Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
Details of the Dewey Reception About
All Settled.
UNIQUE GIFTS FOR The ADMIRAL
Changes in Arrangements for Miss
Grants Wedding.
OLLEGE FOOT BALL
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, September 10, 1899.
There are practically no uncertainties now
regarding the ceremonies attendant upon
the reception of Admiral Dewey. The de-
clinaton of President Mckinley to attend
cleared away one uncertainty. and makes
1t possible to outline more positively than
heretofore the arrangements. OF most i'm
portance to the greatest number of people
is the decision to fix finally the line Of
march of the land parade Saturday
south of 23d street straight down 9Th ave-
nue. to Washington square. No change will
be made in the route already announced
from Grants tomb to Madison square
General Howard Carroll, chairman of the
committee on the marine parade, has made
great progress with the arrangements. 1t
has been decided that the warships and the
larger yachts will move up the river in
single file, the smaller yachts and the tugs
in double file and the large excursion boats
in single file. There will be in line alto
gether twenty-siX vessels belonging to the
United States. 1t was settled some time
ago that the Constitution could not be OBJ
tanned to serve the stakeboat. where the
vessels will turn at the northern end of the
route, and in her place will be the Ports
mouth, built in 1910. This frigate will be
an impressively picturesque representative
of the old wooden navy.
There is some doubt whether the project
ed floats bearing figures emblematic of
Peace and Victory be in place. thanking
the stakeboat- The original contractor has
declared his inability to do the work. An
other difficulty has been to procure railroad
floats to support the figures. as the freight
business of the harbor is now great that
these floats are constantly busy. The work
of preparation and dismantling would take
two floats away from work for more than
week. Despite these difficulties the project
has not yet been abandoned finally.
Work the Arch.
The work on the arch is progressing rap
idly and satisfactorily. There has been
considerable agitation to make this struc-
ture permanent monument to the popular
admiral. One of the most eminent of the
sculptors employed on the Dewey monu-
ment, however. takes different view He
thinks that there has been altogether too
much talk about making the structure per-
manent.
Il should like to see" says he, "a small
crowbars demolish the arch as soon as the
procession had passed"
Why he was asked.
The main reason is that the monument
has been erected hastily that it is
tound to be unworthy of permanence. 1
should like immensely to see some big mon
ument of the proper kind in the city The
north side of Union Square, by the way
would be a splendid site for grand public
building But whenever anything of i'm
portance is put up it should be good. The
about it, no doubt, but it cannot have the
excellence that monument ought to
have"
Unless there is some marked change in
the situation. the public would do well
to relieve itself of any anxiety concern
ing seats in the reviewing stands built by
the city. The chances of getting a seat
are slight indeed. Applications COM
ing in at the rate of 5000 day, and these
applications now exceed many times the
available seats. With this in mind and
the added knowledge that the visible sup
ply of seats amounts to but 253OO any
one with a mathematical turn of mind and
lead pencil easily figure the chance
that he will have of sitting in one of the
public stands.
The Olympin's Silver Service.
The Olympia's silver service is now stored
behind several thicknesses of steel in the
vaults of the Brooklyn Warehouse and
Storage Company The Olympia is the only
vessel of the new navy that did not re-
ceive service of silver from the city or
state after which it was named directly
after being commissioned. This neglect on
the part of the people of Olympia has been
remedied through the efforts of Miss Ada
l.. Hanford. daughter of the United
States district Judge at Olympia, Wash
l,naided she collected $4,000 and selected
the design and ordered the service Miss
Hanford, Immediately after the battle of
Manila. began her work of securing money
for the plate. The service consists of
twenty-seven pieces. The design is after
the style of the time of George H. the
decorative border being of oak leaves and
acorns a recognized form in naval de-
signing, symbolic OF strength
One OF the most unique gifts in store for
Admiral Dewey is perhaps the biggest
book ever made. It's weight is in the neigh
borhood of $50 pounds and when it is open
1t is just five feet two inches wide. The
book is composed of clippings cut from
every newspaper in the country and every
one of them refers to Admiral Dewey and
the war with Spain. There are 400 pages
and on some of the pages as many as
seventy weight clippings are pasted. In all
the book contains 1920 clippings and a
couple of hundred more will be added be-
fore the presentation takes place The
size of each page is twenty-five inches by
twenty-six. Including the covers, the book
is exactly eleven and half inches thick
The binding is of cardboard one-haIf inch
thick. This has been covered with seal
leather. The largest single hide of seal