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Show PRESIDENT HARRISON'S BIRTHDAY. Spent at Mt. McGregor, the lIao. Where Uiy.i. 8. (.rant Died. M r. McGregor, N. Y., Aug. 21. On the arrival of the presidential party the president proceeded to the cottage of VV. J. Arkell. In honor of the president, presi-dent, Arkell had arranged for a pleasant pleas-ant birthday dinner at the Hotel Balmoral, Bal-moral, and about 120 guests participated, including Commitnder-in-Chief Palmer of the G. A. R.. Spencer Trask and John A.Sleicher. Mr. Arkell arose and said: "The president, on account of his worn lungs and throat, is solicitous that this be a Quaker meeting, one of unspoken eloquence. Let me say, however, that this being the fifty-eighth birthday of the president, we can properly extend to him the heartiest and most sincere wishes. His administration will be kuawn in tha hereafter, not so much as a republican administration as an American administration.'' President Harrison, in replying, said: "It was a part of the covenant that this feast should be a silent one, not exactly a Quaker meeting.as Mr. Arkell has said, because silence there is apt to be broken by a moving of the spirit. That is not safe for a banquet. Laughter. We are gathered here on a spat which is historic. This mountain has been fixed in the affection-ate affection-ate and reverent memory of all our po-ple.and po-ple.and has beenglorihed bythe deathou its summit of General Ulysses S. Graut. Applause. It is lit that the great spirit that had already lifted its fame to a height unknown in American history his-tory should take its flight from this mountain top. It has been said that a great life went out here, but great lives like that of General Grant do not go out. They go on. Cries of "Good!'' and great applause. ap-plause. I w'dl ask you, in reverent aud adectionate and patriotic- ro-membrance ro-membrance of that man who came to recover all the failures in military achivement, and with his great gefteralstwp and inflexible purpose, pur-pose, to carry the Hag of the rcpublio j to ultimate triumph, recalling with recent re-cent interest his memory, to drink a I toast iu silence, as a plodge that we will ever keep in mind his great services, ser-vices, and in doing so perpetuate his great citizenship and the glory of the nation he fought to save. j In the evening a literary and musical j entertainment was given the president at the Hotel Balmoral. President Harrison and party went this morning on a fishing excursion. ! |