The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-13
A GREAT JAN.
Reception Of the President I'm Chicago
Gov. Culiom and Committeeman How
Robbed of Their Watches


Reception of the President I'm Chicago
Gov. Culiom and Committeeman How
Robbed of Their Watches.
tFrom the Chicago Times1
The coolest inhabitant," who was
present on the Exposition main balcony
In discouraging numbers, had never
seen 80 immense a congregation of peo-
pie in this city. The number was vari-
ously estimated at from 80. 900 to 100,-
600 persons. Probably $4,000 would
not be far from the actual number.
At about ] 80 o'clock the sudden APP
pearance of Lieut.. Hathaway and q
dozen policemen was hailed as an indi-
cation of the Presidential approach.
A sudden and furious assault by these
officers on the crowd in the middle of
the street confirmed the hopes their ap-
pearance had raised. A wild yell testi-
fed the qualification with which this in
timation was received. The policemen
frantically pushed and showed the peo-
pie back only to see them close in again
behind them. Several times they re-
turced to the charge and saw their labor
wasted before the corner of Van Buren,
street was turned by bedy of their
comrades, marching at company front.
A rush In that direction was instantly
made, and the company was seen to
halt. Once more the police bore into the
street, this time reinforced by two or
three exceedingly corpulent comrades
on horseback, who rode directly at the
people, and in that way succeeded in
COMPRISING them to the westward.
The Exposition building, which had
been decorated with immense flags and
bouquets and tropical plants. was occu-
pied by the Reception Committee, Gen.
Ducat's staff, and number of the more
distinguished strangers, who watched
the proceedings below with the liveli-
est interest. OF a sudden these gentle
men saw the Presidents carriage and
its escort of cavalry turn into Adams
street from Wabash avenue, evidently
with design to stop at the main en-
trance. The impossibility of any such
thing being at once recognized, three or
four OF the younger and more spry men,
bers of the Reception Committee made
rapid time down stairs, got out, called
in the assistance of the police, and
fought their way through to meet the
party. The wise and easy thing would
have been to turn the carriages back
, and send them around to the northwest
corner of the building by Wabash ave-
nue. and Monroe street, 80 that the
President could have been carried to
the very staircase of the balcony with
out inconvenience. Instead of this,
however, they induced the occupants of
the carriage to "get out and walk"
The result was frightiul. The crowd
| Il al hat IL
in their midst. Those nearest him turned
around and were pressed close upon his
great round body by the eager thousands
behind them who burned to get nearer.
Yells, cheers, and cries of pain and i'm
patience rose and swelled into uuiver-
sal roar, which attracted the notice of
those at the extreme ends, who con-
tributed to it and pushed toward the
center. Gov. Cullom OH one side of the
President and George M. How on the
other were squeezed into his ribs in
most uncomfortable manner. Worse
than that, because they struggled to get
on, they were pitched into. What
amounted to almost fight grew out of
this state of affairs. The trio were unable
to get beyond the northwest corner of
Adams street and the avenue. For five
minutes the crowd on the balcony
watched Mr.. How's white hat as it bobbed
back and forth over space of sor1e two
square feet. It was the only mark by
which the whereabouts of the nations
chief magistrate could be known. Then
Mr.. How's cane was seen to go up. He
had gotten his left arm comparatively
free and was making a feeble attempt to
flourish it for assistance. Quick as a
flash, while the cane and the white hat
lurched southwark few inches an UNI
brella was seen to whack tall hat about
two feet from it, and the struggle thick
ened. Then q dozen policemen, direct
ed from the balcony, tore to the rescue
and began to haul the people out and
send them flying to the east side of the
street. Two minutes of this lively work
opened lane through which, to the
music of a deafenipg cheer, the Presi-
dent, the Governor, and Mr.. How
walked painting toward the building.
Then it was discovered that the hat
which the umbrella had smitten was
Gov. Cullom's and that during the exer-
tons he made to get it from over his
eyes (his hands being up) some one had
robbed him of his watch. The discovery
of this outrage was followed by another
that when Mr.. How got his left arm
up, some one had relieved him of his
watch also. Undoubtedly the indus
trious gentlemen who made this haul
would have taken the time-piece of their
beloved President also, had he not been
buttoned from throat to waist in an
Albert coat. He was hurried up to the
balcony, and walked to the front thereof
with a very warm look, putting and purs-
ing his lips very like an ordinary man
oppressed with heat.
Orville Grants Insanity.