Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-28

uniforms and black caps, ornamented with
fringes. In the presidents barge, and the
six others accompanying, were the congress
sonal committee, John Langdon, Charles
Carroll, and William Samuel johnson, of the
senate, Elias Boudinot Theodoric Bland,
Thomas Tudor Tucker, Egbert Benson, and
John Lawrence, of the house; Chancellor
Livingston: John Jay, secretary for foreign
affars Samuel Osgood Arthur Lee and
Walter Livingston, commissioners of the
treasury; General Henry Knox, secretary of
war; Ebenezer Hazard, postmaster-general
Colonel Nicholas Fish, adjutant-general Of
the forces of NewYo state Richard Varlck,
recorder of the city, and other dignitaries.
The grandest procession that had ever been
seen in New York greeted the party as they
came to the Murray wharf about 3 o'clock in
the afternoon and escorted the president
elect to the Hoffman house, at the junction
of Cherry and Pearl streets, on Franklin
square. He dined that evening with Cover
nor Clinton; the ensuing week was spent
quietly and unostentatiously.
APRIL THIRTIETH, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
For nearly a fortnight crowds had been
pouring into New York. the taverns and
boarding houses were filled to repletion,
every private house was thronged, and even
the merchant ships and coasters were
pressed into service, and many persons slept
in tents on the common, 80 eager were the
citizens to witness the crowning act of the CO.
lonial revolution and national evolution. The
the New Congress sat. 1t stood on the corner
of Wall and Nassau streets, at the head of
Broad street. where the custom house now
stands. 1t had originally been the city hail.
built from stone which was taken from the
old fortltcations. The building had been
transformed at an expense of S32. 900, con-
tributed by number of wealthy gentle men
when it had been selected by the continental
as the place of meeting of the new congress I;
and Its name was changed with its architec-
ture.
The ceremonies of the day were ushered
In by salute fired at daybreak from the
batteries of old Fort George below Bowling
Green. At that early hour the streets were
rapidly filing up. AT O'Clock the sky was
overcast, and presented every appearance OF
an impending heavy storm; but at 8 o'clock,
when the bells in the church steeples and in
the belfries of the public buildings began
their joyous peais the clouds broke and the
glad sunshine burst forth. In all the churches
divine service Was held, Ito implorc the
blessings of Heaven upon their new Govern
ment its favor and protection to the Presi-
dent, and success and acceptance to his
Administration"
At noon the procession that was TO conduct
George Washington to the Inauguration at
Federal Hall assembled in Franklin Square.
There were public officials, civic societies,
bands of music, the usual military display,
and, OF course, "citizens on foot and on
horseback Prominent places were
assigned the new cabinet the congressional
committees and the state and municipal au-
thorties Colonel Morgan Lewis, grand
marshal, aud Majors Van Horne ana Morton,
his aides, were at the head of the procession,
followed by over five hundred soldiers, con
sistlng of troop of horse, the artillery, two
companies of grenaders, company of light
infantry, the battalion men, a company in
the full uniform of Scotch Highlanders with
the national music of the bagpipe the sheriff
Robert Boyd, on horseback; the senate com
mittee-Richard Henry Lee, Ralph lizard aud
Tristan Dalton; the president in state
coach drawn by four horses, attended by
Colonel Humphreys and Tobias Lear, IN the
the presidents own carriage; the committee
of the house-Egbert Benson, Fisher Ames
and Daniel Carroll; John Jay, General
Henry Knox Chancellor Livingston; Sam
uei Csgood, Arthur Lee and Walter Living
ston, the chief heads of departments; his ex-
cellency the Count du Moustier. and his ex-
cellency Don Diegode Gardoqui, the French
and Spanish ambassadors; other gentlemen
of distinction and "a multitude OF citizens
WARRINGTON AT FEDERAL HALL.
Tho cortege moved from the presidents
mansion at IL 80, and passing from Cherry
street through Queen street NOW Pearl)
Great Dock and Broad street, TO Wall street,
the military halted, and were drawn up
ON both sides OF the street. Through the
lines Washington and his assistants, and the
gentlemen specially invited, passed into
Federal Hall and proceeded to the senate