The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-07

1000 to be Raised by Subscription
| Sub Committees Announced at the
! General Committees Meeting Saturday
Night.
| The citizens bi-centennial committee
heard report from the subcommittee
of eleven at meeting held in city hall
| Saturday night 1t was reported that
besides the expenditure of the $1,000
for an electrical display on the green,
which the board of finance appropriate
ed, the citizens are to raise an addi-
tional $500. The plans show an ave-
nue. of flags around the green besides
Yale bunting on all the iron trolley
poles.
At the corner of Church and Chapel
streets there will be a large banner
with suitable inscription or motto
and further decorations to make the
citys bunting, streamers and flags
harmonize with those arranged by bust
ness men and citizens who live around
the green. A national salute of tWen-
ty-one guns will be fired upon the ar
rival of President Roosevelt on We'd
nesday, October 20, and he will be es
corted to Professor w. w. Farnam's
residence. On Wednesday evening the
Yale celebration ending at o'clock
there will be public reception given to
Governor Mclean by the committee,
The city's electrical display will cost
$780, and as $500 was all that was
appropriated the, citizens committee
will expend the additional 500 for the
display The committee has decided to
ask for $1,500 with which to carry out
the plans already suggested and adopt
ed" There is to be erected a reviewing
stand to accommodate 700 of the most
prominent citizens in front of the city
hall where the torch light procession is
to be formally reviewed.
The subcommittee as made up are:
Executive committee-Former Mayor
Driscoll, chairman; John D. Jackson,
secretary; former Mayors Holcomb,
Peck, Farnsworth, Sargent, and Hen
bricks Lieutenant Governor Dewell,
Congressman Sperry, ex-Congressman
Pigott, C. s. Hamilton, General E. E.
Bradley, A. Heaton Robertson, Colonel
N. G. Osborn, Max Adler, e. l. Atwater
Theodore H. Macdonald, Wilson Fl.
Lee, Colonel Isaac NJ. Ullman, and Di-
rector of Public Works James B. Coe.
Reception committee--Mayor Studley,
former Governor Ingersoll, former Gov
ernor Harrison, former Lieutenant
Governor Dewell, General S. e. Merwin, |
Congressman N D, Sperry, former
Congressman Pigott former Mayors /
Driscoll, Peck, Sargent, Holcomb Hen
drick, and Farnsworth. Judge w. X. /,
Townsend General e. e, Bradley Will |
liam w. Farnam, Max Adler, John NJ.
Hall, John d. Jackson, Colonel N. G. |
Osborn General George H. Ford, Sim |
con e. Baldwin, and James A. How
arth.
decorations and iIlumina tions-E. I. |
Atwater chairman; Edward M. Clark, !
John H. Dillon, Everett e. Lord, Sig |
mund Hirsh, David r. Brown, and S. r. /
Poll
Reviewing stand-Director James 3.
Coe. chairman David Corey, f. Fl.
Brethauer. ]. N Rowe, James II. Par
ish, B. r. English, and James English.
nvitations-Mayor j. p. Studley,for-
ner Mayors Holcomb, Sargent Peck,
Hendrick, Driscoll. and C.
F.. Juln.
Carriages-T. II. Macdonald, E. F.
Merrill f. C. Bushnell, F. j. Averill,
W. J. Atwater, Captain Daniel Thigh
nan.
Press, printing and badges-W. Fl.
Lee. chairman; N G, Osborn. j, B.
Darlington, c. W. Pickett, Alexander
rroup, w. C. Pratt, Leo Hammond,
md G.. TT. futile.
Finance-Isaac M. Ullman, chairman;
!. A, Howarth l.. W. Cleaveland, A.
Ieaton Robertson, C. S. Hamilton, ID.
+. Carmichael, w. ]. Atwater, j. p. HUI
,inger, F. A. Belts, N. w. Kendall B,
R, English, Elbridge L. Howe, Colonel
George D Post, J. G. Johnson and How
.rd c. Webb.
All of the city's decorations will be
n place on the Saturday previous to
he opening of the bi-centennial, and
he electrical display on the green Will
xtend over three days, the illumina-
ion beginning every evening at 8
o'clock.