Omaha daily bee., 1898-10-11
HAIL TO THE Grief
Omaha Extends the Glad Hand to President
Mckinley Today.
WELCOME TO THE NATIONS EXECUTIVE
King Ak-sar-Ben ~ to Personally Greet the
Distinguished Visitor.
MAGNIFICENT PARADE IN HIS HONOR
Gaily Caparisoned Knights and Two Score
Beautiful Floats,
IMPOSING PAGEANT IN THE CITY STREETS
Columbia's Popular Ruler Will RE-
view the Spectacle from the
stand in Front of the
City Hall. -

stand III 'FRONT.' OF inc
City Hall. -
| President Mckinley and his Official party
will review the parade In his honor from
the big stand In front Of the city hall The
stand is being rearranged. An addition is
being attached to the east end. This VIII
extend to the entrance of The Bee building
and a number of seats will thus be added
to the capacity. Accommodations for very
nearly 900 people will thus be secured. The
members of the local city family Will occupy
| the big majority of the seats, as the stand
was erected at their expense, although the
exposition management will be given
proper share OF the stand. City Clerk Highly
will have charge OF the distribution OF the
seats to those who are entitled to them.
The president and his party will occupy
the front rows of the platform along its en-
tire length. The party will include the re-
ception committee and officials of the expo
siton. The number OF seats reserved for
| them will be 200. Immediately in the rear
! of this party will be seated the members OF
the various city boards and heads of depart
ments, and behind Will be ranged the other
employees Of the city hall and their friends
One inexorable rule will be put into effect
regarding admission to the stand. Those
places before the arrival of the presidential
train, which is scheduled to reach Omaha at
$50 o'clock in the evening. AS soon as
| the train gets into the city the city hall
doors and all entrances to the stand will be
closed and no one not in place can secure
admission TO the stand until the presidential
party is seated. This rule will be strictly
| enforced.
| Ak-Sar-Ben to Take Part
At meeting Of the knights of Ak-sar
Ben at the castle last evening 1t was unani-
mously decided that President Mckinley
should be accorded the most splendid recep
tion ever accorded any visitor to the king
dom of Quivera. King Ak-Sar- Ben Nv made
his first appearance before the knights since
his coronation and his most gracious queen
sent her greetings. Both bade the knights
10 exert Themselves nightly to do honor to
the beloved ruler of the nation.
On his arrival at the union depot Presi-
dent Mckinley and his party will be met
by King Ak-Sar-Ben Nv in person and es-
corted to the city hall by two handsomely
mounted troops-the board of governors of
the Knights of Ak-Sar- Ben and the Eques-
trian club of South Omaha. Preceded by
this cavalcade the presidential party will
drive north on Tenth street to Farnam and
west on the latter highway to the city hail.
dred knights who will man the floats of the
pageant to pass before the presidential party
will assemble at the Castle. A royal edict
to this effect has been issued and obedience
to it Is enjoned ALL Though President
Mckinley may not arrive here before 10
o'clock the parade will be prepared at an
earlier hour, ready to start as soon as he
takes his place on the reviewing stand.
The parade will include the forty floats used
in both the -Sar- Ben and the grand cleo
trical parades of last week. and should
prove to be the most brilliant pageant ever
seen in the west.
On Wednesday morning the president will
be escorted from the Omaha club to the
Transmississippi Exposition by the Board
Of Governors, mounted. On the exposition
grounds $50 soldiers of the Twenty second
infantry, u. S. A.. from Fort Crook and
under the command of Major Van Horn, and
500 soldiers Of the Second Nebraska infan-
try, u. s. ", under Colonel Bills. will act
as the military escort to the president.
The Omaha club, which will be the home
OF the presidential party during its stay,
has been thoroughly renovated and beauti-
fully decorated in honor of the most dis
tinguished guest. The suite of rooms as
signed the president is on the first floor,
and the rooms of the other representatives
|
on the upper floors. In the president 9
room a desk telephone set was yesterday
arranged by the Nebraska Telephone COM
pany and communication with Washington
satisfactorily tested over the wires Of the
American Telegraph and Telephone COM
pany.
Plans for the Reception.
The full plans and arrangements for tho
reception tonight of President Mckinley and
the distinguished visitors who accompany
him have been completed. According to the
program laid out the visitors will have only
10 place themselves In the hands of the
members of the reception committee to have
anything In Omaha that Omaha has to give
and to see everything that is to be seen; II
they want anything that they do not see
they have simply to make a request for It
, and 1t will be forthcoming.
; The reception committee is to meet at the
Omaha club rooms at o'clock tonight.
where they will take carriages and drive to
2 the depot to meet the visitors. Each mem
ber OF the committee and his wife has some
particular guest to look after. The member
must locate this guest and escort him or
t her to his carriage The procession will be
S formed as soon as all are seated In the car
: riages and will move under escort
i north on Tenth to Farnam and west on Far
nam lO ElBnIetnlu blTtel. Inc party WIN
e alight at the west entrance OF the city hall
and take seats on the platform to review the
Ak-Sar- Ben parade. At the conclusion of the
/. parade the visitors will be escorted again
to their carriages, will be taken to the
2 hotels to which they are assigned and given
rooms which have been engaged for them.
At $50 o'clock tomorrow morning the
. members OF the reception committee will
, call at the hotels, each for his own particu-
= lar guest. The carriages will be gathered at
S the Omaha club, where parade again I'm
der a military escort, will be formed and
will proceed to the exposition grounds The
= line will start at 10 o'clock. The parade Will
conclude at the band stand on the Grand
Plaza and after the guests are seated the
exercises OF the day Will commence
& Lunch for the Women.
a At the conclusion OF the exercises the wo-
a men OF the reception committee will take
. the carriages to rhe band stand and return