New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-25

| n lpttcr TO Commander Herman W. Thum, Of that
post declining to accept the command Of the third
section OF the post 10 the Centennial parade to which
| no had boon detailed. Captain Inch gives his
reason for declining the honor the action OF the
Military Committee in placing the veterans Of tho
War for the Union in the parade to bring up
tho rear causing hours OF waiting and extra hard
ships which most OF them, owing to age, wounds and
in6rmitIes contracted in the field. are unable to
endure.
Such an afrlnt to tho vetcraDs,' the Captain
saws whether offended insult, the result
of egotlsoa favOTitism, or ungratoful Indifference,
should have been resented long ago. The feeling
that tho post Of honor the parade should have been
given to the veterans OF tho Captain Inch says,
is shared by the members OF the Grand Army and Of
viii tend materially TO reduce the number which
will take part In tho celebration.
WHO WILL COMPOSE THE pREsI DENTAL PARTY.
Washington, April 24-Thc Committee on Re
ceptlon Of the Celebration Of tho Centennial Oh
George Washington's inauguration as President will
g informed tomorrow that the party accompanying
President Harrison from this city viii DO composed
Of the following persons:
President and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. j. II. Mckee,
hiss Murphy Of St. Paul Private Secretary ana Mrs.
Halford; Secretary Blaine Walker Blaine, Miss Mar
garet Blaine, Secretary and Mrs. WINDOW, ana The
two Misses Window: Secretary Rusk and wife, son
and Mrs. Fuller, Justices Fold aud Blsrhford, and
ex-Iusticc Strong Colonel Thomas +. Barr Of the
Adtrtant t enorals Department; Lieutenant 7. d. NJ
Mason of the Navy, and wifo; and Henry W. Raymond
The Committee Transportation VIII reach wash
ingtOn from Ncw-York Sunday evening and VIII re-
turn with the Presidents train. This committee con-
.iss OF o. Il. Potter John A. King, John jay, ex-
Mayor Edward Cooper, W. III. Robertson, cA-hayor
seth Low, Of Brooklyn, and Frank Wfherbee George
W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, and
G. s. sims, OF tho Pennsylvania road, Will have I'M
mediate charge of the train
At Ncw-YUrk the party Will be joined by Secretary
Proctor and family secretary and Mrs Tracy and
Mrs Wmerding their daughter; Russell d. liarri-
son and wits, and Miss Miller daughter OF the At
tOrncy Gcnera, Postmaster General Nanamaker ana
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Wanamaker Will meet thc
train at Philadelphia on Monday.
A MARBLE STATUE OF WASHINGTON TO BE SOLD.
Philadelphia April - (speciap.-Tho following ad-
yeriiscmeut appeared In the morning papers today
Marble statue Of Washington crossing the Delaware,
OF heroic Size measuring fourteen foot in height ana
weighing upward Of cE tons, win be sold by Order
OF courn April % at IL O'clock at the yard, south
western corner VI Twcnty-sixth and PHO Sts.' krh-
ard L. Ashhurst the lawyer, said this arernoon'
This statue was brought over from Italy by my
uncle Dickinson Eye at the ume Of the Centennial
Exhibition lie valued IL at 10000 but could not
sell IT, | am tho executor of the estate vi Mr.. Eyre,
who died recently. The cost Of tho storage OF mo
statue has become so great that it IS necessary for
me TO sell IT, The ownership somewhat com
poated By the claim Of a Mr. Huntington Oh riof .
fine 5tatuc should DO sold think 81 900 would buy
II now