Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-03

leaving the Admiral TO make all G0e &C.
acknowledgements. Next to Dewey in tie
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Then followed the national anthe m
America" in which the vast concourse
Joined 10 singing and the troops were
put in motion, passing in review before
the stand. When the last had gone by,
the Admiral entered his carriage and
was driven rapidly away to the Mclean
home to rest for the great dinner in
his honor tended by the Presi'
dent as the White House tonight.
The procession was not long but was
quite imposing and moved with strict
military precision. Elk Secretary AL
ger and Admiral Sampson were con-
spicuuus figures in it. All the other
governors except Governor Tyler rode
beneath their State flag, but none o!
them received more applause. Most of
the windows along the route were oc.
cupied by women waving handkerchlefs
and banners. The sidewalks on both
sid.s The avenue Wers crowded. chiefly,
! however, with negroes, who turned cut
ia force from all their habita.ions in
this city and the surrounding country.
Many white strangers were also here,
from Baltimore and Alexandria, as
many as five thousand, it is reported,
from the latter city. The Government
and District departments were all
closed, but many of the stores were not.
The people of this city are very fond
of shows, but it must ie said to their
credit that many OF them are extremely
tired of the present one and are glad 1t
is over.
A democrat from Westmoreland
county, Virginia, here today, says Rep
| resentative Jones of that district has
lost many active supporters there by
the remarkable course be has pursued
on the late senatorial question in his
State. Almost all the other May con
ference democrats, he says, have &C
quiesced in the action of the great ma
jority Of their party, but that he keeps
up his needless fight against Senator
Martin.
People from Loudoun county here
today say that at the primary held in
that county last Saturday the friends of
Governor Tyler were in the majority,
but that Leesburg, the county seat,
gave Martin three majority.
Virginisus here who met Governor
Tyler of their State, here today, say be
1 still talks as if he expects to be elected
F., Senator, though why he does so they
can not for the life of them tell, as
every body else except himself comedies
hat he is utterly defeated, a1d not only
that, but has carried down with him all
those who advocated his election, Why
he and his few supporters should keep
up their proitiess light, when the field
has been lost, they do not understand.
1t ia said at the White House that
the President cannot accept the invita-.
ion OF tho City Council of Richmond
10 be the guest Of that city at the
launching Of the torpedo boat Shubrick,
on account OF previous engagements.
Mr.. Clements superintendent of public
| schools in Alexandria county, who is here
today, with nearly everybody else of that
county. says all the schools there will have
holiday at the coming sesqui. centennial cele.
bration in Alexandria
1t is said that Admiral Dewey is fond of
white horses and red-headed women. Wbeth
er that be so or not an unusually large NUM-
Der of tho latter were seen on the streets here
today.
There is no doubt of the fact that the Pres.
ident and all who depend upon him for their
prominence are very much alarmed at the
condition OF their party's affairs in Ohio. A
consultation, at which Mr.. Mckinley Mr..
Hanna. Mr.. Elkins and other republican so
called leaders were present, was hold at the
White House last night, at which it was dc.
termined that every possible means should
be employed to avert disaster in the Presl.
dents own State.
A Virginia republican here today, who has
been travelling extensively in the North dur
ing tho last month or two, says the keeper OF
the hotel at which he stopped in Phi'a ielpbia
tol1 him there were not lees than seventy
thousand empty houses in thst city-many on
it's principal streets-and that on Chestnut
street itself, the once famous Girsrd House,
and nesrly all the other houses on that block,
are unoccupied; and when he was asked why
the newspapers of that city reported great
prosperity there, he replied that he could not
ell. as so far as he knew no other business
| WAS prosperous but the iron and coal.