The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-12-27


There are lively times at the Inauguration
Committee headquarters nowadays. Large
correspondence, many callers, unanswerable
queries, propositions and inquiries OF overy
kind and n general pervading air OF ANNA.
tlon characterize the committee rooms.
The question OF absorbing interest Just now
is the award of ballroom privileges for the
night OF the Fourth OF March, and there is q
very active competition in evident auticl-
patton OF very handsome profits and immense
business.
A number OF prominent New York cat ,rers,
and Freund, Demonet, Hebner, and several
other local caterers, are engaged III the com.
petition for the supper-room privileges.
A hair-dressing apartment has been deter.
mined upon, and there is an active scramble
among local tonsorial artists for the privilege
OF supplying the barborchairs and hair
bers have filed their applications, and there
VIII be great difficulty In awarding the coveted
privileges.
the subject OF active competition.
The decoration OF the vast hall is Que OF the
most impoi tant items aud the decorators
throughout the country evidently see an OPP.
portunity for n mammoth advertisement ia
the draping and ornamentatlon OF the piliars,
corridors, galleries, ceilings and walis Of the
ballroom. Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York and Boston decorators OF worldwide
reputation have applied by telegraph for OPP
portunities TO submit designs and proposals
before any steps are taken toward awarding
the work.
The decorations are to DO on scale never
before attempted, and will undoubtedly be
effective and grand, including largo portraits,
monograme, nllegorical designs and coats-of-
arms In addition TO the tiage, bunting, fes-
icons, ETC., usual for such purposes.
be represented in o unique and picturesque
manner in the decorations.
The Central Committee has completed re.
IL Of tlb m m mn ia at
In shape for official publication In a pamphlet
that will appear on Tuesday.
But few OF the committees have undergone
changes since published, no declinations hav-
Ing been rendered, and the only additions
being TO the Finance and Reception commit
tees.
The names added are seven In number,
| Messrs Carl Schurz, Daniel Manning, oswald
| Ottendorfer, Frank Jones, Sullivan, General
BiRelow, Representative Barbour.
Up TO this time but two propositions for the
erection Of triumphal arches have been sub.
mitted and the locations suggested have been
the south Treasury front, whore the main
arch was located In 1881, and the intersection
OF Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue.
The frst proposition was for an imitation
| brickwork arch by the Imitation Brick Com
pany OF medieval design, with imposing tow
ers and buttresses and OF very handsome up
pearance.
The other arch suggested by George En-
| inert, the architect, for erection mt Seventh
street, resembles in design the arch built four
years ago.
The design for tickets OF admission to the
ball virtually decided upon has only been out
| lined, the details and inscriptions remaining
templates yishettes Of cleveland and Hen.
bricks, with the names beneath them, II BIRDS
oye view OF Washington I'm the distance, so ar
ranged as to bring the Capitol, White House
and Monument Into prominence, aud such ar
rapgement OF international flags and apprn-
printe cmblems as the remaining space Will
permit.
The design IS very handsome aud attract
National Guard, from Bellefont', Pa, teie-
graphed the committee today that their quar-
Termaster Will come to Washington on Tues
day In search OF quarters, hunks aud ratlons
Moore has been successful In meeting all de-
mands made by military organizations for
accommodations, and he says the facilities
| have been by no means exhausted, aud ne viii
| continue TO arrange for the accommodation of
applicants as rapidly as possible.
The Executive Committee on Inauguration
| Ceremonies held no meeting yesterday after-
| noon, no quorum being present. There will
| be meeting this evening. The secretary OF
| the committee Is beginning to receive letters
from all parts OF the country In relation n In
auguration. A Baltimore livery stable mau
has his eye to business, aud makes an oIer
nish 200 hanson cabs for reasonable price
and place them at the service OF the committee
Tho Germania Orchestra Society OF Phill
| delphia, Allan Dodworth's New York Band
| and the Marine Band Offer TO furnish the
music for the ball. Secretary McOulloch has
| granted PERMISSION lOr the BUREAU OIL tuBtdV
Ing and Printing to engrave plate upor
which TO print the ball tickets. Bank-notC
companies have submitted large numoer o
deeigDs. The design submitted by Mr.. f. g
Fischer, OF this city, is generally regarded q:
| the handsomest yet In.
II may be accepted. The actual work OF en-
craving the plate will BIO done by the Bureal
| OF Engraving and Printing. The engraver
over there will do their very best. There vii
be no names of COMMITTED men on the ticket
The designers and engraver9 Will thus hav
plenty OF room to display their arts. larg
number OF people have applied for the Gator
| Ing privilege on the night OF the ball.
/, Madame Demonet. OF this city, and william
that department at the last ball. Messrs. Bur
CESS & sheppard, BARRIERS, OF this city, have
sked for the privilege OF setting up an estab
lishment In one OF the rooms OF the building
ON the night OF the ball.
Mr.. William Calf, chairman OF the Execu
tive Committee, does not favor triumpha
arches. He would rather have pyramids o
fruits and flowers and plenty of nag decorai
ing. The General Committee will soon issu
In pamphlet form the correct list OF its mem
bers In alphabetical order with tue rules an,
regulations for their government.