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Nayy Guns Roar To Honor Joan Of Arc. Archbishop Hayes Presides at Celebration of Canonization of French Maid. Of Fifteen hundred boys and girls gathered yesterday afternoon at the base of the Anna Vnuslian Hyatt statue of, Joan of Arc, Ninety-third street and Riverside Drive, and paid their unaffected tribute to tho peasant Elrl of Domremy, who to-day In Rome Is canonlrcd. Archbishop Hayes, standing In the shadow of the flower cloaked pedestal, glorified womankind and presaged the coming of the hour when1 uch purity, courage and sacrifice "In cur women as was Joan's would preserve America when hope seemed waning. Across the green tcrraco where the children stood the crash of twenty-one guns came from the turrets of the battleship Pennsylvania the sovereign Baluto and by way of reply the fifteen hundred youngsters sang "The Star Spangled Banner." From behind the statue the band from tho Now York Catholic Protectory started playing "La Marseillaise," and again the children sang and the great crowd assembled along the Drive and the Bailors aboard tho Pennsylvania, tho Utah and tho Arizona stood at attention. A lusty lad with hair that matched the sunlight that beat upon him Hugh Blattcry of the Holy Name School de livered an appreciation of the Maid of Orleans, and Helen Relnockc, leading sixty-five of her schoolmates from Pub- School 93, the Joan of Arc School, latfed a wreath of spring flowers and elided bay leaves at the feet of the Krll who whon not little older than Helen Kelnccko drove the British and Surgundlans from the Lolro and relieved belcagurcd llhelms. It was all very simple and therefore beautiful. Tho Joan of Arc Statue Committee and the Ilov, Joseph I. Smith, superintendent of the New York Catholic School Board, arranged the affair and Francis Dawson Gallatin, the Park Commissioner, and Dr. George Frederick Kunz, president of the Joan of Arc Statue Committee, were In actual charge of the programme. After dark the battleships In the river played their searchlights upon the statue and above the wreathed head of Joan some of the beams formed a cross. Three troops of Boy Scouts led the children's parade preceding the ceremonies. Then Gladys Carlin, who lives at 40 West Ninety-second street, and attends St. Gregory's School, appeared clad in armor and representing the devoted girl of Domremy. With her properly cameo Columbia, represented by Marian Hagan of the Holy Name School, and Just behind walked Margaret Conboy, of St Gregory's In the tricolor and liberty cap of France. Two boys In the romantic warrior garb of the first years of the fifteenth century strode in the rear of the emblematic trio. And then followed the fifteen hundred children from the Catholic schools carry lng the tricolor and the Stars and Stripes and wrcatlis of flowers. A score of Catholic clergymen were there to receive the Archbishop, and when it was all over Dr. Kunz bestowed gold and silver medals upon the Archbishop, Anna Vnughan Hyatt, tho sculptor of the Statue; J. II. Van Pelt, the architect, who designed the memorial; Father Smith, Hugh Slattery, Helen Beinecke, Gladys Carlin, Marian Hagan and Margaret Conboy.

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The Margaret Conboy mentioned in the article is not Margaret Conboy (1868-1918), wife of Frederick Rousseau. She was married in 1887 in Manhattan, and would be going by her married name.

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