Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-04
THE CELEBRATION
Order In Which the Various Feature
the Day Will Come on.

Oroer In Which the Various Features OF
the Day VIII Come OF.
The features of the celebration to-day are
fully set forth in the advertised programme,
but brief summary thereof may aid many
In arriving at more definite understand
ing of the various events.
The day will be ushered in by salute of
thirteen guns at sunrise, which will be re-
peated at noon and sunset.
The procession will form promptly at
10 o'clock on street, right resting on
Tenth. The line of march will be as fol-
lows: Tenth to NJ, NJ to Second, Second to
\, K to Tenth, Tenth to ]. J to Front and
countermarch.
The literary exercises will be held (im-
mediately after the parade) in the Assem-.
bly, Chamber at the State Capitol.
The Assembly Chamber has been seated
to accommodate about 600 people. The
platform is reserved for the Officers of the
Day. Mayor Comstock, and Trustees Nc
Laughlin and Wolf, and the Orator, Poet,
chaplain and Reader. Behind the plat
form the space is reserved for the quartet
and solo singers and accompanist A de-
tail from the Veterans of the Mexican War
has been made by Captain Shirland to
bring upon the platform the silken Stars
and Stripes of the Veterans, to which
reference is made in the music and the
poem to be recited by Superintendent
Hart. The Orator, Reader, Chaplains and
Poet of the Day are to take carriages at the
Capital Hotel at $50. Miss Miner and
Mrs. Mayes, the solo singers for the liter
airy exercises, arrived from San Francisco
last night, and had rehearsal with the
quartet at the residence of DIR. Pinkham.
At 2:30 P. NJ. a free exhibition will be
given by the Sacramento Athletic Club at
the Clunie Opera House.
The parade of the Horribles will begin
at A o'clock P. NJ. 1t will start from
Eleventh and K streets, and the route will
be down K to Ninth, through Ninth to NJ,
down M to Sixth, where the line will coun-
terlnarch to Ninth, thence to K, down K
to Second, to j, thence to the Plaza.
The fireworks will be shown directly in
front of the State Capitol building, the ex-
hibition commencing at SIS P. NJ. 1t will
open with a simultaneous illumination of
the grounds with tri-colored Bengolas, Civ
ing the national colors in rapid succession.
This will be followed by an elegant set
piece, Welcome" and the discharge of a
union battery, filling the air with m yriads
of stars, serpents and streamers.
Then comes flight of fifty-pound rock
ets. lolioWed Dy the spangled battery, par
achnte rockets, golden cloud, and bomb
she'll rockets, and representation of
Vesuvius; also a combination battery,
immediately followed by flight of two
hundred rockets.
Next comes fountain battery, followed
by flights of dragon, electric, golden cloud,
twin parachute, bombshell and meteoric
rockets, and the simultaneous discharge of
five hundred exhibition rockets.
The feature following the eruption of
Vesuvius will then be repeated, but on
much larger and more magnificent scale.
The display will conclude with the dis
charge of very large fountain battery and
the set piece, Good Night"
During the display the committee prom
Use that continual bombardment will be
carried on from four large mortars, pro-
lecting twenty-four and thirty -six-inch
bombshells hundreds of feet into the air.