The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-07
coNcoUKsE AT The CAMPUS.


|. Procession Through tho City-A Vast
Assembiage Gives Greeting.
When the Madison street cars brought the
party back from Lake Washington the streets,
in anticipation Of the procession, were lined
with crowds who were eager for an opportunity
70 see the president. The carriage especially de.
signed for the president had not yet appeared
and he and Governor Ferry therefore entered q
coupe. drawn BY pair of chestnut horses The
other members of the party and the reception
committee followed close after them and they
passed between two closely packed ranks Of
cheering onlookers.
Small DR. and cedar trees along the sidewalks
gave an appearance Of freshness to Second street
aud Yesler avenue, while thousands of Amer.
scan days huttered In tho breeze along Front
street
The presidential party was preceded BY four
mounted policemen ana Q platoon of twenty
patrolmen under command Of Chief Rogers, A.
II. Brookes being grand marshal The organize
tions came in the following order: First Regi.
mens band; Companies B. D and z and An extra
company OF the First regiment; the Sons of
Veterans drum corps: Stevens, Miller and Cnsh-
ing posts Of the Grand Army, commanded by NJ
y. Holmes aud J. St Clair; Thomas Camp, Sons
OF Veterans, commanded by Z. w. Young
Then came President Harrison and Governor
Ferry In . coupe; J. NJ. Rusk, secretary of agri-
culture, and three members Of the reception
committee, and John wanamaker, postmaster
general
The other ladies' Of the party went direct from
the Madison street cars to the train at the
Lake Shore depot, the unfavorable weather pre-
venting them from taking part In the process
aion.
The larger part OF the crowd was assembled on
Front street and II kept up running fire of
cheering until the procession turned up Seneca
street. Then general rush was made for the
university grounds and within q few minutes
after the presidential party had assembled the
grand stand the streets were little moro
crowded than at ordinary times.
In the university campus, however was such
vast sssemblags ~ Seattle has never seen
The rich, rank grass on its gentle slopes was
trampied down by q concourse of fully 5000
people. Close around the stand several thou
sand persons were tightly packed and, when the
school children arrived, crowd OF intruders
had to Be driven from their seats The part Of
the campus north Of the main university build
Ing was . sea OF heads, and every branch OF a
tree which would bear the weight had Q man
or boy pcrched on it, There were a. many
white people gathered on tha; ten acres of
ground - the whole state Of Washington con-
tanned twenty years ago.
When the presidential party and the local re-
ceptiou committee arrived on the grounds It
became necessary for . posse OF policemen to
clear = lane through the middle of the crowd
II was only by the most strenuous exertion that
space was made for the party to pass through
In single fle, and when the people were driven
back II retreated with one common movement,
surging back like vast sea OF humanity. Any
psrsou who once got packed in this crowd had
to abandon all Idea OF independent movement
aud simply resign himself TO move with the
raass Children had 70 be raised above the
heads OF the crowd or they would have been
trampled beyond hope OF rescue.
The crowd was 90 vast that those on its out
skiris could usually only guess at what was
going on at its center. First, thu voices OF the
chisdrens choir singing the grand strains OF
america" could be heard above the hum and
thrilled every patriotic heart Then = general
hush told that Rev. G. A. Tewkshury was offer-
tug prayer The music of the chiidren's voices
could always be heard above the din, but the
soand of singse voice could not reach one
tenth OF that vast multitude.