The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-27
THH GREAT CENTENNIAL.
The Preparations for the Event
Going on in New York,
THE DECORATIONS DAMAGED
BY the Severe RaIns-The Governors
Proclamation Including Wednes.
dayas u HoIlday-Pickpockets
to be Raided Sunday Night,

New York, April 26,-The rain last
night had rather a bedraggling effect on
many Of the decorations, yet consider
ing the severity OF the storm, the dam
age done was not as great as might have
been expected, The cheap, printed
muslins, were washed badly and what
yesterday stood forth in bold relief as
red, white, and blue, this morning pre-
sents n composite effect OF light purple,
pink and faint red. The flags aud dra.
perry made Of bunting stood the testwell,
The huge arches, which have been Cov-
cred with painted canvass seem In no
way to have been effected and look as
fresh and imposing as when they were
first put up. The elaborate decorations
on the Hoffman house look trihe sog.
Ky, and in some places the red has run
a little. 1t is among the smaller places
where cheaper decorating goods have
been used that the havoc has been
greatest, Here the long streamers have
become limp, forlorn and faded, retain
ing none OF their original brillianCy OF
color. In many instances where printed
cloth has been used on white buildings
the Colors have run in such q manner
and so stained the brick and iron work
that the services OF painters will soon
have to be called into requisition.
General ButtOrheld insists that the
great civic parade, with which tho three
days national festival will be brought to
u conclusion, shall be made us distinc-
lively u peoples parade MS possible.
tie is sensitive about having it called
General Butterileld's parade" and says
he has introduced u feature that cannot
fail TO be popular. The representatives
OF ll5 societies and institutions whom
he had to confer with him met at the
Merchants Library and selected about
seventy OF their number to represent
them in this feature OF the parade.
They will prepare an address, on be-
hall OF the societies they represent and
the people in general, and have it en-
closed in solid silver box. They will
take seats on the grand stand on Fifth
avenue, near Twenty.sixth street, and
when the head Of the column reaches
that point they will form lines at the
head Of the column, Mayor Grant in the
lead, and march down to the reviewing
stand, where President Harrison will
stand in review OF the parade. Here
Mayor Grant will hand the silver box
the address to the President.
Then they will continue OH to Twenty
fourth street where they will leave the
column and return to the grand stand,
and take seats of honor reserved for
them around the President, and will be
distinguished as second to the President
in the honors of the day.
A dispatch from Albany says: Colonel
Rice, Governor Hills private secretary,
made the following statement late this
afternoon: Governor Hill this after.
noon issued u proclamation making
Wednesday, May /, an additional day OF
thanksgiving and a public holiday for
the cities OF New York and Brooklyn
only. Chapter 229, OF the laws OF 1883,
made Tuesday, April 80, 1889, public
holiday, and provided that commercial
paper maturing on Tuesday, April 80,
1880, should be paid on Monday, Aprii1
20. This special act seemed to make 1t
impossible for the Governor to designate
Monday, April 20, an additional public
holiday, even in case he should desire
to do so. Commercial paper falling due
on Wednesday, May /, is, under the pro.
visions OF the general dct, payable on
Thursday, the second.
The following is the Governors pro.
Clamation:
Proclamation.
april 3Oth inst, having been made a
public holiday by Chapter 92O, OF the
laws oil 1883, and numerous citizens OF
the cities OF New York and Brooklyn
having requested that Wednesday May
lst, be also made n public holiday
now, therefore, pursuant to the author
Ivy vested in me by Chapter 2SS Of the
laws OF 1889, MS supplement by Chapter
lOS OF the laws OF 1889, l hereby desig.
nate Wednesday, May LIST, a day Of
Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the
blessings bestowed upon us us a people,
and recommend that by patriotic
rejoicing and by prayer and praise, there
shall on that day be u continued com
memoration OF the inauguration OF
George Washington us the first Presi.
dent Of the United States. And here
by limit the application OF this proCla.
nation as the observance OF said We'd
nesday, May 1st, us a day Of Thanks.
giving and rejoicing to the cities OF
New York and Brooklyn.
Done at the capitol, City OF Albany on
the 2Gth day Of April, in the year OF our
Lord, 1889.
DAVID B. HILL.
BY the Governor.