Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-29
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Washington Centennial.

scarcely know their own city to day. The
resident ia crowded to the wall. In the
early morning and all through the night the
city was restless and awake. Every artery
OF travel is contributing to the throng which
this week will, it is believed, aggregate
million of strangers in the city. Troops to
the measure of drum taps were trampipg
through the streets all night. seeking places
assigned them, while hundreds who had
been assigned places were trailing through
the streets viewing the decorations by lamp.
light. A large number of troops have ar
rived during the day, and the armories and
halls where the commands are going to
camp are rapidly filling up. Tine city is
profusely decorated-a ,gs and bunting fes
TONED in tasteful devices are lavlshly dis
played everywhere, many buildings being
deliberately dressed in honor of the great
event To-day there will be large additions
TO the bunting and more flags hoated
The initial ceremonies of the centennial
commemoration of the Inauguration OF
George Washington in this city, took
place to-day. President Harrison, Mrs.
Harrison, the members of the Cabinet, the
Vice President, and the Justices of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court left Washington
this morning at O'Clock by The Pennsyl
vania Railroad and arrived at Elizabeth, N.
j., at 6 o'clock, whore they were received
and welcomed by Governor Green, and to
ken to the Governors house. whore they
we're breakfasted. The Presidential party
then proceeded to Eiizabethport and were
taken In o launch to the U. S. steamer
Dispatch, em5arkipg punctnally at IL
o'clock from the exact spot where Wash
pgton stepped from the Jersey shore just
one hundred years ago. The vessels PROV
was then turned toward New York city,
followed blythe grandest marine pageant that
this country ever saw, and the like of which
has rarely been witnessed anywhere In the
world. This grand procession was composed
of war ships yachts and revenue cutters, fol.
lowed in order by an innumerable fleet
of steamboats,. On the arrival of the Prcs
Dental ;arty in the East river, opposite
Wall street, barge manned by crew of
shpmasters from the Marine Society of the
Port of New York pulled the Pres-
dent ashore, amid perfect roar of cannon.
Clouds of thick smoke hung over the bsy
like bank of sea fog, while belches of fire
flashed through the smoke like stseaks If
| lightning, giving 10 the scene lur:d glare,
the sbrieking Of whistles from all the steam
ers adding to the din The crew of the
barge that rcwed President Washing
ton from Elzabethport to the foot of Wall
street were members of The came society
Landing at the foot of Wall street the Presi
dent was received by the Governor of the
State of New York, the Mayor of the city Of
New York and members of the centennial
committee He was then, with other guests,
escorted to the Equitable building where
| reception and collation. were rendered by the
committee on States. From to $50 o'clock
public reception will be given to the Pres
ident in the Governors room in the City
Hall, at the steps of which eco girls from the
grammar schools and Is from the normal
school will Welcome the President Of the
United States. The 200 grammar school pu
pills will meet him at the foot of the steps
and strew flowers on his path The 10 from
the normal school will await him at the en-
trance to the Hall, and there one of them
.nod nm oddraos IF IN uhinh
President Harrison will reply. After the
reception at the City Hail the President viii
be escorted to Vice President Morton'-
bouse, where President Harrison and Mrs.
Harrison will be guests during their visit.
To night at 9 o'clock the centennial ball,
which will be attended by the Presidential
party, will be given in the Metropolitan
Opera House.
Tomorrow, April so, tho second day ofthe
Jubilee, services of thanksgiving, pursuant
to tine proclamation cflhe President, will
be held in st. Paul's Chapel, the church
that Washington attended after his inaugu.
ration. This service will he conducted by
the Right Rev. Henry c. Potter, D. D., LII
D., Bishop of New York, and will be attend
ed by the President who will be escorted to
the Washington pew. At the close of the
religious services at 9:45 a. M, the President
and party will proceed to the Sub Trea-
sury building, at the corner Of Wall and
Nassau streets, the scene of the in
auguratlon ceremony on April 80. 1889.
where the literary exercises will take place
These will consist of au invocation by the
Rev. Richard S. Storrs, poem by John
Greenleaf Whittier, an GRAFTON by Chauncey
NJ. Depew, an address by the President of
the United States, and the benediction by
the Most Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan,
Archbishop of New Yok. At the couclu
sion of the literary exercises the President
and members Of the Cabinet, the Chief JUS