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 THE diligent student of history, in 
 his examination of the rise, prog- 
 ress and decline of the nations of 
 the earth, will be led to this observation, 
 that every age, from the earliest times. 
 has produced its great men, and that 
 some one among them has stood out among 
 his fellows prominent for virtue, courage, 
 a leader of armies, or as a ruler over the 
 lives ami destinies of his countrymen; 
 ami also, that their biographies, incom- 
 plete as 111:1113 el' them are. are only frag- 
 ments of the history of the countries in 
 which they lived. 
 
 But while this is true of most of the 
 ancient commonwealths, later centuries, 
 with more critical historians, have elabo- 
 rated the lives of their heroes so com- 
 pletely as to bring not only into view the 
 traits of character that men always honor 
 ami applaud, but disclose too frequently 
 their selfishness, rapacity and cruelty, 
 mixed with what would otherwise lie a 
 well rounded life. Iiut still with all their 
 faults how we delight to follow them 
 through the various critical and perilous 
 situations in which they have been placed; 
 to view them in the extremes of adverse 
 and prosperous fortune; to trace their 
 progress through all the difficulties they 
 have surmounted, and contemplate their 
 
 conduct at a time when, the power and 
 pomp of office having disappeared, it may 
 he presented to us in the simple garb of 
 
 truth. 
 
 If among those exalted characters which 
 are produced in every age, none can have 
 a. fairer claim to the attention of mankind 
 than those under whose auspices great 
 empires have been founded, or political 
 institutions, deserving to he permanent, 
 established, how much regard will a 
 representation of the life, character and 
 public services of America's favorite son — 
 George Washington— meet with from the 
 citizens of this last, best and greatest of 
 the nations. 
 
 The opening of the present year, and 
 the inaugural of Benjamin Harrison as the 
 23d President of these United States, 
 marks the dawn of the second century of 
 our national life, and as we turn our gaze 
 backward, we see an image without sem- 
 blance in the history of the 'world — a 
 figure whose glorious yet serene light will 
 continue to illuminate the pathway of just 
 government so long as men have gratitude 
 in the remembrance of true greatness, and 
 have a sincere ambition to be true. 
 
 Look at Washington as you will — turn 
 your gaze to any side of his character — 
 and you behold a perfect man. Whether 
 
6 
 
 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 we perceive him at the head of armies, 
 during the most arduous and perilous war, 
 on the events of which our national exist- 
 ence was staked, supporting with invinci- 
 ble fortitude the unequal contest ; or that 
 war beiug happily terminated, his retiring 
 to private life, only — like Cincinnatus, 
 who was called from his plow to aid Home 
 in a critical period — to engage in the 
 counsels of his country with the same firm- 
 ness, wisdom and virtue, which he had so 
 successfully displayed in the field ; or as a 
 
 In the following brief sketch of Wash 
 ington's life and public services, ending 
 with the programme of the first inaugura- 
 tion ceremonies, it is not intended to deal 
 with every minute detail, for this would nec- 
 essarily make the history too prolix, but 
 rather for the anniversary occasion to pre- 
 sent the two sides of his life — public and 
 private — in the light of the testimony of 
 those who knew him, and whose testimony 
 is accepted by historians as conclusive. 
 The character of Washington, as summed 
 
 FEDERAL HALL. 
 
 SITE OF THE PRESENT SUB-TREASURY, COR. WALL AND NASSAU STREETS, WHERE WASHINGTON WAS 
 INAUGURATED THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 178,,. 
 
 chief magistrate at a t hue when the hap- 
 piness, liberty, and perhaps the preserva- 
 tion of his country depended on adminis- 
 tering the affairs of the Union, so that a 
 government standing on public favor, 
 which had with infinite difficulty been 
 adopted, and against which the must in- 
 veterate prejudices had been excited. 
 should conciliate public opinion, and ac- 
 quire a firmness and stability that would 
 enable it to resist the rude shocks it was 
 destined to sustain. 
 
 up by his contemporaries, was that he was 
 as simple as a child, invariably modest, 
 so deprecating of emolument, so emi- 
 nently fair to all men, so loving to his 
 countrymen and resigned to their every 
 command, so courageous, with fidelity, in- 
 tegrity, courtesy and nobility combined 
 in one nature as never before. 
 
 Washington Irving commences his life of 
 George Washington by a genealogical 
 chapter tracing the family to the eleventh 
 century, through ancient and honorable 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 descent. Mr. Irving carries us back to 
 the early days of the Plantagenets, when 
 the De Wessyngtons did manorial service 
 in battle and chase, to the military Bishop 
 of Durham. Sometime during the fifteenth 
 century the branch of the family in North- 
 amptonshire, who were loyalists in the 
 Cromwellian era, changed the name to 
 Washington. One Sir Henry gained re- 
 nown by his defense of Worcester. John 
 and Lawrence, two brothers, emigrated to 
 Virginia in 1667, and established them- 
 
 His father, who owned several planta- 
 tions in Stafford County, removed to one 
 of them shortly after his birth, and here, 
 before he was old enough to follow his half- 
 brother Lawrence (who had been sent to 
 England to be educated), his father died 
 from an attack < it' t he gout. This happened 
 in 1743, and George was left to the guard- 
 ianship of his mother; a trust, the witness 
 of which in universal praise in the molding 
 of the character of her noble son. can utter 
 no greater encomium than call her "the 
 
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 SUB-TREASURY AND STATUE OF WASHINGTON. 
 
 FORMERLY CUSTOM HOUSE, COR. WALL AND NASSAU STREETS, THE OLD SITE OF FEDERAL HALL, WHERE WASHINGTON 
 WAS INAUGURATED THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 17S9. 
 
 selves in Westmoreland County on the 
 Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers as 
 planters. John, who became colonel in 
 the Virginia service, was the grandfather 
 of Augustine, who married Mary Ball, the 
 belle of the county, and became the parent 
 of George Washington. The family home 
 was on Bridge's Creek, near the banks of 
 the Potomac. George, the eldest of six 
 children by this the second marriage of his 
 father, was born on the 22d of February, 
 1732. 
 
 mother of Washington." His rudiments of 
 learning were derived from the village 
 pedagogue, supplemented by the mother's 
 precepts and excellent instructions from 
 Sir Mathew Hale's ' ' Contemplations, Moral 
 and Divine," written by one who attained 
 a high station and who tells the secret of 
 his worth and success. And this very vol- 
 ume out of which Washington was taught 
 is still preserved at Mt. Vernon. At thir- 
 teen he penned " Rules of Behavior in Con- 
 versation and Company," abounding in 
 
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 WASHINGTON' CENTENNIAL. 
 
 nomely practical wisdom, something after 
 the style of Benj. Franklin. When still at 
 school it dawned upon him that he must 
 look tor some practical work, in the scant 
 conditions of his fortunes, and an event oc- 
 curred which, had Providence decreed its 
 being carried out, might have changed the 
 destiniesof hiscountry. His brother Law- 
 rence had served a lew years with the West 
 India licet of Admiral Vernon at the siege 
 of Carthegena, and in honor of his com- 
 mander had named the estate Mt. Vernon 
 on the Potomac. He had given up niili- 
 
 arithmetic, now at the age of sixteen, 
 served him in procuring with William Fair- 
 fax, Lawrence's father-in-law, a position as 
 surveyor. For three years he pursued this 
 vocation, when his brother Lawrence, 
 whose health had failed, died at Mt. Ver- 
 non, and his infant daughter also dying, 
 the estate passed to George, who thus be- 
 came owner of this memorable home. 
 
 Rumors of French and Indian aggres- 
 sions had already began to disturb the colo- 
 ny, and preparations were making to resist 
 a threatened attack. The colony having 
 
 BOWLING GREEN AND BATTERY DURING THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 t.ary life, and having married, settled down 
 to the enjoyment of domestic life, and 
 thinking well of militan service, procured 
 a midshipman's warrant for liis brother 
 George, but a mother's maternal instincts 
 interfered at the last moment, and His 
 Majesty's navy lost an excellent recruit, 
 and his dominions half a continent, while 
 the world gained a nation. 
 
 On leaving school he went, to live with 
 his brother Lawrence at Mt. Vernon. 
 Washington's studies of trigonometry and 
 
 been divided into military districts, for en- 
 listment, Washington was given command 
 of one, in 1T51, with the rank of major, at 
 the age of nineteen — a mark of confidence, 
 considering his youth, in his ability. In 
 1 753 Governor Dinwiddie, standing in need 
 of a resolute agent to carry a message to 
 the French commander of the Ohio, remon- 
 strating against the advancing occupation 
 of the territory, tendered it to Washington. 
 It was a hazardous and rough journey 
 across a wilderness of mountain, stream 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 and wood, inhabited by unfriendly Indians, 
 and it was a high compliment to Washing- 
 ton that he was chosen for the duty. 
 Leaving Williamsburg, with instructions^ 
 on the las) day of October, he reached the 
 borders of the settlement by the middle of 
 November, and then, with his little party 
 of eight, pursued hiswayto the forks of the 
 Ohio, now Pittsburg, where subsequently 
 Port Du Quesnewas built. After a con- 
 ference with the Indians, he had a journey 
 of one hundred ami twenty miles to reach 
 the French commander near Lake Erie 
 
 the French, and military preparations were 
 kept up with spirit. A Virginia regiment 
 ol three hundred men was raised for fron- 
 tier service and Washington made its lieu- 
 tenant colonel. Advancing with a portion 
 of his force, he fell in with Summonvilie at 
 the head of a party of French, and de- 
 feate i] them with the loss of their com- 
 mander, at Great Meadows. Being joined 
 by his whole force and additional troops 
 from South Carolina, he resolved, for the 
 death of his superior officer placed the 
 whole command on him, to attack Fort Du 
 
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 where, after delivering his dispatches on 
 Dee. 11th, and receiving answers, he 
 started on the return home, exposed to the 
 hostile savages, the inclemencies of the 
 weather and the frozen streams. Twice 
 was his life in peril, once from the bullel of 
 1111 Indian and again in crossing the Alle- 
 gheny on a raft beset with floating ice. He 
 reacln-d Williamsburg on January Kith 
 11 ls Journal, included in his report, was 
 reprinted in London. This confirmed the 
 growing impression as to (.he designs of 
 
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 Quesne, but learning oi the advance of a 
 large force of French and Indians, fell hack 
 on a stockade fort at Great Meadows, where 
 he was besieged, and after inflicting serious 
 'oss on his assailants, was forced to surren- 
 der, which he did with the honors of war, 
 and was allowed to return home, receiving 
 the thanks of the legislature of Virginia. 
 
 Washington now withdrew to Mi. Ver- 
 """ I1 "' :| time, hut the arrival of General 
 Braddock with his forces on the Potomac, 
 called him into action at the summons of 
 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 that officer, and ho became one of his staff. 
 He joined that officer at Winchester, but 
 being taken ill with a fever was obliged to 
 remain with the rear guard. But sick as 
 he was he reached the head of the army 
 the day before the fatal engagement on 
 that memorable 9th of July, 1755. He 
 had been a prudent counsellor, and had 
 advised his commander to use only pads 
 horses for baggage, and by a forced march 
 surprise Fort Du Quesne before it could be 
 reinforced. Braddock, however, unable or 
 unwilling to carry ont his advice, traveled 
 as ageustomed, and even the last sugges- 
 tion of Washington, to use the Virginia 
 Rajngers as skirmishers, was not taken. 
 The next day the march was taken up for 
 the Fort, and all proceeded well until at 
 two o'clock in the afternoon, as the little 
 army was winding up a hill covered with 
 a dense growth of trees, they were met by 
 a hidden lire from two ravines on either 
 Bide. Then was felt the want of Ameri- 
 can experience in fighting the Indians. 
 Braddock sent forward liis men in vain. 
 They could not light a hidden foe. Wash- 
 ington advised seeking protection from 
 the trees, but no, the British regulars 
 stood iii squads to be shot down, resulting 
 in an ignominious defeat, braddock soon 
 fell wounded and only survived the short 
 retreat to Great Meadows, where in a few 
 days he died and was buried. Washing- 
 ton himself had two horses shot under 
 him. and had his clothes riddled with 
 balls, bul escaped without a scratch. He 
 always attributed his escape to the pro- 
 tecting care of a kind Providence. 
 
 Three years after this disaster, in the 
 spring of 1758, he was enabled to take the 
 field with Virginia troops, joined to those 
 of General Forbes, and after various dis- 
 astrous movements, that might have re- 
 peated the former experience, drove the 
 French out of Fort Du Quesne, and closed 
 the French dominions on the > Hiio. 
 
 In the following January, Washington 
 was married to Mrs. Martha Custis. of 
 
 White House, New Kent County. This 
 lady, born in the same year with him, at 
 the age of twenty-seven, was in the full 
 bloom of youthful womanhood. Her 
 maiden name' was Dandridge and she was 
 of Welsh extraction, but the prudence and 
 gravity of her disposition eminently fitted 
 her to be the wife of Washington. She 
 was her husband's sole executrix, and 
 managed the complicated affairs of his es- 
 tates which he had left, involving the 
 raising of the crops and sale of them in 
 Europe, with ability. Her personal 
 charms at this time were highly spoken 
 of, the portrait of her painted at this time 
 by Wolaston shows her to present a neat, 
 animated figure, regular features, dark 
 chestnut hair, and hazel eyes, in a dress 
 which the whirligig of fashion has repro- 
 duced in late years. The story of his 
 courtship needs a brief mention. On his 
 last campaign he was waylaid by a resi- 
 dent on the York River, and pressed with 
 true Virginia hospitality to dine. Intent 
 on military duty he declined, but was 
 forced to accept. At the table he met 
 Mrs. Custis, and was so impressed with 
 her charms that his stay was prolonged 
 over night ; but mindful of the value of 
 time, and probably with the recollection 
 of what his timidity had cost him on a 
 former occasion, when another beauty, a 
 Miss Phillipse, had captivated liim, he 
 pressed his suit then and there, and cor- 
 responded with the lady during the cam- 
 paign just opening, ending with a brilliant 
 wedding at the lady's country sent in 
 January, 1759. 
 
 About this time he was elected a dele- 
 gate to the House of Burgesses of Vir- 
 ginia, where he continued to serve until 
 his country's call at the breaking oui <>',' 
 i he Revolution. It is narrated of him 
 that while in his seat in this assembly, the 
 Speaker by a vote of the House had been 
 directed to return thanks to him for his 
 
 eminent services, which he did in a sp ih 
 
 of glowing eloquence. Washington rose 
 
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 to express his thanks, but never voluble in 
 public became embarassed and could utter 
 not a word. 'Sit down, Mr. Washing- 
 ton," was the courteous relief of the 
 Speaker, "your modesty equals your 
 
 valor, and that surpasses the power of any 
 language I possess." Taking his wife 
 from her estate i<> Ids home in Mt. Ver- 
 non, he passed the time in quiet leisure, 
 with the two children by her former mar- 
 riage, a boy and girl, varied only by his 
 duties as delegate to the House of Bur- 
 gesses. In this quiet life he was happy, 
 and wrote a correspondent in London, "I 
 am now, I believe, fixed at this seat, with 
 an agreeable partner for life, and I hope 
 to find more happiness in retirement than 
 I ever experienced amid the wide and 
 bustling world." 
 
 His biographers have fondly detailed, 
 
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 from the numerous memoranda of his dia- 
 ries and note-books, many a scrap of in- 
 formation regarding his private life, and 
 the humblest proceeding of his farm busi- 
 ness and management of affairs. " Would 
 any one believe," says lie in one record of 
 1T68, "thai with one hundred and one 
 eou> actually reported at a late enumera- 
 tion of the cattle, I should still be obliged 
 to buy butter for my family ?" Even 
 items of personal apparel maybe gathered 
 from the orders to his London correspond- 
 ents, for ill I lie state of depend enee in which 
 
 the mother country kept her colonies it was 
 necessary to procure a coat or a pair of 
 shoes from London. An order like this tor 
 a coat for a man "six feet high and pro- 
 

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 portionally made, if anything slender for a with this message ■■ Prom the oldest .« 
 
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 shoes to his friend Colonel Beiler, when he the world " 
 
 availedhimselfofthatgentleznan'slast,^ Fifteen years of peaceful provincial life 
 
 little wider over the mstep," seems very was thus passed at V Vernon, when h 
 
 quaint to our style ol procuring the s- colonies began 1 ,„.!, /new a-ita 
 
 sities of a gentleman's outfit, [t was the tions. Prance had for rly furnishccfthe 
 
 amefor Mrs. Washington in the year of stirring then f opposition and es st- 
 
 abby the Brussels ace, even the play- blood al the c, f British statesmen 
 
 hings for little Miss Martha, <<a fashion Thai same parliament which had been so 
 
 able dress doll, to cost a guinea," or one wonderfully revived when I • nies 
 
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 for rougher handling to cosl Ave shillings ; seconded the call of Earl Chatham was 
 
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 eight years old, "neat pumps," "silver upon her defenders. The seeds of the 
 
 ;""" :i "; ' 1 ^«." ^rieties that Revolution were S in tTi struggl 
 
 LrwJhin^ ""}«** J™**"?* withPn , for it was n the co oS 
 
 ButWash g^, j ^ t0 decorate his home, became acqu. I with their own powers 
 
 /•" l | " n "';.';, his amihar handwriting and the weal ss of British soldiers. N„ 
 
 V ;i "' Alexandcr the Great, one of one better learned the less han Wash- 
 
 •" l,l,s( r"-;" Charlea Xn-ofSwe. ington. fie was impartial there was no 
 
 ;;" u ; ",; '"■'■" n i "" Kin S of '•— ■ faction in hu sition. The traditions 
 
 ^ He afterwards received from the of his friends, family | the provinces 
 
 greal Frederick ol Prussia, Inn portrail were all in favor of , ,,;,„,,. to the 
 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 British Government. He was not a politi- 
 cal agitator, or a fomentor of discontent. 
 The interests of his large landed estates. 
 and a revenue depending upon exports, 
 bound him to the British nation. But 
 there was one principle of his nature 
 stronger in its influence than all these 
 maternal ties — the love of justice ; and 
 when Patrick Henry rose in the House of 
 Burgesses to make his eloquent assertion 
 of the rights of the colony in the matter 
 of taxation, Washington was there in his 
 seat to respond to the 1 sentiment, Wash- 
 ington Irving says of this memorable 29th 
 of May, 1705: " It is probable that on the 
 present occasion his latent patriotism re- 
 ceived its first electric shock." Be this as 
 it may he took part in the first local Vir- 
 ginia resolutions, and on the first meeting 
 of Congress in Philadelphia attended that 
 honored body with Patrick Henry and 
 Edmund Pendleton. After the adjourn- 
 ment of Congress he attended the conven- 
 tion at Richmond, and when that body set 
 on foot a popular military organization, 
 Washington was on the committee to re- 
 port a plan. 
 
 'flu' second Continental Congress, of 
 which he was also a member, met at Phil- 
 adelphia in .May, 177.">, its members gath- 
 ering to deliberate with the echoes of the 
 musketry at Lexington ringing in their 
 ears. The blasts of war had gathered a 
 little provincial army around Boston, and 
 a national organization, with a Command- 
 er-in-chief, was now a. i essity, and al- 
 though the' selection was not free from local 
 jealousies, the superior merit of Washing- 
 ton was recognized and he was unanimously 
 elected on the 15th of June, by ballot, to 
 the high position. He felt, himself un- 
 equal to the task imposed on him, and 
 begged the gentlemen of the house to re- 
 member that he thoughl himself, "with 
 the utmosl sincerity, unequal to the com- 
 mand he was honored with." 
 
 He proceeded to Cambridge and took 
 command of tin; ann\ mi the 3d of July. 
 
 Bunker Hill had been fought, establishing 
 the valor of the militia, but with the good 
 material of the men there was an absolute 
 want of powder. Still, with these inade- 
 quate means Boston was beleaguered. Dor- 
 chester Heights fortified, and preparations 
 made to assail the town. The British, hin- 
 dered by a storm from a counter assault on 
 the American lines, evacuated the city on 
 the lTth of March, 1770, and sailed away 
 to Halifax. The next day Washington en- 
 tered Boston in triumph. For this Con- 
 gress voted him a gold medal bearing the 
 head of Washington, and on the reverse the 
 legend Hostibus primo fugatis. 
 
 New York was evidently to be the next 
 object of attack, and here Washington 
 gathered his forces and prepared for de- 
 fense. The Declaration of Independence 
 was received in camp in July. General 
 Howe, joined by his brother, Admiral 
 Howe, made their appearance in the lower 
 bay, bearing ineffectual propositions for 
 reconciliation. Washington, however, who 
 was aware of their nature, replied that they 
 were but pardons, and the Americans, who 
 had committed no otfense, but stood only on 
 their rights, were in no need of them. Ad- 
 ditional reinforcements arriving from Eng- 
 land, the British landed on Long Island 
 with a well-equipped army. Washington 
 made diligent preparations, and the forti- 
 fications on Long Island were planned by 
 General Greene. But Greene falling ill. the 
 command fell on General Putnam. The 
 passes through the hills being neglected, 
 though Washington had given particular 
 instructions to defend them, the British 
 passed through, and falling on the Ameri- 
 cans from opposite sides. defeated them with 
 great slaughter, taking many prisoners, 
 including Lord Sterling and General Sulli- 
 van. The works in Brooklyn were still 
 defensive from laud, but being exposed to 
 the fire of the fleet were untenable. Wash- 
 ington received more glory from his mem- 
 orable retreat than General Clinton from 
 his victory. For on the 29th of August,, 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 15 
 
 loss at Fort Washington, and the retreat 
 through the Jerseys. The days looked 
 dark. It was a time that "tried men's 
 souls." Washington was hampered by 
 the short enlistment of the men, and the 
 poverty of their equipment. But with a 
 phantom of an army he marched and 
 countermarched between the Hudson and 
 the Chesapeake, so perplexing the experi- 
 enced Generals of the enemy as to baffle 
 all their plans. Lord Howe had laid plans 
 for capturing Philadelphia, and had ap- 
 parently hemmed Washington in, when in 
 very despair he crossed the Delaware on 
 
 
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 two days after the battle, the American 
 army of nine thousand men, with horses, 
 artillery and baggage, were safely trans- 
 ferred to New York at night, under cover 
 of the fog. Washington was among the 
 last to cross. 
 
 After this followed the retreat to West- 
 chester, the affair at White Plains, the 
 
 Christinas Eve, and amid the floating cakes 
 
 of ice, and a storm of snow and hail, 
 readied the outposts at Trenton. Lieu- 
 tenant Monroe, afterwards our President, 
 was wounded in the onset, but being at- 
 tacked from another quarter, the Hes- 
 sians, losing their commander, General 
 Rahlj surrendered, a thousand prisoners 
 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 laying down their arms. General Howe 
 in astonishment sent Cornwallis in pursuit 
 and lie had his game seemingly secure, 
 with Washington on the same side of the 
 Delaware. But the Americans, by a bold 
 diversion at night, attacked his force left 
 at Princeton with success, though il cost 
 the lite of the gallant Mercer, and then 
 took up position at Morristown. Here he 
 watched the British, hut did not know 
 definitely their aim until their fleet ap- 
 peared in Delaware Bay. Visiting Phila- 
 delphia to make preparations tor defence, 
 and to confer with Congress, lie there 
 found the young .Marquis de Lafayette, 
 who had just ottered his sword and him- 
 self as a volunteer in the cause of Liberty. 
 The friendship there formed between 
 Washington and Lafayette continued 
 through life, and to this day we can 
 hardly think of one without the other 
 being recalled to memory. 
 
 The summer passed away while Lord 
 Howe was slowly making his way up the 
 Chesapeake to the Head of Elk to gain ac- 
 cess to Philadelphia through Maryland, 
 and the American army advanced to meet 
 him. The British forces numbered about 
 IS, lino men ; Washington could muster 
 two-thirds the number. On the east bank 
 of the Brandywine, at Chads Ford, Wash- 
 ington made his stand, but while the Brit- 
 ish feinted, as if to cross in force, Corn- 
 wallis crossed farther up the river, and 
 turned the American position. A rout en- 
 sued, and utter defeat was only saved by the 
 linn stand made by General Greene, who 
 occupied an advantageous position. La- 
 fayette was severely wounded in the leg. 
 Washington was not dismayed by the dis- 
 aster, but kept the field, though, as he in- 
 formed Congress, lie had one thousand 
 men barefoot. He could make noefl'ectual 
 resistance to the occupation of Philadel- 
 phia, but as the enemy had posted a de- 
 tachment at Germantown, Washington 
 planned a surprise. It was well arranged 
 and at the outset successful, but owing to 
 
 confusion in a dense fog and loss of time in 
 attacking a stone dwelling at the entrance 
 of the village, what would have been a 
 victory turned to partial defeat. The ac- 
 tion revived the hopes of the country in 
 proving that the spirit, resolution and valor 
 of the troops had not diminished, nor the 
 energy and confidence of their commander. 
 The Count de Vergennes, French Minister, 
 on hearing of it remarked "that nothing 
 struck him so much as General Washing- 
 ton's attacking and giving battle to Gen- 
 eral Howe's army; that to bring an army 
 raised within a year to this promised 
 everything.'' 
 
 This closed the campaign of 1777 in 
 Pennsylvania. While Burgoyne was lay- 
 ing down his arms to General Gates at Sar- 
 atoga, it was Washington's lot to endure 
 all the difficult ies of the service while Gates 
 reaped the rewards of victory, but the 
 commander-in-chief had his share in the 
 counsels that led to that brilliant event, and 
 to him, as the directing head of the army, 
 belongs his full share of the glories of Sara- 
 toga. Yet the friends of the vainglorious 
 Gates made his success an occasion for as- 
 saults on the character of Washington i» 
 efforts to supersede him with Gates. But 
 the virtue of the country and the incor- 
 ruptibility of his friends saved the nation 
 from a base conspiracy. 
 
 But what pen can adequately describe 
 Washington at Valley Forge ! In the se- 
 ven.' winter following these scenes the en- 
 campment was a synonym for suffering. 
 With soldiers half clad, wanting even the 
 necessities of life, without shoes or blan- 
 kets, and sheltered by mere huts, they 
 passed the winter in snow and ice. But 
 Washington was there, and his ••lady," as 
 the soldiers always called her, came from 
 her Mt. Vernon home to lighten the pre- 
 vailing despondency, sharing her husband's 
 humble provisions of the camp, occupying 
 herself with her needle in preparing gar- 
 ments for the naked. Washington busied 
 himself with a committee of Congress in 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
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 putting the army on a better foundation. 
 
 With the return of summer the British 
 
 evacuated Philadelphia and pursued their 
 
 route across New Jersey. Washington, 
 who was watching their movements, pre- 
 pared to follow and sent Lafayette forward, 
 bul Charles Lee claimed the honor and ii 
 was given him, while Washington moved 
 with the reserves towards the enemy's po- 
 sition at Monmouth Court House. What 
 was his surprise to meet Lee on the retreat, 
 and endangering the whole movement. 
 He demanded of him, with indignation, the 
 cause, and receiving an angryreply, on the 
 
 watching the British in New York. The 
 
 winter was passed at Middlebrook, in New 
 Jersey. There were two important events 
 
 the following season, one of which was the 
 
 attack and capture ot'Stonj Point on the 
 Hudson, one of the defences of the High- 
 lands, captured by Clinton, and strongly 
 manned. The attack led by Wayne, on the 
 night of duly 15, was planned by Washing- 
 ton, and his instructions faithfully carried 
 out. Henry Lee's attack on Paulus Hook- 
 also went to cheer the encampment. The 
 winter was passed at Morristown, where the 
 sufferings of Valley Forge were even ex- 
 
 PIEK No. 1, FROM THE BATTERY. 
 
 authority of Lafayette the commander 
 called him "a damned poltroon." Then 
 was the genius of Washington manifested. 
 Making new dispositions, and seconded by 
 the bravery of his men and officers, even 
 Lee redeeming himself by his valor, so that 
 at the dose of that hot and weary day, 
 having added new lustre to American arms, 
 he encamped on the Held. Clinton with- 
 drew to New York. 
 
 The remainder of the season was passed 
 by Washington on the eastern borders of 
 the Hudson, in readiness to co-operate 
 with D'Estange, who had arrived with a 
 French force to assist the colonies and in 
 
 '' led - The main incidents of the war 
 
 were now transferred to tiie south. 
 
 The year 1780 witnessed the treason of 
 Arnold and the execution of Major Andre. 
 This unhappy event showed Washington's 
 character in a new light, for he permitted 
 neither hate nor sympathy to divert him 
 from the path of duty. 
 
 The movement of Washington to Virginia 
 was determined by the expected arrival of 
 the French fleet from the West Indies. 
 The British in NewYorkwere awaiting an 
 attack, while the American army was on 
 the inarch south. Cornwallis, unsuspect- 
 ing of danger, had occupied and intrenched 
 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 at Yorktown, and Washington, with a 
 rapid movement, had him invested before 
 lie had time to extricate himself, for De 
 Grasse, in command of the French fleet, 
 had blockaded the British ships in the har- 
 bor, while the American and French troops, 
 under Washington and Count de Rocham- 
 lieau, had the place completely invested on 
 the 1st of October. The first parallel was 
 opened on the 6th. Washington himself 
 lighted the first gun on the 9th. On the 
 night ofthe 14th two redoubts were carried 
 by French and American storming parties. 
 Hamilton, who led the latter, captured one 
 with the bayonet without firing a shot. 
 Cornwallis tried to escape across the river, 
 but receiving nn v. lln from Clinton, laid 
 down Ins arms on the 19th. This was the 
 crowning act of the war, and proved the 
 genius of Washington. 
 
 The receipt of a letter in 1782 from a 
 Colonel Nicola, who had the esteem ofthe 
 army, proposing a government with a king 
 at its head, gave him an opportunity to 
 show he had no personal ambition. 
 
 The news of peace arrived in the spring 
 of 1783, and the army prepared to sepa- 
 rate. His final address to the army was 
 issued from headquarters, at Newbnrgh, 
 the beginning of November, and on the 
 25th he entered New York City as the 
 British evacuated it. On the 4th of De- 
 cember he was escorted to the harbor on 
 his way to Annapolis to resign his com- 
 mand, after a touching farewell to his offi- 
 cers al Fraunces' Tavern, corner Broad and 
 Pearl streets, and the .urea t chieftain did 
 not disdain to drop a tear or press a kiss 
 on the cheek of his friends. On his way he 
 delivered to the proper officer at Philadel- 
 phia the account of his expenses during his 
 sen ices, neatly written out, and on the 23d 
 restored his commission to Congress in a 
 few remarks of great felicity, in which he 
 commended " the interests of our dearest 
 country to the protection of Almighty God, 
 and those who have the superintendence of 
 them to His holy keeping." 
 
 Retiring to Mt. Vernon, which he reached 
 the day before Christmas, where he hoped 
 to spend the remainder of his days in 
 peace. But his country had further need 
 of him. At the treaty of peace he was 
 fifty -one and had passed through two mem- 
 orable wars — the war with France and the 
 war with Great Britain, a double relief 
 from foreign bondage and the establish- 
 ment of political independence. 
 
 The new nation, like a youth freed from 
 restraint, entered upon its career. The 
 diverse interests of the new States soon 
 proved to be in need of a central authority, 
 and a better constitution, and it was the 
 formation of this instrument by the conven- 
 tion over which Washington presided in 
 1787 that gave a stable government to the 
 States and made us truly a nation. 
 
 The Philadelphia convention closed its 
 labors on the 17th of September, 1787, 
 after which the members adjourned to the 
 city tavern, dined together, and took a 
 cordial leave of each other. 
 
 The convention provided for submitting 
 the new constitution to the States for ap- 
 proval, and though some of the States 
 seemed dilatory in their action, it was for- 
 mally ratified in a few months by a major- 
 ity of them, the rest following within a 
 year. The constitution providing for the 
 choosing of electors. Congress passed an 
 act designating the first Wednesday in 
 January, 1789, for the election, and the 
 first Wednesday in February for the elec- 
 tors to make their choice of a man. The 
 meeting of the government was to be in 
 New York on the first Wednesday in March. 
 
 No other man was talked about for the 
 Presidency but George Washington, and 
 long before an official announcement could 
 be made it was known that he was to be 
 the first President of the United States. 
 He accepted the trust with evident reluc- 
 tance, as it took him away from the rural 
 delights of Mt. Vernon, where for five years 
 he had lived the life of a country gentle- 
 man. Washington at this time was fifty- 
 
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 seven years old, and a fine specimen of Senate was ready for business. Wliat a 
 physical manhood. galaxy of eminent men were gathered to- 
 The slow mode of travel in those days getherl In the Senate were John Lang- 
 caused a delay in the gathering of the rep- dun, Olivia- Ellsworth, Richard Henry Lee, 
 resentatives in New York, and it, was not Charles Carroll and Ralph Izzard, while in 
 until the 30th of March the House was able the House were Eldridge Gerry, Roger 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 dinot, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, .lames 
 Madison and Fisher Ames. 
 
 The Continental Congress had been set- 
 ting in the old City Hall on Wall street, 
 where now stands the V. S. Sub-Treasury. 
 The building was nearly one hundred 
 yearsold in 1789. In it had been held the 
 ses-ious of the Provincial Assembly, the 
 Admiralty Court, Supreme Court and May- 
 or's Court. It contained, also, the city 
 prison. It was the centre of all the city's 
 public business, and contained the public 
 library, which furnished a lounging place 
 for the literati of that day. A contribu- 
 tion of $32,000 by a lew wealthy citizens 
 hail made it quite an imposing structure, 
 and being named Federal Hall, ii was 
 placed at the disposal of Congress. The 
 Senate Chamber was a room forty feet 
 long, t hilly wide and twenty high, with an 
 arched ceiling. It was decorated with 
 delicate pilasters having capitals, designed 
 by Major L'Enfant, composed of foliage, in 
 the midst of which appeared radiantstars. 
 The ceiling was of light blue color, and the 
 President's chair, being elevated about 
 three feet above the floor, was covered by 
 a rich canopy of crimson damask. The 
 room in which the representatives met was 
 slightly octagon in shape, was sixty-one 
 feet long, fifty-eight feet wide and thirty- 
 six feet high, witli niches for statues, 
 windows sixteen feel from the floor, between 
 Ionic columns and pilasters. The chairs 
 and curtains were of light blue damask, 
 the ceiling of the same color, with a sun 
 and thirteen stars in the centre. It had 
 two galleries for friends of the members. 
 
 The first, business of Congress was count- 
 ing the electoral votes. Washington re- 
 ceived sixty-nine — the whole number — for 
 President, while John Adams, for Vice- 
 President, hail a bare majority. John 
 Thompson, who had been perpetual secre- 
 tary in the Continental Congress, was ap- 
 pointed to inform Washington of his elec- 
 tion, and Sylvanus Bourne was appointed 
 to convey to Mr. Adams information of his 
 
 election as Vice-President. The messen- 
 gers started next day, the former for Vir- 
 ginia and the latter for Massachusetts. 
 On April 15th the two houses appointed a 
 committee to make preparations for the re- 
 ception of the President and Vice-President 
 in New York. 
 
 Here appears one of the most beautiful 
 characteristics of Washington — filial atlec- 
 tion. He could not leave, even for the- 
 new and important duties he had been 
 called upon to perform, without visiting 
 Fredericksburg and take a parting farewell 
 of his mother. Coming into her presence, 
 he said: 
 
 ''The people, madam, have been pleased, 
 with the most flattering unanimity, to elect 
 me to the Chief Magistracy of the United 
 States, but before I can assume the func- 
 tions of that office, I have come to bid you 
 an affectionate farewell. So soon as the 
 public business which must necessarily be 
 encountered in arranging a new govern- 
 ment can be disposed of, I shall hasten to 
 Virginia and " The proud but sorrow- 
 ing lady here interrupted her son: 
 
 " You will see me no more, " she said. 
 "My great age warns me that I shall not 
 be longin this world. I trust in God I am 
 somewhat prepared for a better. But go, 
 George ; fulMl the high destinies which 
 Heaven appears to assign you. Go, my 
 son, and may that Heaven's and your 
 mother's blessing be with you always." 
 
 Washington bowed his face to his moth- 
 er's shoulder, placed her arm about his 
 neck, and the two stood there for a time 
 weeping together. 
 
 On April 1(5, 1789, Washington set out on 
 his beautiful journey to New York. In his 
 diary he writes: 
 
 "About 10 o'clock I bade adieu to Mt. 
 Vernon, to private life, 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 Mr. Thompson and Colonel Hum- 
 phreys, with the best disposition to ren- 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
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 ilcr service to my country in obedience to 
 its call, hut with less hope of answering its 
 expectations." 
 
 Washington left Mt. Vernon on Thurs- 
 day, April 16, on his journey of eight days 
 to New York, there to take the oath of 
 office. The time consumed was none too 
 
 long to give the people of the towns through 
 which he passed an opportunity to see him 
 and express their admiration and grati- 
 tude for his noble qualities— qualities that 
 had served them in the midst of perils— 
 and whom they were now about to see re- 
 warded by elevation toan office that, while 
 bringing much care and responsibility 
 
 On the morning of the 20th he was met 
 at the Pennsylvania and Delaware State 
 line by a troop of horsemen, headed by 
 Thomas Miflin, President of the State of 
 Pennsylvania, and Richard Peters, Speaker 
 of the Legislature. After giving him the- 
 proper military salutes, he was escorted 
 into Chester, where the parly break fa sled. 
 After resting for two hours the journey was 
 resumed, when Washington, finding that 
 he could not escape the parade, sent his car- 
 riage to the rear and mounted on an ele- 
 gant horse, and, accompanied by a large 
 delegation of Philadelphia citizens, pro- 
 '' led to Gray's Bridge on the Schuylkill.. 
 
 X>:w YORK HARBOR FROM CASTLE GARDEN. 
 
 would honor the country fully as much as 
 the recipient. The demonstrations com- 
 menced on his reaching Baltimore, accom- 
 l 1 ' 1 ""'' 1 by Charles Thompson, the messen- 
 ger sent, by Congress to notify him of his 
 election, and Colonel Humphreys, who had 
 
 1 n his aid-de-camp during the war. It 
 
 was on the afternoon of the Itth the town 
 was reached, and as it was too late for a 
 P ublic dinner, a supper was given him 
 Helen tow,, at 5.30 o'clock, accompanied 
 by a large body of citizens on horseback 
 but when *vv,m miles had been passed 
 Washington took leave of them in an affec- 
 tionate manner. 
 
 The brid S e had 1 n decorated with ever 
 
 greens, at each end was a large triumphal 
 arch, in imitation of the ancient Roman 
 and as Washington passed over it under 
 the arches, a lad, decorated with sprigs of 
 laurel > l "> down upon his uncovered head a 
 civic crown of laurel. Thus the great man 
 passed through a line of 20, 000 people who 
 lined the highway between the bridge and 
 the city. "Not all the pomp of majesty, nol 
 even imperial dignity itself, surrounded 
 with its usual splendors, could equal this in- 
 teresting scene, ''says a writer at the time. 
 The next day, Tuesday, 21st, Washing- 
 ton left Philadelphia, and in the afternoon 
 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 reached Trenton, near the historic spot 
 where the Hessians were captured twelve 
 years before, and over a road strewn with 
 roses and full of historic memories, under a 
 triumphal arch, over the Assumpink Bridge, 
 the bridge he had retreated over after the 
 battle of Princeton. A motto over the 
 arch was inscribed, "The Defender of the 
 Mothers will lie I he Protector of the Daugh. 
 ters." Over the arch were the datesof his 
 battles. Under the arch and on either 
 side were mothers with their daughters 
 dressed in purest white, and as the hero 
 passed thirteen young girls, with garlands 
 in their hairand baskets of flowers in their 
 hands, sang an ode written lor the occa- 
 sion and strewed flowers in his path. 
 
 On reaching Elizabeth Point he was met 
 by a committee appointed by Congress. 
 This was on the morning of the 23d of 
 April. A splendid barge, manned by thir- 
 teen master pilots, had been prepared for 
 Washington and his party, and, accompa- 
 nied by two other barges, soon crossed 
 Newark Bay and approached New York. 
 The bay was thronged with every manner 
 of craft, decked in holiday costume, while 
 a vast pageant of boats followed the presi- 
 dential barge, and tin' air was full of sing- 
 ing ami music of bands. Every ship ex- 
 cept tin 1 Spanish man-of-war Galveston was 
 gay with tings and banners, the nakedness 
 of which caused much comment, when, as 
 Washington's barge was passing, at a sig- 
 nal, every Hag known to the world was 
 flung lo the breeze, while the halyards were 
 manned by sailors. With the roaring of 
 guns and fierce huzzas, the presidential 
 party landed at the ferry stairs at, the foot 
 of Wall street, and, Washington, sur- 
 rounded by many of his old comrades, was 
 escorted to No. 3 Cherrj street. The pro- 
 cession moved in the following order: 
 
 Colonel Morgan Lewis, accompanied by Majors 
 
 Morton ami Van Home. 
 
 Troop of Dragoons, Captain Stakes. 
 
 German Grenadiers, Captain Scriba. 
 
 Band of Music. 
 
 Infantry of the Brigade, Captains Swartout and 
 
 Stediford. 
 
 Grenadiers, Captain Harsin. 
 
 Regiment of Artillery, Captain Baurnan. 
 
 Band of Music. 
 
 General Malcolm and Aid. 
 
 Officers of the Militia, two and two. 
 
 Committee of Congress. 
 The President; Governor Clinton. 
 
 President's Suite. 
 Mayor and Aldermen of New York. 
 The Reverend Clergy. 
 Their Excellencies the French and Spanish Em- 
 bassadors, in Carriages. 
 
 A vast concourse of people followed the 
 procession, while the streets were lined by 
 a multitude of sightseers. Every house 
 along the route was decorated with ban- 
 ners and Hags, while the windows of every 
 story were filled with lair women and brave 
 men, and besides the waving of handker- 
 chiefs, the air was full of flowers that fell 
 like snowflakes upon his path. On reach- 
 ing the house a reception was held, at 
 which the officers and citizens called to 
 pay their respects to him, after which Gov- 
 ernor Clinton entertained him and his suite 
 at dinner. The day ended with a, display 
 of fireworks. 
 
 John Adams had reached New York two 
 days before, and had quietly taken the oath 
 of office as Vice-President and assumed his 
 seat as presiding officer of tin 1 Senate. In 
 his opening address he said: "Where, in 
 looking over the catalogue of the first 
 magistrates of nations, whether called 
 presidents, consuls, kings or princes, shall 
 we find one whose commanding talents and 
 virtues and overruling good fortune have 
 so completely united all hearts and voices in 
 his favor — engaging the esteem and admi- 
 ration of foreign nations and fellow-citizens 
 with equal unanimity? * * Provi- 
 
 dence has indeed marked out the head of 
 this nation with a hand so distinctly visible 
 as to have been seen by all men and mis- 
 taken by none." 
 
 Richmond Hill House became the home 
 of the Vice-President, from which Mrs. 
 Adams wrote: "In natural beauty it might 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
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 vie with the most delicious spot I ever saw. beautifully variegated with grain and 
 
 It, is a mileaud a half from New York, grass, toagreat extent like Houston and 
 
 The house stands upon an eminence; at an Devonshire. \'\ my left the city opens 
 
 agreeable distance Hows the noble Hud- to view, intercepted here and there by a 
 
 son. * * * * Upon my right Land rising ground and an ancienl oak. In 
 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 front, beyond the Hudson, the Joursey 
 shores present the exuberance of a rich, 
 well-cultivated soil." 
 
 Such is the fairy picture <>l'a spot in the 
 city in the spring of 1780, now marked by 
 the intersection of Charlton and Varick 
 streets. What a transformation! 
 
 New York City had at this time about 
 30,00(1 inhabitants, it being included al- 
 most in a line drawn across the island 
 through Chambers street, although some of 
 the streets on the East River were par- 
 tially occupied on farther up towards 
 Grand street. 
 
 Six days elapsed between Washington's 
 arrival and his inauguration, and were de- 
 voted to preparations for the imposing 
 ceremonial. The city opened its doors in 
 hospitality to guests from all parts of the 
 Union. Tie crush was bewildering. Every 
 public house was filled and private man- 
 sions overflowed. New York had never 
 before housed and sheltered such a multi- 
 tude. Everybody struggled for a glimpse 
 of Washington. The aged declared them- 
 selves ready to die if they could once be- 
 hold his face, while the young described 
 him as looking more grand and noble than 
 any human being they had ever seen. 
 
 A national salute ushered in the morning 
 of April 30. At o'clock the bells pealed 
 from every steeple in the city, then paused, 
 and presently, in slow, measured tones, 
 summoned the people to the churches 
 "to implore the blessing of Heaven on 
 the nation and its chosen President — so 
 universal was a religious sense of tin' im- 
 portance of the occasion." 
 
 A i tin- close of these services the military 
 began the march from their respective 
 quarters, and at noon were formed in 
 Cherry street, opposite the presidential 
 mansion, under tin' immediate direction of 
 Colonel Morgan Lewis. The joint commit- 
 tee of arrangements appointed by Con- 
 gress was as follows: From the Senate 
 Ralph Izard, Tristam Dalton and Richard 
 
 Henry Lee. From the House — Egbert 
 Benson, Charles Carroll and Fisher Ames. 
 The procession moved in the following 
 order: 
 
 The Military, 
 
 The Sheriff el' the City and County of New York. 
 
 The Committee of the Senate. 
 
 The President-elect. 
 
 The Committee of the House of Representatives. 
 
 Chancellor Eobert It. Livingston, Secretary 
 
 John Jay, Secretary Henry Knox. 
 
 The Commissioners of the Treasury. 
 
 Distinguished Citizens. 
 
 They marched through Pearl and Broad 
 streets to Wall. When in front of Federal 
 Hall the troops formed in line upon each 
 side of the way, through which Washing- 
 ton, having alighted from his chariot, 
 walked in the midst of his illustrious at- 
 tendants to the building and ascended to 
 the Senate chamber, where Congress had 
 just assembled. lie was received at the 
 door by the Vice-President and conducted 
 to the chair of state. After formally in- 
 troducing Washington to the august body, 
 Adams addressed him with stately cere- 
 mony: 
 
 "Sir, the Senate and House of Repre- 
 sentatives of the United States are ready 
 to attend you to take the oath required by 
 the constitution, which will be adminis- 
 tered by the Chancellor of the State of New 
 York." 
 
 "I am ready to proceed," was the grave 
 reply. 
 
 The Vice-President then conducted 
 Washington to the balcony, accompanied 
 by the Senators and other gentlemen of dis- 
 tinction. Broad and Wall streets were 
 filled with a. sea of upturned faces — the 
 windows and housetops crowded with 
 gaily dressed ladies, but a silence reigned 
 as profound as if every living form which 
 composed the vast assemblage was a statue 
 carved in stone. Washington's line figure 
 appeared in the centre of the group of 
 statesmen between the two pillars, hishead 
 uncovered and his powdered locks gathered 
 and tied in the prevailing fashion of the 
 
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 25 
 
 day. Opposite liim stood the Chancellor 
 in his robes, ready to administer the oath 
 of office, and between them the Secretary 
 of the Senate held an open bible upon a 
 rich crimson cushion, upon which Wash- 
 ington rested his hand. 
 
 The Chancellor pronounced slowly and 
 distinctly the words of the oath. The 
 bible was raised, and as the President 
 bowed to kiss the sacred volume he said 
 
 A Hag was instantly run up on the cu- 
 pola of Federal Hall, Silence was at an 
 end. The hells of the city rang out. a tri- 
 umphant peal, while shouts and huzzas of 
 the waiting multitude echoed and re-echoed 
 through the street-, and answered by can- 
 non from every direction upon both land 
 and water, until it seemed the city would 
 lie jarred from its very foundations. 
 
 Washington selected his cabinet, which 
 
 
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 audibly, "I swear," adding with fervor, 
 his eyes closed that his whole soul might 
 be absorbed in the supplication, "so help 
 me God." 
 
 "It is done," said the Chancellor; then 
 turning to the multitude, he waved his 
 hand, crying with a loud voice: 
 
 "Long, live George Washington, the 
 President of the United States." 
 
 was composed as follows: Thomas Jeffer- 
 son, Secretary of State; Alexander Hamil- 
 ton. Secretary of the Treasury; John Knox, 
 Secretary of War: Samuel Osgood, Post- 
 master General; Edmund Randolph, At- 
 torney General. 
 
 Mrs. Washington, who left Mt. Vernon 
 on the 19th of April, three days after her 
 husband, to join him in New York, rode in 
 
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 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 her private carriage, accompanied by her 
 grandchildren, Eleanor Custis and George 
 Washington Park Custis, and attended by 
 a small escorton horseback. Her journey, 
 like her husband's, was a continued ova- 
 tion. All the cities and large towns sent 
 cavalcades of cavalry and citizens to meet 
 her, processions denied on either side of 
 the way to allow her carriage to pass, 
 cheers and acclamations greeted her ap- 
 proach, and the old and young, rich and 
 poor, alike did her honor. Seven miles 
 !'i( mi Philadelphia she was met by a bril- 
 liant company of ladies and gentlemen in 
 carriages, and so conducted into the 
 Quaker City with distinguished ceremonies, 
 where she became the guest of Mrs. Rob- 
 ert Morris. Leaving the following Mon- 
 day, accompanied by .Mrs. .Morris, for New- 
 York, they tarried at Trenton over night, 
 and the next day journeyed as far as Lib- 
 erty Hall, in Elizabeth, the home of Gov- 
 ernor Livingston. The next morning, at 
 5 o'clock, President Washington entered 
 his elegant barge, accompanied by John 
 Jay, Robert Morris and ol her distinguished 
 men, crossed the bay and reached Liberty 
 Hall in time to breakfast with Mrs. Wash- 
 ington. When the presidential party re- 
 turned to the city, the reception of Wash- 
 ington was repeated. The bay was alive 
 with all kinds of craft, while the landing 
 was made amid the huzzas of a throng of 
 people. 
 
 Such is a record of the honors paid our 
 first President, George Washington, and 
 his estimable lady upon entering upon the 
 new duties as Chief Magistrate of a nation 
 of freemen. Upon looking back upon this 
 event, so fraught with weal or woe to the 
 young government, who shall say the choice 
 of Washington was not guided by an al- 
 mighty hand, for the turbulence of party 
 spirit ran high during his administration, 
 and no other hand could have guided tin' 
 ship of state I hrough to a successful demon, 
 st rat ion of the ability of the people for self- 
 government. 
 
 The perils that surrounded the new gov- 
 ernment were those connected with the 
 finances, and had it not been for the for- 
 bearance of Washington, aided by the 
 genius of Hamilton, Secretary of the Treas- 
 ury, and Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of 
 State, a. secession of the northern States 
 would have occurred. Hamilton, on the 
 2d of July, 1790, presented to the Presi- 
 dent a report of the condition of the treas- 
 ury, with a scheme for maintaining the 
 public credit. On January 8th Washing- 
 ton appeared before Congress in joint ses- 
 sion to submit his message in person. The 
 formalities attending it deserve a brief no- 
 tice. It was the beginning of the second 
 session of the first Congress. Washington 
 drove in a coach drawn by four horses, pre- 
 ceded by Colonel Humphreys and Major 
 Jackson in uniform on his two white horses, 
 and followed by Messrs. Lear and Nelson 
 in his chariot. In the rear followed the 
 Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of 
 War in carriages. At the outer door of 
 the hall he was met by the door-keepers of 
 the Senate and House and conducted to the 
 door of the Senate chamber, passing from 
 thence to the chair between the members 
 of the Senate on the right and the House 
 on the left. His attendants followed and 
 took their stand behind the Senators; the 
 wholerising as heentered. On their being 
 seated he delivered his message. On con- 
 cluding, he handed a copy to the President 
 of the Senate and another to the Speaker of 
 the House, after which, being seated for a 
 fewminutes, he retired, the members rising 
 as before, and with a bow to each assem- 
 bly, he returned to his house, attended as 
 before. 
 
 On January 14th, between 11 and 12 
 o'clock, Washington received at his house 
 the two houses of Congress, who presented 
 answers to his address, the address of the 
 Senate being presented by the Vice-Presi- 
 dent , and that of the House by the Speaker.. 
 On the same day Hamilton appeared be- 
 fore Congress with his proposition of fund- 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENN I A L. 
 
 2T 
 
 ing the public debt. As to the foreign 
 debt, his arguments, presented in a clear, 
 forcible manner, carried greal weight, but 
 as he touched on the domestic debt, a storm 
 of object ions an ise. He fearlessly declared 
 he could see no difference between the cred- 
 itors of the Union and those of the State. 
 It was this assumption of the State debts, 
 which were unequal in amount, that cre- 
 ated all the antagonism, because much of 
 the paper issued had passed out from orig- 
 
 until the buildings for the accommodation 
 of Congress were ready at Washington. 
 
 Washington's farewell to New York was 
 extremely touching. He wished to avoid 
 all ceremony, but as the hour of his de- 
 parture approached, on August 30th, Broad- 
 way filled with people, and Governor Clin- 
 ton, Lieutenant Governor Van Cortlandt, 
 with the principal officers of the State, 
 Mayor Yarick and the corporation of tin; 
 city, accompanied by the clergy, Societyof 
 
 EIGHTH REGIMENT ARMORY, N. G. S. N. V. 
 
 1889. FOURTH AVENUE, 94TH AND 95TH STREETS. 
 
 inal holders and been bought at a depreci- 
 ated value by people who had no claim to be 
 remunerated for losses to previous holders. 
 Here a compact was entered in by Hamil- 
 ton ami Jefferson by which a vote was se- 
 cured for the Assumption Bill and the seat 
 of government removed to the Potomac. 
 
 On the 12th of August Congress ad- 
 journed to meet in Philadelphia in Decem- 
 ber, where the government was established 
 
 the Cincinnati and other distinguished citi- 
 zens, appeared to do final honors. The 
 President left his home at 10.30 and was 
 escorted to the beautiful barge in which he 
 had entered New York the year before. 
 The crowd food in tearful silence, while 
 la', standing on the wharf, expressed in a 
 I'rw words his feelings for the courtesy ami 
 kindness of the citizens towards him during 
 his residence among them. The instant he 
 
28 
 
 WASHINCTOX CENTENNIAL. 
 
 stepped into the barge thirteen guns thun- 
 dered from the battery. Standing upright 
 in the boat as it shoved oft", he waved his 
 hat with the single word, " Farewell," fol- 
 lowed by the prolonged shout of the multi- 
 tude, that drowned even the echo of the 
 guns. 
 
 Washington was fifty-eight years of age 
 at this time, stood six feet, three inches in 
 his slippers, well proportioned, evenly de- 
 veloped and straight as an arrow. He had 
 long, muscular arms and large hands. His 
 wonderful figure, while kingly and grand, 
 only served to show a character kindly, 
 sweet, true and firm. Methodical in all 
 his ways, never making a promise hut 
 to keep it, even in the most trivial 
 things, he was exacting from others the 
 same strict adherence to their word given 
 to him. 
 
 Elected for the second time to the presi- 
 dency, Washington passed the four years 
 of his term amid the acrimonious quarrels 
 of the two parties over the Jay treaty with 
 England and our duty to oar old ally, 
 France, which was then in the- throes of 
 revolution. The excesses of the Jacobins 
 in France found no sympathiser in Wash- 
 ington, but with the adoption of the treaty 
 and recall of Genet, French Minister, 
 with returning prosperity to the business 
 of the country, public discussion was 
 quieted. 
 
 As the time approached for the close of 
 his term, he issued his celebrated farewell 
 address, the sentiments of which have been 
 ■the guiding principle of our government to 
 this day, and has preserved us from all 
 "entangling alliances" with foreign gov- 
 ernments. Retiring to Mt. Vernon, he en- 
 tered anew into those scenes of rural life 
 and quiet, so agreeable to his nature. A 
 gentleman who was in Alexandria in the 
 spring of 1 799, thus describes Washington's 
 last vote: 
 
 '•The court house of Fairfax County was 
 over the market house, and the entrance to 
 it was up a fiighl of rickety stairs. 1 was 
 
 standing immediately opposite, in front of 
 Gadsby's tavern, when the father of his 
 country drove up. The street and court, 
 yard were full, and I saw eight or ten good- 
 looking men spring forward to support the 
 stairs as he approached, lest they should 
 fall in the General's ascent. I was imme- 
 diately at his back and so entered the 
 room. There were five or six candidates 
 sitting on the bench, and as the General 
 approached they arose in a body and bowed 
 smilingly; and the salutation having been 
 returned very gracefully, the General cast 
 his eyes towards the registry of the polls, 
 when the clerk said: '-Well, General, how- 
 do you vote?" Looking at the candi- 
 dates, he said: ''Gentlemen, I vote for 
 measures, not men," and turning to the 
 recording table audibly pronounced his 
 
 vole. 
 
 On the 12th of December following he 
 took cold from exposure to a storm of rain 
 and sleet, ami on the 1 1th quietly breathed 
 his spirit out. Universal mourning fol- 
 lowed throughout the land, and even in 
 foreign countries was his death received 
 in sorrow. Lord Bridport, commanding a 
 fleet of sixty ships of the line at Torbay, 
 placed his Hags at half mast, while Na- 
 poleon announced it to his army, or- 
 dering black crepe suspended from all 
 standards and flags in the service for ten 
 days. 
 
 In the public eulogies pronounced on his 
 death, none were more expressive than 
 that of Congressman Henry Lee, of Vir- 
 ginia, who delivered the oration before the 
 Senate and House of Representatives, in 
 which he described Washington as a man 
 •■ first in war, first in peace ami first in the 
 hearts of his fellow-citizens." 
 
 We close this brief sketch of our hero by 
 saying he devoted a long life to the 
 welfare of his country, and that while 
 true greatness commands respect, and the 
 love of liberty remains on earth, the meni- 
 orj of Washington will be held in venera- 
 tion. 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 29 
 
 NEW YORK CITY IN 1789. 
 
 IN the '-Universal Register for the Year 
 1787," publish sd by Mr. Hugh Gain, 
 the city is described as one mile and a 
 half in length and one mile broad, contain- 
 ing, before the fire on the 21st of Septem- 
 ber, 1776, about 4,200 houses and 30,000 
 inhabitants. This conflagration, which 
 commenced in a small wooden building on 
 the wharf near Whitehall slip, destroyed 
 493 buildings and extended on the east 
 side from Mortkile (Barclay) street to 
 Beaver street and East River, including 
 old Trinity Church. 
 
 In 1783 the compact part of the city ex- 
 tended to Chambers streeton th i west side 
 of Broadway and Catharine street on the 
 
 East River. Fort George st 1 on the 
 
 north end of the Battery, and barracks on 
 the south end. There were also barracks 
 in the upper end of the common (City Hall 
 Park) on Chambers street. The prison 
 and house of correction were in the park. 
 the latter where the City Hall now stands. 
 The "Fresh Water Pond" lay between 
 hills in Centre street, now the site of the 
 Tombs. It had an outlet to the East River 
 at the foot of James street. The hospital 
 was on Broadway, at Duane street, the 
 corner stone of which was laid by Governor 
 Tryon in 1773. 
 
 In 1790 the first official census of the city 
 was taken, and it was found to contain 
 33,131 inhabitants. It had extended to 
 Reade street on the west and to Grand, 
 parallel with the Bowery, on the cast. By 
 1830 it had crept up to Canal on the west 
 and Eighth street on the east. 
 
 Il seems to have surprised some of the 
 eastern members of Congress on its first as- 
 sembling to find the people were God fear- 
 ing and as strict in Sabbath observances as 
 
 any village or hamlet in Connect icut. Mrs. 
 Washington elevated the plane of social 
 observances, and her levees are spoken of 
 as models of propriety. They were held 
 on Friday evenings, from 8 to 10 o'clock, 
 and modeled after English and French 
 drawing rooms. Visitors entitled to the 
 privilege by official station, social position 
 or merit, came without special invitation. 
 Full dress was required of all. But be- 
 cause of a rigid exclusion of the ill-bred and 
 unrefined, she was dubbed an " aristocrat," 
 and her receptions called "court like." 
 But the dignity and formality of the Presi- 
 dent and his lady introduced a high tone, 
 and cultured elegance, grace and good 
 manners prevailed. 
 
 The amusement of the people was fur- 
 nished by one small theatre in John street, 
 where the President sometimes went for 
 relaxation. 
 
 Washington's residence at No. 1 Cherrj 
 street proving loo small for the proper ac- 
 commodation of his family of nine (including 
 his three secretaries), ami being too fir 
 nut of town, he removed on the first of 
 February to the McComb Mansion, 39 
 Broadway, just below Trinity Church. 
 
 The old landmarks are fast disappear- 
 ing, Frauuces' Tavern, corner Broad and 
 Pearl streets, memorable as the scene of 
 Washington's Farewell to his < Klicers, after 
 the Revolution, and the Old Rhinelander 
 Sugar House, corner Duane and Rose 
 streets, used as a prison by the British, 
 being the only reminders, except St. Paul's 
 Church, Broadway and Fulton street, of a 
 past century. 
 
 The churches were we'll attended by 
 earnest worshippers. Their standing at this 
 time may lie briefly mentioned. The Re- 
 
30 
 
 WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 formed Dutch Church was the oldest or- 
 ganization in the city. They worshipped 
 in the Middle Dutch Church, Nassau and 
 Liberty streets, afterwards bought (in 
 1844) by the United States for a Post 
 Office; the South Dutch Church in Garden 
 street (now Exchange place); the North 
 Dutch Church, corner Fulton (or Fair) 
 street and William. The Episcopal, the 
 next oldest Church in America, built in 
 1696, worshipped in Trinity, Broadway, 
 head of Wall. It was burned in 1770, 
 but re-erected in 1788, stood until 1840, 
 when the new Gothic buildingwas erected; 
 St. Paul's, corner Broadway and Vesey, 
 built in 1766; St. Georges, built in 1759, 
 al corner of Beekman and Clin'; and 
 Christ ( Ihurch, built in 1794, in Ann street. 
 The Lutherans worshipped in a Stone 
 Church, corner William and Franfort 
 streets, and the German Reformed in Nas- 
 sau, near John. The Presbyterians wor- 
 shipped in a Stone Church, in Wall street, 
 built in 1719, enlarged in 1768, and finally 
 destroyed by fire in 1835. It was rebuilt, 
 but only occupied for eight or ten years, 
 and in the Old Brick Church, where the 
 
 TRINITY CHURCH. 
 
 ERECTED 1845. 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 31 
 
 Times office now stands, erected in 1701. 
 The Scotch Presbyterian Church in Cedar 
 street was built in 1758. The First Bap- 
 tist Church was in Cold, near Fulton, 
 built in 1760. The Methodist Church in 
 John street was erected in 1768; the de- 
 nomination had another church in Forsyth 
 street, built in 1780, and a third in Duane, 
 erected in 17(15. The Friends worshipped 
 in a church in Greene, near Liberty, 
 and another in Pearl street. The .lews 
 had a Synagogue in Mill street, built 
 in 1730. The Moravians had a church 
 in Fair (Fulton), near William', built 
 in 1751. These were the oldest church 
 edifices. 
 
 The city possessed one library, with 
 rooms in Nassau near Liberty. The cus- 
 tom house was in the government house 
 near Bowling Green, while the post office 
 was kept in the house of t lie postmaster, 
 Bauman, corner William and Garden. 
 
 There were three banks in operation at 
 the close of last century, one the Bank of 
 New York, organized 1784, chartered in 
 1791, Mathew Clarkson president, with a 
 capital of $950,000, and the V. S. Bank, 
 incorporated the same .year, with a capital 
 of $10,000,000, Cornelius Bay, president; 
 the Manhattan Bank, incorporated in 1799, 
 
 capital $2, 050, 000. The New York Marine 
 
 Insurance was incorporated in 1798, and 
 the Mutual Fire incorporated the same 
 year. There were four markets: The old 
 Fly Market, at foot of Maiden Lane; Bear, 
 now Washington Market; Exchange Mar- 
 ket, foot of Broad, and Oswego Market, 
 Broadway and Maiden Lane. Two ferries 
 carried people to Brooklyn, one from Fly 
 .Market, slip, the other from < 'atharine slip; 
 one to Paulus Hook (Jersey City) ; one to 
 Elizabeth Point and another to Staten 
 Islands 
 
 One institution, Columbia College, was 
 a landmark for 103 years, on what is now 
 Church street and Park place, until re- 
 moved in 1S..7 to East Forty-ninth street, 
 between Madison and Fourth avenues. 
 King's College, as it was called, received 
 its charter on October 31, 1754, and the 
 ■buildings were erected on grounds bounded 
 by Park place, Murray and Church streets 
 and College place. Grants fromthecrown 
 and nobility placed it on a permanent foot- 
 ing, so that the instruction received by the 
 pupils embraced everything the most re- 
 nowned university can furnish. From the 
 date of its founding it has been a. powerful 
 lever in molding the character of past gen- 
 eral ions. 
 
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WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Naval Parade and Reyiew by President Harrison. 
 
 APRIL 29, 1889. 
 
 The naval vessels participating in the review 
 ■will be as follows : 
 
 Chicago, carrying the flag of the Secretary of 
 the Navy at the main. 
 
 Boston, carrying the flag of the Admiral of 
 the Navy at the main. 
 
 Atlanta. 
 
 Yorktown. 
 
 Juniata. 
 
 Yantic. 
 
 The naval vessels will anchor off Ellis Island 
 in t ho above order, the Chicago one or two 
 lengths north of the island, the others to the 
 southward of that ship, at 12 o'clock meridian 
 of April 28, to be ready to participate in the 
 ceremonies of the following day. Each vessel 
 will be provided with howitzers for saluting. 
 
 At "colors" on the morning of April 20, the 
 ships of the fleet will be dressed with rainbow 
 arches with the national ensign at the mast- 
 heads, except on the main or mizzen of flag 
 ships; and a salute of 21 guns will be fired. 
 When the President passes the fleet each vessel 
 will man yards and fire a national salute. At 
 sunset a national salute will also be fired by 
 each ship and all flags hauled down. 
 
 The revenue cutters and yachts will be 
 anchored in double columns, 100 yards apart, 
 on April 28, to the southward of the naval ves- 
 sels, and will dress ship on the 29th. Those 
 which have guns will follow the motions of the 
 naval fleet in firing salutes as the President 
 passes the line. The river and Sound steamers 
 will form in double column to the southward of 
 the yachts 100 yards apart. 
 
 The procession of river and Sound steamers 
 will consist of 300 vessels, more or less, formed 
 In divisions of 13 steamers each. Each division 
 
 will be in command of a Commodore appointed 
 from the most experienced river or Sound Cap- 
 tains. Each division will form in two columns, 
 100 yards apart, and the flag boat, carrying a 
 square red flag with the number of the division 
 in white figures, three feet high, will lead. 
 
 These divisions will be formed in three grand 
 divisions. The first will consist of divisions 
 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, under the supervision of 
 the Commodore of the first division ; the second 
 will consist of divisions 8, 9, 10, 11. 12, 13, U 
 and 15, under the supervision of the Commodore 
 of the eighth division, and the third will consist 
 of divisions 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23, under 
 the supervision of the Commodore of the six- 
 teenth division. Each steamer not commanded 
 by a Commodore will carry a blue flag forward 
 with the number of the division in whit.'. 
 
 The Commodore of each grand division will 
 make signal by steam whistle to "get under 
 way," "go ahead," "slow down," "prepare to 
 anchor," "anchor," and such other signals as 
 may be necessary. The commanding officer of 
 every vessel taking part in the procession will 
 be furnished with copies of the signals that are 
 to be used from the steam whistles of the gen- 
 eral programme and of orders. 
 
 Six Deputy Marshals will be appointed from 
 the Captains of river or Sound steamers, each to 
 proceed in a tug, in order to get the steamers 
 first into divisions and then into line. The 
 Deputy Marshals will confer with Rear Admiral 
 James E. Jouett, United States Navy, Marshal 
 of the Day. 
 
 A naval tug, with a howitzer, will be stationed 
 outside the Kill Von Kull, and will fire a gun 
 when the Despatch is abreast Port Richmond as 
 a signal to the fleet to prepare to get under way, 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 and as the Despatch joins the rear of the river 
 and Sound steamers, she will lire two guns as a 
 signal to the Chicago to steam ahead, all follow- 
 ing in column. A tug provided with a signal 
 pole and howitzer will be stationed half a mile 
 south of Bedlow's Island to repeat the signal 
 from the Despatch. 
 
 In running up North River, the naval vessels 
 will form at half distances (one cable, '2li(i yards 
 apart) in column, and will anchor at that forma- 
 tion at tho same distance apart on reaching a 
 boat anchored in the stream. The usual signal 
 for anchoring will be made by the Chicago, ami 
 at tho same time she will fire a gun. All vessels 
 will come to anchor when the signal is hauled 
 down. Distance will be carefully preserved, 
 and the speed of the lie. -t will be six knots. 
 Tugs will be employed to keep the river clear of 
 vessels, and all vessels besides those mentioned 
 in the programme must be removed by 9 o'clock 
 A. II. on the 29th of April as high up us Fifty- 
 ninth street. 
 
 The Despatch, dressed in national Hags and 
 signals, will be at the foot of West Twenty-sixth 
 
 street, North.Kivar, at 7 A. M. of the 29th to 
 receive the Committee on Navy. She will then 
 steam to Elizabethport, N. J., where the com- 
 mittee, the Admiral of the navy, and the Major 
 General commanding the army will receive the 
 President and suite. 
 
 When the President has reviewed the naval 
 display at anchor and has passed down the river 
 lo I he foot of Wall street, where he is to land, 
 the revenue cutters, yachts, river and Sound 
 si earners will be at liberty to retire from the 
 line, and the naval vessels will get under way 
 and proceed to their regular anchorage be- 
 fore sunset, so as not to obstruct tho river. 
 No tows will be allowed in the bay or 
 North River. All tows coming down the 
 liver will be required to haul in shori at 
 Eighty-sixth street until after the n I display 
 is concluded. 
 
 Rear Admiral James E. Jouett, United Stall's 
 Navy, will act as Marshal of the day, and deputy 
 marshals will carry out such orders to preserve 
 this formation as he may give personally or 
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THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 Washington Centennial Celebration 
 
 APRIL 29 and 30, and MAY 1, 1889. 
 
 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17. 
 
 I. Formal opening of the Loan Exhibition of 
 Historical Portraits and Relics in tin- Assembly 
 Rooms of the Metropolitan Opera House, at 8.30 
 p. m. The Loan Exhibition will be open t'> the 
 public on Thursday, April IS, and remain open 
 from 10 A. M. to 6 P. M., and from 7 i>. jr. to in 
 p. M., day and evening, until Wednesday, May 8. 
 Admission fee, 50 cents. 
 
 MONDAY, APRIL 29. 
 
 II. The Naval Parade will take place in New 
 York Harbor from 11 A. M. to 1 p. it. 
 
 The Governors, Commissioners of States and 
 other guests, with ladies invited by the Commit- 
 tee on States and the members of the General 
 Committee, will embark at 9.30 A. at. on the 
 steamer Erastus Wiman, at ferry slip foot of 
 West Twenty-third street, New York City, to 
 receive the President and to meet thePresideniV, 
 steamer off Elizabethport. Admittance by spe- 
 cial blue ticket. 
 
 On the arrival of President Harrison and the 
 Cabinet officers and other officials of distinction 
 at Elizabethport at 11 o'clock Monday morning, 
 the party will at once embark for New York 
 City. The President and immediate suite will 
 be received by Committee on Navy, and under 
 their direction will embark on the President's 
 steamer provided by that committee. 
 
 The steamer Sirius, under the management of 
 the Committee on Navy, will receive at Eliza- 
 bethport other guests and official personages of 
 
 the presidential party who cannot lie received 
 on the President's steamer. Admission to 
 steamer Sirius will be by red ticket. The line 
 of United States ships of war, yachts and steam- 
 boats will lie formed in tin' Upper Bay under 
 Admiral David D. Porter, U. S. N., as ( ihief Mar- 
 shal, and will be reviewed by the President. 
 
 On the arrival of the presidential party in the 
 East River, opposite Wall street, a barge manned 
 by a crew of shipmasters from the Marino So- 
 ciety of the Portof New York, with Captain Am- 
 brose Snow, President of that Society, as cox- 
 swain, will row the President ashore. The 
 crew of the barge that rowed President Wash- 
 ington from Elizabethport to the foot of Wall 
 street were members of the same society. 
 At the desire of the Marine Society, which still 
 has the flag carried when Washington landed at 
 Wall street in April, 1789, the barge which will 
 convey the presidential party from the Dispatch 
 t<> the ferry house will be manned by former 
 shipmasters of that society — Captain G. D. S. 
 Trask, Captain James Parker, Captain Duer, 
 Captain Albert Spencer, Captain George A. Dear- 
 born, Captain Benjamin F. March, Captain 
 Stephen Whitman, Captain Samuel Y. Fairchild, 
 Captain Richard Luce, Captain George L. Nor- 
 ton, Captain William Urquhart, Captain William 
 A. Ellis, with Captain Ambrose Snow, the vete- 
 ran president of that society and of the Board of 
 Trade and Transportation, as coxswain. The 
 steamers Erastus Wiman and Sirius, prior to the 
 debarkation of the President, will land at Pier 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 10, Wall street, the guests for the reception at 
 the Equitable Building, and proceed with the 
 remaining passengers to Wes1 Twenty-third 
 Slii. ( Ferry and West Twenty-second street, 
 
 WELCOMED TO THE CITY. 
 
 III. On arriving at the foot of Wall street the 
 President of the United States will be received 
 by the Governor of the State of New York, the 
 Mayor of the city of New York, Hamilton Fish, 
 President, of the Committee, and William G. 
 Hamilton, Chairman of Committee on States. 
 
 The President and other guests will next be 
 escorted to the Equitable Building, where a re- 
 ception and collation will be tendered them ' 
 the Committee on States. 
 
 The procession will be formed as follows : 
 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Floyd Clarkson, Mar- 
 shal. 
 Band Fifth Regiment United States Artillery. 
 Three Foot Batteries Fifth Regiment U. S. Ar- 
 tillery. 
 Mew York Commandery of the Loyal Legion of 
 
 the United States. 
 Commanders of Posts of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic in Counties of New York 
 and Kings. 
 Cappa's Band. 
 Uniformed Battalion of Veterans Seventh Regi- 
 ment N. G. S. N. Y., Colonel H. E. 
 Tremain. 
 Uniformed Veteran Militia Associations of New 
 York and Brooklyn. 
 Band of the General Service, U. S. Army. 
 Society of the Sons of the Revolution. 
 The General Committ n the Centennial Cele- 
 bration. 
 The President of the United States, the Gov- 
 ernor of the State of New York, the Mayor of 
 the ei:\ of New York and Hamilton Fish, Presi- 
 dent of the Committee, Hanked by the barge 
 crew from the Marine Society of the Port of New 
 York. 
 
 The Vice-President of the United States and 
 Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York. 
 The Secretaries of State, Treasury, War and 
 Navy of the United States. 
 
 The Secretary of the Interior, the Postmaster 
 General, the Attorney General and Secretary of 
 Agriculture of the United States. 
 
 The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 
 United Stdtes. 
 
 The Associate Justices of the Suj reme Court 
 of the Unite, l Statesann Judges of other Federal 
 Courts. 
 
 Tlic 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 
 Representatives of the United States. 
 
 The Governors of Territories and Presideni of 
 the Board of Commissioners of the District of 
 Columbia, taking precedence in the order of 
 establishment of their Territorial governments. 
 
 The Admiral of the Navy. General Sherman, 
 the Major General commanding the Army, and 
 officers of the Army and Navy who by name 
 havo received the thanks of Congress. 
 
 The official representation of the Society of 
 the Cincinnati. 
 
 The Chief Judge and Judges of the Court of 
 Appeals of the State of New l'ork. 
 
 The Presiding Justice and Justices of the Su- 
 preme 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. 
 
 Officers of the State of New York. 
 
 Judges anil Justices of other courts in the city 
 of New York. 
 
 The Board of Aldermen of the city of New 
 York. 
 
 Heads of departments of the city of New 
 York. 
 
 Mayor of the city of Brooklyn. 
 
 The Board of Aldermen of the city of Brooklyn. 
 
 The Foreign Consuls of New York and officers 
 of the Army anil Navy of the United States. 
 
 Invited guests, without special order of pre- 
 cedence. 
 
 The distance from the landing at the foot of 
 Wall street to the Equitable Building being but 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 a few blocks, the procession will proceed on foot 
 from the landing at Wall streel to the Equitable 
 Building, carriages being only provided for the 
 President and his immediate party. At the re- 
 ception in the Equitable Building the President, 
 with his Cabinet, the Governors of. the Slates, 
 the Governor of the si tte of New York and the 
 Mayor of the city of New York will have pre- 
 sented to them the guests, who will pass ami 
 bow to the President and party without shaking 
 hands (as was the custom at the reception of 
 Washington in 17.S9). Tim reception will last 
 from 2 to 3.30 o'clock. Admission only by buff 
 ticket. 
 
 IV. From 4 to 5.30 o'clock a public reception 
 will be given to the President of the United 
 States in the Governor's Boom in the City Hall, 
 the President, the Governor of the State of New 
 York and the Mayor of the city of New York pro- 
 ceeding under military escort. 
 
 At the steps of the City Hall a representation 
 of girls from the public schools will assemble 
 and welcome the President of the United States. 
 
 THAT MFCH-TALKED-OF BALL. 
 
 V. In the evening at 9 o'clock the Centennial 
 Ball will be given in the Metropolitan Opera 
 House. The following is the programme : 
 
 The Mayor of the city of New York, as host 
 and as Chairman of the Committee on the Cen- 
 tennial Celebration of the Inauguration oft leorge 
 Washington as President of the United States, 
 to arrive at the Metropolitan Opera House at 
 10.15 p. M., and at 10.30 to receive the President 
 of the United States and other distinguished 
 guests. 
 
 The President to be brought to the ball by the 
 Chairman of the Committee on Entertainment, 
 accompanied by the Governor of the State of 
 New York and Mrs. Harrison, the Vice-President 
 and Mis. Morton, the Lieutenant-Governor and 
 Mrs. Junes. 
 
 The manager of the ball to meet the President 
 at his carriage and conduct him into the build- 
 ing, where the formal reception by the Mayor 
 will take place. 
 
 After the reception the guests above named 
 
 will be conducted to the floor in the following 
 order, escorted by a guard of honor: 
 The Mayor. The President. The Governor. 
 
 The Vice-President and Mrs. Harrison, 
 
 The Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. Morton. 
 
 The President of the General Committee and 
 
 Mrs. -I s. 
 
 In front of the President's box the Chairman 
 of the Committee on Entertainment will present 
 lo the President the Chairman of the Executive 
 Committee and the members of the Committee 
 on Entertainment and the Committee on Plan 
 aiel Scope. 
 
 After the presentation the opening quadrille 
 will be formed by the manager of the ball. 
 
 At midnight the President and party will be 
 escorted in the above older to the supper room, 
 which order will be observed on returning. The 
 serving of wine will cease at 1 o'clock a. m., in 
 compliance with the law. 
 
 TUESDAY, APEIL 30. 
 
 VI. Services of thanksgiving, pursuant to the 
 proclamation of the President, will be held in 
 churches in New York and throughout the coun- 
 try at A. M., being the hour at which religious 
 services were held in New York City on April 30, 
 
 17s: i. 
 
 VII. A special service of thanksgiving will be 
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 Bishop of New York, as the servi in the day 
 
 of Washington's inauguration in 17*0 was con- 
 ducted by the Bishop of New York, the Right 
 Rev. Samuel Provoost. Admission only by lav. 
 ender ticket. 
 
 The ( 'ommittee of the Vestry of Trinity Church 
 will meet the President al the Vesey street gate 
 and escort him to the west porch of the chapel, 
 when, he will be received by the rector and the 
 
 full vestry. The President will then 1 scorted 
 
 to the Washington pew, and on his withdrawal 
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 west porch, where ho will be received by the Com. 
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 The services at St. Paul's Chapel will be as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 1. Processional Hymn. 
 
 2. Our Father. &c. 
 
 3. Psalm lxxxv. 
 
 4. First Lesson, Eccles. xliv. 
 5 To Deum. 
 
 6. Second Lesson, St. John viii. 
 
 7. Benedicite. 
 
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 9. Address by the Eight Rev. Henry C. rotter. 
 Bishop of New York. 
 
 10. Recessional Hymn. 
 
 VIII. At the close of the religious services at 
 9.45 a. M.°, the President and party will proceed 
 to the Sub-Treasury Building, at the corner of 
 Wall and Nassau streets, the scene of the inaug- 
 uration ceremony on April 30, 1789, where the 
 literary exercises will take place. These exer- 
 cises will begin at 10 a. m., anil will consist of 
 an invocation by the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, 
 D. D., L.L. D. ; a poem by John Greenleaf Whit- 
 tier; an oration by Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 
 L.L. D:; an address by the President of the 
 United States, and the benediction by the Most 
 Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan, Archbishop 
 of New York. 
 
 THE BID PARADE. 
 
 IX. At the conclusion of the literary exercises 
 the President and members of the Cabinet, the 
 Chief Justin' and the Associate Justices of the 
 United States, will be driven to the reviewing 
 stand at Madison Square to review the parade. 
 
 Other guests will l arried to the reviewing 
 
 stands by a special train on the Third Avenue 
 Elevated Railroad, which will start at Hanover 
 Square :l nd run to the Twenty-third street sta- 
 tion. 
 
 X. While the literary exercises are taking 
 place the military will move from the head of 
 Wall street and Broadway. The column, under 
 Major General John M. Schofleld, U. S. A., as 
 Chief Marshal, will be composed of the cadets 
 from the Military Academy of West Point, the 
 naval cadets from Annapolis, the troops of the 
 regular army and navy, and the National Guard 
 •of each State in the order in which the States 
 
 ratified the Constitution or were admitted to the 
 Union. These will bo followed by the Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion and tho posts of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 The order of the States in procession is as fol- 
 lows : The infantry and artillery brigades of the 
 regular army, the marines and sailors of the 
 navy, and the corps of cadets from the United 
 States Military Academy at West Point and tho 
 Naval Academy at Annapolis will occupy the 
 right of line. To these will succeed : 
 
 Delaware. — Gov. Benjamin T. Biggs; Brig. 
 Gen. Richard R. Kenney, Adjutant General. 
 
 Pennsylvania.— Gov. James A. Beaver; Brig. 
 Cen. Daniel H. Hastings, Adjutant General. 
 
 New Jersey. — Gov. Robert S. Green; Brig. 
 Brevet Major Gen. William S. Stryker, Adjutant 
 ( leneral. 
 
 G gia. — Gov. John I>. Gordon; Col. John 
 
 Mcintosh Kell, Adjutant General. 
 
 Connecticut. — Gov. Morgan <: Bulkeley; Prig. 
 Gen. Lucius II. Barbour, Adjutanl General. 
 
 Massachusetts. — Gov. Oliver Ames; Major 
 (Jen. Samuel Dalton, Adjutant General. 
 
 Maryland.— Gov. Elihu E. Jackson ; Major 
 Gen. James Howard. Adjutant General. 
 
 South Carolina. — Gov. John P. Richardson: 
 Brig. Gen. M. L. Bonham, Adjutant General. 
 
 New Hamphire. — Gov. Charles II. Sawyer; 
 Major Gen. Augustus T. Ayling. Adjutant Gen- 
 eral. 
 
 Virginia. — Gov. Fitzhugh Lee: Brig. Gen. 
 James McDonald, Adjutant General. 
 
 New York.— Gov. David B. Hill; Major Gen. 
 Josia'h Porter, Adjutant General. 
 
 North Carolina. — Gov. Daniel G Fowle; Brig. 
 Gen. Johnstone Jones, Adjutant General. 
 
 Rhode Island.— Gov. Royal C. Taft; Brig. 
 Gen. Elisha Dyer, Adjutant General. 
 
 Vermont.— Gov. William P. Dillingham; Brig, 
 Hen. Theodore S. Peck, Adjutant. 
 
 Kentucky. — Gov. Simon B. Buekner; Brig. 
 Gen. Samuel E. Hill, Adjutant General. 
 
 Tennessee. — Gov. Robert L. Taylor. 
 
 (ihio. — Gov. Joseph B. Foraker; Major Gen. 
 Henry A. Axline, Adjutant General. 
 
 Louisiana.— Gov. Francis P. Nicholls. 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 Indiana. — Gov. Alvin P. Hovey. 
 
 Mississippi. — Gov. Kobert Lowroy; Brig. Gen. 
 William Homy, Adjutant General. 
 
 Illinois.— Gov. Joseph W. Pifer. 
 
 Alabama. — Gov. Thomas Seay; Col. A B. Gar- 
 land, Jr., Adjutant General. 
 
 Maine. — Guv. Edwin C.Burleigh; Brig. Gen. 
 Henry M. Sprague, Adjutant General. 
 
 Missouri. — Governor David R. Francis. 
 
 Arkansas. — Gov. James P. Eagle. 
 
 Michigan. — Gov. Cyrus ('. Luce; Brig. Gen. 
 Daniel B. Ainger, Adjutant General. 
 
 Florida. — Gov. Francis P. Fleming; Major 
 Gen. D. Lang, Adjutant General. 
 
 Tex;is. — Gov. Lawrence S. Ross; Brig. Gen. 
 W. H. King, Adjutant General. 
 
 Iowa. - Gov. William Larrabee; Major Gen. 
 William Alexander, Adjutant General. 
 
 Colorado. —Gov. Job A. Cooper. 
 
 Wisconsin. — Gov. William D. Hoard. 
 
 California. — Gov. Robert W. Waterman ; Brig. 
 Gen. Richard H. Or^on. Adjutant General. 
 
 Minnesota. — Gov. William R. Merriam. 
 
 Oregon. — Gov. Sylvester Pennoyer ; Col. J. C. 
 Shafner, Adjutant General. 
 
 Kansas. —Gov Lyman U. Humphrey. 
 
 ffcsl Virginia. — Gov. E. Willis Wilson. 
 
 Nebraska. — Gov. John M. Thayer; Brig. Gen. 
 A. V. Cole, Adjutant General. 
 
 Nevada. —Gov. Christopher C. Stephenson; 
 Brig. Gen. H. C. Davis, Adjutant General. 
 
 Tlie aggregate of officers and men to be re- 
 viewed by tin' President of the United States 
 on Tuesday, April 30, will be 50,000 in round 
 numbers. 
 
 The Militia of New York and Brooklyn will 
 form the most important part of the parade. 
 
 In accordance with the orders ■ >f Gov. Hill, 
 the National Guard of this State will move as 
 follows in the Centennial parade: Gov. David 
 l Hill and Staff; Troop A, First Brigade, Capt. 
 Roe ; First Brigade, Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, New 
 York; First Battery, Capt. Louis Wendel; Sec- 
 ond Battery, ('apt. David Wilson : Seventh Reg- 
 iment, Col. Emmons Clark; Eighth Regiment 
 Col. Geo. D. Scott; Ninth Regiment. Col. Wm. 
 Seward, Jr. ; Twelfth Regiment, Col. W. Barber; 
 
 Twenty-second Regiment, Col. John T. Camp ; 
 Sixty-ninth Regiment, Col. James Cavanagh; 
 Seventy-first Regiment, Col. Fred Kopper. 
 
 Second Brigade, Gen. James McLeer, Brook- 
 lyn ; Third Battery, Capt. H. B. Rasquin ; Thir- 
 teen! Ii Regiment, Col. David E. Austen; Four- 
 teenth Regiment, Col. H. W. Michel ; Twenty- 
 third Regiment, Col. J. N. Partridge : Thirty- 
 second Regiment, Col. L. Finkelmeier; Forty- 
 seventh Regiment, Col. Ed L. Gaylor ; Seven- 
 teenth Separate Company, Flushing, Capt. Thos. 
 Miller, Jr. 
 
 Third Brigade, Gen. Amasa J. Parker, Jr., 
 Albany ; Sixth Battery, Capt. L. L. Olmsted ; 
 Tenth Batalion, Lieut. Col. W. E. Fitch. 
 First Provisional Regiment, Lieut. Col. Hard- 
 ing, Thirteenth. 
 
 -1th Sep. Co., Yonkers, Capt. J. I. Pruyn. 
 
 5th Sep. Co., Newburg. Capt. J. T. Chase. 
 
 Kith Sep. Co., Newburg, Lieut. W. J. Whited. 
 
 11th Sep. Co., Mount Vernon, Capt. I. N. 
 Pressey. 
 
 14th Sep. Co., Kingston, Lieut. J. G. Van 
 Etten. 
 
 15th Sep. Co., Poughkeepsie, Capt. Bert My- 
 ers. 
 
 16th Sep. Co., Catskill, Capt. A. M. Murphy. 
 
 10th Sep. Co., Poughkeepsie, Capt. W. Hau- 
 bennestel. 
 
 23d Sep. Co., Hudson, Lieut. R. Reynolds. 
 
 24th Sep. Co., Middleton, Capt. C. B. Wood. 
 Second Provisional Regiment, Col. Alex. B. 
 Bacon. 
 
 3d Sep. Co., Oneonta, Capt. Walter Scott. 
 
 6th Sep. Co., Troy, Capt. Jas. W. Cusack. 
 
 7th Sep. Co., Cohoes, Capt. P. G. Tymerson. 
 
 9th Sep. Co., Whitehall, Lieut. T. A. Patter- 
 son. 
 
 12th Sep. Co., Troy, Capt. J. Egolf. 
 
 18th Sep. Co., Glens Falls, Capt. Jas. S. Gar- 
 rett. 
 
 21st Sep. Co., Troy, Capt. Samuel Foster. 
 
 22d Sep. Co., Saratoga, Capt. R. C. McEwen. 
 
 27th Sep. Co., Malone, Lieut. G. W. Crooks. 
 
 32(1 Sep. Co., Hooslck Falls, Capt. C, W. Eddy. 
 Third Provisional Regiment, Lieut. Col. .1. A. 
 Dennison, Seventy-first: 
 
WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. 
 
 20th Sep. Co., Bingharaton, Capt. H. C. Kogers. 
 
 28th Sep. Co., Utiea, Capt. T. H. Remmar. 
 
 31s.t Sep Co., Mohawk, Capt. A. I. Budlong. 
 
 33d Sep. Co., Walton, Capt. M. W. Marvin. 
 
 35th Sep. Co., Ogdensburg, Capt. H. Holland. 
 
 36th Sep. Co., Schenectady, Capt. A. A. Yates. 
 
 37th Sep. Co., Schenectady, Capt. G. W. Mar- 
 ietta. 
 
 39th Sep. Co., "Watertown, Capt. J. R. Miller. 
 
 44th Sep. Co., Utica, Capt. D. T. Evarts. 
 
 46th Sep. Co., 
 
 Fourth Brigade, Gen. Peter C. Doyle, Buffalo ; 
 Fifth Battery, Capt. Michael Auer. 
 Sixty-fifth Regiment, Lieut. Col. John E. Robie. 
 3th Sep. Co., Jamestown, Capt. Henry Smith. 
 
 4:id Sep. Co., Glean, Capt. C. G. Thyng. 
 Seventy-fourth Regiment, Col. U. S. Johnson. 
 
 1st Sep. Co., Penn Yan, Capt. A. Gridley. 
 
 34th Sep. Co., Geneva., Capt. William Wilson. 
 
 42d Sep. Co., Niagara Falls, Capt. C B. Gaskill. 
 Fourth Provisional Regiment, Col. Sam L. 
 Welch, Sixty-fifth. 
 
 2d Sep. Co , Auburn, Capt. W. M. Kirby. 
 
 8th Sep. Co., Rochester, Capt. H. B. Hender- 
 son. 
 
 26th Sep Co., Elmira, Lieut. F. B. Parke. 
 
 29th Sep. Co., Oswego, Capt. H. H. Herron. 
 
 30th Sep. Co., Elmira, Capt. R. Morse. 
 
 38th Sep. Co., Oswego, Capt. F. M. Stearns. 
 
 40th Sep. Co., Syracuse, Capt. T. M. Barber. 
 
 41st Sop. Co , Syracuse, Capt. W. B. Randall. 
 
 45th Sep. Co., 
 
 XI. The route of the procession will be up 
 Broadway to Waverley place, through Waverley 
 place to Filth avenue, thence up Fifth avenue to 
 Fifty-seventh street. The reviewing stand will 
 be on the east side of Fifth avenue on Madison 
 square, extending from Twenty-third to Twenty- 
 sixth street. 
 
 The other stands will be as follows : 
 
 1. On the west side of Fifth avenue from Twen- 
 ty-fourth to Twenty-fifth street. 
 
 2. On the west side of Fifth avenue from For- 
 tieth to Forty-second street. 
 
 3. On the north side of Washington square. 
 
 4. On the east side of Broadway at the City 
 Hall Park. 
 
 XII. The Centennial Banquet will take placo 
 at the Metropolitan Opera House at 6.30 p. m. 
 
 XIII. At 8 p. m. there will be at the reviewing 
 stand, Madison Square, a free open-air concert 
 of vocal and instrumental music under the aus- 
 pices of the German-Americans of Now York. 
 
 XIY. During the evening there will be a gen- 
 eral illumination of the city and display of fire- 
 works in the following localities : 
 
 Tompkins Square, Canal Street Park, Wash- 
 ington Square, Union Square, Fifty-ninth street 
 and Eighth avenue. Mount Morris Park, East 
 River Park (Eightieth street), Washington 
 Heights and places in Twenty-third and Twen- 
 ty-fourth Wards. 
 
 WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. 
 
 XV. The Industrial and Civic Parade, under 
 command of Major Gen. Daniel Butterfield, late 
 U. S. Volunteers, Chief Marshal, will take place. 
 The lino of march will be from Fifty-seventh 
 street down Fifth avenue to Waverley place, up 
 Waverley place to Broadway and down Broad- 
 way to Canal street. 
 
 THE CIVIC PARADE. 
 
 The third and last day of the C Milennial Cele- 
 bration, May 1, will be devoted to the civic 
 parade, which promises to eclipse anything of 
 its character that New York has ever beheld. 
 The central feature will be the Boats demon- 
 strating the progress of commerce and trade 
 since the Declaration of Independence was 
 penned. 
 
 The parade will embrace the representatives 
 of the various tiadcs, the firemen, and the vari- 
 ous foreign societies, the Catholics, the odd 
 Fellows, the Free Masons, and scores of other 
 bodies. Among the organizations that will be 
 in line are : 
 
 ORGANIZATIONS IN LINE. 
 
 The Association of Exempt Firemen, J. F. 
 Wenman, New York ; Volunteer Firemen's As- 
 sociation, William Thomas, Long Island ; Vet- 
 eran Firemen's Association, J. F. Wenman, New 
 York; Veteran Volunteer Firemen, J. P. Rorke, 
 Brooklyn ; Volunteer Firemen's Association, J. 
 
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 pany, F. B Creen, New York ; Protective Engine 
 Company, W. H. Rowen, New York ; Tiger Hose 
 Company, W. Gillis, Jr., Long Island; Coffee 
 Exchange, Louis Seligsberg, New York ; Me- 
 chanics and Tradesmen, S. II. Wright, New 
 York City ; Frelinghuysen Lancers, F. H. Bel- 
 knap, Newark, N. J. ; Caledonian Club, A. Hali- 
 day, New York ; Huguenot Societ}, J. Jay. New 
 York; Knights of Friendship, W. H. Merrick, 
 Philadelphia, Pa. ; Washington League, C. S. 
 Erb, New York ; United Order American Me- 
 chanics, L. N. Hart, New York; Life Oak Asso- 
 ciation Committee, New York; Republican 
 Union and Protective Club, G. W. Lattimore, 
 New York ; Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 J. O. Woodward, New York ; Knights of Pythias, 
 T. II. Palmer. New York ; Ancient Order of For- 
 esters, John G. Ward, New York; Palestine 
 Commandary, Knights Templar, C. E. Lansing, 
 New York; and Sons of Veterans, W. 0. Mc- 
 Donald, New York ; Brooklyn Police, 500 men, 
 under Commissioner .Tumi's P. Bell: the Free 
 Masons; Port Richmond Fire Engine Company, 
 E. W. Foster, Staten Island: Coney Island Fire 
 Department, C. Stubenbord, Long Island; Vet- 
 eran Firemen's Sons. G. F. Haller, Jr., New 
 York; Hope Engine Company, J. H. Berkmine, 
 New Jersey; Volunteer Firemen's Association, 
 C. C. Parish, New York. 
 
 The Caledonians will appear in Highland cos- 
 tumes. The Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, 
 and Free Masons will parade in their regalia. 
 The Knights Templar will appear in their bril- 
 liant uniforms. 
 
 THE OEKMANS IN THE PAEADE. 
 
 The German section of the parade will be 
 composed of three parts : First, marching soci- 
 eties, with bands and banners; second, indus- 
 tries, on floats ; and, third, singing and musical 
 societies. The most attractive part will be the 
 second, which is to be shown in five subdivis- 
 ions. 
 
 Subdivision A will treat of the history of Ger- 
 man immigration, and will be shown in eight 
 
 tableaux: First, German immigration one hun- 
 dred years ago; second, German immigrants 
 going t> the West; third, pioneers of agricul- 
 ture; fourth, herrenhuter; fifth, German heroes 
 of the American Revolution ; sixth, immigrants 
 of 1831) and 1848 ; seventh, Germans in the civil 
 war; and, eighth, immigrants of to-day. 
 
 Subdivision B— First tableau. Printing and 
 presswork one hundred years ago; second, floral 
 display; third, wine culture; fourth, group of 
 Bacchus; fifth, group of Gambrinus, and, sixth, 
 the different trades. 
 
 Subdivision C— First tableau, kindergarten; 
 second, Christmas; third, singing societies; 
 fourth, schuetzen corp; fifth volksfest socie- 
 ties; and, sixth, carnival societies. 
 
 Subdivision D — First tableau, technical 
 achievements; se< 1, Science, with an im- 
 mense bust of Alexander Humboldt; third, 
 arts; forth, church and concert music; fifth, 
 volkshead; sixth, opera music; and, seventh, 
 Wagnerian music. 
 
 Subdivis'on E will be a grand representation 
 of Columbia and Germania surrounded by Ger- 
 mans of every tribe of ancient ( rermany. 
 
 s '" >f the floats on which the tableaux will 
 
 be represented will be over twenty-two feet 
 high, notably the Mnp that is to represent the 
 I rerman immigrants coming to this country. 
 
 HOLLANDERS TO TAKE PART. 
 
 The New York Hollanders will be arrayed as 
 their forefathers were acenturyago. Many Hol- 
 landers who are factory owners and employ 
 many workingmen have promised to secure the 
 hearty co-operation of every man in their em- 
 ployment. Thus it is probable that several 
 trade banners will be displayed, which will 
 aptly demonstrate the interest of Hollanders in 
 tin? industries of this country. 
 
 Over 450 Irish Catholic societies, with a mem- 
 bership of 25,000 to :r,,( , will take part in the 
 
 parade. The movement has the approval of 
 Archbishop Corrigan. German Catholics to the 
 number of 15,000 have already arranged to par- 
 ticipate. 
 
W AKHI NGTON C'E.M EKNIAL. 
 
 THE OL«-TIlIE FIREMEN. 
 
 The veterans of the old Volunteer Fire De- 
 partment expect to make a grand appearance in 
 the civic parade. All the old "boys "now living 
 who used to run " wid der masheen" in the ear- 
 lier days of this century will man many of the 
 old-time, engines and hose carts formerly used 
 by them. The Ass iciation of Exempt Firemen, 
 led by J. F. Wenman, will make an imposingdis- 
 play. So win tin' Veteran Firemen's Associa- 
 tion. Among other organizations will bo tin.' I". 
 S. Grant Hose Company, old Protective Engine 
 Company, Veteran Firemen's Sons, and the Vol- 
 unteer Firemen's Association, all of this city, 
 
 To these will be added the Volunteer F.re- 
 mcn's Association of Long Island. Veteran Yol- 
 unteer Firemen of Brooklyn, Volunteer Fire- 
 men's Association of Brooklyn, Tiger Hose 
 
 C pany of Lou.; Island, Port Richmond Fire 
 
 Engine Company, Coney Island Fire Depart- 
 111 nt. and Hope Engine Company of Jersi y City. 
 
 Firemen from other points will also be present. 
 I; 'presentatives, with their apparatus, will be in 
 
 line from Albany, Nowburg, Poughkeepsie, Hud- 
 son, Rochester, Buffalo, Binghamton, Philadel- 
 phia, Baltimore, New Hav :n and Boston. 
 
 A battalion of the paid Fire Department will 
 bring up the rear of the firemen's division in the 
 parade. 
 
 Among the veterans will be old ex-Chief Harry 
 Howard and George Robertson. The latter re- 
 sides in Wo-cester, Mass., and is the oldest 
 living New York volunteer fireman. He was born 
 May 1, 1799, and when quite a young man ran 
 with Engine No. 16. His mother and father 
 attended the inauguration ball given in honor 
 of Washington. 
 
 WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 
 
 Close of the Loan Exhibition of Historical 
 Portraits and Relics in the Assembly Rooms of 
 th" Metropolitan Opera House. 
 
 Officers of the Army and Navy and persons oc- 
 cupy ing official positi ms are requested toappear 
 in full uniform. 
 
 CORRECT LINE OF MARCH. 
 
 The route of the procession will be up Broadway to Waverly Place, 
 ihrough Waverly Place to 14th Street, to Union Square, to 17th Street, 
 :o Fifth Avenue, thence up Fifth Avenue to 57th Street. The Reviewing 
 Stand will be on the East side of Fifth Avenue on Madison Square, ex- 
 tending from Twentv-third to Twen*"-sixth Street. 
 
 
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