setting in a blood-red sky. During the seven years of the Con federation he had gathered no hope from the glittering emblem, but now as with clear vision he beheld fixed upon eternal foundations the enduring structure of constitutional liberty, pointing to the sign, he forgot his eighty-two years, and with the enthusiasm of youth electrified the convention with the declaration; " Now I know that It is the rising sun." The pride of the States and the ambition of their leaders, sectional jealousies and the overwhelming dis trust of centralized power, were all arrayed against the adoption of the Constitution. North Carolina and Rhode Island refused to join the Union until long after Washington's Inauguration. For months New-York was debatable ground. Her territory extending from the sea to the lakes made her the keystone of the arch. Had Arnold's treason In the Revolution not been foiled by the capture of Andre, England would have held New-York and subjugated the Colonies, and in this crisis, unless New- York assented, a hostile and power ful commonwealth dividing the States made the Union Impossible. A TRIBUTE TO THE GENIUS OF HAMILTON. Success was due to confidence in Washington and the genius of Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson was the , inspiration of Independence, but Hamilton was the Incarnation of the Constitution. In no age or country has there appeared a more precocious or amazing Intelligence than Hamilton. At seventeen he an nihilated the president of his college upon the question of the rights of the Colonies in a series of anonymous articles which were credited to the ablest men In the country ; at forty-seven, when he died, his briefs had become the law of the land, and his fiscal system was, and after a hundred years remains, the rule and policy of our Government. He gave life to the corpse of National credit, and the strength for self-possession and aggressive power to the Federal Union. Both as an expounder of the principles and an administrator of the affairs of government he stands supreme and unrivalled in American history. His eloquence was so 44 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. magnetic, his language so clear and his reasoning so Irresistible, that he swayed with equal ease popular assemblies, grave senates and learned judges. He captured the people of the whole country for the Con stitution by his papers in " The Federalist," and con quered the hostile majority in the New- York conven tion by the splendor of his oratory. But the multitudes whom no argument could con vince, who saw In the executive power and central ized force of the Constitution, under another name. the dreaded usurpation of king and ministry, were satisfied only with the assurance, " Washington will be President." " Good," cried John Lamb, the able leader of the Sons of Liberty, as he dropped his oppo sition ; " for to no other mortal would I trust author ity so enormous." " Washington will bo President" was the battle-ory of the Constitution. It quieted alarm and gave confidence to the timid and courage to the weak. The country responded with enthusi astic unanimity, but the Chief with the greatest reluc tance. In the supreme moment of victory, when the world expected him to follow the precedents of the past and perpetuate the power a grateful country would willingly have left in his hands, he had resigned and retired to Mount Vernon to enjoy In private sta tion his well-earned rest. The convention created by his exertions to prevent, as he said. " the decline of our Federal dignity Into Insignificant and wretched fragments of Empire," had called him to preside over Its deliberations. Its work made possible the realiza tion of his hope that " we might survive as an Inde pendent Republic," and again he sought the seclusion of his home. But. after the triumph of the war and the formation of the Constitution, came the third and final crisis ; the initial movements of government which were to teach the Infant State the steadier steps of empire. He alone could stay assault and Inspire confidence while the great and complicated machinery of organized government was put In order and set In motion. Doubt existed nowhere except In his modest and unambitious heart. "My movements to the chair of government," he said, " will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a, culprit who is going to the place of his execution. So unwilling am I, in the evening of life. nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without that com. potency of political skill, abilities and Inclination, which are necessary to manage the helm." His whole life had been spent In repeated sacrifices for his coun try's welfare, and he did not hesitate now, though there Is an undertone of Inexpressible sadness In this entry In his diary on the night of his departure: " About 10 o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New- York with the best disposition to render service to my country 1n obedience to Its call, but with less hope of answering Its expectations." WASHINGTON'S TRIUMPHAL JOURNEY. No conqueror was ever accorded such a triumph, no ruler ever accorded such a welcome. In this memor able march of six days to the Capital, it was the pride of States to accompany him with the masses of their people to their borders, that the citizens of the next commonwealth might escort him through its territory. It was the glory of cities to receive him with every civlo honor at their gates, and entertain him as the savior of their liberties. He rode under triumphal arches from which children lowered laurel wreaths upon his brow. The roadways were strewn with flowers, and as they were crushed beneath his horse's hoofs, their sweet Incense wafted to heaven the ever- ascending prayers of his loving countrymen for his life and safety. The swelling anthem of gratitude and reverence greeted and followed him along the country side and through the crowded streets : " Long live George Washington 1 Long live the Father of his people 1" His entry into New- York was worthy the city and State. He was met by the chief officers of the re tiring government of the country, by the Governor of the commonwealth, and the whole population. This superb harbor was alive with fleets and fla°-s and the ships of other nations with salutes from their guns, and the cheers of their crews added to the joy ous acclaim. But as the captains who had asked the privilege, bending proudly to their oars rowed the President's barge swiftly through these Inspiring soenes, Washington's mind and heart were full of reminiscence and foreboding. He had visited New- York thirty-three years before also In th« month of April, In the full perfection of his early manhood, fresh from Braddock s bloody field, and wearing the only laurels of the battle, bear ing the prophetic blessing of the venerable President Davies, of Princeton College, as " That heroic youth Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Provi dence has hitherto preserved In so signal a mannai for some important service to the country." It wai a fair daughter of our State whose smiles allured him here, and whose coy confession that her heart was another's recorded his only failure and saddened hli departure. Twenty years passed, and he stood be fore the New-York Congress, on this very spot, the unanimously chosen Commander-in-Chief of tha Con tinental Army, urging the people to more vigorous measures, and made painfully aware of the increased desperation of the struggle, from the aid to be given to the enemy by domestic sympathizers, when he knew that the same local military company which escorted him was to perform the like service for the British Governor Tryon on his landing on the morrow. Returning for the defence of the city the next summer, he executed the retreat from Long Island, which secured from Frederick th« Great the opinion that a great commander had ap peared, and at Harlem Heights he' won the first American victory of the Revolution, which gave that confidence to our raw recruits against the famous veterans of Europe which carried our army triumph antly through the war. Six years more1 of untold sufferings, of freezing and starving camps, of marches over the srtnw by barefooted soldiers to heroic attacS and splendid victory, of despair with an unpaid army, and of hope from the generous assistance of France, and peace had come and Independence triumphed. As the last soldier of the Invading enemy embarks, Washington at the head of the patriot host enters the city, receives the welcome and gratitude of Its people, and 1n the tavern which faces us across the way, In silence more eloquent than speech, and with tears which choke the words, he bids farpwefl forever to his companions In arms. Such were the crowding memories of the past suggested to Washington In 1789 by his approach to New- York. But the future had none of the splendor of precedent and brilliance of promise which have since attended the Inaugura tion of our Presidents. An untried scheme, adopted mainly because Its administration was to be confided to him, was to be put In practice. He knew that he was to be met at every step of constitutional progress by factions temporarily hushed into unanimity by the terrific force of the tidal wave which was bearing him to the President's seat, but fiercely hostile upon questions affecting every power of nationality and the existence of the Federal Gov ernment. EYES ONLY FOR THE GREAT COMMANDER. Washington was never dramatic, but on great eo. casions he not only rose to the full Ideal of the event, he became himself the event. One hundred years ago to-day, the procession of foreign Ambassa dors, of statesmen and generals, of clvlo societies and military oompanies, which escorted him, marched from Franklin Square to Pearl-st., through Pearl to Broad and up Broad to this spot, but the people saw only W'ashtngton. As he stood upon the steps of the old Government Building here, the thought must have occurred to him that It was a cradle of liberty, and, as such, giving a bright omen for the future. In these halls in 1735, In the trial of John Zenger, had been established, for the first time In Its history, the liberty of the press. Here the New-York Assembly, In 1764, made the protest against the Stamp Act, and proposed the General Conference, which was the be- ginning of united Colonial action. In this old State House, In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress, the first and the father of American Congresses, assembled and pre sented to the English Government that vigorous pro test which caused the repeal of the Act and oheoked the first step toward the usurpation which lost the American colonies to the British Empire. Within these walls the Congress of the Confederation had com missioned Its Ambassadors abroad, and In Ineffectual offorts at government had created the neoesslty for the concentration of Federal authority, now to be consummated. The first Congress of the United States gathered In this ancient temple of liberty greeted Washington and accompanied him to the balcony. The famous men visible about him were Chancellor Livingston, Vice-President John Adams, Alexander Hamilton Gov. ernor Clinton, Roger Sherman, Richard Henry Lee, General Knox and Baron Steuben. But we believe that among the Invisible host above him, at this supr-eme moment of the culmination in permanent triumph THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 45 of the thousands of years of struggle for self-govern ment, were the spirits of the soldiers of the Revolution who had died that their country might enjoy this blessed day, and with them were the Barons of Runnymede and William the Silent, and Sidney and Russell, and Cromwell and Hampden and the heroes and martyrs of liberty of every race and age. As he came forward, the multitude in the streets, in the windows and on the roofs sent up such a rapturous shout that Washington sat down overcome with emotion. As he slowly rose and his tall and majestic form again appeared, the people, deeply affected, In awed silence viewed the scene. The Chancellor solemnly read to him the oath of office, and Washington, repeating, said: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best o* my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Then he reverently bent low and kissed the Bible, uttering with profound emotion : " So help me, God." The Chancellor waved his robes and shouted : " It is done : long live George Wash ington, President of the United States !" " Long live George Washington, our first President I" was the answering cheer of the people, and from the belfries rang the bells, and from torts and ships thundered the cannon, echoing and repeating the cry with respond ing acclaim all over the land: "Long live George Washington. President of the United States 1" THE ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH OF THE REPUBLIC. The simple and imposing ceremony over, the in augural read, the blessing of God prayerfully petitioned In old St. Paul's, the festivities passed, and Washing ton stood alone. No one else could take the helm of Btate, and enthusiast and doubter alike trusted only him. The teachings and habits of the past had edu cated the people to faith in the independence of their States, and for the supreme authority of the new 'Government there stood against the precedent of a century and the passions of the hour little besides the arguments of Hamilton, Madison and Jay In " The Fed eralist," and the judgment of Washington. With the first attempt to exercise National power began the duel to the death between State sovereignty, claiming the right to nullify Federal laws or to secede from the Union and the power of the Republic to command the resources of the country, to enforce Its authority and proteot Its life. It was the beginning of the sixty years' war for the Constitution and the Nation. It seared consciences, degraded politics, destroyed par ties, ruined statesmen, and retarded the advance and development of the country ; It sacrificed thousands of precious lives and squandered thousands of millions of money ; it desolated the fairest portion of the land and oarried mourning into every home North and South ; but It ended at Appomattox in the absolute triumph of the Republic. Posterity owes to Washington's Administration the policy and measures, the force and direction, which made possible this glorious result. In giving the organization of the Department of State and foreign relations to Jefferson, the Treasury to Hamilton, and the Supreme Court to Jay, he selected for his Cabinet and called to his assistance the ablest and most eminent men of his time. Hamilton's marvellous versatility and genius designed the armory and the weapons for the promotion of National power and greatness, but Washington's steady support carried them through. Parties orystalllzed, and party passions were Intense, debates were intemperate, and the Union openly threatened and secretly plotted against, as the firm pressure of this mighty personality funded the debt and established credit, assumed the State debts In curred In the War of the Revolution and superseded the local by the National obligation, imposed duties upon Imports and excise upon spirits, and created revenue and resources, organized a National Banking system for publio needs and private business, and called out an army to put down by force of arms resistance to the Federal Laws Imposing unpopular taxes. Upon the plan marked out by the Constitution, this great archi tect, with unfailing faith and unfaltering oourage, builded the Republic. He gave to the Government the principles of action and sources of power which oarried It successfully through the wars with Great Britain In 1812 and Mexico In 1848, which enabled Jackson to defeat nullification, and recruited and equipped millions of men for Llnooln and Justified and sustained his Proclamation of Emancipation. The French Revolution was the bloody reality of France and the nightmare of the civilized world. The tyranny of centuries culminated In frightful reprisals and reckless revenges. As parties rose to power and passed to the guillotine, the frenzy of the revolt against all authority reached every country and captured the imaginations and enthusiasm of millions In every land, who believed they saw that the madness of anarchy, the overturning of all institutions, the confiscation and distribution of property, would end in a millennium for the masses and the universal brotherhood of man. Enthusiasm for France, our late ally, and the terrible commercial and industrial distress occasioned by the failure of the Government under the Articles of Con federation, aroused an almost unanimous cry for the young Republic, not yet sure of Its own existence, to plunge into the vortex. The ablest and purest statesmen of the time bent to the storm, but Washington was unmoved. He stood like the rock- ribbed coast of a continent between the surging billows of fanaticism and the child of his love. Order Is Heaven's first law, and the mind of Washington was order. The Revolution defied God and derided the law. Washington devoutly reverenced the Deity and believed liberty impossible without law. He spoke to the sober judgment of the Nation and made clear the danger. He saved the Infant Government from ruin, and expelled the French Minister who had ap- pealed from him to the people. The whole land, seeing safety only in his continuance In office, joined Jeffer son in urging him to accept a second term. " North and South," pleaded the Secretary, " will hang together while they have you to hang to." MANY ELEMENTS EMBODIED IN ONE MAN. No man ever stood for so much to his country and to mankind as George Washington. Hamilton, Jef ferson and Adams, Maldison and Jay, each represented some of the elements which formed the Union. Wash ington embodied them all. They fell at times- under popular disapproval, were burned in effigy, were stoned, but he, with unerring judgment, was always the leader of the people. Milton said of Cromwell, " that war made him great, peace greater." The superiority of Washington's character and genius were more conspicuous in the formation of our Government and in putting It on indestructible foundations than In leading armies to victory and conquering the In dependence of his country. " The Union in any event," is the central thought of his farewell address, and all the years of his grand fife were devoted to Its formation and preservation. He fought as a youth with Braddock and In the capture of For* Du Quesne for the protection of the whole country. As Commander- in-Chief of the Continental Army, his commission wars from the Congress of the United Colonies. He in spired the movement for the Repuhllo, was the presi dent and dominant spirit of the Convention which framed Its Constitution, and its President for eight years, and guided Its course until satisfied that moving safely along the broad highway of time, IK would be surely ascending toward the first place among tho nations of the world, the asylum of the oppressed, the home of the free. Do his countrymen exaggerate his virtues? Listen to Gulzot, the historian of civilization: "Washington did the two greatest things which In politics it is per mitted to man to attempt. He maintained by peace the independence of his country which he con quered by war. He founded a free government In the name of the principles of order and bv re-establishing their sway." Hear Lord Erskine, the most famous of English advocates: "You are the only being for whom I have an awful reverence." Remember the tribute of Charles James Fox, the greatest parliamen tary orator who ever swayed the British nonse of Commons : " Illustrious man. before whom all bor rowed greatness sinks Into Insignificance." Contem plate the character of Lord Brougham, pro-eminent for two generations in every department of human activity and thought, and then impress upon the mem ories of your children his deliberate judgment: "Un til time shall be no more will a test of the progress which our race has made 1n wisdom and virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the Immortal name of Washington." Chatham, who, with Cllve, conquered an Empire In the East, died broken-hearted at the loss of the Empire In the West, by follies which even his power and eloquence could not prevent. Pitt saw the vast creations of his diplomacy shattered at Austerlltz, and fell murmuring: "My country! how I leave my country I" Napoleon cau sed a noble tribute to Wash ington to be read at the head of his armies, but unable to rise to Washington's greatness, witnessed the vast structure erected by conquest and cemented by blood, 46 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. to minister to his own ambition and pride, crumble Into fragments, and an exile and a prisoner he breathed his last babbling of battle-fields and carnage. Wash ington, with his finger upon his pulse, felt the presence of death, and calmly reviewing the past and forecasting the future, answered to the summons of the grim messenger, " It is well," and as his mighty soul ascended to God tuejand was deluged with tears and the world united in his eulogy. Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time In the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned. NO CLOUDS ABOVE AND NO CONVULSIONS BE NEATH. We stand to-day upon the dividing !lne oetnvi'ii the first and second century of Constitutional Gov ernment. There are no clouds overhead and no con vulsions under our feet. Wo reverently return thanks to Almighty God for the past, and with confident and hopeful promise march upon sure ground toward the future. The simple facts of these hundred years paralyze the' imagination, and we contemplate the vast accumulations of the century with awe and pride. Our population has grown from four to sixty- five millions. Its centre, moving westward 500 miles since 1789, Is eloquent with the founding of cities and the birth of States. New settlements, clearing the forests and subduing the prairios, and adding four millions to the few thousands of farms which were the support of Washington's Republic, create one of the great granaries of the world, and open exhaust- less reservoirs of National wealth. The Infant industries, which the first act of our first Administration sought to encourage, now give remu nerative employment to more people than inhabited the Republio at the beginning of Washington's Presi dency. The grand total of their annual output of seven thousand millions of dollars In value places the United States first among the manufacturing countries of the earth. One-half the total mileage of all the railroads, and one-quarter of all the telegraph lines of the world, within our borders, testify to the volume, variety and value of an internal commerce which makes these States, if need be, Independent and self-support ing. These hundred years of development under favoring political conditions have brought the sum of our National wealth to a figure which nas passed tbe results of a thousand years for the Mother-land her self, otherwise the richest of modern empires. During this generation, a civil war of unequalled magnitude caused the expenditure and loss of eight thousand millions of dollars, and killed 600,000 and permanently disabled over a million young men and yet the impetuous progress of the North and' the marvellous industrial development of the new and free South have obliterated the evidences of destruction and made the war a memory, and have stimulated production until our annual surplus nearly equals that of England. France and Germany combined The teeming millions of Asia till the patient soil and work the shuttle and loom as their fathers have done for ages ; modern Europe has felt the influence and re ceived the benefit of the incalculable multiplication of force by Inventive genius since the Napoleonic wars ¦ and yet, only 269 years after the lltUe band ofPll' grlms landed on Plymouth Rook, our people, number- S^ASSffiS nf.nfe,tao^fe\ff1i FnSSWfc'SSS^ °f "S af^^and" This realism of material prosperity sumaosimr «,„ wildest creations of the romanoera who &v! alton lshed and delighted mankind, would be full o! dinger for the present and menace for the iuta™ « «?: virtue, intelligence, and independence of the nenffiS were not equal to the wise relation of Its use's and the stern prevention of its abuses. But following Uie growth and power of the great factors, whose aSree^! Bon of capital made possible the tremendous plol of the settlement of our National domain, the build in I IS our great cities and the opening ofthe lines of ™™ munication which have unified oSr country and created our resources, have come National and StJteTgfflon and supervision. Twenty millions, a vast majority erf 0WiT.v?2?le.0L ,nteulSent age, acknowledging the authority of their several churches, 12,000,000 of children In the common schools, 345 universities and colleges for the higher education of men and 200 for women, 450 Institutions of learning for science, law, medicine and theology, are the despair of the scoffer and the demagogue, and the firm support of civilization and liberty. GERMINATING INFLUENCES OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. Steam and electricity have changed the commerce not only, they have revolutionized also the govern ments of the world. They have given to the press its power, and brought all races and nationalities Into touch and sympathy. They have tested and are trying the strength of all systems to stand the strain and con form to the conditions which follow the germinating influences of American Democracy. At the time of the inauguration of Washington, seven royal families ruled as many kingdoms In Italy, but six of them have seen their thrones overturned and their countries dis appear from the map of Europe. Most of the kings, princes, dukes and margraves of Germany, who reigned despotically, and sold their soldiers for foreign service, have passed into history, and their heirs have neither prerogatives nor domain. Spain has gone through many violent changes and the permanency of her present Government seems to depend upon the feeble life of an Infant prince. France, our ancient friend, with repeated and bloody revolutions, has tried the government of Bourbon and Convention, of Di rectory and Consulate, of Empire and Citizen King, of hereditary Sovereign and Republic, of Empire, and again Republic. The Hapsburg and Hohenzollern, after convulsions which have rocked the foundations of their thrones, have been compelled to con cede constitutions to their people and to di vide with them the arbitrary power wielded so autocratically and brilliantly by Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great. The roval will of George the Third could crowd the American Colonies Into re bellion, and wage war upon them until they were lost to his Kingdom, but the authority of the Crown has devolved upon Ministers who hold office subject to the approval of the representatives of the people, and the equal powers of the House of Lords have been vested in the Commons, leaving to the Peers only the shadow of their ancient privileges. But to-day the American people, after all the dazzling developments of the century are still happily living under the Government of Washington. The Constitution during all that period has been amended only upon the lines laid down in the original instrument, and in conformity with the recorded opinions of the Fathers. The first great ad dition was the incorporation of a Bill of Rights, and the last the embedding Into the Constitution of the lm- S0?^ JJJ? oWEJ6 Sf t'!16 Declaration of Independence- of the equality of all men before the law. No orisis tJ^mJS?1 «?° P?lrll°uji for 'ts powers, no evolution too rapid for its adaptation, and no expansion beyond its easy grasp and administration. It has assimilated ?^5me nationalities with warring traditions, customs, conditions and languages, imbued them with its spirit, andwon their passionate loyalty and love. f„™t? ower 0l th.e L0?'.11 ol the nations of Continental Europe are conscripted from productive industries and »iil.?fi,i\0am.ps' Vast armles Btand in battle array along the frontiers, and a Kaiser's whim or a Minister's mistake may precipitate the most destructive war of !^™2,+ mes' 5.°™ monarchical and republican Gov- t^S™?,?,? a.re seeMn.? sa*ety In the repression and sup pression of opposition and orltlclsm. The voloanlo 1™ZL?1, Dfmoora«° aspiration and socialistic revolt w» r^dl?ninorfaslng ani threaten peace and security. TciB.^^?*?1?88 Batherrag storms to the British ™,ef0 £t ?n.d ^T Pe°Ple m the throes of a pohtical .Sf™ i^volvin?vthe f?1?1 a"3 substance of their Gov- ?h2 .^'.J?11!?. *h,elr ^tesmen far from confident that ,, ! enfranchised and unprepared masses will wisely use their power. HAIL TO THE SECOND CENTURY. But for us no army exhausts our resources nor con sumes our youth. Our navy must needs increase In order that the protecting flag may follow the expand ing commerce which is successfully to compete in all the markets of the world. The sun of our destiny is still rising, and Its rays illumine vast territories as THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 47 yet unoccupied and undeveloped, and which aro to be the happy homes of millions of people. The ques tions which affect the powers of government and tho expansion or limitation of the authority of the Fed eral Constitution are so completely settled, and so unanimously approved, that our political divisions produce only the' healthy antagonism of parties, which Is necessary for the preservation of liberty. Our in stitutions furnish the full equipment of shield and spear for the battles of freedom, and absolute pro tection against every danger which threatens the welfare of the people will always bo found in the Intelligence which appreciates their value, and the oourage and morality with which their powers aie exercised. The spirit of Washington fills the executive of fice. Presidents may not rise to the full measure of his greatness, but they must not fall below his standard of public duty and obligation. His life and oharacter, conscientiously studied and thoroughly understood by coming generations, will be for them a liberal education for private life and public station, for citizenship and patriotism, for love and devotion to Union and Liberty. With their inspiring past and splendid present, the people of these United States, heirs of a hundred years marvellously rich In all which adds to the glory and greatness of a nation, with an abiding trust In the stability and elasticity of their Constitution, and an abounding faith in themselves, hail the coming century with hope and joy. The reader will be interested to learn the pari* of Mr. Depew's oration which, were heard by the 3,000 or 4,000 persons whom bis voice was powerful enough to reach. He began with the two introductory paragraphs, and then passed on to the paragraph beginning " More clearly than any statesman" ; after this fine tribute to Jeffer son he went on to the paragraph beginning " The Government of the Republic" ; then he delivered the paragraph beginning " The Constitution, which was to be strengthened," and the next paragraph but one, re lating to Hamilton. Then a long leap was made to "The Ist Congress of the United States." The next paragraph used was that on " The simple and imposing ceremony," with which the first sentence and. the last two sentences of the paragraph were coupled. The first half of the paragraph beginning " No man ever stood" was also used. The last part of the oration, beginning with " Chatham, who with Clive," was delivered in fuU, except that the lines from •' Our popula tion has grown," to " During tbis generation," were omitted, and also the sentence, " We turn from these gathering storms," etc. Mr. Depew spoke for thirty-two minutes. His peroration was a. model of lofty and sustained oratory, and fully deserved the outburst of applause that greeted it. When he had finished some one in the crowd proposed three cheers for Mr. Depew. They were given with a will. PRESIDENT HARRISON SPEAKS BRIEFLY. Mr. Gerry then advanced and said, " Fellow- citizens, the President of the United States will address you." General Harrison laid aside his hat and overcoat and stepped forward with the same easy and self-contained manner which had marked his bearing from the time of his arrival. Before he could begin his remarks Nicholas Fish proposed three cheers for him, and they were uttered with great fervor. Mr. Harrison's manner before an audience is admirable. His voice is strong and resonant, and he speaks with great animation. Feeling perfect confidence in himself and likewise thoroughly at home, he did not even glance at the sheets of paper which contained the notes of his remarks. His gestures were eraoeful and abundant, and though what he said occupied only four or five minutes, the impression produced was that he is a master of the art of public speaking. There was general regret that he did not speak at greater length. Here is what President Harrison said on his first appearance before a New-York audience : Offiolal duty of a very exacting character has made It quite Impossible that I should deliver an address on this occasion. Foreseeing this, I early notified your committee that the programme must not contain any address by me. The selection of Mr. Depew as the orator of this occasion makes further speech not only difficult, but superfluous. He has met the demand of this great occasion on Its own high level. (Applause.) He has brought before us tho incidents and the lessons of the first Inauguration of Washington. We seem to have been a part of that admiring, and almost ador ing, throng that filled these streets one hundred years ago. We have come Into the serious, but always Inspir ing, presence of Washington. He was tho Incarna tion of duty, and he teaches us to-day this great les son—that those who would associate their names with events that shall outlive a century, can only do so by high consecration to duty. (Applause.) Self-seeking has no publio observance or anni versary. The captain who gives to the sea his cargo of rags, that he may give safety and deliverance to his Imperilled fellow-men, has fame ; he who lands the cargo, has only wages. (Great applause.) Washington seemed to come to the discharge of the duties of his high office Impressed with a great sense of his unfamiliarlty with these new calls upon him, modestly doubtful of his own ability, but trusting im plicitly in the sustaining holpfulness and grace of that God who rules the world, presides In the councils of nations, and Is able to supply every human defect. We have made marvellous progress in material things, but the stately and enduring shaft that we havo erected at the National Capital at Washington symbolizes the fact that he Is still the First American Citizen. (Gieat applause.) THE ARCHBISHOP'S BENEDICTION. In response to loud calls for Mr. Morton, the Vice- President rose and bowed. The exercises at the Sub-Treasury were closed with the following bene diction by Archbishop Corrigan: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and the communications of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. And may the blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, descend on our beloved country and abide with it forever. The President and his immediate party left the platform at once, in order to proceed to the Mad ison Square reviewing-stand without delay. Other invited guests went thither by the Sixth-ave. ele vated road. The Platform Committee consisted of Johnston Livingston De Peyster, chairman ; Robert R. Liv ingston, W. E. D. Stokes, C. Creighton Webb, Nicholas Fish, Lispenard Stewart, William Pierson Hamilton, Charles H. Russell, jr., Alfred R. Conk- ling, William Cary Sanger, John Anthon, Gardiner Sherman, J. LawTence Aspinwall, Arthur De Windt, Lewis H. Livingston, Charles B. Bleecker, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, jr., Brooks Adams, Clermont L. Clarkson, Frank S. Witherbee, secre tary. Among the selections played by Gilm ore's Band between 9 and 10 o'clock were the " Star-Spangled Banner," Washington's Grand March, the overture to " Semiramide," the march from " Tannhauser," " The Wearing of the Green," " Yankee Doodle" and " Hail, Columbia." 48 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY THE PRESIDENT'S BUSY DAY. STARTING OUT AT AN EARLY HOUR. escorted from mr. morton's house to st. Paul's chapel, thence to the stov treasury and back to madison square. As the service of praise and thanksgiving at 6t. Paul's Chapel Tuesday morning was at so early an hour as 9 o'clock, the carriage called at Mr. Morton's house, No. 85 Flfth-ave., at 8:15 for the President and Vice-President. Accompanied by William G. Hamilton, they entered the carriage while the spectators who packed the sidewalks on both •ides of the street gave hearty cheers. Mrs. Harri son and Mrs. Morton, accompanied by Clarence W. Bowen, entered the private carriage of Mr. Morton, and headed by an escort of twenty mounted police men under command of Sergeant William A. Revell, the oarriage started down Flfth-ave. The police went at a rapid trot, and quick time was made down the avenue, Waverley Place and to Broadway, the erowds on the sidewalks recognizing the President and giving him a continuous round of cheers all the way, to whioh he responded by bowing and lifting hli hat. The party arrived at the gateway in Vesey-st., lead ing to the west entrance to St. Paul's Church, at 8 :50 o'clock Here the street from Churoh-st, to Broadway had been kept clear by a force of police under command of Inspector Steers. The walk lead: Ing to the entrance to the church had been canopied with bunting. At 9 o'clock, Governor Hill, accom panied by Mayor Grant and Colonel Cruger, arrived. The carriage in which they rode was escorted by Troop A, of the National Guard, the newly jrganlzed cavalry corps, under command of Captain Roe. It was ten minutes after 9 when the other carriage containing ex-President Cleveland, ex-President Hayes, Senator Evarts and Lieutenant-Governor Jones reached the Vesey-st. entrance. ON THE WAY TO THE SUB TREASURY. It was a little after 10 o'olock when the services at St. Paul's were finished, and the Presidential and Centennial parties left the church. Several policemen were stationed at stately distances from the west porch of the building, and in Broadway and the side streets cordons of the blue-coats kept back the crowds. There were comparatively few people to deal with In the streets which flank St. Paul's, but the side walks of Broadway were solid masses of humanity. Venerable Hamilton Fish came out of the church first, with Mayor Grant lightly leaning on his arm. Following them wero the President and Vice-Presi dent, and then came the throng of State officials. Senators of the United Statos, Judges and committee men. They passed without regard to order down the long covered pathway to the Vesey-st. gate to the ohurchyard, but there the oarriages were filled In the order prescribed by the programme. Tho mounted police In Broadway sprang to their horses, and the march was taken toward Wall-st. A loud oheer greeted the Presidential oarriage as It turned into Broadway, and Mr. Harrison lifted his hat at brief intervals, bowing to the right and the left alternately. The cheers rolled along as the procession made Its progress, and at the comer of Plne-st, where it turned Into the street In tho direction of the Sub-Treasurv the demonstrations were especially voolferous The military had already formed for tho start, and tho commanding officers at the head of the column Just below Plne-st. saluted as the party made the turn The mounted police rode down Nassau-st._ to Wall- st, and dismounted just bolow the Assay Office. The President's carriage was driven up to the Pine-st. entrance to the Sub-Treasury, where Assistant-Treas urer Ellis H. Roberts and his chief assistants were waiting to meet the President. The greetings were brief, and the President and other Invited guests were then conducted to the big platform which had been reared on the Wall-st. steps. Representatives of the commercial and other civic bodies passed up steps built along Nassau-st. , and in a short time the spacious platform was well filled. THE DRIVE TO MADISON SQUARE. After partaking of a light luncheon Inside of the Sub-Treasury Building at the close of the exercises, the members of the Presidential party at 12 o'clock made their way to the Plne-st. entrance, where fifteen open carriages were awaiting them. The crowd cheered and applauded the President as he entered the first carriage. He bowed and smiled his ac knowledgments. He took the rear seat on the right-hand side and Mayor Grant sat beside htm. On the front seat were General Cochrane and Lieutenant Judson, aide to the President. The next carriage contained Vice-President Morton. Hamilton Fish and Colonel Winchester on the front seat. When the vehicles were formed In line in Plne-st., Sergeant Revell, with a squad of eighteen Mounted policemen, rode at the head of the line, and a mounted policeman was stationed as an escort on each side of the President's carriage. At 12 :20 o'clock the pro cession turned Into Broadway and started on Its drive for the revlewlng-stand between the long lines of troops drawn up on each side of Broadway ready to present arms as the President passed. A GREAT MILITARY PAGEANT. WAR EST ITS GAYEST AND MOST BRILLIANT ASPECT. THE PARADE OF THE TROOPS A SPLENDID SUC CESS— THEIR MARCH UPTOWN AND REVIEW BY THE PRESIDENT-SCENES AT THE MADISON SQUARE REVIEWING STAND. Taken at any point in the long line of march the great parade of Tuesday was splendidly effective and imposing. From Wall-st. to the Paric one incessant fluttering of handkerchiefs, one continuous murmur of applause kept time to the beat of the drum-major and the step of the marching regiments. Every spectator in the two solid walls of humanity which fenced in the route seemed alive to the fact that so various, so brilliant and so genuine a military parade had never been seen before in New-York, and there was on every side a lavishness of applause, of enthusiasm, of appreciation, adequate, certainly, to the merit of the gayest and most attractive display of the holiday side of war in the history of the eity. An army larger than that first called into the field by President Lincoln to suppress the Rebellion, and alongside of which the Conti nental forces in many a famous Revolutionary battle seem a corporal's guard, called, most of it, from the pursuits of peace, yet still main taining the discipline and outward show of actual warfare; glittering ranks of infantry, battalion after battalion, whose infinite variety of color and movement alone prevented the tiring of all the senses; cavalry and artillery clattering in their gorgeous red and yellow uniforms over the smooth cobblestones; the dashing staff all lace and plumes ; generals of brigade, generals of THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 4y division, Governors of States, an almost endless file of the varied representatives of the military strength of the Nation, gathered to be reviewed by its Chief Magistrate— all this combined to form a picture notable in the history of this pacific Re public. Add to the brilliance of the military pageant the pictureesqueness of the crowds, the decorations in the streets, the perfect beauty of the spring day, and the anniversary had filled tbe fullest measure of anticipated success. THE SCENE IN MADISON SQUARE. Striking as the parade was from any point below Twenty-third-st., its best and completest effect had to be looked for in the three blocks of the route along Madison Square. Here the reviewing-stand for the President had been built, and here, be tween the two triumphal arches which bridged the avenue at Twenty-third and at Twenty-sixth sts., were crowded the luckiest and most discriminating critics of the parade. The President's stand stood along the edge of the square, on the east side of the street, and stretched from the junction of Broadway and Fifth-ave. to just opposite the Hotel Brunswick. The seats for the reviewing party were on a raised semi-circular platform, opposite the Worth Monument, sheltered from the sun by a roof of light woodwork. The rest of the stand was bare of protection against the sun, which beat down unsparingly on the dense ranks of the spec tators. Opposite was a shorter stand, running from Twonty-fourth-st. to Twenty-fifth-st., rising back to and beyond the column of the Worth Monument Between these two black masses of spectators every regiment tried to march its steadiest and look its trimmest. As each file crossed Twenty- fourth-st. the pace stiffened, the backs of the sol diers straightened, the line of bayonets grew- more regular. The bandmen blew themselves red in the face and the color-bearers dipped their colors. The President lifted his hat to the flags gravely and bent his eye steadily along the approaching line. At his right General Sherman, erect and soldierly, looked on calmly, with an expert's quick appreciation of the niceties of the drill. The swords ot the officers were lowered, then raised; the flags went up again ; the tenseness of the line relaxed; the file had passed, and the reaction was visible even in the backs of the disappearing blue-coats. The climax of the march had come and gone. Tho rest was routine, and the disbanding point at Fifty-first-st. could not be reached too soon. No regiment or troop in the line missed the stimulus of that little stretch past the reviewing stand. Some com mands did better than others, but all did their best, and that in almost every case was equal to the brilliance and importance of the occasion— the biggest and most dazzling review of troops since war times. THE DECORATIONS FEW, BUT GRACEFUL. Madison Square had put itself into fitting garb for such a scene. From the reviewing stand the eye could light on little that was not suggestive of the spectacle. A big triumphal arch spanned the avenue at the southern end of the stand. Built like the sally-port . of a fortress, from the top Washington on a charger waved with his sword a welcome or defiance toward the square which bears his name. On the reverse side faces of the first President and Vice-President and of their latest successors smiled gayly up the avenue. Across from the reviewing box the Albemarle Ho tel and the Hoffman House were ablaze with pa triotic colors, in designs in which the genius of the designer ran a merry riot. From the midst of all looked down one of the most extraordinary portraits of the Father of his Country which the talent of the sign-painter has ever p. it on canvas. The First President, to the few who recognized him, narrowly escaped being taken for one of those conventional courtly villains, whose smile of conscious depravity pen etrates to the back row of the theatre-gallery. To the left the Fifth Avenue Hotel shone by con trast. Its decorations were few and graceful, and the fine proportions of the big building came out in their natural effect. A bust of Washington was conspicuous over the upper portico, which was itself almost hidden by the brilliant parasols of the pretty spectators ft held. From the roofs of all the big hotels hundreds of people were peeping over into the square. The very cornices were lined, and over that of the Fifth Avenue an old man's long gray beard could be seen straggling down to the delectation of jokers. Every window along Broadway was held by a party of sightseers, and down Fifth-ave. one could catch a glimpse of other crowded buildings, the prospect endingjnvith the big stand built on the sidewalk of the Union Club. GROUPS IN THE WINDOWS. The old New-York Club, now given over to business, was the choicest of all the buildings facing the square for sightseeing. The Republi can League had gotten possession of several windows looking down the avenue. Other rooms were occupied by other jolly groups, and a big stand had been built in Twenty-sixth-st. for the overflow. The house was gay with the usual patriotic decorations, but did not show a picture of Washington. Further up the avenue there were some pretty views. Theodore B. Starr had his store trimmed with wreaths of green. The Redfern establishment flew the British colors, and Del- monico's showed a leaning toward the tricolor. The arch at Twenty-sixth-st. looked rather flat and plain compared with the Twenty-third-st. one. Two four-foot Continental soldiers did duty against the pillars, menacing any new invader from the direction of the Battery. The square itself, its trees just turning into green, gave a refreshing background to tbe long reviewing stand and helped to shade the early comers from the morning sun. At the Twenty-sixth-st. end the bronze figure of Farragut could be seen just able to peer across the heads of the seat-holders into the avenue. Others besides the hero of Mobile Bay were shut out from a view of the parade, and all the square and the cross-streets leading into it were packed with these unfortunate people, all pushing and elbowing to get a glimpse even, of the bayonet tips of the passing regiments. The stand had been crowded from 10 o'clock on. An hour earlier Inspector Byrnes had a strong force of police on the spot to man the wire rope lines along the avenue and fight back interlopers. A guard of honor from the 7th Regiment also ap peared, and the sentinels kept relieving one an other in their beats up and down before the stands. From 10 o'clock to 11 there were fresh arrivals every few minutes. Four of the mem bers of the Army Committee, F. D. Tappen,' Frederick Gallatin, Park Commissioner J. Hamp den Kobb and J. C. Tomlinson, received the guests who had tickets for the reviewing stands. Tho police kept fighting back the mob, which made fresh pushes against the line at brief intervals. Clubs would, go up in the air and come down softly on the hats of tlie offenders, and the officers would make a plunge altogether like the rush line on a football field. The crowd would give in at last and the strained rope would be pulled 50 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. In taut again. The avenue had been cleared as far as Twenty-seventh-st. From there all the way up the slope of Murray Hill the mass of spectators was wedged in tightly from house wall to house wall. A squad of mounted police was sent to cut a way through, but it came back without doing much. The stand up to this point had been occupied chiefly by that class of neople whom nobody had ever seen or heard of, but who manage mysteri ously to get hold of the best seats at nearly every big display. Distinguished arrivals were few and far between. Senator Eustis, of Louisiana,, and Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, reached the stand before 11. William E. Dodge came later; then Generals Abner Doubleday and John C. Robinson, Congressman S. S. Cox, ex-Congress man S. V. White, Police Commissioner Voorhis and Nathaniel McKay. The Pennsylvania Legislature got seats at the Twenty-third-st. end of the stand. Near by was a group of Indianians, among them Attorney-General L. T. Michener, General George B. Williams, now of Washington, and one of the managers of the Inauguration festivities ; the Rev. Dr. McLeod, of Indianapolis ; 0. W. Fairbanks and General T. H. Nelson, Commissioner of the State, and Colonel W. R. Holloway, a brother-in-law of ex-Senator O. P. Morton. Captain Murphy, of the Army Committee, walked up and down the avenue before the stand in a brilliant uniform, and helped the other committeemen to look after the arriving guests. At 12:10 some of the guests from the Sub- Treasury, who had come up on the elevated rail road, appeared. In the group were Carl Schurz and J. C. Carter. They took seats near the reviewing-box. Others of their neighbors were Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, and his staff. Collector Joel B. Erhardt, General E. H. Muller. Evert J. Wendell and F. Honkinson Smith. CHEERS FOR MR. HARRISON. About 1 o'clock an outburst of cheering from the stand at the Union Club and a vigorous spurt of handkerchief -waving told that the Presi dent and his party were arriving. A detachment of mounted policemen clattered by and the Presi dent's carriage soon followed. The spectators on the stands stood up to cheer and those in the back rows shouted " Sit down," and pelted those lower down with paper balls and orange peelings. The President took off his hat and bowed as the crowd saluted him. His carriage stopped short* and General John Cochrane, who was on the front seat, clambered out and helped the guests alight. Colonel Winchester, his companion on the front seat, got out next. Then the President stepped down, followed quickly by Mayor Grant. In the second carriage were the Vice-President and one or two members of the Centennial Com mittee. From the third alighted Secretary Windom, Elbridge T. Gerry and Clarence W. Bowen. Secretaries Tracy and Proctor, and their two aids, were in the next. Then came the Postmaster-General, Secretary Noble and Lieu tenant-Governor Jones. The Attorney-Genera] and Secretary Rusk shared the sixth carriage. In the other carriages were Chief Justice Fuller, Associate.Justices Field, Lamar, and Blatchford, ex-Justice Strong, General Sherman, Chauncey M Depew, Archbishop Corrigan, Bishop Potter, Bishop Perry, of Iowa ; the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, the Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storrs, a delegation of Senators, among them being Senators Sherman, ingalls, Hiscock, Evarts, Aldrich, Higgins and HawJey; Generals Husted and Henry A. Barnum, Russell B. Harrison, and Private Secretary E. W. Halford. Ex-Presidents Hayes and Cleveland rode in a carriage together. The New- York lawyer was received with polite cheering along the line, and smiled broadly and lifted his hat. APPLAUSE FOR THE MARCHING COLUMN. The party was soon seated in the reviewing-box.' The President was well to the front, and General Sherman sat at his right. To his left were Mayor Grant and ex-President Cleveland, the latter hold. ing a red rose in his hand which he often lifted to his nose. General Tracy stood behind the Presi dent, and Mr. Gerry was near Mr. Cleveland. There were no ladies in the party. Ten minutes later General Schofield and the head of the column came through tbe Twenty-third-st. arch. He was followed by General Cruger and the general staff. The head of the Army was applauded en thusiastically. So were the staff officers, all trim and fresh as the gallant at whom Hotspur took offence. Then came the military representatives of the various States, and acting as escort to all two troops cf regular cavalry, with yellow plumes and trappings. The West Point cadets had the prace of honor at the head of the line of regulars. The battalion never looked better, and its marching drew out rounds of applause. Then came the artillery regiments in red and the infantry in white. After the Armji had passed the Navy came in sight. The marines gave a clean exhibition of marching, and the tars from the ships in the harbor finished up the dis play of the regulars wi th credit and celerity. The Army and Navy got by at 1 :40 p. m. The muster was about 1,500. The State militia was to follow in the order in which the States had ratified the Constitution. Delaware accordingly was first. She sent one regiment of infantry and a cavalry troop. Gov ernor Biggs rode at the head of the line, a tall dashing figure, his long white hair floating in the wind. He lifted his hat constantly in response to the cheers he aroused, and was easily the most conspicuous figure in this division. Pennsylvania came next to Delaware, and thus with her 8,000 men had practically the place of honor among the militia. The Pennsylvania troops long ago made their reputation as, perhaps, the most businesslike of the . State forces. They wear the regular uniform and affect the monotonous appearance of the regulars. They always march, too, in heavy dress, carrying all the accoutrements of an active campaign. Knapsacks, blankets, haversacks, can. teens and cups are a serious handicap in a dress parade, and the Pennsylvanians suffer somewhat on a gala day from their heavy uniform. But their marching is always good, and they give an impression of force and solidity which the other regiments often miss. The Pennsylvania troops did not follow the order on the programme, and caused much inconvenience to the spectators on the reviewing stand. The Third Brigade, foi instance, marched second and the Second third. The regiments, too, changed their formation in many cases. Philadelphia's crack regiment, the 1st, won a good deal of applause, and another picked out by the critics in the stands for military excellence was the 1 8th, from the western part of the State. The Pittsburg Battery brought with il from home its full force of battery horses, enor mous Clydesdales, with long hair on their legs.' They stopped for three or four minutes before the President, and everybody on the stands tried to guess what sort of huge beasts they were. HEROISM SHOWN BY GOVERNOR BEAVER Governor Beaver, strapped to his saddle, rode at the head of the division, as usual, and captured the enthusiasm of the orowds all along the avenue. He wore civilian dress, as did all the Governors. It took tbe Pennsylvania troops about an hour to eo by— better time than they made at Washington on March 4. President Harrison recognized many old faces in the ranks, and must have been favor ably impressed by the vastly improved marching,, due m part, perhaps, to more favorable conditions. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 51 New- Jersey showed that she was in the Union and had been in it almost from the start, by send ing her two brigades for review by the President. These troops, too, failed to march according to the programme, but nobody minded that. Trim new clothes, with a little more finery than the Spartans of the Keystone State indulge in, a good step and lively bands helped the commonwealth across the North. River to make an excellent soldierly show ing. The New-Jersey uniform prescribes a coat of longer skirts and deeper blue than the regular one, and the troops wore helmets instead of caps. There were no batteries in the parade, but each regiment seemed to be provided instead with a Gatling gun. Toward the end two or three zouave companies appeared. They wore the fez and leg gings, with trousers of a glaring shade of red. One of them had a band, which very appropriately struck up " Razzle Dazzle," as it got near the President. Everybody laughed, but the bandmaster couldn't see tie joke. Governor Green, General Harrison's host at Elizabe'th on Monday, rode at the head of the column. General and ex-Senator W. J. Sewell was in command of the Second Brigade, which really marched first. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, had the avenue practically to himself when Georgia's turn came. He is a graceful horseman, wore spurs, and made his horse dance spiritedly. He was recognized by the crowd, which cheered him heartily. THE, MODEST GOVERNOR OF THE NUTMEG STATE. Governor Bulkeley, of Connecticut, who fol lowed Governor Gordon, did not wear spurs. He rode along modestly and saluted the President with soldierly precision. The Foot Guards he brought with him outshone anything that had gone before in the parade. Each man wore a red coat, white trousers, black leggings, and a black furry cap, with the coat-of-arms of the State on the front. After the gorgeous Foot Guards came the 4th Connecticut Regiment, in a blue uniform, something like that of the New-Jersey men. Governor Oliver Ames, of Massachusetts, like Governor Bulkeley, wore no spurs. He made a striking figure, however, and was freely applauded. Two corps of cadets, a military affectation popular in the Bay State, with cadet bands, acted as escort to the Governor. Colonel William A. Bancroft, the famous Harvard oarsman and coach, was at the head of the 5th Regiment, which came out in unusual strength. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston was the rear guard. It eclipsed the splendor of the Connecticut Foot Guards as much as the Foot Guards had dimmed the lustre of the plainer blue coats toward the front of the parade. Every member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery is, or ought to be, a brigadier-general. The com mand yesterday turned out about 300 strong, in about 300 different kinds of uniforms, from that of an old Continental private to that of a European field marshal. This kaleidoscopic display may have been a shock to the nerves of the military experts, but it gave undiluted joy to the Philistines on the sidewalks, and a shout of welcome met the first file of the artillerymen, which never broke in force till the backs of the last file were disappear ing up the avenue. . Maryland, the next State to ratify tbe Constitution, was represented chiefly by the 5th Regiment, ol Baltimore, whose band forgot to play " Maryland, My Maryland," to the great surprise of everybody. Govetnor Jackson, it was said, was ill. Perhaps that made the difference. ONE GOVERNOR IN A CARRIAGE. South Carolina's Governor rode in a carriage. Like all the Southern Governors, he had a popular welcome. Six or eight companies acted as his escort. New-Hampshire sent three regiments, all fine-looking organizations. Governor Sawyer rode at the head of the line. The Granite State troops wear a uniform much hke that of New- Jersey. Virginia followed New-Hampshire, and Governor Fitzbugh Lee had a chance to repeat the triumph lie achieved at Washington at the inauguration of President Cleveland. Wearing boot and spur, and gallantly lifting his hat to the applauding multitudes, he made his way slowly past the stands. The band behind him struck up " Auld Lang Syne" as he neared the reviewing box, and some one suggested that the air would recommend itself to President Cleveland. General Harrison saluted the Vir ginia Governor gracefully, but Mr. Cleveland did not iook around. The Governor's es cort was made up oi a lot of sep- arate Virginia companies, many in gray uniform. They dropped the sixteen formation of the other troops and marched by fours. Governor Lee once by, another " popular hero" appeared. Governor Hill was riding up alongside of General Josiah Porter, followed by tbe New- York staff. The Governor seemed ill at ease on his horse, and dropped one rein as he came abreast of the reviewing stand. An orderly picked it up, and the procession started again. A few yards further the rein fell again, and again the staff had to halt. The Governor recovered himself enough to salute the President, and the staff went by. President Cleveland had got up to go as the New-York troops came in sight, but he stopped and stood on the platform for a few minutes longer watching them. The New- York formation is familiar, and it is enough to say that the 7th Regiment led it with customary brilliancy and precision. No marching called out more general and hearty praise. MILES OF STATE TROOPS. After the white-crossed belts of the 7th had disappeared, the regular uniform, spiked helmets, blue coats and white leggings, of the State troops came in with the 69th, and lasted for miles and miles, except when the white coats, blue trousers and white leggings of the '2,M Regiment broke the monotony. " Pat" Gilmore headed this regi ment with his melodious band. He pulled them up in the middle of a stirring march and started them into " Hail to the Chief" as they passed under the President's eye. The 71st Regiment band varied their musical programme by play ing the Doxology. The New-York men all appeared well, the separate companies especially, showing the result of much drilling. The batteries, heavy artillery and Gatling guns rattled and rumbled along in good shape, the red plumes of the men affording a welcome variety in the forest of spiked helmets that covered the infantry. Brigadier-General McLeer led the Second Bri gade, and immediately behind him and tbe red- coated 13th Regiment band rode Chaplain Tal. mage, bowing to right and left and lifting his slouched hat in acknowledgment of the cheers. The 14th came next, its first company commanded by a one-armed, gray-bearded captain, who gave a veteran air to the whole regiment. The 23d, the pride of Brooklyn, passed with steady tramp, its long column of red-trousered men stretching over several blocks of the roac. The Buffalo regi- ments won applause from the spectators, and the Albany troops were not forgotten. MR CLEVELAND ESCAPES. Just before the towering bearskin shakos and portly forms of the Old Guard set the multitude to applauding, Mr. Cleveland tired of the show, and after taking counsel with Inspector Steers as to the most promising place through which to squeeze, disappeared. President Harrison stood the fatigue manfully, Irarejly sitting down, answering every salute courteously, and taking off his hat whenever the 52 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. Stars and Stripes came within saluting range. Governor Fowle, of North Carolina, was borne by in a carriage, followed by a few companies of State troops. Rhode Island's Governor, artil lery and famous Reeves band, of Providence, came next. Governor Dillingham, of Vermont, whose refined face, flowing cloak and high-stepping horse won him much applause, led a column of well-tanned, well-drilled troops, each man with a piece of evergreen in his helmet. Governor Buckner, of Kentuclry, roused a really mediaeval enthusiasm by his flowing black plume and fine horsemanship. A gaudily uniformed hussar led the van of the Ohio troops. Governor Foraker had his usual enthusiastic reception, but the captain of the last company of the hussars, the 1st Cleve land Troop, carried off the honors, for President Harrison's laughing glance followed the antics of his dancing horse till he was well past the stand. The Ohio troops were in heavy marching order, like the Pennsylvania troops, and the dark uni forms of faded blue gave them an air of having seen service. They marched well, the 2d Regi ment from Canton and the 16th from Sandusky being perhaps most noticeable for soldierly bearing. THE SOUTHERN TROUPS. The many-colored clothing of the Louisiana, Missouri and Florida troops came out in strong re lief after the monotony of the Ohio men. The Michigan Cadets, who wear white helmets and white duck trousers, and have the reputation of being one of the best>-drilled companies in the country, lialted before the Fifth Avenue Hotel and amused the crowd with various performances, vocal and otherwise. When Texas was reached in tbe line, the crowds cheered the white-suited Belknap Rifles, who looked like a company of English yachting dukes. The New-xork troops were an hour in passing the stand, ending at 4 :25 p. m. The troops fol lowing them occupied the field of vision for an hour and ten minutes, and then the head of the Grand Army column appeared. General Harrison bowed low with uncovered head as each tattered, bullet-riddled, old flag was carried by, waving over the dark ranks of gray- headed men. An occasional empty sleeve, limp ing foot, or wasted form showed that parading was for them a duty to memories of the past rather than a pleasure of the present. For more than an hour these veterans in blue filed past, cheering and saluting the President. The two little midgets dressed to represent George and Martha Washington got a bow and a smile from General Harrison direct, while a somewhat un steady and loud-voiced veteran who broke from the ranks to kiss his hand again and again to the President^ and shout " God bless the dear old Grand Army medal," as he pointed to the single decoration on General Harrison's breast, retired to silence and the ranks in time to save himself from the attention of the police. DISBANDING AT LAST. It was about 2 o'clock when the head of the procession reached Fifty-seventh-st. and Fifth-ave., where it disbanded. The men looked pretty well tired 6ut and stepped with an evident weariness. Those who had quarters or were to take a boat or train on the east side of the city, turned to the right at Fifty-seventh-st., the others marching to the left. This relieved the pressure, and delays were consequently much lessened both in fre quency and length. Some of the regiments marched directly to the boats, others went to their quarters in a body, some disbanded and struck out for the nearest place to get something to eat or drink, and then took the cars for their nxmories. It was after half-past 6 when the last of the G. A. R. men reached tbe disbanding point. Just as the President arrived at the reviewing stand, a live American eagle was let fly from the roof of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It rose high in the air for a moment and then gradually fluttered down toward the street. A rush was made for it by the crowd, but a nimble youngster cap tured it. He carried the bird in triumph into the corridor of the hotel amid general applause. One patriot offered $20 for the noble captive. Another bid $5 more and the boy accepted the offer, while the bystanders cheered. The eagle belonged to James J. Murray, of No. 357 Grand-st. Another striking incident of the parade was the throwing of fruit and bonbons to the troops from the windows along the line of march. When the regiments halted to wait for the President to pass by toward Madison Square, many were forced to stand for a half-hour or longer in the blocks be tween Wall-st. and Twentieth-st. In lower Fifth- ave. a streak of orange throwing was developed; at other points sandwiches and Bowers were tossed out. In one instance, opposite the Postoflice, a large packet of sandwiches was thrown, and skil fully caught by a Massachusetts soldier on his bayonet. In at least one case, however, generosity of this sort resulted in a somewhat costly accident, for a large plate-glass window was broken at No. 300 Broadway by a beer bottle on the end of a string. Somebody in an upper story tried to swing the bottle out to a thirsty soldier, but did not quite reach him, and the window was shattered on the return swing. THE STABT DOWNTOWN STREETS HELD FOR HOURS BY THE MTT.TTTA, FORMING FOR THE GREAT PARADE IN BROAD- WAT-CITIZEN SOLDIERS* FROM MANY STATES-NEARLT 50,000 TROOPS FALL IN LINE. General Schofield, Commander-in-Chief, and his staff took up their position at the head of the parade at 9 a. m., at Broadway and Plne-st. The hour of meet ing was 9:30, but long before that time the streets were packed with people. General Sohofield was quickly recognized as he galloped to the rendezvous and was received with cheers. Other well-known members of his staff were greeted with applause. The proces sion started twenty-five minutes after 10 o'clook. The staff made » fine display In their handsome uniforms. The order was as follows : General Schofield^ Colonel S. V. R. Cruger, chief of start. General Schofield's personal staff ; General T. M. Vincent. U. S. A. ; Lieu tenant C. B. Schofield, U. S. A.; Lieutenants T. H. Bliss and John Pitcher, U. S. A. Aides followed who represented twenty-three dif ferent States. The list is as follows : Colonel Benjamin Whltely, Delaware; Colonel Frank Reedef, Pennsyl vania; Colonel E. Merldlth Dloklnson, New-Jersey; Colonel Seaton Greenland, Georgia; Captain Phineas H. Ingalls, Connecticut; Colonel E. E. Currier, Massachusetts ; Colonel Columbus O'Donnell, Mary land; Colonel Leroy Springs, South Carolina; Colonel R. M. Seaman, New-Hampshire; Major Norman G. Randolph, Virginia; General D. D. Wayne, New- York; Captain B. Cameron, North Carolina; General E. H. Rhodes, Rhode Island; General Edward H, Ripley, Vermont; Colonel Morris H. Belknap, Kentucky; Colonel H. C. Corbin, Ohio ; General Henry M. Sprague, Maine; Colonel Charles H. Jones, Missouri! Colonel Albert W. Gilohrlst, Florida; Colonel W. H. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 53 Stone, Kansas ; and Major J. C. Alderson, West Vir ginia. The acting and extra aides were these: Colonel J. J. Coppinger, U. S. A. ; Captain Stanhope E. Blunt, D. S. A. ; Captain ZallnBkl, U. S. A. ; Lieutenant Thomas J. Lewis, U. S. A; ; Lieutenant H. S. Whip ple, U. S. A.; Lieutenant C. G. Treat, U. S. A.: Lieutenant A. R. Andrews, U. S. A. ; Commodore James Duncan, U. S. N. ; Surgeon M. L. Ruth, U. S. N. ; Lieutenant Alfred M. Knight, U. S. N. ; General Horatio C. King, General Daniel W. Butterfield, Gen eral Joseph C. Jackson, General Michael Kerwln. General L. T Barney, General Henry L. Burnett. General Joseph B. Carr, General William G. Ward; General Martin T. McMahon, Colonel C. N. Swift, Colonel David Morrison, Colonel E. A. McAlpin, Colonel Charles R. Braine, Colonel A. M. Clark, Colonel Johnson L. De Euyster, Colonel Archie E. Banta, Colonel Thomas R. Scott, Colonel Finley An derson, Colonel Lee Chamberlln, Colonel William C. Church, Colonel J. Schuyler Crosby, Colonel John Ward, Colonel Harvey M. Alden, Colonel John W. Jacobus, Colonel C. L. Burgess, Colonel John Don, Colonel John W. Marshall, Colonel Floyd Clarkson, Colonel Shaughnessy, Colonel D. W. C. Ward, Colo nel Cavanagh, Major E. A. Woodward, Major Morris B. Farr, Major McArthur, Major Charles E. Stott, Major William H. Bright, Major M. Searle, Captain William H. Murphy, Captain W. Emlen Roosevelt, Captain Obed Wheeler, Captain Waldo Sprague, Cap tain Joseph P. Jardine, Captain G. W. Collins, Cap tain H. D. Lockwood, Captain E. A. Des Murets, Cap tain H. D. Turner, Captain A. H. Herts, Captain A P. Hartman, Lieutenant A. F. Schermerhorn, Lieu tenant John N. Golding, Lieutenant George A. Clem ent, Lieutenant William C. Fish, Lieutenant Oliver Harriman, jr., William E. Van Wyck, Newbold Mor ris, G. Creighton Webb, Arthur De Wihdt, Lewis H Livingston, Oliver S. Teall, Miles Standish and George W. Dellaway. REGULARS IN BRAVE ARRAY. Immediately following the aides came a picked detachment of cavalry, comprising Troop B of the 6th Regiment, commanded by Captain Anderson and Lieutenants Quay and Baird, and Troop B of the 4th Regiment, under the command of Captain Parker and Lieutenants Reber and Elliott. The entire battalion numbered 112 men, and were led by Major Carpenter. The men, who early took up their position midway between Pine and Wall sts., presented a brilliant spectacle in their beautiful uniforms, as, after one or two evolutions, they fronted Into line, their sabres glittering in the sunlight. Eaoh man sat on his horse like an Apache, and many and loud were the ex clamations of admiration which their really superb appearance evoked from the crowded sidewalks. For a few minutes the cavalcade of horsemen re mained In position, with the commander-in-okief at their head, perfectly motionless, waiting the arrival of the President Then, borne on the breeze, came the noise of a distant cheer, a noise that grew louder and louder and gradually swelled Into a deafening roar as the sober-looking carriage of the President', drawn by four horses, came into sight. A sauad of mounted policemen preceded the procession, which consisted of ten carriages. That occupied hy tho President and Vice-President was second in order, and Mr. Harrison lifted his hat repeaitedly and bowed, in response to the vociferous shouts which greeted him. At a signal from General Schofield the whole cavalcade of aides removed their headgear and saluted the Presi dent. The Presidential party had disappeared Into Plne- st scarcely more than a couple of minutes, when General Schofield gave the order to move forward, and amid the resounding noise of bands, the shouts of officers and the applause of the crowd, the parade began. The other soldiers of the Regular Army were drawn up In Morrls-st., and with those mentioned above brought the entire strength of Uncle Sam's soldiers who formed downtown for the parade to over 1,000 men. They wore the regulation blue uniform, and the clock-like precision and ease with which they fell into line and awaited their turn to fall In behind the cadets showed the value of their military training. The organizations In Morrls-st. which took part In the parade were these: Light Battery F and Batteries E, H and I, and band, 5th Artillery, from Fort Hamilton, N. Y. H. ; Batteries K and M, 2d Artillery, and Battery B, 5th Artillery, from Fort Wadsworth, N. Y. H. ; Batteries A, C and L, 5th Artillery, from Fort Columbus, N. Y. H. ; Batteries K and M, 5th Artillery, from Fort Schuyler, N. Y. H. ; Batteries D, G and I. 3d Artillery from Fori McHenry, Md. ; Headquarters band, Light Bat tery C and Batteries A, E, H, K and L, 3d Artillery, from Washington Barracks, D. C. : Headquarters band. Light Battery B and Batteries E, G and L, 4th Artil lery, from Fort Adams, R. I. ; Batteries A and C, 4th Artillery, from Fort Trumbull, Conn. ; Battery I, 4th Artillery, from Fort Warren. Mass. : Headquarters band and Companies A, D, G, H and I, 11th Infantry, from Madison Barracks, N. Y. The following field officers accompanied the troops: Colonel Richard I. Dodge, 11th Infantry; Colonel Horatio G. Gibson, 3d Artillery ; LieutenamVColonel Edward G. Bush, 11th Infantry ; Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lodor, 5th Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel Rich ard H. Jsckson. 4th Artillery, Major Abraham C. Wildrlck, 5th Artillery ; Major Charles B. Throckmor ton, 2d Artillery ; Major Tully McCrea. 5th Artillery. THE EMPIRE STATE'S SPLENDID TURNOUT. OFFICERS IN COMMAND OF THE BRIGADES AND REGIMENTS-NAMES OF THEIR STAFFS. The National Guard of the State of New- York made d fine display. At their head rode Governor Hill, ac companied by tlie following slafl: Major-General Jo siah Porter, Adjlutant-General ; Brigadier-General Charles F. Robbins, general Inspector of rifle practice ; Brigadier-General Joseph D. Bryant, surgeon-general; Brigadier-General George S. Field, chief of engineers: Brigadier-General Joshua M. Varlan, chief of ordnance ; Brigadier-General Emil Schaefer, inspector-general; Brigadier-General Ralph Brandreth, commissary-gen eral of subsistence ; Brigadier-General Walter C. Stokes. paymaster-general; BrIgadiei>General Clifford A. H. Bartlett, judge-advocate-general; Brigadlei-General Ferdinand P. Earle, chief of artillery ; Colonel Edmund L. Judson, second, military secretary ; Colonel Hugh O'Donoghue, Colonel Albert B. Hilton, Colonel George B. McClellan. Colonel William F. Lansing. Colonel Marcus D. Russell, aides-de-camp. Next came the First Brigade, composed of the New- Xork City troops. They turned out with full ranks. At their head rode Brigadier-General Louis Fitzgerald. His staff was composed of the following officers: Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin S. Churoh, supernumerary, detailed as engineer; Lieutenant-Colo. nel Robert W. Leonard, assistant adjutant-general; Major Stephen H. Olin, judge-advocate; Major C. Law rence Perkins, commissary of subsistence; Major R. V. McKim, surgeon; Major Paul Dana, ordnance officer; Major Auguste P. Montant, inspector ; Major WendeU Goodwin, quartermaster; Major David Crocker, In spector of rifle practice ; Captain Francis R. Appleton, aide-de-camp; Major Edmund C. Stanton, supernumer ary, detailed as signal officer; Captain Albert Gallup. signal officer. Troop A, 1st Dragoons, made its maiden parade since its admission to the National Guard. It consisted of fifty well-mounted men, In the State service uniform. 54 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. with yellow trimmings. The troop was under the com mand of Captain Charles F. Roe. and acted as an es cort to the Governor. The first organization behind the cavalry in line, by virtue of the seniority of Its commander, was the famous 7th Regiment. Colonel Emmons Clark. His field and staff officers were as follows : Lieutenant- Colonel George Moore Smith, Major William H. Klpp, Adjutant George Wr. Rand, Major Daniel M. Stinson, surgeon ; Captain William H. Palmer, Inspector of rifle practice; Captain William A. Valentino, assistant sur geon; First Lieutenant John F. Long, quartermaster; First Lieutenant Walter G. Schuyler, commissary of subsistence; chaplain, the Rev. Dr. John R. Paxton. The regiment was divided into twenty commands, and there were 1,000 men in the ranks. Cappa's regimental band, and a full drum corps, under the veteran Drum- Major John Smith, preceded It. The regiment wore Its distinctive gray uniform, with white belts and black helmets. THE GALLANT SIXTY-NINTH. Next came the gallant 69th Regiment with a full drum corps and band, and 900 officers and men. It was in sixteen commands, each of twenty files front, and was greeted with continuous applause. At the head of the regiment rode Colonel James Cavanagh with the following staff officers behind him: Major James E Kelly, surgeon ; Captain John J. Ryan, in spector of rifle practice ; First Lieutenant James Joseph Ward, quartermaster; First Lieutenant Robert E. Ford, commissary of subsistence; Chaplain Matthew P. Breen. The field and staff officers with the column were as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel .Tames Moran; First Lieutenant John Murphy, adjutant; Major Edward Duffy. This regiment was In State service uniform, like all the regiments of the brigade except the 7th and 22d. The 8th Regiment followed under the command of Colonel George D. Soott. The regiment marched in eight commands, with Ids ambulance corps brlngl-ig uv the rear, and a fine band and a full drum corps, under the veteran Drum-Major McKeever, In front. Colonel Scott's field and staff officers were as follows : Major Charles E. Bruce, surgeon; Captain Edward Barker, Inspector of rifle practice; Captain Daniel Hemmin*- way, assistant surgeon; Adiutant George L. Went- worth; First Lieutenant Henry G. Ridabiok, quartermaster; Chaplain Wesley R. DaVls. The 8th Regiment had 400 men In the parade. The 9th Regiment had eleven commands and num bered 650 men. Colonel William Seward, jr., mounted on a handsome black charger, was in command. His field and staff officers were as follows : Lieutenant- Colonel Thomas B. Rand, First Lieutenant Yellott D. Dechert, adjutant; Major Alvah H. Doty, surgeon; Captain G. Henry Witthaus, supernumerary, attached ; Captain Kasson C. Gibson, inspector of rifle practice ; Captain Charles N. Thompson, assistant surgeon; First Lieutenant Dana B. Pratt, quaitermaster' Chaplain Newland Maynard. OVER 500 IN THEIR RANKS. The 22d Regiment wore its distinctive uniform- white coats and blue trousers. Gilmore's regimental band was at the head of Its column. There were 550 men in the ranks, divided Into eleven commands. Colonel John T. Camp rode at the head ot the regiment. His field and staff officers wero as follows : Lieutenant- Colonel George A Miller. First Lieutenant William B. Smith, adjutant; Major William V. King, Major William R. Pryor, surgeon; Captain Albert T. Weston, assistant surgeon; First Lieutenant Thomas L. Miller quartermaster; First Lieutenant Joseph M. Smith commissary of subsistence ; Chaplain William N. Dun- nell. The 71st Regiment had 510 officers and men, and was under the able command of Colonel Frederick Kopper, whose field and staff of officers were as follows : Major, Wallace A. Downs, Major. E. T. T. Marsh, surgeon; Captain Charles H. Hoyt, Inspector of rifle practice; Captain Charles C. Osborne, assistant surgeon; Adjutant Philip S. Tllden, First Lleutendant Edgar S. Auchlncloss, commissary of subsistence. The regi ment was divided Into nine commands. Last of the Infantry of the First Brigade marched the 12th Regiment. It was divided into eleven com mands, and had 550 men In the ranks. Colonel Thomas H. Barber was In command, and his field and staff officers were as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel Heman Dowd, Adjutant Charles M. Jesup, Major Nelson M. Henry, surgeon; Captain Weber G. Owen, Inspector of rifle practice; First Lieutenant Ed ward R. Powers, quartermaster; First Lieutenant J. Morgan Wing, commissary of subsistence; Chaplain Roderick Terry. The 1st and 2d Batteries, 100 men In each organiza tion, were at the rear of the First Brigade. Captain Louis Wendel commanded the 1st Battery, and Cap tain David Wilson the 2d. BRAVE BOYS FROM BROOKLYN. The Brooklyn troops, comprising the Second Brigade with the Washington Light Infantry, passed in review before Mayor Chapin and the city officials at the Brooklyn City Hall on tho way to this city. Their line in the great parade In this city was formed as follows : 13th, 32d, 47th, 14th and 23d regiments, and the 3d Battery. All were dressed in the State ser vice uniform, navy-blue jackets, blue trousers with white leggings; and black helmets with spikes. The uniform of the battery was blue trousers with a red stripe, cavalry boots, navy-blue jacket with red cord and tassel, and black helmet with a red plume. The line was drawn up In Willlam-st., with the right resting on Plne-st. Brigadier-General McLeer rode at the head of the column. With him were his staff, as follows : Lieutenant-Colonel John B. Frothingham, brevet-colonol, assistant adjutant-general ; Major Gus tav A. Jahn, Inspector; Major George L. Fox, In spector of rifle practice ; Major Frank Lyman, en gineer; Major George Kinkol, jr., ordnance officer; Major George R. Fowler, surgoon; Major Almet F. Jenks, judge-advocate; Major Fritz Brose. commis sary of subsistence; Captain Frank D. Beard, aide- de-camp, and Captain Edward Annan, Jr., aide-de camp. Next came the Signal Corps to the number of twonty-four, oarrying their flags and other Imple ments, and commanded by Captain Frederick T. Leigh, supernumerary, attached as signal officer. The 13th Regiment was commanded by Colonel David E. Austen. Other commissioned officers who were mounted were Major Richard P. Morle, Adjutant William H. Coughlln, Quartermaster Charles Wern berg, Commissary Jere. A. Wernberg, Inspector of Rifle Practice Theodore H Babcock, and Chaplain T. De Witt Talmage. The regiment paraded In fifteen companies, of twenty files front. Following the 13th was the 32d Regiment, com manded by Colonel Louis Finkelmeier. His staff was Lieutenant-Colonel Henry E. Clark, Major Edward Verdrekberg, Adjutant William Van der Clute Quar termaster J. R. Teel, Commissary George Zech'iel, In spector of Rifle Practloe Van D. Maoumber, and Chap lain E. A Meury. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 55 -WELL DONE. IFORTY-SEVENTH. The 47th Regiment was next in line, parading with the largest number of men it has ever turned out. Colonel Edward F. Gaylor was in command, and the staff was LieutenantColonel Frederick S. Benson, Major John G. Eddy, Adjutant William H. Hubbell, Chaplain Henry E. PoweU, Inspector of Rifle Practice Alvab G. Brown, Quartermaster Edward Milner, Commissary Warren E. Smith. The command num bered 448 men of eight companies. Next in order was the 14th Regiment, Colonel Harry W. Mlchell commanding, with this staff: Lieu tenant-Colonel Seldon C. Clobrldge, Adjutant Alfred B. Campbell, Qu artermaster Alexander Barnie, Jr., Commissary Walter H. Fitzgerald, Inspector of Rifle Practice Ramon Cardona, Chaplain J. Oramel Peck. The 23d Regiment came next with the largest Cumber of any organization in the brigade. The regiment was divided Into sixteen companies of twenty files front. Colonel John N. Partridge's staff was Lieutenant-Colonel Alexis C. Smith, Major Charles E. Waters, Lieutenant George E. Hall, who acted as ad jutant in the absence of Adjutant Sillcocks; Quarter master Arthur A. Thompson, Commissary Richard Oliver, Inspector of Rifle Practice Heywood C. Brown, Chaplain Robert R. Meredith. The left of the Second Brigade was held by the 3d Battery, Captain Henry S. Rasquln commanding. The battery consisted of seventy-five mounted men with four Gatling guns. FROM UP THE STATE. The Third Brigade of the National Guard, Brigadier- General A. Parker, jr., commanding, and Colonel J. S. McEwan, assistant adjutantrgeneral, formed in Wash- lngton-it. The 10th Battalion, of Albany, was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel W. E. Fitch. The staff of the 1st Provisional Regiment was as fol lows: Colonel commanding, Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Harding; lieutenant-colonel, Major Henry Chauncey, of the 8th New-York; major, Captain W. Haubenastel, ¦of the 19th Separate Company ; adjutant, H. A. Beneke, of the 22d Regiment; commissary, First Lieutenant Wlswell, of the 13th Regiment; quartermaster, First Lieutenant Broome, of the 22d Regiment; lnspeotor of rifle practice, Lieutenant George Miller, of the 23d Regiment ; surgeon, First Lieutenant Fritz, of the 23d Separate Company ; assistant surgeon, First Lieutenant C. W. Crispell, of the 14th Separate Company. The troops were : The 14th Separate Company of Yonkers, seventy-eight men; 5th Separate Company of New- burg, ninety men; 10th Separate Company of New- burg, fifty-one men ; 11th Separate Company of Mount Vernon, eighty men ; 14th Separate Company of Kings ton, fifty-five men ; 19th Separate Company, of Pough- keepsle, fifty-six men ; 19th Separate Company, of Poughkeepsle, ninety-three men ; 23d Separate Com pany of Hudson, seventy-three men; 24tb Separate Company of Middletown, fifty-nine men. The 2d Provisional Regiment turned out 862 men all told. Its staff was as follows : Colonel com manding. Alexander S. Bacon ; Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford L. Middleton, supernumerary ; Major Howland D. Perrine, supernumerary ; Adjutant, Lieutenant ¦G. F. Hamlin, of the 23d Regiment; Surgeon, Colonel W. F. Duncan ; Assistant Surgeon, B. C. Church ; Quartermaster, Major W. W. Goodrich, supernumerary ; Inspector of Rifle Practice, Lieutenant W. P. Pickett, of the 23d Regiment; Commissary, Lieutenant Louis C. Coudert. The companies were the 3d Separate Company, of Oneonta; 6th Separate Company, of Troy ; 7th Separate Company, of Cohoes ; 12th Separate Com pany, of Troy ; 27th Separate Company, of Malone ; 22d Separate Company, of Saratoga; 32d Separate Company, of Hoosick Falls. The staff of the 3d Provisional Regiment was as follows : Colonel commanding, Lieutenant-Colonel J. A Denison; Acting LieutenantColonel, Captain J. 11. Remmer, of Utica ; Major, Captain M. W. Marvin, of the 33d Separate Company; Adjutant, Lieutenant- Colonel G. J. Greene, of the 10th Battalion ; Surgeon, D. S. Burr, of the 20th Separate Company; Assistant Surgeon, M. L. Smith, of the 30th Separate Com pany. The troops In line were the 20th beparate Company, of Binghamton, 84 men; SI'S t Separate Company of Mohawk, 70 men ; 33d Separate Company of Walton, 93 men; 35th Separate Company, of Ogdeiis- hurg, 85 men ; 36th Separate Company, of Schenectady. SO men; 37th Separate Company, of Scljenectady, *1 men; 39th Separate Company, of Watertown, /7 men; 44th Separate Company, of Utica, fas men, 46th Separate Company, of Amsterdam, 92 men; 6th Battery. THE FOURTH BRIGADE. The Fourth Brigade, composed of nearly 2,500 men, formed along Nassau-st., from Plne-st. to Park Row. The brigade was composed of the 4th Provisional Regiment, the .74th, the 65th, the 5th Battery, and the Old Guard Veteran Battalion. The companies were from Buffalo, Elmira, Syracuse, Auburn and Oswego, and all wore the regulation State uni form of the militia. The companies from Syracuse, Elmira and Auburn were the largest, all of them mustering nearly 100 men. Brigadier-General Peter C. Doyle, of Buffalo, was the commanding officer. His staff Included Colonel Charles Clifton, assistant adjutant-general; Major Edward S. Warren, quarter master; Major Edson J. Weeks, commissary; Major Edmund Hayes, engineer; Major Allen H. Hardwlcke, Inspector-general; Major Herbert P. Bissell, judge- advocate ; Major F. H. Jewett, ordnance officer ; Roswell Park, surgeon ; Captain Frank R. F^atlng and Charles R. Wilson, aides. The 4th Provisional Regiment had the right of the line in the brigade. Colonel Samuel M. Welch, jr., of the 65th Regiment, of Buffalo, was in com mand. The companies turned out from 75 to 100 men each. Colonel Welch's staff consisted of Adjutant W. H. Chapin, Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, Major James Bacon, Quarter master George J. Metzger ; surgeons, Captain Floyd S. Crego and John Gerln; commissary, Lieutenant E. M. Hoffman. The companies were: The 8th, of Rochester; 26th, of Elmira; 45th, of Cortland: 2d, of Auburn ; 38th, of Oswego ; 41st, of Syracuse ; 40th, Syracuse ; 29th, Oswego. Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. Johnson, of Buffalo, com manded the 74th. His staff was composed of Major George A. Davis, Inspector William Franklin, Major George W. York. Quartermaster Henry R. Clark, Com missary Willis R. Buck; Chaplain, the Rev. Walter North. ., ., v r. The 65th Regiment was commanded by Lieutenant- Colonel John E. Roble, with a staff composed of Major William S. Parsons, Captain Henry Menker. acting major ; Surgeons A. H. Briggs and Dr, Bemls, Adjutant A. J. Myer, Commissary O. B. Nichols, Quartermaster Harvey Piftnam ; Chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Francis Lob- dell. The 5th Battery, from Syracuse, was commanded by Captain N. Auer, with a staff of Lieutenants A. D. Hayes, W. H. Gadon, John N. Bates, and Major Gregory Doyle. The battery had four guns and caissons, fifty horses, and numbered seventy-eight men. THE OLD GUARD'S FINE APPEARANCE. The Old Guard, commanded by George Washington McLean, brought up the rear of this brigade. The Guard turned out nearly 100 strong in their tall bear skin caps and light uniforms. Among the veterans In line were Captain Sloan, Adjutant J. E. Hoagland, Lieutenants W. P, McCasker and Eben B. Woodward, Commissioner Jacob Hess, Surrogate Ransom, Robert C. Brown, George Wyatt, David M. HU- dreth, Mark Layman, Benjamin Gurney, Captain William White, Augustus C. Peters, John C. Copeland, James P. Whitfield, James F. Wenman, Charles S. Chumar and General Hatfield. Dodworth's Band ol forty pieces led the Guard. PENNSYLVANIA, Outside of the Empire State, the best display of visiting militia In point of numbers was that of the Keystone Commonwealth. The First Brigade of the Pennsylvania troops contained 2,195 men and 145 officers, a total of 2,340. They were commanded by General George R. Snowden. The uniform - was that of the regular heavy marching order. The staff officers were as follows: Assistant Adjutant-General, Major Charles H. Townsend; Inspector, Major A. Lawrenoe Wetherell; Quartermaster, Ralph Culliman; Surgeon, Major Rush S. Huydekoper; Judge Advocate, Major T. Dewltt Cuyler; Adjutant, Colonel George H. North; Aides-de-camp, Captain James A. G. Camp bell and Captain David Lewis, jr. Following is a list of the commanders of the several regiments of 56 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. this brigade, with the regimental staffs: 2d Regi ment, 601 men, in ten companies. Colonel Robert P. Dechert, Lieutenant-Colonel O. S. Bosbyshell, Major J. B. Porter, Adjutant A. H. Hartung, Quartermaster John A. Franks, Surgeon Eugene Townsend, Assistant Surgeons W. H. Baker, Herman Burgian, Chaplain Henry C. McCook, Paymaster J. F, Breuel and Commissary C. A. Widmayer; 6th Regiment, eight companies, 450 men— Colonel John W. Schall, Lieutenant-Colonel P. M. Washabraugh, Major H. A. Shenton, Surgeon-Major J. K. Weaver, Adjutant T. E. Clyde; 3d Regiment, eight companies, 401 men— Colonel S. Bonnaffon, jr., Lieutenant-Colonel John P. Denney, Adjutant J. F. Redfern, Quarter master John Rogers, Surgeon W. M. L. Ziegler, As sistant Surgeons B. B. Reath, jr., and Joseph Leldy, Jr., Inspector Herbert Cox, Chaplain James S. Stone ; 1st Regiment, ten companies, 560 men— Colonel Wendell P. Bowman, Lieutenant-Colonel T. E. Huffing- ton, Major J. Lewis Good, Adjutant P. S. Conrad, Quartermaster. F. P. Koons, Inspector George W. Coulston, Paymaster F. Swayne, Surgeon J. Wilkes O'Neill. State Fencibles, with 208 men, in four companies— Major W. W. Chew, Chaplain H. W. White, Adjutant D. H. Cooper, Quartermaster A. L. Beller ville, Inspector J. D. Ganly; chief of commissary, Captain George L. Eastman ; paymaster, Captain E. E. Paoker. Gray Invincibles, fifty-seven men- Captain C. A. Hallstock. Battery A, eighty men- Captain C. M. Stafford; 1st Philadelphia City Troop, forty-three men— Acting captain, Lieutenant Joseph L. Wilson. The Second Brigade, numbering 2,900 men, was under command of General John A. Wiley, among whose staff were Surgeon Greene, Major James Patterson and Adjutant Hayes. The regiments of this brigade were under command of the. following colonels, with their staffs : 10th Regiment, eight companies— Colonel A. L. Hawlslns, Lieutenant-Colonel James B. R. Streator, Major R. H. McCasliey, Chaplain J. L. Hunter, Adjutant S. B. Hayes, Quartermaster E. E. Robbins, Surgeon George E. Lytle, Assistant Surgeon John T. James ; 15th Regiment, six com panies—Colonel W. A. Kreps, Lieutenant-Colonel W. A Rupert, Major James Frazler, Adjutant D. P. Packer; 18th Regiment, nine companies,540 men- Colonel Norman M. Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel Frank I. Rutledge, Major J. C. Kay, Surgeon C. C. Wiley, Quartermaster Charles E. Brown. Inspector of Rifle Practice A. L. Pearson, Jr., Adjutant Charles Reese. Commissary A J. Logan, Paymaster W, H. Davis, and Chaplain James L. Mulligan; 9th Regiment, 357 men, In seven companies— Colonel Theodore Burchfleld, Lieutenant-Colonel H. S. Hale, Major James T. Nickel, Adjutant W. C. Westfield, and Surgeon-Major A. S. Stayer; 16th Regiment, 275 men, eight companies— Colonel Willis J. Hullngs, Lieuten ant-Colonel J. O. Parmlee. Maior Thomas R. Cowell, Adjutant H. MacSweeney, Quartermaster E. V. Sel- den, Inspector Thomas Conneley, chief of commissary ; ' Lieutenant Crawford, Surgeon D. Arters. The Third Brigade, which wore the regular army uniform, numbered 2,700 men, and was com manded by General J. P. S. Gobin. His staff consisted of Surgeon-Major Will iam H. Eagle, Assistant Surgeon M. A. Gherst; ordnance officer, Major John B. Bobb ; commissary, Major William H. Horn ; judge advocate, Major Everett Warren ; inspector ot rifle , practioe, Major James B. Coryell ; quartermaster, Major H. P. Morver ; aide-de-camp, Captain A. W. Schultz. The regiments of the Third Brigade, with their colonels and regi mental staffs, were : Ninth Regiment, eight companies, with about 350 men— Colonel M. J. Keck, Major W. C. Price, Adjutant J. R. Wright, Quartermaster E. G. Mercur, Inspector of Rifle Practice, C. B. Dough. erty, Paymaster S. C. Struthers, Chaplain J. W. Day; aide, Captain G. W. Zelgler. Eighth Regi ment, nine companies, with 850 men— Colonel Frank J. Magee, Lieutenant-Colonel T. F. Hoffman, Major Wallace Guss, Surgeon James Carpenter, Ad jutant J. A. P. Levergood, Inspector of Rifle Practice Frank Hutten, Quartermaster William F. Richardson and Chaplain Daniel Eberly ; 4th Regiment, 497 men, In eight companies— Colonel S. D. Jjehr, Lieutenant- Colonel D. B. Case, Major James B. Roney, Adjutant C. T. O'Neill, Quartermaster W. R. Klein, Inspector of Rifle Practice Morris Hoats, Surgeon J. B. Pottlger and Chaplain T. C. Blllheim. 12th Regiment, 334 men, seven companies— Colonel Thomas W. Lloyd, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan. Sweisfort, Major Jacob P. Brooke, Adjutant William P. Clarke, Quartermaster Frank Forsman, Surgeon Edward D. Lumley, Chaplain W. L. Woodruff; 13th Regiment, seven companies, 400 men- Colonel E. H. Ripple, Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Cor. son, Major John E. Fish, Surgeon J. E. O'Brien, Quarter. master John P. Albro, Inspector of Rifle Practice Herman Osthaus, Adjutant W. S. Millar, Chaplain S. C. Logan. Battery F, forty-five men, Captain John Denithorne. NEW-OERSEY'S FOUR THOUSAND. The New-Jersey troops made a fine showing, maroh- lng 4,000 strong. They appeared in the regulation uniform of the United States Army. The men In the Gatling Gun Company, however, wore white coats and red breeches. The troops rormed at West-st. and Battery Place. On the staff of Governor Robert S. Green were Brevet Major-General William S. Stryker, adjutant-general; Brevet Major-General Lewis Per- rine, quartermaster-general ; Brigadier-General John D. McGlll, surgeon- general ; Brigadier-General John Watts Kearny, inspector-general; Brigadier-General Bird W. Spencer, inspector-general of rifle practice, and Brig adier-General William F. Abbett, judge advocate-gen eral; aides-de-camp, Colonels Charles W. Thomas,. Rufus King, George G. Green, William C. Heppen- holmer, Isaac S. Snedeker, George B. M. Harvey, De Lancey G. Walker and John T. Van Cleef. GENERAL PLUME AND HIS DIVISION. The staff of Division Commander Major-General Joseph W. Plume was as follows : Colonel Marvin Dodd, assistant adjutant-general ; Colonel George E. P. Howard, Inspector; Colonel Edward L. Welling, sur geon; Lieutenant-Colonel George W. Terrlberry, quar termaster; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Meeker, pay master; Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick S. Fish, Judge advocate, and Colonel A. Judson Clark, chief of ar- tlllery; aides, Majors William Strange, William S. Righter and John A. Miller, jr.. Brevet Major-General- William J. Sewell commanded the Second Brigade, and on his' staff were Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas S. Chambers, assistant adjutant-general; Brevet Colonel Daniel B. Murphy, Inspector; LleutenantColonel Franklin Gauntt, surgeon; Major William M. Palmer, quartermaster,; Major Kenneth J. Duncan, paymaster; Major Franklin C. Woolman, judge advocate; Major Alexander C. Oliphant, engineer and signal officer; aides, Captains Hamilton Markley and J. Blanchard Edgar. The 3d Regiment was commanded by Colonel Elihu H. Ropes, Lieulenant-Colonel Benjamin A Lea and Major Benjamin P. Holmes. On the staff were Major Wilmer Hodgson, surgeon; Captain Victor Mravlag, assistant surgeon; Captain Otis A. Glaze- brook, chaplain; Captain John V. AUstrom, Judge advocate; and Captain Thomas A Curtis, inspeotor of rifle practice. The 6th Regiment was led by Colonel William H. Cooper, Lieutenant-Colonel George A. Cheever and Major William H. Stransbury. Members of the staff were Captain George G. Felton, quartermaster; Captain Nathan Haines, paymaster; Major Edmund L. B. Godfrey, surgeon; Captain Edward A. Arm- THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 57 strong, Judge advocate, and Captain William B. E. Miller, inspector of rifle practice At the head of the 7th Regiment were Colonel Richard A. Donnelly, Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Patterson and Major Miohael Hurley, and on the staff were Captains C. H. W. Van Sciver, adjutant; George T. Crammer, quartermaster; W. H. Earley, paymaster; Major Charles B. Leavitt, surgeon; and Captains Henry M. Barbour, chaplain, Francis C. Lowthorp, Jr., Judge advocate, and Charles Y. Bam- tord, inspector of rifle practice. THE WRST BRIGADE'S FINE ARRAY. Brigadier-General Dudley L. Steele commanded the First Brigade, and on his staff were Lieutenant- Colonel John A. Parker, assistant adjutant-general; Lieutenant-Colonel H. Eugene Hamilton, inspector ; Lieutenant-Colonel Aaron K. Baldwin, surgeon ; Major Charles Boltwood, quartermaster; Major Enos Runyon, paymaster; Major Robert I. Hopper, Judge advocate; Major Lewis H. Broome, engineer and signal officer; aides-de-camp, Captains Allen B. Wallace and S. Wood McClave. Commanding the 5th Regiment were Colonel Levi R. Barnard, Lieutenant-Colonel Abraham Jenkinson and Major Edwin Hoyt. Among the members of the staff were Captains J. j. Dooner, adjutant, and Wash ington R. Russell, quartermaster ; Major Herman G. H. Herold, surgeon, and Captains Charles E. Hill, Judge advocate, and J. Francis Hill, inspector of rifle practice. At the head of the 1st Regiment were Colonel Edward A. Campbell, Lleutenantr-Colonel Ebenezer W. Davis and Major R. Heber Brientnall. On the staff were Captains J. L. Marsh, adjutant ; G. W. Church, quartermaster; Major David L. Wallace, Burgeon; Captain Hannibal Goodwin, chaplain; Cap tain John L. Johnson, Judge advocate, and Captain W. H. Howard, inspeotor of rifle practice. At the head of the 2d Regiment were Colonel Edwin A. Stevens, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Erlenkotter and Major Ramon M. Cook, and on the staff wero Captain John R. Stevens, paymaster; Major William T. Kudlich. surgeon; Captain George C. Houghton, chaplain; Captain James F. Minturn, judge advocate, and Charles H. Eugene Haddenhorst, Inspector of rifle practice. The 4th Regiment was headed by Colonel P. Farmer Wanser, Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh H. Abernethy, and Major William B. Mason. Among the members of the staff were Captain Frank J. Mathews, paymaster ; Major Mortimer Lampson, surgeon; Captain John L. Bcudder, chaplain; Captain John Briggs, Judge-ad vocate, and Captain Abram P. Bush, inspector of rifle practice The 2d Battalion was commanded by Lieutenant- Colonel James V. Moore and Major Stephen H. V. Moore. On the staff were Captains Charles W. Springer, adjutant; Michael S. Vreeland, quarter master, William P. DeGraw, paymaster; Major Melancthon S. Ayres, surgeon ; Captain Harvey Iseman, chaplain; Captain John M. Knapp, judge- advocate, and Captain James V. Moore, inspector of rifle practice. Heading the 3d Battalion was Major Edward H. Snyder, and on his staff were Major James Y. Simpson, surgeon, and Captains Joseph K. Field, judge-advocate, and David A. Bell, Inspector of rifle practice. Major Samuel V. L. Muzzy commanded the 1st Battalion. Among the members of his staff were Major Charles F. W. Myers, surgeon ; Captain Charles D. Shaw, ohaplain; Captain A. A. Wilcox, Judge- advocate, and Captain Edmond G. Edwards, inspector of rifle practice. Alexander C. Newmann was division color-bearer, and Lewis W. Newmann was division bugler. ? FOUR BRIGADES FROM OHIO, The Ohio troops began to leave their quaarters in Webster. Nellson and Everett Halls soon after 8 o'clock, and marched by way of the Bowery to their assigned places in John and William sts. and Burling Slip. The order of Adjutant-General Axline for tho day divided the Ohio contingent, which numbered nearly 4,000 men, Into four brigades as follows: First Brigade, Colonel J. C. Entrekin commanding, compris ing the 1st, 2d, 3d and 6th Regiments. Second Brigade, Colonel George D. Freeman commanding, comprising the 9th Battalion (colored troops) and the 13th. 14th and 16th Regiments. Third Brigade. Colonel E. J. Pocock commanding, comprising the 5th, 8th and 17th Regiments. Fourth Brigade, Colonel Louis Smithnlght commanding, 1st Regiment, Ohio Light Artillery. The Cleveland Troop, a " crack" cavalry company, was here to act as escort to Governor Joseph B. Foraker, commander-in-chief. There were fifty of them present with their own horses. The members of Governor Foraker's staff were the following: Adjutant and inspector-general and chief of staff, Henry A. Axline, of Zanesville ; quartermaster and commissary- general, Brigadier-General Asa S. Bushnell. of Spring field; judge-advocate-general, Brigadier-General Asa- hel W. Jones, Cincinnati; aides-de-camp, Colonels Lowe Emerson. Cincinnati; George P. Waldorf. Lima; George L. Couch, Wellington; Harry C. Sheward, Steubenville ; Charles E. Groce, Circleville; Moses H. Neil, Columbus; Samuel W. Trost, Cincinnati, and Henry B. Wilson, Ironton; Captains, J. B. Foraker, jr., H. D. Emerson and Walter Short. There were full brass and reed bands with the 1st. 6bh, 8th, 14th and 17th Regiments, and the entire force was uniformed and equipped according to the (rules of .the Regular Army. George' Garretson, the captain of the Cleveland Troop. is president of the Cleveland National Bank of Commerce. Jacob Perkins, a corporal, Is worth several millions of dollars. The commissary sergeant is Webb C. Hayes, son of the ex-President. Following is the detailed order of the regiments with their chief officers : First Regiment, headquarters Cincinnati, 400 men; Colonel Frederick W. Moore, Lieutenant-Colonel Morton L. Hawkins, Majors James Pettibone and Abe L. Whitney. Second Regiment, headquarters Kenton, 325 men; Colonel James C. Howe, Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred B. Probert, Majors Hiram F. Collins and Bryon M. Clendenning. Third Regiment, headquarters Covington, 310 men; Colonel W M. Williamson, Lieutenant-Colonel Harry H. Will- ,', Maiors Peter B. Rench and Ell Davis. ffi Ee^ment headquarters Cleveland 300 men; Matorf Tbaddeus16 R. ^Fleteher °»d H. A. Gultner Sixteenth Regiment, headquarters Sandusky. 300 men: Colonel Charles M. Keyes, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry S. Bunker, Majors M. B. Lemmon and E. B. King. Seventeenth Regiment, headquarters Columbus. 3oO 58 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. men; Colonel Edgar J. Pocock, Lleutenant-Colonel Cary W. Montgomery, Major Edward A. Beverly. First Regiment, Light Artillery, headquarters Cleve land, 250 men; Colonel Louis Smlthnight, Lleutenant- Colonel George Snltz, Majors Edmund C. Brush and Edward O'Dana. -?- MEN FROM THE OLD BAY STATE. The Massachusetts troops formed at Pearl and White hall sts., the Ancient and Honorable Artillery being the first to appear on the ground, at 9 :20 o'clock. Gen eral Banks was marching on foot, and looked as young and vigorous as he did ten years ago. At 11 :30 the line was formed, with Governor Ames at Its head, fol lowed by his staff, which consisted of General Dalton and Colonels Rotch, Hoar, Rockwell, Simpson, Welling ton, Weil, Barrett, Wallace and Menard. Colonel Cur rier was detailed on General Schofield's staff. Following marched the 1st Corps of Boston Cadets, who were the Governor's escort, Colonel Thomas F. Edmonds commanding. This corps was organized in 1741, and Is the oldest military body in the State of Massachusetts. The uniform of white coat, blue trousers and black hat Is particularly handsome and attractive. The staff consisted of Major George R. Rogers, Adjutant J. E. R. Hill, Quartermaster Charles C. Melcher, Surgeon William M. Richardson, Assistant- Surgeon Charles M. Green, Paymaster Charles E. Ste vens, and Inspector of Rifle Practice William O. Hayes, 2d. Next came the 2d COrps of Salem Cadets, who wore red coats, blue trousers and trimmings, black helmets and red plumes. They were organized In 1785, and had 199 men present. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Frank Dalton was In command, the staff consist ing of Major J. W. Hart, Adjutant Andrew Fltz, Quartermaster E. A Slmonds, Paymaster C. A. Maloon, Surgeon B. R. Symons, Inspector of Rifle Practice W. H. Merritt, Chaplain E. C. Butler. Then followed the 5th Massachusetts Regiment, with 800 men present, under command of Colonel Bancroft. On the staff were Lieutenant-Colonel Cross, Major WThltney, Major .Oakes, Adjutant Ballard, Quartermaster Barnes, Surgeon Foster, Assistant-Sur geon Hill, Paymaster Sutton, Inspector of Rifle Prac tice Robert Edes. Next came the Ancient and Hon orable Artillery, with General N. P. Banks at Its head, the staff being Captain James A. Forbes. Colonel Edward Wyman, Captains A A. Folsom, Will iam H. Cindy, C. W. Stevens, A. Whltamore ant' John Mack, and Colonel Henry Walker, chief of staff. The Massachusetts troops passed from Pearl-st. Into Whitehall and swung into line in fine style, show ing the training and efficiency of veterans, while the dense crowd which had formed at this point sent cheer upon cheer after them as they marched on up town. NEWrHAMPSHIRE AND HER QUOTA From the granite rocks of New-Hampshire came 1,200 boys In blue to swell the triumphal march. A sturdy, strong brigade they made, a wall that many a wave of steel might dash Itself against in vain. There were three regiments and an independent com pany In this command, the 1st, 2d and 3d regiments, and the Continental Guards, the latter, thirty strong, being dressed in the old Continental uniform of 1789. All three of the regiments were uniformed in tho regulation blue coat, trousers, with white facings, and black helmets and belts with brass trimmings. Colonel G. M. L. Lane commanded the 1st Regiment, with the following staff: Lieutenant-Colonel S. Cam- mon, Major P. A. Devlne, Adjutant F. Eaton, Surgeon J. Porter. Tbe regiment turned out seven companies strong, with about 550 men In the ranks. Colonel E. J. Copp was the commander of the 2d Regiment, his staff consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Metcalf, Major C. W. Stevens, Adjutant E. C. Flaxon, Surgeons George W. Flag and W. H- Na'»- Paymaster C. A. Roby and Chaplain C. S. J-olUns. This regiment also contained seven companies. comprising 400 men. The 3d Regiment was under thmcommand of Colonel J. N. Patterson his staff being Lieutenant-Colonel True Sanborn, Ma3°r N»*har. W Randlett, Surgeon I. A. Watson, Assistant Surgeon KR Moffatt, Paymaster G. R. Leavitt, Quartermaster H B. Silley, and Adjutant F. H. Hall. The 3d Regi ment paraded 300 strong, in seven companies Each regiment had an excellent drum and fife corps. TROOPS FROM MANY STATES. The State of Virginia was represented by 1,000 men, ana the appearance of both cavalry and foot was creditable to the Old Dominion. Governor Fltz Hugh Lee had an escort of the Stuart Horse Guards, about fifty strong, under the command of Captain Charles Euker. They were a well-mounted body of men in gray uniforms with yellow facings. A conspicuous organization in the detachment was the Richmond Light Infantry Blues in a picturesque uniform, a blue tunic, with white facings and silver trimmings, and patent leather helmet with white plume. This or ganization, which was formed In 1789, was under the command of Captain Sol Cutchins. The Stonewall Band, of Staunton, In scarlet tunics faced with gold, headed the Blues, who were about 200 strong. The strongest body numerically in the detachment was the 4th Regiment Virginia Volunteers, numbering about 750 men. The uniform of the regiment was the regulation gray tunic with white facings. The staff officers were Colonel H. C. Hudglns, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Smith, Adjutant J. S. Jenkins; Major C. A. Nash, Surgeon L. A. Biltsolt, Captain James H. Walker, Captain Samuel Hodges and Captain Washington Tay lor. THE, GREEN MOUNTAIN SOLDIERS. The Vermont troops were officered as follows : Brigade commander, General W. L. Greenleaf; as sistant adjutant-general, Lieutenant-Colonel M. D. Greene; assistant quartermaster- general, Lieutenant- Colonel William Smith; provost marshal, Major R. J. Coffrey; inspector of rifle practice, C. H. Spooner. First Regiment— Colonel J. J. Esty, Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. Kinsman, Major G. H. Bond, Adjutant J. AJ Lilly, Quartermaster C. H. Fuller, Surgeon J. C. Rutherford, Chaplain H. F. Hill. First Separate Battalion— Major J. C. Moulton, Adjutant M. L. Powell, Quartermaster E. C. Skinner, Assistant Sur geon W. R. Prince. One regiment was uniformed in light gray with white trimmings and the other in blue. The troops numbered about 700. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MILITIA. At 10 :15 a. m. Pearl-st. heard the muslo of the band of the District of Columbia as It headed the troops of the District, Colonel W. G. Moore command ing. His start was composed of Captain Harrison Dlgman, acting adjutant-general; adjutant, Captain C. C. M. Loeffler; quartermaster, A. W. Kelly; surgeon, H. E. Leech, and ordnance officer, Captain E. G. Wheeler. Behind the staff formed a battalion, Wash- Ington Light Infantry, commanded by Captain W: N. Dalton, a serviceable body that moved as If they knew what drilling was. They were uniformed In Austrian white tunics, with blue faotngs and gold epaulets, headdress of bearskin and light blue trou sers. »VThe battalion mustered 170 men. The re mainder of the Dlstrlot militia were the Corooran Cadets, Captain E. C. Edwards, In blue with white facings and a neat blue fatigue cap; the National Fencibles, Captain C. S. Domer, In dark green with yellow facings ; four battalions of District militia ; two colored companies, under oommand of Major P. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 5 9 C. Revells, In dark blue with buff facings, completed this force, which mustered a total roll of 700 men. A GOOD SHOWING FROM CONNEOTICUT. The Connecticut troops formed on Beaver-st., near Whitehall. Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley was at the head of the line. Accompanying him were the mem bers of his official staff, all mounted. They were Adjutant-General Lucius A. Barlow, Quartermaster- General William B. Rudd, Surgeon-General Henry Hungerford, Commissary-General E. S. Boss, Pay master-General Wallace T. Fenn. Aides— Colonel William C. Skinner, James T. Falrman and William 6. Chappell; Assistant Adjutant-General George M. White, Assistant Quartermaster-General Henry Morgan and Lieutenant Elmer W. Hubbell, 1st U. S. Artillery, specially assigned to the Governor's staff. The first company of the Governor's Foot Guard of Hartford were all tall and made a fine appearance. Their handsome uniform was a reproduction of the old British grenadier uniform. They wore bear-skin helmets scarlet embroidered coats, white duck trousers and velvet leggings. They were led by Major J. C. Kinney. The company consisted in all of 104 men. The 4th Regiment of the Connecticut National Guard formed next the Foot Guards. They wore dark-blue coats, light-blue trousers and leather leggings. The regiment's headquarters are at Bridgeport. The roll- call showed 550 members present yesterday. Colonel Thomas L. Watson commanded. The Lieutenant- Colonel was Henry Skinner and the Major was James C. Crome. TWO REGIMENTS FROM MISSOURI. Two regiments of the Missouri State National Guard were under the command of Governor David R. Francis, who was accompanied by the following staff : Brigadier. General J. A Wlckham, Adjutant-General; Brigadior- General'Lon V. Stephens, Generals J. M. Lewis and Charles Moffitt. Colonels John H. Garth, John Carroll, Winslow Judson and C. P. EHebre. The 3d Regiment, from Kansas City, preceded by Its band, headed the column, and showed 400 men in line. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Milton Moore. The regiment wore uniforms of dark blue with white facings, fatigue caps and black belts. Behind them formed the 1st Regiment, of St. Louis. It oonslsted of five companies, numbering 200 men, and was commanded by Colonel Charles D. Comfort. The men wore the Regular Army Infantry fatigue uniform of dark blue, with white facings, and fatigue caps, and presented a neat and soldierllko appearance. THE GALLANT MEN OF MARYLAND. The Maryland men made a fine appearance. Their gallant bearing, their soldierly stop, their even lines and their trim uniforms formed a pleasing and a Btirring picture, that compelled the admiration and applause of the multitudes of spectators from the starting-point to Fifty-seventh-st. Nearly every con siderable town in the State was represented In the Maryland contingent. Delaware's best foot forward. The 1st Delaware Regiment formed at Wljliam and Beaver sts. at 9 o'clock, taking up position behind the Naval Brigade. The regiment consisted of nine companies of infantry, and one company, Troop B. of cavalry, numbering In all 4r44 men. The troops were commanded by Colonel George W. Marshall, Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Kirk, Major C. M. Kerry. They wore the regulation uniform of the National Guard, black helmets, white gloves and dark unl. forms, with white stripes on the trousers. The fol lowing companies were in line : Company A, Wilming ton ; Company D, Dover ; Company B, Milford ; Com pany F, Wilmington; Company H, Newcastle; Com pany E, Wyoming; Company G, Georgetown; ComJ pany I, Laurel; Company C, Wilmington, and Cavalry Troop B, Wilmington. The 1st Regiment Band of Wilmington and the Wilmington Fife and Drum Corps. dressed in light-blue uniforms, led the troops. RHODE ISLAND'S MILITARY MEN. The provisional regiment from Little Rhody num bered, all told, 400 men. Their chief officers were as follows : Colonel William H. Thornton ; Lieutenant- Colonel James H. McGann ; Major J. Albert Brown ; Adjutant Arthur V. Warfleld; Quartermaster, Thomas Brady ; Surgeon George A. Brug ; Chaplain, the Rev. Thomas F. Doran. The 1st Machine Gun Battery was commanded by Captain W. Ely. The Newport Artillery was commanded as follows : Colonel Jere W. Horton; Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Brown; Major, G. C. Shaw. SOUTH CAROLINA'S BATTALION. Few regiments of its size attracted more attention than did the South Carolina battalion, commanded by Brigadier-General R. W. Richbourg, Major W. A. Metts, adjutant- general, second In command. The men formed in line in Stone-st., by the Produce Ex change Building. The .battalion Is made up of sev eral companies all having distinctive uniforms, flags and badges. The Washington Light Infantry, one of the oldest military organizations In America, led, and acted as a guard to the famous Revolutionary Eutaw flag, the only one now existing. A large number of bullet holes and a sabre cut are sewed with yellow silk, which on the blue field has a curious but interesting effect Henry Tovey, a veteran of the war, carries the flag and revels in the original title of "South Carolina's only private." The organizations present were the First Company, Governor's Guards, commanded by Colonel Wylie Jones; Washington Light Infantry, commanded by Major R. C. Gilohrist; the Marlon Rifles, commanded by Captain Pierre Wilcox ; the Richland Volunteer Company, Captain Charles Newaam; the Morgan Rifles, Captain B. C. Jennings ; Butler Guards, Captain E. Bacon ; the Lee Light Infantry, Captain G. D. Heath. The regiment numbered only 350 men. At 10:30 a. m. Governor J. P. Richardson, of the " Palmetto State," arrived in an open carriage with his aides, and was greeted with a " wild rebel yell" which startled several Union veterans who at once pro ceeded to make friends with their ancient foes. Cap tain W. V. Byrne, of the 12th Regiment N. G. S. N. Y., who was captured by the 2d Regiment, of South Caro lina during the late war, took from his breast a hand some bronze badge and pinned It among the many other medals which decorated the Governor. The ad jutant-general, Major W. A. Metts, received a slight Injury to his right leg and a few bruises by his horse slipping on a car-track and falling on him. THE BLUE GRASS STATE'S CONTINGENT. The Louisville Legion, 300 men, made up the de tachment from Kentucky. Governor S. B. Buckner was at their head. The officers were Adjutant-Gen eral S. E. Hill, Colonel John B. Castleman, Lieutenant- Colonel W. H. Coan, Major James P. Kelley, Adjutant J. B. Smith. The uniform of the regiment con sisted of a dark blue short frock coat, white trimmings, cross belt, light blue trousers and white helmet and plume. The musio corps numbered fifty-six men. THE TROOPS .FROM WEST VIRGINIA. The West Virginia militia marched down from the Germanla Assembly rooms and took up their ap pointed position on Pine-st. at 11 p. m. They made a most creditable muster of 200 men, looking smart in their State uniform and their well-kept accoutre ments. This regiment was commanded by Colonel I W A Ford, having for Adjutant Captain William Neill. It consisted of the following four companies: Ritchie Guard, Captain W. S. Hamilton; Golf Guard i Captain E. H. Lloyd; Hinton Guard, Captain H. S. Johnston; Jeffeison Guard,, Captain Wyatt. LOUISIANA'S CITIZEN SOLDIERY. The State of Louisiana was well represented In the First Brigade, mustering 180 men, who assembled In Platt-st., the right of line resting on Wllllam-st The troops were under command, of Brigadier-Gen eral Adolf Myer, with Colonel John D. Scott, chlef-ot- 60 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY'. staff of the First Military District, L. S. N. G. ; Lieutenant-Colonel C. L. Walker, adjutant-general; Major W. A. Brand, Major F. A. Eehan and Captain Edward ¦ Jonas as members of his staff. The line was headed by three batteries of the Washington Artillery, of New-Orleans, oue of the oldest artillery corps In the country, which saw service in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and the beautiful colors oi which bear the names of over fifty battles. The staff officers of the regiment in line were Lieutenant- Colonel J. B. Richardson, Captain E. R. Kursheedt, adjutant of the regiment; Captain J. H. De Grange and Captain Alfred T. Baker. The regiment mustered 130 men, including the band. In the rear of the Washington Artillery came the Louisiana Field Ar tillery, fifty strong, commanded by Captain W. H. Beonham. They were headed by the drum corps of Sedgwick Post, G. A R., and were a fine-looking body of men. THE NORTH CAROLINA MEN. The Governor's Guard, from Raleigh, N. C, muster ing 100 strong, formed an escort to Governor Daniel G. Fowle and his staff. The Governor rode at the head of the division In a carriage, with Adjutant- General J. D. Glenn and Quartermaster-General F. A. Olds. Captains W. B. Grimes and R. Percy Gray acted as aides, and Colonel John W. Cotten and Major E. G. Harnell were in command. The Edge combe Guards, of Tarboro, In light uniforms, followed the Governor's Guards. They were com manded by Captain W. J. Burnett. GOVERNOR LUCE HEADS MICHIGAN'S MEN. Governor Cyrus C. Luce commanded the Michigan detachment which, while not numerous, presented a fine appearance and was greeted with frequent ap plause. Governor Luce's staff consisted of Briga dier-General D. B. Ainger, Colonel J. S. Rogers, ad jutant-general; Major H. L. Rogers and Lieutenant F. S. Strong. The oolumn was headed by seventy cadets from the Orchard Lake Academy, under command of Major George Harvey. The boys looked soldierly In their handsome uniforms of light gray spike coats, white duck trousers, white helmets and belts. Thoy were followed by a company of the Detroit Light In fantry, which mustered forty-five men, commanded by Lieutenant H. B. Lathrop and J. E. Dupont. They wore dark-blue frock coats, and trousers with gold- lace facings, white fur shakos, and white belts. Their marching and drilling evoked loud applause all along the route. A RIFLE, COMPANY FROM FLORIDA. Florida was represented only by the Ocala Rifles, forty men, commanded by Captain G. Nash. Their uniform was a striking one, a light-blue coat with white facing and dark-blue epaulets, light-blue trous ers with broad white stripes, and a black helmet with dark-blue plumes. The men had a smart appearance, and were heartily cheered by the men of tlie 13th Regiment, of Brooklyn, who were halted next to them In Wllliam-st. THE GRAND ARMY'S PART IN THE PARADE. ABOUT 8,000 COMRADES IN LINE, INCLUDING THE BROOKLYN POSTS. Before 8 o'clock yesterday morning the several posts of the Grand Army of the Republic began to take the places assigned to them, In ranks, in the streets on either side of Flfth-ave., from Fifteenth to Twenty-first sts. Inclusive. Tno formations under the several division marshals were skilfully and promptly made, so that when the " assembly" sounded at 8 :30 Grand Marshal Walton was ready to move his command. The column moved down Flfth-ave., the carriage contain ing Department-Commander Harrison Clark and the National Commander-in-Chief, Major William Warner, leading. Then came the National and Department staffs: Eugene F. Woigel, Adjutant-General; Joseph Hadfield, Junior Vice-Commandcr-ln-Chlef ; Senior Vice-Department-Commander J. K. Hood; Jun ior Vice- Department-Commander W. L, Scott ; G. A. R. Commission and Council of Administration, Past Na tional and Department Commanders. New- York State Representatives of the G. A R., Henry E. Tumor com manding. The First Division came next. It was made up as follows : Robert J. Clyde, marshal ; band ; aides ; Dahlgren Post, No. 113; James McQuade Post, No. 557 ; guests of James McQuade Post, No. 557 ; John F. McQuade Post, No. 14, of Utica; George B. McClellan Post, No. 552 ; John A Rawlins Post, No. 80 ; Mitchell Post, No. 559 ; Horace B. Claflln Post, No. 578. Grand Marshal William P. Walton, the broad yellow sash of a major-general designating his rank, rode be- hind the First Division, accompanied by his mounted staff and aides. The other divisions then fell into line In the following order: Second Division— Alexander Newburger, marshal. Band. Aides. John A. Dix Post, No. 135 ; James O. Rice Post, No. 29 ; Gilsa Post, No. 264 ; Sumner Post, No. 24 • Noah L. Farnham Post, No. 258. Third Division— David S. Brown, marshal. Ban a. Aides. Peter Cooper Post, No. 532; Cameron Post, No. 79; Vet eran Post, No. 436 ; Phil Sheridan Post, No. 233 ; LIncola Post, No. 13; George G. Meade Post, No. 38; Vanderbilt Post, No. 138 ; William D. Kennedy Post, No. 42. Fourth Division— Samuel F. Pease, marshal. Band. Aides. Judson Kilpatrick Post, No. 143 ; Oliver Tilden Post, No. 96; Phil Kearney Post, No. 8; Adam Goss Post, No. 330; Naval Post, No. 516; Edward H. Wade Post, No. 620. Fifth Division— Henry Kloeher, marshal. Band. Aides. James Shields Post, No. 69 ; Edwin D. Morgan Post- No. 307 ; Horace Greeley Post, No. 577 ; Ellsworth Post, No. 67 ; Koltes Post, No. 32. Sixth Division— Charles F. G. Golden, marshal. Band. Aides. Fred Hecker Post, No. 408 ; Reno Post, No. 44 ; Alexander Hamilton Post, No. 182 ; Wadsworth Post, No. 77; Steinwehr Post, No. 192; John E. Bendix Post, No. 402. Seventh Division— John Payne, marshal. Band. Aides. Hans Powell Post, No. 68 ; Joe Hooker Post, No. 128 ; Guests ot Joe Hooker Post, No. 128 ; Garfield Post, No. 4, of New-Jersey; Farragut Post, No. 75; Thad. Stevens Post, No. 255 ; John A. Andrew Post, No. 234 ; General M. Corcoran Post, No. 427. Eighth Division— John Shotts, marshal. Band. Aides. Westchester County Association ; Daniel L. Downing Post, No. 365, Glen Cove, L. I. ; Richmond Post, No. 524, Pork Richmond, S. I. ; Ringold Post, No. 283, Hunter's Point, L. I. ; Ed. Huntting Post, No. 853, Orient. L. I. ; Farns- svorth .Post, No. 170, Mount Vernon, N. X. Ninth Division— Richard A. Banta, marshal. Band. Aides. Veteran Zouaves ; United States Army and Navy Veteran Association ; G. Van Houten Post, No. 3, De partment of New-Jersey ; Charles Russell Lowell Post, No. 7, Department of Massachusetts; Chaplain Butler Post, No. 35, Department of New-Jersey ; O'Rourke Post, No. 1, Rochester, N. Y. The line of march was part of that of the military parade, the Grand Army men, however, marching down. town. The veterans were continuously and heartily cheered all along the route, the head of the column resting at Murray-st. On reaching this point the command was formed in two ranks along Broadway, to await the passage o( the regulars and other troops. The Brooklyn posts, under command of Grand Marshal H. W. Knight, crossed tlie Bridge at 9:30 a. m., and marching through Chambers-st., and up Broadway, rested on the left of the New- York divisions, in a similar formation of two ranks. The number of Grand Army men in the procession was estimated at about 8,000. MEMBERS OF THE LOYAL LEGION IN THE RANKS. So many members of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion took part In yesterday's parade as officers of other organizations that It was not deemed feasible to attempt to make any special display as a separate organization. Nearly 100 members of the Order gathered about, noon, however, in the office of the United States Marshal, in the Federal Building, and afterward took the right of line of the veteran organizations. Colonel William C. Church, senior ^'Ice-commander of the New-York Commandery, was In command of tho battalion, with Colonel E. 6. Parker as chief of staff. Colonel John L. Broome THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 61 commanded the first company, and General Charles Carleton the seooud. Colonel Andrew Derrom, a veteran of seventy-two years, marched with the others, and there were representatives present from New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other States. Among others who marched were General Nicholas Day, Colonel F. L. Queralta, Colonel Timothy Quinn, and Major William H. Wylie, a great-grandson of the Major Wylle of the Revolution, who was one of tho leaders of the men who pulled down the statue of King George. The members of the Order marched in ordinary black frock coats, with their badges on their breasts, and presented a fine appearance. ON THE GRAND STANDS. Delaware 444 Pennsylvania 7,200 New- Jersey 4,000 Georgia 50 Connecticut 654 Missouri 600 Massachusetts 1,500 Maryland 600 South Carolina 360 New-Hampshire 1,280 Virginia 1,000 New-York 13,223 THIRD DIVISION. Grand Army of the Republic 8,000 WHERE MULTITUDES SPENT THE DAY. THE NAVAL CONTINGENT. The Navy Yard was the scene of great military activity and bustle early yesterday morning. Promptly at 7:30 o'clock Captain W. A. Kirkland, the Grand Marshal, with his eight mounted aides, led the Naval Brigade out of the east gate and Into Flushing-ave. The staff were: Ll&utenant A. C. Dillingham, adju tant-general; Paymaster E. N. Whitehouse, brigade commissary; Lieutenant Charles A. Adams, brigade quartermaster; Assistant-Surgeon A. M. D. McCormlck, brigade surgeon, and Lieutenants John Hubbard and Yorke Noel, aides. First in the line of march came the Marine Band of Washington, led by John P. Sousa. Behind the band matched the Marine Bat talion, 500 men, comprising detachments from the barracks and the ships, and commanded by Captain Charles F. Williams as colonel, with Lieutenant J. H. Pendleton as adjutant. The bat talion was divided Into ten companies of thirty-two flies and two file-closers. Following the Marino Battalion came the Training Station Band, from New port, R. I., and then the Battalion of Apprentices from the Training Station, fourteen companies and a bugle corps, headed by lieutenant-Commander E. Longnecker as colonel. Then came Conterno's Navy Yard Band, followed by the First Battalion of Sea men Infantry, which was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Harry Knox. This division consisted of four companies from the Boston, ons from the Minnesota, two from the Yantic and one from tho Essex. The drum corps frpm the New- Hampshire Trainlng-Shlp Squadron preceded the Seoond Battalion of Seamen Infantry, which came next, with Lieutenants-Commander Charles Belknap as colonel. There were eight companies in this bat talion ; one from the Brooklyn, one each from the Essex, Despatch and Kearsarge and two from the Chicago. The line of march from the Navv Yard was through Flushlng-ave. to Samds-st... thence 10 the Bridge, across which they marched to New- York, where they filed up Park Row to Wllllam-st, down Willlam- st to Beaver-st, and through Ihe latter street until the right of the line reached Whltehall-st., in front of the Produce Exchange, where the battalion was halted. ? THE NUMBER OF MEN IN LINE. FIRST DIVISION. West Point Cadets.... 400 United States troops.. 1,112 Naval Brigade 1,200 SECOND DIVISION. North Carolina .~ 150 Rhode Island 400 Vermont 700 Kentucky 300 Ohio 3,408 Louisiana 180 Mississippi 600 Michigan 115 District of Columbia.. 700 Florida 40 West Virginia 200 Total T.:.T.... .48,196 Adding to this the staff officers of the Commander- in-Chief, the Governors of States, division and brigade commanders, mounted standard-bearers and buglers, the grand total reaches over 50.000. A RICH HARVEST FOR THE PROPRIETORS— MANY DISCOMFORTS, BUT LITTLE GRUMBLING. The grand stand Is characteristically a nineteenth century Institution. It Is recorded that the Roman citizens climbed to their housetops to see Pompey pass, but it is not recorded that any citizen or any syndicate of citizens built grand stands along the route and sold choice seats at two sesterces apiece. But now the grand stand is a necessity to every kind of show, from a ball game to a centennial, and if one were to Judge by external appearances, the grand stand is the most Important feature In the present celebration. From the Battery to the Park there are grand stands and grand stands, little and big, high and low, and yester day every square Inch of every one of them had its occupant. It was estimated that half a million people sat on the soft side of pine boards the greater part of yes terday. Their eyes were on the glittering stream of waving plumes and polished steel that passed before them, their ears were ringing with the boom of a thousand drums, their baoks were against the knees of the people In the next row, and their dollars were In the pockets of the ticket speculators. And yet they were happy and they sat the show out to the end. There was not a cross or uninterested face any where in that vast island of spectators about which the current of the procession swirled at Union Square, or in the long valley of bright eyes through whioh the soldier hoys marched their prettiest at Madison Square, or in any of the hundreds of cataracts of humanity that were seemingly pouring down every stoop and over every balcony along each one of the weary miles of street and avenue. From 10 In the morning till 6 at night these stands were filled with laughing, shouting, cheering crowds. After they had sat until, like the ruslio wallflower at the village hall, they had " almost took root," and sitting had become a weariness to tho flesh, the whole congregation would rise and put Its weary limbs into all sorts of positions in tho effort to straighten them out again. These spontaneous uprisings of a laughing multitude had a most startling effect on the observer at first. Thoughts of falling stands, riots and all sorts of horrid possibilities ran through his mind, but he soon discovered that it was nothing but a general effort to straighten things out- The grand stand Is a species of architectural para site. It clings to anything that has the necessary solidity. It spreads over an open spaoe like a city square, or clings tenaciously to a balcony or bay-win dow, or flourishes in a oramped front yard with equal readiness. In whatever position it Is planted, the grand stand thrives, and yielus many shekels to its proprietor, if the weather is as favorable as It was yesterday. On a sunshiny day a stand, with Its sea of upturned faces and bobbing hats, is a thing of beauty and a joy for every beholder; but on a rainy day, like the 4th of March, it is a, wet, desolate and sloppy waste. These monster stands and monster processions that keep the ticket-holders In place nearly all day have created a new field for the fakir, or huckster. Men went into the stands wherever they could got through the police linos yesterday, and sold everything, from a Centennial programme to a glass of water. Sand wiches lemonade and fruit were rapidly disposed oi by crowds, who were willing to pay 5 cents for even 62 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. a glass of water. It Is a pleasing commentary on American character that, with all the crowding and massing of large numbers of people in these hasty structures yesterday, few accidents and no fights re sulted.LIVELY TIMES IN WASHINGTON SQUARE. EARLY THRONGS AT THE STAND— COLLISIONS BETWEEN" THE CROWDS AND THE POLICE. At 7 o'clock yesterday morning the immediate neighborhood of the Washington Square stand, on the Waverley Place side, showed signs of active life. Several hundreds of spectators had mounted the hard wooden seats, and a score of policemen were kept busy even at that early hour, answering questions and keeping the ever-Increasing crowd from being run over by the carriages and saddle-horses which were taken downtown by way of the parade route. The decorations In Washington Square were excep tionally fine. Mr. Rhinelandor's house, at Fifth-ave, and the Square, was surrounded on all sides by ter raced seats, and the private stands thus arranged for were almost hidden In bunting. The owner of the house entertained 800 guests. Immediately opposite ex-Mayor Cooper's house was elaborately adorned, and the seats under the canopies accommodated 1,000 persons. All of Waverley Place between Broadway and the square was occupied inside the stoop-lines by private stands, sumptuously adorned. The police protection was afforded by Captain Schultz, Sergeants Kelly and Barry, and forty-five men from the Thirteenth Precinct; Captain Copeland, Sergeants Bums and Granger, and seventy men from the Ninth Precinct ; Captain Brogan, Sergeants Thompson and Douglas, and sixty-five men from the Fifteenth Precinct, and Captain Beatty, Sergeant Ferris, and sixty-two patrolmen of the park police. The stand itself was in charge of C. E. Hall, assisted by Henry Tillinghast and Joseph Potter. Fifth-ave. coaohes brought down thousands of people In the morning, and the persons who were forced out of Broadway fairly swarmed Into the Square and were again driven by the police through the triumphal aroh in Flfth-ave., immediately above the Square. The crowd were Jammed into a small space and the police were oontinually busy keeping the motely assemblage from filling the street and storming the stand. The police lines at University Place were established at about 8 :30 o'olock, and after that there was an almost continual struggle between the officers and the people. Half a dozen men were clubbed and fights occurred every few minutes. There seemed to be danger of a riot, but fortunately the Grand Army began marching downtown through the Square at about 9 o'clock, and kept on continually for an hour and a half. At 10 :30 the head of the parade column approached the stand and the crowds were driven down Waverley Place by mounted police. At University Place they were halted by the police guards and a terrible tumult followed. The police were overpowered and a thousand people rushed down toward Fifth-ave. to es- oape the hoofs of the mounted patrol. Several people were knocked down, but luckily no one was Injured seriously. At this time the stand was crowded to Its utmost capacity and everybody of any prominence In the parado was hailed with cheers of delight. The specta tors went wild over the President, and cheers for every member of his party combined to oreate a perfect pandemonium. The commands which gained the favor of the crowd especially during the day were the West Point Cadets, the State Fencibles of Philadelphia, the Michigan Military Academy Cadets and the Veteran Zouaves. The Fencibles were bombarded with oranges, apples, bananas and sandwiches, until the street was littered with the remains of those offerings which the ioldler-boys did not succeed In capturing. A BRILLIANT BANQUET. TOASTS TO WASHINGTON, THE STATES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE A MASS OF BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS— ADDRESSES DELIV ERED BY PRESIDENT HARRISON. GOV. ERNOR HILL, EX . PRESIDENTS HAYES AND CLEVELAND. &¥TT« ERAL SHERMAN, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, SENATOR EVARTS AND OTHERS. The Inauguration Centennial Banquet, at the Metropolitan Opera House at night, was the crowning glory of the celebration of Tuesday. In tbe splendor of the occasion all the bitterness of personal feeling which bad been engendered dur ing months of rivalry in the work of preparation seemed dwarfed into insignificance or absolutely forgotten. It was worthy of the patriotic senti ment that perpetuates the memory of men of deeds and makes their names immortal. The grandeur of it reflected added honors upon the honored men who were gathered to pay tribute to the one man whose name and memory as soldier and statesman from the Nation's birth have been first in the hearts and minds of the people. The men who were gathered in the magnificent banquet-hall will meas ure the lapses of time in future years from that occasion as from an epoch. The set ting for the banquet was worthy of the occasion. The entire floor of the vast auditorium, which had vibrated the night before under the rhythmic movements of a thou sand waitzers, was covered with tables, some of which were arranged in the form of double mag nets, tbe President's table under tbe proscenium arch being directly in tbe centre at the apex of the converging ends. Smaller tables ranged in semi circles and crescents on both sides of the principal ones formed broken lines after tbe general ob long plan of the setting. The decorations on the tables, in front of the boxes of the lower and upper tiers and along tbe balcony rails were never excelled in magnificence in this or any other eity in this country. On the tables were mounds of lilies, set in large mirrors, resembling miniature lakes. At intervals were immense stands of hy drangeas, whose enormous blossoms almost soreenel a portion of the assemblage from view. In other places there were beds of pink and white roses, and occasionally the tall stems of oallas arose, allowing the beautiful blossoms to droop grace fully. Long lines of pink roses were {Trooped in festoons between the parterre boxes, and above the boxes on both tiers were immense bunches ot roses. At intervals around the balconies were shields and ooats-of-arms, eaoh wreathed with dow ers. From the centre of the dome was suspended an octagonal frame, from the points of whioh hung long pendants of roses entwined with laurel. In that part of the haU back of the proscenium aroh were festoons of laurel extending from the orange THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 63 and white canopies to the boxes of the dis tinguished guests. From the top of the proscenium arch long lines of laurel ran to either side of the stage in gracefully sweeping curves. Directly over the President's table under the arch hung suspended a large portrait of Washington, sur mounted by lines of laurel so closely interwoven as almost to constitute a curtain of green, screen ing from sight what would have been the unsight- liness of the clingy front of the arch. As one looked from the entrance to the audi torium from the main corridor the scene was dazzling in its brilliance. On every side were flow ers in such profusion that one could scarcely dis tinguish the dividing lines in the masses of color, so artisticaUy were the variegated blossoms blended by the decorator. Above, below and on all sides were hundreds of brilliant jets of light. Promptly at 9 o'clock Mrs. Harrison appeared in her box at the back of the stage, and as if by magic the boxes all along the tiers became filled with handsomely attired women and their escorts. Even in the balconies the ladies were in even ing attire, and the scene was a striking one. Thousands of jewels glittered when the women leaned forward from their boxes to hear the words of the men below. The speakers seemed stirred by the greatness of the events which had taken place during the two days of the Celebration to feelings which expressed themselves in words of profoundly impressive eloquence. Often it happened during the speaking that after a breathless hush there came a sudden outburst of voices, or a running clapping of hands. Then the sound of the ap plause died away as suddenly as it had arisen, and the attention of the people was directed with almost a fierce intensity to the words that went on to pay homage to Washington and the men who with him had laid the foundation for the mighty structure of the Nation. It was 8 o'clock when President Harrison en tered the banquet hall, leaning on the arm of Mayor Grant. At their appearance the band . struck up " Hail to the Chief," and those who had already taken their positions around the table greeted them with cheers. The President and the Mayor were followed closely by Vice-President Morton and Elbridge T. Gerry, Governor Hill, Justice Fuller and th- other guests who were to be seated at tbe President's table, walking arm in arm. The party walked around the riglrt-hand side of the oblong centre tables to their places under the proscenium arch. When all were in position, Mayor Grant rapped for order, and instantly the great hall was absolutely silent. In distinct tones the Mayor called upon Bishop Potter to offer grace, and when this brief invoca tion had been finished, the Mayor gave the signal and all the guests took their seats. THOSE AT THE TABLES. Following are those who sat at the President's table: PRESIDENTIAL TABLE. Tke President, Tke Vice-President, Chief-Justice of the U. S. General Schofield. Senator Evarts, Mr. Hayes, Bishop Potter, Beeretary Redfleld Proctor, leneral Sherman, The Mayor, The Governor, The Lieut.-Governor, Judge Charles Andrews, Admiral Porter. Senator Hiseock, Mr. Cleveland. Speaker Cole, S. S. Cox, Clarence W. Bowen, Here is a list of the names of those at the ban quet tables, as prepared and given out by the En tertainment Committee. It is possible that some of those whose names appear thereon were pre vented from coming by exigencies arising at a late hour, but it is as correct a list as could be made lust night under any circumstances : R. J. Cross, J. L. de Peyster, J. S. Crosby, L. H. Delatleld, W. H. Russell, E. Fawcett, T. J. O. Rhinelander, J. K. Oracle, P. L. Livingston, 0. Hewitt, P. F. Collier, J. Hone, jr., A. S. Carhart, D. G. Fowle. TABLE 1. H. A. Borrow9, E. M. Field, Howland Pell, James F. Burns, D. A. Clarkson, W. M. Polk, W. L. Bull, C. F. Choate, James Talcot, S. J. Colgate, J. H. Whitehouse, J. J. D. Dreher, J. D. W. Jones. R. W. Johnson. R. L. Banks, P. C. Lounsbury, R. Little, J. T. Lockman, Senator Higgins, H. G. Marquand, G. W. Boyd, W. W. Ellsworth, C. F. Mayer, W. P. St. John, F. W. Jackson, P. Calhoun, A. Iselin, jr., I. Iselin. TABLE 2. Alexander Knox, J. J. Brown, W. K. Borrowe, Percy Aidon, H. W. Bibhy, S H. Randall, G. E. Anderson, J. W. Auchlncloss, George Gregory, Lloyd Aspinwall, A. W. Drake, Geo. H. Hepworth, F. Anderson, W. 0. Buchanan, E. H. Ammidown, F. J. Bowman, J. L. Anthony, E. W. Donald, W. J. Martin, D. Robinson, H. Clark, Jos. L. Brent, W. H. Caldwell, E. E. Eames, G. E. Armstrong, S. M. Felton, T. J. Brady, Robert Schell, G. T. Bliss, c. H. Parkhurst, H.D. Auchlncloss, Francis B. Clark, TABLE 3. C. F. Baracy. H. L. G. Cannon, John M. Bowers. J. J. Astor, jr., S. B. Brownell, D. Houghtallng, J. H. Schlff, W. H. Clark, Theodore K. Gibbs, W. Kip, E. W. Seymour, Geo. W. Smith, A. Snow, Chas. S. Stedmanv Charles Smith, C. R. Flint, F. de P. Foster, J. W. Grace, G. S. Floyd Jones. George Richards, E. N. Tailer, C. S. Wescott, John Anthon, Alexander Brown. Arthur Glhnan, M. L. Ruth. J. H. Montgomery. J. F. Plerson, J. L. Montgomery. E. T. Lvnck. W. D. Guthrie, W. H. Menzles. Clarence McKim. Francis M. Jencks. E. H. Harriman. F. S. Witherbee. E. L. Montgomery. TABLE 4. G. 0. Magoun, D. B. Ainger, H. V. Newcomb, E. S. Wood, Robt. F. Weir, H. M. Sprague, Isaac Seligman, M. D. Russell, W. C. Sanger, W. H. Washington, Alfred Wagstaff. E. L. Rogers, H. W. T. Mali, J. G. K. Duer, C. A. Peabody, J. A. Davenport, Henry Clews, Austin Corbin, J. B. Talcott, John A. Stewart, D. Laing, TABLE 5. F. A. Schemerhorn, J. Livingston, Lewis G. Morris, B. Clarkson, W. B. Cutting, E. F. De Lancey, J.S.Van Courtlandt C. B. Hoffman, Adrian Iselin, T. Newbold, TABLE 6. R. Brandreth, W. C. Stokes, C. A. H. Barttett, F. P. Earle, E. L. Judson, TABLE 7. S. Goldberg, L. M. Lawson, H. H. Porter, Paul Dana, A. T. Sullivan, F. R. Appleton, J. C. Jameson, R. S. Church, James D. Glenn, A. P. Montant, O. L. Perkins, L. Fitzgerald. Chas. F. Robbins, Jos. D. Bryant, Geo. S. Field, Emil Schaeler, J. M. Varish, F. D. Weekes, P. H. Leonard, M. C. Michenor, J. W. McLanahan, F. R. Lawrence, Elbridge T. Gerry. E. F. Martine, J. S. Landon, W. G. Langdon, James V. Parker, A. C. Monson, William Tutle, Rldgeway Moore, L. C. Ledyard, R. O'Gorman, s*\ i~t T^nifljir John J. Freedman, John R, Fellows, G. L. Ingraham, Geo. P. Andrews, 0. E. Simmons, TABLE 8. P. S. Miller, John Lowery, Julian Potter, Douglas Robinson, F. Olarkson, F. W. Rhinelander. Morgan Dix, R T. Auchmuty. H. O'Donohue, A. B. Hilton. G. B. McClellan, Wm. H. Lansing. Thomas F. Gilroy, J. McCraye, C. F. McLean, William Murray, John R. Voorhis. S. F. Morris, E. G. Miller. J. O. Moss, S. L. Morrison, P. Henry Dugro, M. J. O'Brien, Joel B. Erhardt, J. C. Furman, Silas W. Burt, H. F. Kean, Ellis H. Roberts, Miles Beach, E. Dyer, 3d. Campbell Steward, George O. Munzig. TABLE 9. Rastus S. Ransom, A. R. Lawrence, Edward Patterson, S. W. Wood, John R. Brady, R B. Martine, C. H. Van Brunt. Frederick Smyth, TABLE 10. James T. Kilbreth, G. M. Van Hoesen. John Kean. jr., H. W. Allen, David McAdam, H. W. Bookstaver. H. A. Gildersleeve J. F. Daly, R. L. Larremore, 64 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. TABLE 11. G. W. Van NeslH. R. Beekman, George Gregory. Stephen B. French, Alderman Fitzslm- ons. Alderman Storm, Alderman Talt, Richard Croker, M. C. D. Borden, T. S. Brennan, Michael Coleman, James A. Flack, TABLE 12. Edmund 0. StantonJustice Strong, Stephen H.Olin, Wm. B. Beekman, Thomas Malilantl, W. E. D. Stoke», W. V. Judson Robert Goelet. Frederick Cook, Edward Wemple, L. J. Fitzgerald, C. W. Tabor John Bogert, M. O. Murphy, John J. Linson. O. D. Vedder, J. F. Pierce, Francis Hendricks, George 2. Erwin, C. A. Stadler, Hamilton Fish, Jr., John J. Ingalls, 0. F. Manderson, J. R Hawley, Henry L. Dawes, J. B. Eustis, W. Luttgen, Wade Hampton, Shelby M. Cullom, A. H. Colquitt, Anson G. McCook, Wm. C. Oates, Wm. P. Canaday, Chas. A. Russell. Henry S. Walker, A. S. Colyar, S. B. Elkins, Bishop Quintard, H. 0. Fahnestock, Joseph B. Foraker, Samuel Maverick, Henry A. Barnum, 0. E. Pratt, Horace Russell, John L. Webster, Henry Exall, Job A. Cooper, G. C. Webb, W. G. Hamilton, Chester Griswold, Rabbi Gottheil, D. Fearing, B. F. Tracy, Bleecker Biinka, John W. Noble, Stephen Peabody, John Wanamaker, John Litter, W. H. H. Miller, J. H. Choate. J. M. Varnum. C. N. Bliss, B. T. Biggs, J. R. Lowell, T. F. Bayard, C. W. Elliott, J. A. Beaver, John M. Daniels, J. W. Woodslde, 0. M. Depew. F. S. Talmadge, S. D. Babcock, Archbishop Oorrl gan, J. P. Richardson, Father McCloskey, James A. Hoyt, George Bancroft, O. S. Sawyer, R. 0. Winthrop S. 0. Eastman, R. W. Peckham, S. L. M. Barlow, 0. S. Falrchild, William W. Astor. TABLE 13. W. W. Mase, J. L. Aspinwall, J. G. Adams, W. W. Cheney, W. F. Sheehan, J. Blumenthal, John Connolly, H. J. Cogeswell, Bradford Rhodes, J. Sloat Fassett, William G. Rice, George B. Sloane, J. B. Ireland, TABLE 14. J. B. Pennington, R.H M. Davidson, William J. Stone, Chas. A. Boutelle, Chas. H. Gibson, William Cogswell, J. R. Whiting, A. M. Dockery, G. W. E. Dorsey, Oren C. Moore, James Buchanan, Charles S. Baker, Z. Smith, TABLE 15. Alvln .P. Hovey, C. Parker, jr., A. M. Palmer, John M. Turner, T. M. Miller. R. B. Harrison, R. R. Colgate, W. D. Pickett, John B. Drake, Pleasant Porter, R. W. Parker, T. S. Howell, E. C. Burleigh, TABLE 16. Jeremiah Rusk, J. M. Toucey, H. Van Dyke, J. G. Burbridge, Miles C Moore, J. D. Tredwell, R. A. McBrlde, Wm. Larrabee, John M. Evans, James Harlan, F. T. Dubois, Wm. Hoard, W. Hyndman, TABLE 17. Robert S. Green, John Hall, A. T. McGlll, Hannibal Hamlin, John B. Gordon, A. 0. Chapin, Charles E. Jones, J. H. Van Amrings M. G. Bulkeley, Henry Drlsler, TABLE 18, S. P. Nash, Fitzhugh Lee, 0. K. Adams, W. W. Crump, T. Dwight, John Hancock, William Goddard, Henry 0. Bowen, G. E. Ellis, Royal C. Taft, E. F. Rellly, J. A. Slevln, S. A. Walker, J. Bowers Lee, J. H. V. Arnold, T. 0. T. Crain, Justice Bradley, G. Morris, jr., Justice Blatchford, William Jay, Justice Field, Stuyvesant Fish, Frank S. Lusk, Luther Kountze, John E. Dooly, E. L. Winthrop, jr. Thomas E. Nowell, A. E. Orr, E. J. Wendell, Henry Parish, E. W. Wilson, Adolph Ladenburg, N. Stetson, W. T. Schaffer. A. Rowland, J. H. Outhwaite, Binger Hermann, Charles O'Neill, H. J. Spooner, William Elliott,. J. D. Richardson, W. L. Wilson, John T. Caine, J. B. Allen, Geo. S. Boutwell, Le Baron Colt, Daniel Ruppaner, Artemus Bibby, Henry w. LeRoy, David B. Francis, J. M. Montgomery, D. B. Armstrong, W. R. Stewart, James 0. Tappln, Theo. Roosevelt, 0. W. Fairbanks, J.T.Van Rensselaer G. 0. Luce, H. B. Ledyard, Horace Rubbe, W. H. Webb, J. S- Waterman, E. E. Anderson. Jacob Wendell, J. C. Carter, W. R. Merriam, Floyd Clarkson, Thomas Lowry, J. A. Cantor, Eugene F. Ware, J. W. Husted, W. B. Stone. John C. Kinney, John Jay, Oliver Ames, O. D. Warner, W. A. Tower, George Gray, E. E. Jackson, R. Stuyvesant, Albert Rltche, F. Van Lennen R. S. Storrs, Elisha Dyer, jr., B- 0. Washington, Simon B. Buckner, Brayton Ives, John O. Latham, H. G. Marquand, W. P. Dillingham, 0. B. Potter, J. G. Smith. F. S. Patton, J. 0. Calhoun, LeG. B. Cannon, G. B. Loring, H. L. Carson, F. A. Walker, TABLE 19. D. Butterneld, H. M. Grady, O. 0. Plnckney, D. G. Rollins, Thomas J. Ducey, R. P. Porter, C. F. Chandler, F. Thompson, H. H. Cammann, Warner Miller, 0. Parker, E. L. Godkln, George Janes, A. M. Wheeler, 3. W. Burges, G. P. Fisher, J. C. Fremont, D. C. Gilman, Paul L. Ford, W. S. Perry, Joseph H. Taft, J. H. Washburn, Cyrus W. Field, Thomas Stokes, T. O. Piatt, Lloyd S. Bryce, G. S. Bowdoln, F. Cromwell, W. Turnbull, B. G. Arnold, J. Laroco,ue, W. H. Husted, B. H. Bristow, M. J. Brophy, J. G. McCullogh, T. W. Chambers, John King, F. M. McAllister F. L. Stetson, J. M. King, P. T. Barlow, O. F. Krotel, W. G. Choate, W. H. Ward, A. W. Evarts, R. S. MacArthur, F. H. Smith, 0. H. Adams, Capt. W. 0. Beach, G. C. Genet, W. H. Gedney, E. Hendricks, F. A. Benjamin. E. M. L. Enters, A. Saunders, W. H. Bissell 0. Hauselt, J. B. Moore, R. Rutter, J. H. Davis, Jesse Seligman, G. Sherman, R. H. Stoddard, Wnt. Steinway, Gen. Dl Cesnola, John H. Inman, Charles P. Daly, M. D. Conway? H, G. Carleton, J. G. Wilson, PhilipJBchuyler, 0. H. Arnold, O. A. Seward, O. A. Peabody, jr., John S. Barnes, F. R. Coudert, Altred O. Cheney, Henry Erben, Loyall Farragut, D. Willis James, Ogden Goelet, S. Nicholson Kane, 0. 0. Baldwin, Edward Cooper, Peter Marie, W. R. Grace, Seth Low, W. H. Robertson, J. Hampden Robb. F. D. Tappan, J. C. Tomllnson, L. W. Winchester, H. Edwardes, William Wells, W. MacVeagh, Robert Adams. Carl Schurz, J. L. M. Curry, E. Pierrepont, Nicholas Fish, Whltelaw Reld. S. V. R. Cruger, Goorge Crook, O. 0. Howard, S. L. Clemens, Elihu Root, C. P. Bryan, J. H. Manley, E. Peaslee, Theodore Irwin, S. L. Woodford, G. G. Williams, Colonel Barr, E. F. Shepard. T. B. M. Mason, E. L. Viele, J. H. Starin, E. H. Fitler, Henry Hilton, Elijah Halford, H. C. Duval, William Wayne, W. C. Wallace, S. C. Cobb, J. A. Cockerill, Bishop Littlejohn, H. Watterson, H. O. Cabot, G. C. Eggleston, T. W. Dwight, TABLE 20. F. Kernochan, N. Niles, H. E. Howland, J. W. Brown, Mr. Legge, G. Waddlngton. John Duer, J. T. Hancock, T. L. Ogden, J. V. Rider, John Schuyler, W. P. Large, E. Schell, R. Lanborn, E. King, J. F. Weir, F. J. De Peyster, R. M. Hunt, J. W. Beekman, A. St. Gaudens, TABLE 21, S. M. Wright, J. J. Tucker, W. L. Strong, J. A. Stevens, T. W. Myers, A. Leary, John A. Weekes, E. H. Litchfield, Samuel Borrowe, George Bliss John H. Bird, Howard Crosby, Alex. J. Clinton, E. O. Stannard, TABLE 22. R. T. Davies, E. A. Cruikshank, Jos. O. Jackson, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Isham, T. 0. Van Bui-en, F. S. Mason, B. Winthrop, Franklin Edson, Alex. S. Webb, Henry L. Sloat, Thomas A. Emmet, George Wilson, Geo. H. Pendleton, TABLE 23. Jackson S. Schultz, C. W. Dayton, Josiah M. Fiske, J. D. Livingston, Thomas S. Moore, Clifford S. Sims, Erastus Wiman, H. H. Boyesen, Wm. E. Dodge, TABLE 24. F. Gallatin, John Cochrane, James M. Brown, Allan Campbell. V. M. Moore, J. H. Parker. John Jay Knox, E. V. Loew, Darius O. Mills. TABLE 25. Walker Blaine, A. T. Rice. Baron d'Almelrln. F. A. Sllva. Jose A. F. Da Oosti A. D. Claparede, Emllio E. Yaras. M. Mutso, H. W. Bowen, TABLE 26. James Howard, T. M. Vincent, L. A. Barbour, Horace Porter, A. D. Ayllng. R. 0. Drum. 0. A. Schermerhorn E. Johnson, G. G. De Witt, J. C. Beckwlth, A. G. Fox, W. M. Chase, John B. Pine, J. Q. A. Ward, G. E. Taintor, W. A. Coffin, W. Howe, C. F. McKlm, J. K. Tod, E. H. Blashfleld, W. H. Williams, W. H. Low, C. D. Miller, G. Beekman, M. Standish. John Claflin, J. M. Constable, R. H. Shannon, Wm. 0. Smith, A. 0. Pickering, Fred'k Potter, Wm. Salomon, Wager Swayne, W. A, Read, Sr. D. M. Romero, F. D. Thompson, James Stokes, L. Turnure. Jr.. J. M. Waterbury. W. E. Connor, Charles F. Allen, A. H. Smith, Morris K. Asch, Logan O. Murray, C. L. Tiffany, K. Twining, H. J. Holt, D. N. Cooler. Leicester Holme, Stanford White, F. L. Hall, Charles Harris. Gordon L. Ford, Richard W. Gilder, D. Huntington, C. H. Hart, F. Di Millet, George Bend, C. C. Beaman, 0. H. Russell, jr. De Lancey Nicoll, John F. Plummer, J. E. Simmons, John Sloane, James D. Smith, W. Stanton, R. T. Wilson, L. Stewart Pak 0. Yang, F. Lamnesta. Jose M. Hurtado, Mavroyenl Bey, Horacio Guzman, Stephen Preston, S. L. Dowers, John A. King. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 65 Samuel Dalton, Com. Ramsey. Josiah Porter, H. A. Axline. D. H. Hastings, W. S. Stryker, M. N. Bonham, jr.. R, S. Hayes, William Warner. S. B. Luce, G. G. Haven, R. R. Kinney, D. T. Worden, T. S. Peek. A. B. Gardiner, J. E. Jouett. The boxes were held as follows : PARTERRE BOXES. 6. 1. 9. 11. 13.15. 17.19. 21. 23.25. 27.29. 81.83. 85. Thomas Hitchcock, R. T. Wilson, James A. Burden, George L. and Ambrose C. Klngsland, William Astor, Ogden Goelet, Henry I. Rarbey, H. A. 0. Taylor, William D, Sloane, William G. Hamilton, Victor Newcomb, Chauncey M. Depew, Elbridge T. Gerry, 0. C. Baldwin, StuyvesaD-t Fish, Robert 0. Winthrop, Abram S. Hewitt, Hamilton Fish, 2. Clarence A. Seward, 4. J. Hampden Robb, 6. C. O. Iselin, jr., 8. James M. Varnum, 10. Byam K. Stevens, 12. Ward McAllister, 14. Henry Clews, 16. James H. Beekman, 18. William Jay, 20. Robert Goelet, 22. W. Bayard Cutting, 24. William W. Astor, 20. Luther Kountze, 28. James P. Kernochan, 30. Samuel F. Barger, 32. W. Seward Webb, 34. Adrian Iselin, 36. L. P. Morton. FIRST TIER BOXES. S7. S. B. Elkins, 89. Reserved by Opera House Co., 11. Mrs. Marshall O. Rob erts, 43. G. G. Haven. 45. 47. 49. 51.53.65.57. 69. 61. 03.65; 07.69. 71.73. James A. Hamilton, George S. Bowdoin, Egerton L. Wiruthrop, Frederick Sheldon, Edward H. Harriman, S. L. M, Barlow, S. V. R, Cruger, Mrs. Paran Stevens, A. B. Gardiner, Hugh J. Grant, Samuel D. Babcock, Mrs. N. Baylies, H. H. Anderson, Theodore W. Myers, W. E. D, Stokes, 38. John Kean, 40. Frederick J. de Peyster, 42. W. C. Schermerhorn, 44. Elliott and Theodore Roosevelt, 46. George L. Schuyler, 48. J. P. Morgan, 50. Robert L. Cutting, 52. Seth. B. French, 54. Frederick S. Tallmadge, 56. Cornelius N. Bliss, 58. Brayton Ives, 60. Henry G. Marquand, 62. Horatio B,. Potter, 64. John A. King, 66. George Barclay Ward, 68. Smith Cllft, 70. Clarence W. Bowen, 72. Alexander Brown, STAGE BOXES. The President A. The Chairman, B. General Fitzgerald, C. General Sherman, D. Mrs. McElroy, E. Mrs. Grant, F. R. B. Hayes, G. Grover Cleveland, H. Thomas I'. Bayard, I. Ex-Governors of New Tork, R. The Mayor, 8. The Governor, T. The Vice-President, J. Samuel Borrowe, K. John H. V. Arnold, L. The Secretary, M. The Lieutenant-Governor, N. Admiral Porter, O. The Committee of the House of Representa tives, P. The Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. Q. The Chief Justice of the United States, U. The Members of the Cabinet, V. The Committee of the United States Senate, W. General Schofield, X. Governors of States other than New-York. The menu, which was printed on plain card board, was as follows: Hors D'Oeuvres. Varies. Varies. Potage. Tortne Verte. Hors D'Oeuvre, Ohaud. Petltes Timbales a la Ministenelle. Poisson. Saumon du Kennebec, Sauce Hollanaalse, Pommes a 1' Anglaise. Salade de Concombres. Releve. IFilet de Boeuf Pique, Sauce Madere. Entrees. Rls de Veau a la Perigueux Champignons Sautes. ¦c,,Ha"?2^ V Becassines en Caisse. ^?f eo0l?*8prpB,dpn6B Aspics de Foies Gras, Parcele. Sorbet a la Presidence. Roti. Poulets du Printemps au Cresson. Salade Russe. Glaces Fantaisies. Petlts Fours. Gateaux Assortis. Pieces Montees. Mottoes. Fruits. Cafe. Liqueurs. Vlns. Haut Sauterne. Thompson Sherry. Chateau Leoville, Barton & Guestier. Moet & Ohandon, White Label Irroy.G. H. Mumm, Extra Dry, Giesler, Green Seal. Romane Count! Burgundy. Fine Cognac. Russian Kummel. Chartreuse Jaune. Apollinaris. Jules Mumm, Grand Sec (in reserve) THE LIST OF TOASTS. This is the programme as arranged by the com mittee for the address of welcome and the toasts : 1. ADDRESS OF WELCOME. DAVID B. HILL, Governor of the State of New-York. The State of New- York welcomes to-day the Execu tive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the National Government, and the representatives of forty- two States; as a century ago she welcomed Washington, his Cabinet, and the Congress of the old Thirteen, which in this city added the bill of rights to the National Con stitution. May our fidelity to that Constitution so guard the rights of both the States and the people to civil and religious freedom, and to republican govern ment based on universal education, that the centuries as they pass may swell our acclaim, God Save the Amer ican Republic 1 JOHN JAY. 9. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 3. THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. GROVER CLEVELAND. Ex-President of the United States. Not a mob, nor an oligarchy, nor a class ; but the great force of American patriotism, conscience, intelligence, en ergy and industry, the only sure foundation of States, the sole hope of the Republic; of which George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the truest types In American history. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. 4. THE STATES FITZHUGH LEE, Governor of the State of Virginia. Daughters of Liberty, born amid the throes of Revolu tion, thirteen clinging to the Atlantic have become forty- two reaching the Pacific. The century leaves them as it found them, an Indestructible Union of indestructi ble States. WILLIAM WIRT HENRY. 5. THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief-Justice of the United States. The consummation of former political wisdom, the trust of the present age, the guide for all coming nations. GEORGE BANCROFT. 6. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. JAMES G. BLAINE. Secretary of State. The first branch of Congress provided for in the Con stitution, and the subject of the only speech in the Con vention made by Washington. In the language of George Mason, "the grand depository of the Democratic prlncl- pie of the Government," to which has been assigned a full, coequal share in the National legislation, together with the sole power of impeachment, the origination of all the bills for raising revenue, and in the last resort, the choice of the President of the United States. The vital ele ment of our Republican System, without which there can be In the words of Abraham Lincoln, no "Government of' the People, by the People, for the People.- May its rightful authority and dignity ever be main- tained and upheld, both by its own officers and ™mhOTs and by the millions of voters whom they are privileged ^renresent ROBERT C. WINTHROP, Senior Surviving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. 7. THE SENATE. JQHN w ^^ United States Senator from Virginia. An elective body dependent upon no prerogatives ol t, tT„uv Church or Descent. Able in its statesmanship. 1*^*" ^ ^lslatlve ana execfr *": Uons *<> — distinguished of all legislative bodies, anfl Tb^wark in defence of our^testitutlons.^^ Soie surviving ex-Viee-President of the United States. 66 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY 6. THE PRESIDENCY. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, Ex-President of the United States. May the good people of these United States never weary of searching for a second Washington to fill the place. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 0. THE JUDICIARY. WILLIAM M. EVARTS, United States Senator from New- York. A learned, upright and fearless Judiciary is the strong bulwark of Constitutional Government. Without such Judiciary no free institutions can exist; with it they will not perish. So long as the spirit and example of Marshall and Taney. Kent and Shaw, pervade and inspire our courts, liberty in law shall abide with and bless the land of Wash ington. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MILLER. Attorney-General of the United States. 10. THE ARMY AND NAVY. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, General. In four wars each has done Its full duty in the creation, defence, enlargement, and preservation of our Nation ; but the dignity of our country retiuires renewed attention to the farewell counsel of Washington, so that international emergencies may be met without hasty and inadequate preparation. ROBERT T. LINCOLN, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Gieat Britain. 11. OUR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. CHARLES W. ELIOT, President of Harvard University. Established by the wisdom and foresight of the founders of our Nation ; the support and stay of civil and religious liberty; they should be jealously guarded and fostered as Uie dispensers of virtue and intelligence, on which depend the welfare and perpetuity of our Republican institutions. HENRY DRISLER, Acting President of Columbia College. 12. OUR LITERATURE. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The welfare of a people, small or great. Depends upon the State, Whose ample laws they justify, because They help to shape those laws. Their glory rests on letters, which create A more enduring State ; For what is best remembered among men Is not the sword, but pen. RICHARD HENRY STODDARD. 13. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- BENJAMIN HARRISON, President of the United States. Sceptres and thrones the morning realms have tried ; Earth for the people kept her sunset side. Arts, manners, creeds the teeming Orient gave ; Freedom, the gift that freights the refluent wave, Pays with one priceless pearl the guerdon due, And leaves the Old World debtor to the New. Long as the watch-towers of our crownless Queen Front the broad oceans that she sits between, May her proud sons their plighted faith maintain. And guard unbroken Union's lengthening chain,— Union, our peaceful sovereign, she alone Can make or keep the Western world our own I OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. During the banquet there were many expressions of regret at the enforced absence of Secretary Blaine, who was detained in Washington by illness. An attempt was made by tele graph to persuade him to transmit his response to the toast to which he had been assigned by wire, but it failed, Mr. Blaine not being well enough to comply with the wishes of the committee. Mayor Grant presided with grace and dignity. WELCOMING THE GUESTS. Shortly after 10 o'clock, when the fragrance of the cigars was struggling for ascendency with the heavy perfume of the flowers which flanked the balconies, Mayor Grant arose to announce the toasts. The Mayor, in a voice that was dis-i linctly heard in ali parts of the house, announced ttutt in tue older ox exercises the fuse feature would be an address of welcome to the guests by Governor Milt, lie read the sentiment attached. to tbe toast clearly and distinctly, and was heartily applauded as be sat down. Uovernor Hill was warmly received and spoke as follows: Fellow Countrymen: As the Governor of the State wltniu whose ooi-uers were heard the acclaims whioh greeted the nrsc President's oath of allegiance to the t>unstituuon, i extend, a welcome to all here assembled. Weiconie to jou, President Harrison (applause), latest of true line ot those distinguished men who have given the same guarantee of obedience to the charter oi our liberties and lalthfulness to the rights of the people. Welcome to your honored Cabinet (applause), and to those chosen representatives of all the sister States, whose presence here speaks anew the grandeur and greatness of our United States. (Applause.) Welcome to all in authority — legislative, executive or judicial, civil and military— who, in their station, with honor and justice, are daily serving our common country. Welcome to ail the ambassauors of other nations (applause) who participate with us In these festivities. Welcome, strong and brave men, sons of fathers who yielded life, who sacrificed fortune, who endured severest privation, that we might re joice in liberty. Welcome, fair and true women, daughters of mothers who gave patriotic encourage ment in days of darkest distress ; who willingly de voted themselves to suffering that the infant Republlo might be sustained. (Applause.) Welcome those, from whatever clime, who have become part of our people, and who have contributed their share In maintaining the purposes and Increasing the glory of our Commonwealth. Welcome to all— citizens- strangers— friends. (Applause.) Our display upon the ample waters of this harbor, our parades in the broad streets of this city, our re joicings in this banqueting hall, commemorate not only the fame of a great prince among men, not only the victories of a great captain among warriors, not only the deeds o£ a great statesman among patriots. Thlese exultant sights and triumphant sounds com memorate such fame and victories and deeds, but they commemorate far more. They commemorate the na tivity of a heaven-born republlo among the nations of the earth. (Applause.) They commemorate not a government founded upon the Magna Charta extorted from a King John by a compelling band of nobles, not a government founded upon a written freedom bestowed by an Emperor on an emancipated race of slaves, but a new and complete creation of govern ment, resting strong and secure upon foundations that shall last as long as virtue, honor and courage live among our people— a government of the people, by the people and for the people, which shall not perish from thb earth. (Applause.) The Doges of the anoient republlo of Venloe es poused with ceremonious rite the waters of the Adrl- atlc. Our first President, in this, then as now, chlef- est city of the New World, with hand uplifted, wedded to the free air of hteaven his vow for this land of ours, and in his recorded oath pledged that, with the help of the God of Nations, he would uphold the lib erty once proclaimed, and now established for all the people. (Applause.) These religious ceremonies, these arches of triumph, =™™ b?nnere, unfurled, these treasures of art. these l^SL i, prals,e', the?e Pageants of industry, these S BS°S reJ0'oln?' 1" which we of this generation rrf^t ™i«par\a5 cel6t>rate the giving and the taking sh»n L » T,? fle^ge.u My best greeting at this hour nr? wb >fn^bUteT,;0,tne °"aracter of him whose mem- Thereat S 6 you tnese exPresstve words of The character of Washington has, after all, been under- valued, because not valued correctly. He was a proper Puritan hero. It is his erectness and persistency which attract me. A few simple deeds with a dignified silence Ha nr-ver fluctuated, nor lingered, nor stooped, nor swerved, but was nobly silent and assured. He was not the darling of the people, as no man of Integrity can ever be, but was as much respected as loved. (Applause.) THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 67 His instructions to his steward, his refusal of a crown, his Interview with his officers at the termination of the war, his thoughts after his retirement, as expressed in a letter to Lafayette, his remarks to another correspondent on being chosen President, his last words to Congress, and the unparalleled respect which his most distinguished con temporaries, as Fox and Erskine, expressed for him, are refreshing to hear in these unheroic days. His behavior in the field and in council, and his dignified and contented withdrawal to private life were great. He could advance and he could withdraw. (Applause.) No words which I can supplement to these can brighten the lustre environing the name and fame of that American whose virtues we to-day affectionately, Justly and proudly exalt. VISIONS OF FUTURE NATIONAL GREATNESS. What visions of future greatness and prosperity for this broad land of ours open up before us as we con template the growth of our free institutions since they were founded by the patriots of a century ago. Generations yet unborn will share the glories and blossings of the beneficent and Imperishable Govern ment transmitted to us and them by our Revolutionary sires. What glorious memories cluster around this centennial day I Day of a hundred days. Day of a hundred years, One cry of Welcome all our voices raise As the young century appears. Hail greatness yet to come. Hail millions yet to be. The heroes of the American Revolution are now departed. That age of pre-eminent creative genius has passed away. But the country which their valor, statesmanship and patriotism saved and estab lished still proudly exists, enjoying the blessings of civil and religious liberty, augmenting in population. Increasing in resources, strengthening in power. (Applause.) It is a prosperous, happy, indivisible Union. Its contented people are reaping the ad vantages of laws made by themselves, well and honestly administered. The sentiments of every true American are expressed in the hope that faction may not destroy, that pride may not injure, that corrup tion may not undermine, and that sectionalism mav not divide this fair Republic; but that its borders may still further be extended, Its commerce mav float upon every sea, the stairs upon lis flag mav be trebled. Its free institutions may live on and flourish, and its liberty-loving people may continue to work out the problem of self-government so long as freedom Itself exists, and until time shall be no more. Keep, God, the fairest, noblest land that lies beneath the sun— Our country, our whole country, and .our country ever one. The toast " George Washington" was drunk in silence as the guests stood. The Mayor simply announced the theme and sentiment of the toast, closing in each case by naming the speakers. MR. CLEVELAND'S ADDRESS. Here is what ex-President Cleveland said, in part, in response to his toast: The mention of a people may well suggest sober and impressive reflections. The subject was not beneath the Divine thought when the promise was given ^to the children of Israel, "I will take you to Me for a people, and I wiU be to you a God." This idea of Divine relationship to a people Is also recognized rn the fervent utterance. ^Yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord." *,«,«-. In sublime faith and rugged strength, our fatheis cried out to the world : " We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, estab lish Justice, Insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and se cure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos terity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Thus "our people' in a day assumed a place among the nations of the eartn. Their mission was to teach the fitness of man for self- government, and their destiny was to outstrip every other people In national achievement and material greatness. (Applause.) One hundred years have passed. We have an nounced and approved to the world our mission and made our destiny secure. I will not tamely recite our achievements. They are written on every page of our history, and the monuments of our growth and ad vancement are all about us. But the value of these things is measured by the fulness with which our people have preserved their patriotism, their Integrity and their devotion to free In stitutions. If, engrossed In material advancement, or diverted by the turmoil of business and activity, they have not held fast to that love of country and that simple faith in virtue and enlightenment which con stituted the hope and trust of our fathers, all that we have built rests upon foundations infirm and weak THE STRENGTH OF THE REPUBLIC. Meeting this test, we point to the scattered graves of many thousands of our people who have bravely died in defence of our national safety and perpetuity, mutely bearing testimony to their love of country and to an invincible living host standing ready to enforce our national rights and protect our land. Our churches, our schools and universities, and our benevo lent institutions, which beautify every town and hamlet and look out from every hillside, testify to the value our people place upon religious teaching, upon advanced education, and udou deeds of charity. (Ap plause.) Surely such a people can be safely trusted with their free Government ; and there need be no fear that they have lost the qualities which fit them to be its custodians. If they should wander, they will return to duty in good time. If they should be misled, they will discover the true landmarks none too late for safety ; and if they should even be corrupted, they will speedily be found seeking with peace offerings their country's holy altar. SCOPE OF THE WORDS "OUR PEOPLE." Let us then have an abiding faith in " our people." Let petulance and discontent with popular action dis appear before the truth that In any and all oJroum< stances the will of the people, however it may be exercised, is the law of our National existence— the arbiter absolute and unchangeable by which we must abide. Other than existing situations or policies can only justify themselves when they can be reached by the spread of political intelligence and the revival of unselfish and patriotic interest in public affairs. Ill-natured complaints of popular Incompetency and self-righteous assertions of superiority over the body of the people are Impotent and useless. (Applause.) This oentennial time, which stirs our pride by leading us to the contemplation of our tremendous strides in wealth and greatness, also recalls to our minds the virtues and the unselfish devotion to principle of those who saw the first days of the Republic. Let there now be a revival of our love for the principles which our country represents ; let there be at this time a new consecration to the cause of man's freedom and equality and a quickened sense of the solemn responsibility assumed before the world by every man who wears the badge of " our people." (Applause.) The future beckons us on. Let us follow with an exalted and ennobling love of country and with un daunted courage. Though clouds may sometimes darken the heavens, they shall be dispelled; and wa shall see the bow" of God's promise set clearly in the skv, and shall read beneath it, blazing in radiant characters, the words " our people." (Continued ap plause.) WORDS OF CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER. When Chief Justice Fuller arose he said in part.-i It was Indeed a consummation, the result not sim ply of the particular exigency, but of that gradual growth which, having its roots in the past, develops into the product that endures. The men of thle con- venfon knew that the realization of ideals is the work of time, and whatever speculative views of govern ment or of freedom they entertained, they did not attempt to carry them in expression to their logical conclusions. They had confidence that the general nrinciples they accepted as fundamental, being de clared might safely be relied on to work out the prac- «cal ends3 desired. They were familiar with he leagues, the confederacies, and the councils of the ancients, the association of communities of more mod em time's, the great steps in the progress of English liberty from Magna Charta to the Act of Settlement, 6f THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. and still more thoroughly with the experience of the colonies and of the States, of the New-England con federation, the various Congresses, and the confedera tion of thle United States, a part of which they had been, while years of keen discussion of the science of government and of ardent devotion to the cause of liberty had stored their minds with doctrines and fitted them for their great task. (Applause.) THE EXAMPLE SET BY THE PILGRIMS. To determine a form of government by written fun damental law was no novelty to them. The covenant of the Mayflower had set the example, and all the States but two then had, as all have now, constitutions defining the respective rights and duties of the citizen and of the authority over him. But to fashion the Instrument which was to create a nation out of the people of free and independent States, and at the same time In terms to interpose barriers against the Invasion of rights, and reserve to the peo ple and the States, respectively, the powers deemed essential to their preservation, without impairing the efficiency of the central authority, this demanded un equalled patience, sagacity, moderation and wisdom. That patience, that sagacity, that moder ation, that wisdom, signally exhibited In general, was especially illustrated in his character and conduct whose inauguration we celebrate to-day, the swelling theme of the launching of the great Republic being well nigh lost in the recollection and contemplation of the virtues of its first and grandest leader. To Washington's prophetic eye thle glories of the future had long been unveiled. dependent for realization upon the success of states manship in the work of construction, entered on at his suggestion, and carried to completion under his direction. His full anticipations he was not called on to disclose. The equable and steadfast tenor of his mind was exemplified in his well-known exclama tion : " Let us raise a standard to which thle wise and honest can repair; the event Is In the hand of God." (Applause.) KEEPING PACE WITH THE EMPIRE. For the flexibility of unwritten constitutions there was substituted here not merely » mode of altera tion when sanctioned as prescribed, but through the simple generality of the terms employed, an elasticity enabling the fundamental law to develop with the progress of the people, as the inexorable logic of events influenced its provisions or judicial interpre tation expanded them, not so as to impair the vital rule, but to permit its adaptation to the new condi tions. (Applause.) Thus keeping pace with the onward sweep of the empire, wliich it rendered possible, this matchless instrument vindicates its title to immortality. The conservative evolution that characterizes it has en abled it to pass the century since Its birth, with its machinery, no cog or wheel displaced, still noise lessly and easily working; to receive direst amend ment, to accept and absorb the results of frequent construction ; to emerge from civil war, drawing new vigor from the strain to which It had been subjected— Per damna, per caedes, ab ipso Ducit opes aiiimumaue ferro. Well may the venerable historian, whose years nearly erjual the life of the Nation, desoribe the Constitution as not only the consummation of political wisdom In the past, but the trust of the present; and well mav we hope with him that coming nations will avail themselves of the teaching that Its oentury of success ful operation affords, as will, we trust, succeeding centuries of progress, and In the recognition of man's capacity to observe self-imposed limitations .accel erate the time when the whole world shall be wrapped In the peace of one dominion. (Hearty applause.) SPEECH OF MK. HAYES. Ex-President Hayes was greeted warmly when he responded to " The Presidency." This is a part of his speech: Mr. President and Gentlemen : In this city, In 1839, on the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of Washington as President, John Quincy Adams delivered a memorable dlsoourse. In It ho set forth what he deemed the true principles of the Constitution on the then unsettled question of the relation between the States and the General Government. With a fulness of information which, perhaps, no other man could marshal, and with a faultless logic, he showed that the Declaration of Independence, In terms and in fact, was the act of a single people dwelling in thirteen colonies, but who united together, out of a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, declaied the causes which impelled them as " one people to dissolve the political bonds which had connected them with another." He showed that the articles] of confederation departed from the firm and safe con cord with which independence was declared, and " re laxed their union into a mere league of friendship DBtween sovereign and Independent States." In spite of the defects of the articles of confedera tion the spirit of liberty and the popular Impulse to unity carried the Americans through the war as one people and the cause of independence was triumphant But now came the gravest perils. The danger of conquest by British despotism removed, ¦' the Union languished," says Mr. Adams, " to the point of death." " There was," he says, " avowedly no executive power." Indeed, he went further and declared that " the one united people had no Government." And he was altogether right. Where there is no executive power, whatever else they may be, there is no government. Hence, when the fathers met in that great conven tion which Washington suggested, and which he In truth more than any other man called into being, no more difficult or weighty duty devolved upon them than wisely to constitute the chief magistracy— the Presidency— for the republic they were about to establish. Now what shall be said of their work! Speaking under the necessary limitations of this occasion one must avoid details and all attempts at elaborate dis cussion. No candid and intelligent retrospect of the century that is gone will fail to discover tran scendent merit in the executive authority contrived by Washington, Hamilton, Madison and their im mortal associates. (Applause.) The tree is known by its fruit Experience has shown that In ordinary times the executive power is of no greater Importance rperhaps it is less vital— than the legislative or thB^ptL,?!^1'- +,Indeed, so happily constituted is the Presidency, that we must say of each of the ttenD r'ha?^Sid6ntl^eiections under the Constttu ISfl' +1,^ 6It5ei °.andidate might have been elected and the good citizen whose partisan feeling was strongest and whose disappointment waT Mt teres? aithou^hPOrnev°S^s P,1110^ oonsoled ^ the rXcfon (Applause.™* P y iS b6aten' my country is safe! fa«hSinnOrtn0tw'U.6 tha,t- °"r Executive authority is so fashioned that in ordinary times it has alwavs bpen Strtaent?*"^01** "^Republic has rec&To threaten wher,^6^ g gantlo perils and disasters LZ'/iK extraordinary character and powers are demanded, these great occasions have alwavs found fS?Sn handS t0. dea< wlth them To piTo7 the nn anddstom^nStnti?JtS Frst v0^e overan unsown ouarte? wJmAcT'*11011* a whlsPer of dissent in any underhim ?£« «gt0n was called to the helm, and Hiat th^™LnliSKV?Jaee Save the world assurance newer Jff£^«0t &B ?6? Natlon for growth, and bv that nf ^n-f^6 and happiness was unmatched (Applause ) V P P e the World had S6en b6fore- Only twice within the century since our Govern- nX' ro^the^T,?11 has ieadly Peril stemed to°draw beSnnintr l0?^P,J6 0f the United states. At the SSv.,! haT.e seen' armed wlth the orderly fhreatened^d^S^5^11 VoweIS °J the Presidency, the Imtf™ A^T,gw was met and overcome by Wash- of the'se^fS "..J? „we were approaching the mldd'e seem as If w« ™i °^'F of the Constitution, it dirt on ?r,w»^ 1,1 ^ere drlftlng-nay, as If we were swept thVC?/W!\ 0ur frfends ™ other lands- alone Tm^n,, ^r?3'^*0136- John Br,Sht was ^most alone among great statesmen with h's inspiring con- ofTohrT rXm1?86-! tn Am.erlca sha» °e the My or John Bright ! Those not our friends and vet not U strange IhTZ' ^ ^eiF *eL* and K Our S« M e„C0rld. not. see ^e inevitable end. Sal^^^lbtl^R'ep^'c^ura"1 eXPl'eS3,0n' ** PRAISE, FOR PRESIDENT LINCOLN. In that dread time to what department of our Gov ernment did we look? The judge, calm, impartial and wise, could Interpret the Constitution and the laws. But the sectional passion and madness of the hour-would it heed him, The Senator, far-seeing, patriotic and solicitous, what laws could he propose THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 69 to meet the urgent need of that time? In the legis lative halls, as in the court-rooms, everywihere was clearly written the awful sentence. Inter arma silent leges. "In the midst of war the laws are silent." Happily for America, In conformity with tho Constitution, and by the gracious favor of Providence, the Presidency of the Tjnited States was held by Abraham Lincoln. (Hearty applause.) We can truly say of the Presidency that the results of twenty-five consecutive terms have vindicated the wisdom of the fathers who established It. (Applause.) Of twenty-two terms there are two things that may be said : One is that no great remedi less harm came through the executive power to the people it was intended to serve. The other is that If no eminent historical benefit, lasting through the ages, was conferred by most of them, It was perhaps because the opportunity for illustrious achievement did not oc cur. But during them all the Nation, hy Its inherent resources and energy, pushed rapidly forward in a career of unparalleled prosperity and happiness, unim peded by executive crimes or blunders. Finally, during the critical and anxious years of the other three Presidential terms tho opportunity came to America and she gave to the world two Chief Magis trates whose character and deeds, unrivalled in human annals, were crowned by a devotion to country and mankind which enabled them to. furnish an example of Independence of personal advantage and of selfish love of power, of wealth and of title, either for them selves or their families, absolutely unknown before in the history of the rulers of the world. By their ad ministration of the Presidency, Washington and Lin- ooln made the great office, and the century whose com pletion we celebrate, forever illustrious. (Applause). REMARKS BY SENATOE EVARTS. When Mr. Evarts had bowed his acknowledg ments to the applause with which he was received, he said in part: Mr. President: Whoever might receive the honor from your committee to speak in this presence and upon this occasion, might well wish that he could command some treatment of his theme that in thought and phrase would comport in some degree with the granaeur of this celebration and the dignity of the topics that should merit our attention. But this hope would be in vain ; the concourse of these vast crowds of our countrymen that have filled the great city through these successive festal days, the pomp and splendor of the pageants of the Bay and of the streets, the illustrious assemblage of the great heads of government oil the Nation and the States ; the collected multitude of eminent men of all pur suits and all opinions of a populous, a prosperous and a powerful people— these are the true orators aud Interpreters of the Nation's sentiments, of the Na tion's joys and hopes at an epoch which recalls the past of a century and suggests the forecasts of another. Still, Mr. President, the noble company of the banquet table are gracious enough to allot a few moments to each of your generous list of speakers for some fleet ing illustration or enlivenment of the urgent mo tives and the profound views of human affairs which concurred to build up and confirm the consti tuted liberties of this people. It might be thought that the judicial establishment of the new Government might easily find in the method and example of English judicature and juris prudence a ready aud complete frame and system for the young Nation. The great steps already secured in the mother country, by which an Independent and permanent and upright judiciary was our rightful Inheritance, the trial by jury, the public conduct of all judicial proceedings, the habeas corpus and amena- bllity of all judges to impeachment for their mis behavior, 'these seem to have supplied defences aaginst Irresponsible and oppressive power with which our people might well be satisfied. No one should mis understand these lessons in justice and liberty which our English ancestry had taught their rulers at home and which followed the emigrants to America. The new features, however, in our political estab lishments and their wide departure from the funda mental theory of the English Monarchy and the Eng lish Parliament, needed, and obtained in the frame of the Constitution, new functions for the judiciary, and stupendous exaltation of those functions in the co ordinate powers of government which have never before been thought possible. Tho undisputed and indisputable maxims of the English Constitution, that the King could do no wrong and that Parliament was omnipotent, were limits upon the rights of the people and upon judicial authority in their protec tion, which disappeared with our grand conception of the supremacy of a written constitution. By this one step all magisterial authority from the highest to the lowest, all legislative power, how ever august the lawgivers In whom it was vested, were circumscribed and subordinated to the all-prev alent law and power of the Constitution. And thus there carhe" to be whiat had not been attempted before, under our Constitution, an ever-present and everJ active energy of law, which qualified every act of power, executive aud legislative. This energy was no longer a mere persuasive sentiment of justice, or a vague menace of resistance to Injustice, but an energy that thwarted and paralyzed any encroachments upon the constituted liberties of the people ; and thus thle judiciary, not only a judge and divider between the suitors' in respect of private right and private wrongs, but a judge and divider between the great de partments of Government, and a judge and divider between the people and the collective powers of the Government. It is no wonder, Mr. President, that this consummate product of the wisdom and courage of the framers of our Constitution— I mean this exaltation of deliberate reason, as the final arbiter of the rights of the people and the powers of Government, into an every-day working force, In the orderly administration of the affairs of a great nation— should have challenged the admiration of philosophers and statesmen alike in every nation that has studied its mechanism and its resistless and unresisted power. Qhis custodiet custodes? Who shall watch the watchman— who shall guard the guardians? This is -fhe great problem of civil society in ali the distribu tions and all the administrations of public trust and power. The framers of our Government have not quailed before the difficulties of Its solution. Let the homage of a hundred years to the working of this august judicial scheme attest the wisdom of this feature of our Constitution. And let a law-abiding people for the future exalt and uphold our great judiciary as the protection of the Constitution and the safeguard of our liberties. Mr. President, if justice is the great Interest of all civilized society ; if Its administration is the nearest, the dearest and most permanent and most universal desire of a free and instructive people, let us see to it that the great record of our judicature and our jurisprudence should be cherished with an enthusiastic reverence. The names and fames of our great judges must never fade from our memories, but with those of our 'great soldiers and our great statesmen be preserved In our hearts from generation to generation. FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY. General Sherman in his address said among other things : Mr. President and Kind Friends : When notified by voui committee that I was deta'led to respond to this double toast, I begged them to divide it, promising to limit myself to my own special branch of service in less than half the time allotted ; but no ! I must do doub'e duty. I therefore bespeak your Indulgence. One hundred years ago in this goodly city of New- York, our first President, General George Washington (applause), took his solemn oath "to the best of his ability to pie-ci'vc, pi', lect „nrl defni 4 tlie „oist!tu!lou of the United States," and thereby became Commander- in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and of the Militia, when called into service. Seventy-two years after, his most worthy successor, Abraham Lincoln (applause), took the same Identical oath and, addressing his dissatisfied countrymen from the portico of the Capitol in Washington, reminded. them that they had no oath registered In Heaven to destroy the Government, while he hart the most solemn one to -preserve, protect and defend it. (Applause.) In like manner the Army and Navy have their oath registered in Heaven to support and, defend the Constitution (applause), to obey the President (ap plause) and all appointed over them, for they are the verv Instruments provided by the Constitution to en able him to protect and defend it whenever force is necessary; and no Government on earth has yet been devised when, at times, force has not been necessary. On such an occasion as this, you, the citizens of America, have a perfect right to inquire of your knightly servants, have you been true and faithful to vour oaths during the past century? Making due allowance for the usual Infirmities of human nature, I answer emphatically, yes I (Loud ap- nlause ) Fortunately we are not compelled to look back Into Grecian, Roman or European history tor THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. illustration. Washington himself was the best type of the citizen-soldier this world has yet produced. (Applause.) AN EXAMPLE FOR AMERICANS TO STUDY. Apart from his public history, he has left an ex tensive correspondence, which has been faithfully pre served by Sparks, which contains a mass of knowledge which every American youth should study, and even members of Congress might consult with profit. (Laughter.) On the 24th of September, 1776, he wrote to the President of Congress his judgment of the compara tive value, in an economical sense, of the regulars and militia. Again, on the 21st of April, -1778, from Valley Forge, he wrote to John Bannister, then a delegate In Congress, a letter full of wisdom and fore sight. I would like to quote largely from this letter, but time and the occasion do not warrant it, and I will limit myself to a short quotation. Writing of the jealousy on the part of Congress to the army, he says: " It is unjust, beoause no order of men In the thirteen States has paid a more sacred regard to the proceed ings of Congress than the army, for, without arrogance or the smallest deviation from truth, it may be said that no history now extant can furnish an instance of an army's suffering such uncommon hardships as ours has done, and bearing them with the same patience and fortitude. To see men without clothes to cover thoir nakedness, without blankets to lie on, without shoes (for the want of which their marches might be traced by the blood from their feet), and almost as often without provisions as with them, marching through the frost and snow, and, at Christ mas; taking up their winter quarters within a day's maroh of the enemy, without a house or hut to cover them till they could be built, and submitting without a murmur, Is a proof of patience and obedience which, in my opinion, can scarcely be paralleled." RECOMMENDING A MILITARY ACADEMY. Finally, on December 7, 1796, but a few months before he voluntarily relinquished ofiice, In addressing both houses of Congress, as was his custom, he urged the establishment of a National university expressly " to bring together the youth from every quarter, to assimilate the principles, opinions and manners of our countrymen, and thereby increase the prospect of a permanent Union," an object ever dear to his heart, which he aimed to accomplish by wise fore thought, but failed by reason of local jealousies and mean economy. Who will now say that if his wise counsel had been heeded we might not have escaped the horrors and expense of our Civil War? On the same occasion President Washington renewed his recommendation, often made before, for the estab lishment of the National Military Academy, to teach the science of war, the want of which he had often felt in his own previous experience. Even this was not begun till 1802, rather to utilize the old barracks at West Point left over by tho Revolutionary Army than as a school of science, and It was not until 1818 that It assumed the dimensions of a National Military Academy, with results which have excited the ad miration of the world. Still occasionally breaks out, the same spirit of jealousy toward the army based on the old English doctrine that a standing army Is a threat to a free people, a doctrine which may have some force where that army Is commanded by a prince claiming to govern by divine right, but Is simply ridiculous when our sovereignty remains with the people themselves, whose chief magistrate Is one of us, clothed with temporary and responsible power. After a hundred years' experience the time has come for this Jealousy to disappear. (Applause.) THE GROWTH OF THE ARMY. When Washington took his oath his army was com posed of the wrecks and remainders of his old Revolu- tlonary Army, amounting to 2,232 men, which he or ganized into a battalion of Infantry. When in 1797 he relinquished his command to a constitutional successor, that army had grown to be 3,353 men. con sisting of a general staff, a squadron of dragoons, a battalion of artillerists and engineers, and three regi ments of Infantry. On this basis has been built up the present military establishment of the United States, admitting of 28,764 officers and men, many of whom are non-combatants, and a militia force In reserve of 7.921,482 men oapable of hearing arms. I will not even attempt to trace the many changes in organiza tion meantime further than to assert that, according to the state of the Nation and demands of the oc. casion, it has fallen at times to a mere skeleton, and risen again to a million of men, for in this category I include the volunteers of the Mexican and Civil wars. These were as much regulars as the 1st Infantry or the 5th Infantry ; they wore the same uniform, used the same arms, shared the same dangers, were bound by the same laws and followed the same flag. (Ap. plause.) How different from the time when, in tho cold winter of 1777, General Washington had to im port Baron Steuben, a soldier reared in the school of the great Frederick, to teach his army at Valley Forge the first rudiments of organization, subordination and discipline— lessons which took deep root, and enabled his great chief to lead that army from victory to vie. tory up to the end at Yorktown. (Applause.) The force of Baron Steuben's teaching was trans mitted down after the War of the Revolution from generation to generation, and is felt even unto this day ; but to General Washington chiefly every soldier of this land turns with reverential awe, because they realize that he loved order, system, economy and faith ful service ; that by his own example, by his teach ings and writings, he Impressed upon everybody the value of discipline and subordination to rightful au thority perfectly consistent with American oitizenshlp. In this spirit has the present army of the United States been trained, and although predicted Jry Europeans there is no instance In our military history of the unsurpation of civil power not warranted by the law of the land. Of the labors, tolls and suffer ings of our little army on our remote frontiers I could paint many a picture as true and touching as that given by the Father of his Country about his own army at Valley Forge, and I answer again the Army of the United States have been as true to their oaths as the needle to the pole. (Loud applause.) A GOOD WORD FOR THE NAVY. I can with equal confidence speak of our Navy— for I claim to be somewhat of a web-foot myself (laughter), having crossed the line twice in a man-of- war, and having seen old Neptune come over the side with his brush and bucket (laughter) ; but in the presence of the veterans here I feel unsulted to the task assigned me, because I yield to them, yea, to any midshipman who has graduated at our most valuable Naval Academy at Annapolis, and who has done his first cruise at, sea, a better knowledge of their pro fession than I possess. Steel. steam; electricity and nitro-glycerlne have revolutionized the navies of the world, have banished from the high seas the majestic line-of-battle ship, the handsome frigate and speedy sloop, and In their stead have substituted monitors and steel-clads. real mon sters, of the most uncouth patterns, so that were Nelson and Collingwood. John Paul Jones and Stewart recalled to earth they would find themselves strangers on their own decks. The world will go ahead, and I have abundant faith that the heroio youth of our Navy will keep well abreast in these modern inventions, and, should the occasion arise, thev, too, will prove equal to it, as they have ever done in the past. (Applause.) Therefore, let me conclude with what I might have begun and finished with: The Army and Navy forever, Three cheers for the red. white and blue. (Loud cheers, long continued.) " OUR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES." Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard Col lege, said in part: rr 'S15tcSrlef Phrase—the schools and oolleges of the United States— is a formal and familiar one ; but what imagination can grasp the Infinitude of human affeo- w2?slv,p°v81?.' and 7ills whloh " really comprises. Not the liveliest and most far-reaching. But let us try. Let us forget the outward things called sohools and colleges, and summon up the human beings. Imagine the 8,000 000 children actually In at tendance at the elementary schools of the oountry brought before your view. They would fill this great house sixteen hundred times, and every time it would be packed with boundless loves and hopes. Each unit in that mass speaks of a glad birth, a brightened home, a mother's pondering heart, a father's careful Joy. In all that multitude every little heart bounds and every eye shines at the name of Washington. Ihey all, of whatever race— British, Irish, Frenoh, German, Scandinavian, Italian, Spanish, Greek, African, Indian— and of whatever religious com- THE WASHING-TON CENTENARY. 71 know his figure, di ess and features? and if Si to ^ning?on.C0^iauhsee!)0• "*" W°6 ^ ~° areTgh|t»^^ than the younger children can reachV Thly Me old enough to understand his civil as well as his military achievements. They learn of his great Dart taS immortal Federal Convention of ^787,P of hls^n estimable services in organizing and oonduotine through two Presidential terms the new Governmeut- servlces of which he alone was capable-and of his firm res stance to misguided public clamor. They see him ultimately victorious in war and successful in peace, but only through much adversity and over many obstacles. J Next picture to yourselves the 60,000 students in ¦colleges and universities— selected youth of keeu intelli gence, wide reading and high ambition. They are able to compare Washington with the greatest men of other times and countries, and to appreciate the unique quality of his, 'renown. They can set him be- -side the heroes of romance and history— beside David Alexander, Pericles. Caesar, Saladin. Charlemagne Gustavus Adolphus, John Hampden, William the Silent, Peter of Russia and Frederick the Great, only to find him a nobler human type than any one of them (applause), completer in his nature, happier In his cause, and more fortunate in the great issues of his career. They are taught to see in him a soldier whose sword wrought only mercy and justice for man kind ; a statesman who steadied a remarkable generation of public men by his mental poise and exalted them by his singleness of heart, and a ruler whose exercise of power established for the first time on earth a righteous Government by all for all. They recognize In Ihlm a simple, stainless and robust character, which served with dazzling success the precious cause of human progress through liberty, and so stands, like the sunlit peak of the Matterhorn, unmatohed In all the world. (Applause.) And what shall I say in behalf of the 360,000 teachers of the United States'! They deserve some mention to-day. None of them are rich or famous ; most of them are poor, retiring and unnoticed; but It is they who are building a perennial monument to Washington. It is they who give him a mtllion- tongued fame. (Applause.) They make him live again In the young hearts of successive generations and fix his image there as the American ideal of a public servant. It Is through the schools and colleges and the Na tional literature that the heroes of any people win lasting renown, and It Is through these same agencies that a nation Is moulded info the likeness of its heroes. This local commemoration of one great evont in the life of Washington and of the United States is well; but it Is as nothing compared with the Incessant memorial of him which the schools and colleges of the country maintain from generation to feneration. I have mentioned only the pupils, and teachers now in school and college, but all the gen erations for a hundred years past have sounded the Praise of this Virginia country gentleman, and count less generations to come will swell the loud acclaim. What a reward Is Washington's I What an Inflonce Is his, and will be I One mind and will transfused by sympathetic instruction into millions; one char acter a standard for millions ; one life a pattern for all public men, teaching what greatness Is, and what the pathway to undying fame. (Long-continued applause.) REMARKS BY ME. LOWELL. Here are some of the points made by James Russell Lowell in his address : A needful frugality, benignant alike to both the participants in human utterance, has limited the allowance of each speaker this evening to ten mln- utes. (Laughter.) Cut In thick slices, our little loaf of time would not suffice for all. This seems a meagre ration, but if we give to our life the Psalmist's measure of seventy years, and bear In mind the papulation of the globe, a little ciphering will show that no single man and brother Is en titled even to so large a^share of our attention as this. lace. Behind them were the Continental Guards of Yonkers, in the familiar blue and white uniform of Revolu- tionary times, Jn the ranks was a tottering old veteran of the war of 1812, General Abraham Dalley, of Yonkers. He was led up to the review. ing-box and stretched up to touch hands with the President. With him was Jay Gould Warner, an " adopted" veteran of 1 81 2, who used to raise the flag on the morning of Evacuation Day cele. bra tions. So far, the floats that had been assigned to the first part of the line had failed to appear. Now one pretty one, representing Switzerland, came along. It carried the legend, " Switzerland, the Oldest Living Republic; 518 Years of Independ ence." On the float was group of men and women in brilliant Swiss costumes, a picture, one could fancy, taken almost bodily from a stage-setting in " William Tell." Here was a piece of the pageant which appealed to the sense of the populace, and the sturdy Switzers got many hearty cheers. "RUNNIMG WITH THE ENGINE." From grand opera to the delights of " running with the engine" was a rather kaleidoscopic transi tion. But the Swiss float had hardly passed along under the Twenty-third-st. arch when the gallant tire laddies, in red. shirts and broad firemen's hats, brought the spectators back from dreams of poetry to the solid earth. The heroes of a hundred parades had turned out in their fullest force to swell the ranks of the great procession. For a mile or two the avenue was one solid strip of red.— red shirtsj red fire-engines, red hook-and-ladder trucks. Everybody had seen the Volunteers before, and there were calls from the stands to familiar figures ah down the route. Chief Decker and ex-Chief Harry Howard were cheered pn every hand, the veteran Howard could scarcely hobble along, and was plainly suffering from a slight paralysis on one side Two other firemen were easing his steps, but 'he kept his head well up and grasped his silver trumpet as firmly as if he were agam leading the department of the old days to some block of burn ing buildings. 30 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. The old firemen are getting grayer and balder than ever. Scarcely a man in the line could show a hair untouched by the whitening hand of age, and smooth polished crowns shone everywhere in tlie sun when the broad fire helmets were lifted. But no genuine " Vet" ever grows older in spirit. Gay, cheery, light-hearted as' ever, they tugged at the ropes of their old-fashioned hand-engines with the snap and vigor of thirty years ago, and they marched as unflinchingly under the President's eye as the youngsters in blue cgats in Tuesday's review. It is enough to say that no part of the procession aroused a greater local and personal interest than the division of the veteran firemen. After the firemen came a few French and Italian societii's. Then Mayor Grant got his chance to do the President and his party a kind turn. The Tammany division was approaching, and through the reviewing-stand spread, a keen interest as to the make-up of this most formidable section of in dustrial New-York. At the head of the column rode General John Cochrane and Chamberlain Croker. The tribes were drawn up by States, and marched in files of twenties, each brave with the smooth, shining silk hat without which no city politician of reputation ventures to star abroad. ADVICE TO THE TAMMANY MEN. Great trouble soon arose over these glossy- beavers. Following military precedent, orders had been given that only the heads of companies should salute the President, the rest marching by with out a sign. But the crowd on the stands would have none of this formality. " Take off your hats" was the cry which arose from both sides of the avenue, as the Tammany men showed no intention of saluting. There was an amusing struggle for a while against disciphne. Half the men in a rank would lift their hats ; half would go by with heads covered. Finally, the example of saluting spread, and in the last few tribes nearly every beaver went off. Tammany made a highly creditable showing, on the whole, but there were some who kept wondering when the order got by, and may be still wondering, just what niche in the industrial world the well- dressed Tammany contingent fitted into. Perhaps the Mayor explained this to the President. At least, he pointed out the leaders in the various Assembly Districts of a delightfully smooth and Irictionless political machine, The Tammany display over, a few Brooklyn policemen gave a pretty exhibition of marching. They had been spared from the City of Churches and seemed to enjoy having the laugh on their rivals of this city. Behind the police came the Plasterers' Society, each man wearing his white working clothes and cap. Workmen in two wagons turned out small plaster casts of Wash ington and Lincoln, and tossed them among the crowds. Opposite the reviewing-stand a halt was made, and a plaster cast of the President was struck off. One of the officers passed it up to General Harrison, who smiled, and bowed his thanks. This white-coat section mustered several hundred men, and made a striking figure in the avenue. The main body of the Italian division, which had lost its place, dow got into line, and made up for the time lost waiting in side streets by going down the avenue at a rapid pace. The first com pany, a military one, acted as escort to the float, " Columbus Discovering America." the drift of which was easily recognizable. The rear guard of the float had a band, which played " Away Down in Dixie Land"— another novelty, and a grateful one. THE IRISH LEAD THE GERMANS; The Italians made way for tho Scandi- navians, whoso flags gave a pretty touch to the scene. The Irish division now began to get under way, and General James R. O'Beirne soon ap peared, closely followed by a body of about 2,000 members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. All had their St. Particle's Day regalia on, and there was no lack of cheering to the reviewing stand. Every Irishman, too, took off his hat to the President. The Ancient Order kept passing for a long time, and behind it came a section of German sharpshooters and a company of brick layers. Finally, the Bohemian National Associa tion muched by. Its band plaiTjed the patriotic " God Save Our Native Land 1" At 1 :10 the German division began to appear in some force. Half a dozen Seheutzen companies, in blue and gray coats and black felt hats, with gold cord about the rim, marched gayly along to time, reminding the lookers on that parade music still had its uses. Next came the Turner Societies, in gray shirts and gray hats, and then another body of marksmen, Austro-Hungarjans, carrying the black eagles of the Emperor Franz Josef. A break in the German line let in the Retail Grocers at this point. They had Cappa's 7th Regiment band to march behind, and made an excellent figure. The Piano Makers fell in next. They wore white Derbys that suggested summer, and their band created some amusement by sticking persistently to " Razzle-Dazzle." The marching companies had now gotten pretty well started down town and room was left for the bulky Uoats to fall in line. This they did, and " Virginia," " Mt. Vernon," and several of the German pieces were sent by. Massing the his torical and mythical tableau s together really en hanced the effect of the display, and for half an hour the crowd in the avenue was treated to a rapid succession of pictures, full of color, variety and picture squeness. The different groups are described in detail in another column. They were the most elaborate and costly feature of the pa rade, and one that will long be remembered for brilliancy, ingenuity and historical accuracy. THE LAST HOURS OP THE PARADE. In the last half the great parade was somewhat more long drawn out than it was in the opening hours. There was less of it to the running foot. The heavy floats which had missed their proper places in the line were massed toward the end, and the marching companies were mainly of a religious or athletic order, that did not afford them special training in marching. The German societies were well and strongly represented. Great flaxen-haired men and round-armed women, dressed in historical costumes and perched on historical and allegorical Boats, passed by, sandwiched in among others that bore the machinery and products of the different arts. The harps and lyres of the Wagner floats were silent, and the huge casks and puncheons of the brewers and wine merchants were visibly empty, but the clinic, clink of the hammer on the anvil of the iron-workers' float had the genuine ring, and the sparks that flew under the regular blows of the hammer were real sparks. The bakers were loaded down with pretzels and loaves of bread and huge rolls, and their pale, flour-sprinkled faces were getting the full benefit of the alternating sun and wind. The florist floats bombarded the President with flowers, and the basket-makers tossed little pieces of wickerwork into the reviewing stand. One goddess sent Gen eral Harrison her special and particular wreath, and got a low bow in consideration thereof. Mendelssohn and Beethoven had their admirers and followers as well as Wagner, and there was a sufficiency of flaxen-haired, fair-skinned women to go around among these well-designed musical floats. CHILDREN PLEASED WITH SANTA CLAUS. Santa Glaus perched on the top of a conveniently large chimney, and a Christmas tree that was to profit by his visitation, caught the eye of the little folks, and the whirring, buzzing, self-binding, har vester, in full play on top of a big truck, pleased the agricultural community. The American hog, nickel-plated and grossly fat, grinned on the publio from the four corners of the pork-packers' float, undeterred by the sight of the strings of sausages THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 81 into which he was to be transmigrated some day. The butcher boys, both mounted and marching, made a fine appearance, and all the trades made a most creditable display as they passed under the President's eye. The religious societies brought up the rear with well-filled ranks, and the great procession that had been pouring down the avenue with rattling hoof, steady tread and rumbling wheel throughout the heart of the day, the greatest May-moving this city ever saw, was over, so far as the people on the reviewing-stand were concerned. The people standing at Canal-st. and Broadway, where the parade disbanded, caught sight of the aides who led the procession shortly before 11 o'clock. General Butterfield and his staff lined across Broadway here and reviewed the spectacle. As the guides, who carried red, white and blue silk flags, reached this point, they, too, fell in line, and remained until the end. The disband ing of the immense body was accomplished with the greatest success, half the organizations being turned, to the right, the others to the left. The float representing the man-of-war was wrecked in Canal-st. just east of Broadway by the break ing of an axle. It was pulled to one side and deserted, and the small boys of the neighborhood soon had it dismantled. The place chosen for the ending was a good one, on account of the rise in Broadway below Canal-st. This gave a fine view of the marching columns to people in the street as far down as Worth-st. At 4:15 the last of the line reached Canal-st., and the great Civic Parade was at an end. THE VIEW FROM THE STANDS. UNDER PRESIDENT HARRISON'S EYE. INCIDENTS O'F THE, VAST PROCESSION— HOW THE MULTITUDE ENJOYED IT AND TORE UP THE DECORATIONS FOR MEMENTOES. The crowds upon the Madison Square stand wero not as dense yesterday as on Tuesday. Their Interest In the procession, however, was as great as ever. The President's box was well filled. Throughout the parade Mayor Grant sat beside President Harrison, and gave him occasional explanations of the various features of the parade. When the veteran fireman. "Harry" Howard, limped by at the head of one of the divisions of fire laddies, the Mayor dropped an explanatory word in the ear of General Harrison, and the latter took off his hat with a deferential sweep and bowed low to the' crippled veteran, who was being loudly cheered along the line. The crowd was greatly pleased when old Abraham Dalley, bent with the weight of his ninety-four years, the honors of a veteran of the War of 1812 and a large cocked hat. was led down beside the Society of the Veterans and Invited by the President to come up Into his box. They watched the ancient soldier as he was helped up the stairs to a place in the Presidential party and Introduced to the members of the Cabinet and Gen eral Sherman. They saw him sit out the1 proceedings of the day amid this notable company with evident satisfaction. The people on the sunny portions of the stand Improvised sunbonnets out of newspapers, programmes, etc., and wore them In a way that gave them the aspect of a colony of Shakers. The east-side stand filled up by 11 o'clock to its full capacity, and pre sented its familiar appearance of a solid bank of faces and varied headgear. The west-side stand was not so well patronized, tickets went down to 50 per cent below par and yet further, and still the occupants had room sufficient in which to move around and stretoh themselves. The crowd en both sides was an em inently jolly one. Jokes and sandwiches and occasional corks flew in all directions. Tho comments on the different features of the procession were both witty and admiring. They chaffed the different organiza tions, yelled " Take off your hats I" to bewildered pa raders and waved handkerchiefs at familiar faces in the lines. Luncheon baskets and umbrellas were about equally numerous, but the latter were driven to the back row by a demonstrative public sentiment, while the luncheon baskets were omnipresent. THEIR ATTENTION DIVIDED. Nearly as much time and attention were devoted to the President as to the prooesslon. All Ms move ments and gestures were carefully noted and com mented on. On the whole, General Harrison took It quietly. He smiled broadly when a helpless cap tain of one of the civlo companies wrestled vainly with his balky horse right before the stand. His captainship was evidently none too sure of his seat under favorable circumstances. In recognition of this fact a collection of mirthful spectators In the front rows of the west stand set up a shout that so astonished the animal that he stopped stock still, and then turned around several times with an Inquiring air of injured dignity. His rider coaxed, the Presi dent smfled encouragingly and the crowd laughed de risively. At length the horse decided that his per formances were not being appreciated, so he stepped off at a good pace, his rider bowing triumphantly to the President and congratulating himself upon Ms success. Another chieftain who excited the merriment of the crowd rode slowly down the line, carefully study ing the west stand for a President and reviewing party, but all in vain. Be looked up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel balcony and up and down the paste board arch that spanned the way, still unable to locate the Chief Magistrate, whom he was brimming over with a desire to salute. The crowd laughed heartlessly, and the President from his place on the east-side stand gazed reflectively after this misguided captain, and then sat down to await a better posted and more wide-awake officer. If the volume of cheers that went up when General Harrison gracefully declined a glass of wine, offered him by a mounted aid In the escort of the German wine merchants' float, may be regarded as voicing a total abstinence sentiment, the number of total ab stainers in that congregation was large. The President'* Interest In the procession remained untiring until the end, or if it flagged, there was no indication of weariness. He looked at every float and every company with the carefulness of one searching for an old friend, and there was a tinge of meditation in his glance, as though he were reflecting on the vastness of a city and nation that could produce such an exhibition, and were stowing away his Impressions for future reference. CLEARING OUT THE STANDS. After the President had been whisked away In one direction in his four-horse carriage, and the Mayor had disappeared in the other, soon after 3 o'clock, the spectators were a little puzzled as to what was coming next. A few advertising floats came rumbling along, separated by intervals of blank nothingness, when the appearance of a platoon of mounted police convinced the multitude that the show was really over. A moment sufficed to render the avenue black with people. The worklngraen began to take down the flags on the reviewing stand. A little newsboy rushed Into the stand and planted himself in the chair formerly filled by the Chief Executive of the Nation. A workman tore off a strip from a piece of bunting and handed It to a friend in the crowd below. This was the signal for a general raid upon the stand by all In that neighborhood. Bunting, flags, canvas and decorations of every kind, were torn to bits and carried 82 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. off by relic-hunters, and when the departing multitude left the stands to the carpenters and rapid dismember ment, there was nothing portable or tearable left In them. The stands In Union Square were not nearly so crowded as on Tuesday and the people who occupied them were not obliged to sit in eaoh other's laps. The free stands had as many people as they could comfortably seat, but those to which an admission fee was charged were conspicuously bare In spots. Numerous Incidents alternately amused and frightened the congregation near Tiffany's and Brentano's. A temporary fence in front of the new building at University Place and Fourteenth-st. broke down, carrying a hundred men and women with It, tumbling them upon one another In the street. While standing on the fence many of these people had supported themselves by holding to a wire rope that extended, from a fastening in the ground to the top of a telegraph pole. As they fell their combined weight carried the rope close to the ground and everybody turned loose excepting one fat man who held fast with both hands. Up went the rope, twelve feet In the air, swinging the fat man with it Twenty thousand throats became sore with shouting and laughing at the ludicrous spectacle. Such chairing as was heard thenl But the fat man slid down and sneaked away. CRUSH AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE STAND. The scene at Washington Square all day was much the same as on the day of the military parade. There seemed to be more people, however, and the crowds were allowed to occupy the street far beyond the curb- line. A novelty presented itself In the use of dry- goods boxes and barrels by the rear ranks of spec tators, for the purpose of elevating themselves above their less fortunate colleagues. The streets crossing the Square on the Waverley Place side were absolutely barricaded with these Improvised stands, which filled In every little orevice between the Innumerable trucks. The crowds about the tangle were packed In a manner making It Impossible for any one to pierce the barrier. The stand itself was crowded to Its utmost capacity, and the park behind It contained thousands of people who had been unable to gain even a, chance to secure a seat. The occupants of the upper tier of the stand found it Impossible to leave their seats in the middle of the day, and many of them who had neglected to provide themselves with luncheon were supplied by fakirs, who threw life-saving ropes to the famishing and attached baskets of sole-leather sandwiches and cans of rollk from the chalk cliffs of England. Pedlers of all Mnds, sueh as flourish in midsummer at Coney Island, were in clover among the " overflow," for the guardians of the public peace were as unable to get out through the mass of spectators as the un fortunate outsiders were unable to get Inside the lines. Barrels and boxes, most of them dilapidated struct ures, which offered every variety of danger and none of comfort, commanded 25 cents apiece, and were eagerly bought. The 10,000 seated spectators, and the 10,000 more who stood in the immediate neighbor hood of the Square, were quiet in comparison with their liberality of applause the day before. They confined themselves more to the waving of handkerchiefs as a mode of expressing appreciation, but indulged to a great extent in the " fad" of hurling volleys of fruit and sandwiches at the marching hosts. A SHOWER OF CUSHIONS AT THE RESERVOIR. When the sun climbed over the tops of the houses and looked down into Fifth-ave. It saw tho grand itand at the reservoir covered with a laughing, shouting, pushing and scrambling multitude, each person intent on getting the best seats, and, con sequently each person getting into somebody else's way. It was a surprisingly good-humored crowd, however, and the people seemed to feel a common bond of sympathy, for, to a large extent, the same people occupied &e stand yesterday who had viewed the military parade of the day before from that point. Fully as many people crowded the stand as on Tuesday. For almost six hours the people sat and watched the ever-changing panorama, ever breaking Into new exclamations of delight as some new wonder came In sight. The minute the last float had passed the crowd filled In the avenue behind it; but when the path in front of the reservoir stand became thus black with people, the following crowd met with an unexpected experience. The occupants of the stand had been sitting on cushions which enterprising merchants had sold to them, but now they had no further use for them, and so, by common Impulse, without a thought of the consequences, they hurled the cushions down upon the heads of the unsuspecting crowds beneath. For a few minutes the air was full of flying cushions, and then the consequences were made apparent. Battered silk hats and ruined spring bonnets, together with the agonized expression of the luckless wearers, brought a sudden remorse to the thoughtless throwers, while the small boys gathered up the cushions and scampered away. _ AS MANY SIGHTSEERS AS EVER. THE PATIENT AND GOOD-HUMORED MULTITUDES IN THE STREETS^-SOENES ABOUT THE CITY. The crowds along the line of the parade yesterday were perhaps even greater than those of the day before. As early as 6 o'clock, families and little parties left their homes to secure seats on the stoops of the Fifth- ave. houses that were free to the public, and by an hour later the only way to get a seat was to pay from two to five dollars for it. The owners of wagons fitted up with tiers of seats arose with the sun, in their anxiety to got good positions In the streets just off the line of march, some even staying all night to keep their places. These wagons, the big stands in Madison, Onion and Washington Squares, and the thousand and one smaller ones along the route of the procession began to fill up before 8 o'clock. The windows along Fifth-ave. and Broadway were In most cases not oc cupied until the music announced the coming of the parade. Although the show of yesterday was announced to begin so much sooner than that of the day before people did not seek their seats any earlier. They had had an experience on Tuesday that taught them the discomforts of standing, or even sitting, from early morning until 6 o'clock in the afternoon without any thing to eat but a sandwich, or anything to drink but circus lemonade. Besides, the civic pageant was long and marched slowly, and many were satis fied with an hour's view of It. Then, too, business was not nearly so generally suspended yesterday as on the previous day, as few firms could afford to close their houses two days in succession. The fact that the route of the civic parade was a mile shorter than that of the military, however, greatly increased the mass of people above Canal-st.. and the scenes of jamming and jostling of the previous day were re-en acted on even a larger scale. Early in the morning, a line of people two or three deep- *+.~v\ along the curbstones and the rest of the pavement and all the streets were well filled with hies of slght-seers going up and dowin in search of a good place to view the parade. Wagons filled with stools and boxes that were sold to those who did not care to pay big prices for seats on the stands, and carriages containing strangers who wished to see the decorations and the crowds, passed through Flfth- ave. until about 9 o'clock, when the police cleared the streets. Many of the soldiers and visitors left the city on Tuesday night, but their places were at once taken by incoming crowds. The Pennsylvania, Jersey Central, New-York and New-Haven, and in fact all the roads running into the city brought enormous crowds of passengers yesterday morning. The trains from all the suburban towns were delayed more or less by the Jam. TherB were people of all kinds. Busi ness men living out of town brought their families and friends to see the sights, and country cousins simply swarmed to visit their city relatives: Young men and their sweethearts on excursions to New-Yorl£ actually forgot to make love, so great was the crush. The Bridge and all inoomlng ferries poured In people by the thousands and neighboring roads were alive with the wagons of country folks driving to town to view the spectacle. As a result, the streets In all parts of the city w»re filled all dav. Even away from the multitudes that lined the route of the prooession THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 83 it was evident, both from the numbers and from the character of those on the streets, that something un usual was going on. The word rustio was written on the garments and features of many, and the way that they craned their necks looking at the tops of the high buildings and the suddenness with which they slapped their hands to Inside pockets when they law a " Beware of Pickpockets" sign gave further proof, if any was needed, that the backwoods districts were well represented. The cars, both elevated and surface, did an enor mous business carrying people to and from the parade, and at all hours of the day they were crowded to the platforms. In the neighborhood of the Fifty-nlnth-st. Plaza all was confusion from an early hour until the last ot the paraders had passed down Fifth-ave. As early as 7 o'clock the people began to arrive from all di rections and soon afterward the organizations that had been assigned places in the line began to appear. Great Interest centred around the veteran firemen's organizations and their brightly burnished apparatus attracted general attention. But it was in the German contingent and their gayly bedecked floats that the crowds ol people found most to interest them. Aids astride swift horses dashed here, there and everywhere along Flfth-ave. and in the side streets where the organizations were drawn up awaiting the order to take their place In line. Large as the crowd was, it was composed of good-natured people who pa tiently waited for the procession to move. The policemen found no difficulty in keeping the people ¦within the prescribed limits. A GLITTERING CAVALCADE. EXCELLENT DISPLAY MADE BY THE GER MAN CITIZENS. A LONG LINE OF WELL-EXECUTED AND ARTIS TIC SURPRISES ON WHEELS— ORGANIZA TIONS IN THE, PARADE, The German contingent formed in and around Fifth- ave. between Fifty-seventh and Sixty-seventh sts. The marshalling of the division was admirable and reflected (treat oredlt on General Emll Schaefer, the marshal, and Colonel A. E. Selfert, the deputy marshal, and their efficient aides. The organizations were unusually prompt in getting to their meeting place, and In the majority of cases fell into line as they had been originally assigned. This was true of the floats, and the spectators were enabled to follow the programme easily and enjoy the significance of the great pictures on wheels. The contingent made a, magnificent showing, and judging by the applause and exclamations of admira tion heard along the line, one might consider it to be the baokbone of the procession. The floats were the most attractive feature of the parade, and were prob ably the most complete and picturesque representations in this line that the olty has ever seen. Familiar designs were admirably executed and novel Ideas were strikingly oarried out. Pretty girls and handsome men graced the floats, and their quaint and beautiful costuming won admiration everywhere. The number of men In line In this division yesterday was estimated from 15,000 to 20,000. The division was sub-divided into three sections, whioh compre hended about sixty different organizations and sixty floats, many of which oarried a large number of people. The different organizations included the German- Amerloan sharpshooters, singing societies, athletic so cieties, war veteran associations, bakers' and butchers' unions, religious societies and associations of other kinds. The different bodies were appropriately uni formed, some handsomely and picturesquely, and added > quaint feature to the floats by marching near them. Cuirassiers, hussars and the soldier in tbe regulation German uniform were seen everywhere and gave the scene the strongest possible German tinge. The con tingent was watted along on music, for It had as many bands as it was possible without making a general musical chaos. b THE MARSHAL AND HIS STAFF. General Emll Schaefer, the grand morhal, rode at the head of the German-American Division. He was accompanied by Colonel A. E. Selfert, the deputy marshal and chief of staff, and the following aides: John Chattllon, John Gerken, Joseph Halk, Colonel Otto Heppenheimer, Edward S. Hubbe, George Kinkel, jr., William H. Klenke, Louis Maurer, Carl Merz, RJ Pasch, Captain H. S. Rasquin, Captain William F* Rausoh, Charles Rohe, jr., Julius Rohe, R. J. Schaefer", Henry W. Schmidt, C. A. Schultz, Jr., Colonel Andrew Stauf, C. C. Weber, John W. Weber. Charles C Clausen, Jacob Ruppert and Robert Fleming. The Hoboken and Brooklyn riding clubs, with a band of fifty pieces, acted as general escort. The long line of societies and floats which followed, stretohtng up Fifth-ave. as far as the eye oould reach, was headed by the German-American Sharpshooters, the first of which was the Concordia Schuetzen, which turned out 350 strong. They were followed by the German-American Schuetzen Corps, with 1,300 mem bers, one of the largest bodies in the procession. The Harlem Independent Schuetzen, consisting of 100 me!n ; the Germania Schuetzenbund, with 700 men, In command of Jacob Schweider; the Brooklyn Inde pendent Schuetzen Corps, with 70 men ; the Brooklyn Schuetzen Club, with 70 men; the Brooklyn Sharp shooters, with 60 men ; the German-American Schuetzenbund, with 500 men, under Charles Zimmer man, and the First Hungarian Schuetzenbund, 200 men, commanded by Major Philippe Freund, followed In the order named. The next sub-division was made up of the singing societies, preceded by a band of twenty pieces, with the marshal and his aides. They marched as follows : The Schillerbund, 250 men; Gesangverein Oesterreich, 50 members, in charge of President W. Wannermeyer; Gesangverein Cordalia. commanded by J. Hirden, 75 members ; Gesangverein Germania, 50 members, under W. Petersen; Gesangverein Mozart, 250 members, under C. F. Schultz, and Gesangverein Orlando, 40 men, commanded by Christian Beisler. MEN OF BRAWN AND MUSCLE. The next sub-division was the New-York Turn-Bezlrk or athletlo association, commanded by H. Metzner. The men marched in the following order : New-York Turn- Veretn, C. F. Zenker, first speaker; Central Turn-Vereln, Charles J. Nehrbas, first speaker ; Harlem Turn-Vereln, Conrad Langensteln. first speaker: New- York Turn- Vereln, Bloomingdale, P. M. Schlechter, first speaker; Melrose Turn-Vereln, Otto Ebel, delegate; German- American Turn-Verein, N. Y. H. Schultz, delegate ; So- clal-Democratlscher-Turn-Verein, William Hlcksteln, delegate ; Brooklyn Turn-Vereln, C. A. Lang, delegate ; New-Brooklyn Turn-Gemeinde, H. Supper, delegate; Staten- Island Turn-Verein, G. Stegmeler, delegate; Carls tadt Turn-Vereln, Peter Albertine, delegate; Yonkers Turn-Veirein, C. Egloffsteln, delegate. The third sub-division was composed of singing societies as follows : New- York Maennerchor, 200 men, under L. Doutschberger ; Harlem Maennerchor, 40 men, under Max E. Tlesler ; Schwaeblscher-Saenger-Bund, 60 men, C. Werner commanding; Allemania Maenner chor, 25 men, under Louis KUnksink ; Loreley Singing Society, 50 men, under William Mayer. The fourth sub-division consisted of the German War Veterans, with an escort of twenty-four mounted mem bers, tbe thousand men in line being commanded by Ernest Kirsteln. , TI . _ The fifth sub-division was the Retail Grocers' Union with an escort of fifty mounted men. There were 1,000 members of the union in line under H. Goia- OTThe sixth sub-division, the Pianomakers, escorted by twelve mounted men, made a body of over 1,000 men. HOW THEIR FLOATS LOOKED. The floats constituted the second division. " Immi grants One Hundred Years Ago" was the title of the first float. This represented the model of a Dutch ship fully equipped and ready to sail. A group of immi- 84 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. grants stood on a pier waiting to go on board. Their historical costumes attracted much attention. Floats Nos. 2 and 3 represented " Farmer Pioneers," Immigrants with their trunks, bales and bundles, farming tools, shotguns, bags of grain and seed, and everything portable that could be taken from the old home. Live cattle and the faithful watch-dog were also placed on the float. The prairie sohooner followed this, containing the " women folks" and children. The " Quakers," float No. 4, represented a block house, the weathercock on one gable end and the dove cote on the other. The mother of the family sat at the porch teaching her pretty girls how to spin. The stocks, too, figured In this scene, Illustrating how the Quakers had been persecuted in the old country. Governor Jacob Eisler admonishing and exhorting a group of his countrymen was the central figure. Float No. 5 exhibited a model of a house on Washing ton Heights, where Washington made his headquarters. The shrubbei-y and trees on the float were taken from the neighborhood of the house. Riding horses of aides held by sentinels animated the scene. The carriage used by Washington 100 years ago came next. It Is a large, white conveyance, and In it were seen wax figures of George and Martha Wash ington. The coach was driven by a coachman in Continental dress and escorted by 200 Continentals, who made a good showing. On float No. 7 were seen Generals Steuben and De. Kalb engaged in council of war. Sentinels kept guard before the door of the tent. Herkimer and Muhlenberg formed a separate group. The Goddess of Liberty was the central figure in float No 8, representing " The Emigrants of 1848." She was mounted on a pedestal surrounded by al legorical figures representing " Free Speech," " Free Press," and " Free Religious Exercises." Following this was a float carrying a colossal bust of Lincoln, draped with the battle flags of the German regiments of the Civil War. The float was escorted by the veterans of the 3d Cavalry Regiment, Bavarian Schuetzen Company, Brooklyn, and the German Landwehr-Vereln. Float No. 10 was called " Immigrants of the Present Time," and represented the bridge of an ocean steamer, the captain and crew superintending the landing of immigrants, also picturing Custom House officials, etc., on the wharf. PRINTING PROGRAMMES BY THE WAY. The next two floats, " The Press and Public Opinion," Illustrated the press and methods 'of printing one- hundred years ago and also of to-day. An old Washington hand-press was running on one float; an editorial sanctum and compositors' room were represented on the other. A modern press was run by electricity, and threw out programmes of the German contingent. " Minerva," " Puck," and " Publio Opinion" were represented. The float was dedicated to some of the New- York papers by its projector, Hermann TtflT'T^.pll "Arion, the Patron Saint of Singing Societies," float No. 13, was a happy representation of Arlon's tri umphal ride upon tho dolphin's back. Arlon was sur rounded by Tritons and esoorted by the muses of 6ong, Music, Dance, Poetry and Fiction. Comus, the god of fun, was there, and the chariot was fitted out with great, taste. A cohort of Greek soldiers on horse back, and standard bearers, preceded the members of the Arlon Society ,Rlchard Katzenmayer president. " Melpomene," float No. 14, showed Emperor Fred erick 1, Mary Stuart, Nathan and Sultan Saladln, Flesco and Hassan, Faust and Count Maximilian, In various scones. Crusaders, pilgrims, knights and squires escorted the float. "Allemania," float No. 16, the patroness of one of the oldest local singing societies, was the central figure In this float. A rural rehearsal showing a newly married couple serenaded by the village came next, and was followed by a ploture of a "Suavlan Harvest Home," which revealed four charming girls representing the seasons. The Kreutzer (juartet Club escorted a float carrying a bust of Conradln Kreutzer, and then came the "Scheutzenkoenlg," a float whioh described the history of sharp-shooters' associations, their tendencies and social relations. This was designed and escorted by the New- York Soheutzen- bund No. 1. BACCHUS IN GAY COMPANY. " Bacchus" was on float No. 20 and reclined under a grape arbor draped with wreaths, garlands, bunting and appropriate emblems, attended by a Bacchante, a pretty young woman. In the rear, grouped around a large statue, were three female figures in national colors representing French, German and Hungarian wines. The crowd looked long after these comely young women. " Prince Carnival," on float No. 21, sat on a throne of a champagne bottle. The Prince, a handsome young man, presided over a dancing floor bounded by festival emblems and decorated with flags, comical faces, musical Instruments and lamps. A crowd of clowns and jesters on the float made fun for the crowd. Some pretty little girls were seen on the " Kinder garten" float, No. 22, grouped before a representation of a monument to Froebel, erected in Thurlngla. The girls basted and braided. The monument was con structed of a cube, cylinder and a ball. " Christmas" came along, out of season, but wel come, on float No. 23. The scene showed a farm house covered with snow. Santa Claus was seen Just emerging from the chimney, while in the house were the children and parents having a good time with the presents. " Fairy Tales," a pretty fanoy, came next, and the crowd admired the pretty girls who took part in it. A tableau on float No. 25 illustrated the Influence of the principles and tendencies of the Turner so cieties. It showed the monument of " Father" Jahn, tbe founder of the Turner schools and olubs, as It Is erected at Berlin. " Minerva," representing " armed science," and the " Goddess of Victory," indicating the triumph of the Turners' principles, were seen. A school scene showed how the principles are fostered. Veterans of the Turner Regiment, New-York 20th Regiment, reminded the spectators of the part the Turners played in the Civil War. The athletic power of former ages was illustrated by four figures, a Teutonlo giant, a Greek warrior, a Roman gladiator and a knight In full uniform. The float was escorted by a detachment of Turners in blue blouses, the veterans of the Turner Regiment and the Turner Cadets. OLD ROME, REPRESENTED "The Conquerors of the Roman Legion," float No. 26, exhibited a representation of the Armlnlus monu ment In the Teutoburg forest. Old Teutons, glgantlo frames clad in hides, gathering spoils of their vlotory over the Romans, were observed. The group was es oorted by fifty men in old German costume, twenty of whom were mounted. Low German poetry was represented by float No. 27, which carried the bust of Fritz Reuter, the most popular writer in the Low German dialeot. Popular characters of his poems were represented, ana the float was escorted by twenty peasants and overseen. Civil engineering was exemplified by Vulcan work ing on a gigantic anvil, the representation of Archi tecture In the shape ot a female figure holding a model, apjparatus, and an allegoric, figure standing for Chemistry. On the next float came a figure of Alexander Von Humboldt, surrounded by his books, while the background showed the Andes and Niagara Falls. An allegoric figure of Science occupied the front of the float surrounded by Indians The chariot of the German Liederkranz was a realization of the soojety's name, " Wreath of Songs." The chariot showed a castle, at the ascent of whioh students were singing. Below in a boat on the Rhine a minstrel was playing upon his lyre Above a picturesque rock was the weird maiden " Lorelei" charmingly set off by an Immense wreath of roses interwoven with ribbons bear- ing the titles and names of the most popular songs and composers. The chariot was es corted by the members of the society uniformly dressed with red, white and blue sashes and gray felt hats, S^lfL caTr5rlnf canes. Thirty mounted men, two Sts. and tnree colOT hearers, a color guard of v.. ,7 <.mon and a band of forty Pieces preceded tho chariot, SACRED MUS10 TYPIFIED. Sacred music was prettily typified by a young woman representing Saint Cecilia, sitting under a canopy decorated with lyres, with figures of priests and acolytes on the scene. A pretty girl personated " Flora" in the float rep resenting Horticulture. Fresco-Painting, Smith-Craft and the Gilders' Trade were good shows? . ,9ne of the best features of the parade was the tableaus demonstrating the development of the manu facture of pianos. The float was dedicated by some thirty manufacturers of this city. THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 85 Float No. 33 was "Symphonic Music." Around a column bearing Beethoven's bust were grouped allegorical figures representing the operas, sym phonies, sonatas and other works of the noted com poser. Boys with instruments were In attendance and pages In old German costumes led the horses. A guard of twenty men in the garb of German stu dents acted as escort. The floats of the " Brewing Industry" at tracted much attention. They were five In number, exhibiting the growing of hops and barley, the preparation of malt, the old and new method of brewing beer and the chariot of King Gambrlnus. In front of a cask of immense dimensions was erected the throne of His Majesty. The crown on the cask indicated his royal rank, and scores of couriers and pages did him honor. Gold and silver drinking vessels formed the balustrade of the staircase which led to his throne. This was followed by " The Bakery," a series of three floats, the first of which was a bakery in full operation. The second of the series represented a storage room with flour barrels and other ma terials, while the third introduced the shop, where E»etty maidens waited behind the well-stocked counters. A pedestal built of rocks and crystal supporting the allegorle figure of a spring, above which was a highly ornamented syphon, from which sparkling water fell Into a large shell belov, was float No. 44, representing "Artificial Mineral WatBre," pyramids of syphons ornamented either end of the float THE AGE OF STEAM. Float No. 45 was entitled " Steam Engineering,'* and exhibited a ten-horse-power locomotive around which mechanics and firemen were at work " Rhine Wine" was float No. 46, the next in the line of procession. On a high mounatln sat " Father Rhine," with his favorite daughter," Moselle," near him. In picturesque groups farther below, were " Neckar" and " Aar." In the valley, a vineyard with wine stocks and grape arbors where the harvest was In progress was to be seen. Farther on was a cellar under the rook where the process of filling and tapping the kegs was In full progress. The " German Opera" was a broad subject for a float It was admirably represented, however. The principal characters of some of the most popular operas hy Mozart, Weber and Beethoven were grouped on the chariot Don Juan, Donna Anna. Elvira, Le- porello, Agathe, Max, Samuel, Leonora and Pocco were seated below a representation of Dame Music. One of the finest floats In the procession, and one in which the people of New-York were greatly interested, was that of the " Wagner Opera." A rock, on the top of which glittered the Rhlnegold guarded by three Rhine nymphs, as In the first act of " Rhelngold," rose from the oentre. The bust of the famous maestro towered above the rock. To the right were Wotan and Brunhflde, and to the left. Hans Sachs and Eric in beautiful representations. In the front stood Venus and Tannhauser, and at the back In a cave, Fafner, the dragon, near whom Siegfried was forging his sword, " Nothung." Lohengrin and Elsa completed the list. MORE PRACTICAL SUBJECTS. No. 53 was the "Art of Cooking," showing the culinary advance in America since its discovery. In the front part of the wagon was a group of In dians gathered about an old kettle, while the rest of the wagon was taken up with a modern kitchen, with all its improvements and appliances. The contrast W8iS sti'iliin ^ The next float, " The Butcher Trade," escorted by over 500 men, carried a large bull and heifer, with blocks by which butchers in red shirts and white aprons stood ready to carve beef according to order. Flowers were strewn about In profusion. The float, "Provisions," which followed was de vised as a vindication of the American hog bearing the inscription: "It shall go to Germany r^t." The principal figure, a silver pig, was surrounded by a, group of butchers in the1 historic costume of the old butchers' guild, a red jacket, white and redrstrlped shirt, black velvet kneebreoches and gray stockings. The neat float, "Agricultural Implements "showed the advance In that line of industry. The scythe 'and slokle of the old-time farmer were exhibited alongside of the reaper and mower of to- day. An interesting float was No. 57, " Tho Shoe Trade." A representation of the shop of Hans Sachs, the shoe maker-poet of Nuremberg, with the little window and old-fashioned shoes,, was tho principal attraction. The stylish and well-made shoes of the present day acted as decorations. The interesting float of the "Furniture Trade," with the complete store containing furniture of every de scription, was followed by that of the " Basket-Mali»is." It consisted of a temple on columns, woven of twigs and crowned by an eagle. A basket hung from the temple, around which were fanciful " koibs" of all kinds. COLUMBIA AND GERMANIA. The second division was ended by the float " Colum bia and Germania." From her lofty seat, surmounted by the Washington Monument, arose Columbia to r»- oelve with outstretched hands Germania. Germania was followed by representations of the various tribes of the German Nation In their characteristic and picturesque costumes, embracing those from the Ba varian Alps and Tyrol to the Isle of Ruegen, from the Oder to the Rhine. OFFICERS OF THE THIRD DIVISION. The Third Division, with the Chief Marshal and his aides, was escorted by the Nineteenth Ward Cavalry under the command of Captain Peter Busch. They marched in the following order : Jirst sub-division— New-York Sharpshooters with 12 mounted men and 200 men In line under A. Becker. Second sub-division : Plattdeutscher Volksfest Verein consisting of 95 societies, in command of Chief Mar shal John Riefe, and his aides, Colonel Anton Meyer, Captain George Landwehr, C. Rehm, Henry Fischer, Theodore Brandenburg, H. Broyer, H. Vogeley, P. V. Frankenberg and Hermann Hahnenfeld. Third sub-division— Singing Societies Inoluding Elehenkranz with 100 members; Saengerrunde, 70 members; Rheinischer Saengerband, 50 members; Theodore Koerner Ledertafel, 80 members; Concordia Maennerchor, 50 members ; and Concordia Quartet, 30 members. , , Fourth "ub-divlsion— Deutscher order Harugarl under Grand Master Adam Metzger, Deputy Grand Master H. Mueller, Grand Warden F. Sibus and Grand Secretary Charles Laufus. .It Included Arminia Lodge, No 1 ; Central Park Lodge, No. 2 : Allemania Lodge, No. 4 • Wilhelm Tell Lodge No. 5 ; Walhalla Lodge No. 6; Washington Lodge, No. 7; Deutsche Eiche Lodge, No 14' Niebelungen Lodge, No. 15; Sokrates Loage, No' 17; Venus Lodge No. 25; New-York Lodge No. 28 '¦ Odin Lodge No. 81; Kings County Lodge No. 86; Fortuna Lodge No. 102; Marleott Lodge No. 145; Deutsche Bundes Lodge No. 146 ; Brooklyn Lodge No. 162 • Koerner Lodge No. 171 ; Frel Munner Lodge No. 193 : Concordia Lodge No. 232 ; Herkules Lodge No. "34 : Deutsche Reichs No. 250. J. Becker. West- cheiW County Lodge No. 251 ; Rosenthal Lodge No. 257- Columbus Lodge No. 260; Jefferson Lodge No. 268 ; Knickerbocker Lodge No. 280 ; Ida Lodge No. "Hi- Keonler Lodge No. 294; Holsatio Lodge No. 297 : G.uftenberg Lodge No. 327 ; Feuerbach Lodge No. qn the pedestal, and they only agreed to rescind it from day to day upon the rais ing of the cost of each day's work, about S3 60. The committee appealed to the country, got the President of the Uniied States to head the National subscription with a dollar, nationalized the work, made small subscriptions respectable, and worked the ground thoroughly. The co-operation "Of a newspaper became essential, and the work was then taken up by the press. The scheme now attracting the main attention ofthe members of the New-York society is the erection of a statue to Nathan Hale. A site has already been secured in the northwest corner of City Hall Park, and lively progress in the under taking is only awaiting the choice of a satisfactory design. Already $3,500 has been raised, although no systematic plan of getting contributions has been undertaken. Nothing further will be done in this direction until something definite is known about a design. Besides the monument fund there is a building fund of $2,000 and another for the assistance of needy members. The money for this last is sup plied from initiation fees. It is the purpose of the society, however, to avoid undertakings not allied in character with that of the plan for a monument to Nathan Hale. There is being collected by the society a number of interesting documents, all of historic value, and it is expected that when a permanent house has been secured many more will be given to the society or deposited there for safe keep ing, A medal has already been struck off, and diplomas on parchment are now being made for the members. Mr. Mont gomery, the secretary, is engaged in the laborious task of getting together a record of the services of the ancestors of every member for publication in book form. This work requires a vast amount of research in public and private libraries, as well as the assistance of the members with the docu ments and records they may possess. Several badges have been adopted by the New- York society since its organization. The first was a small enamelled gold pin. The second was a larger one. The latest is pendant from a ribbon of dark blue, edged with buff (the colors of the Revolution ary Army uniform),and consists of a gold medallion, elliptical in form, surmounted by a gold eagle with wings displayed inverted. On the obverse side of the medallion is a soldier in Continental uniform with musket slung, and beneath him the figures " 1776," the whole being surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five points upon a border of dark-blue enamel. On the reverse side of the medallion is the face of Washington, after Houdin, encircled by the legend, " Sons of the Revolution." A NATIONAL SOCIETY FORMED. SOCIETIES IN THE DIEEERENT STATES, AS FAR AS ORGANIZED. Societies of " Sons of the Revolution" have sprung into existence in various States, in re sponse to the general desire felt in all parts of the country for many years for an organization which would admit into membership the de scendants of not only the officers of the American Revolution, but of the soldiers, sailors and civil officials who took an active part in bringing about the independence of the country. The Society of the Cincinnati, now greatly re duced in numbers, has always restricted its mem bership to oiScers of the Revolution and oldest sons in the male line ; and, while a slight tendency to broaden the conditions of membership has been exhibited within the past few years, yet the " Cincinnati" must, in the nature of things, al ways remain an order which will exclude from membership some of the best blood in the United States. The idea of a society broad enough to take in all who can claim descent from any of the men who took an active part in achieving American independence lws repeatedly presented itself to patriotic minds in different parts of the country. CALIFORNIA LEADS. California was the first to organize a society of descendants of the American Revolution. A celebration of the centennial of tbe Fourth of July, 1776, was under discussion in San Fran cisco; and on June 29, 1876, the following call was published in the newspapers of that city: " The descendants of the Revolutionary pa triots are reouested to meet at the headquarters of the Grand Marshal, at No. 212 Kearney-st., at 8 o'clock this evening, for the purpose of making arrangements to participate in the celebration." In response to that call about forty men as sembled at the place referred to. General A. M. Winn presided, and Dr. E. L. Willard was chosen secretary. All present signed the roll. William S. Moses was chosen marshal, and about eighty members marched in the local centennial parade, July 4, 1876. Among them were Colonel A. A. Andrews, Asa B. Wells, Warren Holt, Phineas U. Blunt, S. B. Leavitt, Andrew Dunlap and others, some of them eighty years of age. After the parade they marched to the Palace Hotel and partook of refreshments, and there organized as a " Society of Sons of Revolutionary Sires," with General A. M. Winn as president. Member ship was based on descent from " the patriots who took part in the Revolution against the Enghsh, which resulted in the surrender of Lord Corn- wallis at Yorktown, October 19, 1781, and the final establishment of the United States of America as a Republic." The California society pros pered greatly, and soon after its birth invited the organization of societies in other States. The officers of the Californian organization now are : President, Colonel A. S. Hubbard : vice- presidents, Charles James King and David Meeker ; secretary, Charles H. Graves; treasurer, James P. Damron; marshal, William Schuyler Moses; chaplain, Rev. Charles M. Blake, J. S. A. ; Execu tive Committee, Colonel Uriah Wallace, Colonel David Wilder and Colonel W. B. Eastin. Hon. Caleb T. Fay, Captain A. C. Tayler and Loren Pickering have at different times been presidents of the society. NEW- YORK NEXT. New-York City formed the second society in the country, December 4, 1883, under the title of " Sons of the Revolution." At the present time this is the largest and most flourishing society in the country. Its record is fully pre sented above. PENNSYLVANIA. In 1888 a society was organized in Phildel- phia under the presidency of General William Wayne, a grandson of General Anthony Wayne, of the Revolution. NEW-JERSEY NEXT. New-Jersey came next, with a society which was organized March 7, 1889, on the motion of the New-Jersey members of the New-York society, at the Board of Trade Rooms in the city of Newark. Officers were eleoted as follows: JVice-president, Alexander Wilder, Morristown,' secretary, J. C. Pumpelly, Morristown ; treasurer? Paul Revere, Morristown; registrar, John Law rence Boggs, Newark; historian, General WiHiam S. Stryker, Trenton; managers," Samuel Chase THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. 123 Coale, of Rutherford; General E. Burd Grubb, of Edgewater Park; Julian Hawthorne, of Scotch Plains ; Henry W. Howell, of Elizabeth ; WiUiamO McDowell, of Newark; Henry L. Potter, of Lin den ; August Le Fevre Revere, of Morristown ; Gen- «w^-i|-|4sti5r^' ^^enton; C. E. McDowell, of BloomfieM; J. Frank Lindley, of Morristown, and George W. Jones, of Newark. Subsequently Governor Robert S. Green, of Eliz abeth was elected president, and December 26 the anniversary of the battle of Trenton, was desig nated as the time for the annual meeting and dinner. When the New-Jersey society was organized its members were strongly impressed with the impor tance of a topic which had long been discussed in the New-York society, viz. : extension of the order of bons of the Revolution all over the United States. At the original meeting, on March 7 the following resolution was adopted : " Whereas, There are now organized Societies of the Sons of the Revolution in the States of New- York, Pennsylvania and New- Jersey, and " Whereas, It is desirable, in view of the ap proaching 100th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States, that there shall be sister societies organized in every State and Territory in the Union, particularly in the thirteen original States, that their members may participate in this Cen tennial Celebration; "Resolved, That the president of this society, when elected, and the two delegates to the National society are hereby appointed a committee to invite the appointment of a like committee from the New- York and Pennsylvania societies to co-operate with them and to meet with the descendants of Revolu tionary ancestors in the different States and Terri tories and assist in organizing societies whose mem berships shall be composed exclusively of descend ants of Revolutionary statesmen, soldiers and sailors." William O. McDowell, J. C. Pumpelly and Gen eral W. S. Stryker were appointed members of this committee on the part of the New-Jersey society The New-York society was not at the time prepared to co-operate with the New-Jersey »ons, owing to a difference of view as to the status of State societies. The officers of the New-York society considered it desirable that the different State 'societies should be auxiliary branches of the New- York society, which, having amended its con stitution, was prepared to operate as a National organization perpetual in duration and one and in divisible in membership, but with branches in the several States. The other States preferred to or ganize independent or sister societies. Owing tn this difference of view, and to a desire on the part of the New- York Society to move more deliberately m National organization, the labor of National or ganization fell entirely upon the New-Jersey com mittee. MASSACHUSETTS. Massachusetts was prompt to respond to New- Jersey's call. March 30, 1889, a few gentlemen met at the State House in Boston, and Mr. Mc Dowell, of the New-Jersey committee, explained the objects of the organization, its growth in his pwn and other States, and so impressed the meet ing with the importance of organizing a society in •the Commonwealth which holds Lexington, Con cord and Bunker Hill, that a committee was ap pointed to arrange for a general meeting of the de scendants of " heroes of the Revolution." Such a meeting was held in Tremont Temple, Boston, April 19, in response to a call signed by John CJmncy Adams, of Quincy; G. W. Brown, of Lex ington; William G. Prescott, of Boston; Nathan L. Revere, of Worcester ; A. A. Stocker, D. D., of Cambridge ; Luther L. Tarbell. of Marlboro ; John C. Warren, M. D., of Boston ; Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston ; Andrew H. Ward, of Boston ; and Clar ence S. Ward, of Allston. The attendance was large and the meeting enthusiastic. There were present nineteen own sons of Revolutionary sires, grandsons, great-grandsons, great-great-grandsons, and a few women descendants. A plan of organi- zationi with constitution and by-laws, was unani mously adopted, and officers elected to serve until the annual meeting, June 17. The fee for mem bership was fixed at $1, annual dues at $2. Other matters necessary in completing the organization were referred to the Board of Managers. The managers met at the Quincy House April 24. The Rev. H. S. Huntington was elected chaplain ; L. L. Tarbell, registrar; and J. M. Gushing, a director. The following is the complete list of officers : President— Hon. Chas. H. Saunders, Oambridge. "Vice-President— Hon, William N. Davenport, Marlboro. Sec'y and Treas — Clarence S. Ward, Allston. Registrar— Luther L. Tarbell, Marlboro. Historian— A. A. Stocker, M. D., Cambridge. Chaplain— Rev. H. S. Huntington, Dorchester. Directors— John L. Stevenson, Boston ; John G. Crawford, Clinton ; Joshua M. Cushing, Duxbury ; George A. Cotting, Hudson ; William H. Pearson, Boston ; Nathan L. Revere, Worcester ; Hon. Peter Fay, Southboro; Hon. H. H. Coolidge, Boston; Andrew H. Ward, Boston ; Mark J. Folsom, Cam bridge; William Barnes, Marlboro; William. B. Clarke, Boston; Calvin T. Ladd, Dorchester ; A. B. Frye, Boston ; George W. Brown, Lexington. It is estimated that there are a hundred thou sand men in Massachusetts eligible to membership ; and the formation of auxiliary " Societies of Daughters of the Revolution?' is under discussion. The first celebration by the Massachusetts society will be on the 1 7th of June at Lexington. Vermont: Vermont organized a society at Montpelier, April 3, with officers as follows : President, Colonel Edward A. Chittenden, of St. Albans ; vice-president, Colonel W. Seward Webb, of Shel- burne; secretary, Colonel Charles S. Forbes, of St. Albans; treasurer, William H. Zottman, of Burlington; registrar, Hiram A. Huse, of Mont pelier ; historian, the Rev. Howard F. Hill, of Mont pelier ; managers, Governor William P. Dillingham, of Waterbury ; William A. Chapin, of Middlesex ; D. W. Duon, of Grand Isle; G. G. Benedict, of Burlington ; Colonel Levi K. Fuller and the officers ex-officio. CONNECTICUT. A society was formed in the State of Connecti cut on April 4, at a meeting of about forty gentlemen at the State Capitol in Hartford, David Clark presiding. The following officers were chosen : President, Lucius P. Deming, of New- Haven; vice-president, Jonathan Trumbull, of Norwich; secretary, M. H. Whaples, of Hart ford; treasurer, R. B. Lacy, of Bridgeport; regis trar, Jonathan F. Morris, of Hartford; historian, Professor C. F. Johnson, of Trinity College; man agers, S. R. Hubbard, of Hartford ; F. H. Hart, of New-Haven; Sheldon B. Thorpe, of North-Haven; John A. KeUogg, of Waterbury ; Dr. R. W. Gris- wold, of Rocky HiU; Henry B. Jones, of New- Hartford ; Tahnadge Swift, of Warren ; James A. Brown, of Stonington; F. E. Camp, of Middle- town; L. M. Middlebrook, of Bridgeport, and John H. Swartwout, of Stamford. MISSOURI. A society was organized in St. Louis, Mo., on April 23, in response to a caU issued by a small preliminary meeting held on the 11th of the month. OfTcers were elected as follows: Presi dent, Josiah Fogg; vice-presidents, M. M. Yeakel, Charles McLaren, William S. Stamps and E.j C. Cabell ; secretary, H. J. Bliss : treasurer, Dr. Charles E. Briggs; executive committee, Gams Paddock; Robert B. Clarke, and Charles A. Mantz. OTHER STATES. As a further result of the work of the New- Jersey committee, societies have been organized in South Carolina, Kentucky. Illinois, Ohio, Mich igan, New-Hampshire and Maryland. 124 THE WASHINGTON CENTENARY. A society is in process of formation in Ala bama, at the instance of the following committee of residents of Birmingham : Goldsmith Bernard West, John Randolph Bryan, T. C. Bryan, Will- iana B. Lightfoot and Dr. John Randolph Page. Every other State and Territory is moving in the matter. The descendants of the French sol diers that aided us to independence are also or ganizing the French Society of the "Sons of the American Revolution." NATIONAL ORGANIZATION. A National organization of " Sons of the Amer ican Revolution" was formed in New- York City on April 30 and May 1, 1889— the second and third days of the Centennial Celebration. In view of the fact that the time was too short to complete the organizing of a society of " Sons of the Revolution" in every State and Territory so that they could elect delegates to this meeting, it had been decided by the New-Jersey Special Committee to request the Governor of every State and Territory in which a society of the " Sons of the Revolution" should not have been organized to appoint three delegates, descendants of Revolu tionary ancestry, to represent those in their State entitled to membership at the organization of the National Society, and after the adjournment to take charge of organizing their State societies. The following is a list of the delegates appointed to attend the convention, those marked with a star being actually present. New-Jersey— W. 0. McDowell,* General W. S. Stryker and J. C. Pumpelly* ; G. B. Hubbell and Paul Revere,* alternates. California.— The Hon. Hamilton Fish, Colonel A. S. Hubbard, Colonel David Wilder and Major G. B. Halsted*; General R. B. Hayes, the Hon. Chas. H. Denison and Chas. J. King, alternates. Ohio.— W. R. Parsons and Wilson L. Gill.* Connecticut.— The Hon. Lucius P. Deming,* the Hon. Samuel E. Merwin, David Clark, F. F. Starr,* Franklin H. Hart, and the Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D„ LL. D. Missouri.— Gaius Paddock,* and Jared Flagg. Delaware.— A. J. Woodman.* New-York.— — Luce.* , West Virginia.— The Hon. J. B, Jackson, H. S. Walker, Bushrod C. Washington, E. W. Wilson. Arkansas.— Colonel Samuel W. Williams, J. H. Shinn, James Mitchell. Alabama.— Dr. C. C. Page.* Vermont.— Hon. L. E. Chittenden. Pennsylvania.— J. G. Leach.* Hlinois.— General George B. Abbott.* Massachusetts.— The Hon. C. H. Saunders, the Hon. Luther L. Tarbell,* Clarence F. Ward* and N. C. Upham.* New- Hampshire.— The Hon. Charles R. Mor rison,* the Hon. H. K. Slayton* and Fred. Leigh- ton.* South Carolina.— Governor J. P. Richardson, Hon. Wade Hampton, Dr. N. N. Tulley, Colonel W. McMaster, N. G. Gonzales and G. L. Calloway.* Maryland.— The Rev. John G. Morris, D. D., Lieutenant James C. Cresap,* U. S. N., the Hon. E. W. Lecompte. Indiana.— The Hon. John C. New, H. S. New, M. Merrill and Dr. G. W. McConnell. Fourteen States were represented by the twenty- two persons actually in attendance. The first meeting was held at 9 a. m.., April 30, at Fraunce's Tavern, corner of Broad and Pearl sts., in the room in which Washington bade farewell to his officers. The Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D-, LL. D., opened the assembly with prayer, and W. O. MoDowell, of New-Jersey, made an address urging the neces sity of National organization. Brief addresses were made by other delegates. L. L. Tarbell, of Massachusetts, son of a soldier of the Revolution,' declined the nomination for chairman, and Mr. McDowell was unanimously chosen to preside. Lieutenant J. C. Cresap, United States Navy, of Maryland, was made sec retary. . A committee was appointed to frame a consti tution and by-laws and to nominate officers. The- committee was composed of the chairman ex-oincio, and one delegate from each State society. Mr. Tarbell was selected as chairman. Awaiting a report, the convention adjourned to the following: day, to meet at the Produce Exchange, where rooms had been courteously placed at its disposal. The convention reassembled May 1, and received the committee's report. The convention, after- mature deliberation upon the constitution and by-laws, formally adopted the same. Officers were then elected as follows : President— The Hon. Lucius P. Deming, New- Haven, Conn. m Vice-President-at-Large— Mr. William O. Mc Dowell, Newark, N. J. Vice-Presidents, by States— Colonel A. S. Hub bard, San Francisco, Cal. ; Governor Simon B. Buckner, Frankfort, Ky. ; the Hon. Hamilton Fish. New-York City; the Hon. J. C. Kinney, Hartford, Conln, ; the Hon. C. H. Denison, Portland, Me.; the Hon. B. C. Washington, Charleston, W. Va. ; Governor D. R. Francis, St. Louis, Mo. ; Colonel C. Williams, Little Rock, Ark.; the Hon. Ben jamin Harrison, President of the United States, Indiana; the Hon. G. B. West, Birmingham, Ala. ; Governor Wade Hampton, Columbia, S. C. ; Governor Robert S. Green, Trenton, N. J. ; the Rev. John G. Morris, D. D., Baltimore, Md. ;, the Hon. L. L. Tarbell, Marlboro, Mass. ; tho Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes, Fremont, Ohio; Horn. H. K: Slayton, Manchester, N. H. ; Mons.' de Lafayette, Senateur, Paris, France; Governor W. P. Dillingham, Montpelier, Vt. ; Admiral D. D. Porter, U. S. N., for District of Columbia. Chaplain— The Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., LL. D., Yale College. Secretary— Lieutenant James C. Cresap, U. S. N., Annapolis, Md. Assistant Secretaries^Mr. Charles James King, San Francisco, Cal. ; Mr. G. L. Callaway, Green ville, S. C. ; Mr. Wilson L. Gill, Columbus, Ohio. , Treasurer— Mr. Gaius Paddock, St. Louis, Mo. Registrar— The Hon. Thomas Marshall Green, Maysville, Ky. The president, vice-president-at-large and see. retary were authorized to add vice-presidents for other States as fast as societies are organized in other States. April 30 was designated as the date for the annual meeting of the National Society, and it was tacitly agreed that the annual meeting for 1890 shall be held in Louisville, Ky., 1891 in Bos ton, and in 1892 in New-York, subject to action of the Board of Managers. Article II of the constitution states the objects of the society as follows: "The purpose of this society, is to keep alive among ourselves and our descendants, and in the community the patriotic spirit of the men who achieved American independence ; to collect and secure for preservation the manuscript rolls, records and other documents relating to the War of the Revolution, and to promote social inter course and fellowship among its members, now and hereafter." 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