Music Trade Review
Issue: 1892 Vol. 16 N. 10 - Page 1
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riisi;
T
VUL
XVI. No.
10.
published Every Saturday.
THE
Columbian Celebration.
CLOSED IN A BLAZE OP GLORY—VIEWS OF THE
NIGHT PAGEANT SEEN PROM THE MUSIC
TRADE REVIEW OFFICES.
various parades of the Columbian Cele-
bration, as seen from the offices of THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, were grand and imposing,
and formed a spectacle which will probably never
$3.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
* ' flew Yorl(, October 15,1892.
future, the hope of the country, were there, and
as company after cbmpany, to the strains of
martial music, marched by with soldierly bear-
ing and military precision, erect, steady, confi-
dent, glowing with life and hope, many a wet
eye gave evidence of how the heart was touched
by a scene that had an interest peculiarly and
humanly its own which no other procession
could possess. The naval review of Tuesday, in
which the visiting warships of other nations
took part, was the grandest nautical display
ever made in American waters, and formed a
feature of the Celebration that was enthusiastic-
ally admired by the tens of thousands who be-
held it. The spectacular glories of the Celebra-
tion, however, culminated in the military parade
of the delighted hundreds of thousands who
formed two living walls from the Battery to
Central Park.
We are enabled to reproduce illustrations of
some of the floats.
1
' The Prehistoric Age.'' From a rock fifteen
feet high, showing several rock dwellers, pro-
truded the head of a mastodon, with glaring eye
and huge tusks, two brown bears with ravenous
jaws were on either side, two flaming mouthed
snakes had coiled themselves about the base of
the rock. Two green-backed turtles appeared
in a sea of ice which surrounded the car, while
two ancient canoes, occupied by rock-dwellers,
were in front of the car. Rock-dwellers were
seen in various attitudes of attack on their fero-
FLOAT REPRESENTING PREHISTORIC AMERICA.
be forgotten. The; coroer of 5th avenue and
14th street is an important position when great
parades take place, and the windows of our
offices always afford an excellent view of such
demonstrations.
of Wednesday and the-allegorical night pageant
by which it was supplemented.
The day procession occupied five hours and
twenty minutes in passing the reviewing stand.
It comprised soldiers, sailors, veterans, firemen,
postmen, and societies, and numbered 50,000
men. It was viewed by over a million of people.
The marching column, the multitudinous hosts
of spectators, the splendid decorations and the
golden sunshine formed a scene that has rarely,
if ever, been equaled and has never been ex-
celled. The night pageant was witnessed by
the same vast outpouring- of the people that
beheld the day parade. Numerous floats, con-
cious fellow travelers, the fauna of the prehis-
toric age.
"Toltec Sun Worshippers." A Toltec pyra-
mid, fifteen feet high, and fifteen feet at the
base, occupied the center of the float. In front of
the pyramid was the fantastically figured altar of
sacrifice, an exact copy of one extant in Mexico,
and consisting of a bowl-like vessel on a square
top. The high priest of the Toltecs poised the
sacrificing knife over the heart of the victim,
who lay on the altar between two small emblems
of the Sun God. The Deity himself was in the
center of a colossal golden emblem of the sun,
thirty feet in circumference. From the top of
FLOAT REPRESENTING SUN WORSHIPPERS.
The young people's parade last Monday, in
which 25,000 school and college boys partici-
pated, was an event that has probably never
been paralleled in history. It was indicative of
the future, not of the past. The men of the
taining beautiful and impressive allegorical re"
presentations, were interspersed with gay caval-
cades of knights and ladies and bands of music,
and, illuminated by electric light, the procession
wound its glittering way along, amid the cheers
the pyramid, and from the four corners of the
float, glowed the incense fires.
"Liberty." Model of the Bartholdi statue,
fifteen feet high, was the dominating figure.
(Continued on page 211.)
riisi;
T
VUL
XVI. No.
10.
published Every Saturday.
THE
Columbian Celebration.
CLOSED IN A BLAZE OP GLORY—VIEWS OF THE
NIGHT PAGEANT SEEN PROM THE MUSIC
TRADE REVIEW OFFICES.
various parades of the Columbian Cele-
bration, as seen from the offices of THE
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, were grand and imposing,
and formed a spectacle which will probably never
$3.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
* ' flew Yorl(, October 15,1892.
future, the hope of the country, were there, and
as company after cbmpany, to the strains of
martial music, marched by with soldierly bear-
ing and military precision, erect, steady, confi-
dent, glowing with life and hope, many a wet
eye gave evidence of how the heart was touched
by a scene that had an interest peculiarly and
humanly its own which no other procession
could possess. The naval review of Tuesday, in
which the visiting warships of other nations
took part, was the grandest nautical display
ever made in American waters, and formed a
feature of the Celebration that was enthusiastic-
ally admired by the tens of thousands who be-
held it. The spectacular glories of the Celebra-
tion, however, culminated in the military parade
of the delighted hundreds of thousands who
formed two living walls from the Battery to
Central Park.
We are enabled to reproduce illustrations of
some of the floats.
1
' The Prehistoric Age.'' From a rock fifteen
feet high, showing several rock dwellers, pro-
truded the head of a mastodon, with glaring eye
and huge tusks, two brown bears with ravenous
jaws were on either side, two flaming mouthed
snakes had coiled themselves about the base of
the rock. Two green-backed turtles appeared
in a sea of ice which surrounded the car, while
two ancient canoes, occupied by rock-dwellers,
were in front of the car. Rock-dwellers were
seen in various attitudes of attack on their fero-
FLOAT REPRESENTING PREHISTORIC AMERICA.
be forgotten. The; coroer of 5th avenue and
14th street is an important position when great
parades take place, and the windows of our
offices always afford an excellent view of such
demonstrations.
of Wednesday and the-allegorical night pageant
by which it was supplemented.
The day procession occupied five hours and
twenty minutes in passing the reviewing stand.
It comprised soldiers, sailors, veterans, firemen,
postmen, and societies, and numbered 50,000
men. It was viewed by over a million of people.
The marching column, the multitudinous hosts
of spectators, the splendid decorations and the
golden sunshine formed a scene that has rarely,
if ever, been equaled and has never been ex-
celled. The night pageant was witnessed by
the same vast outpouring- of the people that
beheld the day parade. Numerous floats, con-
cious fellow travelers, the fauna of the prehis-
toric age.
"Toltec Sun Worshippers." A Toltec pyra-
mid, fifteen feet high, and fifteen feet at the
base, occupied the center of the float. In front of
the pyramid was the fantastically figured altar of
sacrifice, an exact copy of one extant in Mexico,
and consisting of a bowl-like vessel on a square
top. The high priest of the Toltecs poised the
sacrificing knife over the heart of the victim,
who lay on the altar between two small emblems
of the Sun God. The Deity himself was in the
center of a colossal golden emblem of the sun,
thirty feet in circumference. From the top of
FLOAT REPRESENTING SUN WORSHIPPERS.
The young people's parade last Monday, in
which 25,000 school and college boys partici-
pated, was an event that has probably never
been paralleled in history. It was indicative of
the future, not of the past. The men of the
taining beautiful and impressive allegorical re"
presentations, were interspersed with gay caval-
cades of knights and ladies and bands of music,
and, illuminated by electric light, the procession
wound its glittering way along, amid the cheers
the pyramid, and from the four corners of the
float, glowed the incense fires.
"Liberty." Model of the Bartholdi statue,
fifteen feet high, was the dominating figure.
(Continued on page 211.)
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