The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-02
THE PRESIDENT ARRIVES
Passes Through the Penn
sylvania Railroad Depot
This Morning.
MET BY VICE PRESIDENT.
Greeted By a 1000 Citizens
: Will Reach Camp
Wikoff Tomorrow.
MET BY VICE PRESIDENT

President Mckinley and his party, from
Canton, Ohio, arrived in the Pennsylvania
Railroad depot in Jersey City this morn
ling at Has o'clock. The party travelled
in the private Pullman car Glen Eyre.
belonging to President George Westing-
house, Of the Westinghouse Air Brake
Company In it were Mrs. Mckinley
Major Webb c. Hayes, son of ex-Presi-
dent Hayes and Colonel and Mrs. Myron
Henrick of Cleveland The party was
met by Vice President and Mrs. Hobart
and Garrett Hobart Jr., John Addison
Porter, secretary to President Mckinley,
and William S. Hawk, proprietor of the
Hotel Manhattan, Madison avenue and
Forty-second street. Mr. Hawk was for
inerly resident of Canton and Is per-
sonally acquainted with President Nc
Kinley, who will be his guest while he
is in New York City.
Vice President Hobart and party went
from the Hotel Manhattan to the depot.
where they arrived shortly after eleven
o clock. There seemed to be some mis-
underst anding as to what time the train
would arrive. By eleven o'clock several
hundred persons had gathered to see the
President. At 80 o'clock a squad of
police in charge of Sergeant Reinhardt,
of the Gregory street station, arrived to
keep the crowd in order. Acting Chief
of Police Lange was there in citizen S
clothes to see to the police arrangements.
The crowd increased until at u:45
O'Clock, when the train swung into the
depot, exactly on time, there were more
than one thousand persons to meet it.
No one other than the friends of the
President and the railroad officers We're
allowed down the platform. Station
Master Keefer insisted that the crowd
be kept at the end of the platform. Police
man John Brady the tallest man on the
Jersey City police force, who stands over
six feet two inches, was sent with PATROL
man Boyle, who does duty in the depot,
to escort President Mckinley to the ferry.
The car containing the Presidential
party was the last one on the train 1t
was distant one full city block from the
elevator at the end of the platform. Vice
President Hobart and those with him
walked to the Glen Eyre to receive the
President. Major Webb G. Hayes was
the first of the party to alight Mrs. Nc
kinley walked to the left of the President,
her arm linked in his. AT her side walked
Mr. Hawk. Vice President and Mrs. Ho-
bart followed, and then came the other
members of the party. The train on the
track next to that on which the Presi-
dents train arrived was filled with pas
sengers Several of them alighted and
stood by the cars to get a better view Of
the President
All raised their hats as the party ap-
preached President Mckinley bowed
from side to side and raised the light
straw hat he wore repeatedly in return
for the many salutations he received. As
he passed down the platform a small boy,
about eight or nine years old, darted
from where he was standing near the
steps of one of the cars, and seized the
hand of the President, who paused to say
word to him and return the grip. A
pretty little incident occurred as the party
reached a spot opposite the locomotive
Engineer Lincoln Bates, who had brought
the train from Morristown, was leaning
out of the cab window, watching the pro-
cession He doffed his hat as his dis
tinguished passenger came along. Presi-
dent Mckinley stopped and, stepping di-
rectly beneath the cab window, took off
his hat to the engineer and called up to
him.:
Il want to thank you for the good care
you took of us. We had a very pleasant
ride"
Bates looked the proudest man in the
depot. Station Master Keefer escorted
the party to the baggage elevator, on
which they were taken to the floor be-
low, where the carriages were in waiting
A carriage was at the elevator for Mrs
Mckinley The others walked to the fer
ry proper, where three other carriages
were in readiness for them The party
took the Twenty y-third street ferry to New
York, and went direct to the Hotel Man
haitian Attorney General Griggs will
join the party at the hotel this evening
The start to Montauk will be made to-
night A special train, which will make
a Slow run will take the party to Camp
Wilxoff, which will be reached at nine
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Before going to meet President Mckin-
ley,s train Vice-Presdent Hobart went
to the offices of the North Jersey sTrac-
| ton Company and spent an hour or more
with Bernard NJ. Stanley, President of
the Consolidated Traction Company.
AN EhpiV MnPNlMG FIGHT