St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-24
OLD SOLDIERS meet.
President Harrison Attends q
Reunion of the 10th In
diana Boys.
He Is Glad to Forget That lie
Is Chief Magis-
tpate.
Long-Haired Hoosiers Grasp
the Hand of Their Old
Commander.
The President Is Now Speed
ing Toward Maryland,
My Maryland.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 2S.-Presi'
dent Harrison went over to the reunion
of his regiment, the Seventeen Indiana,
at Tomlinson hall this morning. He
entered heartily into the spirit of the
occasion, and lost sight of the dignity
of Office and was one of the boys. BE
made a five-minute speech, saying for
the time he was glad to forget that he
was public officer, and wanted to take
all of his old comrades by the hand.
He referred to no national matters. The
audience listened attentively to this
speech, and after other exercises were
over graSped the hand of their comrade-
in-armS, now president of the United
States. After leaving the reunion the
president returned to the hotel where
his time was occupied In receiving init
mate friends. When the last prepara-
tons were being made at Indianapolis
to leave the New DenisOn hotel, and all
was confusion,
ABRAwNY LoNG-HAIRED VETERAN
after saying goodbye to the president,
asked for his name and address. Sec
rotary HalfOrd wrote Benjamin Har-
rison" on card, and the old man satis-
fed. put it in his coat pocket together
with his war relics. The president and
party left the New Denison hotel at
2:4O. in carriages. In the first carriage
were president Harrison and Attorney
General Miller, and facing them was
the president OF the monument commits
sion, George j. Igsdale. The president
was everywhere recognized by the ctr
zens of Indianapolis, and the uniformed
veterans along the route to the depot.
At the union central depot
was again enacted the scene
of Wednesday night, the crowd
was dense, and many wOuld-be passen-
gers were unable to get through the
throng to catch the regular train, to
which the special car baltimore" was
attached. An old cOmrade-at-arms. who
had known the president as colonel,
as you do of your country. and don't for
get the boys of the old Seventieth."
The president bowed a smiling assent.
The crowd was held outside by an iron
railing, and as the train started the feel
ing was subdued, but the fluttering OF
handkerchIefs and the throwing up Of
hats, together with a parting shout,
meant "Godspeed." K. A. McKeen
babe President Harrison goodbye, and
promised to
SPEEDILY PAY HIM A VISIT.
Mrs. Miller. daughter and son came
aboard to say goodbye to the husband
and father, and wished him and the
president safe journey. One of the
humors of the occasion was to see some
enthusiastic admirers grasp the presi-
dents hand and give it horribly cor
dial shake, and advise him at the same
time not to allow himself to be tired by
too much of this handShaking. The
party consists of the president. his SON
in-Iaw r. S. Mckee. Attorney General
Miller, Private Secretary E. W. Hal
ford and Daniel Ransdell, marshal of
the District of Columbia. The chief
executive of this great country was
dressed in a grey diagonal frOck
suit, in which he looks his
best, but the appearance of
his hat is explained by the
fact that an admirer had sat thereon.
In a corner of the car rested two oval
beds of roses, and as the president
glanced at the card on one of these his
face lit up, and he remarked that at is
from one of my men, Nose McLain."
Nolan is United States Marshal Rams
dell's double; both were in the same
company of the same regiment, were
shot, each losing an arm at about the
same moment at the battle of Resaca.
Afterward Ransdell was succeeded by
McLain as clerk of Marion county. In
diana, each having been put i'm nOmina-
ton by Gen. Harrison. "You do not look
like you did in "a. when you made a
speech here" This was at Shelby
vile, where the president made speech
when quite young man. At Green's
burg. 6:10 p. M, the crowd
STRUGGLED FOR SHAKE
and the presidential hand did its dnty as
usual. giving the children and ladies
the preference. Ex-GOv. Will Cumback
and his daughter. Mrs. John W. Lovette,
got on and spoke to the president. As
the train was passing the spot on South
western Ohio, where President Harrison
was born, the president got to ruminat-
ing on these early days in Cleves, where
he used to attend the little red brick
church upon the hill, and on the old
white water canal on which he rowed
his skiff. Anon the sun is reflected on
the water of the Ohio river at North
Bend, and the train speeds by the
and the tomb of his
father and grandfather. The train
arrived at Cincinnati at 7:20, the
private car was reversed and
later attached to the regular
Baltimore & Ohio eastern express. I'm
on reaching Cincinnati sup
per was served in the car baltimore"
There was more than an hours time be-
tween the arrival of the train on the
Big Four and the scheduled departure
by the Baltimore & Ohio. Mrs. Bertha
Eaton, of North Bend, o., the widowed
sister of President Harrison, dined with
him, and
HAD LONG CHAT
in the private car while it waited to be
attached to the Eastern express, which
left Cincinnati at 7:45-fifteen minutes
late-and arrives at Deer Park at
O'Clock tomorrow morning. President
Harrison looks bright and cheerful to-
night and does not seem to have suf-
fered from the fatigue of his Western
trip and the continued Misunderstanding.