The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-08-25
M'KINLEY MAKES A MOVE
LEITES PLATTSB URG, ". r., AFTER
 MONTHS STAY.
Will Stay at Long Branch Until To morrow Afternoon and Then Proceed to Pittsburg to Review Returning rive in Washington on Saturday, Sep- tember2.
tenlber 2.

Plattsburgh, N. Y, Aug. 24-The presidential party left Bluff Point sta- tion at 6 o'clock this evening after a
 stay of exactly four weeks. The last day of President McKinley's stay here was busy one This morning he was
 serenaded by the Twenty regiment
 band after he and Mrs. Mckinley had taken farewell drive around the
 grounds. At 2 D. m. the Palestine com
 mandery, an organization of Masons
 from St. Johnsbury, Vt., headed by
 Sherman's military band of Burlington
 Vt, arrived at the hotel by special
 steamer to pay their respects to the
 president. At o'clock the Twenty
 sixth regiment, 1850 men, arrived at the hotel, having marched down from
 Plattsburgh barracks distance of
 three miles. President Mckinley re- viewed the regiment from the balcony.
 With him were Vice President Hobart, Attorney General Griggs, Secretary
 Hitchcock, General Merritt, General Guy V. Henry and others, The troops wore their new khaki uniforms and marched by the president in columns of platoons. The hotel piazza and grounds were crowded and the soldiers were much applauded. As the\ color sergeant dipped the regimental colors to the pres- ident there was great cheering. The regiment will leave for the Philippines in a few days, going to San Francisco via Boston and Providence.
 At 5:30 o'clock this afternoon the pres ident and Mrs. Mckinley entered their carriage and were driven from the ho- tel to the station. The guests waved goodbye from the piazza. Vice Presi- dent Hobart and Mrs. Hobart and the other members of the party followed in carriages The special train of four parlor cars was waiting for them on the side track at the Bluff Point depot, and promptly at 6 o'clock the train pulled out of the station. The presi- dent and Mrs Mckinley stood on the back platform of their private car, the Cleopatra, and bowed farewell to the crowd on the station platform. The train was in charge of Assistant Su- perintendent H. c. North of the Dela- ware and Hudson road, and is due in Jersey City tomorrow morning at 430 and to reach Long Branch about o'clock The intention Is to stay at Long Branch until Saturday afternoon, when the presidential party will start for Pittsburg arriving there Saturday evening at about 9:30. On Monday the president will be present at the recep- tion of the Tenth Pennsylvania Volun- teers, who are to arrive in Pittsburg on that day from the Philippines.
 On Tuesday, the 29th, the presidential party will proceed to East Liverpool, O., where one day will be spent as the guests of Colonel J. M. Taylor, life long friend of President Mckinley. Wednesday and Thursday will be spent at the presidents old home in Canton, O., and on Saturday, September 9 the president and party expect to arrive back in Washington. On September 5 the president will go to Philadelphia to attend the annual encampment of the c. A. R. The presidential party as it left Bluff Point tonight was made up of President and Mrs Mckinley, Vice President and Mrs. Hobart, Garret A. Hobart, jr., Attorney General Griggs Dr, and Mrs. Rixey, Private Secretary Cortelyou Executive Clerk B. F. Barnes and Charles H. Booth, president of the Hotel Champlain company.