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THE PRESIDENT.

He Stops in Nebraska's Capital City.

And is Accorded a Magnificent Welcome by the People.

HANDSOME MEMENTOES GIVEN HIM.

Twenty Thousand People Greet Him at the State House, Where He Speaks.

The Presidential Party.

The day was bright and beautifyl on which President Harrison visited the best and prettiest city in the central west.

Lincoln was at her best and greatest, also grandest.

Banners flew like thick leaves of autumn. Everything was as gay and glad as a wedding.

It was just 9 o'clock when a CALL reporter sat himself in the place reserved for such people, and the "stand" was only made endurable to him by the presence later on of four or five pretty typewriters who came, as one of them said, to "try her wings" at short-hand.

There were 25,000 people in and about the state house grounds at 10 o'clock, at which time the president was escorted south from O street on Fifteenth.

But to the preliminary details.

The special car bearing President Harrison, Mrs. Harrison, Postmaster Wanamaker and Secretary Rusk, together with Governor Thayer, Lieutenant Governor Majors, Treasurer Hill, Secretary Allen, Land Commisioner Humphrey, Auditor Benton, Superintendent Goudy, Attourney General Hastings and [Adjudant?] General Cole, who left at five 'oclock this morning and joined them at Crete, takng breakfast enroute, arrived about 8:00.

There was nothing unusal at the B. & M. depot when the train arrived. The usual crowd congregated there, of course, but the party kept inside the cars until about 9:10 when the reception committee waited upon the party and escorted them to carriages in waiting, and when the line of march was formed moved in the following order to O street on Eighth:

Chief of Police Dinges.
Sixteen Mounted Police.
Reveption Committee of Eight/
University Cadet Band.
University Cadets.
President Harrison, Governor Thayer and Mayor Sanger.
Postmaster General Wanamaker and State Officials.
Secretary Rusk.
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. McKee, the Presiden'ts Daughter.

Then followed eight carriages drawn by white hourses carrying the most distinguished Lincolnites, followed by representatives from the young men's republican club, the G. A. B. Nebraska national guards and private citizens.

O street was thronged from Eighth to Fifteenth street, eager spectators bringing into regulation to serve their purposes telephone and telegraph poles, wagons, store fronts, etc., and at every block cheers long and loud went up - to which the president responded by the lifting of his hat in fitting recognition of the people's enthusiasm.

THE CALL ARTIST SEES THE PRESIDENT.

The procession moved from Eighth to Fifteenth on O streen, thence south to K street, thence to J on Eleventh and into the capital grounds, where the party emerged from the carriages and passing through the corridors of the state home found a position on the north plazas overlooking the north grounds and Fifteenth street.

The space was already filled but by [?] of hard labor on the part of those in charge a way was cleared for the distinguished visitors, who stepped into the sunlight from the shade of the building to gaze out upon a sea of heads and faces that covered not only the grounds on that side but Fifteenth street for almost a block

On the way up the precession was augmented by thousands of children from the public schools, all in line, in command of teachers and waving small flags and banners. These took up their positions as best they could along the front of the plazza, but the enourmous crowd with a wild push and excited rush to get nearer the president crowded the little [?] out of line untl they became almost promiscuously mixed up in the crowd on 25,000 people that were there assembled.