Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-20
NEW YORk'S CENTENNIAL.
Full List of Attractions and Events WIS.,
itors May Participate In
THE GRANDEsT EVENT OF ITS KIND THIS COUNTRY
HAS EVER KSowS-THE PRESIDENTS RECEP-
TON, THE CENTENNIAL SERVICES, THE BALL,
THE BANQUET AND THE TWO GREAT pARApEs.
Correspondence of THE EvEx1Ss STAR.

! HAS EVEN hNONN-Iat
| TON, THE CENTENNIAL SERVICES, THE BALL,
THE BANQUET AND THE TWO GREAT PARADEs
Correspondence of The EvESISs STAB
New YORK, April 49,
| Arrangements for the grand celebration Of
] the centennial of the Inauguration of Washing
| ton in New York are now fast nearing compile
( ton. 1t has been a of Vanity Fair through
] out, the committees of arrangements having
started out to make it an affair exclusively for
the first circles and having finally wound up
| by making II just what they should have made
! 1t In the first place, gigantic popular demon
! stration III which blue blood and wealth have
! no more part than ordinary common red blood
and slim pocketbooks. The history of the petty
! squables, the bitter disaPpointments, the tact
/ less tomfo0Iery of the committees having the
affair IN charge makes a very interesting story,
I but will not tell 1t here. 1t would require
/ 1hackeray TO do full justice to the farce which
| has been enacted by the Fish faction. the Nc
Alilster cabal and the Gerry gang and only
lhacheray could tell with fine sarcasm OF the
J vulgar yanities and childish jealousies which
! have been exhibited with such ridcuOusly
naughty pomp and such laughable owllsh
! solemnity.
PROGRAM OF EVENTS.
| What Washington people care more about
1 just now, | imagine, is to know exactly what
they are to see and participate in when they
J visit New Yorl to help celebrate. Well,
from daybreak of April 20 until the morning
/ OF May they will witness such scenes as have
probably never before been seen III this country.
| ~ mas been the ambition or the committees i'll
| charge, notwithstanding the petty chickering's
| Its members have gone through, to make the
affair the grandest event of its kind ever
known III American history. and the people at
large. although they have made lots of fun of
the committee have IyItpI with in tba
effort to surpaSs any previous celebration by
the stuperdOuS maSnlhccnce of this one.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's RECEPTION.
The enumeration of events of the celebration
is as follows: President Harrison, accompanied
by Nice-President Morton. the cabinet the
judges of the Supreme Court the diplomatic
corps and other officials who have received
special invitations will leave Washington early
on the morning of Monday, April gg for New
York, choosing the same route taken by Presi-
dent Washington when he came from Mt
| Vernon 100 years ago this month to be iuauCu-
rated. namely, through Philadelphia and Tren-
ton TO Ehzabethport. y. j. At Elizahethport
the President and suite will board the Despatch
and. accompanied by an escort of all the United
States and foreign war vessels III the harbor
several hundred generously decorated steamers
merchantmen and other vessels. the toulla viii
proceed to the foot of Wall street salutel
by gunpOwder sa!yOs from forts and vessels as
! the procession moves Tins naval display is
calculated 10 be the finest which has taken
place IN American waters. At the foot of Wall
street the Despatch viii anchor. and President
I Harrison viii discrn bark and take his seat IN
I deliberately decorated barge manned by
thirteen members of the Marine society lust
as thirteen other members OF tins same society
manned President Washington barge 100 wears
ago and rOwed him ashore to be mauguratcd
On landing at the pier President Harrison will
be received i'll state by the mayor and the CEN
tennal celebration committee. he Will pass un-
derneath an INN nae arch, and escorted by
detachment OF United States regular trooBs the
veteran corps Of the New York seventh regiment,
the Society OF the Cincinnati, Sons of the ReyO-
/ luton. and Loyal Legion. he will proceed to
the broadway entrance of the great Equitable
building. followed by the governors and com
missoners from the various states the general
committee OF two hundred. aud invited guests
In the hail of the Equitable building Mavor
Grant will formally welcome the President to
the clty. and the inaugural ode will be sung
which was sung at Washington's inauguration
followed by hymn of praise to be chanted by
a choir. The party will then repair to the
rooms OF the lawyers club. i'll the same build
ing. where. at "a large table at the west end of
the club-rOOm, the President. ex-President
Cleveland. the governors of states and .navor
| OF New York with the chairfuen of the princi-
| pal committees, will sit down to d banquet
The club-rOom will be handsomely decorated
| a full-iehgth portrait of Washington, by Pca!e
VIII look down upon the President, and a set of
china used by Washington at Bordentown will
be used for the entrees. There will be many
prominent guests at adjoining tables. including
representatives of the professions. trades. &C..
foreign representatives. &c. The invitations
to tins banquet are of wonderful elegance
showing on SIX pages pictures of prominent
men and public buildings. &c. as they existed
III New York one hundred years ago After
this banquet the President will be escorted to
the city hail, whore he will hold a public re-
ception for two hours. afterward going to his
headquarters at the Fifth Avenue hotel
THE GRAND BALL.
The grand ball is to occur on this evening
Monday, the 29th. The enormous auditorium
| of the Metropolitan opera house will be used
for dancing only, and on three sides of this
building, which occupies whole square. a
temporary structure has been erected over the
adjoining streets for supper rooms The ball
decorations, invitations and all will cost con
siderably over 100000. The interior furnish
ings will be paatial. Portraits of all the Pres
ldents are to hang from the galleries and the
stage, medalli0ns of the coats of arms of all
states will be seen, and plush, lace, silk velvet
and bunting will be used with no sparing hand
| to make the most gorgeous ballroom ever
known. The dancing will begin at 10 o'clock
| Ill the evening with the q,iddriUe dhOnnelr
which has caused so much unpIeasantness and
| jealousies i'll selecting those who are to dance
| In 1t. Thlrty-two couples will participate
| facing one another in two rows as in a Virginia
| Teel tHcre DelnS no SIDE couples. No
knows yet exactly who will dance in this onad-
] rifle, and no man will know. in all probability
! until the evening of the ball. Among those in
yltedto participate in 1t are the President and
! Mrs. Harrison, the Vice-President and Mrs
! Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mr.
| and Mrs. rutherford b. Hayes, Mayor Grant,
Governor Hill and the following ladies: Mrs
Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. William Aston,
Mrs. William Waldorf Aston, Mrs. Frederick
J. De Peyster, Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry,
| Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Mrs John JAW.
/ Mrs. Archibald g. King, Miss Garcia Living
| ston, Miss Schuyler, Mrs Henry Van Rensse-
| iaer. and Mrs. Sidney Webster. The boxes for
| the ball have nearly all been Sold and in most
| cases the purchasers have bought the same
| boxes for the ball and for the grand banquet on
| Tuesday night, April 80. Edmund NJ Stanton
| has been made floor manager of the ball. vice
Ward McAllister, deposed. and he will have
] as assistants 33 Of the SWEETEST young men in
! town. The ball, however, is not to be the
| heightened affair it was first mapped out to be.
| The New York legislature made the first inya-
sion into its swell status by obtaining free tick
cts ri Fl arms, as it were; and such legislators
| as '.Dry-Dollar" Sullivan, who owns a dozen
| saloons in the Bowery, viii be prominent upon
| the floor. Then more plebeian body still
1 forced the committee to give them tickets
| namely, the New York board of aldermen as
| unsayory lot of 'far-downers' as can be col
Iected in a days journey in the metropolis. A
number of the heaviest swells and their farni-
lies have already given up their ball tick cts