The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-26
TEE PRESIDENT ARRIVES
Viee-President Hobart Takes
the Journey Over the
B. & 0. Road.

PRESIDENT Mckinley was scheduled to
arrive at the Pennsylvania Railroad
station in this city at s:15 P. NJ
Captain Cox with fifty policemen was
assigned to receive the distinguished
party which took the new ferryboat
Pittsburg to the Twenty-third street
slip. This was the first regular trip of
the Pittsburg, and also the first time the
new slip has been used
Upon arrival in New York the party was
met by Troop A and escorted to the
Windsor Hotel, where General Horace
Porter Grand Marshal Dodge and others
of the Grant Monument Committee will
greet the party and the hospitality of
the city will be formally rendered.
The party consists of President Nc
Kinley and family, Secretary John Ad-
olson Porter, Frank Thompson of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, the members of
the Cabinet and their wives, as follows
John Sherman, Secretary of State, and
wife; Lyman ]. Gage, Secretary of the
Treasury, and wife; John D. Long, Sec
retary of the Navy, and wife; Cornelius
N. Bliss, Secretary of the Interior, and
wife; General Russell A. Alger, Secre-
y &,
Postmaster General, and wife; Joseph
McKenna Attorney General, and wife;
James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture,
and wife; also Major General Nelson A.
Miles, commanding United States Army,
wife and daughter ,and aid.
The train pulled out of the Sixth street
station of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
Washington, at 1920 o'clock. 1t was
made up of seven coaches. and it was
noticeable that the President solved in
advance any question of precedence by
himself taking the last coach on the
train There was first combination
baggage car and smoker then dining car
then the vestiouled chair car Emilia for
the accommodation of the committee,
members of the press and other un-
official guests of the Pennsyl-
vania- Railroad. The chair coaches
Alisa and Celeste were occupied by the
Ambassadors, the foreign Ministers and
their attaches and personal servitors. The
| car Dorcas was occupied by members of
| the Cabinet and their ladies, Mrs. Grant
and her children; Rear Admiral Brown,
| Adjutant General Ruggles and a few
| other officials. The Presidents car was
number 60, the private car of President
| Thompson of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
1t had been tastefully adorned with flow
ers and made very cheerful in appear
ance by the forethought of the Penn
sylvania Railroad officials, who had per-
| sonal charge of the train.
| Vice President Hobart and his party
left Washington at 1890 O'Clock this morn
| ing in special train over the Baltimore
| and Ohio Railroad. The train is COM
| posed of one baggage car, two dining
| cars Atlas and Baltimore. The Vice
| President is in the Atlas, while the Balti-
| more is reserved for the use of Speaker
Reed The balance of the train contains
| Senators and congressman. The party
will not arrive at Communipaw until four
against making another record breaking
trip.
AT the ferry twenty coaches will be
in waiting to receive the party. They
will be taken aboard the ferryboat Fan
wood to the Erie Railroad landing at
Twenty-third street.
A despatch from Baltimore says:-The
| special train bearing Vice President Ho-
bart and the Senate and House Com
mittees to the Grant celebration arrived
in Baltimore at eleven o'clock. The run
from Washington had been made in quick
time and the distinguished passengers
had hardly found opportunity to glance
through the New York papers, which were
distributed by the officials of the road
There were only a few absentees from
the party which was expected to be on
board. Senator t. C. Platt was unable
to make the trip owing to the illness of
his wife, and it was said that he would
in New York. General Van Vliet was also
absent,