it is a greatness that is limited to a small sphere of life, since we cannot all be in high places. But always it makes for true Americanism and real citizenship. Washington was great because he was a real American; not a real American because he was great. Let us then, in dedicating this statue, dedicate ourselves also to the principles for which George Washington fought and by which he lived. Those principles loyalty, justice, tolerance, and liberty are just as true a way of life today as they were 150 years ago.

REPORT OF THE CEREMONIES

AT REENACTMENT OF THE INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AS FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE CONSTITUTION [Article from the New York Times, May 1, 1939]

THE GREAT event in American history that the World's Fair officially commemorates the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of George Washington's inauguration as first President of the United Stateswas reenacted on Constitution Mall yesterday in an impressive pageant that brought from thousands of applauding spectators new and hearty proof that Washington still lives in the hearts of his countrymen.

In the presence of Governor Lehman, who dedicated the imposing sixty-eight-foot statue of Washington that dominates the Mall, a group of costumed figures from the stately world of yesterday reproduced with historical fidelity the ceremony that took place in front of the present Subtreasury Building on Wall Street exactly 150 years ago.

The ceremonies ended a pageant that began two weeks ago at the door of the historic manor at Mount Vernon, Va. On that day Denys Wortman, artist and cartoonist, stepped from the mansion, a reincarnated General Washington, and embarked on an eight-day ride by coach and horse to New York.

His 160-year-old colonial coach, drawn by four bay horses, clattered through the fair grounds yesterday afternoon in an incongruous contrast to the strea nlined setting of the world of tomorrow. At the base of the huge statue the general and his costumed party stepped out of their coach and out of the past, and General Washington took the oath as President, reading again his inaugural address.

A roll of drums and a flourish of trumpets from the smartly attired Seventh Regiment Band saluted the new President; a guard of honor presented arms; and some 8,000 onlookers who had crowded into the small plaza now known as Washington Square cheered wildly.

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Governor Lehman and Grover Whalen, president of the Fair Corporation, hastened to congratulate President Washington, and the Governor then formally dedicated the statue.

Participants in the exercises included several descendants of persons who figured in the original inaugural ceremonies. Robert R. Livingston, who, as chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office to Washington in 1789, was impersonated yesterday by a descendant of the same name.

The general was attended by his aide-de-camp, Col. David Humphreys; by Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress; and by his servant, "Billy," all of whom made the ride by coach from Mount Vernon. They were impersonated by Laurens M. Hamilton, a direct descendant of Alexander Hamilton, who represented Colonel Humphreys; Dr. William S. Horton, of Lynbrook, Long Island, as Mr. Thomson; and by Marshall Thomas, negro waiter at the Century Club, who enacted the role of "Billy."

They had arrived in New York by barge from Elizabeth, N. J., last Monday, on the anniversary of Washington's original arrival, and following the precedent he set 150 years ago, they devoted a week to a round of ceremonies in the city.

Yesterday they were guests of Messmore Kendall, president general of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, at a luncheon at the Fairway Yacht Club, and they came to the fair grounds by speedboat from the club's pier on the Hudson River. Their coach was brought to the grounds by an army motor While the party prepared for the ceremonies in a hide-out on the fair grounds, detachments of national guardsmen and members of the regular army permanently attached to Camp George Washington at the fair grounds formed a guard of honor beside the statue. The Seventh Regiment Band served as the representative of all New York National Guard bands.

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General Washington wore a magnificent suit of black velvet, a white lace jabot around his throat, and a black three-cornered hat. His suit was embellished with silver buttons and he wore silver buckles on his knee breeches and his shoes. His head was covered with a powdered white wig.

The other participants in the ceremony, all in authentic costume, included Francis Parsons Webb as Gen. Samuel B. Webb, commander of the famous Third Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army; Cortlandt Otis as Samuel A. Otis, first secretary of the United States Senate; L. I. Lincoln Adams as John Adams, first Vice President of the United States; Arthur Benson as Judge Egbert

Benson, first attorney general of New York, justice of the state supreme court, and member of both the Continental Congress and the Congress under the Constitution; and George V. Henry as Richard Henry Lee, first senator from Virginia. All of these are descendants of the persons whom they portrayed yesterday.

Chancellor Livingston read the oath, and the general repeated it after him, his left hand on a huge crimson-bound Bible and his right hand upraised. "Long live George Washington, President of the United States," loudly intoned the chancellor at the conclusion of the ceremony. The crowd roared, "Hurray for George." The trumpets rang out, and the drums rolled.

The 160-year-old coach, a treasured possesson of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, will be on exhibition throughout the fair in Washington Hall.

Observance of the Sesquicentennial

of the Supreme Court

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 33

[Submitted by Mr. BLOOM of New York]

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That a joint committee consisting of five Members of the House of Representatives and five Members of the Senate shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, respectively, which is empowered to make plans and suitable arrangements for fitting and proper exercises, to be held on the 1st day of February 1940, in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of the first session of the Supreme Court of the United States, held at the city of New York on Monday, the 1st day of February 1790.