New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-16
NO ONE KNOWSWHY HE CAME
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND CALLED ON DIR.
BRYANT YESTERDAY.
HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SECRETARY AND
MRS. LAMONT. SAW "ERMINIE' IN
THE EVENING, AND RETURNED
TO WASHINGTON on THE
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS.

THE EVENING, AND RETURNED
TO WASHINGTON on THE
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS.
President Cleveland made flying trip 10 Ne"-
York yesterday. He came on from washington
Tuesday night. arrived In Jersey CITY at oSo
o'clock yesterday morning. and left for WASH
ington at midnight
The object Of his visit is not known. Rumor
made 1t appear that the President had come
on to consult his physician, and perhaps to
receive medical treatment. Developments OF
the day, however. would contradict all such
stories. .t
Accompanying the President were Secretary
and Mrs. Lamont. On arriving here the party
was driven to the Victoria Hotel The President
was assigned to his old suite Of rooms on the
first floor facing Fifth-ave.. and Secretary and
Mrs Lamont occupied rooms just above. The
party breakfasted in the Presidents apartments
At 10 o'clock Mr. Cleveland and Secretary
Lamont drove away from the hotel. They
went up Fifth-ave. to Thirty-sixth-st., turned
west and stopped at No. "a, the home office OF
Dr. j. D. Bryant DIR. Bryant is the Presidents
physician as we'll as his warm personal friend.
At DIR. Bryants the President and his COM
panon unched Shortly after O'CLOCK the
President, Secretary Lamont and DR.. Bry-
ant drove through Central Park. Dr. Bryant
was left at his home on the return, ana the
President and Secretary Lamont were driven
back to the Victoria. They arrived there AT
4 o'clock An hour later the President and
Secretary Lamont again left the hotel again
we're driven up Fifth-ave. to Thirty-sixth-st,
again turned west and again stopped at NO.
a. This time, however Mrs. Lamont accom-
panied them. The party dined at Dr. Bryants
and at half-past were driven to the Broad
way Theatre where they occupied box. At
the close of the performance the President ana
Secretary and Mrs. Lamont were driven to
the Cortlandt-st. ferry, crossed the North River
and took the midnight express on the fehh-
sylvania road for Washington.
LITTLE OF INTEREST IN THE VISIT.
In its details the visit of President Cleveland
to New-York yesterday was altogether unin-
teresting 1t was not the accustomed visit OF
a President Of the United States to the metrop-
oils He came unannounced, and but for the
body of newspaper men who him depart
last evening he would have gone unremarked;
and everything about the visit said palmer than
words that that is what he had hoped he might
do OF late. however, there has grown up here
a morbid interest in the Presidents visits to this
city and his trips to and through New-York
picion that all was not well with him now exists
TIE PRESIDENT NEVER LOCKED BETTER.
To any one who saw the President yester-
day go to and from his carriage, or to one
who saw him last night at the theatre, there
could be little doubt as to his present health
He never looked better. His face has lost the
tan of Buzzard's Bay, and only natural,
healthy color APPEARED in his checks. His
rif hal
passed through New-York last August to open
Congress, and his face bore a positive smile
all the day long At the theatre there was no
one who enjoyed "Ermne" more fully than he.
while the wit and wiles Of Wilson caused him
TO shake with laughter.
The Presidents party occupied box ID at the
left Of the stage. Above their seats hung the
Nations colors and draped about the front Of
the box were the stars and stripes. The house
was crowded. 1t hal been announced in the
evening papers that the President would spend
the evening at the Broadway. and people were
there to see him. The curtain had risen before
the party had arrived. The house was dark
and their entrance to their box almost
observed There was no demonstration.
Between the acts Controller Myers. who was
in the audience visited Box d and paid his re-
spects to the President. There were no other
callers. At the close of the play there was
demonstration. but it was doubtful
whether it was meant for the President or the
players. -
All efforts to ascert lin the true nature of
the Presidents hasty visit yesterday amounted
to nothing. He would not intimate for what
he had come. The strictest orders given
at the Office Of the Victoria on his arrival con-
cernng cards and callers. The President was
to see no one, and notes were useless. The
destination of his first drive increased the be-
lief in the rumor that he had come for medical
aid: but Dr. Bryants words to a reporter who
called at his office at o'clock must put such
idea out Of the question
Has Mr. Cleveland been with you to-day?"
the doctor was asked.
"Of course he has been with me-" he replied;
why shouldn't he come to see me when he
comes to the city and has the time? Mr.. Cleve-
land and l are very warm personal friends"
But his visit to you to-day that Of a
friend or patient"
DI:. BRYANT DENIES RUMORS.
"Thc President is not ILL.," the doctor answered
impatiently; 'he is in as good health as he ever
has been and the rumors that he is on here to
have an operation performed, or to be treated.
are all nonsense. They are worse than nom
sense--they criminal"
Physicians who have treated the President
former occasions were either out Of town yester
day or mad not the President up to the
time of his going to the theatre. Friends of
the President In Wall Street were in ignorance
as to his visit. Ex-Secretary Whitney did not
know that Mr. Cleveland was in town until
o'clock and the Presidents other friends knew
of his arrival only through the papers
The most convincing proof, however, that the
Presidents visit was simply personal trip. and
that he had not come here for physical aid is
the letter sent down to the newspaper men al
the Victoria last evening by Secretary Lamont.
The letter was In answer TO n note addressed to
him by the reporters and Is as follows:
The President came here private matters
which occupied him during the morning. lie lunched
with DR.. Eryat drove in the park this afternoon dine
it Eryant's and will Washington tonight
and be his desk tomorrow
He Is In good health and stories OF an operation
absolutely untrue and without particle OF foundat
Dr. Pryant Is ON intimate personal friend He hap.
peas his physician when he needs and hence
te storlcs-which ought subject their authors
rimlnal prosecution. They alarm the country and do
much harm.
The Presidents visit yesferday NAV most