New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-15
BRYAN DINNER TONIGHT.
THE APOSTLE OF FREE SILVER TO AR
RIVE HERE THIS AFTERNOON.
ABOUT THREE THOUSAND GUESTS EXPECTED TO
BE SEATED IN Tho GRAND CENTRAL PAL
ACE-SPEAKERS AND TOASTS


ACE-sPEAKERs AND ToAsTs.
Arrangements for the dollar dinner of the Chicago
Platform Democrats at the Grand Central Palace
this evening were about completed by the Com
mittee OF Arrangements last night, and there was
comparative quiet In the rooms OF the committee.
at Lexington-ave and Forty fourth-st. 1t Is ex-
pected that there will be about three thousand per-
in the Grand Central Palace this evening.
There will be ninety-one tables. averaging thirty
eight persons each. On the balcony floor there will
be eight tables. capable Of accommodating five hun
dred people. and they will be used by women and
their escort The top gallery will be used by
those who simply want to hear the speaking Eu-
gene V. Brewster said last night that all seats had
been sold except about two hundred and fifty.
which were being reserved for latecomers whose
attendance was considered certain. The tickets
have numbers on them that direct diners to certain
tables. but the seats not specified. The first
to come will get the best seats.
Mr.. Brewster. who is the treasurer OF the Dinner
Committee. said yesterday that all the champagne
to be served at the dinner would be OF domestic
manufacture. He also said: Our dinner In way
will be so dinner, too, for at each plate we will
place pledge to be handed in at the discretion OF
the holder contributing 80 in monthly instalments
to the silver cause. This is way OF spending
so dinner. We think it is better to contribute
81 to the dinner and 50 to the cause than to spend
$40 on what eat. and give nothing to the cause.
The bill OF fare OF the dinner given out by
Mr.. Brewster. as follows:
Virginia Soup
Boiled Haddock New Potatoes.
Pickles Bee,s Table Celery.
Prime Ribs OF Beef. Mashed Potatoes
Turkey. Cranberry Sauce. Potatoes
Black Coffee
Ice Cream.
The eating is expected to begin at $50 D. m. and
end $50 p The list of speakers and the order
in which they will speak, arranged late last
night follows
GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS, Trusts and Monopolies. :"
OLIVER Oily, H r BELMONT. Unity of the Parry
JOHN s. CROSBY, "Civc Liberty"
Judge JAMES p TARVlN. Power OF Organized
Wealth"
JEROME ONEII. 'Iabor's Hope"
CHARLES A TOWNE, "Americanism."
W. ]. BRYAN Democracy"
William Jennings Bryan Is expected to arrive I'm
the city about 235 p. m. to-day. coming over the
Pennsylvania Railroad. He will be met by Mr.
Brewster and DR.. John H. Grdner and will go at
once to the Barthold Hotel at Twenty-thrd-st
and Broadway where rooms have been engaged in
advance for him by Mr.. Brewster.
The guests and speakers Will assemble in q large
room on the balcony floor of the Grand Central
Palace about p. m, and when the proper time
comes they will march downstairs to the banquet
tee Of One Hundred, will cad. He will be followed
by Mr.. Bryan Mr.. Brewster and the others. walk
ing two abreast.
The entrance to the galleries will be on Forty
third-st., while the diners including speakers and
guests will use the main entrance and take the eIe-
vator at the right OF the corridor.
The rear OF the platform will be adorned with two
oil paintings. one of Washington and the other of
pictures painted by Miss Majorie Brown. Of
Boston.