The evening times., 1897-02-09
THOUSANDS OF The FLAGS
They Are Ready for Residents Along
the Inaugural March.
Committeeman Wine aud Worden
VIII Go so Paterson Thursday 10
Arrange with Mr.. Hobart.

Messrs. Louis ID. Wine and S. w Wood
ward, OF tie inaugural committee, will go
% Paterson. n. J., on Thursday, 10 call on
Vice President Hobart. They viii be re
ceiged al / =. m. on that day and viii
arrange with the Vice President and Mrs.
Hobart the final details Tor their part in
tic ceremonies.
Mr. Vine was at headquarters today
and reported as chairman OF street decOra-
tons that the fifty thousand paper flags
have been received and would be dis
tributed TO residents on the line OF march
of the inaugural parade on the 4th OF
March These flags Will be given away
on the 18th instant by the following
prominent business men on Pennsylvania
avenue
]. L. Jarvis. Second street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue; George ]. Mueller. Pennsyi-
vania avenue. near Third street; +. A
Tschiffelly PENNSYLVANIA avenue, near
Four-and-ahalf street; Charles Lcaunarda,
American House; John A. LUutrell, 709
Market SPACE: James +. oyster 500 Penn.
sylvaEia ayenue; II. o. Tuwles. 1909 Penn
sylvania avenue: J Whit Heron, Evening
Star: H. II. Stinemetz. 1887 Pennsylvania
avenue: Rufus H. Darby, l. sos E street;
Samuel g CornweH. l4I6 Pennsylvania
avenue; F. J. HeiberEer, 535 Fifteenth
street; jules DcmDnet. 1910 Pennsylvania
avenuc: Clarence Kraft, Eighteenth street
am pcnnSy ylvania avenue; B. f whiteside
1924 Penns ylvania ayenEe; Nelson II. Du-
vaR. 1923 Pennsylvania avenue; Dr. W. G.
Dackeit. Twent y-Seoond street and Penn
sylysBia avenue.
suckers WIZ also Doe furnished for faS-
tenine tit-se flags on the inside of the
windows. Tne idea is to have every house
wei supplied with these nags, and IL
placed Oh tl,e INSIDE of the windows, where
they viii be protected from rain, viii
make a display by day and al illuniina-
tion al n.g lt.
IL is lcped that no one Will fail 20 call
for ard put tlese flags in position. More
than is needed for the windows will be
furnished, 50 that they may be used for
outside decoration, SHOULD the weather on
tile 4th admit Of it 1t is also expected
that there VIII be for free distribution 1if-
teen thousand portraits OF Mckinney and
Hobart Tie United States flags will be
resdy For distribution on TIE 20Jh instant.
Personal application must be made to
Chairman Wine, at $40 4 street, and A
bond given FOR their safe return. In no
case VIII these flags be given out unless
tie responsibility OF the party applying
is well established
The Secretary of War is expected TO
sigu the papers today allowing the cree
ton Of the review stands Contractor
Barker said ihiS incoming he was standing
ready 80 set mant3 work a. once and would
be ready. Otiler contractors also are only
awaiting the order.
TIE ,au5uissioners have issued final and
definite Instructions concerning the con-
ssraction OF reviewing stands for the in
augural occasion They direct that the
stands must be so located as to leave a
clear space of sidewalk of not less than
fifteen feet, except at Lafayette Square
and the Botanical Gardens, and at the for
mar the projection over the sidewalk shall
not exceed nine feet and at the latter II
shall not be more than ten feet. In front OF
buildings the stands shall not extend eX-
ceedng eight feet, and must not be less
than eight feet above the sidewalk
These stands must not be erected without
a permit, nor mas they be occupied with
ont being first approved as to construction
by the building inspector.
TIE regular army division OF the in
augural parade viii consist OF eight lat
terses OF Ieavy ARTILLERY from Forts Mon
roeand McHenry and Washington Barracks;
two light batteries from Fort Hamilton and
Washington Barracks: the hat alion Of en-
Ciaeers from WilIett's Point; tie Sixth
Regiment OF Cavalry from Fort Myer, and
tie Seventeenth Infantry from Columbus
Barracks. Ohio.
T;,IS z-ill fnclude three regirnental bands
Preliminary orders to have these troops
in readiness ana to arrange for transporta-
ton have been sent to Gen. Ruger. Gen
eral Wesley Merritt has been ordered to
command the division.