The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-10-02
Correspondence baltimore County CHioH.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
B.L,,xon. S.,,, so

BALTIMORE, Sept. 29th, IssO.
Everything ut present seems 10 be absorbed In
the grand sesqu- centennial celebration which COM
mences here October Ilth aud continues up 10 the
following Monday, 18th, which latter day Is 20 DO
given especially to the different schools public and
private. The idea IL that where 80 many children
were 10 appear In professionalism being twenty
or more thousand Of them-it would be best 10
have their display unconnccted with any other
association. Il will certainly make n very inn.
posing and highly interesting sight Of ITSELF whilst
these little will be less liable 20 interruption
and accident. IL will be impossible TO give your
readers an adequate idea Of what this great ova.
ton will be by attempting 90 describe Il on paper
IL must be seen 20 be realized or enjoyed. There
Is no doubt but that Monday, 18th October or the
opening day. will be the greatest and mos, note.
worthy Of the entire festival. Those. therefore,
who can give but one day to the celebration should
select this one. II will be n universal holiday
The stores and all business places are to be closed
Those who do not unite In the procession will be
lookers-on In tho various streets and avenues
through which the great pageant passes. Ills now
estimated that the procession will be not less than
four miles long. composed Of military and civic
orders Of every trade. kind aud name. with music,
banners and varied Parapharnalia incident 90 such
an occasion. The truth is IL all the associations
and orders deserving places in the procession are
assigned them, this will swell that vas, body 10
Uncomfortable proportions both in numbers and
extent. The city would really not have room for
IT, IL would not surprise me if IOO.OO0 strangers
were IN baltimore on the opening day. II gives
promise OF containing much that will be peculiar
" unique and novel, such rs cannot be again seen
here or elsewhere in n century to come. II there
lore must rank among the extraordinary occasions
The different committees are busily engaged
arranging things TO be In readiness for the great
occasion. Everything will be done that can pos
sibly to accommodate and meet the desires Of ALL
yet u will be impossible Co have com ietcness A
N late
can be- strangers coming into the city and see
that NIL within range Of possibility will be done 10
crafty and oblisc them. II will nevertheless. he
difficult t. secure all shat may bc wanted IL
promises to he a complete gala week from opening
To closing. Whilst big amount Of money must
necessarily be expended in getting up hi.iubilcc
there will be brought into and circulated throu .h
out the city thousands-pcrhaps hundreds Of
thousands-"f dollars in purchasing goods and in
various other ways. IL must, therefore, prove
mutually beneficial. Merchants from other
states are delaying their time of laying in stocks
Of goods until they come on 10 our Jubilee. Tn.
ornainentation Of Baltimore on that occasion in
arches, nags. icstoons and numerous fancies will
have no equal. Very large sums Of money are
being spent in this way alone. There will exis,
praiscworihy emulation 10 excel in this matter
among our merchants. I notice tina. the I,al,;
more S"H is having its beautiful aud tasteful iron
buildins-among the very frs, iron buildings in
Batimore-gIvcn n new rig-out Of paint. which
makes II show oil very aitFactivciy. Observe rs
now at ut Barnnm's writing. that Mr.. X. q.
Taylor. the great Baltimore halter. l. having his
| establishment an Calvert street across In. way
put IN readiness for the grand occasion. Tho
same. indeed might be said 81 all our prominent
business places. may not have murh more TO
say about this jubilee until after IL ha. begun or
u progressing. Tell all your readers, all your
baltimore county people. everybody. 90 come AMI
see for themselves. IL mistake not /, will
ngtf afe fiv a,l shus IL.