The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-23
THE DECORATIONS.
The City Decked in Holiday Attire.
CONGRESS STREET.

CONGRESS STREET.
j. +. Hamilton, front of house elaborately
draped with bunting, flags and streamers
displayed from the windows.
Capt. L. w. Tibbetts, house tastefnlly dec
Grated vahander trimmed with bunting bay
windews dfaped with red, white and blue,
flags floating from the upper windows and
shade trees.
w, H. Ross, flags and streamers on front
of the store.
b. b. McDonough, flags, streamers and tri-
colored bunting tastefully arranged
c. +. johnson, small flags.
Hadlock's East, End Five Cent Store, =
flags, streamers, shields, army notices and
words of-welcome.
D. e. Lucy, small flags.
Thomas Edwards, flags and streamers.
Above Lancaster block Turner Bros. have
the door and windows of their store draped
with flags and deeked with pennons; while
Eastman Bros. 81 Bancroft have on their
stores front a shield, from whence bunting
drapes downward to form triangle, in
which Gen. Grants star set picture isplaced.
Across the street, between Eastman Bros. &
Bancroft and Morton block, q large flag
floats. Is
On the latter building, the headquarters of
the Woman's State Relief Corps, No. /, and
Thatcher Relief Corps, No. 26, is a bunting
shield with the inscription welcome and
bunting bands diverging over the front of
the building.
From J. G. Curriers' window across to the
rooms above l.. A. G0uld's is suspended
large national flag, to the right and left of
which are numerous small banners of devices
various and gay.
The block occupied by Owen. Moore &
Co., J. NJ. Dyer & Co., and Atwood &
Wentworth, is deliberately decorated. In the
cornices at the top Of the block are the por-
traits Of Generals Washington, Grant and
Hancock draped in the stars and stripes,
from Washington's portrait falls away to the
lower story, where the motto "Welcome
Comrades" is draped in the flags of nations
Below are the notices Fraternity" !"
Charity" Loyalty" with Grand Army
badges, shields and fan-Shaped festoons of
bunting interspersed. A frieze of red, white
and blue bunting is held in place over the
show windows by small shields and crossed
daggerS. 44
Mechanics Hall, headquarters of the Wo-
mans National Relief Corps, flies a flag from
its mast and another before its front, which
is decorated with bunting, held in place by
clusters of baneers
Sweet & Clark's store is decorated with
numerous small flags, and ON the opposite
side OF the street i. d. Strout's show win
dow is draped.
Opposite Mechanics Hall, the headquart-
ers of the I'd Maine Battery are draped with
bunting.
The Brown block displays from. its roof a
large national flag.
eler, storially tells the time of day in spite of
the gay wrappings and futtering colors
which deck it.
Over the street at this point Sweetsir the
bleacher displays large flag bearing the
legend, Union in Victory with clasped
hands in the centre of the flag.
1t is in Congress Square, too, that the finest
arch in the city Is placed. In two spans
streaching across the square, it presents to
veterans marching up from the depot their
most cordial welcome to the city. Supported
on three evergreen colored pillars it holds
above the visitors approaching from the
west the Inscriptions, 'We shall shake hands
with you, thank the God of battles that he
has preserved us as a Nation, and kneel un-
der the same Flag" over the Congress street
arch, while over that at the head of Free
street is For your services as a soldier you
have for your Reward the Respect and the
love of a Grateful People," The eastern side
of the arch bears the Inscriptions, eve greet
you and honor you. You fought for the I'm
ion Of the States" The shields of Maine and
California, of South Carolina and Oregon,
and the lone craft guarded by the two fishes