The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-08
AT LONG BRANCH.
The Presidential Party Arrives Safe at
the SeashOre.

Long Branch, September 6.--The
presidential party arrived here safely
at 1:lo. The President has borne the
journey well, and is not much fatigued.
The physicians express themselves as
highly gratified at the success of the
trip. The train ran direct to the door
of the Francklyn cottage, which the
President is to occupy. A temporary
track connection for this purpose was
commenced yesterday and finished
early this morning. Attorney Gen.
eral MacVeagh, who arrived yester-
day, greeted the party and was highly
pleased at the assuring reports re-
ceived from the Presidents physi-
clans. The Attorney General has
been busy since his arrival attending
to all the minor details of the arrange
ments for the reception of the suffer-
ing President. He has also found
time to watch with anxious interest
the work Of building the branch road.
A detachment of Battery A, First
artillery from Grovernor's Island.
consisting of Captain J. N. Ingalls,,
First Lieutenant L. G.. Patterson,
Second Lieutenant w. G. Rafferty,,
and thirty men, will compose the
military guard of the President at
Elberon. They reached their post
this morning. The battery which is
assigned this honorable duty is one of
the Oldest and most distinguished in
the regular army. 1t was organized
in the war of 1919, and assumed its
spln ff,a,a atar In,
tion of our army in 1921 as military
organization. 1t has seen more than
100 battles, having done service in the
three wars. During most of the re-
bellion it formed part of the army of
the Potomac.
The exact time of the arrival of the
train at Elberon was nine minutes
after l o'clock, New York time. At
twenty minutes after the President
was in his room. His pulse at this
time was 1O2, which was a source of
great satisfaction to the physicians.
His windows look out upon the ocean,
not over 100 feet away, and by open
ing windows and door the breeZes
from the east, south and west can
blow in upon the sick man. To day
the promise of fair weather is good,
and the sound of the sea comes in
over the shore on breezes laden with
tonic saltness. The Presidents car
approached the cottage from the west
and passed around to the eastern
ocean front of the house. The railing
of the broad piazza had been taken
down and the President was carried
on his bed through large double
window into the dining room, and
thence into the large hallway to the
front of the broad staircase. The
staircase is of easy ascent with two
landing. The room at the head of the
stairs, in the northeast corner of the
house, is the Presidents. A part of
the wall along the stairs had been
taken out, so that the bed could easily
be carried up into this room, which is
handsomely furnished, just as Mr.
Francklyn's family left it recently.
Fully two thousand persons assembled
in the neighborhood of the Francklyn
cottage, many of them having taken
places from which they believed an
hour ago that they would be able to
see the President carried into the
house. Their hopes were dashed by
the appearance OF a gang of men at
10 o'clock bearing an awning borrowed
from the surrounding cottages, with
which a covered passage way was
quickly built from the door on the
piazza to the track. The total dis
tance is 230 miles, and the average
running time was thirty-seven miles
per hour, which, embracing stoppages,
is equal to more than forty miles per
hour for the entire trip.