The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-13
PLANS ARE ALL PERFECTED.
THOSE WHO ACCOMPANY PREsI-
DENT MI<INLEY TO SAVANNAH.


and He VIII Respond to the Toast
of "HVoman" at the Banquet-Fuily
sfxty-F7ive Invited Guests At the
Dinncr-DecOratiOn Promise To lie
More General Than Ever before.
some Savannahians who VIII In
trOducc Speakers.
The coming visit of the President prom
ises to be a far greater event than was
at first anticipated. In addition 10 the
President it is now known that there Will
be present five members Of his cabinet
and Gen. Joseph Wheeler and Gen. Henry
W. Iawton. These will be directly of the
presidential party. 1t is also be
lieved that there will be several other
distinguished officials of stale governments
and of the army and navy. Correspond
ents of many of the leading newspapers
of the country, as well as OF the Associ-
ated Press. accompany the party, and the
proceedings at the review and banquet viii
be given Che widest and fullest publicity.
1t is the belief that there viii be nearer
1900 than 10000 troops under review, and
the reports from along the line of the
several railroads indicate an Unexpectedly
large number of visitors. The details OF
the programme have been so perfected
already that there is but little for the
several committees to do but see that they
are carried out as arranged for. The ma
chinery is working smoothly, and from
the coming of the party to its departure
there will not be a single hitch. Every
thing has been arranged to move with
the precision of clockwork. The chairman
of the different committees report ar
rangements in admirable shape. Yester-
day afternoon the finance committee met
and transacted some business. 1t reports
everything moving satisfactorily.
Yesterday Chairman Purse Of the gen
eral committee, received telegram from
Mr. Porter. the Presidents private secre-
tary, giving the following as the list Of
those who will be in the party from Wash
ington.
The President Mrs Mckinley, maid and
steward; Secretary Gage, Mrs. Gage; Sec
rotary Alger, Mrs. Alger maid; Secretary
Long Miss Long; Postmaster General
Smith, Mrs. Smith; Secretary Wilson, Miss
wilson; Private Secretary Porter Mrs.
Porter; Assistant Secretary Cortelyeon;
Private Secretary to Secretary Alger, V.
l.. Mason; Private Secretary to Secretary
Long l.. II. Finney; Gen. Joseph II.
Wheeler, Miss Wheeler, Gen. Henry w.
Lawton. Mrs. Lawton, Capt. l.. c. Scherer,
Mr. Adelbert S. Hay, Mr.. B. f. Barnes.
The following special correspondents will
accompany the party: c. r. BeTien, New
York Sun; w Z. Curtis, Chicago Record;
Louis Garthe, Baltimore American; W. A,
NJ. Goode, Associated Press; Henry G.
Kemp, Baltimore sun; ]. K. OH, Atlanta
Constitution; W. W. Price, Washington
Star; John S. Shriver, New York Mail
and Express; ii. l.. West, Washington
Post. Photographer II. S. Stronger Is
slso with the party and will take some
views of the review, the dinner and other
phases Of the visit here that are of es-
recial interest. MIR. l. S. Brown, general
agent of the passenger department of the
Southern Railway, which has provided a
special train for the party, win be here
with it, continuing in charge of all trans
poTtation arrangements until the end Of
the trip is reached at Washington. Three
messengers Louis Bryan, NJ s. Koonce
and Arthur Brooks, are also attached to
the Presidents party.
In all there are forty in the party that
comes with the President from the capt.
tai. Others may also come from Washing
ton, as especially invited guests of the
invitations issued to the following, and
some of them, at least are expected to
be in a position where they can accept
and be the guests Of the business men of
Savannah for the time of the Presidents
visit:
Vice President G. A. Hobart, Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, speaker of House of
Representatives; Maj. Gems. Miles, Shafter
and Merritt; Rear Admiral Dewey, Com
mOdOrnS Sampepp ana Gnblaxy. Cthfaf Tie
tice Fuller, Associate Justices Harlan,
Gray. Brewer, Brown Shiras, White,
Peckham and McKenna, Adjutant Cen
eral Corbin, Quartermaster General I.ud-
dington Commissary General Egan. Sur
geon General Sternberg, Col Frank j.
Hecker. Lieuts. K. p. Hobson and Victor
Blue, Cows. Culberson of Texas Foster
of Louisiana. Ho,comb OF Nebraska Tan
ner of illinois, Ellerbe of South Carolina,
Tyler of Virginia, Mount of Indiana, Shaw
of Iowa, Stevens of Missouri, Powers of
Maine, Gambler of Georgia, Commissioners
Knapp, Clements, Yeomans, Prouty and
Calhoun of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission; Senators A. o. Bacon and A. S.
Clay. Congressman Lester Adamson,
Bartlett Fleming, Griggs, Howard, Liv-
ingSton, Maddox, Tate, Lewis and Brant-
ley of Georgia; Presidents Plant of the
Plant System, Spencer of the Southern
Williams of the Georgia and Alabama
Duval of the Florida Central and PENN
sular, and Vice President Cannon of the
Southern; Judge Emory Speer, Mayor Van
Wyck and President OF Council Guggen-
heimer of New York city, Miss Helen
Gould of New York, and others. Mai
Gen. Keifer, the brigade generals and 9th
er military officers now in Savannah, will
also be among the guests. 1t is the belief
that the total number of guests at the
dinner win be about sixty-five.
The presidential party leaves Washing
ton to-day for Atlanta, going from there
to Tuskegee to visit Booker Washington
noted school for negro youths ana then
on TO Savannah. Ii viii arrive here early
Saturday morning. In order to avoid any
interference with the established pro
gramme. in the event that there Should
be a delay in the train, the party vii
take breakfast on the train. A small
committee viii meet the train some dis
lance from the city and extend an in
formal welcome to Savannah BY having
breakfast on the train. too the party viii
have a little spare time 90 refresh them