The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-05-08
A CENTURY ROUNDED
THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVER-
SARY OF WASHlNCTON'S
INAUGURATION.
SO. 900 Men in the Crandest Mil
itary Display Seen Since
the War Ended.

Nsw York, April 30.-Half million
people, massed upon Fifth avenue and
Broadway and about the thoroughfares
in the vicinity OF the Sub-Treasury build
ing this morning, witnessed the passage
of the President and his only two sur
viying predeeessors-ex-President Hayes
and Cleveland-from the impressive GER
emonies at st. Pa1I's Church to the Sub
Treasury exercises and thence to the
great reviewing stand at Madison Square.
1t was the greatest multitude and the
greatest event of the kind known to the
history of the commercial metropolis,
and every featare of the day was worthy
the occasion.
FOUR CONSPICUOUS MEN.
The four conspicuous figures Of the
days celebration were the three men
who have sat in the high place into
which Washington was induced cen
tury ago, and that almost forgotten states
man who spans the period Of the count
ry's history from the time of the Unions
second greatest President down to the
present day, Hannibal HamIin, of Maine,
who was elected Vice President on the
eventful day when Abraham Lincoln
was chosen to the Presidency. Fnlly So
coo soldiers, with Haunting eolors and
blaring trumpets, marched up. the city's
wide streets, through the arch of tri-
umph at Twenty-third street and Broad
way, and passed the gayly decorated
stand on which stood the President with
uncovered head. For nearly six hours
troop after troop and command following
command marched up under the arch
and past the reviewing stand.
INCIDENTS THAT WILL BE REdENBEaED.
Four incldents Of the day will be talk
ed of more than any Others, and each oc-
Cured in front of the Presidents plat
form on the reviewing stand. The first
was the splendid demonstration given to
ex-President Cleveland when he alight-
ed from his carriage at the steps of the
platform, where he was greeted elusive
ly by Frederick Douglass, the famous
eolored orator, and the cheers and huz-
zahs OF the multitude. The second was
the magnificent greeting 10 Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, to whom the vast
crowds on the densely packed stands
fairly rose en- masse. Women waved
their handkerchiefs and men threw their
hats high in the air as the battle-scared
hero rode by and received the Presidents
salute. The third memorable incident
was the conspicuous but much less spon-
taneous cheering which greeted the APP
pearanee OF Governor Foraker, of Ohio.
But the most notable Of any OF these
noteworthy events was the signiticantab-
sence of any cheering or applause when
Governor Hill passed, although he was
delayed in front of the stand for fully
three minutes by an accident to his bri-
die.
PRESIDENT HAERIsoNs ABSTRACTION.
The President stood up bravely for the
six hours of the afternoons parade, but
he looked sallow and pale by turns, a
fact which WAS freely commented upon
by those close enough to his party to scah
his features.
The President was at times abstracted
and absent-minded, frequently forgetting
to salute the colors Of the different COM
mands, and once or twice neglecting to
acknowledge the salute Of the Generals
of Divisions. lie was, however, on the
lookout for Governor Beaver and the
Pennsylvania troops, and was especially
gracious in his greeting to the Keystone
States's Executive, as he was also to Gov
ernor Green, Of New Jersey. The how-
ing white locks and demonstrating bow
ing to the right and left by Governor
Biggs, of Delaware, elected hearty rounds
of cheers from the denseIy packed stands
along the route Senator Higgins, who
was mex. to the Presidents party on the
reviewing stand. pointed eagerly out to
Vice President Morton the Delaware dis
play, which was very crediiabIe.
PENSsYLvANIA's xATloxAL GUARD.
Arrayed in all the habilimen.s OF war,
Pennsylvania National Guard presented
a striking contrast with the appearance
of TIE other troops in the DAYS great
military display. Their dress was not as
pleasing to the eye Of the average spec
tator as the uniforms of other commands
in line in their gay holiday attire, but
there was no mistaking the fact that they
looked like soldiers who could be depend
ed upon in any crisis. They were gener-
ously applauded at every point along the
line, and their reception by the multi
tude in the vicinity of the reviewing
stand partook of genuine ovation.
General Sherman, the ex-Commander
of the armies Of the United States. who
stood by President IHarrison's side re-
viewing the parade, could not help par
ticipating in the applause, and the plain
dress and heavy marching uniform Of the
800 citizen soldiers of the keystone
State filed him with such delight that he
was outspoken as to their admirable ap-
pearanee.
Governor Beaver, with his one leg, was
an object of muchsadmirstion as he rode
proudly up Fifth avenue at the head of
the division strapped firmly in the sad
die. His crutches we're carried by
mounted aid, and Adjutant General Hast
ings-whose presence denoted that he
was a soldier through and through-rode
by his side. The Governors salute to the
President was picture of grace, and the
Pennsylvania Legislators cheers, mingled
with those of the crowd, testified how
earnest was the greeting extended 10
him. The Governors troop followed be-
hind the Governors staff, and the First
City troop came next. The gay troopers
were also in the regulation uniform, and
they attracted no more attention than an
ordinary lot of mounted infantry.
The appearance of corps Of sappers
and miners in the Eighteenth Regiment,
carrying picks, axes and snovels, was a
feature Of the Pennsylvania display.
How oUHssoLDTERs LOOKED.
The Philadelphia Iaquirer has done it
self proud in its graphic and interesting
description OF each days events Of the
Washington centennial. We make the