The skies picked an awful time to open up, and Benjamin Harrison missed the first Battle of Flowers Parade.
was about to be born — one that would honor the Texans who fought and died in the battles at the Alamo, Goliad and San Jacinto.
Locals were in a frenzy preparing for Fiesta activities, including the first Battle of Flowers. All of this was happening as the Alamo City endured a rainstorm that lasted for days. Still, the San Antonio Daily Light was optimistic, declaring two days before Harrison’s April 20 arrival: “San Antonio will have one of the greatest days in her history … when she will be visited by the first real, live president she ever saw.”At 9:15 a.m. April 20, 1891, the president and several prominent Texans arrived to a rain-soaked San Antonio on a special Aransas Pass railway car from Galveston. Thousands gathered at the Southern Pacific depot to greet him.
In a speech, Harrison spoke of the “pride of America” and the importance of a public school education.PAT HAMILTON/EXPRESS-NEWS FILE PHOTO
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