The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-27
THE PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN.
Mckinley's Trip from the National
Canifal to NeW York.


NEW YORK, April 26.-President Nc
Kinley with Mrs. Mckinley and his Cab
met, Mrs. l.. 8. Grant and her family and
a company of official personages, including
the ambassadors, ministers and attaches of
the diplomatic corps and high officers of the
army and navy, were safely transported
from Washington to New Yorl1 to-day in a
special train of the Pennsyly ania Railroad
to participate in the ceremonies at the
tomb of General Grant. The trip a
rapid one and entirely uneventful, the train
running as smoothly railroad travel
could be imagined. 1t left Washington,
where small crowd was gathered at the
depot, promptly at 1880 and steamed into
the Jersey City depot at 3:17 o'clock, stop
ping only at Wilmington for "a moment and
at Gray's Ferry, suburb of Philadelphia,
where "a change of engines was made.
From Jersey City the party was conveyed
across the river on the ferryboat Pittsburg
to the foot of Twenty-third street. there
to be ushered into carriages and escorted III
procession by a detachment of cavalry,
sailors and police to the F'ifth-avenue Ho-
tel
Seven cars made up the train. The pri-
vate car of President Frank Thompson, of
the Pennsylvania, at the end of the train,
was given to the presidential party. 1t was
handsomely embellished with roses and in
it were President Mckinley, Mrs. McKin-
ley, Mrs. Sexton CMrs. McKinley's aunD,
Secretary John Addison Porter and wife,
DR.. Bates, the presidents physician. and
William Sinclair, the White House steward.
The next car contained Mrs. Grants par
ty, the Cabinet families and a few others.
They were Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris, Mr.. Algernon Sartoris, Miss Wv
iaV Sorf fnric lice PrGa Sort fnriC
of State Sherman and his daughter Mrs
McCallum, Secretary of the Treasury Gage
and wife, Secretary of War Alger, and Pri-
vate Secretary Mason, Postmaster General
Gray. Mrs. and Miss Gray. Attorney Gen.
eral McKenna, Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, Mr.. l.. f. Finney, secretary to the
secretary of the navy; Major General Miles.
wife and son, Adjutant General Ruggles,
Captain Mans. Rear Admiral Brown. wife
and daughter, and third Assistant Secreta-
ry of State Thomas w. Cridler.
The other cars were occupied by. the
British ambassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote.
and Secretary of Embassy Bax-Ironside;
French ambassador Patenotre Attache
Boeufve; Count Goetzer, military attache
and Secretary Van Rechenau representing
the German ambassador; Mexican Minister
Romero and wife. Minister of the Neither
lands De Weckherlin, Minister of Brazil
Mendonca and Secretary Lima, Minister of
Chile Cana, Minister Of China Yang Yu and
Secretary Su, Venezuelan Minister An
6IriSs. dradSe. Admiral Alontt. ex-PFesident of
| Rengelmuller Won Hengervar. and Secreta-
! ry Wagner; Swiss Minister pioda, the min
retary r saser pansS Rnster Bram nna He
watian Minister Hatch and Secretary Has
| tinss Minister of Ecaudor Carlo, Charge
dAnairs OF Russia De Wollant, Argentine
Minister Merou, Turkish Minister Nous
| ,.3Phia Bey and Secretary Seifeddin Bey,
Minister Min Rodriguez, Of the Republic of Cen
traI America; the Belgian minister, Count
De Ldchtervelde; Minister of Costa Rica
The train was in charge of Mr.. A. II.
Steele, secretary of the transportation COM
mites, and five members Of the reception
committee. %an Tbss Messrs: r. A G: Smith; chair
William L. Trenholm and Frank II. With
erbee: The Pennnsylyania Railroad was
sistant general passenger agent. and Mr.
Colin Studds, of Washington. Several
washington newspaper correspondents
| were on board as the guests of the commit
| tee and the Pennsylvania road.
MRS. MCKINLEY KNITTED.
| AS soon as the President was settled in
his car he sent for the reception committee.
thanked them for the management Of the
trip and talked with them for half an
hour. During the remainder of the journey
he conversed with members of the Cabinet
and diplomats who came to the car to pay
their respects. Mrs. Mckinley wore a
gray costume, the one in which she had
Travelled from Canton to Washington. She
| bore the journey well, amusing herself part
of the time with knitting. Several hundred
people were gathered In the depot and on
the the car tops at Wilmington and the Presi-
sponse to their cheers At Wilmington
President Frank Thompson, of the Penn
company the party to Gray's Ferry, mean
time paying short visit TO the President.
Lunch was served to the presidential party
tached for the other travellers.
The platform Of the Jersey City depot
was crowded with members of the recep-
tion committee, displaying blue badges on
their coats when the train pulled up at the
end of its Journey WITHOUT l, having expert
Porter gave an arm to the President and
then and there the much-mooted question
of embassadorial precedence was solved 10y
Mr.. Chauncey Depew, who took the arm
of Sir Julian Pauncefote, and walked after
President Mckinley; Embassador Patenotre
former ambassador of the United States to
France. Mr.. Frederick ID. Grant escorted
mourning The other celebrities came after
in disorganized group, with a Gordon OF
valets bringing up the rear, laden with
! bags and boxes containing all the gold
lace. swords and medals which the diplo-
mats are to display on the morrow. Be-
tween the lines of police and blue-coated
sailors the company marched To the ferry
boat. where carriages We're lined the
| lower deck to take them from the opposite
dock 10 their hotels. On board the boat
the President received all the members OF
| the reception committee and then stood
| on the lower deck. absorbed in the sights
of the river, until the New York shore was
reached
on the New York side platoon of about
fifty police were drawn up in front of the
ferry house. Squadron A. in command OF
Major Roe, were awaiting a military
escort and led the procession UP Twenty.
third street as far as Eleventh avenue
| where they turned up Twenty-fourth street
| TO the Windsor Hotel. The diplomatic
corps members of the Cabinet and JUS
tices of the Supreme Court went TO the
Fifth-avenue Hotel, where the majority OF
them will stop.
More than a thousand people had gath
the party arrived there. They lined the
sidewalk on the opposite side OF the street
and crowded into every available space
| When the party drew near the cavalry es-
| cort halted and formed along the sidewalk
opposite the hotel. Then the carriage con.
| tanning President and Mrs. Mckinley his
brother and General Porter started up tbs
line. 1t was greeted with cheers and the
women in the crowd waved their handker.
, chiefs and the men their hats. The Presi.
dent acknowledged the greeting by lift.
ing his hat repeatedly and bowling toward:
the crowd. When the carriage reached the
hotel MIR. Abner Mckinley was the first tC
alight followed by General Porter After