Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-06-13
1T is BOOMING.
THE PRESIDENT AND
CABINET TO VISIT
BALTIMORE.
They will All be Here During
the Exposition.

Frank Brown, president of the Mary
land State Agricultural and Mechani
cal Association, accompanied bya spec
ial committee consisting Of his Honor
Mayor Latrobe, Col. John L. Thomas;
Representatives Harry Welles Rusk
and Henry stockbridge, Jr., Senator
VIM. D. Burchinal and Charles lives
colt, of Kent county; John E. Hurst
Nicholas B. Talbot, president of the
Federation Of Labor Isaac D. Brooks
Jr., Leyi Weinberg, Senator Milton G
Urner, of Frederick Col. Theodore F
Lang, F. P. Stevens, Col. Thomas S
Hodson. John S. Gilman, Daniel E,
Conklin, Lewis Gutman, w. W. John.
son, jackson Holland, superintendent
of the new postoffice; John W. Linton
Noble H. Creager pay Inspector A. j
Pritchard, Senator John B. Wentz, Dr.
Horn, J. Frank Supplee and WA Mar,
burg, visited Washington by the 10 &C
a. m. train June 9Th in the private car
delaware which had been kindly
rendered them by Vice President G. X
Lord, of the B. T. 0. R. r., to invite the
President and his Cabinet to attend the
formal dedication of the new postoftice
and court.hous building in Baltimore
on the night of September the 18th
next and also to attend the Exposition
at Pimlico, which extends from the 9th
to the l4th, inclusive, and witness the
sham battle intended as a representa-
ton of the battle Of North Point on the
Pimlico Fair Grounds on the afternoon
of September the 18th, and the bonn.
bardment of Fort McHenry on the
night of the 18th.
PoSToFFICE DEPARTMENT..
They first called on the Postmaster
General, John Wannamaker, Pcstmas-
ter Brown introducing Mayor Latrobe
and the committee. After the formal
invitation had been extended by the
Mayor, Mr.. Wannamaker said it would
give him great pleasure to attend the
celebration and that his presence could
be depended upon; that he thought
Baltimore could be proud of the new
postofice and court house building,
which was credit to the State and
country. and since his experience in the
Centennial Exposition in '76 he had
determined that exhibitions of this
character were always beneficial to any
community in which they were held,
and that he was always willing to rem
der any assistance he could to make
them success. He was very much in.
terested in Baltimore as a sister city to
Philadelphia, particularly in the post
Office and mail facilities over which he
had supervision, and that the mercan.
tile community must not expect direct
return from this exposition, but there
was no question of doubt in his mind
that the manufacturing and other in
dustries were stimulated and that many
new enterprises were the outcome of in
dustrial exhibitions and celebrations of
the character proposed in Baltimore.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The committee next visited the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, Hon. William
Window, whose consent it was necessa.
ry to obtain for the formal dedication
Of the building. He received the COM
mittee warmly, and after the invitation
extended by Mayor Latrobe and the
Secretary's consent for the formal ded-
ication, be replied that 1t would be i'm
possible for him to resist such an i'm
portant and influential delegation, and
if they had asked for an appointment
he would have been obliged to surren
der, but as to his consent to the dedica.
ton of the postof6ce building, he had
made inquiry since he had been Motif.
ell OF the contemplated visit of the
committee, and had learned from the
supervising architect that the building,
although not entirely completed, would
be sufficiently so to admit Of its formal
dedication on the date mentioned that
he would willingly and gladly give his
consent to the same that he felt a
special interest IN the postoffice build
ing in Baltimore, as he was the chair