River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-12
THE NEW PRESIDENT.
Cleveland and Hendricks Inaugurated
as President and Vice President of
the United States.
The Assembled Thousands Greet the
New Chief Magistrate With Thun-
ders of Acclaim.
A Most Imposing Military and Civic
Parade Follows the Inaugu-
raj Ceremonies.

A Most Imposing Military and Civic
Parade Follows the Inaugu-
raj Ceremonies.
The gentlemen named were inaugurated
to-day as president and yice-president, re-
spectively of the United States of America.
The installation of the first Democratic ex-
ecutive for twenty-four years was made the
occasion of demonstration of extraordinary
magnitude. marked by degree of enthusi-
asm not often witnessed The event was
celebrated by the booming of cannon, the
waving of countless flags and banners, the
music of so brass bands, varied by scream
of fife, blast Of bugle and roll of drum, and
above all the uproarious shouts and cheers
of the great multitude that literally packed
the principal streets of the capital city.
Providence smiled graciously upon Grover
Cleveland, if bright skies and comfortable
stage of the thermometer may be construed
as an evidence of divine favor. The petit
tons for good weather appeared 10 have
been answered, and everybody was happy
The chill of winter had not gone entirely
from the air, but it was as warm as could
early in March, and it was possible to sit or
stand for hours without serious discomfort
The troops forming the first division or
escort to the presidential party were under
arms at a very early hour, and began arriv-
ing at the point of organization west of the
White House, as early as 8 o'clock. The
regular troops were the first there, and com
prised light battery and twelve foot bat
teries, eight of these being of the Second
artillery and the others one each of the other
artillery regiments from Fortress Monroe 1t
is a queer circumstance that by the orders of
Maj. Gen Hancock, who commands all the
troops stationed east of the Mississippi, none
of the captains of the five batteries stationed
at the Fortress Monroe artillery school were
allowed to come here with their commands
the batteries being commanded here to-day
by ieuuenants The regular line was
formed along the north side of the
avenue beyond the White House, with
the right resting ON Seventeenth
street by the Corcoran art gallery, and with
the light battery of the Second artillery in
Lafayette place, just in the rear These
troops were formed in two Eattalions, form
ing brigade, under the command of Lieut.
Col LOOMS L LanQdon, of the Second
artillery with the battalions commanded by
Col l. [. Livingston Fourth artillery, and
Mai c. b. Throckmorton, of the Second.
Those are familiar names to the readers of
war history as old commanders of ola shing
light batteries in the field during the war
None of them can ride now as light as they
did twenty odd years ago, when they used
to take their guns into action with swing
at hard eallop; and Throckmorton (who is of
the old Kentucky Throckmorton stock rides
now so heavily that it takes a seventeen
hands high horse to carry him, and even
then the horse was pitied to-day The
marines and others of the escorU division
were formed near by, so that when the time
came and
THE ARTILLERY BRIGADE
broke from the right and marched down in
division front which extended almost across
the broad avenue, they and the other troops
following in and the procession moved as
promptly and regularly as clOckwork There
was no delay whatever in the movement of
the procession, and at 1870, the hour
named, it extended down the broad space OPP
posite the White House through Fifteenth
street, past the treasury, and along Pennsyl-
vania avenue as tar as Wizards, where it
halted for the presidential carriage to fall In
At the Arlington the PomerOy house annex,
where Mr. Cleveland was quartered, was
alive at a very early hour, although the new
ruler did not seem at all to hurry himself,
but turned out and breakfasted with about
the same deliberation that he prob
ably did when he administered the
affairs of the state of New York
His breakfast, at which were present Messrs
Villas and Whitney and Col Barrett, was fin
ished just at 10 o'clock Before this Daniel
Manning was with Mr.. Cleveland for little
time, and the quiet and ubiquitous Col La
mont was in the lower passageway, aiding
Sergeant Dinsmore in the struggle with the
people who would insist in being where they
were not needed nor wanted Lamont and
his family, as soon as
MR.. CLEVELAND DROVE AWAY,
took a carriage and drove rapidly through
by-streets to the capitol Scarcely was the
breakfast completed when the private car
rage of President Arthur, drawn by the four
handsome dark bay horses that all Washing
ton knows so well, drew up in front of the
private entrance to Mr.. Clevelands quarters,
driven by albert, =" the coachman of Grant,
Hayes Garfield and Arthur At almost the
same moment, Senators Sherman and Ran
som appeared and were shown up stairs, and
in less than five minutes they reappeared,
escorUing the president-elect and entering
he carriage, Cleveland and Sherman taking
the rear seats and Senator Ransom the front
dense crowd, numbering at least 5000, filed
the street in front clear across to the park
railing and around in East Lafayette place,
and as soon as the chief magistrate appeared
and was recognized a ringing, hearty cheer
went up that gave the signal to the troops and
multitude a square away The carriage was
\ lxyt b0 70
ident Arthur received the party in the blue
parlor, and as soon as the troops began to move
the party returned to the carriage, Arthur and
Cleveland taking the rear and Senators Sher-
man and Ransom the front seat In the
meantime Senator Hawley had escorted Vice
President Hendricks from his quarters al
Wizards to the White House in q carriage
drawn by four white horses, the leading
team being a beautiful pair Of Arabs, owned
by the livery stable man who furnished the
teams At the White House the spare seat
I'm the Hendricks carriage was filed by ex-
Senator Barnum and Senator German, and
the carriage followed tnat of Arthur out
through the west drive TO the avenue, where
1t took position in
THE PROCESSION,
which promptly moved forward at l0:45 a
III Mr.. Arthur has not been noted for being
on time on great occasions, but to-day the
most eXacting pedagogue that ever birched
boy for hardness could have found no fault
with him. As | have said above, the column
after pulling out rested al Wizards Then
Mai Gen. Ayres was leading with his staff
and looking so young a hOrSeman that il
seemed almost impossible that more than
twenty wears had passed since he commanded
one of the divisions O5 the old Sixth corps
under SeduwicI and Wright His aides
looked ike Young mon but most of them
too, We're veterans of the war. Ahead fully
thirty yards rode 4 platoon of mounted
policemen. under the Immediate command
of Gen. William NJ Dye. the chief of police
cause he IS a West Pointer This little squad
despite the business OF Gen. Dye, succeeded
in clearing the avenue OF the masses that
overlooked from the footways, and by dill
gent effort the numerous specials and the
occasional regular policeman along the route
kept the broad avenue more clear Of people
than have ever seen it before on great oc-
casions. except at the carnival held here on
Washingtons birthday in 1871, to celebrate
the laying Of the inst pavement along the
avenue But then Gov Shepherd managed
the affair ana when he decided on thing il
became an accomplished fact The column
proper was led by the most excellent band
of Il G Second artillery, but just behind the
Frs battalion came the artillery school
band from Fortress Monroe, and that insist
ed on playing all the time, so that the eff
feet of
THE MUSIC WAS BEwILDERING,
on account of the slight space that sepa-
rated them Just as one became enthusias-
tic with Garry Owen, by the artillery band
the other distracted with the conspirstors