Evening Journal

DECORATIONS EXPECTED TO ECLIPSE ALL PREVIOUS DISPLAYS IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE.

Wilmington G. A. R. men are interested in the decorations in Philadelphia during encampment week, which will be the finest ever seen in that city. Mayor Ashbridge has issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens to decorate their places of business and dwellings.

As far as the general plans of encampment are concerned everything is now in readiness for the visiting veterans.

Two important guests who have been announced to the general committee are General Miles and Adjutant-General Corbin. Both will be quartered at the Walton, and will probably occupy positions with the president on the reviewing stand, which is situated on the east plaza of the City Hall, as it is not thought that they will care to march, although members of the Grand Army.

President McKinley will partake of luncheon in the rooms occupied by the Department of Public Works, where great preparations are being made for his reception.

The plans for the naval display, on Friday, are now completed. All craft on the river is expected to be decorated in bunting and participate in the parade. The order of parade will be as follows:

THE NAVAL REVIEW

Flagship, containing Commodore Josiah R. Adams, commander of the review.

Reviewing vessel, containing President McKinley and secretary of the Navy Long and other Cabinet officers.

United States lighthouse steamer Zizania, Commander Marix, U. S. N.

Steamboat containing members of the Imperial Russian Navy, that are now stationed at Cramps' shipyard, building a battleship and cruiser.

Five revenue cutters—Manning, Gresham, Algonquin, Onondaga and Windom—under command of Captain L. N. Stodder.

Yacht Halcyon with officials.

Steamboat Twilight and iceboat Nos. 2 and 3, containing members of Select and Common Councils.

Steamboats Columbia, Georgeanna, John A. Warner and Thomas Clyde containing delegates to the G. A. R. Encampment, and invited guests.

Steamboat Peerless, with National Association of Naval Veterans.

Steamboat Elizabeth Vanseiver, with members of Lambs Club, Post 51, G. A. R.

Yacht Shearwater, with members of Pennsylvania Reserves.

Yacht Huntress, with members of New Jersey Naval Reserves.

Other yachts.

Steamboats, carrying excursionists according to their length.

Steamboats, without excursionists according to their length.

Tugboats, according to their length.

Other craft, such as barges, diving machines, etc.

The route of the naval pageant will be: At 2.30 p. m. the commodore's flagship will leave League Island, slowly proceeding up the river, followed by the various boats, according to their position, keeping to the eastward of the war vessels and sounding the vessels anchored at the most northern station and returning to the westward of the squadron. The vessels making up the fleet following in the above order.

FORMATION OF PARADE.

For the third time the formation of the parade on September 5 has been changed in some particulars. General James W. Latta, chief marshal, has issued this circular, assigning the various departments to their positions in the line:

I.—The column will form, prepared to move at 10 o'clock.

A—The marshal and staff and commander-in-chief and staff will form on west side of Broad street, heading south, extending north from Girard avenue. The rear of the column of the police escort will rest on west side of Broad street, at Girard avenue.

B—The Departments of Illinois and Wisconsin will form on north side of Girard avenue, at Broad street heading west, extending east, refusing the left to the northward on Thirteenth street.

C—The Department of Ohio will form on north side of Girard avenue, at Thirteenth street, heading west, extending east, refusing the left to the northward on Twelfth street.

D—The Department of New York will form on north side of Girard avenue, at Twelfth street, heading west, extending east, refusing the left to the northward on Eleventh street.

E—The Departments of Connecticut and Massachusetts will form on north side of Girard avenue, at Eleventh street, heading west, extending east, refusing the left to the northward on Tenth street.

F—The Departments of New Jersey, Maine, Nevada, California, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont will form on south side of Girard avenue, at Broad street, heading west, extending east, refusing the left to the southward on Thirteenth street.

G—Departments of the Potomac, Virginia, Maryland and Nebraska will form on south side of Girard avenue, at Thirteenth street, heading west, extending east, refusing the left to the southward on Twelfth street.

H—The Departments of Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas will form on Girard avenue, at Broad street, heading east, extending west, refusing the left to northward on Sixteenth street.

I—The Departments of Delaware, Minnesota, Missouri and Oregon will form on Girard avenue, at Sixteenth street, heading east, extending west, refusing the left to the northward on Seventeenth street.

J—The Departments of Kentucky, West Virginia, South Dakota, Alaska, Washington, Arkansas, New Mexico and Utah will form on Fifteenth street at Girard avenue, heading north, extending south.

K—The Departments of Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Montana, Texas, Idaho, Arizona, Georgia

Alabama, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory will form on Sixteenth street at Girard avenue, heading north, extending south.

L—The Department of Pennsylvania is assigned to the rear of the column, and will utilize Broad street, north of Girard avenue.

On the streets designated for formation (the street crossings to be kept open) all commands will be in close column, with fronts of twelve, taking half-distance (ten feet) by the head or column when their movement begins.

The distance between posts is to be twenty feet, and departments twenty-five yards.

The column, instead of the line, has been adopted to economize space, and thereby shorten the march to the place of formation. As the posts that intend to form their lines at this general rendezvous cannot therefore be accommodated with sufficient space, they will use the unoccupied streets in the vicinity for such purpose before uniting in column with the column of formation.

II.—The departments will follow each other promptly in the order named. The head of the column will move at 10 o'clock down Broad street (east side of City Hall) to Market street, to Fourth, to Chestnut, to Broad, to Pine, where the parade will dismiss.

III.—In proceeding to the place of formation the use of all streets designated for the route of the procession must be avoided.

IV.—Upon arriving at the point of dismissal the departments will move alternately to the east, west and south, so that the bodies dismissed shall be speedily distributed. No independent reviews by department commanders will be permitted.

The G. A. R. of Delaware is making vast preparations for the encampment. The Wilmington veterans will leave the B. & O. station at 8.30 o'clock on the morning of September 5.