The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-05
ALL BUILDINGS DECORATED.

of little triangles and pieces
of fantastic shapes, it ran riot, like the con
volutions of giant creepers, across vast ex.
panses of brick ard everything it touched
it glorified. Viewed from the emil
hence Of Capitol Hill, the general effect
was If the spectator looked into
some giant kaleidoscope, SO warm
and rich and full of prismatic coloring was
the scene, and that impression was further
borne out if one cha gsd his point of view,
for at every step new combination was
effected. The first picture vanished and
the pieces rearranged themselves in new
and even m IRE admirable designs. A notice
able feature If the day was the profuse
decoration of the houses on the side streets
and avenues remote from the line Of
march.
BEAUTIFUL SQUARES.
Discrimination would seem to be almost
invidious, but it is only just to say that of
all the squares on the route those along
| Pennsylvania avenue between Seventh and
! Thirteenth streets shovel most elaborate
decorations. Here are grouped mum er Of
the largest business houses in the city, and
they honored the day with proper liberality.
| II would be impossible to convey any cor
rect idea of the adornments Of the avenue
| in detail beyond those of a few of the pub
| lie buildings.
THE TREASURY.
of the success of the decorators art. The
massive architecture of this vast structure
does not readily yield success to efforts to
relieve its majestic severity, but to-
day the cunning artist caught its
spirit, and the result was extremely
effective. Half hundred of its
great Ionic columns were closely wrapped
with the American colors, crossed at the
center with smaller flags on gold-tipped
slaves. The pedlments on the east and
north and south bore graceful designs
in tricolored bunting, forming a
background for gigantic golden
shields bearing the great seal of treasury,
while connecting them and framing the
| whole picture was a scroll work of red and
blue bunting. The grand stand below the
south front was fringed wi h a number of
signal flags with their cabalistic figures.
A SIGNAL SERVICE CoNCEIT.
Flags like these we're also used to carry
out the pretty conceit, AMI supplement the
handsome decorations of the state, war and
navy department building. Dropping from
the tip of the great time ball staff to the
four corners of the central tower on
the eastern side, they were arranged
in order to spell out to the initiated "The
President Will arrive at 12 meridian" "Sa-
| lutte the President" and Cheer"
On the north or war department. front an
enormous American banner of the cent al
| staff was hlnked on elcn corner of the
parapet by a smaller flag representing the
four arms of the service-cavairy, infantry,
artillery and signal corps.
UNKIND NATURE.
| Against all this great artistic display un-
kind nature had opposed all her forces A
week ago, the chief signal officer, scanning
the weather map had discovered a spot, no
| bigger than a mans hand, away off on
Puget sound Thereupon he predicted
storm for to-day. Since then he
has endeavored to relieve the
agonized approximations of the public
| by moderating the force Of his first predic-
tion, but without avail Rain began to fall
Saturday and poured relentlessly up to a
| late hour last night. 1t turned the back
streets into mud holes; it soaked the bunt-
ing, and caused the flags and streamers to
droop around their stats in oreary mani
nation. The morning dawned under an
angry gray SKY, the air was surcharged
with moisture, and although it did not actu-
ally rain, shining beads Of water chung to
every exposed surface.
CAUGHT UP BY THE BREEZE.
But just in time a northeast wind sprang
up and catching up the banners, pennants
and streamers in fiuttering lines and rounded
folds, babe defiance TO the storm king and
restored in large measure the picturesque
beauty of the scene. True it is That
| wherefore economical motives, cheap
muslins entered largely into the
decorations, the plenteous washing
of the rains had caused the colors to flow.
Eagles originally white, flushed an angry
red at the treatment. and portraits of the
next President and Vice President assumed
a bilious tinge. But Notwithstanding the
fact that the draperies took on an aspect
never expected by the decorators, the gen.
eneral effect was not much diminished, as
hard lines were broken up and the hues
blended subtly where they met.
GORGEOUS DRUM MAJORS
The first reflection of the average Wash
| ingtonian as he stepped out Of his bed this
morning, and one that seemed to be almost
| a fair inference from the volume of sound
that filled the air, was that every visiting
militiaman had brought with him musician
possessed of an enthusiastic devotion to a
| brass horn or drum. The sun may have risen
before drum majors, but they we're suffi-
GENTLY numerous in the early hours to
d vert attention from all less gogeous OBJ
jects Before long the troops coming to
town filed out Of the railroad stations and
took up their hungry march for break
fast to the strains Of The Bou-
ing martial airs Civic organization s
from Baltimore and o.her neghboring
citizens that had secured a sound nights
rest at home had little conjunction or con-
sideraton for the morning nap Of thou
sands of pilgrims who had preceded them,
and marched gaily to their rendezvous with
flying banners and playing bands.
THE AIR FILLED WITH SOUND.
The air was filled with sound (; it tbrobbed
with the cadence of marching feet in thous-
ands; it quivered with the shrill pipe Of fife
and the snarl of the kettle-drum and it rung
with the flare of the brass horn. The horn
particularly seemed TO be everywhere q y
each one must have been of the family OF
that French positions instrument
which, as Munchausen related whom hung
in the generous warmth gave out with
undimnished force all Of the notes that
had been frozen into it during long periods
of time. To swell tho din an army of
"fakirs" gave tongue These shrewd
knights Of the curb selling tho opportunity
to comb business aud pleasure have been
coming down on the town like the locusts
of Egypt.
SOME FAMILIAR SPECIMENS.
The old familiar variety, he of the ''in-
. -. :. ink grease and dirt eradica,
ia ana 20 n 1.-THE test dslphia cough drops"
diSappeared, and in their placesS hacnine
set breathing patriotism ano poi'i rs,
They would sell you a mlhlsDuIe TX
chin for your watch chain, or To-
markable rebus badge (which ciphereo ouo
HHarrison and Morton'l or q cane cou lea,
ing a small American flag. All oL SHeHA