Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-30

A SPLENDID PROGRAMME.
]. Overture, america a'..................Tob Tobani
Gernert Guenther Orchestra.
2. Calling meeting to order by Mr.. James Hood.
Chairman Centennial Committee.
8. Announcement of Hon. H. l. Gourley as Pre-
siding Officer, by Chairman Hood. An
nouncement Of Vice Presidents and Secre-
taries.
& Opening prayer. Rev. GeorgeT. Purves, d d
s Quartet. ''The Beacon of Freedom"
Alpine Quartet-D. E. Nuttall W. K.
Haines. W. s, ,weeden and John
A. Strouss; Sam NJ. Brown
Accompanies.
6. Opening Address. H. 1. Gourley
:. Cornet SolO-''Young America a''...........Levy
Herr Gustave Mueller.
s. Centennial Grafton
President c. K. Adams, of Cornell Univer-
sity Ithaca, n. Y.
8. Quartet.......... Song Of Thousand Hears''
Alpine Quartet.
10. Centennial Poem. ''Our Washington
Byron W. King, A. NJ.
IL. Regrets and Messages.
IL. Medley-'sNational Airs''...... .....Weigand
Orchestra.
ls. Impromptu Addresses
Hon. John Dalzell Hon. Thaddeus d. Kenneson.
Il: 4:Quartet-''Washington and Lincoln,''
Alpine Quartet
is. Impromptu Addresses,
s. U. Trent, ESQ.,, W. G. Moreland.
16. Quartet-''Flag Without Stain,''
Alpine Quartet.
II. Prayer.
Rev. T. n. Boyle, d. ID.
is. Benediction,
Rev. Samuel Maxwell, ID. ID.
Is. March-''Greeting to America, ''...,.....B Bial
Orchestra.
THE GRAND PARADE.
The formation of the parade will be as fol-
lows: The Washington Infantry, Captain Shan
non commanding, will escort the column, fol-
lowed by the Uniformed Commanderies of the
United American Mechanics; next will come
two divisions of the knights of Pythlas and
the Sheridan Sabers. The left of the column
will consist of IL legions, composing the First
Regiment of the Select knights, Ancient Or
der of United Workmen, under the command
IF Colonel Rowan.
The parade will form at 2 P. M. on Second
avenue right resting on Smithfield street, and
will move over the following route: From Sec
ond avenue to Third. to Grant street. to Dia-
mond, to Ross, to Fifth avenue, to Webster, to
street, over bridge to Federal, to Ohio. to Madi-
son avenue, to North avenue, TO Palo Alto
street counter march to Arch, to Montgomery,
to Sherman aTenue and pass review opposite
the music stand in the Allegheny Parks.
The parade will pass in review just about the
time for the adjournment of the school chill
dren's jubilee in the Allegheny Parks. Major
Mckinley, President Adams. Hon. Thaddeus
D. Kenneson and the other guests will OCCUPY
the music stand during the jubilee and will
also view the parade from that peiEt.
GREAT DISPLAY.
The fireworks for this evenings display ar
rived yesterday. They will be fired from flats
in the Allegheny river below the Sixth street
bridge. The complete programme will be as
follows:
Exhibition piece, portrait of Washington, 25x22
feet; exhibition piece, emblem of April 30, 1883;
displaying the American shield draped with flags,
with motto, April 30 1883. - Forty pieces Of
Js-inch bombshelIs, as follows: Ten showers Of
gold, 10 peacock fumes, 10 prismatic colors.
shooting stars, S tri-color union,
10 pieces of 24-inch bombshells as follows: Three
brilliant serpents, revolving cascades, repeat
ing Shells / piece with meteoric stars, grand
illumination in the national colors go pieces of f.
pound rockets, including changeable stars, re-
volving dragons devil among the tailors, para
chutes, pearls, bombshells, spiders, ruby stars,
aeroltes, gold rain and telescopes: devil flights,
brilliant fountain batteries, electric meteor
fountains exhibition mines Of stars, saucis-
sions, electric batteries. red white and blue
Union boquets: this flight exhibits millions of
stars, serpents and gold rain, thrown to a height
of 500 feet showing all the colors in pyrotechnic
art, and terminating with grand national salute
fired from mortars, and exploding with great
force.
The Detwiler & Street Fireworks Manufac-
turing Company, which has arranged the dis
play. promise that during the evening there
will be exhibited a great variety of pyrotechnic
novelties never before presented here.
The display will take place at $50 this even
ing, Immediately after the mass meeting has
adjourned.
LISTEN FOR THE GUNS.
The salutes by Battery B will take place on
the Monongahela wharf below the Smithfeld
street bridge. D. W. C. Bidwell and the Latin
& Rand Powder Companies have furnished the
powder for the salutes. The original salute of
l3 guns will be FREQ at $50. an intermission Of
half an hour will follow, then the present ma
tional salute of IS guns will be fired
The mass meeting will begin promptly at
o'clock, in order that 1t may be over by the
time the display of fireworks commences.
However, the fireworks will not commence
until the mass meeting is adjourned.
The local Reception Committee has arranged
for a dinner at the Monongahela House to-day
for the orators and invited guests. Part of the
afternoon will be spent in sight seeing.
President 9. K. Adams arrived in the city at
noon yesterday, ane Is being entertained at the
home of Dr. Christy. The Alumni Committee
of Cornell University will give him a banquet
tonight after his address st the rink
Hon. Thaddeus D. Kenneson, of New York
arrived last evening, and is stopping at the
Monongahela House After the mass meeting
tonight the members OF the local affair will
take charge of Mr.. Kenneson and give him a
dinner at the puquesne Club; 2. Y. Breck, ].
S. Young S. U. Trent G. G. Dickey and other
members of the bar are making arrangements
for this dinner.
THE JUBILEE EXERCISES.
The place of meeting and the school children's
chorus in connection with the East End cele-
bration to-day has been changed from the
Homewood Park to Silver Lake Grove. The
change was thought advisable on account of
the threatening weather and bad condition Of
the unpaved streets leading to Homewood. In
case of rain the crowd can be accommodated
under the pavilion at Silver Lake. The change
will shorten the route of the parade consider
ably and the marchers will have paved streets
ali the way. The Street Commissioners have
considerably washed and cleaned all the streets
10 be traversed-
Special services will also be held in st.
Peters Roman Catholic Church, Allegheny.
The grand High Mass will be observed at 10
o'clock The Star Spangled Banner'an "The
Red. White and Blue " viii Re played on the
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