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AT HIS NEW HOME.
Arrival Of President-E Elect McKina
ley at Washington.
NO DISPLAY MARKS HIS APPEARANCE.
Enthusiastic Crowds Cheer Him
Heartily, However, Along the
Route to the Ebbitt House.
Arrival of MIR. Hobart.


Arrival of MIR. Hobart.
Washington, March 3.-William Nc
Xinley entered Washington as private
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
OF the railroad station and, entering
the carriage awaiting him, was driven
to the Ebbitt house, the hotel at which
he made his home in Washington while
member of congress. That was the
entire programme attending his ap-
pearance in the capital city as the fu-
ture president of the United States.
1t was just II o'clock when the Nc
Kinley special rolled into the Pennsyl-
vania station, exactly on time. Outside
the station building an immense crowd
had gathered, densest around the ladies'
entrance, where number of carriages
indicated that the president-elect and
his party would appear there.
The members of the locul reception
committee gathered early at the sta
ton. They were Charles j. Bell, chair
man; Col. James G. Berrctt, ex-mayor
of Washington; q. G. Glover, Myron
N. Parker, national committeeman
for the District of Columbia and ex.
commissioner of the District; James L.
Norris and ]. c. Lowell. Accompanying
these gentlemen were j. Addison Por-
ter, the coming secretary to President
Mckinley.
saluted by Gov. Bushnelps star.
Just before the arrival Of the Nc
Kinley train Gov. Bushnell, of Ohio, with
the members of his staff, arrived at the
station and were permitted to pass
through the gates leading to the track
platform. The staff officers were in
and presented an imposing appearance
as they lined up to salute the president
elect, when he stepped from the train.
Meanwhile the crowd outside the sta
ton had increased. 1t blocked up
Sixth street for a few yards of that
thoroughfare between the station and
Pennsylvania avenue. Around the end
Of the station where the train entered
was another good-sized gathering, held
in check by high fence and q squad of
police.
Half dozen policemen marched
ahead and on the TANKS of the presi-
dent elects large party as it proceeded
down the platform towards the ladies'
entrance. Maj. and Mrs. Mckinley
were Immediately preceded by Col. Ber-
Tett and Mr.. Parker, of the reception
committee. Mrs. Mckinley leaned on
the arms of her husband and Chair
man Bell, while Secretary Porter
walked on the disengaged side of the
president-elect. Col. A. T. Britton, Of
Washington, escorted Mrs. Nancy A.
Mckinley, the president-elect's mother.
Flowers for the Engineer.
81 Tho procession proceeded very slowly
and with dignity. Maj. Mckinley had
ono hand thrust into the bosom of his
long frock coat, while in the other he
carried large bunch of white carna-
lions. Mrs. Mckinley, looking some
what tired and careworn, also carried
carnations. Doffing his silk hat pleas
antly to everybody who saluted him
Maj. Mckinley walked along toward the
crowd outside the gates, eagerly await
ing him. He bowed to the train crew,
the dining-car servants, the porters and
others who were on the platforms and
at the windows of the train. When the
engine was reached the procession
halted n moment while the president
elect handed the engineer the carna-
tions he had been carrying. This made
everybody in the vicinity look happy,
but none so happy as the begrimed
throttle handler, who fairly. blushed
through the SCOT on his face.
Another cheer from those within told
the crowd outside that their patience
was to be rewarded at last. They, too,
yelled when the well-known face and
figure of the president-elect appeared
at the door leading from the ladies'
waiting-room. The task of getting the
presidcnt-elect's carriage started from
the station was the work of a moment
only, and before the crowd knew it he
was rapidly disappearing up Pennsyl-
vania avenue. With Maj. and Mrs Nc
Kinley in their carriage were Chairman
Bell and Secretary Porter, while in the
lOllOW1HB Neulcle Sdt MObueT MchlQ.
ley, Col. Britton, Mrs. ]. Addison Por-
ter and Mr.. C. C. Glover, of this city.
The other members of the large party
that accompanied Maj. Mckinley to
Washington took the other carriages.
CHEERS for Mckinley.
The ride up Pennsylvania avenue1past
many reviewing stands and other evil
dences of the approaching Inauguration
was of an interesting nature. No
mounted escort was there. to tell that
the presidenteelecth had arrived, but the
crowds along the sidewalk. recognized
Mai. Mckinley as his carriage proceed:
I'd, unattended, at leisurely pace, and
several times knots of spectators sent
up a cheer.
The gathering about the Ebbitt house
was larger than at the station. Four
tenth street and F street, at the Ebbitt
house corner, was thropged. with the
greatest assemblage :about the ladies'
door on Fourteenth street. where q
squad of policemen gave the impression
that the. president-elect's entrance
would be made there. But the carriage
containing Maj. and Mrs. Mckinley
drove around the corner to the main door
en r street Cheer after cheer went up
from the crowd from the time the