The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-15
THE PRESIDENT TO VISIT TRoY
He Will Attend the Reunion or the Society or
the Army or the Potomac.

TROY, Aug. 14.-President Mckinley will at
tend the reunion of the Society Of tho Army Of
the Potomac in this city next week. The Presi-
dent is a member of tho society, and Is very
cagcr to meet 1.-THE boys" as he told n visitor at
Bluff Point the other day. Vice. President Ho-
bart will also be here. The Presidential party
will include the President and Mrs. Mckinley
Gen. Russell A. AlRer, Mrs. Alger and Mis-
Alger, Col. John A. Porter. private secretary to
the President; Mrs. Porter. and several other
distinguished EcTsons.
The President will arrive here from Bluff
Point on Friday morning, Aug. 30. He will not
he tho guest OF Gov. Frank S. Black. but will he
driven TO the Troy House, where he will he the
guest of the city. During the morning the
President and members Of his party will visit
the collar factories. They are the largest In tho
world. and tho President is very curious to learn
something about the collar and cuff industry.
Millions of dollars worth of cuffs are sent out of
Troy every month.
The reunion is the twcnty-cighth one of tho
society, and many of the most illustrious sur
yivors OF the late war will be hero next week.
The city is, making elaborate preparations for
the reception of these distinguished vctera ms.
their families, and such of thor friends as may
come. 1t is expected that President Mckinley
VII make a speech in Music Hall. as he has said
'n Imm me M"T.n n ai,e 70 G tho Close et 81 o aSo comrades Snnrc1.":
the Presidential party will be driven to their
private train and the start for Saratoga made.
Mrs. Mckinley has never been In Saratoga. and
it Is in compliance with her earnest wish that tho
party viii go 70 the queen of American spas"
as soon after the exercises IN Troy as possible.
springs. Early on Monday morning the Presi.
Dental party will start for Buffalo. where tbe
President will attend tho Il. A. Il. encnmpment,
The parade of military and civic bodies I'm this
city on Friday afternoon will be tho largest eyer
seen here. The President will ride In n CARRIAGE
with President Henry OF tho society. All OF Ire
members Of the Society of the Army OF the Po.
tomnc will ride in carriages. So will MANY
members of the q. A. II. posts and the CITY of.
cials, who, OF course, have been invited To tote
part. II Is likely that more than 4.OOo militino
men Will BIO in line. This number will rcnresTnt
National Gunrdsmen. Inc parade will he in
charge of Grand Marshal Lloyd, Captain OF the
twenty. first Separate Company. n. a. Nv
In all there will be about twenty military or.
CARNATIONS In line. The civic bodies wifi ~
course, be thoroughly representative, Ex-Countv
Jldgo Lewis h. Grihlth, Commander OF Posi-
Willard. will have charge OF the veteran diyis.
ions. '"
After a short ride in tho parade President No
kinlcy will he escorted to the reviewing stand
70 front OF the City Hall, whence he will reyieT
the parade. The streets over which the parade
will pass will he p~rofusely decorated with d@as
and bunting, studded here and tbera with tbe
portrait OF some famous member ~ the Socisly
or the Army or the Potomac.
The Society of the Army of the Potomac WINS
founded t I've T. years ago; The first meet
day and Tuesday, July . and .. 1869.