The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-03
M'KlNLEY COMES IN MERELY.
WASHINGTON GREETS HIM WITH
SUNSHINE AND CHEERS.


Among the Correspondents.
Washington, March 1.-The President
elect and Vice President-elect botn sleep
in the national capital tonight Their
temporary headquarters at the Ebb.tt
and Arlington hotels, respectively, seethe
and boil with the hopeful anticipation Of
thousands of aspiring patriots DESTROYS
of serving their country in connection
with the old flag and an appropriation.
The scenes in all the hotel Hobbies re-
eemble the eve of a presidential nominal
ing convention. Every railroad entering
the city through the two central depots
has been disgorgiug crowds of visitors all
day, and will keep up the press without
intermission night and day alike till
Thursday at noon. Schedule time Is Of
course, abandoned 1t is go as you
please" with all trains, hampered only by
precautions against running over each
other. No one can tell whether the ar
irving train is the limited express of yes
terday or the day before.
The streets are already thronged with
strangers. Hundreds of "fakirs, who
make their living no one knows how and
who appear and disappear on occasions
of this sort with equal mystery. are ped
ding their Mckinley and Hobart badges
and other trinkets with noisy pertinacity.
Electrical Illuminating designs make the
streets a blaze of light. All the theaters
are crowded, but the greatest show of all,
the capitol, with both houses of congress
in night session and no charge for adj
mission, was the chief attraction.
The public galleries were packed and the
corridors were rendered almost impossible
by people waiting their turns to take the
places of those who left All these con
ditions will be much increased tomorrow
The weather has turned Unexpectedly
warm with suspicion of rain in the air
though nothing more serious than few
showers is at present apprehended.
Washington, March 2.-William McKin-
ley entered Washington to-day as a pri-
vate citizen, and as quietly and unostenta-
tiously as any private citizen could under
similar circumstances. At the request of
the President-elect there was no military
or other display on his arrival. He walked
through the crowd at the railroad station,
and entering a carriage awaiting him, was
driven to the Ebbitt house. the hotel at
which he made his home in Washington
while a member of congress. That was
the entire programme attending his APP
pearance in the capitol city as the future
President of the United States.
1t was just IL o'clock when the McKin-
ley special rolled into the Pennsylvania
station, exactly on time. outside the sta
ton building an immense crowd had gath
cred, densest around the ladies' entrance,
where a number of carriages indicated
that the President-elect and his party
would appear there. Only those who could
satisfactorily explain that their business
required them to be there were permitted
to enter the station. The waiting rooms
were closed against all except those con-
cerned in the reception of the President
elect, and those accompanying him. The
police arrangements were admirable. As
the heavy train came to a stand-stin the
members of the reception committee took
their position at the rear platform of the
rear car. the well known mo. 49," in
which the Presldent-elect made the jour
ney.
When the well known figure of Maj. NC
Kinley appeared on the platform, the peo-
pie, who peered through the high board
fence set up a cheer that reverberated
through the big train shed. Maj. McKin-
ley doffed his silk hat in response, and
then stepped to the platform to receive
the greeting of the reception committee.
mn aI oh
and on the TANKS of the President-elects
large party as 1t proceeded down the plat
form towards the ladies' entrance, the
procession proceeded very slowly and with
dignity. Maj. Mckinley had one hand
thrust into the bosom of his long frock
coat. while in the other he carried large
bunch of white carnations.
Doffing his silk hat pleasantly to every
body who saluted him, Maj. Mckinley
walked along toward the crowd outside the
iron gates, eagerly awaiting him. He
bowed to the train crew, dining car serv-
ants, porters and others who were on the
platforms and at the windows of the
trains. When the engine was reached the
procession halted a moment while the
President-elect handed the engineer the
carnations he had been carrying. This
made everybody in the vicinity look happy
but none so happy as the begrimed throt-
tie handler. who fairly blushed through
the SOOI on MS race.
Another cheer from those within told
the greater crowd outside that their pa
thence was 10 be rewarded at last. They.
too. yelled when the well-known face and
figure of the new President appeared at
the door leading from the ladies' wait
ing room. The task of getting the Pres
ident-elects carriage started from
the station was the work of
moment only, and before
the crowd knew it he was rapidly dis
appearing up Pennsylvania avenue.
At Fourteenth street, where the carriage
turned from Pennsylvania avenue toward
the Ebbitt house. a large crowd shouted
enthusiastically when the carriage APP
peared. The block along Fourteenth
street between Pennsylvania avenue and
the Ehbitt, is the situation of the news
paper row. A large number of newspaper
correspondents were gathered there in
front of their offices. Mai Mckinley rec
ognized a number of them whom he had
known during his congressional residence
here and saluted them pleasantly. Gath
ereu about the Ebhltt was a larger crowd
than at the station. and cheer after cheer
went up from the crowd from the time the
President-elect was sighted until he dis
appeared inside the hotel
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