The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-07-05

VI lhlS pIOdu idlu. from Tar away
San Francisco dozen delegates will
come and st. Louis, which is Just at
the gateway of the marvellous west,
viii send sixteen of her postmen here
TO participate In the deliberations of
the National association. New York
Will have seventy delegates and Phila-
delphia more than half that number.
Many of these ! 900 or 200 carriers
Will be accompanied by their wives,
and they will spend week.
The convention is now but two
months distant, and the committees
that have the various sections of the
arrangements in charge are bending
their best energies to make this with
out any possible manner of doubt" the
greatest convention in the history of
the association.
The delegates will begin to arrive on
Saturday, Sept. 81, and will proceed at
once to national headquarters In the
Jermyn, where they will register. Ad-
joining the national headquarters will
be the bureau of information i'm charge
of f. +. Robathan, secretary of the
local citizens committee OF arrange
ment. He will assign the visitors to
hotels or boarding houses. according to
their wishes. and will give them a
badge which will designate them as
delegates.
WHEN THEY REGISTER.
When they register the delegates will
receive a ticket which will give them
the privilege of riding on the cars Of
the Scranton Railway company and
tickets for the excursions that have
been arranged in their honor
on Sunday the Letter Carriers band
and drum corps. of New York, will ar
rive in the city to spend the entire
week. They will give sacred concert
In the afternoon at Nay Aug park, as
sisted by Bauer's band and the Scran-
ton Glee club of seventy-five of the
best male voices of the city, under the
leadership of John T. Watkins. This
club will also sing at Mondays recep-
tion and will accompany the carriers
on their various jaunts. The club is
now industriOusly rehearsing
The decorations will be notable
feature of the convention. Arches Of
designs appropriate to the nature of
the convention will be erected at
LaCkawanna and Franklin avenues, at
Wyoming avenue and Spruce street
and at Spruce street and Washington
avenue. These arches will be hand
somely illuminated at night with in
candescent lamps. The tower OF the
court house will be studded with in
candescent lights and twenty-five arc
lights will make the court house
square az light as day.
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gorgeous manner and also ST. Thomas
college where the sessions of the con-
vention will be held.
On Monday, September 4, Labor Day,
the city parade will be held in which
5000 carriers will participate. New
York will send 1,4O0 men and at their
head Governor Theodore Roosevelt
and Postmaster Van COtt will ride.
The New York letter carriers band
and drum corps will march with this
delegation.
BROOKLYN'S DELEGATION.
Brooklyn will have 500 carriers in
line and they will be accompanied by
Postmaster Wilson of that city. The
Lawrence band of this city will march
with the Brooklyn boys.
Philadelphia will send up 900 carriers
and there is a possibility that Post
master Hicks will accompany them.
They will bring a band with them and
are also negotiating for a band from
this city
The New York, Brooklyn and Phila-
delphia delegations will come to this
city on special trains. The New York
and Brooklyn men come over the
Delaware, LaCkawanna and Western
road and the excursion train will move
in three sections. The first leaves Ho-
bOken at a. m, the second at 10 and
the third at Il a. m. The last named
is to arrive in this city at p. m. A
rate of SO for the round trip has been
secured, but the tickets will be good
only for one day The eXCursiOnists
will leave the city during the night.
The carriers Of Jersey City. Newark
Paterson, Passaic, Railway and other
Jersey towns will probably come over
the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
There will be between one thousand
and twelve hundred Of them Other
cities that will be represented i'm the
parade will be Wilkes Barre, Carbon
dale, Blnghamton, Elmira, Rochester
Syracuse, Allentown, Easton, Reading,
Bethlehem and Mauch Chunk
Alongside of the postohice and
Washington avenue the official review
ing stand will be built and the march
ers will there pass in review before
President Mckinley, Postmaster Gen
eral Charles Emory Smith, Governor
Stone and his staff and the officers of
the National Letter Carriers Associa-
ton,
BIG REVIEWING STAND.
On the court house side of Washing
ton avenue a reviewing stand will be
built that will reach from Linden tc
Spruce street and from that the pub
lie will have an opportunity of veiw-
ing the parade.
As soon as the parade Is over a lunch
will be served to the marchers by the
local entertainment committee. Can
Vass from the state arsenal will cover
all of the walks leading up to the
court house and the driveway from
Linden street 10 Spruce street which
runs through the court house. Under
this canvass tables will be set and it /:
estimated that 1000 men can be seated
at once at these tables.
On Monday night a public reception
viii be held either at the Lyceum oil
High School auditorium at which
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