Programme of the Centennial Celebration of George Washington as President of the United States
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Excerpt from Programme of the Centennial Celebration of George Washington as President of the United States: In New York, Monday, April 29th, Tuesday, April 30th, Wednesday, May 1st, 1889 I. The Naval Parade will take place in New York Harbor, from 11 A. M. to 1 P. M. The Governors, Commissioners of States, and other guests, with ladies invited by the Committee on States and the members of the General Committee, will embark at 9.30 A. M., on the steamer "Erastus Wiman," at ferry slip, foot of West Twenty-third Street, New York city, to receive the President, and to meet the President´s steamer off Elizabethport. Admittance by special Blue ticket. On the arrival of President Harrison and the Cabinet officers, and other officials of distinction, at Elizabethport, at 11 o´clock Monday morning, the party will at once embark for New York city. The President and immediate suite will be received by the Committee on Navy, and under their direction will embark on the President´s steamer provided by that Committee. The steamer "Sirius," under the management of the Committee on Navy, will receive at Elizabethport other guests and official personages of the Presidential party who cannot be accommodated on the President´s steamer. Admission to steamer "Sirius" will be by Red ticket. The line of United States ships of war, yachts, and steamboats will be formed in the upper bay, under Admiral David D. Porter, U. S. N., as chief marshal, and will be reviewed by the President. On the arrival of the Presidential party in the East River, opposite Wall Street, a barge manned by a crew of ship masters from the Marine Society of the Port of New York, with Captain Ambrose Snow, President of that Society, as coxswain, will row the President ashore. The crew of the barge that rowed President Washington from Elizabethport to the foot of Wall Street were members of the same society. The steamers "Erastus Wiman" and "Sirius," prior to the debarkation of the President, will land at Pier 16, Wall Street, the guests for the reception at the Equitable Building, and proceed with the remaining passengers to West Twenty-third Street ferry and West Twenty-second Street. II. On arriving at foot of Wall Street the President of the United States will be received by the Governor of the State of New York, the Mayor of the City of New York, the Hon. Hamilton Fish, President of the Committee, and William G. Hamilton, Chairman of the Committee on States. The President and other guests will next be escorted to the Equitable Building, where a reception and collation will be tendered them by the Committee on States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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