Throughout the day and evening the magnificent fountains in the Park and Union Square were kept in full play, and formed the most novel, as well as the most pleasing feature of the day.

There was much, says the Commercial Advertiser, very much indeed we may say every thing in this celebration, to excite strongly the most grateful feelings and reflections. The favorable condition of the weather, the immense magnitude and vast utility of the achievement whose completion it was designed to honor, the perfect success that has attended the great work, in the quality of the water and its overflowing abundance, the

facility with which it is distributed, and the happy effects it is already visibly producing the universal satisfaction with which the celebration and its objects were regarded the

beauty of the fountains, and the proud consciousness which every citizen of New York felt that his or her own cherished and honored city had, in this mighty undertaking, accomplished a 'work with no superior, either for extent or for excellence of object all these were elements of gratification such as it is not often the pleasant lot of a municipal

peopte to enjoy ; and they were enjoyed, temperately, yet with an exquisite satisfaction.

And apart from these, there was the sense of grandeur always called into being by the sight of the presence of a great multitude, animated by one impulse, and moving or acting in the attainment of a common object. Nor was the proud reflection absent, that under the