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Show TERCENTENARY MAY BE ABANDONED New York, March 2G. Plans for the celebration of the tercentenary ot the establishment of commerce at this port, which have been started on an elaborate scale, may be abandoned. aban-doned. Prominent members of the celebration cele-bration committee, including Cornelius Corne-lius Vanderbilt, Herman Ridder and Judge Alton B. Parker went before the board of estimates yesterday and asked that the city appropriate ?250,- I 000. They protested in vain when i Mayor MItchel said the city could I contribute but $25,000 because Its fi- ; nances were at so low an ebb. ' The committeemen left after de- 1 clarlng that they did not Bee how tho plans for the celebration could be j carried out with this sum of money, ' and It might be best to abandon the j project. j |