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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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oined by the voyagers returningfrom the ocean—the mayor and common council and distinguishedguests. The scene along the line of the procession presented a most imposingspectacle. Each society seemed emulous to excel in the richness andbeauty of its banner and the respective badges and decorations. Manyof the banners displayed exquisite art in design and execution. Manyof the industrial societies (twenty-two in number) had furnished them-selves with large cars, upon which their respective artisans were busilyengaged in their several occupations. The most attractive performance of the kind was on the printerscar, on which was a printing-press constantly at work striking offcopies of a long Ode for the Canal Celebration, written for theoccasion at the request of the printers of New York, and distributed tothe populace. The following are the opening stanzas : Tis done ! tis done ! The mighty chainWhich joins bright Erie to the Main,For ages shall perpetuateThe glory of our native State.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 73 Tis done ! Frond Art oer Nature has prevailed !Gentus and Perseverance have succeeded !Though selfish Prejudice in strength assailed,While honest Frudence pleaded. Tis done ! The monarch of the briny tide,Whose giant arms encircle Earth,To virgin Erie is allied, A bright-eyed nymph of mountain birth. To-day the Sire of Ocean takesA sylvan maiden to his arms,The Goddess of the crystal Lakes,In all her native charms ! She comes, attended by a sparkling train ;The Naiads of the West her nuptials grace ;She meets the sceptred Father of the Main, And in his heaving bosom hides her virgin face. Some of the cars were beautifully ornamented and profusely deco-rated with evergreens. Turkey or Brussels carpets covered the floorsof some of them, and some fairly glittered with gilding in the light ofthe unclouded sun on that fair November day. In that procession was appropriately carried a bust of ChristopherOolles,* an Englishman who came to New York before the Revolu

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