Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-30
IN LOVING MEMORY
Loyal Americans Gather to
Honor Garfield's Name.
CLEVELAND IN BRILLIANT ATTIRE.

The City Dressed in the National Colors
and Crowded with visitors-President
Harrison and Gen. Sherman on Hand
A Thronged Reception-ClosineE Events
of the Lee Statue Observation-Disclosures
from the Eloquent Address of Col. An
Observation-Disclosures of the Event.
CLEVELAND, o., May 3o.-When the sun
went down last night everything was in
readiness for the dedication of the Garfield
memorial. The decorations of the city are
both elaborate and artistic. Throughout
the entire lengths of Euclid avenue and
Superior street, the two principal thor
oughfares, there is hardly a store, building
or house that has been neglected, while on
the side streets and out to the residence
suburbs the display of festive tokens Is
very general. Tens of thousands of flags
fiurter from windows and roofs, streamers
depend from the tops of eight-story build
ings clear to the sidewalk, and store win
dows for blocks have had their contents
removed to make way for artistic devices
appropriate to the day.
A Memorable Utterance-
Pictures of Gen. Garfield in military and
civilian attire, framed in immortelles, can
be counted by the hundreds, while there
are numerous counterfeit presentments of
President Harrison, Vice President Nor
ton, and Grover Cleveland. Not few
pictures of the late Gen. Grant are also
displayed. The front of one business block
has the memorable inscription upon can
vas in letters nearly two feet high: God
reigns and the government at Washington
still lives" Some of the emblems of last
presidential campaign have also been resur-
rected, and here and there visitors are re-
minded that the battle cries of "iippecanoe
and Harrison too" and also Protection to
American industries" have not been for
gotten.
Arrival of the President.
President Harrison and party arrived at
g p. m. yesterday, and the carriage in
which the president was drawn to the
Euclid avenue residence of Commodore
| Eels could hardly make its way along the
| streets, so eager were hundreds to shake
hands with the chief magistrate The ar
rival was heralded by salute fired by
| the o. s. steamer Michigan, and the pres
| ident was welcomed by the local reception
committee headed by ex-President Hayes
and ex-Congressman Charley Foster. The
escort was detachment of the Forest City
troop, of which Webb c. Hayes was in
| command.
4 Grand Rush to the Reception.
| Over 5000 people attempted 70 partici-
pate in the public reception given last
1 night by President Harrison. Less than
one-third of that number succeeded. The
| reading room of the Stillman house,
| which had been rendered for the event.
was transformed into a floral bower. Vice
President Morton stood on the right of
the president with Attorney General Mil
Ter, Postmaster General Wanamaker and
Secretary Rusk standing in line in the
order named. Behind the rank WAS a
| bank of roses three feet in heighth. Out
side, the lawn as we'll as Euclid avenue
for a couple of blocks either way, was
| blocked with struggling people A de-
tachment of the Brooks cadets managed
to restore a semblance of order out of the
| chaos OF the lawn, the doors were opened
and the populace commenced to pour in.
They kept at it for two hours at the rate
of forty minute.
| First Retreat for cold Tecump."
Gen. W. T. Sherman, who had been
Struggled in by the kitchen door, was as
signed place next to Secretary Rusk, but
the latter insisted on the veteran going
between the vice president and Attorney
General Miller Uncle Billy stood the
hand-snaking Just two minutes and then
beat a retreat and was seen no more. Hon.
| Amos Townsend did the Introductory hon
OTIS. For an hour and three quarters the
five arms worked like pumphandles and
five hands took on a decidedly red and
flabby appearance. Every now and then
an extra enthusiastic grip would bring an
involuntary twitch into either Attorney
/ General Miller's or Mr. Wanamaker's
| face.
1t Was Thoroughly Democratic.
No Partially was shown in the matter
of admittance. Laborers crowded on mill
ionaires, bootblacks were intermingled
| with babies; the rustic and the congress-
man both took their chances in the gen
eral crush. At the end of the period
named United States Marshal Ramsdell
suggested that the president had probably
had enough. The chief executive, how
sver, said that he could stand it fifteen
minutes more, and the inpour was re-
sumed. Five minutes later, however, all
but the president had given up, and con-
tented themselves with bowling TO those
introduced. The reception came to an end
at 10 O'Clock, about $500 people having
passed through the room.
The Town Full of People.
| Grand Army veterans, Knights Tenn
plar, Knights of Pythias, and other civic
bodies and visitors unclassified poured
into the city throughout yesterday and to-
day, and lodgings were at a premium. A
score of detectives from New York, Phila-
delphia, Buffalo, Pittsburg, and other
points are here to look out for about five
| times that number of knaves, who have
conferred here in the expectation of reaping
| q harvest