Governor Roosevelt,
Rear Admirals Schley and Sampson,
General Miles, and others.
West Point Cadets.
United States Regulars.
New York National Guard and Naval Militia.
National Guard of other States.
Union and Confederate Veterans.
Veterans of the Spanish War.

When the head of the procession reached Thirty-fourth Street, the
sailors from the Admiral's flagship halted and drew up along the side of
the Avenue. The Admiral left his carriage and entered the reviewing
stand at Madison Square. Admiral Sampson was on his right. Admiral
Schley on his left. Surrounding them were officers of both branches of
the service. For four hours Admiral Dewey stood there, acknowledging the
salutes and saluting the flag. The following day, October 1st, saw the
great naval parade through the waters of the Hudson River.

A decade passed, and then came the Hudson-Fulton celebration of
September 25--October 9, 1909. Of chief importance to the Avenue was the
civic procession of September 28th, when the floats, depicting a great
number of historical events, moved down the Avenue to Washington Square.
On the east side of the thoroughfare, from Fortieth to Forty-second
Street, opposite the Public Library, there had been erected a Court of
Honour. Against the stately pillars of the Court, the procession moved
swiftly by. Every nation that went into the "melting pot" was
represented, with the harped green flag of Ireland at the head of the
long column. Following the Ancient Order of Hibernians and other Irish
societies came the Italian organizations, then Poles, English, Dutch,
French, Scotch, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Syrian.

It was the nation's history of four hundred years that passed in effigy
on the floats. Pocahontas again interceded with her father Powhatan for
the life of Captain John Smith. Balboa caught sight of the waters of the
Pacific. The tea was dumped into Boston Harbour. The Minute Men stood
fast on the Common. Mad Anthony Wayne stormed Stony Point. Molly Stark's
husband said, "There are the red-coats. We must beat them today, or
Molly Stark's a widow!" Cornwallis surrendered his sword at Yorktown.
Somebody in the Mexican War said, "Give them a little more grape,
General Bragg!" and Dewey said: "You may fire when you're ready,
Gridley!"

In some of these events of the later years the writer had a personal
share. From a seventh-story window at Twenty-first Street he looked
down on the procession in honour