AMERICA.
(Received May 1, 1.16 a.m.) New York, April 30. Id connection with the ceremonies at the Washington centennial a stately pro* cession of 300 warships and merchantmen escorted General Harrison's steamer round New York and Brooklyn barbora. The display was intended to reproduce President Washington's arrival at New York after the first election in 1789, and waswitnessed by a million people, who displayed immense enthusiasm. The city was splendidly decorated, and the illuminations at night were* on a grand scsle. The ceremony to-day is intended to reproduce the scene of Washington's inauguration to the Presidential office. There is to be a military review in the city, and 6X>,000 regulars of the United States army will march past ' General Harrison, "who throughout the ceremonies occupies the centifil position. To-morrow there will belar,(je parades of the civic and industrial bodies.- 15
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8351, 1 May 1889, Page 2
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