The evening times., 1900-10-20
TO RECEIVE MIR. BRYAN.
Preparations for the Great Meeting
at Baltimore On Tuesday.

BALTIMORE. Oct. 20.-A special meet
ing of the ward executives of the city
has been called by Secretary William F.
Porter. of the Committee of Seven, to
meet tonight at Democratic headquarters,
where plans for the reception to Mr.. BTy-
an viii be made. Chairman Vandiyer has
completed the details of Mr.. Bryan's
State tour. and yesterday was busy max
ing up the party which will be invited to
accompany the candidate on the Western
Maryland and Eastern Shore trips a suf-
fcient number of policemen will be taken
on both trips TO prevent the crowds from
pressing too closely around Mr.. Bryan.
MIR. Porter received word yesterday
from Washington that four Democratic
| clubs Of that city intended to come over
! to Baltimore Tuesday afternoon to es-
| cort Mr. Bryan from the station to the
| hotel. This announcement will be pre-
scented to the ward executive tonight. and
arrangements for a big parade viii be
mapped out
The proposed plan is to have two men
from each city precinct, making Gle men,
! the delegation from each ward being
| headed by its ward executive. They viii
form at As p. m. Tuesday afternoon On
Mount ROYAL Avenue, east of Charles
/ Street, and march TO Union Station to
meet the special train bearing MI. Bryan,
which is scheduled to arrive from West
minister at 5:17 o'clock. Sheriff John B.
-SchwaJka viii be marshal of the process
| sion, which will be headed by the full
| Fifth Regiment Band. Mr.. Bryan viii
tide in a carriage with Chairman Nandi-
| yer to the hotel. The route will be from
Union Station down Charles Street to
| Mount Royal Avenue; out Of Mount Royal
| Avenue to Cathedral Street and straight
! down Cathedral Street to the Hotel Rem
merit.
/ Dinner will be served at O'Clock in a
| private dining-room. Those who have
| been invited to dine with Mr.. Bryan are
| ex-senator German, Governor Smith, ex-
| Gov William Pinkney White, ex-Goy.
/ Frank Brown, Attorney General Isidor
| Raynor, Mayor Hayes, and Chairman Van
| diver.
Immediately after dinner. at 7:30
! o'clock, Mr.. Bryan will leave the hotel in
/ a carriage Ger Music Hall, driving out
| Cathedral Street to Mount Royal Avenue
! and direct to the hall Policemen viii be
| stationed about the hotel and along the
| route to prevent any rush upon the part
! of the crowd. The police arrangements,
| in fact, are complete. all the men in c
! Division, about 40 in all, being detailed
| for the special service. The greatest
precaution Will be taken to preserve or
| der and protect the crowds of people"
| said one of the commissioners yesterday
/ Anyone caught creating disorder in any
way will be promptly arrested regardless
| OF political or any other feeling
After speaking inside the hall Mr. Bry
| an will speak TO the crowd outside a
stand erected just above the Baltimore
| and Ohio station, and Will then go to the
| other stand, erected a square away, on
| Mount Royal Avenue, below Maryland
/ Avenue, where he will make his third
! speech. He will then be taken with Chair
| man Vandiyer to Pier No. i, Light Street
| wharf. where the party will go aboard
the Cambridge, which leaves for Claiborne
| at 11:30 o'clock.
| Arrangements for stereoptieon display
| to entertain the outside crowd at Music
! Hall have been made. Pictures of Bryan,
| Stevenson, Croker, Hill, German, and 9TH
! ers will be shown. While Mr.. Bryan is
| speaking inside the hall concert will be
| given outside
The rush for tickets continues and hun
dreds visited headquarters yesterday The
mana gers have tickets for the boxes and
stage only, the rest of the house being
open to the public, and no tickets of a6-
mission are necessary. The galleries will
/ be reserved for ladies and their escorts.