The True Story of the Assassination of President McKinley at Buffalo

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Excerpt from The True Story of the Assassination of President McKinley at Buffalo: With Many Scenes and Pictures Connected With the Tragedy, Including the Last Tributes of Respect at Washington and CantonAt the Nashville Exposition, in 1897, the Secretary of War, seeing the great fatigue of the President, ordered the door closed on a waiting crowd. The order was immediately countermanded by the superior authority Of the President. He would brook nothing Of the kind and insisted on treating the people generously. At Buffalo, on the afternoon of President's Day, there was a private reception to some 1500 in the Government Building. There, after a fatiguing forenoon the President found no difficulty in meet ing the strain for twenty minutes. It was noticed, however, that it required some effort which, though concealed, was apparent to close Observers, to carry him through the line of invited guests.This fatigue had disappeared on Friday, after a good night's rest and with a pleasant day ahead. In the morning, at 7 O'clock, before breakfast, he left the house of Mr. Milburn, where he was staying, for his usual walk. It took him, entirely unattended and carelessly playful in his enjoyment of the wonderful crisp September atmosphere, through several blocks of Delaware, the most beautiful avenue in Buffalo, a city Of beautiful avenues.The Milburn home is in a locality almost deserted at that early hour. An assassin might have shot him down thus with ease, but there would have been no scene then, merely the motive for a drama. Delaware Avenue, in the morning of such a day, is ecstatically Oppressive with its beauty, and no doubt the President lingered Over it fondly, without the crowds, the jostle, the crush. He was gone twenty minutes, then he went to breakfast and then to the exposition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.