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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 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