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Title: United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York, The United States history co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tion was given. A splendid platform, coveredwith plush materials, railed in with brass, was erected on the spotwhere the bodies of Abraham Lincoln and General Grant had lain instate in death, and where the Marquis of Lafayette had stood on hisvisit to New York in 1S24. About 5,000 persons at this place werereceived by the President. After the close of the exercises at CityHall the President was taken to the residence of Vice-President Mor-ton on Fifth Avenue, whither his wife had already preceded him. Inthe evening he dined with Mr. Stuyvesant Fish in Gramercy Park,and at a later hour attended the great ball in the Metropolitan OperaHouse, which had been prepared in imitation and commemoration oftheWashingtonian ball given on the occasion of the first inauguration,at which the Father of his Country led the first cotillon. Thus closedthe ceremonies of the 29th of April, the day preceding the commemo-rative exercises proper. On the following morning the inhabitants of New York, and hun-
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SUB-TREASURY, WALL AND NASSAU STREETS, NEW YORK- HARRISONS ADMINISTRATION. 715 dreds of thousands of strangers, poured into the streets to witness thegreat military parade which was to be the feature of the day. Mean-while in the lower part of the city the exercises which had beenplanned in imitation and commemoration of Washingtons accession tothe presidency were under way. Wall Street and Broad Street werepacked with people. A great platform had been erected in front ofthe Treasury building, now occupying the site of old Federal Hall, andmarked by the presence of Wards colossal statue of Washington. Itwas here that the oratorical and literary exercises were to take place.These were to consist of a Centennial oration by Hon. Chauncey M.Depew, also of an address by President Harrison, of a poem by JohnGreenleaf Whittier, and of such religious services as were appropriateto the occasion. Several of the leading clergymen of the metropoliswere present on the stand. Archbishop Corrigan, D

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