The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-28
PRESIDENT SEEKS REST
HOPES TO FIND IT AT HIS
BROTHER ABNER'S HOME

Expects to Visit Canton, After a
Brief Stay I'm Cleveland, and to
Call Upon Soldiers in Camps
Along the Route He Has Mapped
Out for the Pleasure Trip-Big
Demonstration at JOhnstown.
SOMERSET, Pa, Aug. 27-The presi-
dential party, composed Of President
and Mrs. Mckinley, Assistant Secre-
tary Cortelicou and MAJ Hayes, Of the
Sixth Ohio cavalry, reached Somerset
by special train from Johnstown, at
$40 this evening. Burgess J. H. Pisell
and the members Of the town council
boarded the car and welcomed tine
party. When the president stepped out
Of the car with Mrs. Mckinley on his
arm, the $500 people who had gather
ed, eheered heartily, and the Meyers
dale band, which the burgess brought
here for the occasion, played while the
party was going to the carriages. The
president and Mrs. Mckinley entered
Mr.. Abner McKinley's carriage, with
Abner Mckinley and his daughter, Miss
Mabel. Hundreds of people lined the
street and kept the president bowling
until the carriage reached the pretty
summer home of Mr.. Abner Mckinley,
where the distinguished guests will re-
main during their stay here
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
are in good health, having passed a
restful day, and both say they greatly
enjoyed their trip to Somerset.
The party will leave here at IL o'clock
Monday, for Cleveland, reaching there
In the evening. While in Cleveland.
the president and Mrs. Mckinley will
be the guests at the home of Myron T.
Herrick. They will go from Cleveland
to Canton, to pass day at their old
home, then return to Cleveland and
leave there Friday night, reaching
there that evening. The president will
visit the camp at Montauk Point on
Saturday and return to Washington
that evening.
The Mckinley home here was placed
In direct telephone communication
with Washington, this afternoon, and
the president thus has, although among
the hills Of Somerset, the great af-
fairs which are now engaging his at
tention within calling distance.
Somerset fully appreciates the honor
Of having been selected by President
Mckinley as the place to pass the first
part Of his first vacation since he open
ed the war with Spain.
The present trip is one for rest and
the president will probably feel CRATE
full If the public will allow him to have
as much Of it as possible.
AS the president has always attended
church when here on Sunday, it Is
probable that the party will be at
morning service at the Methodist Epis-
copal church tomorrow morning.
DEMONSTRATION AT JOHNSTOwN
JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Aug. 27-In the
demonstration made here in honor of
President McKin' ey, who passed
through on his way to Somerset, the
NEST notable was an electric display
by the Johnstown company. Their cleo
trio department was Illuminated
throughout with an enormous arrange
ment of variegated lamps, forming the
word Welcome" and as the presiden-
tial train passed this flashed out in
bold relief. while volleys or artillery
salutes were fired by this company and
the Fowler radiator works Jointly All
the whistles in town were blown.
VISITS TO SOLDIERS.
CAMP MEADE, Middletown, Pa,
Aug. 27.-Pres.dent Mckinley remarked
to Maj. Gen. Graham as he was about
to start for Somerset that he was verv
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it was an ideal location. The president
was much distressed over an accident
which befell two soldiers shortly be-
fore his arrival in camp. One was Pri.
vate James Carr, Company F, Third
Missouri, and the other Private John
Sullivan, Company I, First Rhode Is
land. They were walking on the Penn
sylvaEia tracks and were struck by a
fast train and Instantly killed.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-The pres
ident expects to be in Jacksonville,
Fla, on Sept. 1, and review the SOL
diers of the Seventh corps, Gen. Lees
command. He told Col Durbin, of the
One Hundred and Sixty-frst Indiana,
this today before he left the city. The
colonel was here for the purpose of
asking the president and Secretary AL
ger to visit Jacksonville and fix date.
It is quite likely that Secretary Alger
will accompany the president.
Col. Durbin, speaking Of the sani-
tary condition of the camp at Jackson
vile, says that the surgeons have re-
ported that the loss from fever is less
than in private life. The sickness in
t. camp is only per cent showing
a very healthy condition. The SANTA
ton methods at Jacksonville have all
along said to have been the very best
of any camp in the country.