Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-10-03 | Page 1 | Great Celebration Drawing to a Close

GREAT CELEB'UTIII - Oil 11.48 AlLOSE Spectacular Parade Ends New York's Share iii Historic His-toric Event. NEW YORK, Oct. 2. New York City's share in the Hudson-Fulton celebration cele-bration ended tonight with a carnival parade and a display of fireworks and warship illuminations on the Hudson river. Tomorrow most of tho half-hundred ineu-of war anchored hero will begin be-gin thoir preparations for departure and the city ;s hall'-milliou visitors will pack their trunks and turn homeward. The city was in its gayest mood tonight to-night for tho carnival pageant with thousands of marching men in costume of varied character aud ils fifty elaborate elabor-ate floats designed to recall not only tho myths, legends aud allegories of the old world, but also historical scenes which have inspired the writers of poo-try, poo-try, music and drama. . At 8 o'clock, when the long proces sion started the crowd of spectators was the greatest of the week's celebration. Magnificent Pageant. Leading the pagoant was an ornamented orna-mented car- in the shape of a giant dragon spouting llanies and surrounded by tire. For all tho floats and their inarching escorts, German, Swiss,- Austrian Aus-trian aud other societies provided the characters, who were dressed in appropriate appro-priate costume, sparkling with spangles ami gill braid beneath the half-million electric lights which blazed along the course. At the end of the parade was "Uncle Sam welcoming the nations," preceded 13' Cinderella with. her slipper and her prince. During the day tho children of Greater Great-er New York had their fling. The whole city swarmed with tho youthful celebrants and children's carnivals were hold iii' every available open spot throughout tho five boroughs. There wore forty-six separate parades in which 500,000 children took part. Because of weather conditions there n'ore no flights by Glenn H. Ourfiss or Wilbur Wright from Governors' Island today.