The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-05-03
The Centennial Inauguration Of
WASHINGTON.

New York has been in whirl of
excitement over the centennial cele-
bration of the Inauguration of the
first President of the Republic, Gen.
Washington. Monday 18th of April
%as the opening day of the exercises,
on the Both OF April 1889 General
Washington was inauguratei Pres
ident of the young republic.
The days principal events includ.
ed President Harrison's progress
from Washington northward; his re.
ception at Elizabethport, New Jer-
sey; the landing at Wall street, New
York; reception of the Lawyer 8
Club in the Equitable Building, and
the great centennial ball at night.
THE OPENING QUADRILLE.
Two orchestras of fifty musicians
each were in their places when the
quadrille was announced and the
following ladies and gentlemen took
their place on the floor: Vice Presi-
dent Morton, with Mrs. Edward F.
Jones; Lieutenant Judson, with Mrs..
Aston, Admiral Jewett, with Mrs.
Washington; General McCook, with
Mrs. Webb; General Fitzgerald, with
Mrs. King; Captain Sampson, with
Mrs. J. f. De Peyster; DR.. A. l..
Ruth, of the navy, with Mrs. Cutting;
j. W. Beekman, with Miss Living
ston; Lieutenant Governor Jones,
with Mrs. Levi P. Morton; Senator
Aldrich, with Mrs. S. V. R. Cruger;
General Vincent with Mrs. Eldridge
T. Gerry; Commandant Ramsay with,
Mrs. Morris; Captain Dorst with
Mrs. Edward Cooper; j. Depeyster
with Mrs. Van Rensselaer,; Colonel
James M. Varnum with r. F. Wier
and Creighton Webb with Miss
Schuyler.
The dance itself was gotten
through with creditably, though not
brilliantly. Many of the ladies par
ticularly in it had not danced a plain
quadrille within the past quarter of a
century. Still that made little diff
ference. It was the scene that en-.
livened and the fair faces and mag
nifcent dresses and cleaning jewels
that riveted attention.
A correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Times thus epitomlzes the excit-
ing scenes of the second day:
The second day of the great Centennial
celebration eclipsed the first in point of
pomp, people and grandeur. While the
ball Of last night was probably the greatest
social event that took place in New York,
and the scene Oh the river was never equal
ed before, they pale before the magnificent
military pageant of to-day, when sixty
thousand men in martial array passed in re-
view of the President. The more than ten
miles of marching men, with thousand
bands braying, two million witnesses and
hundred thousand buildings bedecked with
red. white and blue, made up vast picture
whose like was never seen before in this
country. The great military parade of the
Constitutional Centennial. when General
Sheridan road at the head Of thirty or forty
thousand men, was until to-day the greatest
holiday martial pageant this country had
ever known, but to days soldiers show, in
point of magnitude, dwarfed the Philadel-
phia parade.
There we're soldiers from all part of the
United States. Governors of States were
common sight. The President and Ex-
Presidents Of the United States and all the
great persons nearly ofthe nation played
their part in the celebration to-day. So far
as the representative men of the nation we're
concerned the United States were in New
York. Without regard to politics, Repub-
licans and Democrats who mould the policy
of the nation and who maintain its great.
ness sat elbow 10 elbow.
The great concourse of people who pack
ed the streets for miles came from all over
the countay. Yesterdays crowd was only
drop in the bucket compared with the
multitude of to-day. Tens of thousands
arrived in the night and in the morning
and afternoon. New York State, New Jer-
sey and some of the New England States
poured portions of their population into the
town.
Fifth avenue, packed with people from
house to house all the way from Twenty.
sixth street to Fifty ninth street this morn
ing, was one of the NEST wonderful sights
ever witnessed. Miles of men, women and
children were jammed into the great thor
oughfare, driven by the lack of street room
farther down town, where the military was
forming for the march. Thousands upon
thousands could not get near Fifth avenue
to see the perade. Miles of cross-town streets
were choked with human beings from Sixth
avenue ON the west to Third avenue on the
east.
CLEARING THE STREETS.
The charge of the mounted police up