The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-06
A PRESIDENTS TRAVELS.
INCIDENTS OF MR. MpKINLEp'S TRIP
TO TIE OMAHA EIPOSITION.

The Varying Crowds and Their Chnrhcter
istcs-Reooption Arrangements which
Distinguished 81. Louis-The Train and
Its ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Menus,
Private car is q misnomer for the railway
coach in which the President OF the United
States travels on . journey in which stops
along the way are contemplated. The car In
which President Mckinley travelled to Omaha
was marked plainly private car" but that did
not prevent people from storminK IL whenever
opportunity offered along the route. whether
they were OF the reception committees or not.
and when It was perfectly clear that they were
yedeinR themselves in so that egress would be
almost impossible without delaying the train.
The train was delayed moro than once. and at
Decatur q woman was carried several blocks.
as she failed to get of the train In time.
When they couldn't get within sight OF the
President. owing to the conformation OF the
car. and realized that they couldn't, still the
people pressed on. though they could have
heard the Presidents speech outside the car
and couldn't hear a word inside. With those
In the rear crowdinG forward those who were
already In tho little observation room. the
President at times had hardly room to get
back into his car after finishing his speeches
from tho platform. He did not murmur. but
seemed.rather 10 bo satisfied that the people
made themselves at homo In his travelling
house. II he felt in the least incommoded. no
one would get that idea from looking at him.
II was quite rs much a. though the President
were the visitor in. their house as that they
were visitors at his.
There was nobody 70 interfere with the 40
cess Of tho people to the train. nobody to OBJ
struct them in their way to the Presidents
room: although that Is not saying that there
wore not always around the President advisers
and assistants to receive those Committeeman
who had come to explain the details Of the ar
ranGements at their towns. When . commit
tee OF large numbers boarded the train at q
stop some miles from their town. It was mani
testify impossible for them all to get Into tho
Presidents room or even into his car. But
that did not prevent them from trying. nor did
It turn back the last ones In the procession
which fled through the aisle Of the car ahead
Of his and wound around the kitchen oompart-
ment Of the Presidents car. They edged for
ward. even In committees composed OF
Mayors, ex-Governors and Judges. as II they
had an idea that in some way those ahead OF
them would. after seeing the President. climb
back over the roof Of his car. the rear door
OF which they knew to DO closed against exit.
To provide against just this contingency.
George Bruce Oortely GU. assistant secretary to
the President, had had the train made up with
. sleeping car next ahead OF the Presidents
ear to servo as an assembly room. Part of the
time IL served the purpose admirably, the COM
mittees hating there and chatting among
themselves and with Cabinet members who
came out there. instead OF forcing themselves
toward the Presidents car. but only a part OF
the time. The Cabinet officers were quar-
tered in a compartment car Just ahead OF the
sleeper. 90 they could handily come into the
assembly car on their way to the Presidents
car at stops. The whole makeup Of the train
was such as to serve the con ~venience OF the
moment almost to the limit OF present railroad
facilities. The only point in which it might
have boon exoelled was In the matter Of light
ing. TIL train was not electrically lighted be-
cause the Pennsylvania Company. which fur
nished it to the President, couldn't get the
right cars together on the short notice on
which the Presidents trip was planned.
Ahead OF the compartment car was.the dining
car. which was put In 90 "A to do away with
the annoyance Of cooking in every car. and
completing the train was Q combination smok-
ing and baggage car. which was next the en-
Gipe. The whole was, Of course. vestibuled.
and when the side doors were kept shut in
trusion by anybody was impossible. Tho train
was then . private hotel absolutely. with hall
attendance.
Tho desire OF the people OF the middle West
TO do honor to the President Of the country was
manifest everywhere along the route OF the
train from Chicago. even where it did not stop
and was not scheduled to stop. twas gratifying
to glance out Of the window and see in a farm
house or city house or the shanty Of a railroad
section hand at the side OF the track a small
flag or some bunting or the likeness OF Presi-
dent Mckinley. Many times there stood in
front OF these houses small children waving
hags as the train sped past, straining their
eyes to get q glimpse of the President. Women
waved the flags in some instances and in front
OF shops near the railroad tracks mon st God in
line doing the same. Along the route of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway fiaKmen at
some CROSSINGS waved the national flag az the
At the meetings addressed by the President
s enes 9e f6 so eSergW There watched Tor the refer.
S SpSsS q t SSeordinRS 9H To- the 6eo v ffmPh a inten ahslP
expressed MdaSs Tb OF or INDICATED ted. n The Tssr Presidents Ssks mi
cellaneous agRregations from manufacturing
districts and railroad centres; companies o.
helghbors In, agricultural sections; crowds
liant with women Rowned as they might be
foE afternoon calling. In some Of the smaller
and business clothes. There were crowds that
were diRnifed and crowd that refused to con-
their pals. But they had this trait e. In Common
they warmed, to the President the more,
Yieor Of expression when dealing with the
governments course and intentions regarding
The comments of the people and their talk
a a1ooaa themselves mems retuted q a not notion Thisn had
IC~Nr - tio 10 III |
i~stration in the Cuban war. be at least more
diflcult TO get together a volunteer army
again In the immediate present. should occa-
sion arise. than 1t was to get together the biz
army that rushed to answer the President's
gSemed not to have had enough OF lighting.
They were for moro II there was any occasion
Tor more. and they were not under any circum-
etances for retreat from the positions gained
by the troops and sailors in the fighting that
West had opportunity. they voiced the senti-
ment taat the people would have been still bet
tor pleased than they were with the Presidents
visit had he expressed himself with less eau
ton and more ytEor on these points. Some, Of
President couldn't talk, as President. in the
WORDS ma people might use among them:
they were thoughtless enough not to consider
trbbsse nSnars constrnoG tha pres Ti Europe
t%eranses as implying all that their readers
tSry MacGregor wilson sat at the head Of The
table, as II were; IN Omaha, and among the
Hoosiers and the Buckeyes. peoples OF vary
Ing APPEARANCE and manner. IL was the RAma