Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-30
THE HARRISON PARTY
Arrives at the Pleasant, Cool
Mountain Resort of West
em Pennsylvania.
WELCOMED BY THE VILLAGE
The Presidents Wife Enjoys the Trip
Greatly and Thinks That
SHE WILL SURELY LIKE CRESSON
The President to Come as Soon as Official
Duties Will Permit.
WEI COINED BY THE VILLAGE
SIZE WILL SURELY LIKE CRESSON
FEW VISITORS, AND QUIET REIGNs

TKOM STAFF CORRESPONDENCE
CREssoN SPRINGS, August 2O.-Baby
Mckee is here and has been voted ga little
darling" by all who have seen him. 1t may
be said that every person in the big hotel is
interested in him. Mrs. Harrison is here
also, together with her father, DR.. Scott
her daughter, Mrs. Mckee, and her daugh-
Mckee and Mrs. Dimmick were also of the
party, which arrived on the Chicago Linn
tied this evening.
Beside all these, the hotel register calls
for two children and four maids. The
party was met at the station by Mrs Hal
ford, wife of the private secretary of the
President. and her daughter, who are quite
popular here. Kisses were exchanged with
the lady members of the arriving party,
and then all were hurried into carriages
and driven to Mrs. Painters cottage. The
party was also met by nearly all the able
bodied population of the place, numbering
200 or $50.
The arrival of the distinguished party
was effected quietly and the reception was
also very quiet. The only red fire dis
PLAYED on this occasion was the lurid glow
of the coke ovens over about Bennington,
which was reflected from the lowering
clouds. Three-fourths of the crowd was
composed of women and children, and the
men who were there were not sure whether
it would be the correct thing to cheer or not,
and took chances Oh the sin of omission
rather than that of commission. There was
some jostling and crowding on the part of
the curious who wanted better opportunity
to see, and as the carriages rolled up the
gravele1 drive the crowd fell in line and
marched up the boardwalk to the hotel.
The train was few minutes late, so it
was fully o'clock when Mrs. Harrison and
her party reached the cottage which is to
be their home for a month. at exactly 8
o'clock all the distinguished members of
the party. except Baby Mckee, appeared at
the grand entrance to the hotel and were
shown into the private dining room, where
they discussed the bill of fare for As minutes.
PLEASED WITH THE TRIP.
After supper they all stopped about half
an hour near the cheerful fire in the hotel
Office and chatted with some aequaintances,
while Mr.. Mckee inscribed their names on
the hotel register. Mrs. Harrison expressed
delight with the pleasant trip of the daY.
She was very much pleased with her COM
partment in the Pullman parlor car, Austria,
and of the dining car, and her first impress
sion is that she will like Cresson. The
dining car was a perfect bower of roses,
smilax and.other, ,beautiful,and sweet-scented
howers-as fine decorations as one could
wish to see-and Mrs. Harrison was agree
ably surprised at the tasty display.
When the ladies came from the train they
each carried a magnificent bouquet of
roses. Mr.. Mckee stated to THE DISPATCH
representative that the trip had been a
pleasant one from Philadelphia here. The
air was sultrY and oppressive with the ap-
preaching storm between Cape May and the
Quaker City, but after the first rainfall the
day was delightful. The rain laid the dust,
which helped to make the trip agreeable.
Mr.. Mckee stated further that there
was no certainty when the President would
arrive here. He had hoped to catch up
with the party at Harrisburg, but had
failed to do SO. "But," continued Mr.. Nc
Kee, ''the
PRESIDENT MAY BE EXPECTED
to reach here very soon. His arrival will,
of course, be governed by the demands OF
the public business as will the time be
which he spends here. He had hoped to
stay here throughout the month of Septem-
Der, continuously, but with Congress still in
session, it is not probable he will be able 10
do SO. He will spend as much of the time
here as his public duties will permit The
folks will stay through September. leave
tomorrow myself, but Mrs. Harrison aud
the family will stag through next month";"
The cottage occupied by the Presidential
party is the fourth from the hotel in the
middle row. 1t is pleasant place, the
house nesting in among the shade trees and
fronted by pretty sloping lawn. The
house is in the shape of Roman cross. The
Presidents study is on the left side of the
horizontal bar of the cross and his bedroom
the right. The hall rooms, ACROSS instead
of along the house and three little rooms
open off it, forming complete playhouse,
which will be Baby McKee's stamping
ground. The house is nicely furnished and
contains wealth of bric-a-brac, the property
of Mrs Painter.
CRESsoN is DULL.
As for Cresson, it is dull, and this even
ing it is chilly. The forenoon was bright
anc cheerful ana midday warm and pleas
ant Rain set in at about $3.50 o'clock and
continued at intervals until evening. To-
night there is bright moon, obscured oc-
casionaIly by drifting clouds The outlook
for tomorrow is doubtful. There are not
more than $50 guests in the big hotel at
present. More are expected now that the
Presidents family is here. A good
many people went away to-day and
comparatively few came in. A good
many Pittsburgers are expected tomorrow.
In TACT, the Gas City is looked to to make
up the bulk of the crowd. The people who
are enjoying themselves most are the chill
dren, the youths and the misses. They have
lively times during the. day when the
weather is not too bad, with excursions out
OF doors, and in the evenings enjoy dancing
in the parlor. The music is kept up until
1890 principally for their benefit.
The older folk are not long in exhaustine
the resources OF the place. There are pleas
ant drives, OF course and points of peculiar
interest, but week of the energetic. pnsh-
ing way in which the average American
takes rest in the summer months suffices.
WATER AS BEVERAGE.
The great mountain spring furnishes de-
lighttully clear, cool water, which needs no
ice at present, but it is not such an exniI-
arating beverage that any one should care 70
sit out in a drIzzling rain to pour it down.
There is q fascination, not unmixed with
tear, about it, for a Southsider who
is educated to the use of Mo-
nongahela mud, as it is furnished
by the water company on that side, but its
sparkling purity cannot chain even one of
these more than about ten days. For these