The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888.
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THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF WASHINGTON'S INAUGURATION.
New York, November 8, 1888.
My Dear Sir:
In order that you may become familiar with the work of the Committee as it progresses. I am requested by Elbridge T. Gerry, the Chairman of the Executive Committee, to send you the following report of what was done at the meeting of the Committee on Plan and Scope, which was held in the Mayor's Office in the City Hall to-day.
Very truly yours, CLARENCE W. BOWEN, Secretary.
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE ON PLAN AND SCOPE:
New York, November 8th, 1888.
A meeting of the Sub-Committee on Plan and Scope was held in the Mayor's Office, in the City Hall, at 3:30 P. M. to-day. Present: Elbridge T. Gerry, James M. Varnum, and Samuel D. Babcock; also Asa Bird Gardiner, and John Jay Pierrepont, from the Committee on Navy; Louis Fitzgerald, from the Committee on Finance; Ward McAllister, from the Committee on Entertainment. The Secretary read a report from the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and also a report from the Committees on Navy, Finance, Railroads and Transportation, Art and Exhibition, and Literary Exercises. All were adopted as read, with the exception of the report of the Committee on Navy. In regard to the report of the Committee on Navy, section number one was passed; sections two and three were laid over with the request that the Chairman of the Executive Committee call the Chairmen of the Committees on Navy and Entertainment together for the reconsideration of these sections. Sections four and five were adopted, and it was voted that they be referred to the Committee on Army. In regard to the sixth section, A, B, C and D were passed, and E was referred for reconsideration to the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and to the Chairmen of the Sub-Committees on Navy and Entertainment.
I.
REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 New York, November 8th, 1888.
To the Sub-Committee on Plan and Scope of the General Committee on the Centennial Celebration of Washington's Inauguration:
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to report for your consideration and adoption as follows:
I. That the following gentlemen be added to the Committee: To the Sub-Committee on Plan and Scope, Hugh J. Grant.
To the Sub-Committee on Navy, Loyall Farragut.
To the Sub-Committee on Finance, John F. Plummer, J. Edward Simmons.
To the Sub-Committee on Transportation, Thomas S. Moore.
To the General Committee, Robert Stuyvesant, Moncure D. Conway, Myles Standish, William C. Smith, Richard T. Davies, Stephen M. Wright; the last three gentlemen being the officers of the General Society, established in 1785, of Mechanics and Tradesmen, of the City of New York.
II. The following are the Commissioners appointed by the Governors of the different States, in response to a communication from the Sub-Committee on States asking that Commissioners be appointed by the different States, in order that all the States might be properly represented at the Celebration: Rhode Island—Gen. Elisha Dyer, Jr., Adjutant General.
Pennsylvania—John W. Woodside.
New Jersey—Gen. William S. Stryker, Adjutant General.
New Hampshire—Hon. Samuel C. Eastman.
Virginia—Ex-Governor James L. Kemper, Judge W. W. Crump, Hon J. Randolph Tucker, Judge Waller R. Staples, Hon. Holmes Conrad, Captain Phil McKinney, Col. Walter H. Taylor.
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 3. In response to the request of the Sub-Committee on Finance, regarding the amount of money required for the Celebration, I would recommend that the sum of $175,000 be solicited, of which $50,000 shall be raised in private subscriptions, $50,000 asked from the State of New York, and $75,000 from the City of New York, under authority of the following Act:
“An Act authorizing the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in the City of New York to appropriate money for the celebration of the Centennial of the Inauguration of the first President of the United States.
Approved by Governor, May 7, 1888. Passed, three-fifths being present.
The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment in the City of New York is hereby authorized and empowered to include in the final estimates of the moneys to be raised by taxation for conducting the public business of said city for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight-nine such sum as in the judgment of said board may be necessary to provide for the suitable celebration in said city of the centennial year of the Inauguration of Gen. Washington as the first President of the United States.
Section 2. Said moneys shall be expended under the direction of the Mayor of said City and upon vouchers to be approved by him.”
4. I would urge that the Chairman of the different Sub-Committees be requested to push the work of their respective committees as much as possible, and, if necessary, to ask men to resign, who cannot perform the work required of them, in order that their places may be promptly filled.
The large amount of work to be done by the Sub-Committees before April 30th, renders this step necessary.
5. Permanent headquarters should be at once secured for the work of the different Sub- Committees.
6. I would ask that the reports of the Sub-Committees on Navy in part and on Finance, Railroads and Transportation, Art and Exhibition, and Literary Exercises, be adopted.
Respectfully submitted, ELBRIDGE T. GERRY, Chairman of the Executive Committee.
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 II.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LITERARY EXERCISES.
New York, November 8th, 1888.
To the Sub-committee on Plan and Scope of the General Committee on the Centennial Celebration of Washington's Inauguration:
Gentlemen:
The Committee on Literary Exercises would respectfully report, as follows:
1. At nine o'clock on the morning of April 30th next, brief religious services of praise and thanksgiving should be held in the different churches of the city—the same hour in which religious services were held on April 30th, 1789. From the account of the Inauguration in the Gazette of the United States, of May 2nd, 1789, is taken this sentence: “At nine o'clock A. M. the people assembled in the several churches, with the clergy of the respective denominations to implore the blessing of Heaven upon their new government, its favor to the President, and success and acceptance to his administration.” The clergy of the city are invited to co-operate in arranging for such services, and if it meets with their approval it is suggested that religious services of thanksgiving be held at nine o'clock on the morning of April 30th next, in churches throughout the State and Nation.
2. A special religious service has been planned for in St. Paul's Church at nine o'clock on the morning of the Celebration, to be conducted by the Right Reverend Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York, and the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, and to be attended by the President and Vice-President of the United States, and other gentlemen of distinction. This service will be similar in character to the service performed on the day of the Inauguration, by the Right Reverend Dr. Provost, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the City and Chaplain to the Senate, which service was attended by the President and Vice-President of the United States, and the two Houses of Congress.
Regarding the service at St. Paul's Church, the following letter is quoted from the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix:
New York, October 20, 1888.
Dear Sir:
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 I have your communication of the 18th of October, and would say in reply that it gives me great pleasure to place St. Paul's Church at the disposition of the Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States. I shall be most happy to receive Bishop Potter on that occasion, and to see that the services are carried out as he may direct. I shall lay your communication before the Vestry of Trinity Church at their next meeting, which will be on the second Monday in November, in order that they may co-operate in the plans of your Committee, which they will be, I am sure, most happy to do.
Yours very truly, MORGAN DIX.
Mr. Clarence W. Bowen.
3. The formal literary exercises will take place on the steps of the Sub-Treasury Building, at the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, where stood Federal Hall, the scene of the Inauguration Ceremonies. A prayer will be offered by Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., LL D.; a poem is expected from John Greenleaf Whittier, if his health will permit; the oration will be delivered by Chauncey M. Depew; the President of the United States will speak, and Archbishop Corrigan will pronounce the benediction. At the close of the Literary Exercises, the Military, Industrial and Civic Parade will take place, which will be reviewed from the steps of the Sub-Treasury, as outlined in the report of the Committee on Army.
Mr. Depew's letter is as follows:
New York, November 7th, 1888.
My Dear Mr. Bowen:
I am in receipt of yours of October 18th. I feel highly honored by the action of the Executive Committee in selecting me to deliver the oration on the occasion of the Celebration of the Centennial of the Inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States. I have some diffidence in entering upon a work of such importance, but will endeavor to the best of my ability to deserve the confidence of the Committee.
Yours very truly,
Clarence W. Bowen, Esq, New York CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 4. The names of Speakers who will respond to toasts at the banquet to be held in the Metropolitan Opera House in the evening, will be submitted at a later date for the approval of the Committee on Plan and Scope.
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY, Chairman Committee on Literary Exercises.
III.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ART AND EXHIBITION.
Clarence W. Bowen, Esq.
Secretary Centennial Celebration, &c.
The Sub-Committee of the Art and Exhibition Committee, appointed to select and engage a manager of the Exhibition, have selected Mr. W. A. Coffin, Artist, No. 138 West 55th Street, as well qualified for the position. He offers to give so much of his time and services as may be necessary, from the date of his engagement, and his entire time and services from January 15th to May 15th, 1889, for the sum of two thousand dollars.
Will you submit this statement to the proper Committee, and request them to authorize us to engage Mr. Coffin on the terms above named?
On behalf of the Committee, GORDON L. FORD, Chairman.
November 7th, 1888.
IV.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS AND TRANSPORTATION.
Potter Building, New York City, November 3d, 1888.
Clarence W. Bowen, Esq., Secretary Committee on Centennial Celebration, &c., 251 Broadway, New York City.
My Dear Sir:
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 In reply to yours of October 17th, I have to say: that, pursuant to your letter of May 31st last, communications were addressed by me in June to the various leading railroads throughout the country and also to steamboat transportation companies as far as I could ascertain them, and replies have been received from quite a large number of the roads and companies thus addressed, indicating the name of the particular party who will represent them and through whom communication can be had with such roads and companies.
Very respectfully yours, O. B. POTTER, Chairman Sub-Com. on Railroads and Transportation.
V.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
New York, November 7th, 1888.
Elbridge T. Gerry, Esq., Chairman of the Executive Committee:
Sir:
In behalf of the Finance Committee, I would report that a meeting of the Committee was held at the Office of the Mercantile Trust Company, on Thursday, October 25th, 1888, at which it was resolved: 1. That General Louis Fitzgerald be Treasurer of the Committee.
2. That an Auditing Committee of three be appointed by the Chairman, and that this Committee, together with the Treasurer and Chairman, be empowered to decide as to the payment of such bills as may be presented to the Finance Committee.
3. That the Chairman of the Executive Committee be requested to inform the Finance Committee of the total estimated amount of money required for the purposes of the Celebration.
4. That this Committee recommend to the Plan and Scope Committee that the Finance Committee be authorized to appoint an Auxiliary Committee of one hundred members, representing the various trades and branches of industry in the city, with a view of having this Auxiliary Committee work in connection with the Finance Committee.
5. That the Committee on Plan and Scope be requested to make an urgent appeal to the Legislature for money to assist in defraying the expenses of the Celebration.
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 6. That the attention of the Committee on Plan and Scope be called to the plan which was adopted with success in Philadelphia last year of erecting stands along the principal streets where the procession will pass, and charging 25 cents admission to them.
7. That five members of the Finance Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Respectfully yours, BRAYTON IVES, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Finance.
VI.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NAVY.
New York, October 11th, 1888.
The Sub-Committee on “Navy” of the General Committee, appointed by his Honor, the Mayor of the City of New York, for the Centennial Celebration in April, 1889, of the Inauguration of President Washington, report as follows: 1. The Secretary of the Navy has promised the cordial co-operation of the Navy Department in the proposed Celebration, and will, for this purpose, assemble in the Harbor of New York, such available naval forces of the United States as can be spared from other duties without injury to the public service.
2. During the War of the American Revolution, France was the first to recognize the United States as a sovereign Nation, and the formal alliance of February 6th, 1778, with that country, materially and potentially aided in securing independence.
An Auxiliary French Army served under General Washington in some of the most glorious events of that contest, and French officers, soldiers and sailors shed their blood on American soil in defence of that Alliance.
It seems peculiarly appropriate, therefore, that His Honor, the Mayor, should, through the Department of State of the United States, invite the Government of the French Republic to send to the Harbor of New York, such a representation as may be convenient, from its naval forces in the Western Atlantic, in order to participate by their presence in an event which has resulted in such unexampled prosperity to their ancient ally.
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 3. The cordial relations which exist between the United States and other Naval Powers, render it fitting that His Honor, the Mayor, should, through the Department of State of the United States, acquaint those governments of the proposed Celebration and invite the friendly co-operation of such of their forces as may be stationed in American waters.
4. There are a large number of former officers and men of the United States Navy, resident in the City of New York, and vicinity, who would be glad to join in the Military and Civic parade as a collective body, in honor of the occasion. An invitation should be extended to them to do so.
5. The Yachting interests of the United States ought also to be represented by the presence in New York Harbor on April 30th, 1889, of the yachts of the several clubs and a parade in the Military and Civic procession of detachments from their uniformed crews, who practically now form the nucleus for a Naval Reserve. An invitation should be extended to each Yacht Club for this purpose.
6. On the occasion of the Centennial Celebration, the following is recommended as the Naval Programme: A. As the President of the United States is expected to arrive at the Harbor of New York from Washington on Monday, April 29th, 1889, he should (following the precedent of General Washington's arrival on April 23rd, 1789), be met by a suitable deputation at Elizabethport, N. J., and taken thence on a Government Dispatch Boat to the foot of Wall Street in the City of New York, passing en route the United States and Foreign Ships of War and yachts of the several clubs arranged in proper order and, in so doing, be received by each, while passing the line, with the honors due his office. At Wall Street the President to be formally welcomed by the Committee and then escorted to his quarters.
B. A special salute of twenty-one guns to be given to the American Flag on April 30th, 1889, at 12 o'clock noon, from ships of war of every nationality in New York Harbor, and from the batteries of Castle William, and Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth.
C. A parade of a Military and Civic procession in the City of New York, and review by the President of the United States, of such United States Naval Forces and Marines as may be directed, by proper authority, to participate.
D. A parade in the same procession, under proper formation, of former officers, sailors and marines of the U.S. Navy, and also of uniformed detachments from the yacht crews.
The centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration. New York, November 8, 1888. http://www.loc.gov/resource/ rbpe.12904400 E. Invitations, as required by international courtesy, to be extended to the Foreign Naval Officers in port to attend any celebrations incident to the day, and should there be a Banquet, the Superior Foreign and Naval Officers, not below the grade of Field Officer, to be invited to the same.
These several recommendations, if approved, will require reference of the same to the several Sub- Committees respectively having charge of relevant portions, which Committees can, in consultation with this Sub-Committee, obtain necessary information for their action.
Thus, for example, while the Sub-Committee in charge of the “Military and Industrial Parade” would designate the position in line for the naval, naval reserve and yacht club detachments, the Sub- Committee on Navy would arrange for the presence of such detachments to report to the Grand Marshal.
In like manner, the Sub-Committee on “Entertainment” would receive from this Sub-Committee the names of those Foreign and American Naval Officers to whom invitations should be issued, as contemplated in the last above mentioned recommendations.
ASA BIRD GARDINER, Chairman Sub-Committee on Navy.
Committee on the Centennial Celebration, APRIL 30TH, 1889, OF THE INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Charles H. Adams,
Charles F. Allen,
E. Ellery Anderson,
William Waldorf Astor,
Samuel D. Babcock,
S. L. M. Barlow,
John S. Barnes,
William B. Beekman,
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Frederick A. Benjamin,
William H. Bissell,
Cornelius N. Bliss,
George Bliss,
Clarence W. Bowen,
H. H. Boyesen,
James M. Brown,
John L. Cadwalader,
Allan Campbell,
Jacob A. Cantor,
Henry Guy Carleton,
James C. Carter,
John Claflin,
Floyd Clarkson,
Matthew Clarkson,
Alexander James Clinton,
John Cochrane,
Charles A. Coe,
Alfred R. Conkling,
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Edward Cooper,
Frederick R. Coudert,
William Henry Crosby,
S. Van Rensselaer Cruger,
W. Bayard Cutting,
Charles P. Daly,
Richard T. Davies,
Charles W. Dayton,
Edward F. Delancey,
Frederick J. De Peyster,
Chauncey M. Depew,
Richard Varick De Witt,
L. P. Di Cesnola,
William E. Dodge,
A. W. Drake,
James H. Dunham,
Henry Erben,
Franklin Edson,
Smith Ely, Jr.,
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Loyall Farragut,
Hamilton Fish,
Stuyvesant Fish,
Josiah M. Fisk,
Louis Fitzgerald,
Gordon L. Ford,
Frederick Gallatin,
Asa Bird Gardiner,
Wm. H. Gedney,
George Clinton Genet,
Elbridge T. Gerry,
Richard W. Gilder,
Ogden Goelet,
Robert Goelet,
William R. Grace,
Hugh J. Grant,
Schuyler Hamilton,
William G. Hamilton,
Charles Henry Hart,
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Edmund Hendricks,
Abram S. Hewitt,
Daniel Huntington,
James W. Husted,
Henry B. Hyde,
Brayton Ives,
Joseph C. Jackson,
D. Willis James,
John Jay,
William Jay,
John D. Jones,
S. Nicholas Kane,
William Linn Keese,
Eugene Kelly,
John S. Kennedy,
John A. King,
Alexander Knox,
Arthur Leary,
Henry Brockholst Ledvard,
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James Duane Livingston,
Johnston Livingston,
Robert E. Livingston,
Edward V. Loew,
Seth low,
Ward McAllister,
Richard A. McCurdy,
Henry G. Marquand,
Frank D. Millet,
Darius O. Mills,
James M. Montgomery,
Jacob B. Moore,
Thomas S. Moore,
J. Pierrepont Morgan,
Gouverneur Morris, Jr.,
Louis G. Morris,
Levi P. Morton,
Logan C. Murray,
De Lancey Nicoll,
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Oswald Otiendorfer,
Charles Parsons,
George Hunt Pendleton,
Oliver H. Perry,
John Jay Pierrepont,
John B. Pine,
John F. Plummer,
Orlando B. Potter,
J. Hampdon Robb,
William H. Robertson,
Robert B. Roosevelt,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Charles H. Russell, Jr.,
Robert Rutter,
Robert Schell,
John Schuyler,
Philip Schuvler,
Gustav Schwab,
Jesse Seligman,
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Jackson S. Shultz,
J. Edward Simmons,
Clifford Stanley Sims,
John Sloane,
Henry L. Slote,
F. Hopkinson Smith,
James D. Smith,
William C. Smith,
Myles Standish,
Walter Stanton,
John Austin Stevens,
John A. Stewart,
Lispenard Stewart,
William E. D. Stokes,
Robert Stuyvesant,
Rutherford Stuyvesant,
Frederick D. Tappen,
Frederick S. Tallmadge,
Daniel F. Tiemann,
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John T. Tucker,
James S. Van Cortlandt,
Cornelius Vanderbilt,
William K. Vanderbilt,
J. Tallmadge Van Rensselaer
John Barnes Varick,
James M. Varnum,
Andrew Warner,
Alexander S. Webb,
John A. Weekes,
William H. Wickham,
George Wilson,
Richard T. Wilson,
Erastus Wiman,
Locke W. Winchester,
Egerton L. Winthrop,
Stephen M. Wright,
James J. Burnet.
DECEASED.
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John T. Hoffman,
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