The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-29
THE DECORATIONS.

Elaborate Trimming Of the Government
Building-Some Private Decorations.
In addition to the decorations of which men
tion has been made, thousands of residences,
from the palatial mansion to the humblest home,
were draped yesterday. Washington, Illinois.
Pennsylvania and other business streets showed
line after line of festoons, sweeping preadths
of black. and in almost every window
was displayed either with simple or elaborate
sign of mourning lithograph of the dead states
man. The government building is mass of
black drapery from roof to ground, very taste
fully arranged and producing marked effect.
From each corner hangs to the top Of the
first story a wide breadth of muslin,
while the spaces between the windows are
completely hung in black Over A. 900 yards of
muslin were used in this work, the height of the
building being full seventy feet. The drapery
of tn e postoffce building attracted great atten-
ton yesterday, and there was much compli
mentary comment at the artistic manner in
which the work was being done.
The building is large and plain.
and the heavy robes of black, wholly unrelieved
by white, increase its massy appearance. AS
matter of fact, to carry out the usual custom in
of the age of the late Vice president, no white
used at all, though the drapinss of the City Lii
brary building show how little white may be
used and add greatly to the beauty of the trap
pings.
The decorations at the Dime Museum are no.
ticeable for their attractive design, while at the
Public Library are displayed columns encircled
with black and white, and from the roof to the
outer center of the portico, long streamers
from the top OF each window. The hotels, Bates,
Denison, Occidental Grand and others, were
| all neatly dressed in the prevailing colors of
the time.
ST. Pauls Cathedral is being decorated on an
elaborate scale. The Illinois street entrance is
to have black and white about the columns,
with festoons dropping on either side, and the
arch covered with black, rosettes being inter
spersed at proper intervals The New York
street entrance will be similarly deco
rated. The interior will have long lines of fes.
toons hanging from the roof meeting in the
center, where they will be caught up by large
rosette About the columns are to be drapings,
as usual, and on the altar will be displayed
large floral cross six feet high, presented by the
ladies of the Cathedral The Vce-presidents
pew has been covered with fine black twill. 1t
is No. 1l3. on the left of the center aisle, and
about twelve pews from the chancel railing.
Albert Gall said yesterday that the demand
for mourning goods had been so great that no
black muslins or twills could be obtained late in
the afternoon.
The show-window of Whitehead e Wright,
monument dealers, No. 70 East Market street.
80 - hal haek Il. IA
consists Of bust in clay made of Vice-pres-
dent Hendricks as he appeared twelve years ago,
above which is group in Italian marble, en-
titled Bearing Soul to Heaven" This being
Immediately above the bust of the dead Vice
president, is very suggestive
1t is requested that every building on the line
of march, whether business property or resi-
dence, will be appropriately decorated.