The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-10-26
FOR THREE DAYS.
People Of Philadelphia Win Hold
a Peace Jubilee.
A Grand Naval Parade, Display OF the
Nations Progress In Commerce and
Art, Together with an Imposing
Military Pageant, are to be
tho Leading Features.

Philadelphia, Oct. 24.-The peace
jubilee began Sunday. 1t opened with
special services of prayer and thanks
giving in all the churches of the city,
irrespective of creed and doctrine.
Sermons were preached on the newt
able horrors of war and the conse-
quent blessings of victorious peace,
and there were services of song and
worship on these themes. This was
the spiritual Inauguration. The mater
ial and spectacular beginning will not
be until Tuesday and the intervening
day will be devoted to housing the
city's guests and perfecting the final
details.
Conceived purely as local tribute
to the might of our arms on sea and
land and the valor of the men who
bore them, the celebration has grad
ually broadened into a national fete
of greater magnitude than any public
function in many years past. In 1t
will participate the president and vice
president of the United States, with
the cabinet, Gen. Miles, Gen. Wheeler
and other military notables; Commo-
dore Philip, Hobson and other heroes
of the Merrimac, and scores of naval
warriors of lesser fame and the gov
ernors of many states with their
stats.
In time it will occupy three full
days, counting the actual opening as
on Tuesday. In scope it will embrace
an imposing greeting to the nations
navy, as represented by the ships
which fought and won as the ships OF
no other navy afloat ever fought and
won; display of our civic virtues as
exemplified by procession showing
the country's progress in commerce
and art; and great military parade
of the men whose endurance and
prowess made possible this festival.
The decorations throughout the city
are lavish and beautiful. Broad street
from end to end of the five-mile route
wears a wooden aspect. Her stately
residences are hidden behind huge
stacks of lumber, the pathway left
open under the lines of stands seem.
ing to the pedestrian like long ar.
cade. Scarcely single sidewalk in
the whole distance is left uncovered
To-day these great wood piles, many
of which reach almost to the house
tops, will be clad in bunting.
The piece de resistance of decora
tion is the court of honor, from Q
stand in the center of which Presiden,
Mckinley will look at the parades
1t consists of a succession of massive
white pillars, 12 on each side of Broad
street. Each of the columns is sur
mounted by a great eagle and globe
of shimmering gold, while the foul
at the ends bear the legends "Sar
JUAN" Gel Caney," Manila ant
Santiago" In the center of this couT
the street is spanned by the magnifi
cent triumphal arch. This is simple
but impressive, the prevailing toni
being white and gold. 1t is elaborate
ly festooned with flags by day ant
illuminated by incandescent lights a
night. The arch is surrounded by al
enormous figure of Victory mounted
on chargers.
InterIaced between the columns will
be flags by day and red, white ant
blue electric lights by night, arranged
in picturesque intervals to symbolic,
the stars and stripes. From the tol
of the arch will fly the flag which flut
tered from the topmast of one o
Dewey's fleet, but here it will be on
flagstaff raised by Shafter at Santiago
The auxiliary displays in front of th'
Union league and the Lippincott man
sion, which flank the court of homo
on either side, will make the who'll
scheme of decoration one of unparal
leled splendor and brilliancy. TIL,
trees in the immediate neighborhoot
of the court of honor will blossom
with the national colors in light.
The city hall, the largest municipa
building in America, will wear bunt
ing on all of its columns and over it
archways, but here too the chief effec
will be one of illumination. From tn
top of the William Penn statue, whicl
surmounts the great tower, will
stretch slanting lines of incandescen
lights in colors, while row after rov
of others will completely encircle tn
building, which covers four acres o
ground. At night the searchlights o
the ships in the river will rest upol
the statue, while the ships will b.
deliberately illuminated.
/ The visitors have taxed railroad
and hotels to the limited of their bes
efforts and the down town streets ar
literally jammed. 1t is estimated tha
fully 100000 visitors from this ant
other states are here, and the inwar,
rush will continue to-day.