Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-02

| sound produced by explosion, 10.
There has been four clubs entered for this
| contest, as follows: Atchison Flambeau club,
Lawrence Flambeau club, of Kansas, Selem
CMass) club, and the Washington %. CO. Flam-
| beau club.
THE FIREWORKS.
Chairman Adams has arranged the following
plan for the entire fireworks display: At O'Clock
Monday evening the entire avenue will be illu-
minated with electric suns.
At!:SO there will be general fireworks dis
play in the monument grounds, and at $50 the
fambeau display on the avenue.
NOTES.
The pension Office was closed to the public at
IL o'clock to-day
committee to-day STAR reporter was informed
that they had accommodations for $1,000 peo-
pie still available.
THE PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS
have commenced to arrive, the twelfth regi-
ment coming in yesterday afternoon. The
ninth arrived this morning and the first about
noon. These are all debarked at Benning,
where the extensive tracks of the cattle yard
and the miles additional tracks recently LAID
| afford the best facilities. These come into the
city at street northeast by the Benring road,
and proceed at once to the quarters provided
for them.
LOOKING AFTER THE BAGGAGE
The crowds coming in at the B. and o. depot
are well looked after by the committee on pub
lie comfort, who turn the unassigned persons
over to messenger boys, who pilot them to
where they can obtain quarters.
the baggage force has been doubled, and
the large piles of baggage are quickly disposed
OF. The transfer company profited in this re-
gard by the last Inauguration, and by increasing
and organizing the additional force they have
been enabled to keep well up with the work.
Judging from the amount of baggage
handled" said one this morning, 'those now
arriving have come to stay, and evidently the
| impression of many is that they will not find it
necessary to return in hurry"
Gen. j. Madison Drake and his world-famed
veteran zouaves, of Elizabeth. N. j.. accom-
panied by their own band of forty musicians
will arrive in this city at about o'clock to-
and P. depot by the Old Guard and Kit Carson
Post, G. A. r., and escorted to their quarters
at G. A. T. hall, opposite Wizards, which they
will occupy till Wednesday. While here the
zouaves will be guests of the G. A. R.
AN AMPLE SUPPLY OF FOOD.
The vast throng of people who will be in
Washington from now until Tuesday has got to
be accommodated with food and shelter in
some way, and the means by which this is to be
accomplished has tested the energies of hotel,
boarding house and restaurant keepers for
some time. Merchants and dealers in grocer
les and meats have been laying in large stocks
of goods SO that it is now believed that ample
provision has been made for the unprece-
dented influx of strangers that is expected.
Communications with Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, Norfolk and New York, is SO easy and
rapid, that whatever additional supplies are
needed can be quickly and promptly supp lied
All the wholesale dealers have al
ready about four times their usual
amount of goods on hand and have
made arrangements with their correspondents
forward whatever more is required. Armour
Co., Swift Co., Varnell & Sons and Nelson
Morris Co., the firms which furnish the
principal supply of fresh meats, have laid in
fifty carloads of beef comprising the carcases
Of at least 1000 head of cattle.
There has been an unprecedented rush for
hams, tongues and corn beef, from which to
make sandwiches, though
THE HOTELS PREPARED.
All the hotels have of course anticipated the
heavy demands that would be made upon them
and have stocked their larders to their fullest
extent. The greatest rush will of course be
made for the Avenue hotels. for they are the
first to greet the eye of the stranger.
The Metropolitan, while it cannot lodge only
about 800 persons, is prepared to furnish meals
to thousand people.
The National can accommodate about 800
with quarters and expects to furnish meals to
at least two thousand guests daily
The st. James expects to do much larger
business because it is in such close proximity to
the B. d P. depot, and will be prepared to fur
nish 5000 meals daily during the rush. Several
hundred feet Of counters are being built where
guests may stand while eating.
The Harris house has made ample prepara-
tons for supplying about ten times its ordinary
complement of guests; and the Hotel johnson,
Howard house, and the other smaller hotels on
tho Avenue have fully prepared for the crush
Wizards hotel is almost full of guests and Mr..
Staples has made arrangements to feed at least
two thousand people daily as long as the crowd
may last
The Ebbitt is crowded and the overflow goes
into boarding houses and private dwellings on
F and g streets.
The Arlington and the Normandie will only
take regular guests, and though they are both
full the former having about $50 guests, they
will not have the crowd that will Cypress many
of the other hotels.
Wormley's and Welcker's are having their
capacity taxed to its utmost. while at the HAM
ilton over 5000 applicants have been turned
away.
AT none of these hotels is there felt any alarm
that the supply Of food will be insufficient, and
no guest need be under any apprehension that
his appetite will not be fully and satisfactorily
appeased.
All the restaurants have been laying in ad-
who come to Washington ON Monday will not
remain over night the lunch rooms and restau-
rants will catch their trade.