Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-03-26

carriage and were drawn up Penn
sylvania avenue followed by Mr.. Hen
dricks' carriage and the procession
to the grand stand IN front of the
White House where President CIeve-
land reviewed the paraders. 1t took
the procession four hours and forty
minutes to pass the President, march
ing tiirty-two abreast. At Z O'Clock
P. NJ. the pvrotechnic display began in
the Monument Park and for two hours
the sky was made lurid with the
brilliant colors of flaming darts, Ro-
man candles, grenades, rockets and
bombshells. Niagara falls was rep
resented to perfection. The smoke,
the vapor and roar were ali natural;
also the Capitol building in all the
beautiful cOlors known to art and the |
portraits Of George Washington, and |
Cleyel md and Hendricks, each an ex-
act likeness and twenty feet square
At the conclusion of this entertain
ment which was supplemented by
grand rush of 100000 people to the
park gates, INDUCED in with equal
relish by the fair sex who endured
the squeeze with remarkable fortitude,
where was hopelessly blockaaed for
an hour, having drifted with the cur
reut of humanity for three blocks be-
fore I was relieved of the pressure by
the cross streets, the famous Flam-
beau Club of Kansas marched down
the Avenue and gave splendid exhi-
bition of fire works, which was the
GROWING spectacle of the day. did
not attend the ball but was in the
room where it occurred before the ex-
ercises began. The room itself is an
immense court within the interior of
the new Pension building. 1t is 334
feet long, ll6 feet wide and from the
floor TO the ceiling is 80 feet; so you
see 1t would he rather large for house
keeping. 1t would be real annoying
to have to stand IN chair and sweep
the cob-webs down with a broom
There are two rows of columns or pill
lars with four pillars in each row
which support the roof. These rows
of pillars divide the distance from
one end to the other, thus making it
about 100 feet from row to row and
about % feet between the pillars.
The pillars are round, made of brick
and cement but finished off as white
as alabaster and made to resemble the
purest Pariap marble. They are 80
feet high and ten feet in diameter.
Young men with an ear for music and
An eye for beauty, and keen relish
for high wines, who frequent these
fashionable gatherings and conclude
the festivities by saving the streets
lnnmcward, embracing lamp posts and
things promiscunusly, would find il
comforting in the extreme to get
around one of those pillars. The
court house at Mexico could be hid
away in one corner of this room and
YOU would need search warrant t,
find il. 1t must be remarked the ex
, penses in connection with this affair
we're very modest. Dress suit fo
gent. suitable for the occasion, S65
A lady would feel shabby indeed il
| attire,l in dress that cost less tn \,
$3.50. Carriage hire, S10; tickets
lady and gent, $40; programmes S..
! so each; supper So 90; incidental
, $500. These facts, strange to say
h, were most as influential with some peo
: pie as the attractions of the bali.
The western boys carried ava,
S a large share of the honors
2 The Busch Znuaves of ST. Louis wer
2 the finest d,illed military company
Z The Civic Clubs Of Cincinnati wer
J. the most elegant citizens paraders
!. and the Flambeau Cub of Topeks
q Kansas, gave the best entertainment
h of the day.
d. NOTES.
Il 1t was estimated that abou
;. 800, 900 people assembled in the Pls
1t "a in front of the capitol 10 hes
t. Cleveland's inaugural address.
Is " +ell you was present at all e1
III ilro. -iven few days ago b
1t Misslp4 humorist, and Ge
IS W. CabI,'the ssather'f lpoet, and
ii was the literary treat Of the seasol
IN If you ever have an opportunity
re hear Mark Twain don't miss it. T
es will make you laugh up plum stone
" H>l tODeS dilu WtCh tcceu SOu SWs
at lowed when you were boy. 1t WI
n 2 80 A. NJ. 9th inst. when the grac
n full and majestic outlines of the Was
of ington Monument faded from view
ps the recesses of the gloom and dar
ry ness, while we, 12 hours late we
IN scudding down the Potomac wi
d. throttle valve wide open and 120 1t
re, of steam hulging the cylinder hea
ok as our engine was pressed dizzy hea
o. ed southwark. At P. NJ. we pass
lst through the celebrated battle field
nd Manassas, but saw neither appariti
u in gray, hobgoblins in blue. or ia
as o'lanterns. Passed through the sta
'e- of Virginia this morning. Arrive,l
rim state line of n. Carolina at P.
nd The part of Virginia which / pass
for through is about the most deslt,