Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-08-21
ATTENDED ANNUAL REUNION OF
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
TOOK LITTLE ACTIVE PART.
ELECTED HONORARY PRESIDENT OF
TIRE NINTH CORPS.
Visited q Great Collar Factory and
the Wntervliet tArxenal-Received
an Ovation at Last Nights
Meeting-secretaryA AlgeF
Also Attended.

Troy n. V, Aug. ao.-Great preparations
were made to entertain the 5000 visiting
members and friends of the Army of the
Potomac, who gathered here to-day for
their twenty-eighth annual reunion The
city was ablaZe with decorations, and every
hall and available space had been turned
into an armory for the accommodation OF
the welcome guests.
President Mckinley and Secretary AlSer
arrived in the city at $3.50 o'clock on Presi-
dent Oliphant's private car attached to the
regular train which left Plattsburg last
night. At the station he was met by Ad-
jutant General Tiliinghast and Governor
Blacks military secretary, Colonel Tread
well. There was a crowd and plenty OF
cheering, but the president refused to
speak, and entered carriage and was
driven at once to the Troy house, which
will be his headquarters.
AT 10 o'clock he was taken with his party
to see a great collar factory.
Senator Edward Murphy accompanied the
president and Secretary Alger to the fac
tory and the proprietors showed them
through. Every one of the 2,oC employees
was decorated with flag, and many OF
the machines were also adorned Win
the national colors. In each room except
the laundry and machinery room, the op-
eratives stood up when the president en-
tered and cheered vociferOusly.
At the conclusion of the inspection the
president and escort went across the river
to the Watervliet arsenal, where the IN
teresting work of shrinking gun jacket
upon a gun was witnessed. The national
salute was fired and the guard turned out
and President Mckinley expressed satis-
faction at the busy condition of things
As the party crossed the river. every boat
within a mile of the city water front blew
salute.
Presiden mt McKinl y, the various army COM
panies composing the Army of the Potomac
met independently at headquarters hereto
fore established for them, ana neld their
| The parade in honor of the president and
! the Army of the Potomac was one OF the
largest ever seen in Troy: nearly l.sOO
gusrdsmen were in line and about 1.OOo sur,
vivors of the late war. The three nationai
guard companies of Troy acted as escort to
the presidential party and Governor Frank
S. Black and staff. All along the line OF
march the parading column was greeted
by thousands that lined the pavements and
filed every available point of vantage.
The only active part that the president
took is the proceedings OF the reunion was
in visit to the Ninth corps. Of which he
is memSer The s,sctes sSIps &
president The president, in a few words
accepted the honor. signed his name to the
register and left the room with me cor,s
was a sergeant in the Twenty-third Ohio
regiment Of the Ninth corps, under com
marG of Rutherford B. Hayes.
In the evening the president attended thu
public meeting of the Army OF the Potomac
in Music hall. The place was jammed Il
suffocation, and the president received I
great ovation. General Alger was not Will
him, having left at 1880 for New York to at
tend TO sreciaI business for the president
Governor ''ack made the opening address
He extended. in behalf of the state. cor
dial welcome to the Society of the Army o
the Potomac. Mayor Mailer then made ;
few appropriate remarks.
There was brief response by the presi
dent of the society and then Major c. A
Woodruff, the orator of the day. delivered
an Grafton.
At 1880 o'clock President Mckinley an,
his party took the train for BLUM Point.