The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-03-04
day ybreak til da. the roar o. big guns
was rever berating through the city.


departure oil PRESIDENT Cleveland and
resident-elect Mckinley and Vice
Iresident-elect Hobart and the senate
committee Of arrangements and their es-
cort OF 5000 troops from the White House
for the Capitol. where the oath OF Office
was administered to the new chief ex-
ecutive.
Major Motriniey drove oyer from the
I.bbitt Housa TO the executive mansion
at 10:30 and met the president at his pri-
vate office.
Escort to President Elect.
The presidential party with its escort
Of United States troops, Troop A OF
Cleveland and the District National
Guard left the White House at IL
o'clock and reached the Capitol shortly
before noon.
The division constituting the presi-
dent-elect's escort to the Capitol was
composed or a brigade Of United States
forces and the brigade of the District OF
columbia National Guard, the whole
amounting to about 5000 men. They
moved In the following order:
Order Of March.
Platoon of 500 mounted police.
Governors island band OF so pieces.
Grand Marshal General Horace Porter.
Staff-A. Noel Brakeman, chief Of staff;
Colonel II. G. Corbin, 4. S. A. adjutant
general; Captain John A. Johnson, ".
S. A, chief OF aides.
Mounted aides and special aides-200.
FIRST DIVISION.
General Wesley Merritt, u. s. A., mar
shal.
Colonel ]. B. Babcock, u. S. A. adjutant
general; aides--First Lieutenants l.. II.
Strother, u. s. A; Harry c. Hale, U.
S. A.. L. Bentley Mott. u. s. A.
FIRST BRIGADE.
United States forces.
Colonel John 5. Poland, u. s. A., COM
manding.
Staff-First I.ieutenants Robert w.
Dowdy. u. S. a., and William C. Wren.
Y. S. a.
Battalion of the engineers United States
army-j0O men; Major John c.. ID.
Knight, u. S. A, commanding.
Staff First Lieutenants William f..
Craighill, u. $. A.; +. w. Van. c. Lu-
cas-.
Seventeenth United States Infantry
zoo men, Major f. +. Tracey. u. S. A.
commanding; staff.
Regiment United States artillery-400
men; Colonel F. l.. Guenther. u. S. A,
commanding staff.
Regiment United States marines-151
men; Lieutenant Colonel j. II. Higbee.
u. S. NJ. c.. commanding.
First battalion, Major X. L. Meade,
commanding.
Second battalion, Major c. F. Williams
commanding.
Third battalion, Captain +. II. Robsinson
commanding.
Battalion United States seamen-500
men, Captain James Sands command.
ing; staff.
battalion light artillery-1S0 men, Major
James M. Lancaster, ". S. A., COM
nanding.
Light Battery f. First artillery; Captain
Allyn Capron.
Light Battery d, Fifth artillery; Cap
tain Frank Thorp.
Regiment United States cavalry-50O
men, Colonel S. s. Summer, ". S. A.,
commanding.
Staff - First Lieutenants George II.
Sands. Robert l.. Howe, u. S. A.
Troop A of Cleveland, with 100 men,
Captain Russell Burdick; personal es-
cort to the president-elect.
THE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT
ELECT.
Detachment of veterans of the Twenty.
third Ohio Volunteers.
The vice president-elect and the senate
committee of arrangernents-Mess
Sherman (O). Elkins CIV. Va) and
Mitchell (Or.).
Members OF the cabinet
Major General Miles, commanding the
army.
The senior admiral of the navy
SECOND BRIGADE.
District of Columbia National Guard
1900 men, Colonel Cecil Clay command
ing; Lieutenant Colonel Theodore
Mosher, adjutant general.
Engineer corps, Major Gilbert Thompson
commanding-