New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14

Oliver Ames; Michigan, c. G. Luce; Minnesota.
William M5rPn tl MssPNUb ssRsf' John f.
Thayer; NeT-lIampshre G H. sawyer; New
Jersey, Eobert S. Green; New-York David b.
H North Carolina samuel G FoT peIrO Wno
Royal Taft; South CAROLINA. John ? F. Richardson;
eral Fitzhugh Lee; Wisconsin. William Hoard.
Nevada California. Tennessee. LOUISIANA, texas.
Florida, West Virginia and kanSts nave YET o., 20
Territories who have accepted the COMMITTEES
invitation are J. S. Newell OF Alaska; FREDERICK
Dubois dShO Russell b aarF M Moore
washington; District Commissions Webb; Dis
trict of Columbia. and General Pleasant Porter
Commodore Ramsay, commandment of the Navy
Yard has received instructions from Secretary
Tracy 70 loan some American tags TO the commit
tee of the Custom House. which Is making prep
arations TO decorate that building for the centen-
NAL celebration. There are now BENG maze st
the Navy Ysrd several new Hags, with the full
Of the stars f0r te he rsiss on the
Dispatch The latter Is Of blue, with isrge
spread eagle in white with delicate red lines trnc
ing the feathers Of the wings ana e1h. On h t,e
bars and thirteen stars. Above the heau OF t'e
eagle in the blue fe Id is semi-circle oil thirteen
stars. Commodore Ramsay could not tell whht
the programme would be relative to disposition OF
the Navy vessels during the celebration, as that
matter had been intrusted 70 Admiral Porter
FlRQatanS were placed In pOblbl0n ySelSTuhJ VI
the south and north sides OF the spire Of 81 PauIs
church, over one hundred and fifty feet above the
street. and from them the National coiors will be
displayed on April 80 and May /. A..
The following rules and regulations Tor the
civic and industrial parade OF May nave oeeh
adopted:
/. NO floats banners, devices or inscriptions In, IN,
tended for advertisements VIII DO admitted III the
| proc ession. A.. T.,
features must be shown 10 tho committee by drawing
S, ss Ss SeSy ssO AP and Set ali lettering
| emblems. signs or devices to be displayed
2. None Others than those presented and approved
No carriages or wheel vehicles Of any DE- aesG gl
men wiIl be admitted in the procession.
O. No political partisan or advertising banners rs
BE- be-" carried by societies. and organizations Violating
this rule will be excluded from the procession, and
render the organization liable 10 dismissal from the
line. Political organizations Will not be permitted in
| the line.
procession in double column, two Organisations
abreast, and In close order Those without apparatus
| T. The military organisations and seml.mnltary
organizations viii not form less than sixteen files front,
than military or semimllitaIy organizations will march
IN columns sixteen TO twenty files 'front.' and In close
sixteen feet. The teams with aoats, with the ex-
ceplOn Of those prepared by the committee Will move
strict observance OF these rules + necessary 10
| enable tho entire column to accomplish the march
| -
Aarshals VIII keep an Observance of this rule In their
respective sections, caefnl Instructions TO be given In
| adva so that II may be thoroughly understood.
On looking over the route, the managers OF the
| German demonstration have found that many OF
the wires crossing the streets, especially Broad
way, are so low as TO prevent the passage OF
some of their most elaborate floats which reach
| about 20 feet above the ground. They made THU
| fact known TO the proper authorities, and were
| told to cut all wires that were found low at
| TO obstruct the way. Accordingly, several mer
harmed with wire clippers will accompany the
floats 10 NOW way through the network
which In many places hangs not moro
than twelve feet from the ground
| There is hitch between the Executive Cen
tennial Committee and the Building Bureau, which
| will result In work being stopped Oh the Centen
| MAD buildings about the Metropolitan Operf
House tomorrow, unless an understanding is ar
rived ut in the meantime Superintendent Thomas
| ]. Brady of the Building Bureau, has complained
20 the Fire Board that the Opera House anneXei
for the Centennial were being put up so as TO shut
ia three of the sides OF the building so that there
would be no means of exit ia case OF fire-alsrm
Yesterday President Purroy and Chief Shay Of the
Fire Department, with Superintendent Brady, Wis
tied the Mayors Office and laid the matter before
Mr. Grant. II required no argument 60 prove
that TO shut up several thousand people in thu
Opera House without means of escape on three
sides OF the building was too dangerous an exper