On Main Street and Orchard Street and in fact everywhere were brilliant blends of color. Stores were dressed with the red, white and blue, and homes and other buildings bore the colors of all nations. Prominent in the mass of color, however, was Old Glory ; and this was most fitting, for the 'Stars and Stripes' was made possible by the men of the Revolution who by their and valor and fidelity thretv off a yoke of sovereignty, and inscribed a new name on the roll of nations. The boys of '76 made the flag, the boys of 1S12 and '6t sustained it, and wrhat could be more just than lor us to make it the crowning feature of our decorations ?

" Shortly after one o'clock Thursday afternoon the warships Cincinnati and Dolphin anchored in the Tappan Zee off Tarry town. Crowds gathered on the docks to gaze at the unwonted sight of warships anchored at Tarrytov n, and a pretty picture the vessels made, their white sails glistening in the sunlight, with the blue waters of the Hudson and the green Rockland hills as a background.

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"The attention of all was soon diverted however by the arrival of the artillery from Fort Hamilton. The troops had left Fort Hamilton at io o'clock in the morning on the steamer Little Silver, and had been landed at Hastings at about i o'clock, from which place they marched to Tarrytown. The vessel had in the meanwhile proceeded up the river and landed the camp equipage, and when the main body reached the Benedict property on Franklin street they found a camp pitched.