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Centennial Pageantry and Presidential Arrival in New York
The article recounts President Harrison's progress from Washington to Elizabethport and then to New York for the centennial celebrations. It describes naval escorts, a grand procession, and the ceremonial barge to Wall Street, highlighting contrasts with Washington’s 1789 journey and noting crowd enthusiasm, officials, and planned public receptions at city venues.
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Wall Street
George Washington
Old Lake
New York
Brus Dent
Washington
United States
Kitte
Belizabethport
Tak
Harrison
Apatal
Elizabeth, NJ
President Washington
Banks of
The
Potomac
Bay of New York
Washington City
Pennsylvania Railway
Harriso
Mra McKee
Ida Murphy
St. Paul
Kate Davis Brown
John M. Wilson
E W Halford
Elzabethport
John A. King
William Jay
Wiam H Robertson
Willam M. Evarts
Seth Low
Fuller
Elizabeth
Gov. Green
New Jersey
Elizabethport
Uyyral
Chicago
Yorktown
Boston
Gen. Washington
Elisabethport
Marine Society
Port of New York
Governor Hill
Grant
Hamilton Fish
William G. Hamilton
Equitable
Esfort
Shred Toot
United
Mistes
Loyal Legion
Grand Army Pista
Society Sons of Revolution
General Committee of Arrangement
Mayor Grant
Supreme Court
United States Senate
House
Sherman
Congress
Society of Cincinnatus
President Harrison
Metropoli
Metropolitan Opera Howe
M. Poston
Fik
Pasteur
M. Pasteur
Flis
Australia
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