Program for the opening
PROGRAMME
OF THE
RAIL ROAD OPENING
AT DAYTON,
SEPTEMBER 18, 1851.
The Dayton Artillery Squad will meet at Phillips’ Station, 15 minutes before 6 o’clock A. M. and fire 10 rounds.
The squad will leave Dayton at 7 o’clock in company with citizens of Dayton and other guests with the Saxe Horn Band, for Hamilton. The Squad will fire five guns at each town the train passes.
On arriving in Hamilton, the Artillery Squad will fire 10 rounds, and after reaching Hamilton they will be governed by the arrangements at that place.
The order of firing after leaving Hamilton for Dayton, will be announced to the different Artillery Squads before the trains depart from Hamilton.
The Dayton Artillery Squad in the first train of cars on arriving at the west end of the Miami Bridge will halt until the arrival of the other trains, firing during the intervals and on the arrival of the other trains. The Squad will then fire 10 rounds alternately with the “Red Artillery of Cincinnati.”
The first train will then advance and halt at Main street at which place the visitors with the Saxe Horn Band in front, will form in open order, facing north.
The Second train, with S. M. L’Hommedieu, Esq., President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway, with the Mayors and corporate authorities of Cincinnati, Hamilton, Franklin, Middletown and Miamisburg, and Ministers of the Gospel will advance to the point above indicated.
J. D. Putnam, Esq., will receive President L’Hommedieu in an open carriage. J. Howard, Esq., Mayor of Dayton, will receive the Mayors of the places above named in an open carriage.