The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-05

Alex Bell will furnish dinner and supper
for the police force today at the station.
Mr.. A. T. Hall will distribute 5000 fans
5000 samples and 100000 cards during th'
passing of the procession today.
A guns crew from the revenue steamer
Dallas, with gun, under command of Lieu
tenant Davis, will appear in the first divis
ion.
The attention of invited guests is called
to the Importance Of being at the Mayors
room promptly at $50 a. M, to take carriag-
es in the procession at 10 a. m.
On Spruce street, between Clark and En-
cry, man is lying very. low; and people a are
requested to keep as quiet as possible IN thal
vicinity during the celebration.
A chair that belonged to the English brig
Boxer, which came out of the cabin OF thal
historic craft was exhibited in the window
of S. Fl. Colesworthy, on Exchange street.
Saturday evening.
engine atlantic, No. q" built about 1916.
The machine" was famous in its day, and
was housed then at the lower part of Market
street. Tive Of the old veterans will proba-
bly, be seen ION the POLE"
Hon. Isaac Allen Jack and G. r. Jack Of
st. John, N. b., arrived Saturday. Mr. Jack
brings with him silver pitcher 200 years old
that belonged to his grandfather Thomas
Wyer. who lived in Falmouth previous to the
Revolution. 1t will be on exhibition at City
Hall Tuesday evening.
Sixty horses and ten Concord coaches,
owned by Mr.. G. r. Milliken of the Glen
House, arrived in the city yesterday on a
special train, and will take part in the pro-
cession today Ten siX-horse teams, the
larger part of them finely matched, will form
no small part of the grand parade.
The officers of the Grand Army battalion
orr Hanson Cnl0nnl. Edward h
dali, Lieutenant Colonel. e.. E. Philbrook,
Major, and Eugene Merrill, Adjutant. These
officers met Saturday evening and arranged
the line of battalion as follows: Bosworth
Post, w. L. Haskell Post Of Yarmouth, Sons
of Veterans, Thatcher Post. The comrades
are requested to meet at their respective
halls at 9.30
Among the oldest residents invited as spec
ial guests is Mrs. NJ. Spear, aged SO years
months. She is living with her, daughter,
Mrs. WaterhOuse at ScarbOro. She IS still
an active old lady, in possession OF her nat
ural faculties, and well remembers the visit
of Lafayette and many other points of local
history. Only last summer she picked ber-
Ties at Scarb0ro to the value of twenty dol
lars.
The front of City Hall, with its beautiful
decorations, is to be brilliantly lighted to-
night by the electric light. A large supply
of colored globes for the incandescent light
have been procured, which under the super
VISION OIL M6SSrS. Sawyer anu JtnhS VI InS
Electric Lighting Company, will be arranged
into appropriate designs and notices, giving
a most novel and beautiful effect. One Of
the designs will be an Illuminated represen-
tation of the city seal.
The Norway Light Infantry, Company D.,
45 men, Captain George r. Howe, arrived In
the city at p m. Saturday. They were es-
corted to the island steamers by the Norway
Brass Band and went to Long Island, where
they were quartered with the Regimental
Association of the First, Tenth and Twenty
ninth Maine Volunteers. Mr.. George Butler
of the Portland Mechanic Blues was drum
major. Gen. George l.. Beale and other not
ables visited them yesterday.
Persons holding tickets for the clam bake,
Tuesday, can go at 1870 or II o'clock To
avoid the crowd take the steamers at
Custom House wharf. No tickets will be
sold to Long Island on that day, except tick
cts to the clam bake. These tickets will be
on sale at the office at City Hall today, and
people are advised to secure them early to
avoid the rush. The number of tickets is
limited to 5000, large part of which have
been already sold.