The evening times., 1899-09-25
THE Dewey PROGRAMME
Arrangements for the Admirafs S
Reception Nearly Complete.
The Reception Committee Now Ar
ranging Minor Detaiis-An Outline
OF the Two Days celebration
Plans for Decorations Being Con-
sidered by Those Along the Routes.

The plans for Admiral Dewey's reception
in Washington are completed, save for
few minor details which Chairman Moses
and his corps Of assistants are hard at
work on. few names are TO be added to
committees, the platocns Of the parade
may be slightly changed, and the decora-
tions are yet to be added to the big re-
viewing stand at Fifteenth Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue. The stand at the
east front OF the Capitol is also to be dec
GRATED, hut as whole the plans may be
said to be completed.
The committee on public comfort has ar
ranged to care for all the visitors. and bu-
reaus OF information will"be established at
all the railroad depots. Messengers will
direct visitors to the places they have Sc
iected, or Will assist them in finding quar-
ters in some of the numerous hotels and
boarding houses Of the city.
The stores selling bunting, flags, Ian
terms, and other articles of decoration and
illumination are already busy supplying
the demand for such things as will turn
the Capital into a mass of glowing colors
by day and night, and merchants along the
line of parade are figuring on how their
big buildings may be transformed from
bare brick and stone walls into a sea of
bunting and flags.
The decorations and iliumintions will ex-
tend to every quarter OF the city, and par
ticularly along all the street car lines.
Chairman Kern, of the committee on in
diyidual decorations, today sent out circu-
lars TO over 300 persons requesting that
they see that the houses in their blocks
be decorated and illuminated. He also sent
out several thousand circulars with the
prices of flags, bunting, fancy lamps, and
colored fire, showing how at a very small
expense any private residence may be
handsomely decorated and illuminated.
The special train which will bring the
Admiral to the Capital will leave here
for New York at $50 a. m. one week
from today, bearing on it about fifty of
the most prominent citizens of Washing
ton and representatives from all the de-
partments of the Capital City and distin-
guished army and navy officers.
The train will leave New York at l:50 D.
m Monday October 2, and making few
short stops at the large cities en- route, will
reach Washington at $50 p. m. at the
Pennsylvania depot, Sixth Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue, where troop of
the Third Cavalry as a guard of honor
will be waiting, and at p. m, the Admi-
raj, escorted by the cavalry, will start for
the White House, where the President and
The parade of from 10000 to 1900 men,
comprising all the civic societies of Wash
ington, will be forming at the Peace Mon
ument while the reception at the White
House is in progress. About s o'clock the
Admiral, the President, and Cabinet will
prepare to start from the White House for
the reviewing stand at Fifteenth Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue, and then will
begin the reception.
At a given signal the head of the parade
will move and as it gets under way 200
men along Pennsylvania Avenue will be-
gin burning colored lights of red, white.
and blue and the buildings will be illumi-
mated by private citizens. Eight large
searchlights will turn their bright lights
along the Avenue, and mass of colored
fire will illuminate the west front of the
Capitol.
About $3.50 O'Clock the head of the parade
will reach the reviewing stand and by that
| time Pennsylvania Avenue will be ab'az
The parade will last about two hours,
Pennsylvania Avenue being kept illumi-
hated during the entire time and by 10:3O
| the Admiral will be escorted to the resi-
| dence OF Mrs. Mclean. Seventeenth and K