The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-07-06
GREAT WEEK FOR MARYLAND.
The Grand Exposition and Trades Dis
play-The Work Going Rapidly
Forward-Programm
for the Week.

commencing on Monday, the 9Th, met last
week at the residence of Col. Frank Brown,
near Sykesville, Carroll county, for the pur-
pose of arranging the programme for that
event. Many important matters were decided
at this meeting and further work for the COM
mittees cut out The programme was outlined
as follows:
On Monday, September 8, will he the civic and
trades display. Capt. j. Frank Supplee was
made grand marshal, with power to appoint his
aids. He gave assurances that he would attempt
to move more people in given time than had
yet been the case in any pageantS In baltimore.
To avoid waits and to permit the people to reach
Pimlico unjaded the hour of assembiage of the
parade was set at A. NJ, the procession to start
a half hour later. 1t will form on South Broad
way. The route will be Broadway to Baltimore
street, to Madison avenue, to North avenue, TO
Eutaw Place extended, and through Druid Hill
Park to PimlicO.
All bodies from out of town will file, in ad-
vance, with the grand marshal the expected
time of their arrival, and should that time be
after the start of the procession they will be ap-
pointed to places along the route where they arc
to join in the line. All divisions not prepared to
move at the proper time are to go to the rear.
The following are the divisions:
l. Grand Army of the Republic and Sons OF
Veterans, preceded by historical float bearing
the original star-spangled banner and the battle
flag of the Twentyseventh Regiment, Jefferson
Blues, which was carried in the battle of North
Point. The float is to have guard of honor OF
descendants of North Point cOmbatantS.
2. Veteran Firemen of Baltimore and other
Cities I9OO of whom have thus far accepted.
B. The uniformed beneficial societies. including
Catholic Knights, Knights of Pythias, etc.
4. A picked battalion of school boys.
8. The railroad and transportation division,
with the Marine Band and special large bands
for the large corporations.
g. The active Fire Department.
Z. The industrial trades display with sub-dlVl-
TO further matters the Western Maryland
Railroad will take many out, and the Arlington
10 DnIN will
Boundary avenue to take members of civic
bodies who choose to go thus, and notifications
to the committee in advance Will secure yeni-
Giles, so that the uniformed bodies may not be
broken up. An effort is making to have the
Northern Central Railway carry people as far as
Rogers avenue, between Melvale and Mount
Washington, where vehicles will drive one mile
to Pimlico.
The first days programme will include the ag-
ricultural and manufacturing exposition, the
horse show, grand massed band concert of about
fifty bands, led by Adam ltZel, Jr., and vocal
chorus that is expected to have 800 voices. The
floats will be parked and the regular horse races
The second day will include, besides exposition
and the daily afternoon races, horse sale from
10 A. NJ to noon. The sales will continue during
the week. Live stock will be judged on Tuesday
also.
On the third day, Wednesday, will be added
the awarding of premiums on household and me-
chanical goods. 80
The fourth day. Thursday, September II, will
have the parade of labor organizations, which is
recommended also by the committee to be start
ed shortly after A.. NJ. In the afternoon the
sham battle, illustrating the battle of North
point will be given under direction of Brigadier-
General Clinton p. Paine, of the military COM
mittee. In the engagement 1000 troops will par
tcipate including men from Marylld9d III af nm
trict of Columbia all these having had men In
the fight of 1914. In addition a large number of
United States regulars have been rendered by
the War Department at Washington, including
the Ringgold Battery, still known as the Balti-
more Battery and as the first battalion of lying
Tod Gfnfn
tars, batteries and troops from Fort McHenry,
squadron of cavalry from Fort Myer, and large
detail of regular infantry will also come, posi-
bly with the addition of marines. The battle
will be over 80 or 60 acres i'll Pimlco lnneld.
Breastworks will be erected and the British
troops will in part be represented by the Fifth
Maryland Regiment, under command OF Col.
ChaS. ID. Gather.
After the battle the bands, numbering about
H. with $50 pieces, will march to a common point
to the pyramid seating the chorus of 800, and a
grand massed vocal and instrumental concert
will be given. AT signal during the rendition
of the "Star-Spangled Banner shell on the
apex of the pyramid will open. disclosing the
Goddess of Liberty, who will wave the original
North Point flag of the Twenty-seventh Regi-
ment.
At O'Clock in the evening the new postOtfice
is to be dedicated in the presence of President
Harrison and his Cabinet. The 45O letter carriers,
in new suits, who are now being drilled by Capt:
Bradley T. Stokes, of the Fifth Regiment, will
escort the President and Cabinet to the Hotel
Rennert, thence to the pOstoffice, and from there
to the hotel, where the banquet will take place.
On the fifth day. Friday, 13th besides the reg
ular Pimlico programme the attack on Fort
McHenry will be given. with President Harrison
and Cabinet as OnloOkers. The bOmbardment
will begin at 8 p. NJ. Assurances from the Navy
Department at Washington are given that not
less than four war vessels Will take part. The
garrison at Fort McHenry under Col. Livingston.
will respond and 1000 rounds will be fired. The
local committees will add barges of fireworks.
and the chorus will sing 1.-The Star-Spangled
Banner
Pimlico will be under military guard. Floats
will be exhibited there all the week, and owners
of them may have space in the buildings to de-
pOSit movable articles on the floats.
THE VERMONT Microscopica Association has
Just announced that a prize of $3.50, given by
the Wells & Richardson Co., the well-known
chemists, will be paid to the first discoverer of
a new disease germ. The wonderful discovery
by Prof. Koch of the cholera germ, as the cause
of cholera, stimulated great research through
out the world and it is believed this liberal
prize, offered by house of such standing, will
greatly assist in the detection of mcro-organ-
isms that are the direct cause of disease and
death. All who are interested in the subject
and the conditions of this prize, should write
to c. Smith Boynton, NJ. d., Secretary of the
Association. Burlington, VT.
THE RECENT order of Secretary of the Navy
Tracy in regard to the use of flags having forty
two stars, seems to have been generally misun-
derstood. According to the Revised Statutes
the new flag cannot be used by the army and
navy until July 4th, 1890, the law requiring
that no additional stars shall be placed on the
field until the 4th of July succeeding the adj
mission of the new states. As the states will
not be legally admitted until the next session
of Congress, the order calling in the old flags
has caused considerable discussion as to whether
it is not premature.
A NUMBER of gentlemen, representing Penn
sylvania lumber interests, were in Baltimore
this week, arranging to establish immense saw
mills there to cut up into lumber the millions
of feet of logs washed into the bay by the late
heavy floods. 1t is said that the cutting up of
these logs will take at least two years, which
gives good idea of the immensely of the work.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed Frederick
Douglass minister to Hayti He wanted to be
Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia,
an office worth about $40 900 year, and which
was formerly held by him, but he missed that
nice plum. All the applicants for the mission
to Hayti were cOlOred men, among them ID. ID.
Dixon, of Baltimore
SwARMs OF locusts have made their appear
ance in the Pigeon Hills, York county, and tits
stated that a new kind of bird has also appear
ed and is destroying the lOcusts by the thou
sand. The bird is described as having white
cap, red breast and long tail and nothing like
it has been seen heretofore in that section.
THE CLERKS in the office of the First Assistant
Postmaster-General are required to work from
A. NJ to p. NJ, by order of Postmaster-Ge General
Wanamaker. Clerks in the other departments
work much shorter hours and this difference
in time is causing trouble. Mr.. Clarkson is
opposed to the long hours.
A COLoRED man named George Blair died
lately near Winchester. Ohio, at the age of 1l5
years. He had been married five times and
was the father ofsixty children, fifteen of whom