Show MAY TLrAAT A TTtttE I LI Hung Chung Will Be Given an I Opportunity to Make Himself I j Useful I NEW YORK Aug 29Park Commissioners i Com-missioners McMillan and Ely called upon the mayor yesterday ana made arrangements for the planting of a tree by Li Hung Chang The ceremony will be had on Sunday afternoon The selection of the tree will be left to the viceroy I is proposed to have it planted near Grants tomb in Riverside park parkI will be remembered that upon the j I occasion of the visit of the Prince of I Wales to this country in 1860 he planted I a tree in Central park i ExSecretary William C Whitneys residence at the corner o Fifth avenue and Fiftyseventh street was being put t j I 1 in readiness yesterday for the reception i recep-tion which President Cleveland will I give there to Li Hung Chang i The reception will take place in the I splendid ballroom The viceroy wiTi I stand with the president under the I main mantelpiece over which was draped yesterday two Chinese flags caught up in a festoon by a gilded I American eagle Over this is draped the stars and stripes Beyond this t and the potted palms which are distributed I i dis-tributed about the ballroom and the I I main entrance there are no special decorations for the interior of the I house is so beautifully ornamented that any temporary additions to it would look garrish and out of place The invitations for the reception are exclusively in the hands of the secretary secre-tary of state for the function is purely a governmental affair The reception will 0 of the most formal character I will in no sense i be a public affair I will be under the same regulations as those of receptions recep-tions to ministers in Washington I |