The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-15
WILL BE A BOWER OF BEAUTY.
BANQUET HALL TO BE MADE A
DREAM IN NATIONAL COLORs.

Decorative Work Here-MerchantS
start EmbeIIishing Their stores.
SnVannah's Programme Does Not
suffer by Comparison With ATTAIN
ta's Peace JubiIee-Details Work.
ing smoothly and Saturday viii
BE a Brilliant Occasion.
Two days more and President Mckinley
and the large party accompanying him
Will be the guests of the business men of
savannah.
The arrangements for their reception
and entertainment are about completed,
and all that remains is to await their com
ing and proceed to carry out the pro-
eramme, which has been prepared with
so much care, and with such attention to
even the minutest details.
Placed side by side with the programme
prepared at Atlanta the Savannah pro-
aramme loses nothing by the comparison.
The military review here will exceed, R
the number of men in line and the gen
eral interest il will arouse the parade
which is to be a chief feature of the peace
Jubilee at Atlanta. At that city there
will be but two or three regiments of in
fantry in line, the remainder being civic
societies, trade organizations, etc, which
while attractive and interesting al the
same time do not catch the popular fancy
AS much as a purely military pageant At
savannah there will be 1900 soldiers on
review. The banquet here is not apt to
lie surpassed by the dinner at Atlanta,
aud the other features of the entertain
ment of the distinguished guests will be
equal in every respect so those provided at
tne capital y careful scrutiny of the two
programmes shows that the only feature
tnat will be lacking here and for which
there is no substitute, is public address.
AT Atlanta the President will speak to the
pubic in the auditorium.
The Atlanta peace jubilee has been far
more extensively advertised than the COM
ins of the President and party here. In
that city the affair has been of more
public character, but it is gratifying to
see that, with but little parade of what
she is doing, in the quiet, thorough man
ner in which Savannah works, a pro-
gramme has been arranged and will be
carried out to the minutest particular,
which makes Saturday day of decidedly
more interest than either of the two days
the President and party will be in Al
lanta. And Atlanta's programme is an
excellent one, and being admirably car
red out at that.
The only change in the programme has
Deen the bstitution of Mr.. Edward Ka-
row 10 introduce Gen. Wheeler, in the
place of Mr.. j. p. Williams, who has bust
ness engagements North which prevent
his presence. The chief work of the
committees now is in supervising work
and seeing that even their highest expec-
tations are surpassed.
The decorations of the dining room at
the De Solo, where the banquet will be
held, viii be partly put in place to-day.
large boxes of flags, Shields, bunting,
etc, arrived yesterday from New York.
Everything to be used is of the finest quail
ity and new. They are from the estaD-
hshment of Mr.. c. II. Roster, who deco
rates the Waldorf Astor and other chief
New York banquetting halls on the oc-
casions of similar events to this. An art
ist in this class Of work arrived from
Washington last night, and with some
local assistants, will handle the decorat-
ing. Seven thousand feet of bunting, two
hundred flags and shields, and other ma
terials used in decorating. are on hand for
the purpose of embel!ishing the beautiful
hall. The Presidents flag, which is to
he placed directly behind the chair to be
occupied by the President, will be of silk
hand painted and embroidered. 1t is said
TO be the finest in the country. The deco
rations of the dining room will surpass
anything ever seen here before. The en-
trance to the hotel will also be prettily
ornamented, the Bull street entrance es-
pecially admitting of a beautiful display
of flags and bunting.
MIR. Leopold Adler began the work yes
terday of decorating the large building
occupied by his store. Before he is through
the building will be buried in a mass of
national colors. Merchants. who propose
TO decorate, and il Is the hope of all that
they Will be numerous enough to make a
credtable display. should begin to-day. 1t
IS the hope that the decora tons will be on
more extensive and beautiful scale than
ever before here. The building of the
stand in the Park extension, where the
reviewing party will be- is also expected
to start to-day and it is proposed to well
cover it with bunting and adorn il with
flags
The city exchange will be decorated to-
morrow. 1t is proposed to make it bow
er Of red, white and blue, as well as to fly
the flags of all nations that are usually
thrown 10 the breeZes on days of unusual
note.
-NOlHlllS mas Yet uS6I .NOllt lOMdIu llldh-
ing Saturday a semi-holiday. 1t is hoped
10y the employees of the various stores and
offices that something of a general char
aeter will be done to permit them to wit
ness the review in The park al II o clock.
saturday is, unfortunately, a bad day to
close stores. but general closing from
1880 20 1870 o'clock would give all a
chance to see the review and at the same
lme would not interfere with trade to
any material extent. An that is needed
Is for one or two of the leading merchants
io start the movement and it is believed
mat It would go through.
The cheap rates offered by the railroads
should have the effect of drawing in large
numbers from the country. The rates are
loWer than have been offered in some tme.
Ihe suggestio has been made that il be
requested that the troops, after leaving
lae park extension, march down Bull to
Liberty and in this way give many a bet
ter opportunity to see them than might
oe afforded by the review. The march
over this distance would occupy but a