Identifier: familyflightarou00hale (find matches)
Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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year, might have beenmade in five days, but he was much delayed by the hearty recep-tions given him along the entire route. He was feasted and enter-tained everywhere. When he reached Philadelphia a grand receptionwas prepared. The bridge over which he must cross the Schuylkill was hiddenunder cedars and laurel, flags and liberty-caps. Two triumphalarches were put up, and signals arranged to give warning of hiscoming. About noon on the twentieth, the President was seen riding.slowly down the hill, and under the first arch, where a laurelcrown was let fall upon his head. The moment he entered thecity limits the bells of all the churches were rung ; as he moveddown Market street, every face seemed to say: Long, long liveGeorge Washington ! At Trenton a still more pleasing reception awaited him. On thebridge over which twelve years before he had led his little armyon the night before the battle of Princeton, the women of Trentonhad put up a triumphal arch. Thirteen columns supported it,
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WASHINGTONS INAUGURATION. 295 surmounted by a great dome adorned with a sunflower, and theinscription,— To thee alone. Then it was not Oscar Wilde who invented the sunflower, re-marked Tom, interrupting the reading. «Do not be frivolous, said Bessie. Go on, Ernest. Beyondthe bridge was gathered a bevy of women and girls, who as thePresident passed under the dome, came forward to greet him, sing-ing, and strewing the way with flowers. Thus amid honors and salutes everywhere, Washington reachedNew York. He was received at the wharf by the Governor ofNew York, and by the Senators and Representatives, and escortedthrough lines of cheering citizens to the house made ready for hisuse. At night the sky was red with bonfires, and the streets fullof an excited and joyous population. This was the twenty-third of the month. But as a few finishingtouches were yet to be given to Federal Hall, the inaugurationwas put off till the thirtieth. On the morning of that day, thepeople went in crowds to

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