The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-15
LOGAN IN PHILADELPHIA.

LOGAN IN PHILADELPHIA.
One oe the Grandest Professions Ever
Seen i'm the Quaker City.
PHILADELPHIA, October 9.-Gen-
eral John A. Logan arrived at the
Broad Street station at 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, after a pleasant
trip from Washington, in charge OF
a committee of the young Republi-
cans, whose guest he is in this city.
At the Relay House near Balti-
more. General Beaver who was on
his way home from West Virginia,
got on the train and joined the party
in Gen Logans car, where Senator
Cooper also spent most Of his time.
General Logan frequently went into
the other cars to chat with the CON-
mittee. He seemed full of hope but
said little about the campaign.
When General Logan entered the
side door of the Academy OF Music
last night the few who saw him
come in clapped their hands. Sew
eral hundred who were massed on
the great stage took up the applause
with hand and voice, and before the
black haired candidate could
make his way to the front three
thousand people were greeting him
with their utmost strength. Every
part of the building from the floor
to the roof was crowded. AS Cen
eral Logan stepped to the footlights
the cheering was supplemented with
waving of hats and handkerchiefs,
and the scene was as exciting as the
tumult. The object of the enthusi-
asm stood in a proud attitude for
half a minute, while the cheering
was renewed several times. Mrs.
Logan was in a private box on the
left of the stage. General Beaver,
who came forward on his crutches
before General Logan had taken his
seat, was also cheered with great en-
thusiasm. Some one then proposed
three cheers for Logan and they
were thoroughly well given, and
three for Beaver. which were given
Just as heartily.
The five corners where Ridge and
Fairmount avenues and Broad street
meet were a cross between pande-
monium and Gehenna for a good
two hours before the great process
sion moved. The intersection of
the streets makes the place the worst
one in Philadelphia from which to
start parade. 1t rained for the
first half hour, then drizzled the
rest of the time.
MAKING A START.
Finally at twenty minutes past
nine, it was concluded that the
Black Eagles feathers were not can
vass backed enough to stand the
rain and the procession started. The
Veterans Club, with their tattered
battle flags, had passed, and the
Young Republicans, with Horace D..
Cav at their head were well on their
way when closed coupe ratified up
through the crowd. Chief Stewart
and Captain Quirk, looking through
the window, saw black moustache
on one seat and crutch on the 9TH
er. They knew that Beaver, the
veteran, who was MANNED, and Lo-
gan the veteran who went to the
Senate, had arrived. No one else
was in the secret, and the two gener-
ais remained in the cab until the
grand barouche, with ITS four horses,
was brought up by Edwin S. Stuart
Then General Logan stepped cut and
waved his high hat as if it were a
sombrero and he on the plains.
The crowd responded enthusiastical-
ly and a yell went up that made the
torches flare. General Logan walk
ed across the wet cobble-stones to
the carriage, General Beaver follow
ed and the procession moved on
ward up Fairmount avenue with an
other yell.
ALONG THE LINE OF MARCH.
The pavement was crowded from
Broad to Twentieth streets. Down
the latter the mass was thinner. As
the long fiery snake of torches kept
on unwinding its coils around the
corner of Broad street and Fair
mount avenue the crowd which was
there densest began to break for
Chestnut street and the Continental.
That's the gun from Eleventh
street" said Mayor Smith, as he
strobe the corridor of the hotel, when
the Union Republican Club saluted
the head of the column at five min
utes past eleven. Five minutes lat
er the helmets of the six mounted
Reserves showed through the crowd.
Then came the chief marshal and
his aids. A moment more and the
candidates carriage, which had been
maneuvred TO the head of the pro-
cession during the march, rolled
around to the Ninth street entrance
of the hotel and halted.
Its Young Republican body-guard
stormed it and jumped in over the
box, the back and the wheels, every
where but the door. General Logan
shook more hands and had more
coal oil dropped down his back in
thirty seconds than ever man had
before since politics were inyen-
ted.
ON THE HOTEL BALCONY.
A white.haired lady rushed out OF
a bedroom on the first floor an in
slant after the door of the parlor
which opens upon the stone balco.
ny of the hotel had closed on the
General.
"It's too late, Mrs. Logan said
an excited gentleman.
''Oh dear, l wish he'd waited to
change his wet Clothes" was the re-
sponse, and bare-headed Mrs. Logan
went straight to her liege lords side.