New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-20
THE DAY AT LEXINGTON.

INCONVENIENCE OF TIE JOURNEY FROM CONCORD
TO LEXISGroN-DELAY IN THE PRESIDENTS
ARRIvAI-THE BANQUET AND PROCESSION NOT
ENTIRELY sUCCEssFUL-THE PEOPLE SATISFIED
WITH TIE FIRST PART OF THE DAYS EXER-
ClsEs-UNvAuING OF TIE STATUES OF JOHN
HAECOCK AND SAMUEL ADAMS BY THE HON.
CHARLES HUpsoN-MR. DASA's GRAFTON
lDr TELEGRAPH FROM STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF
TRBUNEl
LEyISGTON April 19.-1he Middlcscx Cen
trail Railroad wed itself early In the day miseraby
incompetent the task OF carrying people between Con-
cord and Lexington that teams were in active request
and wherc the latter could not be had it was better TO
foot six miles than TO creep like snail in the ears
But later in the day even the ears were not to be
had for the Administration seemed to have given up In
despair and gone home, leaving the people to contem
plate the station at their leisure When started for
Lexington the statonhouse platform and the railroad
track seemed though 1t were covered with swarm
Of bees, and suppose they are stu
hanging there, and waiting for some one to hive
them. On reaching Lexington 1t soon appeared that
there very different state of things from that
which reigncd In Concord. A mob OF Boston men had
taken possession Of the town; mob disposed TO
be as orderly mob can be, and one
that might easily have been kept in order, but which
naturally got moro and out Of control as the
day wore on, aud at night it was decidedly out OF
bounds 1t pity but it is tle that all things did not
go well In Lexington, though everything had been
generously planned, and well planned, too, II 100
much had not been taken for granted do not want to
say more than can he helped about the rivalry that ex-
lists between Lexington and Concord In relation TO tue
18th OF April but the rivalry does certainly exist AMI
its operation to-day made things decidedly uncoHfort
able. The people OF Lexington manifested much
mpatence the delay OF tho President in arriving and
were not little rratrd at his going TO Concord first and
giving them the second place Rightly or wrongly,
they attribute this disarrangcment OF their plans
and the consequent muddle OF the day to the
influence OF Judge T.. II. II0ar, whose affection
for Concord was shown on this occasion by insisting on
having separate celebration, refusing 10 unite the two
towns and then in pretty much monopolzing
the President for the use and behoof OF Concord.
The Lexington people cleared their minds cOnsid
oraly to-day this subject aud, IL II be true that
peoples ears prick and sting when folks are talking
against them behind their backs Judge Hoar must have
felt all day that he had severe attack Of erysipelas In
his ears. Tie crowd proved mo o truc prophet,
for before the President arrived at least
half the invited guests had divided the
fat and lean Of banquet between tem had licked the
platers clean, and were standing the tables In we'll
filed expectation Great the preparations were, when
the President entered the dinner biyouack mess
and not dinner all. But II may BE- generally conceded
that man on this occasion cold, hungry, jadcd
and disgn,ed and went by the board, as they
are said TO do In . shipwreck. After tho din
ner failure came the procession, which not only
would have made horse laugh, but am persuaded did
cause a great many horselaughs The Concord process