The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-16
CLEVELAND AT WASHINGTON.
THE PRESIDENT RETURNS FROM
HIS SHOOTING TRIP.
Had a Good Time, Got Plenty of Game
and Was Never In Danger Dur
ing the Recent Storm.

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-President
Cleveland and his shooting companions
returned to Washington to-day at 2:30
p. m. on the lighthouse tender Maple,
laden with ducks and a deep brown
cclor. There was but one thing to
make a difference between Mr. Cleve-
lands arrival to-day and other similar
occasions and that was the weather.
Heretofore the Presidents voyages
have ended at the wharf in the midst of
falling snow or wind at "half a gale
| To-day was warm and pleasant and the
balmy atmosphere must have seemed
strangely unfamiliar after their un-
pleasant experiences in the Hatteras
storm of last week.
The telephone message sent by Mr..
Cleveland from Indian Head said that
the Maple would arrive at her wharf at
o'clock. Some time before that hour
Steward Sinclair and one of the White
House servants drove down to the
wharf in covered wagon intended for
baggage and game. A little later came
Mrs. O'Reilly, the wife of Major r. NJ
O'Reilly, the army surgeon, who had
attended the President on his other
trips TO North Carolina waters.
Owing to the presence of several yes
sells at the ice wharf, where the Maple
usually ties up, the little tender could
not land her passengers there and was
obliged to run III at the pier of the
river excursion boats AT 2:30 O'Clock
she was sighted coming around a bend
in the river, and Private Secretary
Thurber, who had arrived about half
an hour previously in the Presidents
coupe, waited at the end of the ice
wharf, unconscious that the landing
would be made some hundred yards be-
low. But the quick eyes of the score
or more of newsboyS, bootblacks and
wharf lOungers, who had surmised that
Mr. Cleveland was near from the pres
ence of the White House coupe. saw
that the Maple was turning into the
river view pier and made a rush down
the street in that direction. Mr. Thur
Der followed, driving over the rough
cobblestones at rafting pace.
Those who were not admitted to the
wharf peered through the wooden pal
ings of the gate, and watched the de-
barkation with interest The President
wore a silk hat and beaver overcoat.
He appeared to be in excellent health.
For ten minutes or so the President and
his friends and Captain French of the
Maple chatted on the wharf, and then
the party marched to the gate, with Mr.
Cleveland and Mr.. Thurber in the lead.
DR.. O'Reilly drove away with his wife.
Commander Wilde, Commander Lam
berton and his son took the street cars,
and the President and Mr.. Thurber en-
tered the coupe and were whirled off TO
the White House.
Meanwhile Steward Sinclair. his as
sistant and the sailors of the Maple
were carrying to the White House
wagon the Presidents guns and traps
and the game that had been killed
Altogether there were sixty ducks
thirty-two partridges, five geese and
four brant There were no swans in
the Presidential gamebag this year
The longevity of these birds is proverb-
ial. Last winter Mr.. Cleveland shot
several of them, and one of them in the
general distribution fell to the lot Of
Private Secretary Thurber
How did you like that swami" Mr.
Cleveland asked a few days later
Haven't been able to taste it yet"
Mr. Thurber replied
"Why SOP asked the President
We'll. sir" replied Mr.. Thurber,
latter boiling it for three whole days, 1
wasn't able to get my teeth through
one of its centennial tendons."
With this experience to guide them.
the Presidential party decided this
year to let the swan remain, in the clas-
sical language of the Eton Latin gram
mar. .'rara avis in terra.
The President ana MS companions
kept a small portion of the game
killed. and the rest was delivered at
the houses of the members of the Cabi
net. Assistant Secretary Hamlin of the
Treasury Department and Private Sec
retary Thurber.
A member of the shooting party said
this evening that no alarm need have
been felt for the safety of the President
and his companions during the terrific
storm that ragged at Cape Hatteras
while they were in that vicinity. The
tender Violet, to which the party was
transferred from the Maple at Norfolk,
was well sheltered during the gale in
the cape channel Sne did not drag
her anchors, and everybody had a good
time he said The trip in the Maple
from Norfoll. to Washington was with
out noticeable incident