The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-02
ON TO WASHINGTON
The Depots Crowded With
Excursionists to the
Inauguration.
LOCAL VISITING CLUBS.
Two Associations That Will
Leave Here Tomor-
row Night.
LOCAL VISITING CLUBS.

The pilgrimage to Washington has
fairly begun. On the ferryboats from New
York this morning We're many men and
women, whose air of rude simplicity and
the sheen of their black enamelled hand
bags indicated their New England origin.
They were going to see the inauguration'
"by lingo" and they didn't care who
knew it. They discussed New York har-
Dor with freedom that was unrestrained
by any fear of giving offence to the ma
tives of these parts. Among them We're
number of veterans" who had lost one or
more limbs in bear traps in the Maine
woods, and were going on to Washington
to look out for their interests, and the
| local post offices. They retained vivid
memories of the harbor, s'as it looked in
| 64.n
'sWhar do we land over thar?o asked a
rustic pilgrim, as the boat left the New
York shore
ssJust about thar said veteran,
spreading out his bony fingers till they
included everything from Sandy Hook to
West Point 81 told ye, so!'' he added,
| when the boat ran her nose into the slip
/ w dSllHEtIIlH Sctllt1 III Ol1Cl AiAttNt-
ments for honeymoon trips, too, If one
might judge by the number of young
couples who stood unnecessarily close to-
gether. with bashful but intrusive mlen,
| and general air of unaccustomed new
ness about their clothing. It's q long and
| expensive trip from Squigglesville, Me-. to
| the capital of the nation, but honeymoon
| trips come but once in lifetime-at least
! that's how it appears to them in their in
/ experience-and a little extravaganza now
can be balanced by more liberal use of
| pork and beans during the winter.
The trip will do these people good, and
perhaps Inauguration ceremonies may be
| defended as educational institutions ii
nothing more is to be said in their favor.
When the doors were thrown open for
| the O'Clock Washington train this morn
ing, the Pennsylvania waiting room was
struggling humanity. Nothing had
ever been seen like it since the days OF
the Centennial of 1876. So great was the
crush that it was impossible to move
about, and the travel lers ;caflld, only make
progress as the throng moved. 1t was
necessary to dispatch three sections of the
train before all the Washington passen-
| gers had been disposed of.
| At $50 O'Clock over 200 of the cadets
| from the training ships in the harbor left
on a special train. They We're accompar
| MED by band, and with their keen eyes
| ana fuuuy CieehS, WSiC IAc SPSSlilNiAo VI
| American boyhood.
| When the time came to dispatch the
! SAB train there was another large throng
4 in the station, and it became necessary to
run that train in two sections. The 10
| o'clock limited was also sent out
| to have no effect upon the crowd
| of passengers that kept crowd
| ing into the waiting-room, and in order to
| relieve the pressure, special train was
made up and dispatched to Washington.
Scarcely had this train left the depot
when strains OF martial music sounded
through the station, and the Lincoln
| Club, of New York, 200 strong,
headed by the Sixty-ninth Regiment
Band, and led by Senator Van CotG,
marched in from the boat. They We're
| all dressed in dark Prince Al
bert suits, wore black SIX hats
and carried canes. They marched over to
to the Adams Express Company's shed
singing campaign songs, and embarked
upon their train, which Immediately sped
away to the national capital;
| One hundred members of the John Watt
| Association will leave on the o'clock
! train for Washington tomorrow night.
| They will assemble at the Club rooms,
| Jersey avenue and First street, and headed
| by the Tabernacle brass band,
| viii march to the Pennsyl-
vania depot, where the train will
await them. But there will be no music
as they march over. Their musicians will
be silent as the grave. The police have
refused to allow any music in the street on
the Sabbath day They cannot even play
a dead march. Therefore the club will not
be able to leave the town to take part i'll
the great event with the pomp that they
not unreasonably expected.
The association had no suitable banner
| to carry at their head, and a few of the
| wives and friends of the members put
| their heads together and the result is u
| handsome silk banner surmounted by q
large eagle and inscribed as follows: