National Republican., 1884-02-22
THE TWENTY SECOND.
Celebration Of the Day Upon Which Washing
ton Was Born. .
Parsdcs, salutes, and Other Events That
WIN Take Place To-day.

To-day (washingtons BIRTH being a legal
holiday, all the executive departments will
be closed.
The city postofllce and tho several branch
stations will be kept open until II m. to-day.
After that hour the registry aud money order
divisions will be closed. The general de-
livery, box, and stamp windows will bo open
all day The carly morning delivery and coll
lection bv carriers will be made. and the last
collection for the afternoon. The carriers
window will be open from to p. M.
There will be no courts in session to-day,
all having adjourned until Saturday, when
motions and orders will be heard in all of the
courts except in the probate, where the regu-
lAr court will be held.
The Association of the Oldest Inhabitants
will have public gathering to-day as the
anniversary of Washngton's birthday at
their room, CorCoron building Mr.. T..
Wheeler will deliver the oration, and j. q.
Bruf will read Washington's farewell ad.
dress. The exercises Will commence at IL
O'Clock m.
Mai Hahnneman will station ono section
of battery A, President Horse Guards, in the
Capitol park and fire a national salute of
thirty-siN guns at noon. The necessary per-
mission was granted by Speaker Carlisle and
Senator Sherman yesterday afternoon.
Tho street parade Of the George Washing
ton Social club of Philadelphia, this after
noon, will start from the Baltimore and Po.
tomac depot ut 4:30 p. M, and proceed up
Pennsylvania avenue 10 Fifteenth street, and
thence to Ma, sachusetts avenue whore they
will be reviewed by Gen. Joseph X. Me-
Cannon, president of the Pennsylvania
Republican association, and then down
Massachusetts, avenue to Seventh street.
and down Seventh to Il street. 1t will COM
prise the following features: Donch's band,
citizens committee, clowns, harlequins, and
devil, captain and musical directory, with
first and second lieutenants, followed by a
handsome line in costume, representing
kings, queens, princes, lords, dukes, duchesses,
William Penn and Indians, Lord Dundreary,
accompanied by two lady impersonators,
Turks, Chinese, Robinson Crusoe and Man
Friday, colored swell and lady, happy Cor
man couple, Mexican outlaws, Goddess of
.. Liberty and Uncle sam in open barOuChe.
, The High School Corps of Cadets will as
,semble at their armory promptly at 10 o'clock
this morning. At 1890 the companies will
take up line of march as follows Sixth street
to NJ street, TO Ninth street, to Pennsylvania
avenue. to Fifteenth street. to Pennsylvania
avenue, to the west gate of the white house
entering the grounds they will be reviewed
by the President thence they will march to
the plaza in front of the Arlington hotel
where they will give an exhibition drill in
the presence of the district commissioners and
the trustees of the public schools, after which
they will proceed to the armOry by Vermont
avenue and . street.
Although the Washington Continentals will
send two uniformed companies TO Alexandria
to participate in the parade there. the re-
mainder of the command will 20 TO Mount
Vernon in citizens dress, accompanied by such
OF their friends, both ladies and gentlemen,
as may desire to 20. The exercises on the
ground will consist of addresses; also music
hx, gala fatf ba.y mill l.yu ukaak
The following programme of exercises for
tho Wendell Phillips memorial meeting
which takes place this evening at Congrega-
tional church, has been agreed upon by the
committee in CHARGE Organ voluntary, Prof
Thierbach; meeting called TO order by NJ
M. Holland, esq, who will induct the officers;
prayer by Rev. Walter Brooks; music, selected,
Orpheus Glee club conductor, DIR. L. s. KIM
BALI; address, Hon. B. X. Bruce; music,
Rest, Spirit Rest" (Rooke), Washington
Harmonic association conductor Mr.. j. II.
layton; reading of resolutions by Rev Will
ian Waring; music, II Know That My
Rcdeemer Liveth," Miss Agnes Smallwood;
address, Frederick Douglass music, "lnteger
Vita Orpheus Glee club; address, Hon.
John d. Long; organ voluntary, Prof, Thier-
bach address, Prof. Il. T. Greener; address,
Kew. j, A. Rankin; doxology.
The Washington Light Infantry corps will
also parade this afternoon. Forming on
MhIEcJ space anu EBntn street NJ O O'CLOCK
sharp, the battalion will march down Penn
sylvania avenue as far as Third street, there
countermnch, and, leaving the avenue at
Eighteenth street, will take tho following
route: Eighteenth to street, to Connecticut
avenue, to Massachusetts, avenue, to Ninth
street, to q street, to Seventh street, and to
the armOry. The members will be prepared
TO mako display other in full dress or
ovalcoats, as the weather may require.
The National Rifles will 20 to Frederick in
the morning at SOclOCk, returning about $3.50.
The Union Veteran corps first company,
the GonZaga cadets, the CorcoTan cadets, Cui-
ter camp No. l. Sons of Veterans, and part
of the Continentals will go TO Alexandria.
The exercises in that city Will be of unusual
display.
Tho recurrence of the anniversary of the
birth Of Washington has drawn attention to
the unfinished condition of the monument
to the memory Of Mary, the mother OF Wash
ington, at Fredericksburg, Va, This monu-
ment is located on an eminence near the
former home OF Mrs. Washington. The cor
ncrstone was laid by President jackson on
the seventh of May, 1888, when he delivered
an eloquent eulopium upon the character and
many virtues of the noble woman tho shaft
was designed to commemorate. The mOnu-
mont was built mn during the four succeeding
years. but further operations were then
suspended by reason of tho failure of the
liborali,y the enterprise had been prosecuted.
since that time the monument has suffered,
IN ita incomplete state, by the havoc of war
aud the devastation of rclic-seekers. bill
TO complete this ismonument was introduced in
the forty-third congress, and after personal
examination by q special committee was re-.
ported on iavorably, but failed to receive final
action. 1t is Understood that Representative
q, ID Wise of Virginia, will shortly introduce
a bill apprOprlating 1000 for the Comple-
tiOn Of this monument. The mayor of Fred
eriGksburg, Mr. Sener, ex-Congressman Brax-
ton, Mr.. Fitzhugh, and others have Just
visited this city in the hope that the measure
might be considered and passed under sus.
pension of the rules on the twenty-seGond OF
February, but as congress adjourns over this
will not be practicable. 1t is believed, how
ever, that congress will fsvorably resuond to
the contemplated appeal at an early date,
LINCOLN POST.