New-York tribune., 1896-04-02
GENERAL HARRISON IN Town
HIS SON AND DAUGHTER DID NOT AcCor.
PANY HIM FROM THE WEST.
THE Ex-PREsIDENT DECLINED TO SEE vIsIroRs
AND CALLED UPON MRS. DIMMIcK-AR-

THE Eh-PkESlDENT DECLiNED ~ BEE VISIT0N3
AND CALLED UPON MRS. DIMMIcK-AR-
RANGEMENTs FOR HIS MARRIAGE.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison. whose marrias,
with Mrs. Mary Lord Dimmick will take place at 81
Thomas's Church on Monday next, arrived In this
city shortly before o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The ex-President was passenger on the Atlanta
express the Pennsylvania Railroad The train
arrived on time. and General Harrison was at orcs
driven to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. where rooms had
been reserved for him. He assigned to the suite
on the third hoor which faces both Broadway ana
Twenty-third-st. The rooms are Nos. 10 and III
These the rooms which were frequently occupied
by James @. Blaine upon his visits to New-York
With General Harrison were his secretary. E. p
T1bbott and DR.. A. Randall. The party were tired
out by their trip and retired to their at oncA
to remove the stains Of travel and get slight rest
before dinner-tme.
General Harrison did not register and, has ben
his custom ever since announcing his Withdrawal
from the Presidential and expressing a desire
for privacy, refused to see reporters. Mr.. Tibbot
talked for few minutes about the trip and the plans
OF the President far as they have been decided
upon. The trip over uneventful one. Gen.
eral Harrison did not have private car but was .
passenger In the regular Pullman coach He occu.
pied the state room and spent the most OF the time
on the way to New-York In reading and catching up
with his correspondence.
The dispatches from the West Of late have declared
that General Harrison's son. Russell Harrison and
his daughter, Mrs. Mckee, would accompany him
East on this trip, but they were not In the party
yesterday. Mr.. Tibbott said that Russell Harrison
and his wife and Mrs. Mckee called upon and dned
with the ex-President last Sunday. After dinner
Russell Harrison and his wife returned 10 Ters
Haute and Mrs Mckee went to her home in Indian.
apolis Mr.. Tibbott said that both Russell Harrisoa
and his wife still In Terre Haute and that MrN
Mckee was In Indianapolis When asked II they
would come East to attend the wedding. Mr.. Th-
bott said, thoughtfully: II do not know. 1t y
hardly probable that they do not know their
plans now hardly think they will be able to get
here at that time"
The wedding is to be exceedingly simple an1
transformations one. There Will not be more thas
twenty-five invited guests. General Harrison and
his bride will not make a wedding tour. but imme
diatey after the ceremony will start for the ex'
Presidents home in Indianapolis The house there
has been refurnished and redecorated in honor Of
It's new mistress and General Harrison and his wife
will pass their honeymoon there private car viii
be placed at the disposal of the ex-President by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. and the return journey to
Indiana polls will be made in 1t.
Just who will be the guests at the wedding cannos
be ascertained now as the ex,rresiuen. m VIII Say
II Is understood. however, that all the members Of
the ex-President's Cabinet who are still living Will
attend The wedding. These are Jonn Foster. ex:
the Treasury; Senator Redfed Proctor. ex-Secre-
tary OF War Senator Stephen b. Exns. as1 ss.
ter-Generai: W. IL H. Miller ex-Attorney General.
and General Benjamin F. Tracy. ex-secretary Of tho
The ex-President. after arriving at the Fifth Ave:
nue. Hotel yesterday afternoon. denied himself to az
callers He dned s the N sa ae ber sye1nS nome s1S
East Thrty-eighth-st.