Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21
ESPECIAL rr1reRAM 10 TIE p1srArcH.l

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHi
NEW YORK, April 20.-It has been said a
good many times since the big centennial
show began to monopolize public attention
that the celebration would not be thor
oughly popular one. 1t is no fault Of the
Governing Committee, but fact neverthe-
less, that the only features which are open
for the enjoyment of the public at large are
the two parades, the concert of the German
societies in Madison Square and the fire.
works. All the other features of the show
can, of necessity, be witnessed by only
very few people comparatively. 1t was in
view of this fact that the committee put spe-
cial effort upon the two parades. 1t was
desired that these entirely public features
should, in their completeness and splendor,
in some measure atone to the public for the
apparent exclusiveness of the other events.
The military parade, which Colonel s. V.
R. Cruger has been celebrating with great
care, will certainly be the greatest demon
stration Of its kind ever witnessed in this
city. Every State has been invited to send
its National Guard, and as an inducement
the committee has offered to pay the entire
boarding and lodging expenses of any num-
ber of men the States may send. There are
13 States which have not responded to the
committees invitation as yet.
ALMOST AN ARMY.
They are Arkansas, California, Colo
RADIO, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Texas, Mime
sofa, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon
and Wisconsin. There are four which have
accepted the invitation but have not yet
specified the number OF men they will send.
These are Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois and
Alabama, Still, with q States and the
District of Columbia, the list foots up 3D.
$50 men. The total is made up in this way:
First division, troops in regular service, g.
400; Second Division, State militia, 81 100;
Third Division, Grand Army posts, Il, $50.
The length of time the patriotic Ameri-
can will have to spend looking at this great
parade is a little appalling. At the Phila-
delphia Centennial the parade made what
is considered by military authorities phe-
nomenal time 1t passed given point at
the rate of 1000 men an hour. Supposing
the parade of April 80 should make the
same time, and this is doubtful, it will be
~ hours passing the reviewing stand. But
the possibilities are even more appalling.
The IL States which have not reported yet |
are expected to send a representation from
their National Guards. Suppose each of
these States should send 800 men (and the |
estimate is exceedingly smalD, there will |
then be go, 500 men in line, The man, there
fore, who sees the whole parade will sit on |
his 81 board seat almost, if not quite, nine |
hours. 4
MORE soUABBLING.
fThe relations between Elbridge T. Gerry. |
as Chairman of the Centennial Executive |
Committee, and Admiral David D. Porter, of |
the navy, as Grand Marshal of the naval |
parade, have become strained. This is due !
to Mr.. Gerry's interference with the general |
order in relation to the naval display in the |
harbor of New York issued by Admiral |
Porter few days ago" said one of the |
members of the Committee on Navy to-day. |
After the receipt of this order it seems |
Mr.. Gerry went to the Committee on Navy |
and said to them that Admiral Porter must |
be given to understand that this celebration |
was gotten up by the city of New York, |
and that, although Admiral Porter was ap- |
pointed Grand Marshal, the right had not |
been given him to formulate any pro-
gramme. On Thursday afternoon the Com
mittee on Navy met and had readya type
written copy of programme for the parade,
which was submitted and acted upon. This
differs materially from Admiral Porter's
order, and it is the impression that he will
revoke the order to Rear Admiral Jouett,
who is Admiral Porter's executive, to come
to New York on Wednesday and complete
the programme, and that he himself will
decline the Grand Marshalship.
A DOWNRIGHT INSULT.
Admiral Porter's order provided that the
naval vessels should anchor off Ellis
Island, the Chicago one or two lengths north
of the island, the others tt. the southwark of
that ship; the revenue cutters and Yachts
will be anchored in double columns 100
yards apart, to the southwark of the naval
vessels; the river and sound steamboats, will
form in double column to the southwark of
the yachts, 100 yards apart.
The Gerry Committee on Navy Pro-
gramme provides that the navy vessels shall
be anchored off Robbins reef and that the
steamboats, shall be in two grand divisions.
The first division is to form in the upper
bay, the right resting to the southwest of
buoy No. at the lower end of Governors
Island, astern of the flagship (the Hoboken
ferryboat Bergen), the left toward Staple
ton, S. 1. The orders of the committee and
of Admiral Porter clash in other and more
important points.
One of the officers of the navy said: "It
isa question if Admiral Porter does not
tell this committee to go to some one else to
4OOh Oub IAOlA PoAd LII Is QOWu- /
right insult, this treatment of him. Alter
making him Grand Marshal, and seeing
his first official order, they revoke it and
substitute another; in other words, they
want him as a fgurehead, an automaton.
But Porter is not that sort of a man. He
knows what is proper to do, and he will not
consent to any such breach of etiquette
without a protest.
THE PRESIDENTS PROGRAMME,
Mr.. Frank S. Witherbee, an aid to the
Centennial Entertainment Committee, who
has been in Washington arranging details
with President Harrison, to-day announced
that those arrangements had been COM
pleted. The President, Mrs Harrison and
Mrs. Mckee will arrive at Elizabethport at
z o'clock on the morning of the 29th. After
break fasting with Governor Green, of New
Jersey, the party will leave at 8 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs Russell Harrison will meet
the party here.
Accompanying the President on his spe-
cial train will be Miss Murphy. a guest at
the White House, Secretary Tracy, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Blaine, Miss Margaret
Blaine and Walter Blaine, Secretary Rusk
and the Justices of the Supreme Court.
Postmaster General Wanamaker will take
an early train and meet the party at Eliza
bethport, and Attorney General Miller will
meet the party here. Secretary Noble will
stay at Washington and look after the Coy
ernment.
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