Deputy Grand Master, and The Most Worshipful Grand Master, the venera. ble MORGAN LEWIS, in a barouche, supported by four Grand Deacons with blue staves.

Contractors and Workmen of the Water Works. A large main Pipe drawn by four horses. A truck surmounted by a banner with the inscription " Croton Aqueduct Depart- " ment," bearing several pipes, and workmen, with red caps, on which was inscribed pipe layers," at work. Banner with portrait of De Witt Clinton, and a view of the locks of a canal.

Xylographic Society and Printers. North River Navy. A car drawn by two horses, representing the Miller and his Men. A car drawn by four horses, with model of steamboat North America. North River Steamboat Captains in two Barouches. The Fraternity wore all the varied badges and insignia of the craft, and the division was one of the most novel and interesting of the group. The Croton Water Pipe was hauled along to show what had been done by men, and by what means it had been accomplished. Pipe of every weight and dimension, the implements of the workmen, their carts, machinery, (fee., all made a part of the tout ensemble of this division.

288 CELEBRATION OF THE The Printing Press was the same that Benjamin Franklin had worked upon in London, and on the same car was one of the new fashioned ones of our day, occupied in striking off an ode written for the occasion. The North River Navy was represented in a long boat well filled and manned, and " The hailing as People's Line." The Miller and his Men were up to their eyes in meal. The corn was ground, bags of meal laid by, and everything betokened the thrift and enterprise of the laborer, and of the business.