Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-03
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
It's Observance by the Residents of the
Capital City.
Various Forms of Amusement in
Prospect-Many Will Seek Recrea-
tiOn Out of Town.

| The Fourth of July will be celebrated in
various ways in Washington tomorrow.
| The earliest, latest, most persistent and
most noisy celebrater, of course, will be
| the small boy: but there will be others.
| Opportunities will be afforded for all kinds
| of celebrations, and as the greater number
| of the inhabitants of the city will be at
| leisure to enjoy a holiday, it may be ex-
pected that the day will be widely OBJ
! served.
All the executive departments of the gov
| eminent will be closed. Some of them dis
continued business at an earlier hour this
afternoon, to permit the employees to make
arrangements for outings tomorrow.
The various departments of the District
government were virtually closed at 1
o'clock this afternoon, the Commissioners
directing the heads of the departments to
excuse at that hour such employees as, in
their discretion, could be spared without
detriment to the public service.
The steamboat lines and railroad COM
panes have arranged numerous excursions
and the sale of tickets indicates that many
citizens will take advantage of them. 1t Is
expected that the trolley roads will carry
large crowds to the country tomorrow and
picnickers will probably be out in force.
The Patriotic Bodies.
Patriotic exercises will be held in the city
by the several societies which usually OBJ
serve the day. That ancient and honorable
organization. the Association of the Oldest
Inhabitants OF the District of Columbia, as
stated Saturday in The Star, will meet at
its room, No Corcoran building, at 10
o'clock am, to transact routine business,
among which will be the election of Of
ficers for the ensuing year.
At l. o'clock noon the public exercises
will commence with reading of the Decla-
ration of independence by Mr.. b. C.Wright,
member: then the society will sing the
song America after which an grafton
will be delivered by Jean F. P. Des Garen-
mes, and the association will join in singing
the song Aud Lang Syne" for the con-
clusion, after which the audience will par
take of a collation..
The Sons of the Revolution and the Sons
of the American Revolution will hold
joint meeting at the Columbia Theater at
10 o'clock in the morning, in which the
Daughters of the American Revolution and
the Daughters of the Revolution will par
ticipate. The French ambassador will be
present and the President has been in
vited. The Marine Band will furnish the
music. District Attorney Henry E. Davis
will deliyer a patriotic Grafton. The meet
ing will be under the auspices of a joint
committee, consisting of John B.. Thomp-
tary; Henry May, John Paul Earnest, Lew
is ]. Davis, H. W. Van Dyke, F. C. Van
Horne Henry W. Reed, Walter Wyman,
William H. Bayley, c. G. Lee, j. B. Larner
and ]. W. Henry.
Post Office Hours.
The postal service of the city will suffer
interruption on account of the holiday, but
not total suspension. The money order and
registry divisions will be closed all day. A
delivery by carriers from the main office
will be made at 30 am. Carriers window
will be open for delivery of mail to clerks
in the departments from to 1870 I'm, and
for the general public from to pm
Collections will be made at 1880 and $50
a m, and pm. Deliveries at stations at
1:3O a. m, and collections at stations at l.
and 9 am, and pm. County collections
at am. and > pm. (and 9:30 pm, Station
Fo
The following stations will be open to the
public for the transaction of business:
Station A, & to IL am, ) to pm; Sta
ton b, to IL am, $50 to pm. Station
c, to 10 am; Station D, q 10 IL am, $50
to pm; Station F, to IL am, 8 to p.
m; Station G, 6 to IL am, TO pm.
Christian Endeavor Convention at
Detroit. The Pennsylvania railroad will
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