Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-27
 TRAIN LOAD IF NOTABLES From Washington On Board a
 Special Train ARRIVE IN NEW YORK CITY Presid ,nt Mckinley and Mrs, U. s. Grant the Central Figures Of Others
 Who Accompanied Them.

ley, with Mrs. Mckinley and his cabinet, Mrs. U. S. Grant and her family, com- pany of official peTgonages, including the ambassad dors, ministers and attaches of the diplomatic corps, and high officers of
 the army and navy, were safely trans ported from Washington to New York to- day in a special train of the Pennsylvania railroad to participate in the ceremcnAes at the tomb of Gen. Grant. The trip was a rapid one and entirely univenful. me
 train left Washington, where small crowd was gathered at the pot, prompt ly at 1O:30 and steamed into Jersey Clty depot at BIT o'clock. They opped only at Wilmington for a moment and at Gray's Ferry, a suburb of Philadelphia,
 where a change of engines was maae.
 Fr1m Jersey City the party was con
 veyed across the river on the ferry poat
 Prltslburg to lhe foot of Twenty-thlro street, there to be ushered into carrIages and to be escorted by detachment or cavalry, sailors and police to the f1lun avenue hdel. Seven cars made up the train. The private car or Presfueht
 Frank Thompson, of the PennsylvaMa, at the erd of the train, was given to the
 presidential party. 1t was handsomely
 embellisnei with roses, and In It were President Mckinley, Mrs. Mckinley, Mrs. Saxton (M,s. McKinley's auIJD, Secretary t JJln A. POf's6T anu Wllt, Oi. Dot liiS
 presidents physician, and MT. Slnclaln
 the White House steward
 The next car contained Mrs. Grant pa1ty, the cabinei. officers and few oth- CTS They were: Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Nefne
 Grant Sartoris, MT. Algernon Sartorls, Mlxs Vivian Sartoris, Miss Rose Sartor1s,
 Secretary of State Sherman and his
 daughter, Mrs. NlcCallan; Secretary of the Treasury Gage and wife, Secretary Of War Alger and Prfvale Secretary Mason
 tmaster-General Gary and Misses Gary, Attorney-General McKenna, Secre-
 tary of Agriculture Wilson, Mr. L. H. Firney, secretary to the secretary of the
 navy; Maj.-Gen. Miles, wife and son; Adjt. .-Gen. Ruggles, Admiral Brown, wife and daughter ard Third Assitan. Secre- tary of State Thomas W. Glider
 The other CATS were occupied by the
 British ambassador, Sir Julian Paunce-
 fote, and Secretary of Embassy Bax- Irpnsides, French Ambassador Pat -notre,
 Attache Boeufesi, Count Goetzer, mili- tnry attache, and Secretary Van Rech- enau, representing the German ambassa-
 dor: Mexican Minister Romeo and wife,
 Minister of the Netherlands, D. Week. h-srfenes Ministerof Brazil Mendoza and
 Secretary Lima, Minister of Guatamela
 Iazae Arraga, Minister of Chili Gani;
 Minister of China Yang Hu and Secre- tary Su Sevensi: Venezuelan Minister
 An1rade, Admiral Mott, ex-president of
 ChHi; Austro-Hungarian Minister Hen-
 gelnuller von Hengervar, Swiss Minister
 Pioda, Minister of Spain Dupuy de Lome,
 Secre tary Alater, Danish Minister Brun,
 Hawaiian Minister Hatch, Secretary Hastings Minister of Ecuador Carbo, Charge d.Affairs of Russia De Wollante, Argentine Minister Merou, Turkish Min ister Meustapha Bey and Secretary Ssifeddin Bey; Minister Rodriguez of the
 republic of Central America, the Belgian Minister Count de Lichtervelde, Minister of Costa Fcica Calvo
 The train was in charge of MT. A. H. Steele, Secretar of the transporta ton committee, and five members of the re- caption committee. The Pennsylvania road was represented by MT. George W. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent, and MT. Collin Stubbs, of Washington. Several Washington newspaper men were on board as the guests of the com- mfttee and the Pennsylvania railroad. As soon as the president was settled in his quarters he sent for the reception committee, thanked them for the man. agement of the trip and talked with them for half an hour. During the remainder or the journey he conversed with mem bers of the cabinet and diplomats who came into the car to pay their respects. Mrs. Mckinley wore Q gray costume, the one in which she had traveled 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
 
 Wilmington and the president bowed from the car window in response to their cheers.
 At Wilmington, President Frank Thompson, of the Pennsylvania road boarded the train to accompany the party to Gray's Ferry, meantime paying a short visit to the president. Lunch was served to the presidential party in their car, while a dining car was at tached for the other travellers.
 Hl.- -l.@ @G1., zQ kl0 was crowded with members of the recep- tion committee when the train pulled up at the end of it's journey without having experienced a single jar or jolt. General Horace Porter gave an arm. to the president and then and there the much mooted question of ambassadoria] precedence was solved by MT. Chauncey Depew, who took the arm of Sir Julian Pauncefote and walked after President Mckinley Ambassador Patenotre fol- lowed, escorted by MT. Whitelaw Reid, formerly ambassador of the United States to France. MT. Abner Mckinley the presidents brother, took Mrs. Mo- Kinley, and Colonel Frederick D. Grant escorted his mother, who was i'll deep mourning The other celebrities came after in disorganized group with a cor don of valets bringing up the rear with bags and boxes containing all the gold lace, swords and medals which the di plemats are going to display tomorrow. Through double lines or police ana Dlue- coated sailors the party marched to the ferry boat where carriages were aligned on the lower deck to carry them from the opposite dock to their hotel. On board the president received all the members of the reception committee and then stood on the lower deck ab-
 sorbed with the sights of the river until the New York shore was reached
 On the New York side a platoon of
 about fifty police were drawn up in front of the ferry house. Squadron A. in com
 mand of Major Roe. acted as military
 escort and led the procession up Twenty
 third street as far as Eleventh avenue, where they turned up to Twenty=fourth street to the Windsor hotel. The diplo- matic corps, members of the cabinet and justices Of the supreme court went
 to the Fifth Avenue hotel where the ma jority of them will stop. More than
 thousand people had gathered about the
 Windsor by the time .fbe party bad s-- rived there. They lined the sidewalk on the opposite side osi the street and
 crowded sintf es'erY available space. When the party drew near the cavalry escort halted and formed along the sidewalk