Evening star., 1903-10-14
READY (pR UNWILLING
Preparations ms, Now Nearly
Completed.
DECORATION SCHEME
HARMONY OF CoLoRs AND BEAU
T1FuL FLORAL DESIGNS.
Col. Symons and Maj. Sylvester Each
Issue a Set of Rules to
Be Observed.

Busy workmen swarm about the statue
OF Cen Sherman at the south of the
Treasury building, putting the final touches
On the decorations for the dedication exeT-
clses.. that are to eclipse anything of the
Kind ever seen in the District. Veterans
OF all armies are filing the streets of the
capital and visiting the public buildings
Ihe-real worl- OF the week commenced
this morning. when the Society of the Army
OF the Cumberland gathered at the Shore
ham Hotel for its annual business meeting
and reunion. This society will hold a big
public meeting tonight at the First Con-
gregauonal Church. Tonight. also, the So
ciety of tie Army of the Potomac enter
lalns campfire by the latter organiza-
! ton is to be giver at the Metropolitan
M. e. Church. Tomorrow morning the So
cleties of the Armies of the Tennessee and
Potomac hold meetings at the Arlington
Hotel and Ebbitt House respectively. The
sherman statue is to be unveiled in the
afternoon, and in the evening the Society
of the Army of the Ohio meets at the
Ebbltt and holds a reception there and
the four societies to attend reception
at RauScher'S.
The Decorations.
An interesting feature of the Sherman
statue unveiling is the color scheme. which
has been worked out to nicely under Col
L w. Symons by Frederick d. Owen of
the office of public buildings and grounds,
who has had charge of many dwellings
heretofore and to whom the credit of the
present decorations is almost solely due
The three national colors have been en-
ployed with Old Glory as the central fea-
ture. but in this dedication the red white
ana nIue are to bear out and represent
new idea, which in their appropriateness is
more or less old. The red and the blue are
to be used on the east and west stands
respectively. and correspond to the right
ana the left flank of the generals great
army. The Society of the Army of the
Potomac and of the Ohio are to occupy
the left, or the red, stand and the army of
the tennessee and Of the Cumberland are 10
occupy the right. blue stand, while the
white is to represent the Presidents stand !
and, as during the war to correspond to
the White House and chief executive.
The stands were constructed under the
direction of Mr.. r. F. Gillen, and Mr. A.
g. Kennedy carried out the decoration in
harmony with the general color scheme
eighteen corps flags are to be flung to
the breeze, one in front of each panel of
seats occupied by the different army So
cieties The tickets to these respective
stands are also in the color of the red
Whlte ana blue, and the badges that the
members of the different societies will wear
also correspond to the general scheme of
color. Hid
The reception committee which will re- |
celVe the guests viii also wear these coIors
one of the utitarian features of this color
division will facilitate the arriving and
seating of the guests as expedtiousIy as
posSipie. as dlHerent entrances correspond
to these tickets. The program which is de- |
signed to be of a Souvenir feature is in |
harmony with the decorations but is taken |
chiefly from the floral scheme in which the |
TOUR, armies eraref. represented The ; great
iealure or the ceremony will be the unyeil- |
ing OF the statue, and in this Instance a |
new idea is advanced whereby the flag /
are not to reach the ground, but are sup |
ported on horizontal wire, and at the in |
stant OF the drawing of the cord by Master |
William Tecumseh Sherman Thorndike the |
great folds of the large army garrison flags |
wiliabe drawn apart revealing the statue |
WI |ith the two flags forming the background |
The flags will remain in this position while
the salute is firing and the band is playing. !
They will afterward be drawn apart hori- /
zontally and be left to fly in the breeze
The four bronze figures at the base are tn |
be unwrappcd by Master Thorndike and |
the flags are then to be folded up by two !
Grand Army veterans and laid at the base !
of each statue a decoration and triluIte |
to the old soldier.