St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29
than their decoration in sight. and moth
ing at all worth mentioning between
E.there and the park.
HARRISON ON THE WAY.
The President Leaves Washing
ton for New York,


WASHINGTON. April 2s.-The presi-
dent and his party left tonight for New
York by way of EliZabethtown, to take
part in the centennial exercises. A spe-
cial train of the Pennsylvania railroad
pulled out of the station on Sixth street
shortly after midnight, bearing the pre-
sidential party. The train was the
most perfect that has ever left the
Washington station of the Pennsylvania
road. 1t was made up under the direc-
tions Of the assistant general passenger
agent, George W. Boyd, of Phila-
delphia, under authority from
the centennial committee. The
car assigned to the president was the
private car of the vice president of the
road, Frank Ii. Thompson. 1t is one of
the handsomest cars ever built, and con-
tainS in addition to the bedrooms, a
parlor, dining room, pantry and
kitchen. In the parlOr fire glowed
welcome to the president from the open
fireplace. Another of the cars contained
a barber shop and bath rooms. There
was dining car and combination car,
and the rest of the train was made up
of sleeping coaches. The entire train
was vestibuled. The train was made
up early in the evening, and at 9 o'clock
was ready for the reception of the dis
tinguished party. Itwas about 10 o'clock
when the presidential party was driven
from the executive mansion
TO THE TRAIN.
1t consisted of the president, Mrs.
Harrison, Mrs. Mckee, Miss Ida Muir
| ply, of st. Paul; Mrs. Kate Davis
Brown. Col. John NJ. Wilson and Pri-
vate Secretary E. w. HalfOrd. The
committee delegated to escort the presi-
dent from Washington to EIizabethport
was in waiting at the station. 1t con-
sisted of John A. King, William Jay.
William H. Robertson, William NJ. Ev-
arts and Seth Low, representing the
| general government committee; Or
landO B. Potter, Clifford Stanley Sims
| and Frank S. Witherbee. of the trans
portation, the centennial and states
committees. These men had come
down from New York during the day.
| There was good crowd of people wait
ing in the station to see the president,
but the uncertainty of the hour of his
arrival there made it smaller than it
would have been had an hour been
| fixed. The president was escorted
to his private car, where he
held quiet reception of the
other distinguished guests of the
| centennial committee. These included
| Secretary Window. Mrs. Window ana
the Misses Nettie and Florence Win
dom, Secretary and Mrs. Rusk, Miss.and
| Master Rusk, Walker Blaine and Miss
| Margaret Blaine. Chief Justice and
| Mrs. Fuller, Associate Justices Field
and Blatchford and Associate Justice
Strong Getired) of the supreme court of
| the United States, Miss Strong, Col.
| Thomas f. Barr. of the adjutant gen
erals office, Lieut.. T. B. Mason, United
States navy, Mrs. Mason and Henry W.
Raymond. The train left at 1910.
| Before that time most of the travellers
| had retired to their berths and were
asleep. The party will arrive at Eliza
bethtown tomorrow morning between
Z and o'clock. The run will be made
on slow time that the party may have
every opportunity for comfortable
| sleep.