Evening journal., 1889-04-30


the Equitable building by the Lawyers club
At last the straight line OF mounted police,
which precedes the carriages, is seen from the
distance, and hum Of expectation runs
through the crowd The hand is now play
ing Hail to the Chiefn and Yankee Doodle z
and as if with one voice this enormous throng
of humanity gives vent to its pent up feeling
Of patriotism in one mighty cheer, and then
another and another, until the carriages con-
tanning the dignitaries stopped in front Of the
city hall
As soon as the president Governor Hill and
Mayor Grant alighted from their carriages
the crowd again began TO cheer, and con-
tinued doing 50 until the chief magistrate Of
this mighty nation took his stand on the city
hall steps.
Public Reception at the City Hall.
On the steps of the city hall 200 girls from
the public schools formed in line and vel
coined President Harrison They strewed
flowers in bis path, aud when he reached the
hall thirteen Normal school girls received
him. Miss Anna Abrahams then read an
address of welcome and President Harrison
replied briefly. The party passed up the
main stairway and took their positions in the
governors room. The room was hung with
flags all around. In the middle Of the big
room was a small dias rallied off ON either
side. President Harrison stood in the mid
die, Governor Hill on the right and Mayor
Grant on the left.
The public went in by the hall on the east
side, assembled the stairs by the side, passed
into the small room on the east OF the main
governors room, passed by the presidential
party, bowed and went down the side way 10
the Broadway entrance. This reception Last
ed until nearly 0 o'clock
In the Evening.
President Harrison left the city hall about
8 o'clock, and was escorted up town by the
Cleveland guards and troop A Of the New
York National Guard The party proceeded
up town at quick trot The route was up
to Waverly place to Fifth avenue to V ice-
Pre- sident Mortons house Here the presi-
dent rested short time, and at o'clock
went TO the residence Of Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish,
No. 20 Grammercy park, TO dine. The in
vited guests were: President and Mrs
Levi p. Morton, Governor David B. Hill, Mr..
Hamilton Fish, Commodore and Mrs. Ell
bridge T. Gerry, Col and Mrs. William ia y,
MIR. and Mrs Robert Goelet, Mr.. and Mrs,
William Waldorf Astor, Mrs Burke Roche
and Miss Helen Hammersley.
At the Metropolitan Opera House.
It is Get il be supposedj o'clock in the
evening. The metropolitan Opera house,
without and within, is ready for the centen-
nial ball. Its outward aspect is as extraor-
binary as the occasion. The Broadway en-
trance is vestibuled with an unpainted white
pine structure, 20 feet long, streetwise, and
20 feet deep from curb 10 wall.
A building similar Of construction begins
on Thirty-ninth street, near the Broadway
corner, and hugs the Opera house straight
down to Seventh avenue; then, without a
bneak, hugs 1t on the Seventh avenue side
nearly to Fortieth street 1t traverses on
Thirty-ninth street 296 feet, and monopolize:
a width Of As feet, narrowing the thorough
fare TO mere lane II runs a distance Of
1856 feet ON Seventh avenue and absorbs 81
feet Of the avenues width; the avenue re
mains open and traversable In spite Of il
Twenty-Five feet is the uniform height O
these outbuildings
These centennial excrescences mar some
what the symmetry of the opera house, ba
its facade puts on a brave front and fiutter
with folds Of flags and bunting. whose red
white and blue fire vividly discerne6 in th
radiance Of the electric lights
Broadway was packed with people froI
Thtrty-ninth to Fortieth street; Fourteent
street and Seventh avenue are full too; an
in the narrow pasSaS that tremains Of Thirt