The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-23
PRESIDENT Is AT ATLANTA
WERE M4SSED IN THE
STREETS no GREET HIM.

-Four White Horses and He Smiled and
Bowed to the People as He Passed
Through the streets-Entertained at
4 Dinner.
Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 22.-President Cleve-
land and his party of cabinet officials
arrived here at 4:05 this afternoon.
Twenty thousand people were massed
4 in the streets which converge at the
Union station. Mr.. Cleveland was greet
ed with cheers when he stepped upon
Georgia soil. He was ushered into a
carriage drawn by four white horses.
President Collier of the exposition, Vice
president Hemphill and Mayor King of
Atlanta took seats beside him. Secre-
and Morton and Postmaster General
Wilson, with lady members of their fam
lilies, and General Passenger Agent Turk
of the Southern railway, followed IN
other carriages, escorted by members
of the exposition board of directors. The
party was driven through two lanes of
} humanity along Wall street and north
to Peach Tree and on to the Aragon ho-
tel, where the visitors are quartered,
The president smiled and bowed as he
passed up the streets. The railroad trip
from Washington was without special
Cronnchnrn G.
and Salisbury, N. c., did not get q
glimpse of the president as he passed
through those towns. Although the
J hour was early, there was crowd at
each point, but they were doomed to
disappointment. Charlotte was the first
+ town at which Mr. Cleveland showed
himself. The train stopped there for
twenty minutes and the president shook
\ hands with a large proportion of the
four thousand townspeople. Twelve
hundred school children marched past
and two or three military companies
were drawn up in line. SpartanburS
4 turned out five or six thousand strong
3 to see the visitors. Greenville, S. c.,
( was reached at 1920. The president
shook hands with all who could get to
I him. and had a pleasant word for the
\ children.
The cabinet members also took part
in the shaking. This was kept up down
the line at Central Seneca, Cocoa and
Gainesville.
Tonight at $50 the president, thecab-
inets members and 100 prominent citi-
zens were entertained at dinner by
Mayor King at the Aragon.
The table was in the shape of the let
ter &C." Mayor King, sat in the CEN
ter of the outer line, with the president
on his right and Vice President Steven
son on his left. Governor Atkinson sat
in front of the mayor and Secretary
Carlisle on his right and Secretary La
mont on his left. The other secretaries
were in the immediate vicinity of the
president The dining room was elap-
orately decorated with tropical plants
and the national colors. The guests in
cluded the state, county and city Off
cials.
While the gentlemen were at dinner
the ladies of the cabinet party were the
guests of Mrs. Secretary Smith at the
Grand opera house witnessing the pro-
duction of t'1492" The boxes were taste
fully draped with the national colors
and flags of foreign countries. There
were no speeches at the dinner. The
only public utterance which Mr.. Cleve-
land expects to make will be the adj
dress which he is to deliver tomorrow
in front of the government building.
Tomorrow will be the greatest day
at the exposition. Atlanta is jammed
The mayor has issued a proclamation
asking the citizens to abandon all busi-
ness tomorrow and attend to the re-
ception of the president.