The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-10
A MEMORABLE SCENE,
Dedication Of the GraUdest
Auditorium in the World,
The PRESIDENTS WELCOME
To ChIcago-A Magnificent ovation
Patti, the Queen or Song, Thrills
the thousands Present-PFes.
idcnt HarrIson's Speech,

idcnt IIarrISon's speCch,
CHICAGO, Dec. 9-The Union depo
M Canal and Madison streets was be-
seved bya mass Of people at 8 o'clocl
MI. morning anxious to catch q glimpse
Of President Harrison, who was ex
pectel to arrive ut that hour, prepara
toy % participating ia the CeremOnieI
st.nd4nt upon the formal opening o
the Auditorium Building, the vas
structure in which, while 1t was In al
incomplete state, Mr. Harrison wal
u,uinated by the National Republican
Convention as its candidate for the ex'
allied position which he holds, Mayor
Crsgier, General Crook, Postmaster Sex
top President Peck, OF the Auditorium
Company, and tho other members o.
tbe Reception Committee boarded q
sppcial Pan.IIdudIO train, and accom-,
panird by II number Of other prominent
ritilens aud press representatives weFe
uEen To Western avenue aud Eighteenth
street, where they awaited the arrival OIL
tbe Presidential train, aud where their
car WAS attached to the special train
Their entry into the city was without
event, Within all was handshaklng and
congratulations. Twenty suburban
trains had deposited their passengers IN
thp depot during the time betseen s and
0 o'clock and every passenger remained
TO swell the vast crowd. The train
seemed to be plowing her way among
human beings, 80 dense was the crowd
Atlastthe train stopped and the Presi,
dent was ready to alight on Chicago
Goil.
A HOUSING GREETING.
"Three cheers for Harrisonl" "tIur'
nhl llurahl Hurrah!" q roar tllat rat.
tIedthe big windowsof the Union Depot
burt out from 5000 throats, There wal
a rush and then u crush aud scramble
and tho passage way between the crowd
that had been made by the police closed
up behind the President, who was COM
PEELED to walk hurriudly II not actually
run arm in arm with Mayor Cregler aud
Nj ior General Crook, to the stone steps
leading To the entrance TO esCnpe the
hoOdOi fighting, scrambling mob behind
lin, In Il moment the President was
at the top. Of the steps and Ia al open
baFOuChO waiting otHkv him away. The
driver gave the whip crack over the
hOlstb heads aud In moment the car.
riapp WIS living south.
II the police arrangements were bad
while the President passed up to thu
CaninvCs 1t seemed TO be the general
opinion that they were worse when the
baluurp Of the purity left the train. Mr..
Peck escorted Mrs. Clarkson, and Mr.. q.
+, BiSStll followed with Mrs. Mckee,
and Assistant Postmaster General Clark.
sous pUrlly iUIm, followed by that Of
Russell Harrison, aud a nurse bearing
lhe irn nprtssible and growing baby Nc,
Kee.
tue POLICE ACTED LIKE SCHOOL noYs,
Thu ouly excuse the police can give Is
that the walk from the car to the car.
rages was made 80 suddenly that they
were unprepred. There was u line oil
blue coats extending from the doors al
the bottom Ol the entrance steps to keel
the crow d back, but III soon az the Presi.
dent gUt to these doors the OiliCtts do
serted their posts and ran w behind
tue head Of the Nation like 80 many
school boys lagging inter the village
mugnate. The result was crush, III
any one cRn readily guess, when II Il
known that a mob Of 5000 people, hoI
and eager, were thrown against Two mar
row exits. Three boys were badly hurt
against the great Qaktn doOrs, the SharI
corners Of which pressed into their deli
cate frames aud made them BCreeCh II
agony, Mahy grown people were hur
tuO, hut none seriously. II was onlI
through the personal efforts OF Mayo
Creigtr that Mr., Harrison was saved thl
indlgnity Of being pressed upon by tht
thrUng aud the rest Of the party wert
actually pushed up stairs in a lu0st In
diguiilrd way US u result, aud there wa!
aSlmvhtening Of bonnets by the ladies
aud smoothing Of silk hats by the gen
tIeu,n when they at last got into thI
carriages.
TrE ESCORT,
The escort, consisting of tho Fist an
Second regiments, National Guard, III
veteran association aud civic bodies wa
drawn up on jackson street and whe
the Presidential arly passed. received