The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-01
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS CHEERED
WILDLY.
THE OhATION or non CHA UN-
GER " DEPElT.
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN WASHING
Ton AND NAPOLEON.
JOHN GREENLENF WHlTTIERS
POEM.
THE DAY OBSERVED IN WASH
INGTON
Alexandria People Re
member General
Washington.
How Observed IN Other
Cities.
IN PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLENE
LAND TENDERED A GRAND
RECEPTION.

NEW NORK. April 3O-LOng before S
o'clock. the hour appointed for the
special service OF thanksgiving held at
Il. Pauls Chapel, Broadway and Nesey
streets, streets in the vicinity of The
church were filled 10 oyerilowing with
-ighi-scers, eager To gain a'glimpsc of
the President and his party as they came
to attend the service fld open the second
iay's Observance of the Centennial ccle
bration. I'm the various churches through
ont the city, pursuant TO the President s
proclamation. special services were held
at the same time that the wOrshiper7 at
~ Pauls were cOmmemOrating the re-
ligious service which preceded Washing
ineion's Inauguration April 80, 1889
AT about O'Clock carriages, provided
bv the Committee on States, drew up in
front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. \ few
minutes later Chief Justice Fuller, the
members of the Cabinet. aud the invited
quests entered the carriages and Wert
driven 10 no 50 Fifth avenue, the resi-
dence Of President Morton, whose
guests the Pre- dent is. Here the Presi
dent and Vice President were escorted
hv the committee 10 their carriage. and
then. proceeded by platoon OF mounted
police. the procession started for ST.
Pauls Chapel
Before il reached ST. Paul3 the crowd
surrounding the Nesey-street entrance
had increased TO suca proportions that II
was with great diiliculty that the police
could keep way clear for the carriages
of guests, who had for some time been
arriving At little before 8 O'Clock
nearly every one who was fortunate
enough To possess one of the precious
lavender tickets necessary for admission
had entered the historic old church, and
was awaiting the Presidents arrival
81. Pauls clock had but just tolled the
hour of when the Presidential party
made IFS appearance. The committee OF
vcstry of Trinity Church met President
Harrison at the Nesey street gale ano
escorted him 10 the west porch OF 'h'
chapel where the rector and full yesiry
of ST. Pauls received him. The Presi-
dent was then escorted TO the Washing
ton pew. on the north side OF the chapel
which he and his Cabinet occupied, the
rest of the party being given seats neal
by
The committee on aisle, which con
ducted President Harrison 10 the Wash
inpton pew. consisted of descendants OF
revolutionary heroes who were asso
ciatcd with Washington The chapel wa
now filled. the available being occupied
Fully. POO people were present. rroi
Leo Kofer, who presided at the organ
had been playing medley OF patnotl'
airs while the congregation was Deihl
seated. He now began the processiona
hymn cold Hundred, which he playe1
with full organ The choir lool
il up and sang the grand ole
hvmn as ii has rarely been suns
before. 4 portion of the benedict by
Rorers was sung, after which the Nicen'
Creed was repeated by the clergy anC
people. followed 10y select prayer III
special prayer of thanksgiving used a
s. Pauls and by all the Eplscopa
Churches throughout the country iol
lowed Two other special prayers Wer'
used. one asking blessing upon fresi
cent Harrison, and the other ior the wei
fare of the c0gnliy. n
After the prayers, the Right Nv. Hen
ry C. Potter. Bishop OF New YORK, de
l,yered the following address
Bisbop Potter commenced by reierrin.
IN the fact that. one hundred years ag'
Washington had kneli within the wall
ofSt. Pauls, and TO the peculiar appro
priaieness OF the religious exercises o
Today. he alluded 10 the services II
which the Father of his country par
ticjpated. of the deep religious characle
Of the man, the part he had taken IN In
strnggle for independence, IN
Weldon of his administration
as the drst chief magistrate OF the repun
iic and of his great service IN Dinulhl
the States together in common union
lie smoke of the high level on when lh
6rst President moved, the impartialit
with which he performed ms nu'ies an'
contrasted bis ideas of government VIII
the practical politics OF to-day. lie spoA
of ihe changes which have taken plac
since that Inauguration and then SAID
AS we turn the pages backward. ant
come upon the story N that 3Olh O
Anril i'm the year of our ! ord llo9, ther
IL n certainly stateliness IN the air,
certain ceremOniOusness in the manners
which we have banished long ago.
have exchanged the Washington dignii
for the Jeiiersonian simplicity, whle
Was in truth, only another name Tor III
Blackstonian vulgarity, and what nay
We gotten in exchange for It, In u
elder States and dynasties they had IN
tranpines Of royalty and the pomp an
splendor of the kings person to III
men. hearts with loyalty. Well "
have dispensed with the old iiIniar n'e
mites. Let us take care that we do no
nart with that tremendous force 10
which they stood. II there be mol iit"ia
ROYALTY. all the more need Is iheIe 10 10
personsl royalty. If there Is TO DC d D
nobility of descent, all the more indi' ,.,.
nensibie is 1t that there should De hoDln'
If sscent-a character In them Una. pe"
rule so fine and high and pure 'na'
men come within the circle OF lis innl
ence they voluntarily pay homag
10 that which is the one pre'eulinen
distinction, the royalty OF virtue, virtue,
and thus. men and nre'hrei
AS we turn today anG look at nm n' mn'
ON tbis morning just one hundred year