Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-04

the situation. Several of them are in Jail
because of their superior animation. Ladies
who came to town alone have handed them
$40 bills and received no change. When
arrested the hackmen were mighty anxious
/ to refund the money, in view OF, the har-
vest to them on every side, but they have
been incontinenIfy jugged just the same.
But with all the miseries of the day, it is
doubtful if there are many substantial re-
grets at being on hand for the great cere-
mony. 1t is thoroughly American
army, disposed to make the best of the situ-
alton, and forget the pains and aches of
weariness and hunger in contemplation of
the grand spectacle of the morrow. All day
long organizations, military and civil, have
been arriving, and they got out their bands
and paraded around the streets, and are do
ing it tonight. The came from nearly every
city in the Union.
A UNIQUE ARRIVAL.
The corn palace train was one of the
unique arrivals of the day. 1t came from
Sioux City, and was intended to demon
strate the progressiveness of the people of
that corn-growing country. Nailed to the
cars were different samples and shades of
corn in the cob, IN the kernel, the stalk, the
brown, silken tassels, the cob and the husks,
and they are so blended in color and ar
ranged as to bring forth the prettiest speci-
mems Of rustic art that can be imagined.
But one of the funniest exhibitions is the
Bucktail Club of the Twenty-second As
sembly district of New York. There are
couple hundred of them, all with deertails
| hanging from their derby hats, and when a
squad sof them wheels into line and fetches
up at a bar with the utmost precision, the
| tails are in the line and the symmetry MAIN
| tanned as they lean over and tell the bar
| keeper of their wants.
But there are other interesting sights than
the visiting organizations. George Wash
| ington's chair is here. General Harrison
| is to occupy the chair before he takes the
oath of Office. Every brass-headed tack
which fastens tlme-wrinkled leather to the
| age-polished, wood of its frame and every
| quaint carving of its arms and legs testifes
to its ancient dignity. 1t is the chair in
which George Washington was inaugurated
in 1889.
CHAIR WITH A HISTORY.
E. B. Southwick, of New York, its owner,
| says that cit has been in the personal
charge of William Coventry H. Wallace,
now deceased, for over 80 years. 1t was
given to him upon his receiving his first
| commission as United States Marshal. for
| the Southern district of New York, from
| General Andrew jackson, in 1881, and by
him presented to me, his nephew. In 1875
| this chair was used. at the second-term in
augural ceremonies of General Grant, and
| in 1881 at the inaugural ceremonies of
James A. Garfield"
| Then there are the men who fought with
| Harrison. They have come from half
| dozen States to act as an immediate body
guard to the President-elect in the inaug-
| ural parade, tomorrow. It is the remnant
| of a veteran Indiana regiment. There are
| 145 of them. Among them are representa-
| tives of various States beside Indiana,
whence they have drifted since the war.
Nebraska, California, Iowa, Kansas, Ark
| ansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois
and Missouri are all represented. Colonel
Merrils, successor of General Harrison in
command of the regiment, orie finally its
Major, is in command,
On every block you elbow well-known
men, and in all the resorts they are as thick
as huckleberries on the hillside. Bill Nye
and james Whitcomb Riley, like the
Siamese twins, stick together, and Francis
Wilson, Pauline Hall and Marie Jansen
are equally exclusive. They are all
jumbled in with the great milky way of
notables.
GREATNESS ELBOWS EACH OTHER.
General Alger stumbles upon Mr.. Blaine
and Mr., Window, having bite in John
Chamberlin's, and they all greet John S.
Clarkson in most neighborly fashion.
Mayor Fitler.of Philadelphia, Chas. Emory
Smiths pride and glory at Chicago, has for
gotten all the pangs, and mods and chats
with National Committeeman Hobart
and Halsey, of New Jersey, and
| Asa Dickinson, of Jersey City, is here
ready to resume his place in the customs
service of the country. John H. Starin, as
clipper as schoolboy tells of harmony that
is to reign in New York; so does A r.
|, Whitney. Mr. Whitney to-day invited Lou
Payn and Sloat Fassett and Mike DAILY to
/ yisit the new Republican Club in New