Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-05

, MARYLAND VETERANS TO CoNE-MoRE CORPS
REUSIoSs.
| The problem Of location for the fireworks
display is practically solved. number of
places have been considered BY Mr. Lawrence
Gardner, the chairman Of the fireworks com
mittee and today, in company with Mr.. Pam.
the contractor, he paid q visit TO the monu-
, ment. The conclusion was reached that this
Was the most desirable place, aud no doubt the
elaborate program prepared for Tuesday night,
September 20. will be witnessed by Thousands
! covering this great area of vacant ground. The
President will be able to see the show from
the White House and the grounds, con-
venient Of access from all parts OF
the city, are regarded a. the best
solution that could have been MADE. The
| show will open about O'Clock and IL will be
! over in time for the people TO attend the meet
ings and receptions that have been arranged for
that evening. The program that will be followed
has been printed, and in addition Mr.. Pain
thinks that il will be one OF the finest pyrotech-
nic displays given. Besides securing . suffi-
cieut amount Of fory material for the display the
committee has also made an arrangement with
| Mr.. Pain SO that private individuals can be
supplied with colored lights and Roman candles
| At moderate cost. Citizens desiring to ex-
| press their welcome TO the veterans In this wav
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with Chairman Gardner or the secretary, David
| Moore, $50 + street.
LADIES EVENING RECEPTIONS.
The following ia the program of the evening
receptions in which the ladies are especially in
terested:
Monday September 10, ro.unda Of the Capt.
tol, national reception by the ladies' citizens
committee; $50 to 1i30.
luesday-September 90 Calumet Place, cor.
! Clifton and 18th streets, north west, Mrs. John
A. Logan to :the John A. Logan posts Of the
United States, the departments Of G. A. r. and
| W. X c. OF Illinois and others; : 80 to ii 80
Congregational Church. corner 10Th and G
streets observation-disclosures Relief Corps, to
| the W. L. c. and other friends; TO IL.
| Ebbitt House. corner and l4:h streets
northwest Department of Massachusetts, to
| its friends; 5 to Z.
Wednesday, September 21-white House, by
| the President
Hotel Randall, corner 18th street and Penn
| sylvania avenue ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO the
| national ladies of the q. a. R.; to ii.
| Wimodaughsis, 1923 street north west-Re-
ception to the Daughters Of Veterans.
| Thursday, September ~ Pension office BY
the citizens executive committee. 10 the 6. A.
r., I. V. u. 3. of VS.. ". L c., Ladies of the
@. A. r. and W. V. r. ii.
/ Rcd Cross headquarters, corner 18th and +
streets northw est Miss Clara Barton TO the
survivors of the late war and all organizations
of patriotic women.
Friday September 90 Congregational hurch.
ladies' citizens committee TO the ". r. C..
ladies of the 6. A. Il. aud other organizations
! OF patriotic women to II.
Secretary Dingman WAS today pleasantly re-
minded of his birthday by finding on lis desk
q vase of handsome roses. careful CELSIUS of
| the roses brought out the striking coincidence
that their aggregate exactly represented the
number OF years Tint sir. Dingnan has been
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Ing him his age which Is always a rather deli
cate inquiry, visitors count the roses and then
offer their congratulations.
HANDSOME DECORATIONS FASHIONED By FEMALE
HANDS.
Mrs. Edwin NJ. Truell the chairman of the
decorations committee, has her collection of
decorative material about up to the quantity
she will require for the identifying of the
various churches. halls and headquarters 70 be
used by the women organizations She has
| given great deal of thought and care in devils
Ing a tasteful and at the same time an elaborate
plan OF decoration and her colleagues on the
committee have nObly assisted her. Another
branch Of her work will be the placing Of all
| the pretty things in position, and for this the
younger ladies Of the committee with the assist
ance Of several gentlemen will be called upon
| Tor service. Besides the great quantity Of
bunting, endless yards of red. white and blue,
| Mrs. Trueli plan will include the use OF flags
shields, standards, remnants. rosettes. and
above all, so far esthetic beauty is concerned
howers-not really posies, whose beauty would
| be too short-iived, but their paper counter
feits. There will be roses by the thousan ds
ton or two Of them in bulk il not in weight
and the making Of these posies has occupied the
! idle moments Of number OF ladies all the past
summer.
Mrs. John T. Appleberg and Mrs Kirk
patrick, her daughter, have been among the
| energetic members of the committee. Mrs
Edgar A. Allen and the Misses Alien, Mrs Dr.
Bacon, Mrs. and Miss Houghton have made
hundreds Of flowers and are still busy with
them. Mrs. Electa Z. Smith, another member
OF the committee, in helping its work also
helped lot Of poor girls who make paper flow
ers for living. She has given big baskets full
| OF these inodorOus blossoms made at her orders
| Mrs. Appleberg's artistic home X street is
the depot for all the pOsies. The ladies have
| sent her their contributions and she has
mounted them all in appropriate WAYS. Her
self and Mrs kirkpatrick have made thousands
| OF flowers also. One piece in particular, wei
| come" required 600 roses in its composition.
| Each letter is two feet long and is made of pink
and white roses and their foliage will excite
general admiration. The national coiors are used
| in such monographs as G. A. r., &C., but all the
| colOrs of real flowers used in the makeup
of wreaths, garlands. stars, shields and the en-
| blems of the various organizations. The Sur
prising part Of this work il the small amount of
money it has cost Only that it Is all volunteer
| service it would take twice the whole appro-
priarion to do the flower part Of it alone A
| good many Of the smaller local organizations
| who are going to keep open house here for their
visiting sisters have applied to the decorations
| committee for assistance, but willing as Mrs
| Trueli and her committee NAV be personally to
crafty their desire she finds it impossible to do
! 40 and TO follow out also the work especially
| assigned her by the ladies' citizens committee
MARYLAND G. A. R. MEN.
Commander Wallace A. Bartlett of the Grand
Army of the Republic of the state of Maryland
was interviewed yesterday as to what the
g. A. Il. men in Maryland intended to do dur
ing the coming encamrment in Washing
ton He said that about 1900 comrades
| from Baltimore city would come over to
Washington and return each day during the
encampment. He also said that some /, 500
men, mainly from outlying parts of the state.
had engaged 9uartersi in Washington and would
| remain there all the week. The Women's Re-
| lief Corps Of Maryland, numbering about 500,
will also attend the encampment. He furthef
| stated that the Department Of Maryland, G.. A.
| H., had adopted the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road as the official route to the en-
| campment. At the last annual meet
| ing Of the department resolutions were
adopted asking the Maryland Legislature
to permit states and societies to acquire ground
| for monuments on the battlefield of Antietam
| by condemnation. The legislature promptly
passed tho bill, which was approved by the gov
ernor and is now law. The quartermas;er gen.