New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-26


ceremonies have been reserved for to-day.
early rsers in the vicinity of Central Park, or
people of wakeful habits within hearing distance,
will be greeted at sunrise with a salute fired from
the old powder-house in the Park, near McGowan's
Pass. This will be the official announcement of the
one hundredth anniversary of Evacuation Day.
The place for the opening ceremony has
been chosen because Of its memorable historic asso
Citations, in connection with the war of Independ-
ence-assocations that tell both of defeat and vic
tory. 1t was in McGowan's Pass and at house
then occupied by Mrs. McGowan, that Washington
and his generals decided on the abandonment Of
New-York on September IL, 1915, after
the defeat of the American forces on
Long Island. Seven years later, on
November %, 17S3 the small body of Continental
troops that to occupy the city after its evaeua
tion by the British, encamped in McGowans Pass,
and remained in that neighborhoOd until the goth.
when they entered the city. At the same time that
the salute is fred from the old powder-house the
national flag will be hoisted on the Aag-
staff at the Battery not far from the spot
where 100 years and day previous whether tho
Vanarsdale story be true or not, the flag of the
thirteen States run up to proclaim to everybody
that the British had gone and the Americans bad
taken possession of their own again.
THE DISPLAYS AND HOW TO SEE THEM.
The many strangers who will arrive in the
city this morning, and who have not read the mass
of information already published about the cere-
monies, will be interested in q brief out
line Of tho prominent features of the celebration and
the points from which they may best be seen.
The parade column will be set in motion at
O'clock starting from Fifth-aye. and Fifty-seventh
st. The line of march is thence down FIfth-ave to
Fourteenth-st., through FOurteenth-st. TO Broad
way, and down Broadway to Bowling Green,
dismissed. The column will receive an ac-
cesslon to its numbers at each street passed
up to and including Thirty: :irstst In these streets
various organizations will form before the column
passes them and each in turn will fall into line
after the passage of the of the column. At any
procession may be obtained provided the spectator,
ii not fortunate enough to obtain a seat at ono
of the wind lows overlooking the parade, takes his
position eary and Is stout enough to keep In front.
despite the efforts of the crowd to displace him.
The crowds will be greatest in the neighbOrhOOd or
the grand stands OF these there are four In Mad
isOn Square placed what is known as the military
stand. 1t will be occupied mainly. BY
military organizations. The civic stand is To-
chiefly by representatives of civic societies and
commercial corporations. In the City Hall Park IA
placed the municipal stand, which will be occupied
by the municipal authorities of New-York and
Brooklyn. The reviewing stand is erected near
Bowling Green. 1t will be occupied by the Pres-
dent and other distinguished guests, who will review
feature of the parade, the crowd in the vicinity or
this stand will be unusually dense and nobody
should seek TO enter 1T whose RIBS are not strong
enough to resist an inordinate amount of squeezing
Admission to the stands can be had only by tickets,
which have been all appropriated
The statue of Washington will be unveiled
on the steps of the Sub-TreasuTy building, at
Wall and Nassau SITS. at ] o'clock. George William
Curtis will deliver the Grafton and the President
Here also the crowd will be great and TO get within
earshOt one must be there early and exercise great
patience in waiting. The most unique feature Of
the day will be the steamboat parade.
The line will be formed at $50 a.. III. from barge
anchored abreast of BedlOes Island. The fleet Will
steam up the North River to point opposite Sixty
fth-st. thence it will return, keeping the NeW-
York shore, passing the flagship opposite the Bat
tery where it will be reviewed, and proceeding up
Thence 1t will steam down the river, keeping near
the Brooklyn side to Bay Ridge, where 1t will be-
dismissed An excellent view OF the water
on on the. river front from Sixty-ifth,st,
North River, to Twenty -third-st., East River.
The pyrotechnic display this evening will be un-,
Manhattan Beach fame, to whom, in con-
nection with the Uxexcelled Fireworks
Company and Detwiller Il Street, the con-
tract awarded yesterda yby the committee of az
rangements There be only one display which VIII
come oft at the >, Battery between
s0ff pov from BEgH a srDetSfs
On account of the small appropriation and the short
ness of the time there viii be no set pieces. An in
sisting OF bombs, rockets of all kinds parachutes
asteroids, special flights of rockets, colored-Lre
illuminatiOns and magnesium light balloons: Ibs
programme will wind up with grand maj DIghto
about one thousand rockets.
ARRIVAL OF DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel rotunda yesterday even
ing presented scene of almost as much activity as
in the midst of a hotly contested political cam
paign The Governors of Massachusetts and
Maine with their respective statfs arrived in
the morning, and in the evening the Governors
OF New-York, Maryland and Connecticut with their
stats came The Governors of Rhode Island and
New Hampshire with their stals had aTTlyea on the
staff arrived on Friday and took lodgings at the
Hoffman House. The President, accompanied by
Secretaries Chandler, Lincoln and FOlger and AZ
toney General Brewster, VIII arrive early this
morning as well, also the Governor OF New-Jcrsey.
The President and Cabinet, the Mayor OF the City
of New-YOrk, the Governors OF States ana their
stas and the State officers Of this State, VIII meet
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in the gentlemens par
lOr on the second floor at O'Clock. ihey VIII tako
carriages at $50 a. m. and be conducted to tho
places assigned to them for the formation OF the
procession. ~
ties rendezvous at the Victoria Hotel Fifth-aye.
and Twenty y-seyenth-st 49,
The society of the Cincinnati will rendezvous at
Fifth-aye. and Twenty-siXth-st
The officer in command of the United States
forces will meet the Grand Marshal at headquar-
ters Windsor Hotel.
gushed guests IN the parade: In the first carriage
there viii be President Arthur General Grant, and
j James NJ. Valnum. The second will contain Secre-
tary FOlger, Secretary Chandler, Secretary Lincoln
and John Austin Stevens. Attomeytieneral
the Marshal of the District of Columbia,
the Presidents private secretary, and the PTesl,
dents son. c. A. Arthur, jr., viii occupy the third
and fourth carriages. Governor Cleveland,
Acknowledgement Earnsworth and Charles
5. Smith will ride in the htth carriage.
The statf of Governor Cleveland, fifteen persons in
all will ride in the next four carriages. Governor
Butler Adiutant- General Dalton and Cornelius w.
Bliss will occupy the next carriage. Four car
riages will be consigned to the staff of Governor
Butler. In the next carriage will follow Governor
Waller, of Connecticut, Adjutant-General Couch,
and George W. Lane. Governor Walters stan,
eleven persons, will be given the next four car
riages Governor Ludlow, of New-Jersey,