New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-03
NEM.JERSEY NEWS.
MIR. fHOBART'S JOURNEY.
THE vICE-PREsIDENT-EL ELECTS TRIP
THROUGH JERSEY.

ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS GREET HIM AT MANY
PI.ACEs-GovERNoR GRIGGs JOINS THE
PARTY AT TRENTON JUNCTION.
Paterson, March 2-vice. President-elect Garrett
A. Hobart left this city for Washington this morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
Mr. Hobart's party drove to the central city sta
ton about Ave minutes before train time, As the
three carriages the first Of which contained Mr.
and Mrs Hobart. drew up to the platform the
crowd greeted the party with continued cheers.
Mr. Hobart bowed his acknowledgment OF the
we-wlshes OF his fellow -townsmen, but when
called upon for a speech smiled and shook his head.
The Vice-Presidential party remained on the plat
form until the train had pulled In and the special
had been attached. Then they boarded the
train which pulled out OF the station minute or
two later. The crowd on the platform had In
creased in SIZE and the party left gave them
farewell greeting Of loud and continued cheers
When the train stopped at the Broadway station
Mrs Grggs. the wife of the Governor. got on board.
Another crowd present to cheer Mr. Hobart,
and he smiled his Acknowledgements from a window.
Everybody along the railroad watching for the
train. On the pavement Of schoolhouse In Pater-
near the railroad the pupils gathered. The
children waved their handkerchlefs and caps with a
Will ard broke out into shrill cries as the Vice.
President-elect waved his hand at them.
The party in the included. besides Mrs. Ho-
bart and Mrs Grggs. Mr.. and Mrs f. T. Bel. Mr..
borne and General j. w. Congdon. 1t had been ar
ranged that Governor Griggs, General William s.
Stryker. General and Miss T. p. Meany General
and Mrs. Richard Donnelly. Colopel and Mrs. Will
lam Barber, Colonel and Mrs. Kuser Colonel and
Mrs II A. Potter. Colonel Nathan Haines and Phil
up j. Mclienry should be at various stations
Wnen the :rain bearing the Vice President elect
ana ms party arrived at the station In Jersey City
another big crowd had gathered. a squad of police
escorted the travellers TO the ferryhOat FanWoOd.
winch had been provided for their use. They were
conveyed TO Communipaw, where the special train
IN waiting was boarded. The train consisted OF the
Atlas. the private car OF President Maxwell Of the
Jersey Central road, a dning-car and a baggage
The interior Of the Atlas profusely adorned
with mowers. The private car of President Har-
ris OF the Philadelphia and Reading road and the
private car OF President Cowan Of the Baltimore
and Ohio with the Atlas and the Central baggage
car bearing the State coat-of-arms Of New-Jersey
and inscribed Liberty and Prosperity" made up
the train AS It swept out of the train-shed the
Nice-President-eect bowed 10 the cheering crowd
from the rear platform of tho Atlas
Trenton. March 2.-The special train carrying
Fice-President- eect Hobart and party reached
Trenton Junction at 1915 o'clock to-day. The train
stopped TO take on Governor Griggs and Captain
Hobart Tuttle his private secretary: Quartermas-
ter-Genera Richard A. Donney, Colonel and Mrs
a. II. Kuser and Colonel Nathan Haines