The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-22
PRESIDENT IN SAVANNAH.
THE VISIT AS DESCRIBED BY COR
RESPONDENT w. e. CURTIS.

E,varx DetaiI "BeautifuIly Managed"
Military Spectacle over which
Even a Seasoned Newspaper MAN
..NIight Easily Go Into Raptures OF
Rhetoricr-The Banquet "WOuId
Have Rcen "a Notable Event in Any
City"
w r Curtis in the Chicago Record.
Savannah, Ca, Dec. 8.-We seem 10
have a better time every place we go.
Each DAYS enjoyment is greater than the
last. The Presidents journey dld not DC
Gin auspiciously Al Atlanta we had
nrettv hard time The weather. was mis-
erable the arrangements were incomplete
the MANAGEMENT was awkward and notn-
ing seemed to go right. When they en-
tered the hotel the President and Mrs
Mckinley had to stand in the han Tor
five or ten minutes until a iocksmlth OF
somebody else was brought to unlock the
door. al. the room to which they were
assigned.
Rut the laundering was not confined 10
the guests from Washington. The COM
mittee of arrangements invited the mem
hers of the Alabama Legislature to attend
as a body and then forgot 1t. NO pro-
vision was made for their reception or en-
tertafnment. The solons of Alabama came
over from Montgomery in great form on
sneciaI train and then went back again.
The legislature of Georgia has tried 10
assuage their Indignation and console
their wounded dignity by passing reSoiu-
tions of apology and regret for IAN un-
fortunate misunderstanding" but it may
he for years and it may be forever thaI
The slight viii be remembered.
There was another row caused by the
s.,,niditv of the committee in overlooking
tba Sunreme Court. The honorable justices
u1era not asked to any of the functions,
soo;al ar official and did not meet the
president. although they were holding
court only 300 feet away when ne was
having a reception at the capitol and al
least two of them were stopping at the
same hotel.
There was no trouble or confusion az
savannah. Everything had been beauu-
CIV managed by committees of citizens,
With Col Estill, Editor OF the morning
news and Mr.. Purse president OF the
roard Of Trade, as chairmen. But the
,oorla If Savannah are accustomed 10
entertain presidents. Washington was
thair ouest in 1871, and as souvenir OF
H. visit sent the Chatham Light Artillery
- batterv of guns that was captured from
7 "a CORVALLIS at yorktown. Those
earo, Guns have been used TO fire saiutes
A. honor of the successors of Washing
-, ,,yho have visited the city-Monroe IN
900 poly in 1919, fillmore in 1854, Arthur
,oeo cleveland in 1888 and Mckinley
-, ZOOS ana the Savannah Hussars, the
sast critter company in the South" in
= biatoric uniform Of blue and silver
eorraed the escort and guard of honor
49, PRECEDENT Mckinley yesterday, as they
Sia for the father of his country l0 years
ago. ,, ..t-..o...,.
- In the South. one finds here more
80 he color and flavor Of age than any
- else in the United States Colonial
'',a,sione stnl lire the principal streets
Ia are occupied by the descendants Of
80 eamilies who built them. Savannah
nav be a little slow, but Il Is sure and
H,rinently respectable, ike Philadelphia.
Yesterday was day Of unDroken pleas
- me first the President has enjoyed
49, many an anxious. weary month. The
,,sin arrived about 20 o'clock in the morn
no. he drove directly 20 the parade
Ground whore he reviewed an army Of
i2 900 regulars and YOluntsersi from there
Iaey took him for delightful sail down