The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-17
| The CENTENNIAL
IN NEW ORLEANS
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Warships of Three Nations
There to Attend the
Celebration
MANY VISITORS EXPECTED
The Centennial Will Begin Tomorrow
and Promises to be One Ct Great
est Affairs Ever Held in
Crescent City.

New Orleans, La, Dec. 16.-The
presence of the warships of three diff
ferent nations and the attendance of
scores of prominent visitors from va
rious parts of the country give promise
that the celebration of the Louisiana
Purchase centennial, which begins to-
morrow and continues three days, will
surpass scope and brilliance the most
sanguine expectations of it's promoters
Visitors are already arriving in large
numbers and the crowded streets and
public places resemble the Mardi Gras
throngs.
New Orleans is particularly pleased
over the presence of the Spanish man
s&war, Rio de la Plata, which is the
FIRST Spanish war vessel to visit this
aeNntry since the Spanish-Aemrican
Ner The new French man-of-war Gra-
Rge is also here, while the United
Mtates navy is represented by the
piser Minneapolis and several small
vessels.
sAnring the three days OF the cele-
b4stion there will be civic, military
aild Religious ceremonies, colonial
bRll, colonial exhibit and a naval
palade. Though there will be several
parades and other spectacular fea-
tafes, the programme in its entirety
hes been sowarranged as to appeal
mere to the student of history than
Z the esdindsg u ghtseer. Conditions
A Egls 3 is arrangement, as
ar u u buIldings connected with
TIE fer are still standing in very
match yaA same Condition as they were
aFeeHrury ago
shus the main ceremonies will take
IMee in the Cabildo, the government
hts=s,sse under the Spanish and French
lfimes, now the Supreme court build
H. 1t has been furnished exactly as
issiras isxr as on the day OF THE transfer. The
as9Scises will include the reading of
eaes original transfer, and Loussat,
Hsaiborne, wilkinson and other COM
MiBsioners will be represented by
Hpmnent citizens in the costumes of
saA times.
The religious ceremonies in the st.
kI}nis Cathedral will be identified with
tsse of hundred years ago, and the
MEate will be fired from Jackson
hare formerly the Place d'Armes)
N7& from cannon a century old.
The colonial exhibit will remain
n}kn a month in the Archiepiscopal
Mtace, formerly the Ursuline Convent
IT, oldest public building in the Mis-
sissippi Valley. The exhibit will in
cl1pe a large number of interesting
les which have been preserved by
til Creole families of New Orleans.
The program as finally completed
will be opened tomorrow evening with
. lcstl CGCptlOH dnQ Ddll AL tAS SoUhAoO'
The celebration beauties OF New Or
leans will dance the minute in cos
tunes duplicating those of colonial
dass, and an old fashioned New Or
lens supper will interrupt the dane
ing at midnight. This event is in
charge of the ladies OF the Historical
sNHieties. it's patronesses representing
the best and oldst families of New Or
leans.
Saturday morning the comemora-
tive exercises will be held in the
Cabildo at which there vii be address
es by Governor Heard and the French
and Spanish ambassadors followed by
military parade and a naval review
before the - In the evening the
guests of the city will attend special
gala performance at the French Opera
house.