The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-19
A FUNNEL OF FLAGS
Iuto Which tho Fleets WIN sail-Arangs,
ments for the Great Naval Parade,

NRw York, April ls.-Captain Heur!
Erben, U, S, N, OF the Navy Committee
has received a number OF communica
tlons from the agents Of several OF thC
foreign steamship lines in response to {
request from the Navy Committee, ask
ing them to decorate their piers and
such OF their steamers as happen to be In
port on Monday, April 80, the day oi
the great naval parade,
The responses have been favorable,
and a magnificent display all along the
Hudson river, both sides, is now cer-
tainty, Among the companies which
have already promised TO make the dis
plays suggested are the Inman, White
Star, Red Star, Compagnie Generate
Trans-Atlantique, the National, Cunard,
NOrd DeutsCher, Hamburg'American
and Netherland lines, and there Is no
doubt that all the other companies hay
ing piers on the other side OF the Hud-
son river will Join in tue display Of
bunting with afriendly view to riyalling
all the display made by the American
companies using the docks,
1--WE want TO make the Hudson per.
feet funnel OF flags and bunting into
which tho procession shall pass" said
Captain Erben, land II the ideas Of the
committee are carried out the purpose
will certainly be accomplished" The
seven or eight United States revenue
cutters which may be in this port at the
time Of the parade will take part in It as
q portion OF the United States Navy Di.
vision, tho revenue ileet preceding tho
steam yachts, which are expected to take
part in the parade, The mercantile di.
vision, already numbering $50 vessels OF
all shapes and sizes known to ship.mak.
ers, will follow the yachts.
The line OF parade, though not off,
cially determined upon, will be up the
harbor, around the Battery, up the East
river, turning at Hunters Point, and
then steaming down the East river and
up the North river to q point yet to be
fixed upon, where the parade will be
dismissed.
To satisfy the general curiosity the
Committee will do all In their power to
have the Vesuvius, now at Philadelphia,
brought 10 this city and given q promi-
nent place in the parade OF the fleets.
Captain Zalinski is doing all in his
power 10 get the naval authorities and
tho builders to send her to this city, The
Plan aud Scope Committee has appro-
priated $500 to the Navy Committee to
be used in providing luncheon on the
Sirius for the ladies Of the Presidential
party and the other guests who will be |
on hoard that steamer,
A Washington dispatch says: The
Entertainment Committee in charge OF
the banquet and ball OF the forthcoming
Centennial Celebration in New York
City, Is blundering all around. 1t has
blundered in sending the invitations to
Washington's descendants and in ex-
tending its Courtesies 10 the Diplomatic |
Corps.
Aiew invitations were received some
time ago by few members OF the Dip.
lomatiC Corps. Not even all the minis.
ters were invited, and none OF the Secre.
taries or attches were. But, worse than
all, the invitations given To the Minis.
ters did not extend to their Wiyes. The
whole corps Is decidedly mad about It. |
Several Of them sat down Immediately
and wrote their tecllnatiols. Others
have paid no attention whatever to the
invitations received.
Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish found out rather
late that mistake had been made, and
came down to Washington last Saturday
TO endeavor 10 reCtiiy 1t. He received
sCant consideration from the offended
diplomats. He called at the State De.
partment to have the ofllsials help him
out, but they declined TO interfere. He
held a consultation at Wormley's Hotel
with j, n. A. King, Of New York, who
is spending the winter hero, and Mr..
King hos undertaken 10 straighten the
master out as well as possible, but he
has difficult and thankless task before
him. Supplementary inutations are now
being addressed 10 tho Miuisters' wives,
but the depllpations already sent are not
likely 10 be recalled. A few members OF
the corps are inclined to be iorgiving and
attend but tho majority will lind an ex.
cuse for being absent.