Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-04
West Virginians on the Ground
In Force.
Spscial % Lhs ReliSser.


Cleveland slipped into the Arlington,
Hotel at daylight, from the east, so quietly
that it was not generally known until noon
that he was in the city. His Cabinet as an
nounced in this mornings papers is con-
frmed tonight. The appointment OF two
of the members from New York is causing
considerable comment, but after various
shades Of adverse opinion are expressed there
is usually q wind up that he did
the best he could, and Il guess
it's all right anyhow" The House is hav-
ing an altitudinarian time in its death
throes, members joining in singing John
Browns Body" "Dixie," Hail Columbia"
and "Old Folks at Home" The legislative
day will expire at noon to morrow, when
this sessions candle will have burned to the
socket never to be relit
Congressman Wilson tells me the Repre-
sentatives think the Senate treated them
quite shabbily in allowing members but two
tickets each for the inaugural ceremonies.
1t does look,,as if the Senators think their
i'm mportance is as two and half is to one,
greater than that of the Representatives.
The Jam.
The Jam ia increasing every hour and
the broad pavements Of Pennsylvania
avenue are so thronged this evening that
pedestrians must keep in the moving wave
to get along. There is no receding or ad-
vancing beyond the steps and time of the
crowd. Both military and civic organiza
tions are parading the streets every whip
stitch. The arrival Of the regiments OF
Gen. Hsrtranft's Division, Pennsylvania
National Guards with rifles and cleaning
bayonet attachments aud the troops mut-
fled in their army capes and overcoats,
marching like old veterans with drum and
fife music, recalls to mind somewhat the
concentration Of the armies in Washington
at the close Of the war.
Biggest on Record.
Mr. Cleveland is authority for estimating
the number of strangers who will be here
tomorrow at 100000. He may be right,
but everybody is declaring there is over that
many in the city now, and fifty thousand
more to come II on the trains tonight ant
in the morning. Cd insu 5urationists say
it is the biggest thing of the kind on record.
1t outstrips all its predecessors as Maud
S outstrips a cart horse
Sight seers.
While the city never contained so many
Democrats before there are a great many
Republican sight seers also present. The
citizens proper have not let politics
stand in their way. All are
vieing with each other to make
this ouadrennial event. the grandest of all
that have gone betere. The old, old story
over again: The King is dead. God save
the King" Mr.. Cleveland is President,
and with the rank and f!e of both parties,
the partisan is lost in the patriotic and in
1
sniring sentiment which rises intuitively IN
the mind and bubbles over as each says to
to himself, this is genuine Repubfcanism,
and am an American.
Their Name Is Legion.
had some thought at first, to mention
the names of tew Wheelingites who are
here but that is useless, their name
Is legion and therefore impossible.
II would be easier for
REGISTER readers to cast their eyes around
and see who is at home than for me to tell
who is here. don't know how to account
for it except from cOutiguity, but Wes: Er
s;niaps are as numerous as shoal o'
msckeral of Cape Ann; which reminds me
Judge Ferguson, of Kanawha, has been aP
ro;nted chief counsel of the Chesapeake 4
Ohio Railroad. Mr.. St. Clair, whose elo
ouence and ability you all know, was hi
comuetitor and came within one of getting
there. .
The weather continues fine and quit
moderate for the season. This afternoon
saw = few ladies obscuring their faces from
the rays of the sun, with Parasols-
I Among the foremost Of the fine marehinI
o,nhs already here is Tammsny. 1t mum
hers eco strong. The members are fin
looking body Ofmen and with their sill
hats black frocks, canes and blue and gol
badges, have taken the town. Sales OF seat
an the avenue in position to see the PFC
eession are selling rapidly, varying trou
ons to Eve dollars according to position
The prospective Democratic marshal