The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-26

be done to give the public an idea OF the
decorations to be put up over the eisnseon
blocks to be decorated.
r, p. Wieland has had a forty-foot bear
flag stretched across Market street at Inc
headquarters.
LITERARY COMMITTEE.
Tonight the Literary Committee VIII hold
another meeting 1t is understood tnai me
nrogramme, fourteen numbers OF winch
have already been filled out, Will De nearly
if not quite completed.
If has been a question with the committee
whom to make the President OF the Day.
That no officer of the order as such can be
put in that position SO long as inc celepra-
tion is a general one is and has been obvi-
ons from the start, and on whom to confer
that honor has been the subject of several
meetings.
PRESIDENT OF THE DAY.
The rumOr that was started some time
ago to the effect that Grand President Miller
was to be introduced by Grand Marshal
Tilden as President OIL the Day was denied
last night.
They say that the celebration and its
preparations are only being perfected by
the Native Sons for the people at large, and
in accordance with that idea the State,
city, Pioneers and Native Daughters, as
well as the Native Sons, are to have speak
ers ON that occasion, and the committee is
unwilling to arrogate to itself the right of
putting the chief officer of their order in as
President Of the day so long as the other
societies are equally interested with them
in the proper observance of the States
birth. Whom they will appoint will only
be known after to-nights action. They IA
vor a Pioneer, or some one who holds no
official position in their Grand Parlor.
The Pioneers are also on the Qul vive on
the subject. They affirm that if the Native
Sons put in one of their officers in that po-
sition it will be a slap in their faces, and
they will not be represented by speaker.
They claim that the place Of honor belongs
TO them by right of seniority and their hav-
ing observed the day before "these young
fellows were knee-high to duck" They
are in favor of some one who is a member
of the Junior Pioneers and Native Sons,
or else some one not member of either or
ganiZation.
Pressed on the one side by the fear Of in
curing the displeasure of the Pioneers and
their own sense of justice, and on the other
by the desire to put one Of their own Off
GERS in the honored position, the committee
has hesitated. Tonight, however, it will
decide. 1t was rumored last night that 9
prominent member of both organizations
had been decided upon by the committee.
MAY LAND AT MARE ISLAND.
The following letter. which is self-eX.
planatory, was received yesterday at the
headquarters:
CoAIAIANDANT'S OFFICE, MAYNARD, |
MARE ISLAND, Aug. 20, 1890.
Sir: In answer TO your letter of the 25tb inst.
you are informed that The excursion arranged
FOL September 10th can land at this island at any
time between the hours of 10 O'clock in tht
morning aud o'clock In the afternoon. There
are wharf accommodations for two ferry boats
Respectfully. A. L. X. BENHAM,
RearAdmral, commandment
A letter was received yesterday from
Tacoma by Charles Ii. Mass, stating thai
the members of the order residing in Ia
coma, Seattle and the Puget Sound towns
intend to come down in q body to the cele-
bration. Thomas A. Graham, member OF
Ell Dorado Parlor ana author Of the letter
to MIR. Mass, is now advertising for the
purpose of bringing the Sons together te
have them come on an excursion.
Captain Arthur l.. Piper, prominent
LEGAL ship-owner, visited the headquarter:
last night. He stated that it is his inten
ton to rig out his fleet of seventeen vessel;
in magnificent style and show what Ma
tive Son on the water front may do toward
variegating the water scene.
The Parade Committee has issued a cir
cular asking for the addresses of the loca
societies.