The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-05
GROVER STEPS OUT
MR.. CLEVELAND'S LAST DAY Az
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
NO COURTESY OMITTED.
EVERY DUTY TO HIS sUcCESSoR
THAT KINDLY SPIRIT COULD
SUGGEST.
ABLY AIDED BY MRS. CLEVELAND.
After the Inauguration the Ex-pres1
dent Departs for a Ten-Day Fish
ing Trip South.

WASHINGTON, March 4-Notfwith-
standing Mr.. Cleveland did a very
hard days work yesterday. he rose
in good condition this morning ard
we'll able to carry out his part In the
days ceremonies From time to time
during the day and far into the night
messengers from the capitol appeared
at the White house with bundles Of
olIls which had been passed and cnlv
awaited the presidents approval tn
become laws. These were taken at
once TO the presidents room where he
sat at his desk until after l o'clock this
morning carefully reading each one and
now and then appending his signature.
Durlng large part of today. Mr..
CleVeland's part Of course, was COM
pletely overshadowed by that of the
incoming executive. The retiring presd-
dent evidently was suffering from his
late attack of rheumatism, but he bore
II without complaint and to the last
performed every duty and courtesy to
his successor that custom prescribed,
Or good breeding suggested. In this he
was assisted by Mrs. Cleveland, who
came on from Princeton for the pur-
pose. She had arranged a luncheon
for the wife, mother and personal party
OF the president-elect in the White
house just prior to the review of the
parade, and in the public home she
was about to leave, awaited their COM
ing about o'clock
The Mckinley party left the capitol
ceremonies ahead of the procession.
and of the two presidents. The were
greeted in the blue parlor by Mrs.
Cleveland, Secretary Lamont and Col.
Wilson, and escorted to the family
dining room. Among those at the
luncheon were Mrs Nancy Addison Nc
Kinley, the presidents mother, Mr..
and Mrs. Abner Mckinley and their
daughter Mabel, Miss Helen Mckinley,
Mrs. Marshall C. Barber and daughters
Kate and Ida, Mrs. McKinley's sister
and nieces, Mrs. Duncan, DR.. Phillips,
the family physician; Mrs. James Nc
Kinley, Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley Os-
borne, Mr.. and Mrs. F. K. Osborne,
Mr.. and Mrs. Morse, Capt and Mrs.
Lafayette McWilliams, Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Bowman, Senator elect and
Mrs. M. A. Hanna, Mr.. and Mrs. Tay-
lor Gen. and Mrs. Porter
AS soon as Mrs Cleveland had greet
ed her guests, she entered Secretary
Lamont's carriage and was escorted
by the secretary to his H street resi-
dence, where they were shortly joined
at lunch by Mr.. Thurber and the mem
bers of the outgoing cabinet and their
ladies. Some time after 3 o'clock Mrs.
Cleveland and Mr. Thurber were driven
to the Pennsylvania station where
they took President Thompson's private
car for Princeton, the ex-president's
future home.
1t was a little after o'clock when
the new president and Mr.. Cleveland
reached the White house through
cheering crowds, escorted by the Black
Horse troopers, of Cleveland In the
blue room Mr.. Cleveland took formal
leave Of his successor and bidding good
bye to all who were present he left
the mansion. and in company with
Capt Robley D. Evans, Of the army.
drove to the Seventh street wharf to
take the light house tender Maple for
a ten days fishing trip in the Carolina
sounds.
Mr.. Cleveland had nothing to say
when he went aboard, except that he
was bound for North Carolina, and
when an Associated Press reporter ask
ed how long he would be gone, jocose-
ly remarked: There's no hurry"
Shortly after the Maple pulled out,
the Cleveland party partOOk of a light
luncheon and supper was served about
dusk. The Maple will proceed directly
to Portsmouth, near Norfolk which she
probably will reach some time tomor-
row morning. There the light house
tender Violet, which came down from
Baltimore Saturday, is in waiting and
the party will be transferred to her
and the start made for the duck shoot
ing fields in Albermarle and Pimlicd
sounds