The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-23
The Vice-President and Six Cabi-
net Officers With Him.
MANY NOTABLE PEOPLE.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY THE
VAST CROWD.
sIr. Cleveland on Good Terms with
HimseIf-Presidenti Party At
tend Banquet-Wn Hold a Re-
ceptiOn This Morning.

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 22-For the
present. at least, the seat of the gov
eminent of the United States may be
said to have been transferred to At
lanta, for the city harbors tonight the
president, the vice-president, and six
members of the cabinet. not to men
ton Treasurer Jordan, Governor COT
fin. of Connecticut; Governor O'Far-
ran, Of Virginia; Governor Stone, of
Mississippi, and a long list of other
dignitaries Of offieedom
Fifteen minutes after this after
noon the presidential train rolled into
the Union depot. In accordance with
the expressed wish of the president
and the desire of the exposition Off
Gals, the arrival of the party was de-
priveoAo anything in the nature of
hippodfome
Ten thousand people had assembled
in the vicinity of the station. crowd
ing the streets as thickly as the space
would allow and OVERLOOKING for sew
eral blocks in every direction. The
roofs, windows, awnings, telegraph
poles and every point of vantage in
the neiShborhood mad beeu utilized by
eager ou-lOokerS. The special was
stopped outside the depot, however,
the party disembarking, and were es
corted TO carriages by the reception
committee, and the drive to the hotel
AraSon, their destination, began before
the eXpectant thousands realized that
the distinguished visitors had reached
the city. Nevertheless, as the presi-
dents carriage, drawn by four white
horses, dashed around the corner of
the station, the crowd recognized the
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and a mighty cheer went up, which
grew and developed into a roar as the
line Of carriages sped rapidly up
Pryor street through the mass of en-
tnusiaStic humanity. MI. Cleveland
was in evident good humor and bowed
response to tbs continuous ovation he
received all the way to his hotel Sec
rotary Carlisle. who with Mrs. Car
Isle, rode in the second carriage, was
eheered frequently, and Secretary of
the Interior Hoke Smith. who found
himself on his native heath, was given
hearty reception.
AT the Aragon the party was made
comfortable until $50 pm. At that
hour the ladies were escorted to the
Grand opera house, where they were
the guests of Mrs. Hoke Smith at a
ooS party to see Rice's 1892
The presence of the brilliant array
OF cabinet representatives caused the
opera house to be packed.
At pm the president and his cab
met officers sat down in the Aragon
banquet hail to a dinner rendered in
their honor by Hon Porter King.
mayor of Atlanta.
Covers were laid for eighty. includ-
ing the exposition officials, the CITY
council, the visiting governors and
other distinguished citizens.
The city is congested with visitors
tonight and the superb weather maj
has prevailed SO far insures an at
tendance of a hundred thousand Wis
itors tomorrow.
In the morning at Il o'clock the
president will be driven to the exno-
.sttion grounds. where he viii review
the military. deliver a brief address.
hold public reception and make a
ne will be rendered a reception at fbe
Capital City club and at midnight will
leave for Washington. 40