The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-25
IN REMEMBRANCE.
Presents Given to President and MIRA
Harrison on Their Recent Tour.

Presents Given to President and MIRA
Harrison on Their Recent Tour.
The gifts received by the President and
Mrs. Harrison upon tho grand tour have
been unpaeked. They number 400. Ar<
ranged on tables In the corridor upstairs
they make great show. So many peOpla
want to see them that there is talk Of allow
ing them to be put on exhibition at the Ma
tiOnal Museum for limited time, says
Washington special to the Globe Democrat.
On one long table are arranged all the gold
and silver souvenirs. Their value is Very
great, and in size and variety they range
from the superb silver salveT, presented
to Mrs. Harrison by the ladies Of
San Francisco, to a tiny biz Of q
silver baby carriage, not much over an
inch square, bnt beautifully wrought in fla
gree work, which was intrusted to thu
President to present to his grandson, Ben
1amin Mckee. In Utah the President was
given the freedom OF the State OH the pre-
sentation to him of silver map of the Stats
nearly foot square. In San Francisco the
invitation TO the Palace Hotel banquet was
on thick gold card; his menu card was
another gold plate, and the freedom of the
city came on superbiy wrought square OF
gold. From the launching Of the Monterey
Mr.. Harrison has several elegant memen-
toes. One is purple velvet sash, another is
a large silver ladle with picture Of the ship
in the bowl and the third hammer made
from one of the first riYets placed in the ship.
Mrs. Harrison has also a spoon TO snow
for nearly every town and city she visited
in the silver States. The silver from the
San Francisco ladies has the card of invita-
tion for the reception, at which it was pre-
sented on its face, wreathed in grapevine.
From different cities on the Coast she has
elegant gold and silver knives and spoons,
made in odd and attractive shapes. A
miners lamp OF silver was present In an
other p ace. Little dishes of silver filagree-
work are reminder Of another.
In addition to the dozens and dozens Of
elaborate souvenirs in the precious metals
there are charming "reminiscences Of the jour
ney embodied in albums of the most elabOr-
ate description, containing, in many cases,
attTactively mounted photograph views OF
the luxurious homes and places in towns
visited-albums filed with the fora Of
many States, more of them filled with ele-
gantly engraved poems of welcome. There
are cotton bales from Galveston, and speci-
mems OF ore, quartz, minerals, coal, wood
and every sort of metal from every other
State, put in most attractive shapes. One
enterprlslng man presented box studded
with bright bits OF glass which had inside
cake of silver polish, while another, wrap
ped up in red, white ana blue ribbons, con-
tanned several bottles Of liniment which hd
wanted the President to use after the in
jury he received from bouquet hitting
him in the eye. There are dozens OF souve-
mir medals, dozens more of banners and
flags, and wateT-cOlor sketches of many
beautiful places, all handsomely framed.
There is pyramid of the bark Of the Dig
trees. and another made of dried fruits.
There are wild flowers, pressed flowers,
shells, and every conceivable shape in
which suggestion taken of au industry or
OF a State product could possibly be given