The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-26

Will Be Afforded the Carriers to
Indulge in Fancy Evolutions.
The general committee i'm charge of
the letter carriers convention held a
meeting last evening in Colonel Ripplc's
office in the Connell building.
The various subcommittee reported
excellent progress and from present
Indications everything will be carried
out smoothly. This viii be due in a
large extent to the minor details. Incl
dent to large convention, being care
fully looked after
The reception committee in charge of
Major T. +. Penman is being thor
oughly organized and instructed in the
devious ways Of singing out elusive
delegates in a depot platform crowd
ana escorting them or directing them
to their various destinations.
The chairman of the entertainment
committee, w. r. Lewis reported that
all the arrangements for the enter
tainment of the delegates had been
completed. He said that satisfactory
arrangements have been completed
with Superintendents Loomis and DAILY,
or the Delaware. Lackawanna and
western company, for showing those
visitors, who desire to explore the
bowels of the earth, through one Of
the mines.
A locomotive and coach will be at
the depot on Thursday and Friday af-
ternoons and those who wish will he
taken to the Bellevue mine and es-
corted through.
LIST OF AIDES.
Colonel +. II. Ripple grand marshal
of the parade, announced the names OF
the aides who will assist him in form
ing, conducting and dismissing the
parade.
The list is as follows: Colonel F. T..
Hitchcock Colonel II. A. Coursen, Col
onel L. A. Watres. Colonel NJ. j. Keck,
Lieutenant Colonel c. c. Mates, Lieu
tenant Colonel F. w Stillwell. Major
j. W. Oakford, Major w. L. Keller,
Major r. D. Fellows. Major Charles
Mink, Captain d. b. Atherton, Captain
John \. Huff Captain L. T. Mates,
Captain w. w. Ingls. Captain f. NJ.
Nandling, Lieutenant David j. Davis,
Lieutenant Walter +. Gunster. Lieu
tenant George 4. Blanchard, Lieuten-
ant George c. Merriman, b. b. Megar-
gee, Joseph A. Mears, A. T.. Connell
DIR. Charles Fisher. Frank Becker. A.
+. Law. Charles Hess, f. H. Ripple.
jr., Michael J. O'Malley, DR.. j. T..
O'Brien, II. W. LOTUS. Joseph ]. Jer-
myn, Leo COyne, George w. Jenkins.
Sidney Mears. ID. ID. Evans, p. j. Casey.
DR.. w. f.. Donne, Victor Arnold, H. w.
Taylor, G.. r. Relph, J. W. Bunnen, ].
Whitaker Page Nelson Atherton, F.
ID. MCGowan, Charles Robinson, Isaac
Brown, DR.. G. f. Hill, Ezra c. Scott,
Henry Sivelly Thomas Sprague. Jo-
seph Cassesse and Frank Dickert.
Other names will be added to this list
if deemed necessary.
Major w. S. Millar as announced be-
fore, will be chief of staff. All the aides
will wear dark clothes, with military
hats and white gloves.
The line of march for the parade was
also given out. Colonel Ripple has
given this subject great deal of study
and has arranged course that will no
doubt be satisfactory to everyone con-
cerned. 1t was necessary to have it as
short as possible, as the men coming
long distances, and just dropping into
the city before the parade begins. will
he too fatigued to stand any excessive
physical exertiOn
PLAN OF FORMATION.
The delegates, who will head the pro-
ccssion, will form on LaCkawanna ave-
nue. from Franklin avenue to the
bridge. The New York state carriers
viii form on Franklin avenue: the
! Pennsylvania carriers on Linden street
and those from other states on Null
berry street.
The line of march is as follows:
! LackaWanna to Jefferson, to Pine, to
| Washington, to Spruce. to Wyoming,
| to Lackawanna. At the latter avenue
| the aides will be i'm waiting and will
escort the various delegations to the
| places where the inner man will be at
| tended to.
a number of the carriers who are to
| participate in the parade, especially
| the New York delegation. have been
! drilling assiduously for some months
! past and in order to give these an op-
! pOrtunity to execute some of the
! manOauvres practiced, there will be
! four halts made, as follows: Corner
| jefferson and Lackawanna avenues
! corner Olive and jefferson, corner
! Washington and Pine and i'm front Of
! the municipal building at the corner
! of Washington avenue and Mulberry
! street. The last halt mentioned will
! also he useful in closing up ranks, SO
| that there will be a close formation
when the reviewing stand i'm front of
! the pOstofIice is passed.
The parade will probably not start
| sooner than y, m, as some of the
carriers participating are not expected
much earlier than this.
/ The committee appointed by the Cen .
tral Labor union last Sunday to wait
upon the general committee and pro-
test against the work on the deCOra-
tions being done by non union labor