The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-03-11
GaRrlELD's IMAGINATION.
The Largest Crowd and the
Finest Display ever
witnessed.
For the HERALD.

here safely at II o'clocN"n night OF III
2nd, and was metz at the DEPOT by friend
who had kindly provided quarters 70
az. We spent Thursday looking owe
the city and seeing the sights. TIA
weather was favorable up to lhursda.
evening when snow.begm to fail an'
make IL very disagrccablc. by TIL
time the streets were full Of people
PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, the main stree
OF the city, was crowded from II ens
TO the other, and especially at the Ealtl
more II. r. depot where Gen. llanc0cR
was expected to come in. There weft
men, boys, women, negroes, with bands
of music, as well as the military. The
train arrived and Gen. Hancock Was
enthusiastically received by the curious
crowd. The carriage in which he was
placed passed through the streets with
diniculty-thc admiring crowd wanting
the horses taken ont and let them pull
it to his hotel.
Friday morning oprned Win a DC
north wind nov and water in the
streets but even this did not deter the
crowd who Lad come, some OF them
thousands of miles, to see Garfield
sworn in. BY y O'Clock the avenue
AMI crossings was a solid mass Of hu-
manity from the Capitol to the White
House CabOut IL niles not only the
Avenue, and it is 100 yards wide most
of the way, was crowded, but seats had
been prepared up over the %payements
aad ia the store windows, and these
were all full. The crowd was csylma-
ted by many at 10000, and | don't
think that number any too large.
The tine arrived, Vice President
Arthur was first sworn in at the Senate
chamber, then next Gen. Garfield, who
delivered his address from the east side
of the Capitol. The procession then
formed to move to the White House,
headed by the city police, and a rcgi-
ment of infantry, followed by General
Garfield and cx-PresideEt Hayes in II
carriage. Following next were civil
societies from all over lthc country,
military organizations Of all kinds, po-
litical clubs, fire departments, &c. The
proces lion was , hours and - minutes
passing a given point and was cstima-
t Il to be six miles in length. 1t was
certainly one Of the most magnificent
displays Of the kind ever witnessed.
At nightthe crowd were treated to =
magnificent display of fireworks from
near the Treasury building. The next
hing on hand was the Inaugural ball
but as | didn't;attend ! can not say
anything about it..
have met up with many acquain-
here that | made ar the Chicago
convention. BY the way while think
Of it, | met up with three men out of
he crowd Of one hundred thousand
visitors that don't want any office.
Postmaster General Maynard welcomed
lis many friends yesterday at his Of
ice. lie /. not in the new Cabinet,
greatly to the disappointment Of his
supporters. As far as | can learn Mr..
Maynard is highly esteemed by all the
department. officers and clerks.
There are a great many Tennessecans
here. They met at 72l Sth street yes
.erday, and elected Mr.. Jarvis chair
man and w. S. Upton secretary Of the
delegation, and chose Maj. Pettibonc as
spokesman and proceeded to cali Oh
.he new President. The new delcga-
ion was kindly received, and all come
,way pronouncing MIR. Garfield a
bully boy"
One OF tie funny incidents was,
frank Kelly and the old man CHATS
lad) walked all the way up capitol hill
o see the inauguration, and stepped
nto n restaurant to get a stew, and by !
he time they came out to see 1t, it was
Ill OYER, 1t put me in mind Of the fell
Ow that walked twenty miles TO see Il
race, stepped behind Il tree to
axe Il drink, and when he was ready
he race was run.
Frank has the hardest time. On our
way here we took breakfast at WyLhe-
lille and they charged IS cents per
read, Frank declared he would "lunch" !
t from that on, that no man could eat
; cents worth in 10 minutes. At
.ynchbUrg Frank tried The lunch bus !
ness lie gave Il boy 23cents 20 bay n
uncl for him and never saw the boy or I
unch afterwards. But Frank is not
lone with his troublcs-there Is the {
I'D man again-he has "A hard time
With the street ears. They always take
Tin beyond where he wants to go; then
hey bring him raw meats at the res
aurant. Sam DeArmond and j. W.
are on hand with pleasing
.ountcnances,
lfTom Montgomery ever gets back
. Cleveland look out for big "yarns."
Among the delegations that called
lpon the Prcsindont Saturday was
me from Tennessee, which Included
lcarly all the members of the State Il
legislature, who came here in n body u
attend the inaugural ceremonies, i
nd other visitors from the State. t
NE party, which numbered about t
ne hundred and fifty gentlemen, |
allied by appointment at the White g