Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-05-06

into the apartment. Then there were
more welcomes, and more responses.
and more introductions, after all of
which the duke and his party went TO
dinner
cLEvELAND's ARRIVAL.
The President Given a Tremen dous Recep.
ton.
CHICAGO, May Fresh from the
splendors of the naval display President
Cleveland was welcomed to Chicago
Saturday with the shouts OF multi.
tude, the booming of cannon and the
hearty greetings of the official repre-
sentatives of the state of Illinois and
the city of Chicago The welcome was
inaugurated away down in the SIS
ter state of Indiana, where the special
train was boarded by composite dele
CATION. composing Governor Altgeld
and members of his staff, Mayor Harri-
son and the council, Director General
Davis, Collector ef the Port John NJ.
Clark. The president who was per-
sonally acquainted with a majority of
his visitors, received them cordially.
Governor Altgeld, for the state, and
Carter II. Harrison for the city, told
him how the city appreciated his pres
enco, and how the entire commonwealth
was his to command, while Mr.. Cleve-
land in response remarked that he had
a lively remembrance of Chicago's hos
pitality, extending back some years
The scenes enacted at the union
depot upon the arrival of the presi-
dents party were in the main repeti-
ton of those that greeted the duke of
Neragua and his suite, only that the
throng in waiting was larger and in
finitely more eXuberant. President
Palmer and Vice President Peck were
in waiting at the depot to express
word of greeting in behalf of the ex-
position, and this done the services Of
the escorting police were called again
into requisition and pathway was
found for the visitors from the depot TO
the street The crowd had commenced
To let itself loose when the first rumble
of the train was heard and theyj
kept up the cheering almost in-l
cessantly until the president hadI
entered his carriage. Mr.. Gao A,ta1'
looked none the worse for hisT ~
bunting of Fr.dai, and the onlNans,W
dences of the fact was small biz OF
court plaster on the forehead above the
right ear. He pleasantly responded to
the cheering by repeated doffing of his
hat. II was notable also that Secretary
Gresham came in for general recog-
milton. The presidents procession was
nearly three times as long as that
which had escorted the duke, and it
CO. Atal, A.al
This was the order of it's movement:
A detachment Of twenty-seven
mounted police led the way, then came
company ID of the United States cav
airy, commanded by Captain E. A.
Varnum. The Illinois national guard
was represented by the First and Sec
ond regiments, commanded respectively
By Colonels Koch and Judd, as we'll as
by cavalry Troop A. Light Battery Z
of the United States artillery brought
up the rear of the military contingent
and cleared the way for string
OF forty carriages. Four of
these were occupied by national CON-
missioners and members of the local
directory. President Cleveland was
seated in the fifth carriage, a handsome
vehicle drawn by two white horses.
Governor Altgeld sat on his right, and
Mayor Harrison on the opposite seat.
In the sixth vehicle Vice President
Stevenson had Fred w. Peck for
company, while Secretary Gresham had
Director General Davis all to him
self. Secretary Carlisle rode with Col
lector Clark and Director Lawrence,
Secretary Martin with Director Ker-
foot, and Ambassador Bayard with
Commissioner Bradley Ii. Smalley,
Postmaster General Bissell with Adlai
T.. Ewing.
Carriages were provideded for Major
General Miles and his staff. as well as
for the mayors cabinet and the men,
bers of the city council The process
sion followed the same route as that of
the ducal party, except that IL con-
tinued on Michigan avenue mile to
the southwark and came to a full stop
at the Lexington hotel. As the presi-
dents carriage passed the harbor
presidential salute was fred from the
Andrew Johnson. Ten times as many
spectators turned out as when the ducal
contingent passed the same way, and
the enthusiasm WAS, il any thing, twaEss.
times as spontaneous and general. 1t
was strong reminder of the popular
welcome that was accorded TO Mr..
Cleveland when he visited the city dur.
ing his first administration.
A still greater surprise awaited him
when he reached the Lexington hotel
The hot houses of the worlds fair had
been next door to emptied, SO that hls
pathway might be lined with flowers
lie passed into the hotel between rows
of shrubs with npronounceable names
The elevator that carried him to the
second floor was literally embowered
with cut flowers and ferns, and the
wainscoating of tho corridor into
which he stepped was banked with
the gems OF the conservatory, while
the suite of rooms into which
he was escorted were filed with a fra
GRANGE that was overpowering. It was
flowers, flowers and flowers. And vet,
even without them, the apartments
would have been regarded as sumptu-
GUS in the extreme. The cabinet Of
ficers accompanying the president We're
assigned to quarters on the same floor
almost as luxurious, but lacking the
floral display.
An interesting lncijsaL
shortly after his arrival President
Cleveland received the cards of an un-
expected delegation. II was, CON-
posed of six young girls representing
Q society known as the Girls
badge Makers Protective union, and
they were anxious to present to the
chief executive badge that had been
made with the artistic fingers Of three of
their number. 1t was of roam velvet,
ornamentsd with gold bullion work.
On the top was gold bnllion star in q
red, white and blue rosette, and below
It the inscription In gilt letters:
"Welcome, Grover Cleveland, Presl.