Liberty's Great Statue

Liberty's Great Statue
A Grand Celebration Promised for To-day Programme Of The Exercises On Bedlow's Island--Final Orders About The Parades
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The statue of Liberty yesterday was seen through a mist darkly. Piercing winds blew around Bedlow's Island, and the numerous workmen, who were not in any way protected from the weather, worked uncomfortably. The speakers' stand, and that for the use of musicians above it, were in readiness yesterday. Planks were removed and a semblance of tidiness was given to the island. A big barge, which looked extremely dismal, with its legend in red characters, "Eat, drink, and be merry," stood at the Bedlow's Island dock to land visitors. It will be used for that purpose this afternoon.

The following is the order of exercises on Bedlow's Island this afternoon:

1. Music during the landing and seating of the assembly.

2. Signal gun.

3. Prayer by the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D. D.

4. Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, on behalf of Franco-American Union.

5. Presentation address, the Hon. William M. Evarts.

6. Unveiling.

7. Salute. A salvo from all the guns in the harbor.

8. Music.

9. Acceptance of the statue by the President.

10. Representative on behalf of the republic of France, Le Ministre Plenipotentiaire at Delegue Extraordinaire, A. Lefaivre.

11. Music.

12. Commemorative address, the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.

13. Music. Doxology--tune, "Old Hundred;" in which the assembly is invited tO join.

14. Benediction. Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D. The assembly upon the island will be dismissed with the benediction, and will re-embark upon the steamers, which will return
to their piers in the city, joining with the batteries in the general salute.

15. National salute. To be fired simultaneously from all the batteries in the harbor, ashore and afloat.

16. Illumination of the statue, with fireworks on Bedlow's and Governor's Islands and the Battery.

The music by Gilmore's Twenty-second Regiment Band, P. S. Gilmore Musical Director.

Major-Gen. Schofield's staff during the ceremonies attending the inauguration will be headed by Brevet Major-Gen. W. D. Whipple. Among his aides will be David H. King, Jr., Brevet Brig.-Gen. Charles H. Tompkins, Brevet Brig.-Gen. William W. Burns, Col. Daniel McClure, Col. Charles Sutherland, Col. Roger Jones, Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. H. Janeway, Lieut. E. L. Zalinski, Lieut.-Col. Marcus P. Miller, Lieuts. Benjamin H. Randolph, William W. Galbraith, Warren P. Newcomb, Harvey C. Carbaugh, Avery D. Andrews, Constantine Chase, J. Estcourt Sawyer, John Willis, C. B. Satterlee, Anthony W. Vogdes, Capt. James Halloran, Capt. J. A. Fossenden, Capt. David J. Craigle, and Brevet Brig.-Gen. Richard H. Jackson.

The naval parade will form off West Forty-fifth-street in two divisions. The following named vessels have been assigned places in the line:

First Division

United States Coast Survey steamer Gedney; Belle Horton--Brooklyn city officials; Fra Diavolo, Marion, Hitada: Fred DeBary--Cercle Francais de 'lHarmonie and Woman Suffrage Association; Morrisania and Laura M. Starin--Grand Army of the Republic; Grand Republic--Veterans of the Seventh Regiment and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; Kaaterskill, H. E. Bishop, Livy, New-Haven, Magnolia, Myndert Starin, Sam Sloan, Eliza Hancox, barge J. S. T. Stranahan, and steamer N. J. Nelson.

Second Division

A. C. Cheney's Towing Line--A. C. Cheney, Prometheus, Terror, Conqueror, Camblin, Christiana, Saxon, P. C. Schultz; New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company's Vessels--Elmira, Buffalo, Van Houghton, Whipple, Roanoke, Governor Morgan, Don Juan: Pool & Co.'s Line--Chauncey M. Depew, J. H. Rutter, Blanche Paige, L. B. Dayton, C. F. Starin, American Eagle, H. M. Spraker; Perth Amboy Towing Line--Fannie P. Skeer, Isabel L. Wilbur, Isaac L. Fisher, Sallie P. Linderman, Bell Line Transportation Company--Robert Lockhart, Governor H. M. Hoyt, R. A. Packer; Schuyler's Towing Line--Niagara, Syracuse, Vanderbilt, Connecticut, Bell America, Ontario, G.G. Adams, Quaker City, J. T. Easton, R. T. Banks; Moran's Towing Line--F. W. Vosburgh, George Garlick, Robert J. Moran, General Rosecrans; Reeve's Towing Line--Sammie, James Nichol, William Nichol, William N. Beach; Tice's Towing Line, Walter Tice, Nettie Tice, R. H. Williams, Charles E. Soper; Cornell's Towing Line--Cortex, J. C. Hart, E. H. Crosby, Townsend, William Street, C. G. Young, Thomas Dickson, E. Perry, J. M. Hedges, Hercules, R. M. Meade, Pratt; S. F. Shortland & Co.'s Line--James Watt, Thomas Shortland, General F. Sigel, Admiral Border City, A. Mills, Carnie; David Bingham, May Clinton, S. R. St. John, Clara, Climax, Amelia, Victoria, Henry T. Sisson, Glen Cove, James A. Crawford, Fred E. Ives, Resolute, Thomas Walsh, E. J. Weed, Zoyave, E. L., Levy, Glen Island, W. H. Vanderbilt, A. C. Gray, Mary Lewis, Gratitude, General Newton, Ocean King, Luckenback, Scandinavia, L. Ward, R. Hurnett, Commodore Duryea, Mary H. Packer, Georgianna, Day Spring, W. J. McAldin, G. H. Deutz, James A. Garfield.

The following is a list of aides to Grand Marshal Gen. C. F. Stone: Gen. Henry A. Barnum, chief of staff; Capt. Hugh G. Brown, Twelfth Infantry, Assistant Adjutant- General and Aide-de-camp; First Lieut. E. T. Brown, Fifth Artillery; Capt. Edward Field, Fourth Artillery; Brevet Capt. R. P. Strong, Fourth Artillery; Lieut. M. F. Waltz, Twelfth Infantry; Col. J. W. Jacobus, U. S. Volunteers; Lieut.-Col. F. A. Schilling, N. G. S. N. Y.; Major Lloyd Aspinwall, N. G. S. N. Y.; Major Charles Appleby, U. S. Volunteers; Major Benjamin J. Levy, U. S. Volunteers; Lieut.-Col. Gonraud, U. S. Volunteers; Capt. Charles H. McKenzie, U. S. Volunteers; Lieut. William F. Maher, U. S. Volunteers; Capt. Ferdinand Levy, U. S. Volunteers; Col. Frank S. Collins, N. G. S. N. Y.; Lieut.- Col. A De Orville; Col. William E. Van Wyek, U. S. Volunteers; Lieut.-Col. A. M. Clark, U. S. Volunteers; Major G. M. Bundy, U. S. Volunteers; Major C. F. Ulrich, U. S. Volunteers; Col. Wilbur F. Brown, N. G. S. N. Y.; Gen. Anson G. McCook, U. S. Volunteers; Major David Scott, U. S. Volunteers; Frederick E. Blodgett, U. S. Volunteers; Lieut.-Col. Thomas Rafferty, U. S. Volunteers; Major John Van Duerson, Veteran Zouaves; Frank A. Sutton, Major James B. Horner, U. S. Volunteers; Col. John P. Walker, Gen. Kilborne Knox, Gen. J. Madison Drake, Vol. John J. Garnett, Major H. W. B. Howard, Col. Edward H. Kent, Capt. James M. Brady, Col. Thomas C. Miles, Col. Granville P. Hawes, Capt. Frank M. Wilder, Col. J. B. Fassett, Major-Gen. James Hayes, Major-Gen. Charles H. T. Collis, Capt. H. Ansot, Capt. Henry Sinardi, Col. A. G. Dickinson, Col. Henry A. Gildersleeve, Col. Alfred Wagstaff, Gen. H. A. Tremain, Col. L. M. Dayton.

Gen. Horatio C. King, who has been assigned to the command of the Eighth Division, composed of independent military organizations, requests that these organizations shall form on East and West Fortieth-street, right resting on Fifth-avenue at 9:30 A.M. The companies will form in column of twos on both sides of the street. The cavalry will form on West Fortieth-street, right resting on Fifth-avenue, and will have the advance of this division and will be followed by the Peekskill Cadets and the visiting companies from New Jersey. Lieut.-Col. H. H. Beadle will act as chief of staff. The remainder of the staff will report at the Windsor Hotel at 8 A.M.

All day yesterday people came to the city in droves to participate in to-day's celebration. Extra heavily loaded trains, much behind schedule time, were the rule on every railroad entering the city. Every hotel was crowded to its utmost capacity last night, and there was hardly one of the better known hotels which did not have to turn away hundreds of would be guests. This may be taken as an indication of the great crowds which will come to town to-day, when the carrying capacity of all the roads will be taxed to their utmost if the weather promises to be at all pleasant. Frenchmen were probably the most numerous among yesterday's arrivals, coming from all parts of the country and in great masses from the northern and western portions of this State, from Canada, and from the mills in Eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut. Last night's late trains added many to these contingents, and thousands more will reach here early this morning. A large party of Frenchmen engaged on the Panama Railroad and Canal are among the visitors.

In to-day's parade the Bartholdi Club, of New York, will carry a banner the top of which, representing a band holding the torch, was presented to it by M. Bartholdi, whom the club has enrolled as its first honorary member.

The following paper houses agreed to close to-day: Charles Hubbs, Reynolds & Merriam, J. F. Anderson & Co., Miller & Flinn, Curran Brothers, Milton Hard's Sons, Clement Stockwell, Molleson Brothers, T. M. Bell, Miller & Loechner, Henry Lindenmeyr, Butler & Johnson, A.T. Hand, H.C. Hulbert & Co., M. Plummer & Co., Hastings & Todd, A. E. Crevies & Co., C. B. Hewitt & Brother, G. N. Miller & Co., Harris Brothers & Co., Horace Taylor, and L. Dejonge & Co. The members of the Building Material Exchange yesterday voted to have the Exchange closed to-day.

It was a matter of remark among those interested in making a success of the Bartholdi exercises that no tickets for the reviewing stand in Madison-square were sent to the Mayor. The Aldermen were supplied with a bundle of tickets of admission to the stand and most of them found their way into the hands of gin mill keepers and ward "heelers" of the lowest type. When a messenger was sent down to Richard Butler and the Committee of Arrangements from the Mayor's office a reply was given that all the tickets for officials had been sent to Alderman "Jim" Mooney.

Fourteen hundred policemen will be on duty taking care of the parade and the people who will flock to see it. Inspector Steers will have 250 at Madison-square. Superintendent Murray will command in person 500 men at the Battery, and Capts. Clinchy and Killilea, will take 200 men over to Bedlow's Island. The remainder will be scattered along the line of march. The full detective force will be out.

The south roadway of the East River Bridge will be thrown open to-day for the use of pedestrians going from this city to Brooklyn. Those from Brooklyn must use the promenade.

President Cleveland and the members of his Cabinet who are to take part in to-day's ceremonies reached Jersey City soon after 9 o'clock last night in the first train from Washington. As the President stepped from his car he was met by Station Master William Black, with whom he walked down the platform. Following him were Secretaries Bayard, Whitney, and Lamar, and Postmaster-General Vilas, with Col. Lamont bringing up the rear. All were quickly seated in two carriages, which were driven onto a Desbrosses- street ferry-boat, and, arrived in New York, to Secretary Whitney's resident. The Presidential party will leave for Washington at 6 P.M. to-day.

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