A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct
Italian Universal Benevolent Society, with an elegant banner of the landing of Columbus on the discovery of America. St. David's Society, preceded by a stage on which were seated three bards with long beards, playing on their Cambrian harps. Welsh Temperance Society, with a banner. These Societies turned out strongly and with all their emblems. There were Harps and Harpists, and instruments and men did honor to each of the several societies and countries represented. One at a glance could see in this division men born in al-
CROTON ACIUEDUCT. most a dozen Kingdoms, all good citizens here, but like all good citizens, though adopted, never forgetting the land of their fathers, or the mothers that nursed them.
NINTH DIVISION. Under the direction of Colonel A. G. Crasto, assisted by Col. Benj. W. Benson and Major Minthorn Tompkins, Aids to the Grand Marshal. Comprising The Temperance Societies, en masse. Barouch, containing the officers of the Liberty Hose Company of Baltimore. Washington Temperance Guards, commanded by Capt. Wm. Lee. Union Riflemen. Sandy Welch, mounted on a charger. Washington Temperance Benevolent Society. Marine Temperance Society. Manhattan Temperance Society. Junior Washington Temperance Society. Franklin Temperance Society, preceded by a band composed of members of the Institute for the Blind, seated on a car. Junior Franklin Temperance Society.
Broadway Washington Temperance Society. Rockland Lake Association, with two ice carts. Mount Pitt Temperance Society. Washington Total Abstinence Society. Neptune Temperance Society, accompanied by a detachment of U. S. Marines and Soldiers, in uniform. Chelsea Temperance Benevolent Society.