The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-17
Rhode Islands Delegation
Had a Good Time.
Peaceful Journey With Mild
Dissipation at Niagara.
The Reed Decorations Went on the
Car and Stayed On.
Special 20 The NEWS.

Special 10 The NEWS.
Headquarters khod- Island Delegation,
st. Loui June Ia
"We are going TO ST. Louis
" ith all convenient speed
We're riding in bufiet car
For Thomas Bracket Reed.
"And when we reach Convention Hall
You bet we'll make a noise
A-whooping mp for Reed Of Maine
Us eight Rhode Island boys.
.ohl we've left the clans behind us
In their little beds OF mud
And when we strike McKinley's boom
You'll hear siekening thud.
"For we're going TO St Louis
With all convenient speed.
etc., etc "
That was one Of the songs that the Rhode
Island delegation, alternates and guests,
seventeen strong, sang as the good car
"Cdstfegood plunged madIy through
Ohio. The tune was the Swearing OF
the Green" more because that was a
tuneful tune rather than that 1t had any
A. T.. A. significance. AS a matter OF fact,
the librettist wrote the song without
considering he air. The air came TO him
afterwards, just like any air.
There was another. Alternate Shsrpe
designed II aud drew the specifications
tran TO the chorus o." f"Marcning through
Georgia." like this
"Hurrahl Hurrah! For Thomas Bracket Reed.
Hurrahl Hurrahl For Thomas Bracket Reed.
90 we sarg tho chorus from y ew England TO st
Louis.
Shouting the battle cry Of gold bugsp
Everybody sung, not because they
knew how, necessarily, but because the
spirit moved them.
FlfI. N Il -. -
tail end OF a magnificent vestibuled train
OF eight Wagners. Five of the Wagners
bore the Massachusetts, delegation and
Ex-Governor Brown, who went with the
Bay State contingent by invitation. One
was a dining car, and the tail ender was the
private car OF the president OF the Fitch
burg Railroad with Massachusetts party
including ladies. The ice chest of this
private car was on the front platform con-
veniently approachable from the rear
platform OF the Rhode Island car.
The crowd of Providence people who
saw the Rhode Island car go out OF the
Union station stripped OF It's decorations
would have been edited had they viewed
the delegates dressing the car up in the
wilds of Gardner Mass. The decorations
were taken north in the baggage car and
they were tied on while waiting al Gard
ner for the balance Of the train to get
along from Boston. Who was responsible
for ordering the decorations off at Provi-
dence nobody seemed to know, The Con-
solidated and the Wagner Palace Car
Company were alike condemned. At
Gardner il was learned that the Massachu-
setts crowd had decided 10 come over the
Fitchburg instead of the Boston d AL
bany nartly because the latter corporation
had been so soulless rs to prohibit any
decorations on the train. The Rhode
Island car WIS dressed In triumph at Gard
ner. although part of the dressing had
been left behind In Providence in the
rush to get il aboard the bagagge car.
The delegation was the recipient OF two
gifts before getting out OF the State.
One was n Brown button made OF wood,
four feet in diameter, which Colonel
Frank Harris of Woonsocket presented
when the train pulled m at his town,
with few brief remarks appropriate TO