Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-10-04
PHILADELPHIA BI-CENTEN-
NAL CORRESPONDENCE.
To THE EDITOR.


Dear SIR accompanying | send you a
copy OF the Official Programme as adopted
by the Executive Committee of the Bi-Cen-
tennial Association. On some one of the
four days the Public School children to the
number of 5000 or 1000 will take part.
In reply to inquiries from all parts of
Pennsy ivania and adj AGENT States, aud also
that your readers may be correctly inform
cd of the progress OF the Bi-Centennial Gel
ebration in Philadelphia | send you this
communication. / will write you every
week, feeling sure that the subject will in
terest everybody who has the welfare and
progress of Pennsylvania at heart.
pecRliarity marked as though By Prov
idcnce, j. that our natal year began on a
Sunday and it will end on a Sunday-a sa-
cred hebdomadal year long-turning the
mind constantly to William Penn's immor-
tai principals, of right, justice and absolute
,dv.l and religious liberty.
What more appropriate then than to in
ausurate our programme on Sunday, Octo-
ber 22d, SiIh religious services in every
Shurch in Pennsylvania, TO begin our feast
with devout grace to God for His mercy
and goodness.
BY The bye, tho suggestion has been
Thade, and it is an excellent one, that every
clergyman should write out the sermon he
delivers on that Sunday and send it TO some
designated institution fer preservation.
Such mass of manuscript would doubt
less, in times to come, afford rich food for
And when Pennsylvania centenary book
.s again opened, these discourses will be es.
teemed rs inestimable mental treasures and
priceless archives.
On Monday, October 25d, Chester, where
Penn first landed, will commemorate the
event With landing and other ceremonies
Of an imposing snd appropriate character.
There, as In Philadeiphia, are a number of
spots sacred By reason of their associations
with the great founder of the State of Penn
srivsnia.
On Tuesday, October 9Th, the landing
.; william Penn in Philadelphia will take
E-acs from the ship Welcome, at Dock street
rarf. which vas in ESQ called Dock creek.
The Secretary of he U. S. Navy has prom
Ise! to send the ve sscls of the North At
fsoiic sQuadron to take part in the ceremony.
The Secretary Of var will doubtless order
such portions OF the regular army as can be
spared to be present.
Ths President of tho United States, his
Cabinet, distinguished Foreign Diplomats
aad all the various Departments will receive
tavitations, and all or noarly all will un-
doubtedly accept and be present at the
opening ceremonies
Large numbers of civic associations will
sAd ariety to the display by their presence
and it Is confidently expected that there
vill b. a column of forty thousand men.
The butchers will parade at least fifteen
hundred men, all mounted and will have
soats on which TO display the several pro-
ses.es Of their trade except killing. Presi-
dent Klinefolder promises that it shall be
The erandest demonstration the butchers
have ever made. An interesting feature
efthis division will be the representation of
,As .nc,ent butcher, Of Pennsylvania.
The most interesting proposed attraction
about the Landing Day ceremonies Will be
rhe Indian boys ard girls from the L. S.
Training School Al Carlisle with their own
brass band, that performs in a manner SIM
ply wonderful. The ancestor, of these
same children were among those who well
coined yTiIlIsm Penn 10 the shores of the
Delaware two hundred years ago. And now
by these same children We will give prac-
,fsal exemplitication of the wisdom Of his
peaceful methods of treating the Indians.
ArEw SUGGESTIONS.
lst. The railroads having reduced their
rates TO one-haIf fare, 1t would be well for
persons intending to come to Philadelphia
10 purchase their tickets at as early date
as possible.
and. They had also better send TO me, at
the Office of the Bi-Centennial Association,
,hcir names and post Office address, and
will pleasure place them on list to which
hotel keepers and boarding house proprie-
tors, or private families desiring TO accomo-
date visitors, can have access, and send
either circulars or letters. giving terms, &c.
Sc. Bands should also send me their ad-
aress, number OF pieces, degree Of profi-
eiency, lowest terms, &c, &C., which Will
also be kept on fiIe.
1th. Twill also suggest to all civic asso-
eiations desiring to como to Philadelphia,
10 send me word the number they will bring
Re.
9Th. All manufacturers desiring to take
part, in the Trade should send mc the de-
tails of their intended display in order to
be properly assigned.
9Th. CosyEsroGo WAGONS. To show the
progress of motors, it would be well TO
have the old Pennsylvania Conestoga wag-
en- represented. One or more OF those an
cient, solid ponderous affairs that USED 10
be weeks crossing the mountains between
East and West, beside the magnificent loco
motive which now thunders over the same
distance in a few hours with long heavy
trains, would afford an eloquent commen-
,ary on what the Key stone S tate has accom-
plished.
II would also be a unique journey for
parties in possession of any of the 'sfogas
to come with them to Philadelphia, where
they would be most heartily received anu
welcomed
We hope 10 have at least half million oi
visitors in PHILADELPHIA. which during the