The Brookhaven leader., 1886-07-29
CLEVELAND AT ALBANY.

The President and Party at the BI-Centen-
nIaI of AIbany's sIncorporatiOn-A Cordial
.weIcome-The President Makes Short
Speech mt the Rink In Response to Per-
sIstent Calls.
ALBANY, N. Y, July 22.-The entire
populace has to-day given themselves up
to celebrating the Incorporation Of the
city two hundred years ago. The first
important event this morning was the ar
rival OF President Cleveland. Before six
o'clock the Burgess Corps, under COM
mand of Major YanZandt, marched to
the West Shore depot and waited the
coming of the train. Mayor Thatcher
and several hundred other citizens were
also in waiting. The Mayor, In behalf OF
the city, welcomed the President and
thanked him for coming to join In cele-
brating the anniversary Of Albany's natal
day. The President greeted his friends
warmly and said it gave him pleasure to
be with them again Secretaries Bayard
and Whitney and Private Secretary La
mont, with the President, and the Burgess
Corps as an escort, took up their march.
The President was driven to the Gov
ernor's mansion. Governor Hill received
the Presidents party as his guests.
The exercises at the rink did not begin
until 2:15 O'Clock, although twelve
O'Clock was the hour assigned for the be-
ginning. An overture from william
Tell by the orchestra, was followed by
PRAYER bv Bishop Doane. Governor Hill
then delivered the oraiion OF the day,
after which Mayor Thatcher attempted to
announce the next thing on the pro-
gramme, but his voice was drowned by
crics of "Cleyeland" "Cleveland!"
"Clevelandr" The President arose,
bowed and sat down again in his chair
in the center OF the platform beside Gov
ernor Hill. This did not satisfy the au-
diencp, and the calls were renewed with
aided vigor. Finally the President arose
and, advancing TO the front of the plat
-Drm, said:
CITIZENS OF ALBASY: I come here to-day
az an invited guest 10 a family reunion. !
dcS to ne mod 81 and not m nZle too
freely in the congratulations and cclebra.
tions which beloug more properly 20 you
do not wish to sound singie note OF dis-
cord, bat ! have heard 50 much OF the
Datch, and OF this Deng Du.ch city. so
aud OF is customsi tat tat. wien
remember that oI,s- dwe,s whs,bar two
am IN tn rtg t place or not At the risk of
creatin4H i=eordance VIII say that at that
time Dutch was not the LANGUAGE OF tne
town. The people sp Fc English and to me
words in English of kindness that j will
never forget. ] am glad however, tnat you
have got your charter When lived mere 10
was, / think, under "a charter, but according
to NV rome .uber0nce II was a charter pa sed
by the LEGISLATURE Of the state IN the nrst
year spent here, and approved by me.
must not d"tain Xou jon+eF, nut cahhos
refrain from expressing 70 you my apprecia-
tion Of the KIN lne~s with v ich Nou nave
received M. 0r fro repeating the honeiy
and old fashioned wish, may the citizens OF
Albany and their descendants see many
happy returns of the day.
ceived with applause. When he sat down
the audience called upon Secretary
Bavard for speech, and he said few
words. Secretary Whitney also grace.
fully yielded to a similar demand.
At conclusion of the exercises, Prest-
dent Cleveland, Secretaries Whitney and
Bavard and ex-Mavor Banks drove to
Secretary Manning's residence where they
renamed about an hour. They then
drove to the Governors residence, where
together with Secretary Manning, Lieu
tenant-GoyeruOr Jones, Rufus w. Peck
ham, Colonel Lamonte and others, they
dned with the Governor at so p. m.
In the evening thousands of Albanians
and guests hlocked out to Washington
park, where an elaborate display OF fire.
works was given.
After dinner al the executive mansion
= the Governor ana PfeSlNehJaI party went
to the Senate Champer, where public
reception was held. In front OF the Speak
er's desk stood the President, Governor
Hill and Secretaries Bayard and Whitney
and ex-senator Herman. They were
| fianked on either side by gold laced
members of the Governors staff. The
chamber was thronged Wit assembly,
men, Senat ors and citizens. A line was
formed and for more than an hour men,
women and children passed by and
shook hands with the President, the
Governor and secre aries, while musical
selections were given by a band in an
adjoining room.