Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-09-24
BRYAR'S ARRIVA4.
AD ImpeD5e Tbrop9 Greeted
His Arrival Last Ni6bt.

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The City Gaiiy Decorated, eontires
BURNING and Canrons Roaring,
Bat the Great orator Could
Not Be Seen.
Daily Argus last Friday, 18th.
Never before in the history of
our quiet little city has patriotism,
public spirit and city pride been
SO manifest as on the present &C
casion. All through the after
noon of yesterday and until a late
hour at night, decorations were
being made on every building Of
prominence along our principal
streets. Our business men seemed
to try to outvie each other in the
profusion and arrangement and at
tractiveness of the gay colored
adornments of their places of
business, and as consequence
our city to-day presents a scene of
elaborately adorned and superbly
decorated counting rooms, offices,
grocery stores, dry goods and
clothing houses, with the flags of
the nation DISPLAYED in profus-
ion. Il were as useless to at
tempt to describe the varied
hues of the autumn leaves and
na1ure's beauties in the wild for
esJs as to attempt a detailed de-
S 'rIptiou of the magnificent
scenes and bewildering attrac-
tions that are everywhere on our
principle thoronghfares to-day
The immense multitude stand
aud gaze and are lost in won>
der.
From an early hour last even.
ilg the highways leading into
the city from the rural districts
were crowded with vehicles of
every description and there was a
constant stream of visitors pour>
ing into our midst until the sun
had climbed high in the eastern
skies this morning.
Long before the appointed
time of the arrival of the train
from Raleigh last night bearing
the distinguished PARTY, bonfires
were burning in the centre tf|
the streets, buildings illr~
minated on tvery hand al d
the martial music Of Il q
drum and fife were heard.
Old men, middle-age men,
and children. black and white,
were all on the streets. restlessly
passing to and fro. and anxiously
awaiting the arrival of the dis>
tiuguished person in whose
honor such pageant scenes and
high class ceremonies were being
enacted.
A few minutes past 10 O'Clock
the headlight of the engine pulling
the train freighted with dignitaries
flashed around the railroad curve
at the Southern end Of the city,
and a scramble was at once begun
for positions in which it was
thought the great orator could be
seen. Amid the roar and din of
cannon, the Goldsboro Rifles fir
ing the Pie ,idential sal t,
OF forty-fve guns in his houor
and the piercing yells of hun
dreds of voices, the tarin came
to a standstill at the intersection
of Centre and Walnut streets.
Every head was hoisted and every
eye was strained to catch a glimpse
of the champion of silver, but
all those who had secured
prominent positions, and all 9th
ers who had joyfully anticipated
feasting their eyes on that promi
nent figure were doomed to dis
appointment.
Instead of the great Bryan
there appeared on the platform
of the rear car Wayne county's
most distinguished son, Hon. G.
B. Aycock, who announced to
the crowd that Mr.. Bryan was
worn out and had retired for the
night. and, therefore, could not
be 81 en-.
This announcement carried
great disappointment to the mul
titude, who soon began to dis
perse aud wander homeward.
In order that Mr.. Bryan
should get the rest and sleep
that he had So sadly needed to
prepare him for the arducus
duties that were before him
to-day the sleeping car in which
he had etired was taken down the
road and side tracked about two
miles from town. There with
the murky waters of Neuse river
flowing silently near by and
the clear ripping stream of Lit
tie river singing sweet lullabies
all through the silent watches of
the night, the great statesman
slept uninterrupted from the noise
and din of the city and, perhaps,
dreamed fond dreams about the
Presidential chair.
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