Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-02
Harrison Getting Onto Cali
fOrnia's Greatness.
He Finds That There Are a
Few People Here.
The Census Undoubtedly Did the
State An Injustice.
Santa Cruz Gave the Tourists Charm
ing Reception-The Big Trees Sized
Up-Back to Frisco.
Associated Press Dispatches.

SANTA CRUZ. Oal., A@y '-lhe Pleel-
dent and party arrived here from Mont
erey at s O'Clock this morning. The
mayor made o formal address of well
come. The president responded as fol-
lows:
MR. MAYOR AND FELLOW CITIZENS -
1t seems to me like improvidence that
all this tasteful and magnificent display
should be but for moment. In all my
journeying in California where every
city has presented some surprise, and
where each has been characterized by
lavish and generous display, I have not
seen anything so suddenly created, and
vet so beautiful. am sure we have not
ridden through any street more attrac-
tive than this. thank you most sin
cerely for this cordial welcome, and l
know you are loving and kindly people.
We have been received, strangers as we
were, with affection, and everywhere as
l look into the faces of this people,
feel my heart swell with pride that
am an American, and that California is
one of the American states"
The procession then passed under a
large arch profusely decorated with
Gala lilies and palms. The pioneers and
local Grand Army post were here drawn
up in line. They greeted the chief eX-
ecutive with cheering, so continuous
that he was compelled to stand in his
carriage hat in hand throughout the
trip.
Mrs. Harrison was presented, by J. A,
Reynolds Relief corps, with beautiful
album of pressed flowers and mounted
views of Santa Cruz scenery.
TRIP TO THE BIG TREES.
The visitors were escorted to a special
train at the narrowgauge station, and
taken to the big trees, where they were
also cordially received. The people
cheered, and the school children sang
patriotic selections. President and Mrs.
Harrison and twenty-five other members
of the party entered the trunk of the
hollow tree once occupied by General
Fremont as camp. 1t took the presi-
dent and twelve others with their hands
Joined to encircle the tree known as the
Giant.
A SPEECH AT LOS GAToS.
Los GATos, CAL, May Los Gatos,
the next city at which the train,stopped,
gave the president royal welcome, in
which the local militia, Grand Army
men, Knights of Pyth las, and nearly
all the inhabitants of the surrounding
country participated. The president
was escorted to a decorated stand near
the railroad track, and in response to
yociferous demands. made the following
address:
"MY FELLOW CITIZENS = If California
had lodged complaint against the last
census, should have been inclined to
entertain it, and to order that your peo-
pie be counted again. (Laughter.)
From what | have seen in these days of
pleasant travel through your state, l am
sure the census enumerators have not
taken you all. We have had another
surprise in coming over these
mountains, to find that not
the valleys, alone, of California, but
its hill tops are capable of productive
cultivation. We have been greatly sur
prised to see vineyards and orchards at
these attitudes, and to know that your
fields rival in productiveness the famous
valleys of your state. | thank you for
your cordial greeting. 1t overpowers
me. l feel that these brief stops are
but poor recompense for the trouble
and care you have taken, but ] can only
thank you, and say we will carry away
most happy impressions of California,
and that III public and private life it
will give me pleasure always to show
my appreciation of your great state"
BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1.-President
Harrison and party returned from Santa
Cruz shortly before noon today, and
were at once conducted to the rooms OF
the chamber of commerce, in the mer-
chants exchange block, which had
been tastefully decorated with bunting
and evergreens. Here a reception was
held by the chamber OF commerce, as
sisted by other commercial bodies of the
city, to which Mexican war veterans,
California pioneers and members of sew
eral scientitical associations were in
vited.
ANOTHER SPEECH.
President Harrison made the following
address:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE ASSEMBLED SOCIETIES: | have been
subjected during my stay in California,
in some respects to the same treatment
q policeman accords to the tramp.
have been kept moving on" You
have substituted flowers and kindness for
the policeman's club, and yet, notwith-
standing all this, we come to you this
morning, not exhausted or used up, but
little fatigued. Your cordial greetings
are more exhilerating than your wine,
and perhaps safer for the constitution.
/ am glad to stand in the presence of
this assemblage of business men.
have tried to make this a
business administration. OF course we
cannot wholly separate politics from the
national administration but have felt
that every public officer owed his best
service to the people without distinc-
tion to party; thatin administering Off
cial trusts we were, in very strict sense,
not merely in igurative sense, your
servants. 1t has been my desire that in
every branch of the public service there
should be improvement I have stimu-
lated all the secretaries and have re-
ceived a stimulus from them, in an en-
deavor in all the departments of the
government that touch your bust
ness life, to give you as perfect
service as possible. This we owe to
you; but if were pursuing party ends
/ should feel was by such methods es-
tablishing my party in the confidence of
the people. | feel that we have come to
the point where American industries,
American commerce and American in
fluence are to be revived and extended.