Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-04-26
the PROGRAM


Or Next Weeks Centennial Celebration,
President Harrison aud party will be re
ceived at Elzabethport on the 29th and will
empark on board a special steamer The
naval procession, healed by the United
States warships, and incl, L,ng all the mer
chant steamers that can be spared for the
occasion, will he reviewed by the President
in the upper bay When the steamer carry
ing the party arrives in the East River oppo-
site Wall street, barge manned by "A crew
of shipmasters from the Marine society Of
the port of New York will row the President
ashore 1t will be remembered that the
crew of the barge that rowed Washington
from Elizabethport to the foot of Wall
street one hundred years ago was made up
of members of the same society Upon land
ing, President Harrison will he received by
the state and city authorities, headed by
the governor and mayor, and will be escort
ed to the Equitable building on Broadway,
where reception will he rendered him
From TO $50 a public reception will be
given the President in the governors room
in the City Hall.
In the evening will come the centennial
ball at the Metropolitan opera house, and
the lamps are expected to shine with more
than conventional brightness over fair wom
en- and brave men. The opening quadrille
in which thirty-two couples will dance, will
be started at half past ten, President iar
rison leading with Mrs Morton for his part.
ner. The descendants of the historic fam
lilies of hundred wears ago will come after
the President and exPresidents Tuesday,
April 30, will be the great day of the cele
bration. On the historic spot where Wash
| ington took the oath of Office stands bronze
statue of the first President. About the
statue will be built a great platform, on
which the formal exercises of the occasion
will be held. They consist of prayer by
Rev. DIR. Storrs poem by John Greenleaf
Whittier; the Grafton by Chauncey NJ. De
pew, and an address by President Harrison,
with benediction by Archbishop Corrigan
At the conclusion of these exercises the
President will be driven to the reviewing
stand.
The procession, which will be under the
| command of General Schoheld, will start
from the head of Wall street The West
Point and Annapolis cadets and the regulars
will have the right of the line; then will
| come the militia of the several states, each
headed by its governor 1t is expected that
| 20, 600 men will be in line and the military
display will be the most notable since the
noval review at the close of the war. The
reviewing stand at Madison square will be
radiant with beauty and distinction. There
will be two triumphal arches at Madison
square. One of these, forty six feet in the
clear, will span one hundred feet of road
way in single arch. The procession will
move up Broadway to Waverly place, thence
to Fifth avenue, and up Fifth avenue to
Fifty ninth street.
The art committee will give reception
to the President at six o'clock at the Loan
Exhibition rooms At eight o'clock the
grand banquet will take place at the Metro
poitan opera house, at which 800 guests
will set down.
Wednesday, May /, the great industrial
and civic parade will take place.