The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-04-24

Take Place, Despite the Action of the
w. L. I.
NEW YORK, April 19.-The United
States Navy Will appear prominently in
the Centennial celebration. Secretary
Tracy has decided that all the available
warships shall participate in the great
naval review, which will be leading
feature. Commander F. N. Ramsey,
commaudant Of the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, received orders yesterday from
the Navy Department directing him to
communicate with the Committee on the
Navy. David B. Porter, Admiral of the
Navy, will be the commander-in~chlef
afioat and Rear Admiral James E. Jouett
will be the chief of staff. The warships
which are expected to escort the Presi-
dent and party to this port are the Dis
patch, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, York
town and VesuviuS. The Dispatch is
the government steam yacht and IS now
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Lieut.. ".
S. Cowles, her commander, will take his
vessel within a mile and a half OF Eliza
bethport, where she will be boarded by
the President and party. The steel
cruiser Bostsn is in commission at the
naval station and the cruiser Chicago
will receive new complement of officers
and crew during this week. The At
lanta has been ordered to this port in
time to fall in line.
A crew of sailors and firemen left the
Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday for Phil
adelphia, where they will join the new
gunboat Yorktown. The dynamite crul-
ser Vesuvius is to be brought here at
the same time. If the NesuviuS can be
got in readiness the entire new navy Of
the Atlantic coast will be represented.
1t is also expected that the corvette
Kearsarge will be ordered from Norfolk.
The Navy Yard tugs Catalpa and Nina
and a number of steam launches and
cutters will join the warships IN the ma
val procession.
The ships will be dressed with flags,
streamers and pennants, and national
salutes will be fired from each of the
warships. Commander Ramsey will
also appoint an officer of high rank to
command the battalions of marines and
sailors who will participate in the shore
parade. The official naval programme
win..not be ISSUED for some days yet.
The Committee on Organization of the
Marine Parade for the Centennial week
met yesterday at Pier No. SO, North
River, to further the arrangements.
Three hundred vessels have already been
secured for the demonstration.
The decision of the Washington Light
Infantry of Charleston, S. c., to parade
independently because its application to
act as an escort to President Harrison
had been declined by the Army Commit
tee was considered yesterday by the
General Committee. Col. Cruger wrote
to Major GilchriSt, Commander of the
Washington Light Infantry, saying that
the Army Committee had no desire to
treat that organization disrespectfully.
The arrangements were for the Presi-
dent, after the literary exercises at the
Sub Treasury, to be driven rapidly to
the grand stand, at Worth's Monument,
in order to be ready to review the troops,
and therefore 1t would be out of the
!. question for the President to have an
escort. Ii the President had been as,
signed to place in the marching col
unn an escort might have been accepted
for him. 1t is thought that this will ap-
pease the Charleston gentlemen. 4
Communication was received from the
Governors Foot Guard, Of Hartford,
Conn, saving that although that organ,
ization had fought in the Revolution
and had on two occasions acted as an
escort to Washington, it had no cause to
complain at not being selected as an es-
cort to President Harrison in view of the
arrangements made.
General Daniel Butterfeld, Chief
Marshal Of the Civic Parade, estimates
that over fifty thousand people, exclu-
sive of those employed on the floats,
viii participate in the civic parade. There
will be sixty-six IRE companies from
Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and
Virginia. The Alexandria Fire Com
pany of Alexandria. Virginia, of which
Washington in his young days was a
member, will be in line.
A meeting of the Executive Commit
tees of the different organizations of
business men, without regard to politics,
was held at the Office of Wilmer ding,
Morris & Mitchell, No 66 White street,
yesterday afternoon, with a view to en-
listing the several organizations in the
grand civic parade May /. The meeting
was called jointly by Joseph J. O'Dono-
hue, President of the Business Mems
Democratic Conference Committee, and
W. S. Strong, President Of the Business
Mems Republican Association. The out
come of the meeting will probably be
that a larger procession of business men
than paraded under either Cleveland or
Harrison banners last November will be
found in the civic procession. They
viii march in one division, under COL
C. B. Mitchell, who was Marshal of the
Republican parade last year.
The Retail Grocers' Association has
decided to turn out in the parade, and
the members have invited their clerks to
join with them. 1t is estimated that at
least one thousand grocerymen will be
in line.
The officers Of the Brooklyn Eolksfest
Association have invited all the German