Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-08-14
GRAND ARMY.
Arrival Of the President and Re-
ception at Boston
NEAT SPEECH 10 TIE VETERANS.
Well Wishes to Those Who Upheld the
Flag In Gays OF Peril-ArrIval of the
Nebraska Delegation-Sons
of Veterans.

President Harrison, Secretaries Rusk
and Noble and Private Secretary Hal
ford, entered Boston harbor yesterday
afternoon she was met by the other
vessels of the feet-the Atlanta, Kear-
sage, the gunboats Petrol and York
town, the dispatch boat Dolphin, the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius and the tor
pedo boat Cushing-an save the Kear-
sage and the Cushing firing salutes
The revenue cutter Gallatin, with Gov
ernor Bracket, Collector Beard and Mr..
and Mrs. Mckee on board, escorted her
to her anchorage. Mayor Hart and other
members of the city government also
went down to the harbor to welcome the
Chief Magistrate, while Mrs. Noble and
other ladies were on board the Vigilant,
President Harrison landed about $40 p.
NJ, amid the thunder of cannon at
Rowe's wharf and was escorted to the
Hotel Vendome by the First battalion
of cavalry. The route was through
Broad, State, Washington, School, Tre-
mont Boylston and Dartmouth streets.
The sidewalks and windows along the
line Of march, which was nearly two
miles In extent, were packed with enthu-
siastic multitudes who greeted the Presi-
dentw hsnd-clapping and cheers The
President rDde with Governor Brackett
in carriage drawn by four dark bays
He carried his hat in his hand and bowed
right and left at the greetings OF the
throngs. Behind rode Secretaries Rusk
and Noble, and in third carriage were
Private Secretary Halford and mem
bers of the Governors staff. President
Harrison occupies the state suite at the
Vendome, and the reception room has
been put in regal floral dress
When the President entered the large
dining room at Parker's he was greeted
with applause. Colonel Charles L.
Taylor acted as toastmaster and pre-
sented President Harrison, who again
received an ovation. Rising slowly,
President Harrison said:
81 do not count 1t the least Of those
fortunate circumstances which have oc-
casionally appeared in my life, that l
am able to be here tonight to address
you as comrades of the Grand Army of
the United States [Great applause
1t is an association great in its achieve
ment and altogether worthy Of perpetu-
alton until the last of the associations
have fallen into an honorable grave.
1t is not my purpose tonight to
address you in an extended speech,
but only to say that whether walking
with you, many of you, in the private
pursuits of life, or holding a place OF
official responsibility, l can never in
either forget those who upheld the flag
of this Nation in those days when it was
in peril. Every thing that was worthy
of preservation in our history. Every
thing that Is glowing and glorious in
the future, which we confront turned
upon the issue of that strife in which
you wore engaged. VIII you per-
NIT me to wish for each OF
you a life full of all sweetness,
and that each of you may preserve un-
dimmed the love for the flag which
called you from your homes to stand
under its folds amid the shock of battle
and amid dying men. | believe there
are indications to-day in this country of
a revived love for the flag. Applause.
could wish that no American citizen
would look upon it without saluting." y
Loud applause.
Upon concluding his address the
President and members of the Cabinet
withdrew from the hall.
The great arrival of the day was the
Nebraska train of fifteen coaches, bring
ing Department Commander 7. S. Clark
son in the State department headquar-
ters' car The veterans seemed to
breathe easier as they emerged from
their cramped quarters, so tired, and
the expression: "Been standing most OF
the way" was heard on all sides.
Interest centered in a thin-visaged
veteran surrounded by congratulating
comrades, a survivor of four prisons
Andersonville, Libby, Savannah and
Millen-Lieutenant A. <. Comston.
The report was current among this dele
CATION that 200 veterans from Western
districts were obliged to turn back at
Chicago for lack of accommodations.
The busiest place in town was the
headquarters of the bureau of informa'
ton, in charge of che Sons of Veterans.
1t was the estimated opinion that 10, 0OC
people bombarded this bureau with a
! fire of questions between seven and
eleven a. m. The branch bureaus
throughout the city were equally busy.
That these institutions were happy
provision was early apparent and II
| would have been fortunate If they could
have supplied comprehension as well as
information. Said one grizzled veteran:
They have told me where to go, but
my boy, this is the crookedest city
ever saw, and don't know how to be-
gin to go anywhere.
The following dispatch was received
| in the afternoon:
BAR HARBOR. Aug. IL
| To George L. Goodale, Chairman Executive
Committee:
The Dispatch will arrive Tuesday morn
| ing about nine O'Clock, the Vice -Presiden
and General Sherman being with me
B. T. TRACY, Secretary OF the Navy.
Quackenbush post, of Michigan, 25(
men, with the Fourth regiment band
of Detroit, arrived at 1880.
General Alger's wife and her two
daughters, and Mrs. John A. Logan and
daughter are the guests Of the wife o.
General Cogswell, of Salem.
At 1885 a train of eleven coaches
rolled into the Fitchburg depot bearing
Aurora Post 80, of Illinois, and the orig
inal Decatur post G. A. R, organized II
1866. 400 men in all There was crowd
on hand to see Mrs. Logan, but she was
in the second section, which arrived Al
two p. m. After graciously greeting
her friends she was escorted to a car
riage by Past Department Commandel
Billings, Of Massachusetts,. and driven
TO the Vendome. Mrs Logan was e.
corted by q. S Grant post 500 veterans
i nd Qnn ladln. a tho QQo.,cr,la RaliAf