The record-union., 1896-01-02
Thousands Of People Greet the President
Of this Country.
Diplomats. Military and Naval Officers
Attend the Reception.
The Day Celebrated at Berlin by Re-
Iglous Ceremonies and the Court
Ceremony Of Parade Filing Past
the Emperor-Grand New Year Day
Reception at Rome.

passed in and out of what may be
termed the State apartments, namely
the blue room, where foreign embassa-
doris and ministers have their first for
NAL interviews with the President; the
red room, the green room, and the
spacious east room, the scene of so
many incidents that have become his
torical, and lastly, the generously pro-
portioned corridor, extending nearly the
entire length of the mansion, with
which all these appointments commune
cate.
A force of decorators, under the di-
rection of Gardener F'ister, the veteran
superintendent of the White House
conservatory and grounds, had worked
hard last night and early this morning
in making the mansion look beautiful
for the great show of the year. The
Conservatives had been robbed of their
choicest possessions, but not to such an
extent that those whose observation ex-
tended to their tropical precincts were
impressed by any sense of depletion.
Wherever the eye wandered in the blue
room, the corridor, the east room, or
the other chambers, it was met by
groups of spreading palms and tall,
dropping rubber trees, by Towering
bushes from the deepest of crimson
poinsetta blooms to the most delicate
OF white rosebuds. The mantels, the
freplaces, the window embrasures, were
banked with floral beauty. The chan
deliers were almost hidden in wreaths
of green smilax. Ferns waved delicate
branches from hooks and corners, while
stately and graceful specimens of the
screw pine stood alone in alcoves more
impressive in their solitude.
To the oval-shaped blue room had
been given the preference of blooming
plants and cut flowers, whose perfume
hung heavily On the air The west man
tel was a mass of brilliant color with
its profusion of red roses, red camellias
and red poinsettas, standing in marked
contrast to the decoration Of the east
mantel, which was all in white roses,
white camellias and white hyacinths.
From the chandelier was pendant
large basket of roses hanging above the
heads of the receiving party. while
smilax was entwined with jingling
crystals and draped in chains above the
doorways. Banked in the mantels and
the one great window were palms a
dozen feet in hight.
The east room, where most of the
guests assembled after they had paid
their respects to the President, Mrs.
Cleveland and the other members of the
receiving party, looked like a tropical
forest. Palms. ranging from the tallest
domestic variety TO the diminutive kind
50 frequently seen in window gardens.
were the principal decorations of the
east window, and these were surround
ed by the red poinsetta, or Christmas
flower, and a great variety of foliage
plants. Every fireplace and window
had it's profusion of these varieties, and
the prevailing chandelier decoration of
smilax wreaths was also noticeable.
Flowering plants were everywhere in
the green room, while in each corner
was a tall rubber tree.
The decoration Of the red room was
much in keeping with that in the other
apartments. except that one mantel was
entirely in pink pagonias. In anticipa-
tion of a large crowd, and in order to
give it free movement, a few pine trees
and some plants banked on pedestals
We're the only displays in the corridor.
The reception was set for II o'clock,
and just at that time the members of
the receiving party, comprising Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland. vice-Presi-
dent Stevenson and the Cabinet officers
and their wives, came down the private
stairs leading TO the corridor. headed
by Colonel John NJ Wilson, u S. A,
Superintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds in full uniform The only alb
sentee from the Cabinet party was Mrs.
Smith, the wife of the Secretary of the
Interior
Entering the blue room the President
at the right of the line, and the others
were ranged in accordance with official
precedence. The march from the pri-
vate apartments above had been ac-
companied by music from the United
States Marine Rand, under Professor
Fanciulli, which was stationed in the
public lobby. The Cabinet ladies in the
receiving line were Mrs Olney, Mrs.
Carlisle, Mrs. Harmon, Mrs. Lamont,
Mrs. Wilson, Miss Herbert and Miss
Morton.
A numerous array of matrons and
young ladies had been invited by Mrs
Cleveland to stand behind the line. >"
as the term is. These comprised the
wives and daughters of Senators, Rep
resentatives, Justices of the Federal
Supreme Court, Assistant Secretaries of
the Executive Department, bureau off,
GERS. high officers of the army and navy
and other prominent citizens. with a
number of personal friends of Mrs.
Cleveland not directly connected with
official life
Those behind the line were Mrs. Full
Ter, wife of the Chief Justice; Mrs.
Brice, Mrs. Mills. Mrs. Sherman. Mrs.
Cullom. Mrs. Mcmillan, Mrs. Hit, Mrs
Newlands, Mrs. Crisp, Mrs Daniels
Mrs. Sayers, Mrs. McClelland, Mrs.
Clark, Mrs Catchings of the Senatorial
and Representative circle; Mrs. Miles,
wife of Major General Miles; Mrs.
Sternberg, Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Ramsey,
Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Haywood, Mrs. Nc
Adoo, Mrs. Doe and Mrs. Rice repre-
senting the army and navy and the
marine corps; Miss Stevenson. Miss
Letitia Stevenson. the Misses Scott.
Miss Whitney, the Misses Hamlin. Mrs.
Uhl, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. A. A. Wilson. Mrs.
Matthews, Mrs. Waller, Mrs. Brooks.
Mrs. Minot, Mrs. Bryant. Miss Knott.
Mrs. J. Kennedy Tod, Miss Mabel
johnson, Mrs. Carlisle, Miss Berry. Miss
Reed, Mrs. Whitman, Miss QUAY. Miss
Jane Fuller Mrs. Micou, Mrs. Lowndes
Mrs. Davis, Miss Conrad, Mrs. Croweu.
Mrs. Wharton. Miss Lay and Mrs
Wright