The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-27

Presidential and Vice PesideL-
tial Parties to Washington
THE NEW YORK RECEPTION
THE PRESIDENT SERENADET
Bx THE STONEWALL BAND.
GEN. LoNGsTRse1's STATEMENT

Requests tnS HSSCCtateO TESSS 10 FFtht
His Estimate of Crant--lnnoduced
Grant TO His Wife, and Knew
Him Intimately,
New York, April 26.--President Nc
Kinley, with Mrs. Mckinley and his
cabinet, Mrs. u. s. Grant and her family
and company of official, personages, in
cluding the Ambassadors, Minister'S and
attaches Of the diplomatic corps and the
officers of the army and navy, were safe
ly transported frem Washington to New
York in a special train of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad to participate in the cere-
monies at the tomb of General Grant.
The trip was rapid one and entirely
uneventful. The train left Washington,
where a small crowd was gathered at the
depot, promptly at 1870 and steamed in
to Jersey City depot at seventeen minutes
after 3 O'Clock, stopping only at Whining
ton for a moment and at Gray's Ferry, a
suburb of Philadelphia, where a change
of engines was made. From Jersey City
the party was conveyed across the river
on the ferry boat Pittsburg to the foot
Of 23rd street, there to be ushered into
carriages and escorted in procession by
detachment of cavalry, sailors and police,
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Seven cars made zup the train. The
private car Of President Frank Themson,
Of the Pennsylvania, at the end Of the
train, was given to the Presidential party.
1t was handsomely embellished with
roses, and in it were President Mckinley,
Mrs. Mckinley, Mrs. Saxton (Mrs. Me-
Kinley's aunt, Secretary John Addison
Porter and wife. DIR. Bates. the Presi-
dents physician, and VIM. Sinclair, the
White House steward.
The next car contained Mrs. Grants
party, the cabinet families and few
others. They were: Mrs. Grant, Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sart0r;s, Mr.. Algernon Sar-
toris, Miss Vivian Sartoris, Miss Sartoris,
Secretary OF State Sherman and has
daughter, Mrs. McCallum; Secretary OF
the Treasury Gage and his wife, Secre-
tary Of War Alger and Private Secre-
tary Mason, Postma ster-G General Gary,
Mrs. and Miss Gary, Attorney General
McKenna, Secretary Of Agriculture Will
son, Mrs. L. III. Finney, Secretary to the
Secretary OF the Navy; Maj. Gen. Miles.
wife and son, Adjntant- General Rnggles,
Captain Mans, Rear Admiral Brown,
wife and daughter, and Third Assistant
Secretary of State Thomas w. Cridler.
The other cars were occupied by the
British Ambassador, Sir Julian Paunce-
fote and Secretary OF Embassy Bax
Ironside, French Ambassador PatenOtre,
Attache Boeufve, Count Geotzer, mill
tary Attache and Secretary Van Reche-
nau. representing the German AmbaSsa-
dor; Mexican Minister Romero and wife,
Minister Of the Netherlands De Wecker-
lin, Minister Of Brazil Mendoza and Sec
retary Lima, Minister,of Guatamela Laza
Arriaga, Minister of Chill Cana, Minister
Of China Yang Yu, Secretary Su, Vene-
zuelan Minister Andrade, Admiral Moutt,
ex-President of Chill; Austro-H Hungarian
Minister Hengelmuner Won Hengervar,
Secretary Wagner, Swiss Minister Piods,
Minister OF Spain Du Pny De LONE, Sec
retary Slater, Danish Minister Brun,
Hawaiian Minister Hatch, Secretary
Hastings, Minister of Ecuador Carbo,
Charge d. Affaires of Russia De Wollant,
Argentine Minister Mereu, Turkish Min
ister Rodriguez, of the Republic of Gen.
trail America, the Belgian Minister, Count
De Lichtervelde; Minister of Costa Rica
Calvou.
The strain was in charge of Mr.. A. Fl.
Steele. secretary of the Transportation
committee, and five members of the re-
ception committee. The Pennsylvania
Railroad was represented by MIR. George
w. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, and Mr.. George Studde, Of Wash
ington. Several Washington newspaper
correspondents were on board as the
guests Of the committee and fhe Penn
sylyania road.
As soon as the President was settled
in his headquarters he sent for the re-
ception committee. thanked them for their
management OF the trip, and talked with
them for half an hour. During the re-
mainder of the journed he eonversed with
members of the Cabinet and diplomats
who came into the car to pay their re-
spects. Mrs. Mckinley wore gray
costume, the one TN which she had frav-
eled from Canton to Washington. She
bore the journey well, amusing heraelf
part Of the time with knitting. Several
hundred people were gathered in the de-
pot and on the car tops in the railroad
yards at Wilmington, and the President
bowed from the car window in response
TO their cheers.
AT Wilmington President Frank
Thompson, Of the Pennsylvania railroad,
boarded the train to accompany the party
to Grays 'erry, meantime paying a short
visit to tie President. Lunch was serv-
ed to the Presidential party in their car,
whlle dining car was attached for the
other travellers.
The platform OF the Jersey City depot
was crowded with members of the recep-
tion committee when the train pulled up
at the end Of dts journey without having
experienced single jar or jolt. General
Horace Porter gave an arm to the Presi.
dent, and then and there the much noted
question OF Ambassadorial precedence
was solved by Mr.. Chauncey Dcpew, who
took the arm OF Sir Julian tPauncefota
and walked after Mckinley. .A.nb&ssa.