Announcement is made that the President will receive at 11:00 a.m. ⁠—the Vice-President, the members of the Cabinet and the Diplomatic Corps; at 11:20 a.m. ⁠—the Supreme Court, members of the Judiciary of the District of Columbia, former Cabinet officers and former diplomatic representatives of the United States; at 11:30⁠—Senators, Representatives and Delegates in Congress; at 11:45⁠—Officers of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the Militia of the District of Columbia; at 12:15 p.m. ⁠—Regents and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, all the various Commissions, Assistant Secretaries of Departments, the Solicitor General, Assistant Attorneys-General, Assistant Postmasters-General, the Treasurer of the United States, the Librarian of Congress, the Public Printer, heads of all Bureaus and the President of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; at 12:30 p.m.

⁠—The Secretary of the Cincinnati, the Aztec Club of 1847, the Associated Veterans of the War of 1846⁠–⁠47, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Medal of Honor Legion, the Union Veteran Legion, the Union Veterans’ Union, the Society of the Army of Santiago, the Spanish Minute Men, the Sons of the American Revolution and the members of the Oldest Inhabitants’ Association of the District of Columbia; at 1:00 p.m. ⁠—Citizens.

As all the men present themselves in the dress uniform of their various services or orders, or wearing the decorations they have won in epoch-marking events, one gets a most illuminating view of organised American patriotism.