Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-01
A BRILLIANT SCENE
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proud. They are handsome set of men,
| and appeared To- good advantage In their
| solid blue uniforms, with golden fns1gn1as
| Chief among tha sailors, by virtue of his
/ being at the head of the service, Is Rear
Admiral j. A. Greer president of the ex-
aiming board, but more prominent, prob
| ably, on account of his recent experiences
| in Hawaii, is Rear Admiral ]. G. Walker
president OF the light house board. Ad-
| miral Greer win be retired on account Of
| age at the end of February. Admiral
Walker viii then become the ranking officer
| OF the navy, with Admiral F. NJ. Ramsay
| chief of the bureau Of navigation next in
| line. The absence of Admirals Greer and
| Walker was subject of comment. The
| being Admiral Ramsay of navigation, Com
| modore Matthews of yards and docks, Com
mander Chadwick Of equipment Capt.
| sampson of ordnance. Commodore Philip
| f1chborn of construction and repair, Com
modore Melville of steam engineering. Pay
master General Stewart of supplies and &C
| counts, Surgeon General Tryon of medicine
! and surgery and Capt. Lemly of judge ad-
vocate generals office. Other officers in
| line were Lieut.. Alderman, Prof. Alger,
| Commander Barber. Surgeon Boyd, Com
mander Bradford, Commander Cook, Capt
Dewey, Commander Harrington, Lieut..
Commander Heald, Capt J. A. Howell
Commander Jewell. Chief Engineer Inch,
Lieut.. Mason. Capt. McNair, Commander
Nelson, Lieut.. Mulligan, Prof. Newcomb
Commodore Phythian, Lieut.. Reamey
Lieut.. Switzerland, Lieut. Scheutze, Com
mander Sigsbee Commodore Selfridge,
Lieut.. Singer and Capt. Watson.
| The Marine Corps.
| The marine corps, which occupied the en-
| tire left of the purely military line, made
| an excellent display as usual. Col Charles
| Haywood, the commandant, was at the
| head followed closely by Major Goodloe
| Lowry, Major Reid. Capt Robinson, Lieut..
Russell. Capt. Murphy, Capt. F. N. Denny.
&ieut. karEany, Lieut.. Lauchheimer and
| Lieut. Barnett The army officers assem-
| bled at the War Department. and the naval
| ard marine officers assembled at the Navy
Department and marched over to the White
House in pairs. The ladies of their families
had preceded them to the White House and
| Joined them there. Many of the ladies oc-
| cupied places in the select group behind the
| receiving line.
| line. The most prominent of these were
Gen. Hammond, Gen. Rochester, Gen.
Moore, Gen. Carlin, Gen. Gibbon. Col
ffarker and Admirals Irwin and Russell.
In the Crowd.
Among the others who We're present at
| the reception were Senator Hawley, Mrs.
Benjamin Butterworth, Mrs. William But
| terworth, Mr.. Logan Carlisle, Assistant Sec
| rotary Hamlin, Mrs. and Miss Kilbourn of
| Keokuk. Senator and Mrs. Wolcott, Senator
| Mcpherson, Mr.. J. Wesley Davis and Mrs.
Davis of New York, Representatives Catch
| ings of Mississippi Picker of South Da-
kota and Boutelle of Maine, Clerk Kerr,
| Chief Clerk Towles and the chaplain of the
! House, the chaplain of the Senate, Commits
sicner of Patents Seymour, First Assistant
Postmaster General Jones, Bishop Hurst,
Gen. and Mrs. James, Grant Wilson and
Assistant Secretaries Curtis, Hamblin end
McAdoo, commissioner Miller, Controller
Bowler Register -Tillman, Treasurer Nor
commissioners.
and Roosevelt Deputy Commissioner Will
son. appointment Clerk Kretz of the Treas
sistant Controller Mansur, Captain Shep-
ard, Commissioner Lochren, Mr. X. NJ.
LandiS.
The District Militia.
Brgadier General Albert Ordway, COM
handing the National Guard of the Dis
trict, and hrs general staff, attired in full
dress uniform, brought up the end Of the
contingent The staff officers included the
following: -Lieutsnant Colonel Theodore
Mosher, adjttapt general; Major NJ. V.
Tierney, quarternaster general; Major w.
c. NcIntire, coclIpissary general; Major j.
l.. Smithmeyer. chief OF engineers; Major
George H. Harries, inspector general of
rifle practice, AID Captain W. F. Horton
aid-de-camp. o &. -
Different Local OrEnnizn tfOns.
few minutes afteE noon the representa-
tives of the Department. of the Potomac,
G.. A. r. entered. At the head of the line
we're Commander Nathan Bickford and
staff, followed by the Old Guard Captain
James Edgar. In the rear CT the uniform
ed men were the Associated Veterans OF
the War of 1916. A large delegation of
Grand Army men, accompanied by their
wiHes and other members OF their fsmf-
! lies, also attended the reception. Shortly
after several well-known members of the
Loyal Legion grasped the hands of the
President and Mrs. Cleveland. The colorcd
| contingent of the Grand Army, o. F. Nor
| ton Post, No. 4, and Charles Summer Post,
No. 8, was ont in force, the uniform of
each man being correct In every detail.
Just before the reception to the general
public was begun about two score of the
| members of the Association "f Oldest In
habitants of the District of Columbia were
| ushered in. They were under the leader
ship of Marshal Weinberger and looked
as hale and hearty as youngsters.
For the next hour and half humanity
in the form Of the general public entered
the White House In an apparently endless
stream. The line of people who had been
congregating for several hours extended
from the doors of the Executive Mansion
westward to 18th street on Pennsylvania
avenue
At the close OF the reception between 500
and 800 people gathered in the main lobby
between the reception room and the stair
way, waiting to see the President and Mrs.
Cleveland pass upstairs They formed
solid bank of people on either side of a
narrow aisle, through which it was ex-
pected the party would pass. The presi-
Dental party eluded the crowd, however,
by going throl gh the red room and across
to the elevator, executing a flank move
nent upon the curious onlookers much
to the disappointment of the latter.
Incidents of the Reception.
Private Secretary Thurber was here,
| there and everywhere before the reception
commenced, and throughout the entire
time. 1t was his pleasure to meet the
strangers and escort them to points of van
tage where they could see the sights
The lone lorn man in a dress coat, white
lawn tie and shining expanse Of white
linen was on hand, as usual. Rumor had it,
he was a Congressman from the wild and
| woody west. He circulated around and en-
jcyed himself thoroughly, and was really
the real star attraction for the crowd in
the corridor, who could not see all the gay
| doings in tine blue room, because the walls
We're not glass;, and sadly wanted some
thing to amuse and divert them. They got
it.
When the brilliant scene was at Its
height the babies, nurses and the maid
servants from upstairs created little stir
coming down to take peep at it from the
corridor. They were quickly satisfied and