Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-03-07
.UMEX CRAWLING MICHIGAN THURSDAY MARCH 1885,

train pulled out Tho Governor called ont, -This
is our next President" and Gen. Harrison,
bareheaded, bowed his acknowledgment 10 the
cheering thousands as the train moved on IL
was q go p. m when Urbana was rehched. Here
another large crowd welcomed the Presidential
and urbnna, tweifty.fix miles, there were M
stops, but at all the stations, Jordon, Fletcher,
Conover, st. Paris, and Westville, the passage
o. the train an was greeted 1y the cheers os hum
vented the Qccupants OF the train from judging
the size OF the crowds. At Westville the q re
OF a number OF pine-krot torches was was flashed
Gov. Foraker introduced the President-elect
70 about two Thousand people at Urbana. Co
lumbus was reached at s;l5 p. M. Al least 20
0U people had gathered at the station, and the
crush was terrible. The booming OF cam q
and the din OF brass music, drum corps, and
yslls sed the Presid On IL train as 1t moved
into the deI OF 1t required large force
OF policemen TO open the way for the
engine. The scramble then began The
crowd pushed jammed, and swayed in solid
mass; The train pulled pretty well through
the depot before stopping and the people
were ,rying 10 leop up and rushed madly
over each other large number OF women
in ured. Nearly tho entire membership Of the
Legislature went down to the station with
the Foraker Club, but they were all lost
no definite prograniine carried OUT It
was the intentfon TO have several songs from
the Harrison and Morton Gleo Club, and also
former was almost entirely eliminated from
the programme, and less than fifty persons
heard anything the President-elect had to say.
People within ten feet of him could see his
lips move as IL In the act OF making a speech
and that was ALL. The cheering, firing OF
cannon, beating of drums, and general con-
fusion lost none of its force. The General
talked less than five minutes. Mrs. Harrison,
Russell Harrison, and as many OF the women OF
the Pre- iden.ial party as could crowded ont to
the platform where the General was speaking
Mrs. Harrison watched the crowd fairly crawling
over each other, and stopped the General in his
speech ms she callod his attention to the man
ner in which the women we're boing pushed, un-
able 10 help themselves. The train was we1ged
about by people until it pulled out.
After the tain left Columbus, preparations
were made for retiring The day had been a very
fatiguing one to the President-elect. Before
Columbus was reached two of the grandchildren
were fast asleep, but Baby Mary Mckee was
bright AMI alert to all that was going on, and
great ~ enjoyed the sights and sounds. In the
station there was ademand for a sight of the IA
vorite grandchild by many persons in the crowd,
and she was held up TO the car window in the
strong glare of an electric light aud gleefully
waved n bunch OF roses in her hand.
Fully thousand people met the train at
Newark with q brass band aud torches fAs
the train pasged tho station, running about
fifteen miles an hour, the crowd cheerod and
wHs reached every steam whistle in the city
scroo, o,hod is loud st. Pandemonium seemed
TO have broken loose. The fifty locomotives
in the Baltimore and Ohio yards took iip the
medley and the result was simply ihdescribs
nble. Tho Aleepers ON the train were ali
awakened. There was a good array Of people on
the platform Mt Newcomerstown, and as the
train slowly drew up at the crossing there per-
feet blaze OF light surrounded it from scores OF
roman candles, In which manter ALONE the els
thusias1n OF the crowd fouht vent
The run was made from Newark to this city In
an hour and hall, the train then being thirty
nlinutea late.