New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-22
THE NATIONS GREAT HERO.
wAsHINGTON's BIRTHDAY TO BE GEN
ERALLY OBSERVED.
MEETINGS. DINNERS AND CELEBRATIONS AN
NOINCED-FLAGs TO BE RAISED

MEETINGS DINNERS AND CELEBRATIONS AN
NoUNcED-FLAGs TO BE RAISED
AT SUNRISE
Washingtons Birthday will be celebrated in TINS
city to-day by the customary closing OF department
offices exchanges and business places and by the dls
nlav of the American flag all public buildings ana
many private houses. The usual formalty OF nag
raising will be performed at sunrise. bo'h AT 'he
Battery and at the biockhouse IN The nor'h emu VI
Central Park. -
Mes N the uniformed members o. the New-York
Exempt Firemen's Association will march from their
Headquarters in the Jefferson Market Building 10 the
brooklyn Bridge. going through Broadway ana pass
ing the City Hall. In Brooklyn they VIII heau the
parade Of exempt firemen in celebration Of the
holiday.
REVOLUTIONARY DESCENDANTS TO DINE.
The New-York State Society OF the Sons of the
Revolution will celebrate its twentieth anniversary
and Washngtons Birthday by dinner at Del
monicos this evening. Frederick S. Tallmadge VIII
preside and grace will be said by the Rev BROCK
hoist Morgan. chaplain Of the society. Before Inc
speaking begins the Revolutionary hat Will be pre-
scented to the president by William G. Hamilton
The speakers will be Spencer Clinton. OF Bunalo;
Postmaster Dayton. Edward S. 1sham. of Chicago;
Henry Stanton. DIR. Charlton T. Lewis the Rev Dr.
d. Parker Morgan. Charles i. Hu5beN and Con-
troller Fitch.
meeting of the Washington Heights Society.
Children OF the American Revolution. will be held at
Earleclf. the home of Mrs Ferdinand p. Earle. on
Washington Heights. and effort will be made to
increase the membership Of the society.
The tenth annual dinner of the NewYork Southern
Society will be given Sherry's at p and 1t Is
expected that about $50 members of the society and
their guests will be present 1t has been the custom
of the society for years have its annual dinner
Washington's Birthday. John r. Abney the pres-
dent of the society. will preside. and there Will be
speeches by several prominent Southerners.
There will be q dinner a the LOtOs Club this
evening and Chauncey NJ. Depew will be the guest
OF honor. Among the speakers Will be Seth Low,
Robert G.. Ingersoll. William II. McElroy the Rev.
Samuel A. Elliott. D!strict-Attorney Fellows and
George W. Snalley.
A patriotic Washington's Birthday celebration will
take place in the Bloomngdae Reformed Church.
Sixty-eghth-st. and the Boulevard. at p. M, and
an admission fee of 10 cents will be charged.
REPUBLICANS TO SHOW THEIR PATRIOTISM
The Blaine Republican Club. No. 10 West Twenty
fourth-st.. Will have patriotic celebration at 5
,. m when there Will be several addresses by good
speakers.
Senator Pavey and Colonel De WttC. Ward will
make addresses and W. Fearing Gill Will read a
poem at the celebration this evening In the rooms
of the Phoenix Republican CLUB, NO 81 East E'gh!
The Patriotic RsPubsan c@n i NG s Eas sey
at p. m. Prominent Republicans will speak ~
There viii be re S,I at the Tre ampb eI the
a free lecture on Niagara Falls Will be delivered
by Professor Albert 5 Bickmore at the American
Museum of Natural History at $3.50 p. M. under the
auspices Of the State Department OF Public IN
structiOn.
There Will be exhibition of books on fine arts
at the rooms of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
Cation, Fourth-ave and Twenty-third,,sst;. from
noon until p. n 10 which admission will be free
At Il 80 o'clock exercises VIII be he'd in the
Workngman's School of the Society for Ethical
Culture. No 100 West Ffty-fourth-st Previous TO
that hour the regular Classes VII! be he!d ana
visitors may them
Patriotic celebrations were held in many OF the
pubic schools in the city YESTERDAY Al Grammar
School No ), Edgecombe-ave. and One hundred-and-
forty-frs-st.. copy of the Stuart portrait OF
Washington was given TO each of the depart ments
yesterday morning. The GOO boys and 500 girls in
she primary departments wore cOtheS OF the
fashion of Revolutionary days. Minuets and other
old-fashioned dances were gone through In the
other departments and Rotations were given
John Whalen presided. and among those presen:
were Edward Payson Cone. the Rev. Or. James NJ
King. DIR. Emory j. Haynes, Eugene Pomeroy, A
RasInes, NJ. E. sterne. Dr. Rodenstein. Robert F
Steel Nj E. Sti.lings. A. d. Matthews. William II.
Hurburt and Henry A. Rogers The tableaus were
arranged by Miss Crania NJ Smith.