Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-02
THE ANNUAL SHAKE
Duly Administered at the Ex-
ecutiYe Mansion.
OFFICIAL NEW YEARS RECEPTION.

diplomatic Uniforms, as Usual. Take
the Blue Ribbon-Long List of Danes
and Darlings Who Stood In the Places
of Honor-Features of the Occasion.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 2.-Official Wash
ington assumed its most formal bearing yes
terday, and assisted in the ceremonious ex-
action which long years of custom have
sanctioned as necessary to the proper OBJ
servance of the opening of new veal. Yes
terday's reception at the White House was
the Tooth held on New Years Day by presi-
dents of the United States. Mrs Morton
was the first wife of a vice president who
has assisted at receptions at the White
House on New Years Day for the past six
teen years A cold, steady rain fell most of
the day, and had the effect of reducing the
number of unofficial visitors at the White
House, although that was the point where
the chief interest conferred The mansion was
a blaze of light, and Kaleidoscope of color
within; flowers were everywhere and the
state drawip2-rooms were bowers of beauty
The president and receiving party stood in
the Blue room.
Hail TO the Chief"
At a signal TO Professor Sousa the band in
the corridor struck up Hail to the Chief, Z"
and those assembled in the corridor outside
the Blue room saw the presidential party de-
scending the main staircase Leaning on
the arm of the president was Mrs. Mckee,
who took the place of her mother, owing to
the recent death of Mrs Scott-Lord, Mrs
Harrison's sister. Mrs. Mckee wore Mar
tina Washington dress of white armure silk,
princeSse back and train. Following after
the president and Mrs. Mckee came Vice
President and Mrs. Morton Then came
Secretary Blaine with Mrs. Stephen Elkins,
and after them the other members of the
cabinet
The Receiving Line.
The receiving line was composed of Mrs Nor
ton, Mrs. Window, Mrs Miller, Mrs Wanna
maker, Mrs. Tracy, Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Rusk
The invited guests were Mrs Logan, Mrs
Hale, Mrs. German, Mrs. Mcmillan, Mrs His
cock, Mrs. Platt, Mrs. Pugh, Mrs Quay, Mrs.
Cockrel, Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Carlisle, Mrs
Burrows, Mrs. Springer, Mrs. Lodge, Mrs.
Butterworth, the Misses Blaine, and Miss
Simpkins, of New York Miss Wanamaker,
the Misses Halstead, the Misses Window, the
Misses Ernst, Mrs. Glover, Miss Muller, Miss
Rusk, Mrs. Harlan, Mrs. Dram Mrs Ernst,
Mss. j. V. l.. Findlay, Mrs. r NJ G. Brown,
Mrs William s. Harris, Mrs. Maude Grosve-
nor, Miss Anna Wilson, Mrs ). b. Elkins,
Mrs Charles Emory Smith, Miss Shepard, of
of New York; Miss Grace Davis, Miss Hal
| ford, Mrs. Wilmerding, Miss Tracy, Mrs. and
Miss Rsnsdell, Mrs, Carey, and Miss Proctor.
Order of Presentation.
The first persons presented were the diplo-
matte corps many of them accompanied by
ladies, and arrayed in their brilliant uni.
forms, which shone with renewed briliiancy
under the glare of the gas. Then came the
pan-Americans, mostly in conventional dress
suits; then the marine conference, whose re-
splendent naval uniforms attracted much at
| tention. The order then continued as fol
lows: Venezuelan claims commission; jus
tees of the supreme court, senator's and rep
res entatives, District of Columbia officials
army and navy officers in full uniform, Gen
| Schofield wearing an orange scarf across his
| breast; marine corps, civil service and inter
state commissions veterans of the Mexican
war and war of the rebellion aud others, and
last the general public, of whom there wa.
| comparatively few, owing to the inclement
weather The doors were promptly closed
| at ? p. m.
Notes and Incidents.
During the reception several of the receiv-
| ing line, including Secretary Blaine, left
their places and went home to prepare foI
| their own receptions
After Chief Justice Fuller had cordially
greeted the president and others, he becam,
| so fascinated with the scene in the receiving
| room that he went behind the line and re
| manned there for some time
| When the reception was well under way
| the East room was well filed with diplomats
| congressman and others. Ladies' were plenty
| Here stood member of the diplomatic corp
| in Respondent uniform talking to a member
| of the Pan-American congress, attired il
conventional full dress, while Just beyond
were couple of army officers chatting will
a grim-looking justice and the lady tina
chung to his arm.
About the gayest of the foreigners was tn,
| British minister, who had smile and .
| pleasant word for every one.
| The Chinese minister's round. plump fac
and keen eye were seen TO good advantage.
| The dainticst and qaintest figures wer
those of the two Corean ladies, Mrs We Wal
Yong and Mrs. We Cha Yum, about as tall a
an average l0-year-old girl, clad in full skirt
| of many-colored silks, with waists almos
under their armpits like old fashioned pima
| fores and queer head-dresses These modes
little women toddled along beside thei
scarcely less diminutive lords, with eyes oil
| the floor, and the observed of all observers
| Speaker Reed said he would like to buy
pair of them to hang on his next Christina
| tree
| Most gorgeous of all the gorgeous Great
ures from abroad was Military Attach
Hansen, of the Russian legation. More thai
six feet tall, attired in close-fitting uniform
of cream broadcloth, with high top boats AM
full regimentals, helmet and sword and golC
tassels galore, and physically an Apollo, b,
was everywhere followed by the eyes of tn
| women.