The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-10-05
WILL VISIT KENOSHA
President Mckinley and His Entire
Cabinet will Make a Stop in This
City October II.
BE GIVEN A HEARTY WELCOME

The Party of Distinguished Guests Will
Arrive From Milwaukee at 1854 and
will be the Guests of the City for Ten
Minutes-President Mckinley will Prob
ably Make Short speech-No Arrange
ments as vet for the Big Event.
October II promises to be a red letter
day in the history of Kenosha for on
that day the chief executive of the
nation will be the guest of the people
of the city and county.
While the visit will be a very short
one it will give the our people time to
hear a few words from President Nc
Kin1ey and his welcome will undoubt-
eddy be a hearty one.
The telegram announcing the plan
of the President was received by a
Milwaukee paper last evening and is
confirmed this morning. The telegram
is as follows:
Washington, Oct. 2. Milwaukee
Journal, Milwaukee, Wis. Answering
your telegram: President Mckinley
will be in Milwaukee on the afternoon
of Monday, October 10, and during the
morning of October II.
He will enter the state via Montfort.
His train will stop ten minutes at
Madison at 3 O'Clock and at Waukesha
at clock, arriving in Milwaukee at
$40. President desires to visit Sol
diers' Home Tuesday morning. He
will leave Milwaukee at II o'clock,
stopping ten minutes at Racine and at
Kenosha.
Most, if not all, the members of his
Cabinet will accompany the President.
H. C. PAYNE.
The train bearing the Presidential
party will arrive in Kenosha over the
Northwestern line at lisa and remain
here ten minutes. In accordance with
his custom the President will certainly
make short speech to the people of
the city. The personnel of the party
accompanying the President will in
c1ude his family and number of the
members of the Cabinet.
The members of President Nc Kin
1ey's cabinet who are expected to &C
company him on his visit to Mi1wau-
kee are John Hay, secretary of state;
Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treas
urY; E1ihu Root, secretary of war; John
D. Long, secretary of the navy; Chas.
Emory Smith, postmaster general; E.
J. Hitchcock, secretary of the interior;
John w. Griggs, attorney general;
James Wilson, Secretary of agriculture.
The announcement that the presi-
Dental party would visit Kenosha has
caused a great deal of excitement
among the people. of the business por-
ton, and a movement is already on
foot to prepare for a great reception to
the distinguished guests.
Mayor German said that the city
would do all in it's power to see that the
welcome extended to the president and
his cabinent was we'll worthy of the
name. The city will be in gala attire,
and bands of music will be taken to
the station to greet the president.
The old cannon will be resurrected
and a salute will be fired by the mem
bers of Company L. Messrs. Brown
and Dewey, president and secretary of
the Business Mems Association, were
seen, and said that the business men
would certainly take some action in
regard to the presidents visit. The
time will be so short that it would be
useless to arrange any elaborate pro-
gram, and the principal part will be
the short address to be delivered by
the president.
Arrangements are being made to
telegraph an official invitation to the
president, and a special committee of
citizens will be sent to Milwaukee to
accompany the party as far as this
city.
The visit of a president is great
honor for any interior city, and Keno
sha people should arrange to make
this short stop of the chief executive
in our city, one of the historic days in
the life of the city.
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