Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-27
NOISY RECEPTION FOR
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT.
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE PROvID-
ED A BIG SPECTACULAR DIS
PLAY.
SENATOR SCOTT IN EVIDENCE.
AN UNIDENTIFIED, BUT CHARACTER
ISTIC ADDRESS AT THE BIG
GARDEN.

NEW YORK, October 26.-This city
overlooked with Republican enthusi-
asm tonight on the occasion of the re-
ception arranged for Governor Roose-
welt, candidate of the party for Vice
President. Beginning with the arrival
at the Grand Central station on the
minute of the schedule time, $50
O'Clock, until along towards midnight
when the Rough Rider" Governor
went, tired and weary, to his sisters
home for the night, there was such a
series of receptions such a burning of
fireworks, such electrical displays and
such volumes of eloquence as are sell
dom seen in New York. 1t was the
climax of the candidates tour of many
thousands of miles. and his friends and
admirers made the streets ring with
their shouts of welcome home.
AS early as o'clock the crowds be-
gan to gather at the Grand Central
station to see Teddy" home. Many Of
the men and women arrived in car
riages, and the crowd to a great extent
was well dressed. Police on foot to
the number of 1000 controlled the
throng and forty mounted ones acted
as the Governors body guard through
the streets.
Some minutes before train time the
reception committee arrived at the sta
ton. There was an open carriage for
the Governor. In it were Gen. Francis
V. Green and Secretary George R. Man
chester, of the Comfy committee, and
Cornelius N. Bliss. In other carriages
were William Barnes, Jr., Senator n.
B. Scott, William H. Ten Eyck and
other leading party men.
When the Governors train came in
on time one very demonstrative, well
dressed man broke through the lines
and shouted:
Just like Teddy. Right on the min
ute.o -s
This was the signal for the crowd
which broke into a cheer. Mr.. Bliss
was first to greet Governor Roosevelt.
He shook hands cordially and told the
Governor he looked fine.
Thank you, I'm in perfect health, .
replied the Governor.
He smiled and shook every member
OF the committee by the hand. AS he
passed along the platform he was kept
bowling to the crowd.
"Hooray for Teddy. Three cheers
for the Governor What's the matter
with the next Vice President" were
some of the things which made the
Governor smile. At the end of the
platform there was a minute of delay
and a number of women insisted on
shaking hands with the Governor. The
party finally got into the carriages and
away to Fifth avenue. The crowd kept
up the cheering until the party was
Out of view. The route was straight
down the avenue to the hotel. The
Governor was cheered all along the
dine and at the Fifth avenue hotel the
scenes about the station were largely
repeated.
The Governor took only the time
necessary to remove some of the stains
of travel and then in company with
the committee and others sat down to
an informal dinner
While the Governor was at dinner
the crowds gathered in Madison
Square. At $50 the fireworks display
began. Every invention in the pyro-
technical line was utilized and some of
the displays took the crowd by storm.
Great set pieces of The Full Dinner
Pail" and representations of President
Mckinley and Governor Roosevelt were
,cheered vigorously. The Democratic
mutoscope on the Bartholdi hotel roof
was at work all the time throwing mot
toes on the Dewey arch, on the clouds
and on the walls of the buildings round
the square, but the Republicans ignored
It, Another feature was. the playing
Of the many bands in unison directed
by a searchlight and the vast chorus
singing.
Deputy Chief COPYRIGHT and the FIVE
inspectors who worked with him had
one thousand policemen about Mad
ison Square and in the garden They
kept the crowd under perfect control
from the outset. A way was kept open
from the hotel up Fifth avenue and
under the arch to Twenty-sixth street
The people were kept back to the curb.
Governor Roosevelt came out OF the
hotel at 1850, and got into his carriage,
and was recognized at once. and until
he got into the garden and for some
minutes afterward he was eheered and
cheered. He stood nearly all the way
to the garden and bowed to the crowd.
The Governor reached Madison
Square Garden at 1853 o'clock. The
cheering outside made this fact known
to those within. and there were many
expectant cries of Here be comes
The audience stood waving flags and
cheering. and when the Governor APP