Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-26
NYE AT HOME AGAIN.
His Scheme for a Grand Welcome
Reception Falls Through.
QUITE A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
Interferes With the Programme Laid Out
by the Genial Bill.
A SPEECH THAT WAS NOT DELIVERED

One of the disagreeable features about a
tour abroad, find, is the unsatisfactory
manner in which demonstrations, receptions,
and so forth, are attended to by those who
have them in charge, and who have PROM
ised to attend to them faithfully Not only
is this true abroad, but it often happens
that on ones return some aggravating delay
or misunderstanding makes ones reception
almost failure.
must also protest against some of the
treatment l received at the hands of promi
nent newspapers while was abroad. Many
OF my cablegrams about myself were not
printed at all on this side, while others were
cruelty mutilated. l cabled to we'll
known and heretofore respectable New York
paper while in London that on the following
day would be the guest of greatness and
would undoubtedly add to the grace and
dignity of our country by making few
well-chosen remarks in the French or En-
glish language. The cable message was
well written and paid for it myself, think
ing that my countrymen would be glad to
know that still thought of them. When
got the paper the cablegram was not there,
and its place was taken by the account OF
something more thrilling. 1t was headed
"Disagreeable Termination of Useful Life;
AN Old Lady Eaten Up by Hogs"
GOING OUT TO DINNER.
also cabled well-known New York pa
per of undoubted enterprise, thought, that
on the previous evening had dined at the
Cheshire Cheese, and on the following day
would take dinner at the Marlborough
House, meaning that 1 would take my din
ner therein a tin pail-and eat it on the
lawn with the servants. Instead of printing
this prepaid message, the paper took up half
column with an account of an incident in
Tennessee, headed, "Mortiiying Episode |
in Sunny South Home: Little Girl Boiled |
in Soap !
Whenever tried to inform the people of |
America of my success, socially and NOR |
ally, abroad, and to comfort them with the |
knowledge that 1 was well, there seemed to |
be an organized effort on the part of the |
press to keep the people in the dark regard |
ing me. Of course they were very kind, on |
the other hand, about suppressing some |
things which 1 did not care to have printed, |
but we public men would like to utilize the |
papers for the purpose ofkeeping our blessed |
memory green in the hearts of the people re-
garding our good deeds, but at the same |
time We ask as a personal favor that they |
will not say anything about what we do not |
SdIS W nave any luluS sdAu dUouI-
FIXING THE THING UP.
/ felt most humiliated, however over my |
reception on my arrival home. 1t was far |
from what L could have wished. did not |
know how to get at it myself, so 1 asked a |
friend of mine, who is well-known actress,
how l should 60 to work. She said that /
ought to arrange it before 1 went abroad, |
otherwise 1 might strike day when Sulli,
van was in town and all the bands engaged
She said / ought also to see about the tug |
and flowers. l did as she told me, for 1 /
knew she was speaking from rich expert
ence
1 reside on Staten Island, when not
jostling and junketing with foreign dynas-
ti-1 and 1 thought L would patronize home
talent by engaging local attractions for the
reception. l also made arrangements for
some cut flowers and rum, in order that
those who took part in the reception might
have the appearance of enjoyment anyhow.
/ asked the Perth Amboy Glee Club to be
ready for Home Again" and Willie, We
Have Missed You, Welcome, Welcome
Home" They said they would, L then
skirmished around for a band.
A DEPLoRABLE FEATURE.
The Raceville Band could not come. be-
cause the tuba got seasick on a tug, he said.
and had to miss a note every little while.
He said he went out with George FLOYD
once, on tug, to meet a baseball team and
the waves were so choppv that be cast a
gloom over the reception and the sight of a
tuba still made him gag at times. So 1
then tried to get the Linoleumville Triple
Plated Silver Cornet Band, but they had
been engaged by song-and-dance man, to
welcome him home on the sam, day that /
expected to arrive. 1 then made terms with
a band which plays on the Staten Island
ferry during the summer months, generally
playing the tunes between New York and
st. George, and passing the hat six times |
They said they would come. might have
known by that they would not do SO.
now proceeded to arrange for tug. 1
could not get a regular tug, because they
were too busy, and one commander told me |
plainly that he did not care - whether
returned or not. OF course 1 did not
want to be received by a man who felt that |
way, no matter what the price might be. |
So 1 asked q man with good, seagoing
boat Of about eight pounds burden if he
could meet me with a radiant face and
glad welcome for $50 He said he thought
he could if he practiced on it little while.
HIS NEAT LITTLE ADDRESS.
With this arrangement 1 sailed early in
June looking forward with much pleasure
to the time when L would gently ride in I
New York Bay, and amidst beating of I
:
Perth Amboy Glee Club, the 1utter of i
and the loud acclaim of the {
yeomanry, bare my brow to the cooling t
breezes of our own dear land and speak as c
follows:
Fellow Citizens and Neighbors Of Tompkinsvine, ]
My heart swells with honest pride as / once !
more catch swift view of Grymes's Hill and
breathe the rich and voluptuous air OF Con J
stables Hook. see among you many familiar |
faces. Before me see the honest and expect q
ant features of the man who has been furnish
ing my family with -four for a long time 1 am | ,
glad to see him, and will try to get down to his
store in a few weeks at the outside. We are 7
always glad to see those who have furnished MS
with flour. also see other tradesmen with | n
whom have associated for years and whose |
esteem value far more than rubies, because 7
)ne cannot eat rubies. 1
/ have Just returned, after a most successful
our on the continent and in England. 1 find
here growing feeling, and ingro wing feeling | N
may say, of discomfort with the arbitrary
powers vested in the rulers of those great coun.
rles. Europe, may truly say looks with q
lnXious eyes toward America, and therefore
'ur success means, not alone success to our, q
selves, but encouragement to those who yearn \
% throw OF the thraldom of a powerful and T
emorseless monarchy. L
NOT SWOLLEN WITH PRIDE. =
And so come to you, not swollen with pride a
because great Difference has been paid to me T
md honors showered upon me until 1 was
obliged to put up my umbrella-also nv watch.
'ut proud only that these honors were piled {,
lpon me not so much on account of my own n
reatness-for no one knows better than how Il
ransitory is all earthly glory all terrestrial G.
ame-but because Of the great country whose