Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-21
The Centennial Celebration.

Meeting of the General Committee Last
 Evening-Everythfngw Working Smooth
 ly-PrOmfse or One of the mOst Notable
 Gatherings New Haven has Ever Seen
 Reports of Committess-A Few Hum
 dred more Dollars Needed.
 Last evening the general committee on the centennial celebration held an adjourned meeting in rooms 10 and Il City Hall His Honor Mayor Lewis presiding. The various committees were we'll represent. ed and much enthusiasm over the coming event was apparent.
 The finance committee reported that $4 GOO
 had been raised including the $1, 800 appros
 priated by the city. The total sum needed
 is $4, 800. There is therefore need of an
 immediate additional subscription of $500.
 John McCarthy on behalf of Harmony di-
 vision Sons, of Temperance, stated that that organization last evening voted unanimously
 to supply the parade on the line of march
 with pure cold water, and that ladies and
 gentlemen of the organization had volunteer ed their services.
 | His Honor the Mayor stated that $500 more were needed, and the committee must pull of their coats and go to work. He
 said he would pledge himself to raise $50
 more. Colonel Earle said he would do the | same. Councilman Gum said he with his
 colleague could be counted on for $50 more. | s. Harrison Wagner said he could be count l ed on for $25. General George M. Harmon was added to the general committee and afterward to the
 committee on procession. H. P. Frost was l added to the general committee and after ward to the finance committee.
 1 General Smith stated that at the urgent res. quest of those who are to parade there would | be a countermarch on the day of the parade ] at some point in the city to be hereafter
 named, so that those parading could
 witness the proc ession as well as those on
 the sidewalks and other point g.. l General Smith also said he thought 1925 or l $50 could be saved from 8 certain approprla- tion which would be equal to 8 subscription | for similar amount.
 Thomas R. Trowbridge said he had ar- | ranged that the model of the old ship Consti- ttuion should be carried on the shoulders of ! sailors as it was years ago in similar parades' It was voted that the committee on print 1 ing be instructed to procure 1, 800 posters of l the proposed centennial and distributed on ! the lines of various railroads. B. P. Lane was added to the finance committee and Thomas K. Dunn to the general committee. The Mayor stated that it was | very desirable that 8 representation of 1 each and every society should be present as | members of this general committee and that | it should be understood that each society mention one of it's number as assistant mar shaI on the parade and report the same to General Smith.
 John B. Adriance from the committee on
 trades reported that the trades would make 8 very creditable display | and he believed from investigation | that there would be at least three hundred | teams in line. He said that one of the com 1 mittee on trades would contribute $20 cash. He said the trade organizations had selected i Major R. P. Cowles as marshal. The place for the oration was decided upon as Center church instead of CarlPs Opera ] House, as previously suggested. T. R. TroWbridge, jr., suggested that the l headstone of the first governor of Connect. l cut, which is now located in the Jones lot in
 the Grove street cemetery, be borne in tri. 1 umphal procession from where 1t now is to 1 the place where it belongs in rear of Center church and where the dust of the first gov ! ernor reposes. Mir. Trowbridge was sp- | pointed 8 committee to take this matter in
 charge and given power to add to the num- | ber.
 From present indications it will be one of | the most notable celebrations that New Hav- l contributed will send their donations to B.
 R. English, Esq, treasurer, at an early day I it will greatly facilitate the labors of the l finance committee.
 l The general comm mittee will meet again Monday evening.