. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . nother, and the people were thoroughly awake tothe importance and joy of the occasion. All of the parades were worthy of their makers—that of themanufacturers and merchants, the carnival parade of automo-biles, the parade of the women seeking the suffrage, that of the 444 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. fraternal orders, the German singers and the federal troops,the Order of the Serpent and the veterans of the civil war andthe war with Spain. But the prime interest of the people wasin the historical pageant of twenty-six floats, prepar
. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . nother, and the people were thoroughly awake tothe importance and joy of the occasion. All of the parades were worthy of their makers—that of themanufacturers and merchants, the carnival parade of automo-biles, the parade of the women seeking the suffrage, that of the 444 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. fraternal orders, the German singers and the federal troops,the Order of the Serpent and the veterans of the civil war andthe war with Spain. But the prime interest of the people wasin the historical pageant of twenty-six floats, prepared afterspecifications by Assistant Secretary H. H. Bennett, of the com-mission, and accurately representing different periods and eventsincident to the history and development of Ohio. These floatsrepresented the Mound Builders, the earliest occupants of theterritory that is now Ohio, in the act of making a human sac-rifice upon one of their altar mounds; a scene on the Portagepath during the days of the Indians; Bienville taking possession. Float—The Griffin, the first sail boat on Lake Erie. of the Ohio for France; a Jesuit Father preaching to the Indianson the site of Sandusky; the first sailing vessel on Lake Erie;Dunmores council with the Indians on the Pickaway plains;an Indian attack on a settlers cabin; a flatboat on the Ohio;the signing of the first constitution; Ohio to the front in the warof 1812; the defense of Fort Stephenson; Perrys victory onLake Erie; the Northwest Territory and her children, the statesof Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin; an earlycanal boat; the Harrison campaign of 1840; Ohios schools andcolleges; the departure for the war, 1861; Ohio in camp; thereturn from the war; honor to the veterans; the landing of Co- The Ohio-Columbus Centennial. 445 lumbus; the nations in Ohio, depicting the various peoples fromwhom the population has been recruited; the electric age, withspecial recognition of Thomas A. Edison, Elisha Gray and,Cha
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