The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-02

took place today according TO long
established custom. 1t constitutes the
yearly ordeal of the president and the
mistress of the White House for they
must shake hands with many hun
dreds-several thousand in fact-of
| their fellow citizens and a large num-
Der of distinguished foreigners. They
smiled and bowed and beamed through
it all today and stified the winces that
unconsciously followed the hearty
grasp of some young subaltern, fresh
from the frontier, or the grip of some
horny hand that had done service i'll
| the late political campaign. 1t was
| one continual round of handShaking.
and exchanging the compliments of
! the season.
WAS VERY LARGE.
AS on last New Years day, the crowd
that participated in and witnessed the
reception was very large. 1t was the
last function of it's sort in which Mr..
! and Mrs. Cleveland will endure as the
principal characters, and this may
have been responsible in part for the
throng that paraded corridors and
apartments during the time set apart
for the reception The interior of the
mansion had been lavishly decorated
for the occasion. a suggestion of the
tropics was given by a survey of the
decorative arrangements. In the
dainty, OvaI-shaped Blue Room, the
official chamber of the White House.
with its delicately tapestried walls. the
artistic effect was we'll carried out 1t
was in this apartment, that the presi-
dent. Mrs. Cleveland and the receiving
party stood.
Those who paid their respects TO the
president and Mrs. Cleveland passed
Of bai oh. far. ir1ff
the Green Room and thence into the
spacious East Room. the scene of so
many historic occurrences. Six hun
dred people is the ordinary capacity of
this compartment. Today it was
filed to an uncomfortable degree with
foreign envOys, officers of the army
and navy, high judicial functiOnaries,
senators, representatives and many
civilians. with a large number of
ladies. They were not so crowded,
however, as to be unable to see and
appreciate the floral beauty displayed
AS in every other part of the interior.
the East room had its chandeliers and
cornices twined with smilaX- Trailing
asparagus also formed a graceful
drapery. The white jardinierieS on all
the mantels held Chinese primroses,
rubber plants and cincineries.
COcOanuts and palms spread their
foliage high over the prOmenading
was a mass of pOmsett palms and
grouped about the bottom of these were
ferns. The mirrors, the embasures,
the fire places, were all suitably ar
ranged.
AND THE BAND PLAYED.
Eleven O'Clock was the hour set for
the beginning of the reception. Before
that time members IF the diplomatic
corps, ambassadors, ministers, at
tacheeS and their wives and daughters,
had begun to arrive and were escorted
into the Red Room, where they awaited
the signal TO pass along the line. Out
in the public lobby the United States
marine band. under the leadership OF
Professor Fanciulli waited the signal
to play. Suddenly FanciulH waved his
baton and the various instruments
burst forth into the well-knOwn air of
Hail to the Chief" Down the private
staircase came the president, Mrs.
Cleveland, the members of the cabinet
and their ladies, led by Colonel John
NJ. Wilson, United States commissioners
of public buildings and grounds and
master of ceremonies. Colonel Wilson,
attired in the uniform of colonel of
engineers, Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland,
Vice-president and Mrs. Stevenson,
Secretary and Mrs. Olney, Secretary
and Mrs. Carlisle, Attorney-General
and Mrs. Harmon, Postmaster-General
and MIS-. Wilson, Secretary and Miss
Herbert Secretary and Mrs. Lamont,
Secretary and Miss Morton and Secre-
tary and Mrs. Francis, an imposing
procession, passed along the corridor
TO the Blue Room, and took their
places, the president and Mrs. Cleve-
land at one end, with Secretary Olney
and Colonel Wilson at their right and
the ladies forming a line across the
apartment. The cabinet officers
modestly stepped TO the rear, and
entered into conversation with some
of the ladies who composed that con-
tingent company designated as in be-
hind the line
HIS FIRST VISITOR
The first person to shake hands with
the president was a tall, broad-shouI-
dered, rather pOrtly gentleman, attired
in a uniform resplendent in gold
braid. Those who did not know him
did not need to be told that he was
the Right Hon. Sir Julian PauncefOte,
grand commander of the Bath, grand
commander of st. Michael and St
George, the British ambassador to the
United States, and dean of the diplo-
matte corps. Sir Julian was accom-
panied by Lady Pauncefote, the Misses
PauncefOte. Viscount Cough, secretary
of the British embassy: ViscOuntess
Cough. Captain Alfred w. PaSet, r.
N, naval attache; Mr.. Henry Bax-
Ironside and Mr. Reginald Lowder,
second secretaries; Mr. Hugh T.
O'Beren. the Earl of Westmeath, and
Mr. Ronald Macleay, attaches
The French ambassador, Mr.. Jules
Petaronia. came with his American
wife, the daughter of Mr.. James Elver-
son, the Philadelphia publisher, and
Mr. Eugene Thiebot, Commandant
Clement D'Grand Prey and Mr.. Jules
Boeufve of the French embassy
Baron Fava, Italy'S ambassador,
passed down the line with the Baron
ess Faya and Count Vinci, secretary of
the embassy.
Another titled envoy. Baron Max