The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-27

way all the gentlemen lifted their hats.
Mr. and Mrs. Mckinley went straight
to their rooms on the first floor The
remainder of the party followed i'm
mediately after the Presidents car
riage.
Soon after President Mckinley ar
rived at the hotel he was serenaded by
| the Stonewau Band of Staunton, Va,
which was taken to the hotel by a dele
cation of Confederate veterans. AT
| the request of the President the band
went up stairs and played from the
front porch. The young Southerners
remained for a time in the parlOr where
| President Mckinley granted them an
informal reception. There was nc
| speech-making.
Abner Mckinley will give a dinner In
honor of Mrs. William Mckinley to-
morrow evening at the Windsor Hotel
| Twent three ladies have been invited
U. S. Grant, Jr., with his wife and
! five children, arrived at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel to-day. Their home is at
San Diego They will be the guests OF
| the city at the hotel. Jesse r. Grant
and his family are already at the same
| hotel.
General Howard has invited Chief
Joseph, with whom he fought in 1888,
| to ride with him in the parade to-mor-
row, but the old Nez Perces chief pre-
ferred to ride in General Dodge's car
rage.
| General Dodge issued an order re-
ouesting General John B. Gordon OF
Georgia to act as special aide in con-
l Af
Veterans.
The Stonewall Band of Staunton, va,
will also accompany the Sons OF Con-
federate Veterans in the parade.
STATEMENT FROM LONGSTREET.
| NEW YORK, April 26.-The special
train bearing the Vice-Presidentia1 par
ty to the Grant ceremonies arrived al
Jersey City to-day at 1874 p. m. The
entire trip had been pleasantly I'M
eventful, and the Senators and Repre-
sentatives seemed almost 10th to leave
the cars Vice-President Hobart ana
Mrs. Hobart walked at the head OF the
procession through the small crowd on
the platform to the carriages Whlch
were waiting for them. Then they
were driven on board the Jersey city
ferryboat Fannie Wood and landed at
Twenty third street, this city, whence
thew were driven to their respective
stopping places.
| During the run from Philadelphia TO
Jersey City the Vice-President ana
Speaker Reed held their respective DIM
ner parties.
| OF the famous men who Travelled on
this train perhaps none was more Spok-
en- of than General Longstreet HIS
venerable face and tall figure, now
somewhat bent with age, brought back
to mind the days when, in the prime OF
his life, he led the Southern forces IN
many fierce assault. Since those
times he has been United States Min
| lister to Turkey, and now holds hrst
rank in the short list of the Confeder-
ate Generals still alive. General Long
street especially requested the Asso-
ciated Press to publish a statement, all
written by his own somewhat feeble
hand. He said to the correspondent
| that it was fitting on such an occasion
that he should speak, for he was with
Grant at West Point, served in the
same regiment with him before the war,
and even introduced him to the woman
who become his wife. The statement,
as General Longstreet wrote it, is as
| follows:
1T was my good fortune to know. as
| few others could, that Grants heart
went out in sympathy for the brave
men and women of the South during
the distressing times of reconstruction,
and to my old comrades who followed