Evening star., 1901-02-18

Chairman committee on flcor and promenade.
army The first division will be composed
of the regular army organizations and the
Columbia.
Marshal Of the second military division
Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, United States
volunteers (brigadeT general United States
army, retired). The second division will be
composed Of the national guard organiZa-
tions from the different states.
Marshal of the third military division
Maj Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. United States
army, retired. The third division will be
composed of the local and visiting veteran
organizations.
Marshal of the civic grand division-B H.
Warner. The civic division will be COM
posed of the political and patriotic organi-
cations from all parts of the country.
Inaugural. Parade.
The inaugural parade: arrangements are
being made, as the above assignments indi-
cate, along the same lines as four years ago.
The escort of the President from the White
House to the Capitol when he goes to be
reinaugurated will be the first military d.
vision-the regular army and District troops.
The main procession Will move from the
Capitol grounds up Pennsylvania avenue
and past the presidential reviewing stand
within the court of honor. The military or
ganiZations will assemble on Capitol Hill,
while the civic bodies will assemble along
the streets at the foot of the hill.
The program of fireworks for the night of
March has been arranged. The display
will take place from the Monument grounds,
beginning at 40 o'clock and continuing for
an hour and half or more. If the weather
is inclement, however, the display will be
fastened. The fireworks will be entirely
aerial in character, and may be seen from
all parts of the city. In fact, it is stated by
Chairman Cuno H. Rudolph of the fireworks
cor q from a
distance will be much prettier than If the
crowds assemble on the Monument grounds.
There will be but two set pieces on the pro-
gram-fire pictures of President Mckinley
and Vice President Roosevelt. These will
be suspended from tall poles, sixty feet in
the air, and may easily be seen from all
vantage points of the city. The program,
complete, is given below. The ninth display
is termed "A message from Mars" 1t will
be a unique feature The fireworks con-
tractors, the Nordlinger- Charlton Company,
have arranged with an Italian aeronaut to
ascend several thousand feet in a balloon
and make parachute leap. He will dis
charge various kinds of fireworks on his
downward journey
Total of Sixty Features.
The program is made up of sixty displays,
as follows:
l. Salute of 1o1 lydite bombs will be heard
ten miles away.
.. Carmine illumination of the monument
fires.
8. Ascension of balloons. with magnesium
nashlight and stream golden spray, fol-
lowed by an explosion OF tinted gems,
changing into an electric illumination.
4. Rocket display, crossing and 1nterSect-
ing in their flight, forming a polychromatic
canopy of glittering radiance.
5. Electric fountain. A novel and beauti-
full representation in floral fire of a fountain
upward and outward liquid drops
of spangles and sprays of fire. terminating
in a crown of variegated-colored flowers Of
every hue.
reaching their height produce links Of dia
mond chains, changing colors, followed by
bursts Of electric fires, embellished with
topaz and emerald comets.
7. Batteries of jeweled mines, beginning
with prisinatic colored shower of diamond
fire, forming a beautiful fountain effect,
suddenly exploding with report, filling the
air with fiery-tailed wrigglers of fantastic
ers and shooting stars.
s. Fire picture, Our President" Lance
fire portrait of President Mckinley festoon-
ed with the national colors and embellished
with batteries of electric fires; area, 1,OOO
square feet
$. Message from Mars, new, thrilling and
marvellous.
TO- Bombshell display, displaying chrys-
anthemums, willow-tree dragons. clusters
of grapes, necklaces and scrolls of great
brilliancy and startling effects.
IL. Aluminium flash light rockets, form
ing gorgeous veil of feathery plumes, en-
bellished with topaz and emerald comets.
52. Flight of bombsheIls in national coll
ors, each bombshell opening with red,
changing to white and finishing with blue.
13. Six pillars of flame, enbellished with
ruby batteries surrounding and crowning
the monument, with bursts of colored me-.
teors and showers of shells, shooting stars,
streamers, whirlygigs and mammoth
spreaders.
IA. Indian iugglery. beginning with pris-
matte iiluminations. followed by brilliant
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