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A Nice Question of Etiquette.

To the question of international and official
etiquette the committee devoted itself
with vigor throughout the greater part of a
session which lasted five hours. One of the
vexed questions was as to whether Director
General Davis should ride with the Duke of
Veragua during the Columbian parade and
President Palmer ride with President Cleveland,
or whether President Palmer should
ride with the Duke of Veragua and Director
General Davis with President Cleveland. For
the proper solution of this problem the committee
feels that further deliberation will be
necessary and it will be again taken up at 9
o'clock this morning, when the committee
will meet at its old headquarters in the Rand
McNally Building.

Director of Works Burnham and Col. Rice,
commanding the Columbian Guards, spent
half an hour with the committee during the
afternoon. To Col. Rice was given the charge
of the Columbian parade after it reaches the
entrance to Jackson Park. Director of Works
Burnham was asked as to the advisability of
allowing the cavalry escort to enter the park
in defiance of the rule which forbids the use of
the road by equestrians after the gates are
opened. It was mutually agreed that the
cavalrymen should be allowed to come in.

They much vexed question of a luncheon
which should satisfy the Presidential and
ducal hunger after the long ride to the park
was also finally settled. It will be given immediately
after the completion of the ceremonies
and but fifty people altogether will be
dined. Futhermore, the members of the
Committee on Ceremonies will foot the bill
from their private purses, and in order to
avoid all possible heart burning they will not
be among the elect to sit down with the distinguished
party. While it is not fully decided
in which of the buildings the luncheon
will be served, it is agreed that in the present
condition of the administration restaurant
that building is out of the question.

Cleveland Party to Receive.

A change was made also in the order of
proceedings directly after President Cleveland
shall have touched the magic button. As
previously planned he was to have been escorted
to the Building of Manufactures and
Liberal Arts, and there passed around the circle
of foreign pavilions, presenting to the
Commissioner representing each of the great
powers the national compliments of the occasion.
The Committee on Ceremonies has decided,
however, as the circuit of the great hall
would mean a walk of at least a mile, that it
is too much to ask the Presidential party to
make the journey. President Cleveland,
therefore, after entering the building, will be
escorted to the United States section,
and standing there the party
will hold a reception to the foreign
Commissioners. It is possible, also,
if the exhibits in the Manufactures Building
are not practically completed by May 1, that
the Presidential party will perform this part
of the ceremony in some one of the other great
buildings.