Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-04-28
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
President Harrison Travels Through the
South Where He 10 Treated With
Great Distinction.

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ing of Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Mckee, Mrs!
Dimmick. Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Harri-
son Postmaster General Wanamaker,
Marshal Ransdell, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
w. Boyd, Mr.. E. F. Tibbott, the presi-
dents stenographer, and Messrs. Clark,
Oulahan and Austin, the news
paper men, left here at o'clock
last Tusday morning for tour OF the
continent.
The first stop was made at Roanoke
Va. where the reception was not very
enthusiastic. At Radford Tenn, the
president was received in cordial way.
One excited individual started what he
called Yankee yell in which all joined.
All the villages along the route through
Tennessee wore holiday appearance.
At Bristol there was so much cheering
for Mrs. Harrison that she was compell-
ed to appear and bow her acknowledge
ments. At Johnson City the party
met with royal reception ard the
president made a speech. At Jones'
boro the president cOmplimented the
people on the Improvements time had
wrought.
At Chattanooga 5000 people were as
sembled at the station. A salute OF
thirteen guns was fired. Inc party
was joined there by Mr.. and Mrs Carter
Harrison, the presidents brother and
sister-in-law, from Nashville.
The gaily decorated electric cars,
three in number, rapidly conveyed the
party to the incline at the foot OF his
toric Lookout mountain, where the
party remained few minutes At the
station, prior to the presidents de-
parture, the crowd surrounded the
observation platform, and men, women
and children were lifted from their
feet by the surging mass. The presi-
dent remained on the platform shaking
hands with all who were lifted up, and
among them there were many women.
AS the train pulled out shower OF
flowers thrown from the crowd fell over
the head and shoulders of the president
The trip from Chattanooga to Atlanta
was made over the Western & Atlanta
road. There were many historical
points along the route. These included
the battlefelds of Chicamauga, Tunnel
Hill, Resaca, Dug Gap, Kennesaw and
Peach Tree creek. Short stops were
made at each of these places and the
president shook hands with a large
humber of people. 1t was at Resaca
that General Harrison led the charge
against the confederate battery, in
which he lost nearly half of his regi-
ment. Marshal sRandaell, who accom-
panies the president on this trip, lost
his arm in that engagement He was a
non-commissioned officer in the presl-
dents regiment. Among other places
visited were Ringgold, Dalton andCart'
terSville.
At Marietta the party was joined by
reception committee from Atlanta
Thew came from Atlanta in a special
train. composed of parlor cars and a
fat car, on which was mounted field
battery in charge of members OF the
Atlanta artillery which, as soon as the
train started, belched forth a welcome
which it kept up every three minutes
during the ten mile run to Atlanta.
Amid tumult caused by the concerted
blowing of thousands of steam whistles,
the presidential train entered Atlanta,
AS soon as the presidential train reach
ed the city limits, the signal was given
by the Exposition cotton mills, and one
after another of the hundreds OF mills
along the line chimed in and hundreds
of railroad engines in the several rail
road yards in the city joined the chorus.
The car mounting one of the heavy
guns of the Atlanta artillery ran III adj
vance of the presidential train, and the
cannon firing as the car rolled on, add
ing to the tremendous din by which
the entire city was notified that the
presidential party had passed into the