Show ON THE THIRD MY Continuation of the Centennia Celebrationill New York 3IABCH OF THE CIVIL SOCIETIES President Harrison RevIews the Arts md Trades Processions The Floats and Banners Ban-ners The Ladies Dined NEW YOIIK May IThe third day of the great Washington centennial celebration celebra-tion brokb clear and cool The chief and cear anl most notable feature of the day is the great civic and industrial parade which started shortly after 10 oclock at Fifth avenue ani Fif seventh street and will march in reverse re-verse order over the route of yesterday parade down Fifth avenue to Seventeenth street to and around Union square by Fourteenth street to Fifth avenue to Washington square by Waverly place t Broadway and down that thoroughfare to Pine street President Harrison is iu the reviewin stand at Madison square The parade vill be led by Mayor Grant and representative delegates from the civil industrial and commercial organizations When the reviewing re-viewing stand was reached the mayor presented pre-sented an address to the President This body then took places on either side of the President and after him received the honors of the parade Next came General Butterfield chief marshal and staff The first tableau the DECLARATION OP INDEPENDENCE was intended to represent the reading of the Declaration by John jSixon in state house yard Philadelphia July S 177S This float was surrounded by an escort of 100 members of the Society of Veterans of the Regular Army and Navy The next float represented Washington and his generals mounted Washington as commanderinchief occupied the center of the line MajorGenerals Ward Putnam Philip Schuyler and Charles Ice were on either side Closely following are nine arigadiergenerals the number appointed ay the Continental Congress at Philadelphia Philadel-phia in 1775 Also the Marquis de Lafayette Lafay-ette Baron Stcuben InspectorGenera bae olh Count Rpchambeau and others Following this came a float representing Washington Crossing the Delaware with a guard of several hundred cadets in uniform Then came 3500 school children escorting the tableau of Washington at Valley Forge which represents the winter quarters at Valley Forge and the meeting of General Washington with Baron Steuben sick and wounded soldiers sol-diers The Exempt Firemens association of the city to the number of 200 came next After them came the Tammany hall braves a genuine Indian squaw and two copper colored braves with color more than skii deep accompanying them Other displays in the line included a mammoth globe representing the New York World the Manhattan Ship Joiners association asso-ciation with a mammoth model of the ship Hoboken and the fire department with their antiquated hook and ladder Several temperance societies and the I Knights of Pythias preceded the float I resignation of a commission and the Yonkers Cadet Corps escorted T THE FIST IXAUOCKATlOJf Between the Washington continentals and 1000 Sons of Veterans was the elaborate tableau the State of Virginia representing a ship of the sixteenth entury with adventurers in Elizabethan costumes crowding the poop deck descrying crying land Then followed a series tableaux renre seating the various states as follows New YorkBoat load of Dutch Sailors andY and-Y o agers Massachusetts Anchoring of the Mayflower Delaware Christening of Savages Maryland Lord Baltimore ant George Calvcrt Pennsylvania Penns Treaty GeorgiaThe Last Pro Revolutionary Colonial Settlement After these came the Caledonian club of New York and the Twent ninth Highland I regiment of veterans The Swiss centennial centen-nial committee with Swiss tableaux was escorted by the Centennial sharpshooters Chen came the firemens division Chief among these COO members of New York volunteer firemen were 4 men iu this division vision next were 4000 of the Brooklyn po ice Then came the Manhattan ship joiners join-ers and floats exhibiting their handicraft operative plasterers society at work cloak and suit industry plying scissors and needle marble cutters scattering chips W 0 Brooklyn plumbers 800 Brooklyn carpenters car-penters JOOO members of the Union of Carpenters > Car-penters and Joiners of America Next came the Italian division The Italian mili ary association turned out thirteen com panics the civic societies as many more One of their floats was a large boat on which were represented COLUMBUS AND WASHINGTON discoverer and father The second float foat represented Italy and America sitting among the flowers The Scandinavian American societies also made a good shown show-n < r The Germans had a notable division First came the GermanAmerican sharpshooters sharp-shooters to the number of over three hun dred then the singing societies The feature fea-ture of this part of the parade however was the great number of tableaux and floats nearly all the important historical vents and the progress of the last century in the arts and sciences being represented Almost every trade known to man had rep eseutatives among the German population and at least a few artisans from each were in i line There were also floats showing Germanys favorite sports and allegories of Bacchus KinpJ Carnival Arise Cariva Aan Columbia andGermania In all sixty melpomene floats The third brigade of the German division was made up of various organizations from this and neighboring cities comprising the singing societies shooting clubs and mill ary associations Next come the Hiber nians who humbered 10000 some unit ormedsome not An elaborate float The World Moves On added another feature to the column After a number of trades organizations passed the United Polish societies eties came along one of their floats sh wing w-ing how paper boxes are made Then the colored centennial committee with George Vashingtons coach drawn by four horses After the colored delegation came the regu lar Irish section of the parade This in eluded nearly all the IrishAmerican sod etes oi New York the Papa Veterans 8000 in number of the Society of the Holy Name 0000 more of the Ancient Order of ibernians 4000 of Provincial Council of Temperance societies and a dozen Catholic benevolent societies Straggling at the end of tho line were a lot of impromptu advertisements of patent nostrums The President left the reviewing stand at 310 and drove to VicePresident Morns Mor-ns It is estimated that up to that time 9 000 men had passed before him President Harrison i and party will leave for Washington at 5 this afternoon |