THE FIRST DAY.

In accordance with the programme arranged by the committee, a procession was formed in front of City Hall at 9.30 o'clock A. M., and consisted of seven divisions, representing nearly five hundred distinguished citizens of the State, many of whom had been prominently identified with the growth and development of the city for more than a half century.

The several divisions marched to the First Baptist Meeting-House on North Main street in the following order:

ESCORT.

Police Department under command of Deputy Chief John T. Brown American Band, Bowen R. Church, Leader.

General Elisha H. Rhodes, Marshal of the Day.

Colonel Philip S. Chase, Assistant.

Aids: Fred. M. Rhodes, Harry H. Butts, Arthur Rogers.

First Division.

Arthur H. Armington in charge.

His Honor Gilbert F. Robbins, Acting Mayor.

Committee of Arrangements:

Thomas B. Ross, Chairman, Henry T. Root, Arthur H. Watson, William B. Blanding, Augustus S. Miller, Daniel F.

Hayden, Secretary.

Honorable Thomas Durfee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Orator of the Day.

His Excellency the Governor, George Peabody Wetmore, Lieutenant
Governor Lucius B. Darling, Adjutant General Elisha Dyer, Jr.,
Quartermaster General Charles R. Dennis, Assistant Surgeon
General George H. Kenyon, Judge Advocate General
George Lewis Gower, Assistant Adjutant General

Hunter C. White, Colonels Charles A. Wilson,
Theodore A. Barton, Isaac L. Goff, of the

Governor's Personal Staff.

His Honor Frederic C. Sayles, Mayor of Pawtucket, and Ezekiel G. Robinson, D. D., LL. D., President of Brown University.

Rev. David H. Greer.

Committee of the Rhode Island Historical Society:

President William Gammell, and Messrs. B. B. Hammond, Isaac H.
Southwick, William Staples, Horatio Rogers, John P. Walker.

Committee of Rhode Island Veteran Citizens
Historical Association :

Secretary Frederic Denison, Thomas J. Hill, Thomas Davis, William
F. Hammond.

Second Division.

George T. Hart in charge.

Invited Guests.

State Officers:

Secretary of State, Joshua M. Addeman; General Treasurer, Samuel

Clark; State Auditor, Samuel H. Cross.

Members of the State Board of Education.

Judges of the United States and Supreme Courts.

Honorable George M. Carpenter, Honorable John H. Stiness, Honorable Pardon E. Tillinghast, Honorable Charles Matteson,

Honorable George A. Wilbur.

Members of the General Assembly.

Ex-Mayors Honorable Jabez C. Knight, Honorable George L. Clarke, Honorable Amos C. Barstow, Honorable William S. Hayward.

City Officials.

City Auditor, James M. Cross.

City Treasurer, Benjamin Tripp.

Judge of the Municipal Court, Joseph E. Spink.
Superintendent of Health, Charles V. Chapin.

Recorder of Deeds, Gustavus A. Williamson.

Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, George A. Steere.
Deputy Chief Engineer, Holden O. Hill.

Superintendent of Public Buildings, Obadiah Slade.
Superintendent of Lights, Samuel B. Swan.

City Engineer, Samuel M. Gray.

Harbor Master, James T. P. Bucklin.
Overseer of the Poor, George W. Wightman.

Inspector of Buildings, Spencer B. Hopkins.
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Oliver E. Greene.
City Registrar, Edwin M. Snow.

Inspector of Steam Boilers, James H. Munroe.

Gauger, John E. Burroughs.

Justices of the Police Court, Elias M. Jenckes, Joseph S. G. Cobb. Surveyor of Lumber, Nathaniel C. Bushee.

Public Administrator, Jonathan G. Parkhurst.

Inspector of Milk, Edwin E. Calder.

Inspector of Kerosene, William D. Child.

Commissioners of North Burial Ground, Oren Westcott,
Gorham Thurber.

Viewer of Fences, John H. Cottrell.

Board of Public Works, Charles E. Carpenter, Clinton D. Sellew, Charles H. Hunt.