Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-08-15

cabin was packed to its utmost limits,
and heads were thrust in through the
windows from the deck without, eager
to hear every word spoken. The great
est enthusiasm prevailed and every
point made was quickly seized and
cheered. An outburst Of cheering fol-
lowed the conclusion of the bret speech.
Mr.. Blaine was escorted into the
ladies saloon, where he received a
number of his friends. In little
while he assembled to the saloon on the
upper deck where he received the con-
gratulations of ALL having a pleasant
word TOR ali who greeted him. While
there he was handed an address by Ed
ward Fitzwilliam, Of Boston, represent
ing the workingmen's protective union
OF Massachusetts. He was also present
ed with an address by Murat Halstead,
representing the Young Mems Blame
Club of Cincinnati
The Starin then steamed up the North
River with the band playing and its
passengers INDUCING in frequent cheers
for Blaine. All along the river it was
escorted by the police boat Patrol, the
Chicago Blaine Clubs tug and other YES
sells while constant series of shrill sa-
lutes from the steam whistles from boats
it passed, marked its progress to the
pier at Twenty-second Street and the
North River where Mr.. Blaine and all
on board disembarked.
The police landed from the patrol and
preserved order, while others already
stationed at the entrance to it prevented
the large crowd waiting in the street
from surging in. Mr.. Blaine was es-
corted to an open carriage by
Messrs Pool and Bartlett, Of the Re-
publican Club, and was at once driven
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel where rooms
had been engaged for him. Mrs.
Blaine, Miss Blaine, Miss Dodge, Walk
er Blaine, Mr.. and Mrs. James G.
Blaine and others were rapidly driven
to the hotel in other carriages awaiting
the party on the pier. Events as they
occurred on the boat from
the moment Mr.. Blaine board
ed it, were quickly recorded and
sent to the Associated Press by
carrier pigeons. A pigeon Mrs. James
q. Blaine, Jr., dispatched at Quarantine
earlier in the morning arrived at its des-
tlnatlOn with its message within half
an hour from the time it left her hands.
A second pigeon was sent away by Mrs.
Carson Lake and third by Mrs. Alex
ander Sullivan.
The corridors of the Fifth Avenue Ho-
tel were crowded this morning by
prominent hopuOllcdnS, members OF
the Republican Club and others who
had gathered to greet Blaine on his ar
rival there. 4 posse of police, under
command of Sergt. Sheldon, of the
Nineteenth Precinct, was on hand,
stationed outside the hotel, and
when word was received that Blaine
was on the way from the North River,
the police escorted delegation of mem
bers of the Republican Club from
their rooms in Twenty-second Street.
Seated in the reading room was Levi
P. Morton and about the corridors were
Whitelaw Reid, VIM. Walter Phelps,
Murat Haistead, Chairman Quay Of
the National Committee and Thomas c.
PIatt. A few minutes after IL o'clock,
Mr.. Blaine arrived and was greeted
with general cheers. He went immedi-
ately to his room, but cries of speech
brought him to the head of the stairs,
when he said:
Just word to thank you for your tribute. It
is the grandest sight and the most cheerful
sound have heard for year.
He then went to the suite of apart
ments which had been prepared for
him, and where his family had already
gone. 1t consists of FIVE rooms, 70, so,
81, 80 and IS, situated on the Twenty
third Street and Fifth Avenue corner of
the second floor