Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-05-08

ton, delegation q. A. r. commanders
and members of the military order of
the Loyal Legion.
The throng that ~endeavored to gain
admittance to the League Club, where
the reception was held, was vastly
greater than the committee had antici-
pated. The ARRANGEMENTS, however,
were admirable, and, beyond a disa.
greeable crush in the lower corridors,
there was neither disorder nor
confusion. The number of dis
tinguished persons who attended
the reception was not so great
as might have been expected, many of
those who had been fortunate enough
to obtain tickets to the banquet to-mor-
row night preferring to wait until then
to see the President at short range.
The members of the down town bust
ness mems Republican Club and mem
bers of the Lawyers Club were among
the first arrivals.
AT a little before 8 o'clock the carria-
ges containing the President, Gov. Hill,
Mayor Grant and Hamilton Fish drew
up before the door of the Equitable
Building. Chairman Hamilton, of the
committee on states, received those IN
the carriages, while the chimes of Old
Trinity played the d~oxology, the bands
in the street quickly catching up the
strain. By3 O'Clock all had reached
he banquet hall. Ex-President Cleve-
land was not present, and his seat be-
side * President Hayes, was filed by
Chauncey NJ. Depew.
In proposing the first toast of the day,
William G. Hamilton, chairman of the
committee on states, spoke as follows:
Mr.. PRESIDENT: AS chairman of the commit
tee on states, l have the honor to present to you
in the name OF the general committee of the cen.
centennial celebration OF the inauguration of
United States, a souvenir of this au-
spicious occasion. We have gathered with
US the most honored representative
citizens from the varied pursuits OF life. which
have made this nation what it is at the present
moment. religion, law, science, art and COM
merce-all striving to do honor to the name OF
Washington. So beloved is he by all Americans
that we call him father so delfed and saDc-
titled in our hearts that but one othe- birthday
is sacred to us.
Mr.. President, that your administration may
be 80 wisely ordered that you may be known as
the one equally honored by all Americans is the
wish of this united nation.
Gentlemen, you will please ill vour glasses
and drink to the memory OF George Washington.
the father OF his country.
The souvenir consisted of six beauti-
fully engraved cards tied with yellow
and blue ribbons. On the first one was
an embossed picture of Washington; on
the second an engraving showing his
landing in New York in 1889; on the
third a picture of st. Paul's Chapel in
1889, portraits OF Bishop Provost, Chan
cellor Livingston, and the various
members of the Legislature. The
eral Hall and statistics of the period,
the fifth page had portraits of President
Harrison, Cows. Clinton and Hill, May
ors Duane and Grant. The sixth page
bears an engraving of the Equitable
Cherry Street, as we'll as the menu
of the luncheon. President Harri-
son was introduced to the guests
at the banquet table by Hamilton Fish.
President Harrison merely bowed in
recognition of Mr.. Fish's remarks, and
this ended the formal reception. the
guests almost Immediately taking their
departure, though in this they were
somewhat impeded by the enormous
crowds in tie building.
The reception at the Lawyers Club
was finished at $40 P. NJ. and the Presi-
dent and his escort started up Broad
way amid the cheers of the thousands
who tiled every available foot of room.
In the minds of many of those who
are thronging New York in these days
of celebration. the greatest feature of
all is the grand centennial ball which
took place at the Metropolitan Opera
House tonight. All that money could
do to carry out the immense scheme
that was to give a night of pleasure
to 5000 people was done, and the result
attained was satisfactory. There was
certainly little to be wished for in point
of attendance, unless indeed one might
have wished, from selfish motives, that
half the people had stayed at home,
and yet it was, taken all in
all, a night-long exemplifcation of the
old adAge, ""Ihe more the merrier."
The carriages began to roll up to the
Broadway entrance oon after 8 O'Clock,
though the ball was put down on the
programme for 8. and by $50 there
were quite enough people In the CORR
doris of the great building to have put
many a ~pretentious ball to the blush.
The presidential box was the center
one OF the double tier erected at the
back of the stage. The front was almost
covered palms, with a large American
eagle In the center, surmounted by the
words washington 1889 and 1889 , in
colored electric lights. The whole
front of both tiers was ~curtained with
silk flags and decorated with groups
OF standards and great masses Of flow
erS.
Among the families represented in
this great concourse of expectant peo-
pie were those of the following box
holders: William Aster, Ogden Goelet,
William J. Hamilton, Chauncey M.
Depew, Elbridge T. Gerry, S~tuyvesant
Fish, Robert c. Winthrop, Abram
s. Hewitt, Hamilton Fish, Clar-
ence A. Seward, Ward McAllister,
Henry Clews, William Jay, Robert
Goelet, William NJ. Aston, Levi P. Nor
ton, Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Parah
Stevens, Fred'k J. DePuyster, Robert
L. Cutting, Cornelius N. Bliss, Brayton
Ives and John A. King. Conspicuous
among those on the floor early in the
evening were the c~onspicuously badged
floor committee, about fifty i'll number.
The supper room is one of great pro-
portions. Beginning at the Broadway
end of the temporary structure erected
in Thirty-ninth Street, it runs all the
way through to Seventh Avenue and up
to Fortieth Street, forming W. sides Of
a triangle. 1t makes up a supper hall
45 feet wide and Ats feet long. with ac-
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