Excerpt from Programme for Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of American Independence on the Third and Fourth of July, 1876: By the People of Jersey City, With the Oration by the Hon. Charles H. Winfield, of Jersey City
Civic associations and citizens generally, who desire to take part in the parade, will please confer with the marshal at once, that he may assign them positions in tine.
There will be in the line a Landau, drawn by four horses, conveying his honor Mayor Charles Seidler, Mr. H. J. Hopper, and the chairman of the committee of arrangements.
At 12 o"clock midnight the American flag wit! be raised on the liberty pole at the junction of Grand and Washington streets, by his honor Mayor Seidler; the flag to be saluted by the firing of thirty-eight (38) guns by Lieutenant Peter Ellers, of battery A, Hudson County artillery; the singing of the "Star Spangled Tanner," by H P. Banks, assisted by the entire audience, who are requested to join in the chorus, and an orchestra of sixty, the ringing of all the church belts in Jersey City, and the blowing of all the steam whistles in the city and harbor.
On the raising of the flag, there wilt also be a magnificent display of pyrotechny, furnished by Mr. J. G. Edge.
Citizens on the line of march are respectfully requested to illuminate their dwellings white the procession is passing, and to decorate their grounds and buildings.
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