New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-22
N GAIA DRESS 'FOR DEWEY.
PREPARATIONS FOR HIS RECEPTION GO
OK WHILE STREETS ARE THRONGED.

Decorations for the reception Of Admiral
Dewey are beginning to burst forth as do the
buds and blossoms in carly spring. II is some
time before the hero Of Manila will ride along
Fifth-ave and the equinoctial storms bid fair
to work havoc with outside bunting and flags
Neither weather nor time has had any weight
with some of the more enthusiastic. The Bowery
is beginning to blaze with the National colors.
Candor compels the statement that in the
Bowery as vet the saloons and cheaper clothing
stores are taking the lead. The saloon men are
extending what Is known to them as the giah
hand to the visitor The fronts Of drinking re-
sorts in that thOroughfare are brilliant, and
there is more to follow.
The first well known building to get on its
gala dress is that OF the New Yorker STATS
Zeitung" at Centre-st and Park Row. Her
man Ridder has given hig personal attention
70 the decorating Of the building. and the effect
is pleasing Five hundred flags have been used
already and there are more 70 go up. Two thou
sard 16-candle electric lights also TO be
used. over the main entrance is a large oil
painting Of Admiral Dewey. and the front Of
the building attracts the attention of the thou
sands who pass il every hour
The Bowery florist whose shop IS near Hous-
ton-st has worked with red. white and blue
flowers big motto. follows:
"Gridey. you may fire when you ready
The decorating has not fairly begun how
ever Most Of the people fear the long exposure
to the weather and wish TO have their bunting
look fresh and new on the parade days They
are waiting till ne,t week before doing much.
The bunting and flag dealers have not been
slow to take advantage OF the situation The
price Of flags IS nearly double the figures in
ordinary times and protest against extortion
only ,ba ,ba
still higher. the bunting factories are being
overworked. This may or may not be true. but
It IS the argument Of the men who furnish the
flags.
CROWDS WATCH THE ARCH OF TRIUMPH
One Of the sights Of the city is the Dewey
arch being built at Madison Square and Twen-
ty-fourthst The making of the many figures
which are to ornament the arch is going on rap
idly. and the work is proving intensely attrac-
tive to the people in the street. The sidewalks
in front Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the
Hoffman House almost impossible from \
o'clock in the morning till the scuptors leave
Of work at night The interest exhibited IN
the arch and the tall white columns each side OF
the avenue above and below the arch is not
confined to the people who have not been ac-
customed 70 seeing statuary. Men and women
% wealth and fashion. business men. brokers
and the thronF which finds accommodations in
New-Yorks best hotels are just as interested
as the others. They stop and crane their necks
with the same absorbed Inconsistencies OF
what is happening around them is exhibited
by the messenger boys and truck drivers whose
glance cannot be a long one While the throng
is densest at Madison Square It is noticeable
that the streets from Union square clear to
Forty -second-st. are filed with people these
days as never before The advance guard o;
visitors is already here and more coming
every day. The cabmen happy for once.
and no longer wear "Wrinkled brows of care"
They are making money out OF the peoples
PATRIOTISM and while some OF them are heard
70 say that they Will be glad when It is all
over. as a matter OF fact they never were hap
pier than now
QUESTION OF THE BREAKFAST
After the meeting OF the Plan and Scope Com.
mttee scheduled FOR this afternoon It will he
possible TO compile some sort of a programme
OF the ceremonies proposed for the two days OF
the Dewey welcome reception. Just now no one
seems to know exactly what is TO be done. ON
one side il is said that the breakfast at Clare
mont has been abandoned. and on the other that
II is only proposed 70 postpone the feast until
Monday. There are several other points about
the programme that are undecided as is the
scheme OF the breakfast The Plan and scope
Committee. whose decision is fnal. once denied
the appeal OF General Roe TO cut the breakfast
on Saturdays programme. and II is within the
lines Of possibility that the committee Will denv
the same appeal " IN made by the Joint COM
mttee OF the Committees on Land Parade and
on Reception. The matter when 1t comes un -