The herald., 1897-06-14
President and Party Leave
Tennessee
A SOMEWHAT 0NER0US WEEK
FOLLOWED BY A QUIET, REST.
FUL SABBATH
War Scenes Revisited In the Com
pany of. Men Who Helped to
Make History
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June 49,
After a week of travel, sightseeing
speech making and social duties, some.
what onerous though pleasant in per.
formance, President Mckinley, Mrs
Mckinley and the more immediate Of
fetal staff had Sabbath of restfulness
The heat, while intense, was more or less
tempered by a northwesterly breeze
dence in the railroad station into which
the train pulled from Nashville, just as
day was breaking. The run was made
very slowly, purposely, in order that the
president and his wife would not be dis
turbed. Upon their arrival here they
breakfasted in their car and immediate
ly after, much to the regret of many
prominent citizens, who wished 10 nleet
the chief executive in the morning,
drove to the residence of Hon. II. Clay
Evans, United States commissioner of
pensions. 1t was not the desire of the
hospitable citizens of Chattanooga, how
ever in any way to controvert the pres
ident's wishes.
At 10:30 o'clock the president, accom-
panied by eX-Postmaster-Ge Key
and Mrs. Evans, went to the First Meth
odist church. Mrs. Mckinley did not
accompany him. The pastor of the
church, DR.. S. T. Westshafer, preached
from Genesis xxii:14: In the mount Of
the Lord it shall be seem"
The general subject of the sermon was
"Transfigured Humanity" and no ref
erence whatever was made to the dis
tinguished guests in the sermon or serv-
ice, except that the blessing of provi-
dence was asked for the president and
his administration in his opening prayer.
The music was by an octette of male
voices, assisted by choir of young peo-
pie.
The church was, of course, crowded,
and many were unable to obtain admis-
sion.
At the close of the services the presi-
dent returned to Mr.. Evans homo,
where he quietly rested until about 5
o'clock when Mines. Mckinley and
Evans, the president and commissioner,
drove to Orchard Knob, one of the cru
cial points in the battle Of Missionary
ridge. They returned in time for din
ner, after which the president gave 4
short reception in the Read house, which
commenced at 1880 p. m. The reception,
owing to the sacredness of the day, was
not prolonged beyond twenty minutes.
At s o'clock the president went to the
house of Captain H. S. Chamberlain, a
f,.1 H. ,.,aI
short time, afterward going to Commits
sioner Evans home, whence he escorted
Mrs. Mckinley to the train.
That Chattanooga did not give any
demonstration of hospitality and more
earnest manifestation of welcome was
due solely to the desire Of it's people to
fall in entirely with the wishes of the
chief magistrate, and the fact that it
was the Sabbath.
Secretary of state Sherman did not at
tend divine service, but remained with
his daughter at the residence of William
Lassley, whose wife is a relative of the
Sherman family. Mr.. Sherman's daugh-
ter, Mrs. McCullom, was affected by the
heat in Nashville last Friday, and today
was quite indisposed.
Secretaries Alger and Wilson attended
the Second Presbyterian church, Rev.
w. @. Trimble, pastor.
Secretary to the President Porter and
many of the presidential guests, to-
gether with large representation of
the newspaper men, left at 9:40, bound
for Chickamauga park, stopping at Lit
tie hill, where a number of conveyances
were in readiness to take the party over
the historic ground. The members of
cicerones General Charles Grosvenor of
Ohio and General ]. T. Wilder of John
son City Tenn. Both of these gentlemen
bore distinguished parts in the battle OF
Chickamauga and the other conflicts
which make Chattanooga and its en-
virons so great a factor in the history of
the civil war Among other members
were Colonel Xerophon Wheeler, Cen
eral Willard Warner and Colonel IL. e.
Chase. When Snodgrass hill was reached
the party alighted, and General Grosve-
nor, in a brief address, described the
events of the afternoon of that fatal
Sabbath
Returning to the city, Lookout noun
tain was visited, and the delightful
afternoon was spent on that elevated
plateau.
The presidential train pulled out be-
tween 10 and IL o'clock, and went three
miles, TO Sherman hill, where it re-
mained until schedule time for leaving.
the purpose being to avoid the heat of
the cty